Uh..I mostly read XIX and early XX century literature, so not many people may like what I do.
I enjoyed reading
1984 and
Animal Farm, both by George Orwell. Both great books, both depict how crooked some totalitarian systems can be.
I read some russian short stories, Dostoevskij's and Puskin's and in spite of what people may say, they're nothing tough to read. I'm sorry I can't find the English version of the ones I read.
I found
Waiting for Godot and
Endgame by Samuel Becket both mind numbing, but great nonetheless.
I read a lot of short stories and out of the lot, I especially liked
Odour of Chrysanthemums and
The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence, both sad, but thoughtful stories; I also liked
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, despite I did not enjoy
The Picture of Dorian Gray as much.
A special mention should go to a Spanish contemporary literarature writer: Carlos Ruiz Zafón. His
The Shadow of the Wind is one hell of masterpiece. I don't read much of 2000's books, but this one really got me.
I'm quite positive not many of you know it, so I'll just quote the plot from Wikipedia
The novel, set in post–Spanish Civil War Barcelona, concerns a young boy, Daniel Sempere. Just after the war, Daniel's father takes him to the secret Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a huge library of old, forgotten titles lovingly preserved by a select few initiates. According to tradition, everyone initiated to this secret place is allowed to take one book from it, and must protect it for life. Daniel selects a book called The Shadow of the Wind by Julián Carax. That night he takes the book home and reads it, completely engrossed. Daniel then attempts to look for other books by this unknown author, but can find none. All he comes across are stories of a strange man – calling himself Laín Coubert, after a character in the book who happens to be the Devil – who has been seeking out Carax's books for decades, buying them all and burning them.
Another book he wrote a few years later, is
The Angel's Game, almost 700 pages I went through in a six days' time lapse.
It's not very different from
The Shadow of the Wind and is set 30 years before the former, in Barcelona. It's just..they're both great, I couldn't put either down.
Right now I'm reading
The Garden Party and Other Stories, a collection of 15 stories by Katherine Mansfield. This New Zealand woman mostly wrote about everyday's life, a subject that some find boring, but which I love because life is not just made up of great events, but also by every little action of ours. And the way she could put down on paper these almost insignificant gestures made me love her (books) from the very first times I read her (books).
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