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[Diane]

Bryan "They call me the Doge" wrote: "That looks so boring to me, plus I don't like Rousseau anyway. My plan is to read Finnegan's Wake last, and Rousseau's Confessions next-to-last."

I actually liked it. Rousseau is one of those people I'd like to meet if time travel was possible.

My contender for the last book is The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein.

[Diane]

Finished The Swarm by Frank Schätzing.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Diane wrote: My contender for the last book is The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein...."



That's probably a good choice too--maybe I ought to start a thread:

"What are the last five books you plan on reading from the list?"

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Diane wrote: "I actually liked it..."

Well, that moves it up incrementally on my list then--maybe I'll save it for the last 100

:)

[Colleen]

I finished Rites of Passage....actually the whole To The Ends of The Earth: Sea Trilogy. I enjoy William Golding's writing...haven't read many nautical novels.

[Colleen]

Laura wrote: "Ellinor wrote: "I just finished The Devil in the Flesh. This book definitely is one of the hidden gems on the list. I would probably never have come across it without the list but I'm so glad I rea..."

Impressive! Great job!

[Joy D]

Just finished:

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin - 4 stars - My Review

[Kirsten]

Joy D wrote: "Just finished:

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin - 4 stars - My Review"

I loved that one!

[Sean]

Colleen wrote: "I finished Rites of Passage....actually the whole To The Ends of The Earth: Sea Trilogy. I enjoy William Golding's writing...haven't read many nautical novels."


I liked Rites of Passage enough to have been glad I read it. But not enough to continue the series. He does have a nice writing style.

[Sean]

I finished The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. It was my first Pynchon. And now I understand why people say what they say. More next month when the group read thread opens.

[Sean]

Luís wrote: "Sean wrote: "I finished The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. r..."

Do you recommend it? I've read yet Gravity's Rainbow as my first one and recently read Mason & Dixon... More pleasant the last one (at least for me.)

If you like his style, then yes. It was weird and the ending was... I won't say.... but very funny as well.

[Nocturnalux]

I'd recommend Gravity's Rainbow as well, it is Pynchon on steroids.

I had to study The Crying of Lot 49 in high school, actually. It was one of the featured works in my senior year's National Exam. Quite a trip it was.

[Karen]

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. Interesting, but not great -- it was only in the 2008 Boxall edition. I'm currently reading Exit West his latest book which is much better. Pakistan doesn't seem to be very well represented on the list.

[George P.]

Joy D wrote: "Just finished The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin - 4 stars - My Review"

I rated it 4 also, it has a lot of sociological depth, not surprised it won both the Hugo and Nebula awards (the top scifi awards).

[Tyler]

The Light of Day by Graham Swift

[Peter]

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Despite being first published in 1883 is still an interesting and entertaining read today whether you are a child or an adult.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Nocturnalux wrote: "I'd recommend Gravity's Rainbow as well, it is Pynchon on steroids.

I had to study The Crying of Lot 49 in high school, actually. It was one of the featured works in my senior year's National Exam..."

I've only read Inherent Vice by Pynchon but I liked it a lot. I'm looking forward to reading more by him.

[Vikki]

I, Robot

[George P.]

The big one- War and Peace. I don't know if it's the longest in the 1001 list but must be in the five longest, and it's the longest book I ever read- took me 3.5 months. It was sometimes tedious in the history of the war parts, but very impressive in scope and in the realistic characters. 4.5 stars.

[Sean]

Finished A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. It was a short and decent read. Nothing Earth-shattering.

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Jane Eyre

[Karen]

Youth by J. M. Coetzee
This is the second volume of Coetzee's semi-fictionalized autobiography in which he leaves South Africa for England. I found it fascinating, especially his commentary and critique of many Boxall authors -- particularly Ford Madox Ford who he attempts to use for his dissertation. It also gave me a better understanding of the writing style he used in his earlier books.

