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The English Patient was a great one by Ondaatje. I've been meaning to pick up Warlight since it came out.
by eatonphil 6y ago
The English Patient was a great one by Ondaatje. I've been meaning to pick up Warlight since it came out.
- criddell 6y agoThe English Patient is the first book that ever had me enjoying the prose as much as the story itself. As I was reading it I realized that even though I know all the words Ondaatje is using, I could never assemble them is such an artful and beautiful way. That book took me a long time to get through because I would reread passages as I went.
- eatonphil 6y agoYou may also enjoy a lot of Hemingway's stuff, Wind, Sand, and Stars by de Saint-Exupéry, Out of Africa by Karen Blixen and West With the Night by Berly Markham -- all memoirs (except for Hemingway's non-memoirs) very similar in style and beauty. If anyone else has recommendations along these lines of memoirist or novelists with excellent command of beautiful, but very simple English I'd love to hear.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoBecause of The English Patient book (not film), I read “The Histories” by Herodotus. It is his only possession, if you remember.