Gabriel Garcia Marquez - I recently read My Melancholy Whores - beautifully crafted, wonderful literature, but...um...didn't care for it much. I do want to read Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude though...especially as his 'thing' is magical realism - I'm going through a magical realism phase at the moment, so Rushdie's latest is sitting waiting to be read (The Enchantress of Florence) and at the moment I'm reading King's latest - Duma Key.
I've always liked Stephen King but like the whole of the Literary Establishment I believed he just produced airport throwaway fiction. Reading his semi-autobiographical book 'On Writing' made me change my opinion...he's definitely up there with the literary greats and magical realism is his thing.

So that's it for this week - Duma Key by Stephen King. It's fairly easy reading, some quite nice themes running through it, some slightly scary parts (although to be fair I've been reading while in the grips of a nasty kidney infection so I've been suffering bad dreams anyway...reading Stephen King is probably not a good idea...).
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 22 Sep 2008, 19:32, Reply)