Posted by GTJDorris at pka50.eastnet.gatech.edu on March 16, 2002 at 17:34:48:
In Reply to: A question occurred to me posted by Prometheus506 on March 16, 2002 at 16:55:51:
...photography. There's an intro and a conclusion that the photographer wrote, and those two pieces along with the pictures are some incredibly powerful stuff. Best novel though is easy. LOLITA by Nabokov. If you go buy it, get the "annotated version" which explains the French sayings he uses and his obscure references. This guy had written the classics of Russian literature, many masterpieces in German, taught French literature in France, and *then* moved to the U.S.A. and started to write in English. Two of his books are on the Radcliffe "100 greatest books in the English language of the 20th century" list. And one is on the Random House (or whatever publisher it was) list. Truly the single most talented writer I've ever even *heard* of. As for fun stuff, I love Hemingway shorts and Sir Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories too.
Jon Do