" I am talking so much about books I haven't read I feel like I'm back in publishing" BEK in one of his New Yorker cartoons
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>wrote: > Sriram Karra [08/03/09 21:36 +0000]: > >> At 3.1m characters, some 560,000 words and 1,400 pages, it's tempting to >> lie >> about having read War and Peace. After all, what are the chances the >> target >> of your fib has ploughed through the Russian masterpiece themselves >> > > I *have* read war and peace. And I probably wouldnt touch some of the more > highbrow recommendations on silk with a bargepole. And I like my pulp. > > Well, there have been a few highbrow threads here on reading >> recommendations. But's now's the "time to fess up" and balance that :-) >> > > * Pulp westerns (J.T.Edson and Longarm series, as opposed to Louis L'Amour) > by the dozen > > * The Flashman novels of George McDonald Fraser - not terribly pulpy, well > written too > > * Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels (almost all of them) - pure pulp, high > voltage action > > * Quite a few of The Man From U.N.C.L.E series > > suresh > > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - does the frog know it has a latin name? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
