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i love annie proulx - that old ace in the hole is great!
if you're going to read margaret drabble, go for the radiant way. it's a brilliant, wonderful book.
only possession!? wow - so many people have so much trouble getting through that book. i'd try the virgin in the garden quartet - i adore them. so dense and engaging. her short stories are also amazing - little black book of stories is really really great.
along other lines, i'd wager money on no one here having heard of this book, but super flat times by matthew derby is an amazing book, the indie rock of fiction to me. (not as in it being about indie rock, but occupying an analogous role.)
gosh i love books.
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hehe we are!
quite honestly, if it came down to my last cent and i could spend it either on food or a good book, the good book would win out every time (the IBS probably wouldn't appreciate that but... haha.)
i loved that old ace in the hole. and the shipping news, too. now i must go find the short story brokeback mountain was based on...
i've really been meaning to get back into a.s. byatt since i read possession quite a few years ago now and i just loved it so much but never got around to reading anything else by her (yes, admittedly, the size of her novels is a little intimidating!) short stories seem like a good easy place to start though, especially since they're easier to squeeze in between derrida and foucault 
i hadn't heard of matthew derby, but it looks really neat. my partner is really into weird, small-press fiction ("indie fiction", hehe I like that!) like this and he's gotten me more and more into it, too. i don't think he's heard of this one so i'm definitely going to bring it to his attention, on your recommendation!  it looks really interesting!
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I love these authors too!
Have you tried Jeanette Winterson, A L Kennedy, Angela Carter and Haruki Murakami??
Also some really good new English poets are John Burnside and Alice Oswald.
Catherine
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so glad to be spreading the matthew derby gospel! i read him summer before my senior year of college, and i credit him for getting me out of a rut and making me able to write my thesis. (it was a fiction project, and he just kick-started my imagination.)
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jaime
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Excellent choices, Laurel!
I went through a Margaret Atwood phase in high school. I loved, loved, LOVED Cat's Eye.
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i've only ever read her 'weird,' sci-fi/fantasy stuff, but i *adore* it - the handmaid's tale in high school (though it's creepily relevant now - the coup that sets up the religious government, creepy), and oryx and crake is *fantastic* and i recomment to everyone.
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jaime
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no....
#238203 - 01/13/06 07:17 AM
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i have it, and started it once but couldn't get into it at the time.
i'm assuming you think i should?
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Well, I really liked it, for whatever reason. It was a different kind of book. I think it gets better as you keep reading.
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I loved Handmaid's Tale and Oryx & Crake, Blind Assasin was the first one I read and I loved it at the time but there are confusing passages in it written in real scifi language that really were hard to get. That said I still went out to buy more of her books so I obviously did like something of the rest of the story.
Which is the one that Zora(?) oh someone beginning with Z is in and they don't like her and one of the main characters recreates historical wars in her basement?
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