No, I'm pretty much a sheep when it comes to lit and stick to the classics. I also dig poetry so I spend a lot of time reading and memorizing that. I'll check some of these out for sure, though. I need a bit of a break from the blowhards.Quoting Daniel Davis (view post)
Heh.
I'm like the exact opposite.
I hope you enjoy, or at least don't hate, some of those if you decide to check them out.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy is a MUST read novella.
Now reading: The Master Switch by Tim Wu
I should read this.
Also, two more awesome novellas, both by the master of urban dystopia JG Ballard:
Concrete Island
Running Wild
White Nights is a good example of early Dostoevsky and only like 60 pages.
Wishful thinking, perhaps; but that is just another possible definition of the featherless biped.
Didn't he also write a novella about a gambler or something? I remember picking it up, and I'd like to actually read it some time.
The Gambler. It's not one of his best, but it's still very good. It paints a pretty good picture of dissolution into gambling addiction, both as a spontaneous excitement and as a weary withdrawal from the rest of the world.
I'm not sure if they count as novellas, but Dostoevsk'y Notes from Underground and The Double are both amazing.
Should have remembered that. I think I'll pick it up. I saw it at Half Price books for only 59 cents.
I want to read him, but his longer stuff scares me. I think if I start small, and work my way through his material, I will have a better chance.
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