i know all the twilight fans want to be bella so please post your second non-twilight choice. i’d like to live Hemingway’s life in a movable feast (i know its a memoir but i prefer to regard it as fiction) or orlando in virginia woolf’s book orlando
elizabeth bennet would be the sweet life…mistress of pemberley and mr. darcy in the boudoir
- simone

I mean Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) whose “Collected Fictions” (tr. by Andrew Hurley) I’m going to compare to his “Ficciones” (tr. by Anthony Kerringan, et al.). In the meantime I’m reading his biography in the Wikipedia web site.
- Me_too

Copius amounts of literary works have been created since stories first began to be written down. Though the number of literary works is plentiful, works of fiction are often more popular among younger contemporary readers than older readers. The imaginary events and the slight exaggeration of those events that the author sometimes employs means less information is required to understand the work effectively switch generally makes it a faster read. Consequently, younger readers often consider works of non-fiction inferior to works of fiction due to their seemingly nonexistent plot and sometimes excessive use of facts.
- Chess

Apart from Passage to India. Fiction is preferred please, and preferably to do with Britian or Belgium (but not Heart of Darkness)
- Evie

Is the Bible an astrotheological literary hybrid. Some may say “the christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun in which they put a man called christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun. This question is not ment to offend, I am just looking to find some truth in this crackpot crazy bullshit world we call home.
- pixie

Does anyone know of any science-fiction novels that could be considered actual literature. I mean novels with actual literary significance that contain complex themes, motifs, symbols, etc. I’ve already read some Ursula K. Leguin’s and Philip K. Dick. I’ve heard Arthur C. Clarke is good, but I haven’t read anything so far of his. Are there any other, perhaps more obscure pieces of literarily significant sci-fi? And I really do prefer science fiction over fantasy. So no answers concerning fantasy please; I already know about the allegorical nature of Tolkien’s and C.S. Lewis’s books. It’s just not my thing.
- Roger W

I was looking through the 2006 edition of the Writer’s Market under literary agents and there was a request for only Blasdell Science Fiction. Does anyone out there have any idea what that is?
- uncletoon2005

How do you distinguish books of literary merit from other works of fiction?
- pcv_cameroon

If a literary agent specifically notes on their submissions page that they are interested in Young Adult Novels (among other things of course) but then they write that they are currently not accepting science fiction, what does that mean…exactly? Will they accept my YA novel that has some science fiction overtures? It’s not actually a science fiction novel, its a young adult novel. Or, since they said they don’t want science fiction, should I just not submit to them at all?
- Tam W

I don’t want commercial fiction though so please please please no twilight or any other “tween reads”. I want something that makes you stop and think while you’re reading, but is also compelling and can’t be put down when you’re reading it at 12 am. It has to have a message.
- ~Orangeblossom of Willowbottom~