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veleta
From Willesden, Greater London United Kingdom
Age 50
Joined Tuesday, October 11, 2005
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Song of Kali
Things Fall Apart
Passions and other stories
The Colossus of New York
The Outsider
Gone Girl
Snow Crash
The Life and Loves of a She Devil
Snow Crash
The realms of gold
Empire Falls
The Missing
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman
A Summer Bird-Cage
The Gates Of Ivory
The Peppered Moth
A Natural Curiosity
The Ice Age
Jerusalem the Golden
The Garrick year
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Extended Profile
Bienvenidos a mi estantería.
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READING CLUB RECOMMENDATIONS
I would like to recommend books which I feel that they are good Reading Club material because they offer ideas, concepts, speak about this and that. I will have not necessarily loved them, but I found they have interesting ideas or they discuss important topics. Having said that, I cannot promise that you will like them, of course, but I will not torture you with books I found boring or uninspiring. What I can say is that these books treat important ideas and concepts.
I am listing them down in alphabetical order taking out articles and such. I am including between brackets what I feel they are the main topics in that book.
- Answering Back, edited by Carol Ann Duffy [Sexuality, Age, Social importance of Literature, History, Gender]
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu [Social class, War, Power, Philosophy]
- Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde [Justice. Punishment. History. Autobiographies]
- Basic Instinct by Richard Osborne [Sexuality, Violence, Psychology, Question of authority, Art, Professional vocation]
- Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath [Feminism, Psychology, Sexual mores, Art, Professional life]
- Belwether by Connie Willis [Advertising, Science, Research, Modern life, Geniality, Pressure at the workplace]
- A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul [Post-colonialism, Racism, Capitalism]
- Blood, Sweat and a Cup of Tea [Health, Society, Work, Politics, Modern life, Women's Lives, Men's Lives, Modern technology]
- Book Borrower by Rebecca Makkai [Sexual mores, Education, Religion, Innocence vs experience]
- Brand Failures by Matt Haigh [Economy, Society, History]
- Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller [Ecology, Militarisation, Religion, Folklore, Disability]
- Carrie by Stephen King [Bullying, Education, Religion, Popularity]
- Cartas desde el infierno by Ramón Sampedro [Suicide, Depression, Euthanasia, Medicine, Masculinity, Crime]
- Censored Poems by Martin Sorescu [Dictatorships, Socialism, Freedom of speech, Cynicism, Religion, Art]
- The City & the City by China Miéville [Brainwashing, Social pressure, Education, Democracy, Peer pressure, Question to authority]
- A Closer Look at Ariel by Nancy Hunter Steiner [Feminism, Depression, Friendship, Art, Professional Vocation, Teenage angst, Rape, Abortion]
- Clublife by Rob the Bouncer [Modern entertainment, Masculinity, Sexual mores, Drugs]
- Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas [Sexuality, Nazism, Travelling, Art]
- Doll House by Henrik Ibsen [Individual in society, Sexual mores, Marriage, Capitalism, Women's lives, History]
- Drowned World by J. G. Ballard [Ecology, Survival, Society vs individuality, History]
- Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey [Age, History, Psychology, Sibling rivalry]
- Equus by Peter Shaffer [Psychology, Ecology, Masculinity, Teenage angst]
- Falconer by John Cheever [Social rehabilitation, Sexual fluidity]
- Flatland by Edwin Abbott [Class, Society, Education, Abstract art, Religion]
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway [Human nature, Politics, Society and individuality, War]
- Full Monty by Wendy Holden [Real economy, Masculinity, Sexuality, Women's life, Modern families]
- A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o [Democracy, Colonisation and post-colonisation, Individual and society]
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad [Post-colonialism, Racism, Psychology, Clash of cultures]
- Horns by Joe HIll [Sexual mores, Psychology, Revenge, Real economy, Friendship, Folklore, Relition]
- House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros [Sexual mores, Latin people in USA, Women's life, Clash of cultures, Ambition, Education, Innocence vs experience]
- Incertas memorias dun home lobo by Alfredo Conde [Sexuality, Justice, History, Men's and Women's lives, Violence, Sanity]
- El Jarama by Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio [Realism, Sexual mores, Democracy, Innocence vs experience, Teenage angst]
- Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta [Third world, Marriage, Women's life, Traditionalism, Education and upbringing]
- Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez [Women's lives, Multiculturalism, Finance, Marriage, Religion]
- Laberinto griego de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán [Humour, Sexuality, Women's life, Modern life, Culture]
- Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin [Politics, Peace, Cultural Differences]
- Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist [Bullying, Sexual mores, Addiction, Pederasty]
- The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon [Feminism, Sexual mores, Economy, Power in a marriage, Motherhood, Religion, Importance of aesthetics, Ambition]
- Loaded by Christopher Tsiolkas [Second generation of migrants, Homosexuality]
- The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson [Modern life, Safety, Tourism, Humour, Village life]
- M by Martin Calinescu [Disability, Economy, Relationship father-son, Marriage]
- Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fire [Modern life, Education and upbringing, Innocence vs experience]
- Made in Galicia by Sechu Sende [Linguistics, Modern life, Innocence vs experience]
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf [Sexual mores, Ambition, Women's life, Power, Money and society, Psychology]
- Mon père est femme de ménage by Sophia Azzidine [Money and society, Teenage angst, Education, Masculinity]
