When I really started my college study, there were very few classes in my junior year, such as taking the postgraduate entrance examination, soaking in the library and immersing myself in literary works. Greedy as a glutton. Swallowed more than 200 books in one breath.
The whole university read 26 1 book. One and a half years after graduation, I read nearly 200 books, plus dozens of books in middle school. Counting, he is also a person who has read 500 books.
The classic works of writers from all over the world are neatly placed on the bookshelf by me. Like a baby, it is treasured. There are many works by American writers, so I recommend to readers 10 American writers that are worth reading in my reading range.
I wanted to show the stars, but I found that the ten writers mentioned below are all worth five stars. Rank tied.
Recommended works: The Old Man and the Sea, The Flowing Feast, The Snow of Kilimanjaro.
After reading Hemingway's The Flowing Feast these two days, I recommend him first. I love his writing, which is clean and powerful, and has no fat at all. The whole feeling is bright and clear. I don't read many of his novels. I have read most of the short stories. There are only a few writers who can hold up a novel through dialogue. Hemingway is one.
His "iceberg theory", his vigilance against adjectives and adverbs, his love for verbs and nouns, and his clean and indispensable writing style all make me very happy.
In The Flowing Feast, Hemingway's life in Paris is full of words and alcohol, which I yearn for all my life.
Recommended works: where I call, fire.
I'm calling from an anthology of Carver's short stories. As we all know, many of Carver's works have been tampered with by editors, not entirely his works. This anthology was chosen by Carver himself and represents Carver to a great extent. There is no magnificent plot in his novels, but only faint uneasiness and agitation in his life. Most of what he wrote was that the middle and lower classes in America, marginal people, and marriage and family all had big or small problems.
It's hard to say why I like him. However, I once regarded this book as a pillow book and listed it as the "Bible" for my writing.
Fire is an anthology of Carver's essays and poems. I like Carver's poems as well as his short stories. I have read the writing experience mentioned in this book for more than ten times.
Recommended works: a long farewell
So far, my two favorite novels are Madame Bovary and A Farewell. The Long Farewell is a novel that Haruki Murakami has read at least 20 times, translated by himself, and recommended by a long sequence of 20,000 words.
This tough guy detective novel is perfect in plot, narrative language, structure and rhythm. When reading, don't give up reading. After reading it, treat it as a treasure.
Recommended works: The Great Gatsby and Renaissance.
Hemingway and Fitzgerald are good friends. Hemingway hated Zeldia because she was Fitzgerald's wife, but she was jealous of her husband's writing. She used receptions and parties to consume her husband's writing, and later her mental breakdown and illness brought a great blow to her husband. Fitzgerald could have written more good works.
The Great Gatsby is second only to Ulysses in the list of novels in the whole English-speaking world, which shows its weight. Whether it is writing or stories, or the clear burning of that era, it is a classic.
Recommended works: Nine Stories and The Catcher in the Rye.
Hemingway can hold up a novel with dialogue, so can Salinger. Personally, Salinger's Nine Stories is the best short story I have ever read. In the process of reading, I am afraid of missing a word because I read too fast. Because there are endless meanings behind those conversations.
To tell the truth, I read these nine serious short stories as mystery novels. Every word is a clue. You can't understand the ending if you miss a few words.
I read The Catcher in the Rye when I was a freshman. I didn't agree with it, but I didn't like it either. Look at it in five years, and you will understand a lot. In five years, maybe we can read more. Salinger is a genius.
Recommended works: Selected short stories of O 'Henry.
The Gift of the Magi, The Police and Hymns and The Last Leaf of the Rattan are all classics. He is good at describing the life of the middle and lower classes in new york. After reading it, I felt sad, only that it had been written in people's hearts. As if, those new york people live beside me. Their joys and sorrows, their joys and sorrows, and their little happiness are all true.
Recommended works: "Small Town Freaks"
Maybe many people don't know him. But you must know Hemingway and Faulkner. Then, I said that he was a master of Faulkner and Hemingway, and everyone understood this time.
His life experience is a bit like the protagonist in The Moon and Sixpence, who married a rich woman. Suddenly one day, he felt that he should write, so he left home, regardless of it, completely captured by words.
Freaks in a Small Town is a novel I have read, which is similar to Naipaul's Miguel Street. Write about a small town, all kinds of lonely patients and mental patients. I always feel that short stories should be written like this.
Recommended works: In Cold Blood and Memories of Christmas.
I won't talk about his hit movies Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. Besides, I like "Memories of Christmas" to death. In the 30 years since he became famous, Capote has intermittently written three articles about Christmas. He wrote delicately and sincerely enough, and entered that somewhat sentimental but self-sufficient world. In the era of the Great Depression, affection and friendliness were bright, and lonely grandmothers, children from other places and pure friendship all gave people warm comfort.
Recommended works: Moon Palace, The Absurdity of Brooklyn, The Phantom Book.
The first time I read a phantom book, I liked to cry. Read Oracle Bone Inscriptions Night, Moon Palace, Beast, Red Notebook, Dead End, Ink Road, Brooklyn Absurdity, leaving the New York trilogy unread. Judging from the number of books I bought, I like him, five books. Just Marquez.
His novel is stuffed with too many things but can be handled well; He is the most natural and vivid writer I have ever seen writing "coincidence"; His writing is so charming that he has a good sense of rhythm.
Just like him. He published a book and I read one. I heard that an autobiography has been published recently, and I'm ready to start.
Recommended works: Eleven Loneliness and the Road to Revolution.
Every time I read richard yates's works, I feel like crying. Mainly for him. The New Yorker rejected every contribution he made; The last novel has not yet been published; Forgot to write, his wife divorced, the child returned to his wife, and he died alone.
When he was alive, his works were not recognized; Once poor enough to be a gunman and write speeches for politicians. But it won't change his predicament after all. He drinks, smokes and writes crazily. I have been writing all my life, but I haven't lived to see my work get the minimum recognition. The Times called him the most forgotten American writer.
It hurts to think of Yates.
End of recommendation.
There are many excellent American writers, such as herman melville (Moby Dick), Faulkner (feeling that his works are masterpieces), Hawthorne and so on. Their works are all on my bookshelf.
I want to forget Faulkner, but I still can't understand the subtlety at this stage, so I put it down. Moby Dick, as a masterpiece recommended by Mao Mu, was bought and sat side by side with Divine Comedy and Waiting for Me. The scarlet letter is also waiting nearby.
Of course, Updike's Pigeon Feather, ray bradbury's short science fiction stories and Brock's detective stories are all very good.
Really, it is recommended here.
It's over.