[Diane]

George P. wrote: "The big one- War and Peace. I don't know if it's the longest in the 1001 list but must be in the five longest, and it's the longest book I ever read- took me 3.5 months. It was sometimes..."

Definitely a big achievement. Glad you enjoyed it.

[Diane]

Finished The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham.

[James]

George P. wrote: "The big one- War and Peace. I don't know if it's the longest in the 1001 list but must be in the five longest, and it's the longest book I ever read- took me 3.5 months. It was sometimes..."

Great job but you are right that there are longer ones on the list. Off the top of my head: In Search of Lost Time, A Dance to the Music of Time, Les Miserables, A Suitable Boy, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I also think Anniversaries by Uwe Johnson should be on the list but it isn't. Most interesting to me is that LOVED all of these including War and Peace. (I have to confess to still working on the last volume of Proust and over half of Powell.)

[Peter]

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G.Wells. Given that it was written well in excess of a hundred years ago it still feels relevant.

[Carol]

I just finished Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis.

I'm a person who never leaves a book unfinished, no matter how it seems to stink! It's a good thing, because I wanted to put this book down every time I looked at it until I got to the last 1/3 of it. By the end, I was actually enjoying it! It's an amazing statement on the American middle class -- its values, habits, & faults. But it also leaves us with hope for the future generation. Well done!

[BJ]

Finished: The Princess Bride. This one will be on my top five favorite books of all times! I have watched the movie many of times as a child, but, to be expected the book outweighs the movie.

[Mia]

I finished The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach.

[Diane]

Finished Tono-Bungay by H.G. Wells.

[Diane]

James wrote: "I also think Anniversaries by Uwe Johnson should be on the list but it isn't. ..."

It is, under the title Jahrestage. Over 1700 pages.

[Karen]

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford and Sula by Toni Morrison

[Nocturnalux]

BJ wrote: "Finished: The Princess Bride. This one will be on my top five favorite books of all times! I have watched the movie many of times as a child, but, to be expected the book outweighs the movie."

Is this a list book? I can't seem to find it on the list.

[BJ]

I’m sorry it is not. I posted this one on the wrong place.

[Stephen]

Just finished Henry David Thoreau's Walden.

[Sean]

Stephen wrote: "Just finished Henry David Thoreau's Walden."

What did you think, Stephen? I am 2/3 finished with it.

[Nocturnalux]

Adam Bede by George Eliot.

It has its moments and as usual is brilliantly written but after a certain point I lost all interest and could not stand the conclusion.

[Stephen]

Sean, there are moments of utter brilliance, surrounded by diatribes on subjects that have little value today. I'm overall glad I read it, but more for the strange effect the book had on my own thinking rather than the page.

I did have the good fortune to see a display of Thoreau's effects that was held at the Morgan Library in NYC a few years back, it grounded the whole experience.

[Sean]

Oh that would be a really cool thing to see.

I am definitely getting more out of it than I thought I would. It's about the most interesting boring book I've ever read.

[Karen]

Vanishing Point by David Markson and Timbuktu by Paul Auster

[Ann A]

The Things They Carried - Five stars!

[Diane]

The Public Burning by Robert Coover.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Finished Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin yesterday. Could have used an editor, but I really enjoyed it. Quite gothic

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Ann A wrote: "The Things They Carried - Five stars!"

All the stories in the collection are good, but I think the title story is brilliant

[George P.]

James wrote: "Great job but you are right that there are longer ones on the list [than War and Peace]. Off the top of my head: In Search of Lost Time, A Dance to the Music of Time..."

I'm planning to read Vol 1 of In Search of Lost Time this year (aka Swann's Way).

[Tim]

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan - my number one favorite read

[George P.]

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. He was one of my favorites of my early adulthood, and this is a re-read for me. I enjoyed it just as much as I did decades ago.

[Diane]

The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow.

[Carol]

Metamorphoses by Ovid (the 1567 translation by Golding).

Beautiful language -- I could really hear the words as I read them.

[S.L.]

The Crying of Lot 49 -- short, weird and deep