Sibyl's comments
(member since Jun 10, 2008)
Sibyl's comments from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die group.
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Sometimes I use the list if I want to read a book by a certain author and want to know which one I should read. I also randomly choose a book from the list now and then so I read something I wouldn't read otherwise. Most of the ones I read off the list were not chosen because they were on the list, but because I wanted to read them, they just happened to be on the list as well.
So far I've read 76 books off the combined list, and am working on two more at the moment. But as you can see on my profile that is only a small portion of what I've read.
Proust looks too intimidating so far, although the comic-adaptation looks very tempting. Maybe I should just substitute In Search Of Lost Time with the comic, it would save a lot of time.
Finished Cheese by Willem Elsschot yesterday. You don't have to like cheese to like this one and it's a quick read.
Metamorphoses by Ovidius
With just 90 pages left I'm glad I didn't give up on this book. It was very tempting to give up, especially in the first 50-100 pages, but after those things finally started to happen. This won't be one of my favorites, maybe just too much of the busy/gaudy/decadent for me.
House Mother Normal
The adventures of Perigrine Pickle
The ogre
I started Lady Chatterley's lover a few days ago, so far it's only getting better.
rereading Perfume, one of my favorites.
Started reading Brideshead revisited this morning. Another recent read from the list is Naked Lunch.
Finished yesterday: The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus. I enjoyed reading it.
I really liked The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, I'd also recommend anyhting by Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges. And The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch.
My votes:
September: All Soul's Day by Cees Nooteboom
October: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
November: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
I read that book, a long long time ago. Weird, I only had to see the title to remember a book I read five or six years ago, when I was sixteen.
I just finished Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre and I really liked it
@ Ram: Coetzee is one of my favorite authors, if you're looking for a lighter read by Coetzee try Disgrace
Dorian Gray is one of my favorite books, give it some time, it has a slow start
My main problem with this list is that it just focusses on fiction, if only one book was allowed for each author on the list there would be enough space to at least add some plays and poetry. If the list would be shorter there would be no non-US/UK writers on the list - no Dutch writers in any case, so 1001 is fine by me.
Most of the 5% I read of this list I didn't even know were considered important, I just read it because I liked the exterior of the book. I mainly just look at the cover and title when I choose my books - and it works!
expected lifetime is 80 for females
This morning I started Les Liasons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. So far it is a very entertaining book.
1001 Books You Must Read Before You
