Ali Baba's Books: AliMcJ Recommends

Ali Baba's Books: AliMcJ Recommends Ali Baba's Books: AliMcJ Recommends

odds'n'ends I'm still editing
Besides my King James Bible and my Complete Works of William Shakespeare, annotated, I would have a set of Anthony Burgess Books--(anything but A Clockwork Orange):

The Doctor is Ill,

You've Had Your Time (autobiography II),

Little Wilson and Big God (autobiography I),

The Long Day Wanes, A Malayan Trilogy

Earthly Powers

Homage to QWERTYUIOP

The Raj Quartet, by Paul Scott

The Alexandria Quartet, by Lawrence Durrell

My Family and Other Animals, by Gerard Durrell

Nathaniel West's Los Angeles novels:

The Day of the Locust

Miss Lonelyhearts

Raymond Chandler's Books

I think that Farewell My Lovely is my favorite; The Big Sleep is somewhat more clear as a book than the films, due to the movie censorship of the time, but it still has a rambling plot and characters who come and go. Yes, Farewell My Lovely is my all around Chandler favorite, but I never tire of reading any of them.

Mysteries

Elizabeth George:: In the Presence of the Enemy; Well-Schooled in Murder
Jan Willem van de Wettering
Georges Simenon
Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries (Dee Goong An)
Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mysteries:: Farewell, My Lovely; The Big Sleep; The Long Goodbye; The High Window; The Lady in the Lake; Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles
Chester Himes Mysteries: The Big Gold Dream

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Last updated 18 April 2004