I have in mind two (fiction) classics on the subject: An Enemy of the People (Ibsen) and The Winter of Our Discontent (Steinbeck). I would appreciate it if you could guide me to other valuable works on this issue.
posted by Basque13
on Apr 23, 2013 -
27 answers
Somewhere between '80 and '82, I read this book that featured spiders... [arachnophobes: do not click!]
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posted by batmonkey
on Mar 28, 2013 -
7 answers
I'm just finishing up
the third book in Ben Aaronovitch's "Rivers of London" series, and I've really enjoyed these books. What fantasy book(s) should I read next to suit my current mood?
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posted by taz
on Dec 18, 2012 -
12 answers
Looking for specific book recommendations that are
superb and by female authors/female authors of color.
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posted by jsturgill
on Nov 8, 2012 -
53 answers
"Name that book" - a novel set in Australia, deals with a young male protagonist with a somewhat crazy father and no mother. There are also South-Asian smugglers and lottery tickets involved?
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posted by permiechickie
on Aug 10, 2012 -
4 answers
I'm looking for a fiction novel I read in the early 90's. I think it was called something like 'Wire World'. Set in London, present day, about two opposing groups who got around via secret zip-lines attached to the buildings. It was written by an ex-screenplay writer. I remember it being a fun read and would like to find it again.
No such luck with the Google, you're all I've got to turn to, askMeFi'ers!
posted by drinkmaildave
on Jul 12, 2012 -
2 answers
Please tell me that the book described below actually exists, and is not a hallucination resulting from my troubled childhood.
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posted by OompaLoompa
on Apr 4, 2012 -
8 answers
Which novels and short stories, from any genre, since WWII, have been the most influential on prose style in "literary fiction"?
posted by shivohum
on Aug 26, 2011 -
19 answers
What-was-that-book-filter: 70's or 80's (?) heist (?) novel that involved shutting down L.A. by closing a couple of freeways and the central telephone switching system.
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posted by dersins
on Jul 15, 2011 -
10 answers
I'm looking for fiction that vividly describes the physical and social atmosphere of a city or town, the way Dickens captures Coketown in
Hard Times.
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posted by cirripede
on May 7, 2010 -
36 answers
What novel, published in the last five years, will keep my interest and be not-too-overly-verbose as to make my job harder (I have to write a paper discussing it's literary merits)?
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posted by makethemost
on Feb 23, 2010 -
24 answers
Book filter: can you recommend a good political/journalistic novel set in Washington, D.C. that meet the following criteria?
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posted by Tin Man
on Jan 10, 2010 -
17 answers
Looking for books where a person or people are searching for a long lost person.
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posted by reenum
on Dec 18, 2009 -
23 answers
I loved the plot of
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. Any recommendations for similar books, shows, or movies?
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posted by reenum
on Oct 28, 2009 -
10 answers
With NaNoWriMo looming ever nearer, I would like to hear your best tips, tricks, habits, and techniques for staying chained to the keyboard.
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posted by BitterOldPunk
on Oct 22, 2009 -
26 answers
I saw a graphic novel in a store today - the sequel to an earlier work, about a female high school student's adolescence, and written by a woman. Any ideas on what it could have been?
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posted by mippy
on Oct 14, 2009 -
3 answers
What well-known novels lack any character descriptions aside from names?
posted by odinsdream
on Oct 9, 2009 -
17 answers
Please help me understand aspects of the ending of the novel "The Terror" by Dan Simmons! Super spoiler-icious details inside (definitely don't read unless you've read the book, or are sure you never want to)...
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posted by taz
on Aug 21, 2009 -
12 answers
People talk about "writing the Great American Novel." What do you think are valid examples of the G.A.N.? What novels, American or otherwise, did you enjoy reading and wish you had written?
posted by Busoni
on Jun 20, 2009 -
70 answers
Need help remembering the title of a line of young adult books from the 80s involving mysteries and requiring a mirror to solve.
