May 22, 2008 by donny
Bookbabble Episode 6: What’re You Reading For?
Recorded 22 May 2008
Babblers: Bjorn, Lars, Gem, Donny
Synopsis:
This episode was a leisurely-paced show where the babblers mull about what would constitute a good book. A great many books were mentioned in this podcast, and you get a full short story thrown in for good measure! Also, our resident Harry Potter correspondent comes up with the goods again, and Bjorn is true to form with his thought-provoking idle rambling.
Books mentioned in this episode:
- How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C Foster
- How to Read a Novel: A User’s Guide, John Sutherland
- A Secret History, Donna Tartt
- The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
- The BFG, Roald Dahl
- Wuthering Heights
- Gone with the Wind
- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
- Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow
- Asylum Piece, Anna Kaven
- The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
- No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
- The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Jose Saramago
- Demian, Herman Hesse
- Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
- Legends
- Legends II
- The Overcoat, Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol
- White Nights, Doestoyevsky
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Black Monk, Anton Chekov
- Chess, Stefan Zweig
- The Death of Ivan Illyich
- Answer, Friedich Brown
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
- Cutting It Short, Bohumil Hrabal
- A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
- The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, Victor Pelevin and Andrew Bromfield
- The Sea, John Banville
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
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