James

I got about 120 books on my ebook reader to read. Think I'll start off with Huck Finn, i'm in that kind of mood.

Sansa Stark

I love David Mitchell, but this is a little slow going at the moment, seems interesting enough though

adidasss

That was the first book of his I read actually and I really liked it. Btw, I just got Black Swan Green...

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Sansa Stark

Black Swan Green is great, I wish he would write **** faster. I have one novel of his left...

adidasss

Whachamean, he's written 5 books in the last 10 years, that's 1 every two years, I'd say that's pretty prolific.

How would you rate his books btw, order of preference and such?

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Ugh, I've started reading The world according to Garp. I'm already struggling and I'm only 60 pages in! I really had high hopes for this one...:\

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Just that he's so good I wish I had more of his to read

Probably like this:

Thousand Autumns > Number9Dream > Cloud Atlas > Blackswangreen

Haven't started Ghostwritten yet though

Irving can sometime start off slow but he's always a great read. I think you'll especially like this one though. I always recommend people to start off with A Widow for One Year by Irving. The man's a genius though, he's written so many amazing books with probably only one weak one.

I particularly loved Garp though, Jenny Fields reminded me of myself for some reason, but Roberta Muldoon is by far the best character. I won't say anymore in case you haven't reached that part yet though, lol

rondo

After recommendations from here, I've FINALLY moved onto this! 220 pages in and only now are the dots slowly connecting. Still not sure on which way this is heading, but Tom's subtle humor and sneaky remarks are thus far the highlights. (of course, there's the story, but it's always after a lengthy argument that the best stuff arrives)

I actually liked Fierce Invalids more as this can slow down drastically at times.

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SATCHMO

Love, love, love that book. I'm happy you're reading it.

Fierce invalids... was surprisingly amazing.

rondo

I have very little knowledge on Tom's background but I'm beginning to think that this man must have done a lot of soul searching, experimenting, traveling and talking to strangers throughout his life! Although these are works of fiction (or are they? ), they do reveal a LOT about his train of thoughts.

Only read two books, but recurring elements seems to be: Drugs, altered state, perception of reality, Science, voodoo/shamanism, ALWAYS some sort of reference to eastern religions/philosophy, sneaky comments on christianity (lol), literature/history (of all forms...American, English as well as other languages) and of course, the central theme is built upon some sort of paradox or the other!

Love his 'all over the place' kind of approach - Eclectic is the word I think I'm looking for. And his knowledge about the human brain might put many psychologist to shame!

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