{"id":5965,"date":"2007-02-02T13:25:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T18:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2022-10-12T12:55:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T16:55:23","slug":"speaking-of-john-banville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5965","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Of John Banville &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Were we?  Well, he was mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?p=5964\">here<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Top-Ten-Writers-Their-Favorite\/dp\/0393328406\/sr=8-1\/qid=1170440642\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/002-3711509-4756810?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\"><i>The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books<\/i><\/a> is a book I most definitely need to get &#8211; and I kind of love Banville&#8217;s list of his Top 10 Books (which I found <a href=\"http:\/\/marksarvas.blogs.com\/elegvar\/2007\/02\/from_the_home_o.html\">here<\/a>) &#8230; I&#8217;d love to read more.  I always love to hear writers talk about the books that they love &#8211; the books that either inspire them, frustrate them, push them to do better, or just provide an escape &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>John Banville&#8217;s Favorite Books:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1.  <i>Ill Seen, Ill Said <\/i>by Samuel Beckett<\/p>\n<p>2.  <i>Notes from Underground <\/i>by Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/p>\n<p>3. <i>Ulysses <\/i>by James Joyce<\/p>\n<p>4. <i>Doctor Faustus <\/i>by Thomas Mann<\/p>\n<p>5.  <i>Moby-Dick <\/i>by Herman Melville<\/p>\n<p>6.  <i>Lolita <\/i>by Vladimir Nabokov<\/p>\n<p>7.  <i>Austerlitz <\/i>by W.G. Sebald<\/p>\n<p>8.  <i>Dirty Snow <\/i>by Georges Simenon<\/p>\n<p>9. <i> Gulliver&#8217;s Travels <\/i>by Jonathan Swift<\/p>\n<p>10.  <i>Vanity Fair <\/i>by William Makepeace Thackeray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were we? Well, he was mentioned here. The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books is a book I most definitely need to get &#8211; and I kind of love Banville&#8217;s list of his Top 10 Books (which I found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180119,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions\/180119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}