Which LIST book did you just finish? Showing 6,851-6,900 of 10,248

[Edgar]

Finished The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, a short post-war novel about guilt, betrayal and deception set in Germany. Pretty good.

[Ellinor]

Finished Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit by John Lyly

[Pooja]

Just finished Ethan Frome, my first Edith Wharton - and sadly I was not impressed. Please tell me her others aren't so melodramatic? I'll have to get through them, after all, if I want to complete the list!

[Karen]

Inadvertently wound up with a rock and roll theme with The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie and Gabriel's Gift by Hanif Kureishi.

The Ground Beneath Her Feet requires a little knowledge of classic rock and roll, otherwise you won't know if you are in the real world or the "otherworld." But a very enjoyable read -- especially on my Kindle where I could immediately check on some of the lesser known rock groups.

[Abeselom]

Left handed woman by Peter Handke. A wonderful little book.

[Diane]

Finished The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd. Meh.

[Ellinor]

Time's Arrow by Martin Amis

[Mia]

Dispatches by Michael Herr. I liked it a lot.

[Diane]

Herzog by Saul Bellow.

[Peter]

The Child in Time by Ian McEwan. Despite its gloomy subject matter I found it oddly compelling.

[George P.]

The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký (Czech) and A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov (Russian). The Engineer was rather overlong, but quite good in parts. A Hero is a very old one, 1840, very good for its time.

[Jess]

Doctor Zhivago

I didn't really like it. I hated Zhivago and found everything very jumpy and confusing.

[Ellinor]

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson

[Diane]

Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope. Wonderful.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Finished The Cross, which was the final installment of Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset.

[Tim]

Great Expectations by Dickens

[Tim]

Diane wrote: "Finished The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd. Meh."

Totally agree with your response.

[Hubert]

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Whew!

[Sean]

I liked Smiley's People by John le Carré much more than book one in the series.

[Frances]

Dracula. It was unnecessarily long. For an epistolary style of writing, the characters liked to write/journal a lot. ✍️

[Diane]

Finished the 4th and final volume of Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Diane wrote: "Finished the 4th and final volume of Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en."

Congratulations on that--quite an accomplishment. I'd like to start on it myself, but I have a lot of inertia to overcome when it comes to multi-volume sets like that.

[Ellinor]

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

[Diane]

Bryan--Pumpkin Connoisseur wrote: "Diane wrote: "Finished the 4th and final volume of Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en."

Congratulations on that--quite an accomplishment. I'd like to start..."

Thanks! This was the second time I read it - sort of. The first time I read the more popular version, which I later learned was abridged. I started this version back in February. It is actually a surprisingly easy read.

[Angie]

Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

[Mia]

I finished The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis.

[Sean]

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. I liked it. I liked the twist. Classic stuff, although my first ever Christie book.

[Tim]

The Maltese Falcon by Hammett

[Tim]

Ellinor wrote: "The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan"

One of my favorite reads in all literature.

[Colleen]

My most recently read are: Passing, Diary of a Nobody, and The Fox. I really enjoyed all of them. Both The Fox and Passing leave you thinking for a long time after. Diary of a Nobody feels like a Victorian blog...it was fun.

[Mia]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.

[Carol]

Read in cold blood in honor of halloween. Interesting details of the killers psychology.

[Sean]

Just finished Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. That was very challenging, but very fun also.

[Diane]

Finished The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy.

[George P.]

Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende.
I had previously read her other List book, House of the Spirits. Though they have a similarity of style, I liked this one more.

[Carol]

read perfume by patrick suskind as my Halloween book, very good

[Frances]

Finally finishedWar and Peace! July 18 - Oct 31. Woohoo! I'm going to miss those characters though.

[George P.]

Frances wrote: "Finally finished War and Peace! July 18 - Oct 31. Woohoo! I'm going to miss those characters though."

That's about how long it took me at the beginning of this year. Worth the time though.

[Frances]

George P. wrote: "Frances wrote: "Finally finishedWar and Peace! July 18 - Oct 31. Woohoo! I'm going to miss those characters though."

That's about how long it took me at the beginning of this year. W..."

Definitely! 🤗

[George P.]

Have finished At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill. Near four stars for me. If you're put off by relationships of gay men you might not want to read it; it has a lot more in it than that though.

[Andrea]

Finished A Town Like Alice and, while slow at times and dated in some ways, it was a really nice read. Overall uplifting.

[Nocturnalux]

George P. wrote: "Have finished At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill. Near four stars for me. If you're put off by relationships of gay men you might not want to read it; it has a lot more in it than that..."

It saddens me so much that such a disclaimer is still needed in 2020.

[Mia]

Nocturnalux wrote: "George P. wrote: "Have finished At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill. Near four stars for me. If you're put off by relationships of gay men you might not want to read it; it has a lot mo..."

I agree.

[Mia]

I finished The Circle by Dave Eggers. I think there was only one character in the whole book that I didn't dislike.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Mia wrote: "I finished The Circle by Dave Eggers. I think there was only one character in the whole book that I didn't dislike."

Eggers kind of beats you over the head and shoulders with his theme in that book, doesn't he? And yes, what a bunch of irritating people.

[Bob]

Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta by Doris Lessing

[Diane]

Finished Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis. Not my thing. Way too much name-dropping.

[Frances]

The Pit and the Pendulum -I didn't like it as much as The Black Cat, which I read right after, and isn't on the list.

[Ellinor]

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

[George P.]

Have finished Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett which I read overlapping with the last one I posted about.
It's quite the wild story, rather too over-the-top for my taste, as there is no sense of parody to it. I did enjoy his use of old slang colloquialisms, some of which may have been original.