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[Diane]

Maddy wrote: "I finally finished Ulysses!"

Great accomplishment!

[Diane]

Finished Marks of Identity by Juan Goytisolo.

[Sean]

Finished Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor. All great stories. Southern Gothic at its finest.

[Jennifer W]

Finished Reasons to Live, I don't like short stories, so I was not impressed. A few were ok, but several were just stupid and pointless.

[Karen]

War with the Newts by Karel Čapek -- Interesting

[Kimberly]

Jennifer W wrote: "Finished Reasons to Live, I don't like short stories, so I was not impressed. A few were ok, but several were just stupid and pointless."

I don't like short stories either and try to avoid them. I read one this year only to be able to complete a spot in the 2021 bingo challenge.

[George P.]

Finished Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, 1835. I was able to borrow the e-audiobook, which was pretty well done. With novels this old you have to take a historical view of their quality- I think it was good for its day.
I read several books at a time; I didn't read this in just the 3 days from my last one.

[Diane]

Finished Manon des sources by Marcel Pagnol.

[Karen]

The Journey to the West, Revised Edition, Volume 3 by Wu Cheng'en
One volume left!!

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished what is easily my favorite book of the year so far


Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Sean]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "I finished what is easily my favorite book of the year so far... Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
: ..."

Great to hear. I'm about 10% in.

[Alice]

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

[Mia]

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.

[Bob]

Heliodorus Aethiopica by Heliodorus of Emesa

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Sean wrote: "RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "I finished what is easily my favorite book of the year so far... Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
: ..."

Great to hear. I'm about 10%..."

It took about 150 pages to hook me.

[Diane]

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

[JenniferAustin]

Dracula by Bram Stoker
What a great read! I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it, as I generally dislike horror. Now I want to go find one of the movies to watch.

Onwards!

While I am in the mood, I may go check out The Castle of Otranto, since Horace Walpole is credited with the invention of "gothic" with that book.

[JenniferAustin]

Sean wrote: "Finished Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor. All great stories. Southern Gothic at its finest."

I, too, love Flannery O'Connor's work so much, and her short stories are amazing.

[Diane]

A Light Comedy by Eduardo Mendoza.

[Bob]

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

[Maddy]

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. I was really expecting to love this, but it just never connected. Oh well...

[Joy D]

Delightful coming of age story published in 1818, Austen comments on the issues of her day – morality, character, social mores, and limits on a woman’s agency. I had somehow missed reading this classic before now. I found it delightful:

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - 4 stars - My Review

[Diane]

The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

[Maddy]

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector. This is another author I'm excited to read more of. It's short, but still felt like something I had to sit with for a while to fully appreciate.

[Bob]

Facundo: or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Started and finished Amsterdam by Ian McEwan. This is the second of McEwan's books I've read (the first was not on the List). I hope the others that he has on the list are more list-worthy--this one was entertaining, I suppose, but it sure felt lightweight when thinking of things I ought to do before I die.

[Maddy]

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I was expecting it to be overhyped, but the dialogue and character work is truly astonishing. I found it wonderful.

[Diane]

La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas.

[Mia]

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

[Karen]

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
Difficult read, but interesting. Just a bit of history -- Gravity's Rainbow was chosen by the Pulitzer jury as the winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Pulitzer Advisory Board disagreed and was offended by its content calling the book unreadable, turgid, overwritten, and sometimes obscene. So ... no prize was awarded in 1974.

[Angie]

Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel

[George P.]

Angie wrote: "Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel"

I finished it today also. I wasn't very enamored with it.
I'm reading short stories by Tony Cade Bambara, Gorilla, My Love, and like that better. It's in some other lists of outstanding books.

[George P.]

Karen wrote: "Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
Difficult read, but interesting. Just a bit of history -- Gravity's Rainbow was chosen by the Pulitzer jury as the winner of the 1974 Pulitzer P..."

That also happened in 1921 with Main Street by Sinclair Lewis. He later got the Pulitzer for Arrowsmith, and a Nobel as well.

[S.L.]

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

[Angie]

Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb - rather enjoyed this dark satire. :-)

[Colleen]

The Left-Handed Woman

[Maddy]

I also finished Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel. Glad to hear I'm not the only one who found it underwhelming.

[Kimberly]

The Hour of the Star

[Kimberly]

Bryan--Pumpkin Connoisseur wrote: "Started and finished Amsterdam by Ian McEwan. This is the second of McEwan's books I've read (the first was not on the List). I hope the others that he has on the list are more list-wor..."

I agree with you. I was underwhelmed.

[Kimberly]

Cheese by Willem Elsschot (for a book about and from an author born in a country beginning with the letter "B" - Belgium)
This is a book worthy of being on The List.

[Sean]

I've been waiting a long time to say this:

Yesterday I finished In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

[Lemon]

I finished

The Undrownedundrowned
and
The Collector

[James]

Sean wrote: "I've been waiting a long time to say this:

Yesterday I finished In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust."

CONGRATULATIONS!! As good a book as it is, it is a major achievement to finish it. (I still have the last volume to go.) Which edition did you read and what did you think of it?

[Karen]

Sean wrote: "I've been waiting a long time to say this:

Yesterday I finished In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust."

Congratulations! I love this book.

[Sean]

James wrote: "Sean wrote: "I've been waiting a long time to say this:

Yesterday I finished In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust."

CONGRATULATIONS!! As good a book as it is, it i...Which edition did you read and what did you think of it?..."

It may not be conventional, but since I had to depend on three different libraries to get them all, I read different translations. I started with the C.K. Scott Moncrieff translation, then switched to the James Grieve translation, then over to the Mark Treharne translation, and finished up with the Andreas Mayor translation.

I can't really comment on the translations. I read other books in-between most volumes so I didn't really even think to compare them. It's funny to think about it now. I definitely liked some volumes more than others, and now I wonder if that had anything to do with it. I can see now that my favorites were the ones I read with the James Grieve as translator. Could be coincidence though.

Overall it was good. I enjoyed it. I do remember somebody else leaving a brief comment along these lines when they finished it and this is exactly how I feel about it: I'm going to miss this set of characters I've gotten to know so well and spent so much time with.

[Bob]

Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, all nine volumes.

[Alice]

Bob wrote: "Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, all nine volumes."

Bob, great job! It took me three months to finish this book......all nine volumes. Coulda been shorter (insert winking emoji here).

[Laura]

Bob wrote: "Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, all nine volumes."

How did you find it, I preferred Pamela, and really struggled with the length of this one, with what felt like very little action

[Nocturnalux]

Karen wrote: "Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
Difficult read, but interesting. Just a bit of history -- Gravity's Rainbow was chosen by the Pulitzer jury as the winner of the 1974 Pulitzer P..."

The obscenity part had mostly to do with the eating feces bit.

[Alice]

Laura wrote: "Bob wrote: "Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, all nine volumes."

How did you find it, I preferred Pamela, and really struggled w..."

Laura, Amazon has it free as a download to Kindle, but it's divided into the nine separate volumes. It is definitely slow, and could have been much shorter.