Sean’s Comments (group member since Jan 30, 2019)

Sean’s comments from the Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die group.

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Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas.

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. I was decent. Won't be on the top of any of my lists.

MelC wrote: "I originally had Chateau D'if from the Count of Monte Cristo, but I changed it to Marsielle instead because Chateau D'if was the actually prison that Donte was sent to; although a place, it is a bu..."

My all-time FAVE!

MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) wrote: "I have read 12 so far, as of today.

What comes before a tadpole? An egg? LOL"

haha!

We all started somewhere. I'm jealous of some of the books you still get to read for the first time.

Persuasion by Jane Austen. It was good. Just good. If you needed to drop an Austen off the list I wouldn't be mad at it.

Alecia wrote: "HAH! I didn't realize this thread was that old! I was just looking through the list again and making sure I had marked the ones I had read. (some were in high school almost 20 years ago so I didn't..."

I actually have not yet read Watership Down. I do keep hearing how good it is. And I know it makes many lists. Perhaps someday....

Wow Alecia, Way to bring this thread back to life!

I'll put mine down. Echoing a lot of people on here.

1. Fahrenheit 451
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
3. Prodigal Summer
4. All the King's Men
5. The Canterbury Tales

.... and The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard.

Over the long weekend, I finished quite a few books.

The Idiot was a great book. Probably my favorite Fyodor Dostoevsky so far.

Pippi Longstocking was nice and short. A little silly too.

The Feast of the Goat was great read about a time in history I knew nothing about.

Started Persuasion by Jane Austen

Welcome Sara, Glad to have you with us. Hope your journey on the LIST includes the many classics as well as the modern, postmodern, and even pre-modern titles. A lot of genre hopping on our favorite LIST .

Looking forward to seeing what you are reading and maybe even getting your take on some of our group reads.

It's a little long. But I want to try to finish The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky before I need to start my next book club book.

I went with Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West.

Colorful and violent....

I finished Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Thank you, Mr. McCarthy, for reminding me that man is the most brutal of beasts.

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Is Powell's the authority of what new books are coming out? I understand they are the largest brick and mortar bookstore (been there!) ... but...

I'm only asking because the blurb that they have for the book is a very universal blurb used by countless online booksellers. Did everybody get it from Powell's? or did Powell's get it from some other authority?

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Yesterday I started Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy.