Which LIST book did you just finish? Showing 6,101-6,150 of 10,248

[Laura]

Orlando, I was a little disappointed if I’m honest.

[Ellinor]

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Sarah]

Finished The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. I switched to the audio version to finish sooner. A morbid piece by a talented writer.

[Vikki]

I just finished "Tarzan of the Apes." Loved it.

[Amanda]

Laura wrote: "Orlando, I was a little disappointed if I’m honest."

Just started it, and not sure what I think so far! I am not immediately hooked, but still, some of her descriptions are sooo good.

[Hilde]

The Dispossessed - very interesting book

[Sean]

Hilde wrote: "The Dispossessed - very interesting book"

Very close to the top of my list. I seem to be on a SciFi tear atm.

[Diane]

George P. wrote: "Diane wrote: "Germinal by Émile Zola. Wow."

You just posted yesterday morning that you had started it. It's 600 pages long. Oh my heck!"

I started it a couple days before posting it. I did have trouble putting it down, though.

[Diane]

Finished The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence.

[Sarah]

Finished North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. A nice read but I enjoyed Cranford more.

[Sarah]

Diane wrote: "Germinal by Émile Zola. Wow."

I love Zola! He’s utterly delicious.

[George P.]

Amanda wrote: "Laura wrote: "Orlando, I was a little disappointed if I’m honest."

Just started it, and not sure what I think so far! I am not immediately hooked, but still, some of her descriptions are sooo good."

It was certainly weird but I enjoyed reading it.

[Nocturnalux]

Jacques the Fatalist by Diderot Denis.

[Ellinor]

Luís wrote: "Accordion Crimes - A portrait of America's present."

I don‘t think this one is on the list!

[Karen]

Finished in January --


Chaka by Thomas Mofolo

Foe by J. M. Coetzee
Good read with Robinson Crusoe.

August Is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello

The Waves by Virginia Woolf
A very experimental novel, but Woolf's writing is so beautiful.

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Strange, very strange. But what I found really interesting was the additional essays and information detailing the relationship between Burroughs, Ginsburg, and Kerouac. Very interesting!

And one from December -- Remembrance of Things Past (or In Search of Lost Time), Volume 1: Swann's Way
I love Proust, but he should be savored -- no speed reading here!

[Diane]

Finished The Back Room by Carmen Martín Gaite.

[Peter]

Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi. Frankly disappointing.

[Sean]

I think my list-reading friends will agree I had a very productive weekend.... my wife, not so much.

Finished:

Foundation by Isaac Asimov - 2/7/2020 - A very good book. But really need to read the others now to see how this turns out
Watchmen by Alan Moore - 2/8/2020 - Loved the story. Saw the movie but remembered nothing about it. I must not have liked it as much.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - 2/8/2020 - Same situation re: the movie. Great book. But this movie I want to see again. Both versions of it.

[Laura]

George P. wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Laura wrote: "Orlando, I was a little disappointed if I’m honest."

Just started it, and not sure what I think so far! I am not immediately hooked, but still, some of her description..."

Her descriptions are wonderful, but towards the end I started to lose track of what was going on, characters disappeared without a trace and then it was the end and I was sitting there thinking, 'wait, what just happened'. It is highly likely that it's just me not paying enough attention, but I was a little disappointed.

[Karina]

Just finished The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Excellent book.

[Ellinor]

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse and Silas Marner by George Eliot

[Mia]

The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson.

[George P.]

Luís wrote: "Accordion Crimes - A portrait of America's present."

I loved it, but Proulx's only book on the list is The Shipping News (also great).

[Sean]

New book in my top 5 favorite LIST books so far. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss!

[Karen]

Albert Angelo by B. S. Johnson
An author I have never encountered. Johnson was part of a group of writers in Sixties Britain who wrote experimental novels. The novel Albert Angelo has cut through pages so you can skip ahead in the text.

[Nicole]

10:04

Not great, not awful.

[George P.]

Germinal by Émile Zola, my first of the five Zolas on the List. Rather long- I was thinking 3.5 stars towards the end, but the exciting last part pulled me up to a solid 4 stars.

[Sarah]

Finished Tom Jones by Henry Fielding.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Finished The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

[Vikki]

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. I really liked the book for the most part, but hated how it ended.

[Kirsten]

Vikki wrote: "Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. I really liked the book for the most part, but hated how it ended."

Hardy isn't the cheeriest of authors. I remember reading it in high school and hating it. But I recently re-read it and enjoyed it very much. I liked Return of the Native even more for some reason.

[Diane]

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago.

[Amanda]

I recently finished Some Experiences of an Irish RM, which means I am done with the pre 1900 novels (I go chronologically).

I did a kind of ranking of the 1800s books on my blog, http://1001everything.blogspot.com.

[Diane]

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence.

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Had to get an oline PDF copy to be able to read this one.

Read some of Edgar Allan Poe to get a few more off the list.
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Purloined Letter
The Fall of the House of Usher

[Ellinor]

Amanda wrote: "I recently finished Some Experiences of an Irish RM, which means I am done with the pre 1900 novels (I go chronologically).

I did a kind of ranking of the 1800s books on my blog, http://1001every..."

Congrats! That‘s really a major achievement!

[Sarah]

Finished Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. I enjoyed the book!

[Diane]

Finished The Christmas Oratorio by Göran Tunström.

[Peter]

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton. A powerful and at times emotional read but one that in today's world is a little flawed.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

[Ellinor]

The Hive by Camilo José Cela

[Laura]

Just finished Pamela, Samuel Richardson. I’ve seen the multitude of bad reviews on goodreads, not sure they are warranted. I felt it a good example of literature of its time & in some ways a lot easier than some of its more modern 1001 book companions

[Diane]

Native Son by Richard Wright.

[George P.]

Finished Faces in the Water by Janet Frame of New Zealand.
There was a good film about Frame, who spent time in psychiatric hospitals, titled An Angel At My Table (the title of one of her memoirs) directed by Jane Campion.

[Diane]

To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia.

[Diane]

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith.

[Storm]

I have been forgetting to check if my classics I've been reading were on the list. Several of them were!

So from last August to now, I have finished:

A Christmas Carol
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
The Catcher in the Rye
Beloved
Little Women

I enjoyed all of them except Little Women

[Karen]

The Circle by Dave Eggers
This book is scary! I would classify it as sci-fi dystopian if we weren't already living it. Also, an excellent example of the proverb -- "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

[Diane]

Finished Pallieter by Felix Timmermans.

[Karen]

The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard