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I am about to finish a book and I was thinking which would be my next novel....
and I would loved to know what translators really enjoy so here are my top 3 novels and I hope you can tell me yours:
1 - Gabriel García Marquez "Cien años de soledad"
2 - Edgar Allan Poe "All his short stories"
3 - Virginia Woolf "Orlando"
These 3 books are very enriching.
Kazuo Ishiguro, "The Remains of the Day"
Stephen King, "Misery"
Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"
Enjoy!
:)
Well, even though I have a real hard time reading novels (in spite of being able to read -what most people would consider- the most unbearable essays... don't ask me why), three of my favourite novels are the following. (Who could tell if the top 3... as Borges used to say: how can we say one novel is better than another):
Julio Cortázar -Hopscotch
Gabriel García Márquez -A hundred years of solitude
Herman Hesse -Narcissus and Golmund
Cien años de soledad - One hundred years of solitude... you can take it for granted...no ofense to anyone else who has posted here...
This is the masterpiece of García Márquez, can't miss it. you'll get so attached to the book that it will be impossible to do anything else until you finish it.;)
great suggestions guys! thanks:cool:
Some of my favourite books are...
1. Sophy's world by Jostein Gaarder.
2. Historia de un alma by Therese de Lisieux.
3. Tolstoy's short stories.
4. The Hobbit by Tolkien.
:p
-´Sons and Lovers´ - DH Lawrence
-´Todos los fuegos el fuego´ - Cortázar
- ´The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin´-Mark Twain
Well as I'm Chilean.....
Oscar Casto.....unbelivable...
Francisco Coloane...makes me cry....soooooo good
Nicanor Parra antipoemas......genius
Pedro Lemebel...so raw and funny
Podría seguir x siglos con Autores Chilenos.Neruda me carga eso si..
Vicente García Huidobro....genio igual
Papelucho de Marcela Paz...no creo q exista niño q no lo conozca....Papelucho es un Bart Simpson del pasado.....
No podía dejar afuera EL principito (especialmente despues de que fui papá)
Juan Salvador Gaviota ...lo amo con todo mi corazón
El Lazarillo de Tormes...lo he leido como 10 veces (bueno casi todos los libros los releo despues de un tiempo...para ver si descubro algo nuevo o que tan viejo estoy)
eso.........
Cien años de soledad es un libro que me pareció excelente. También recomiendo cualquier libro de Paul Auster. Cortázar me llevó por caminos inimaginables. Y, definitivamente, recomiendo "1984" de Wells.
I don't think I could narrow it down to a "top 3," because I like different books for different reasons, but here are a few that come to mind:
Pedro Páramo- Juan Rulfo
The Satanic Verses- Salman Rushdie
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cantar de mio Cid (Anonymous)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
Agrego a mi lista "Capitaes da areia", de Jorge Amado, que acabo de terminar de leer en portugués.
Mis mejores 3 (ficcion)
El señor de los anillos (Lord of the Rings) - JRR Tokien
La torre Oscura (The Dark Tower) - Stephen King
El Toque de Oro (The Golden Torc) - Julian May
Since I have too many to top titles. I will instead list my top 3 favorite authors:
Johanna Lindsey
John Grisham
Nicholas Sparks
These are all great Authors in their own right. If you get a chance give them a try.
la trilogía millenium
el señor de los anillos
el amor en tiempos del colera