Hugh fried a bunch of callers for suggesting
Atlas Shrugged. I am actually fonder of The
Fountainhead, but both of them get into the re-read list for me as well. I thought about calling in with
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, but I figured he would call it non-fiction and make me hang up on myself. I mentioned this to
Craig Westover and
David Strom Saturday and Craig said he preferred
Lila. But then, he sails, so of course he would. (Yes, I owned motorcycles before I was married. Some day...) David hasn't told me what he would read because he's still too distracted by the Canadian girl at the bottom of his latest post.
A fairly recent author that I've already read twice is Alan Furst's
The World at Night twice
. The plots are good, but the atmospherics of World War II Europe are great. That book is set mostly in Vichy France; other of his books are set further east, and all are good. What would it have been like to live in occupied France, or occupied Hungary, or ... ? I find that fascinating.
Current book, if you care: Robert Wilson's
The Company of Strangers. In this case, Portugal is the location, as it is for several of Wilson's books.
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