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posted by charlesv
on Mar 18, 2009 -
4 answers
Help me identify a novel about a female student in Edinburgh, her boyfriend with acne scars (referred to as 'my soft-scarred angel') who used to buy her nice underwear, and some kind of traumatic event in her past (either parental or some kind of mental trauma) that kept coming back to affect her. It was printed in the '90s and googling the details I know brings up nothing!
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posted by mippy
on Jan 10, 2009 -
6 answers
This question reminded me that I have a trashy paperback romance novel memory of my own that I would like to track down. It was about a female highwayman and its cover art was mostly in shades of dark green.
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posted by matildaben
on Dec 12, 2008 -
5 answers
Help me find this book!
It's about a family, possibly from the North of the UK / Scotland, but the thing I remember most is one of the brothers travelling through South America. He washes up on a riverbank, plants almost grow up around him. Local indigenous people save him and he becomes a medicine man.
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posted by pipstar
on Nov 18, 2008 -
0 answers
I'd like to read a book set in/about every US state, and would love recommendations from those living in or from each state. Actual travel I'd been hoping to do won't happen, so please help me make a journey via the library.
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posted by carbide
on Nov 18, 2008 -
46 answers
I need a longish, interesting, well-written book (fiction) to read on an upcoming trip. Any suggestions?
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posted by mosessis
on Aug 21, 2008 -
58 answers
[spoilers within] Please help me understand the ending of Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
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posted by drgonzo
on Jul 30, 2008 -
11 answers
What's-the-title-of-this-book-Filter: I read a review of this novel but can't remember the title or the author.
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posted by zardoz
on Jul 9, 2008 -
3 answers
I'm looking for an old science fiction novel about an evil, blue giant titled "The Blue Man" - the Google and Amazon search is poisoned by both The Blue Man Group, and a young-adult science fiction novel "The Blue Man" which isn't it at all.
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posted by Slap*Happy
on Jun 27, 2008 -
3 answers
What one book will allow others to gain the truest insight into the soul of each city or region
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posted by reenum
on May 6, 2008 -
16 answers
Help me remember title of really explicit and racy romance novel from the 70s or 80s please! The main character was a young orphaned woman who was in love with her rich caretaker who was a male family member who took her virginity so roughly that she required surgery and was left barren.
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posted by citystalk
on Feb 16, 2008 -
3 answers
I'm looking for the title of a Scholastic (I think) kids' book published possibly in the early to mid-1960s, and also the name of the author of a teen novel published in the 1950s.
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posted by droplet
on Dec 28, 2007 -
6 answers
I'm looking for books, fiction or nonfiction, where the main character claims no country as his/her own
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posted by reenum
on Dec 2, 2007 -
19 answers
I’d like to read some fiction books where the heroine is intelligent,
40+ years old,
not incredibly gorgeous or incredibly wealthy or incredibly famous, but with responsibilities (like teenage kids or a career), who has explicit & hot sex. Chick lit all grown up, you might say.
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posted by b33j
on Jun 14, 2007 -
24 answers
Has anyone vastly improved -- or just changed -- someone else's already published writing by editing?
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posted by callmejay
on Aug 30, 2006 -
25 answers
ID-That-Book-Filter: I read this novel in the mid-90s, and my recollection of it is very vague, but I'd love to find and read it again. I read it in the school library so it was probably written well before then; I'd guess maybe in the 80s. It was
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posted by evariste
on Jun 29, 2006 -
11 answers
What's the most exciting novel you've ever read? I mean this in the simplest sense: an exciting plot. I'm looking for page-turners. Novels that keep you on the edge of your seat and refuse to let you sleep until you finish them. I'm looking for genre novels -- but I don't care what genres: Mystery, thriller, sci-fi, etc. (though sci-fi/fantasy has been done-to-death here, so I'm really more interested in other genres.) Oh, I care about words. So no matter how exciting, I'll quit reading if the prose is crappy.
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posted by grumblebee
on May 25, 2006 -
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