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Top Five Novels to Read During the TV Writers Strike
The TV writers' strike may continue for days or months, and most television series have only a few episodes still in the can. It's time for drastic action: read a book! Better yet, read a long, involved, excellent book.
1. Emma by Jane Austen. One of the best comic romance novels written in the English language, this book is funny and yet beautiful. Austen also published Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
2. Rabid by T.K. Kenyon. Combining black humor with philosophy, this book's a sure winner. If you like Kenyon's writing, you'll have to wait until April, 2008 for his second novel, Callous. A Jesuit priest, a crazed doctor, a sweet victim, and the most dangerous woman you've ever met vie for your attention and your sympathy in Rabid.
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling, and its six prequels. All right, you should start with the first one, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. If you need more Harry after you've finished all seven hefty tomes, there are hundreds of thousands of "fan fiction" Harry Potter stories published online, a dubious but sincere compliment to Rowling.
4. Spook Country by William Gibson. The fantastic futurist takes a pen-stab at our own time. If you liked Neuromancer, be prepared to be frightened.
5. The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon. One of the country's most original writers has written a poignant alternate history. In this book, Israel was wiped off the map in the late 1940's, and a few surviving Jews formed a Yiddish colony in Alaska. Politics, murder, the Messiah, and pain come together in a truly beautiful book.
Miranda Smart is a graduate student in English at an unnamed Ivy League university. Her thesis focuses on new theories of post-modernism.
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