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.

Nocturnalux wrote: "Sean wrote: "Changing this one to Kafka on the Shore so that I can use King Solomon's Mines for another category. One of the main characters suffers from a mental disability."

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True... very true...

Sean wrote: "I had planned to use The World According to Garp for this one. But I think I will use our current group read, King Solomon's Mines. It's got a lame guy in who had his legs ..."

Changing this one to Kafka on the Shore so that I can use King Solomon's Mines for another category. One of the main characters suffers from a mental disability.

King Solomon's Mines is recommended to one of the main characters by a bookseller in Independent People.

Independent People by Halldór Laxness. I mostly liked this world where everybody is a poet and sheep are a little too important. It dragged at times, but as a whole: good.

Welcome Teroia. You will find many willing to engage in a discussion about a LIST book. Feel free to join in to our current group read, or even read and post on a past one. Glad you are with us.

Karina wrote: "I am re-reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy and just finished The Fellowship of the Ring."

Sean liked a post by Karina

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

At times ranting
At times ridiculous
At times genius.
At times at the same time.

Independent People by Halldór Laxness

Ready to discuss!

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol. I found it wonderful, funny, and hard to put down.

During the last few days I have started Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol...

...and Extinction by Thomas Bernhard.

Discussion open.

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Pastoralia by George Saunders. Delightfully bizarre. Like Vonnegut and Pynchon had a baby that was only slightly more centered but not really.

Pastoralia by George Saunders

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré.

Got a little ahead. More in a couple weeks when the group read is open.

Kafka on the Shore. Only my second Haruki Murakami. I liked this one better than Wind-up Bird Chronicle. Just as weird, but easier to follow.

That's a great way to do the list. If they overlap then they must be worthy of reading. I like it.

Hi Molly.

That's an interesting source. Might be better off in the "Helpful Stuff" discussion. The host of that list certainly makes the link look suspicious. But I clicked on it anyway, and it seems like a legit list. You might want to type up a little about why you are posting it if you move it to that thread.

This area is for completing the A-Z challenge.

That being said, are you going to try to complete the challenge with overlap books only? Sounds fun!