- My Booky Wook by Russel Brand [Sexuality, Modern life, Relationship, Mass media, Professional career, Politics]
- My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pilcher [Multiculturalism, Racism, Education, Innocence vs experience, Family life]
- Myra Breckindridge by Gore Vidal [Sexuality, Cinema, Real economy, Education, Power, Innocence vs experience]
- Mystic River by Dennis Lehane [Education and upbringing, Violence, Psychological problems, Question to authority]
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri [Multiculturalism, Sexual mores, Marriage, Immigration, Cultural clash, Women's life]
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro [What makes us human, Education, Peer pressure, Sexual mores, Advances in medicine, Innocence vs experience]
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck [Economy, History, Disability, Women's lives]
- Oil by Upton Sinclair [Capitalism, Religion, Ecology, Sexual mores, Ambition, Real economy]
- Old School by Tobias Wolff [Education, Writers an Literature, History, Ideology, Childhood]
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan [Sexual mores, Innocence and experience, Professional life, Ambition]
- Paula by Isabel Allende [Medicine, Family life, Democracy, Culture clash, Immigration, Women's life]
- Pearl by John Steinbeck [Money, Society, Human nature, Superstition, Religion, Medicine]
- Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger [Economy, Ecology, Work]
-Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman [Immigration, Innocence vs experience, Education, Poverty, Women's life]
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen [Sexual mores, Real economy, Women's lives, Class, Education]
- Property by Valerie Martin [Slavery, Psychology, Sexuality and morality, History, Economy, Society, Children's lives, Women's lives, Race, Prostitution]
- Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda N. Adichie [Violence, Innocence vs experience, Post-colonialism, Religion, Women's lives, Children's lives]
- Push by Sapphire [Education, Racism, Sexual mores, Single mothers, Violence, Education, Women's life]
- Queen of Angels by Greg Bear [Human identity, Technology, Social discrimination]
- Quiet American by Graham Greene [Sexual mores, Alcoholism, Post-colonisation]
- Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid [Sexual mores, Imperial culturalism, Psychological problems, Ambition]
- Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr [Addiction, Art, Family life, Mass media, Modern life, Teenage angst, Real economy, Psychology, Age]
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates [Marriage, Sexual mores, Real economy, Professional life, Innocence and experience, Ambition, Stream of consciousness]
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy [Ecology, Education, Family, Moral, Reminiscences, Society, Suicide]
- Sally Heathcote by Mary Talbot [History, Women, War and peace, Social Movements, Feminism]
- Santiago by Mike Resnick [Democracy, Sexual mores, Freedom of speech]
- Satellite City and Other Stories by Alecia McKenzie [Cultural Imperialism, Poverty, Violence, Education, Sexual mores, Third World, Emigration, Women's life, Capitalism]
- Second-Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta [Marriage, Money, Sexuality, Children, Modern and traditional Ways of Life, Race, Class]
- Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff [Mental illness, Abuse, Sexual abuse, Childhood, Psychology, Law, Life in the Countryside, Remembrance, Sexual identity]
- Shirley by Charlotte Brontë [Capitalism, Religion, Sexual mores, Innocence vs innocence]
- Short Stories by Dorothy Parker [Racism, Sexism, Money, Society, Sexual and Love Relationships, Women in the Workplace]
- Starship Troopers by Robert M. Heinlein [Totalitarism, Violence, Militarisation of society]
- Still Alice by Lisa Genova [Sickness, Age, Dementia, Identity, Modern Life]
- Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule [Psychology, Crime and punishment, Women's life, Biography]
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein [Religion, Individualism vs socialisation, War of sexes]
- Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith [Sexual mores, Violence, Psychology, Economy, Marriage, Money and power, Film adaptation]
- Stuart A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters [Poverty, Mental problems, Society, Family, Childhood, Abuse, Pederasty]
- Suite Française by Irène Némirovski [Nazism, Art, Freedom of speech, Judaism nowadays, Feminism, Writers' compromise]
- Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin [Sexuality, Marriage, Capitalism]
- Talking Heads by Alan Bennet [Sexuality, Family life, Women's life, Masculinity, Real economy, Professional life]
- Teacher Man by Frank McCourt [Education, Society, Women's life, Vocation]
- Testament of Mary by Colm Toíbin [Religion, History, Women's lives]
- Time Traveler's Life by Audrey Niffenegger [Human nature, Sexuality, Marriage, Women's life]
- Under the Skin by Michael Faber [Power, Social classes, Mercy, Sexuality, Men's lives, Ecology]
- Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett [Football influence, Ambition, Universities, Humour]
- The Vegetarian by Kang Han [Modern life, Art, Mental illness, Society, Women's lives, Men's lives, Society, Mistreatment, Family]
- El vendedor de naranjas by Fernando Fernán-Gómez [Cinema, Money, Capitalism, Humour]
- What Mad Pursuit by Martha Gellhorn [Sickness, Sex, Women's lives, Education, History, Society]
- When Hitler Stole the Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr [Nazism, Innocence vs experience, Immigration, Cultural clash, War, Politics, Education, Race, Nationality]
- Where I'm Calling from by Raymond Carver [Modern life, Crime, Sexuality, Marriage, Real economy, Power]
- Wine's Republic by Mo Yan [Psychology, Dictatorship, Crime, Alcoholism, Surrealism, Art and fame]
- Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend [Women's lives, Men's lives, Family, Race, Modern life, University life, Cultural differences]
- Yes Man by Danny Wallace [Masculinity, City life, Positive versus Negative outlooks in life, Modern Mysticism]
