Stephen’s Comments (group member since Dec 15, 2007)

Stephen’s comments from the What should I read next?: The book ending support group group.

A lot of fiction readers here ... looking over the posts, I can definitely recommend The Historian, The Book Thief, Atonement and Saturday, but a lot of these I have never heard of ... not much of a fiction reader, though if there is something really good I could be convinced ...

I just finished re-reading Hiroshima in preparation for a spring trip to Japan, two non-fiction works (Remote Controlled - a compilation of reviews by the TV critic of The New Republic and Education's End by a Yale Law Professor writing a passionate defense of the humanities in Higher Education) and am making my way back through Flyboys by James Bradley - clearly, it will take some time to get me into A Thousand Splendid Suns ...

Can anybody recommend any recent books with a Japanese character / theme / plot / or writer? Fiction or non-fiction is fine ...

I think favorite books change all the time and mostly reflect what was going on when you read it ... one of all time favorites was Norman Mailer's The Naked and Dead which I read in college ... I reread it recently and it was pretty interesting to see it from another perspective

Has anyone read A Thousand Splendid Suns by the author of the Kite Runner? It is sitting here on my desk but for some reason I am avoiding it ... I just finished a novel called Matrimony by Joshua henkin which I thought was pretty good. i read a lot more non-fiction than fiction, but this one restored my faith!