Piyangie’s Comments (group member since Feb 03, 2017)

Piyangie’s comments from the Never too Late to Read Classics group.

I just finished it. I thought I'd go slow, but couldn't resist reading them at a pace. There are seventeen short stories (they are so short that you can read them in one breath), and except for one or two, I enjoyed them all. Some of them I had to read a couple of times. My absolute faourites are (5 stars):
*The Garden of the Folking Paths
*Death and the Compass
*The Circular Ruins

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

178 pages

Group total: 257,029

A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie

A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

129 pages

Group total: 254 737

Lesle wrote: "Piyangie part one have some of the ones you already read in it?"

Yes. Out of 8 stories, I had to read only two in part one. I've read the others. In part two, I've only read two. There are 7 more to read. The two translations are different, but I'm reading only the new ones.

I just finished part one. I'll move more slowly with part two.

A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert

The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov

A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Strait is the Gate by André Gide

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde

Glad you're enjoying it, Pam.

A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck