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[Dina]

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

[Karen]

Sean wrote: "I finished Extinction by Thomas Bernhard, It wasn't too tough, despite ZERO paragraph breaks. The stream of consciousness just flowed and flowed but was easy enough to f..."

I liked Bernhard, but I read his books chronologically. His writing is described as “seamless” which essentially means long monologues with no paragraphs, long sentences (sometimes several pages), and a very, very slow plot progression.

I think it was Extinction which mentioned dachshunds -- an analogy of Goethe is to Shakespeare as a dachshund is to a greyhound.

[Karen]

Finished --
Inside Mr Enderby by Anthony Burgess
A very different book by Burgess than A Clockwork Orange and quite funny.

Silence by Shūsaku Endō -- Historical fiction set during Japan's religious persecution of Christians during the 1600s. Powerful and thought-provoking.

[Diane]

Fortunata and Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós

and

Small Remedies by Shashi Deshpande

[Angie]

Over the weekend I finished:

The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol (fun!)
The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho (quite happy that I'm done with all the Coelhos now, phew.)

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished Tolstoy's novella which argues for moral elevation through sexual abstinence


The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Sean]

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera was a strange book that I found it a chore to keep following. Not going down as a favorite.

[Kathleen]

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, important for beginning the gothic genre, which has definitely been improved upon! :-)

[Alice]

Time's Arrow by Martin Amis and
The Wonderful O by James Thurber

[Karen]

The Safety Net by Heinrich Böll
A rather satisfying political thriller.

The Gaucho Martín Fierro by José Hernández
This is actually a poem about the life of an Argentinian gaucho as he is drafted by the government and forced to leave the life he knows. It is available on Internet Archive and is only about 99 pages long.

Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal

[Winter]

Finished The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes yesterday and quite enjoyed it even though I thought the big reveal fell a little flat.

[Joy D]

Finished:
Beloved by Toni Morrison - 4* - My Review

[Peter]

Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry.
A poignant and thoughtful piece of writing with a universal theme.

[Bob]

La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas

[Diane]

La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas.

[Alice]

The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier

[Sean]

Finished One, None and a Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello. At times funny. At times insane. This philosophy often made sense and yet was comically obsessive all at the same time. Enjoyed my time with it.

[Dina]

Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant

[George P.]

A long one- Underworld by Don DeLillo (good) and a short one- The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy. I hadn't realized that in addition to his LONG novels, Tolstoy also wrote some good short works.

[George P.]

Dina wrote: "Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant"

Coincidentally, I read a couple Maupassant short stories today.

[George P.]

Peter wrote: "Under the Skin by Michel Faber.
I found this an odd but strangely compelling read."

There seems to be serious competition for "most bizarre book in the list", but that one is certainly in the running.

[Bob]

Diane wrote: "La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas."

I read this last year. A bit creepy, if I'm remembering correctly.

[Bob]

Dina wrote: "Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant"

I read this last year. Sibling rivalry rears its head.

[Sean]

Finished Hunger by Knut Hamsun. I loved the writing. They say this stuff inspired Kafka. And everything that I've read that's said to be kafkaesque I've also loved. I think it's time for me to read Kafka.

[Peter]

The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe.
Written in the regional vernacular it initially takes a bit of getting used to but once I did I found its rhythm strangely compelling

[Sean]

Correction by Thomas Bernhard. Ramble Ramble Ramble your way into insanity. Not as good as Extinction in my opinion. Even less of a plot. But I still enjoy his writing.

[Joy D]

Finished:
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison - 4* - My Review

[Bob]

Joy D wrote: "Finished:
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison - 4* - My Review"

This is my favorite of Ms. Morrison's stories.

[Carol]

Amelia by Henry Fielding

[Diane]

Finished:

Nadja by André Breton
Callirhoe by Chariton
The Hive by Camilo José Cela

[Bob]

The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni

[Carol]

Anton Reiser by Karl Philipp Moritz

[S.L.]

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

[Kathleen]

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's only my second of his, and now I'm anxious to get to another one soon.

[Sean]

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Short and thought provoking.

[Mia]

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño. I enjoyed it way more than 2666.

[Carol]

The Nun by Denis Diderot

[Diane]

Finished Molloy by Samuel Beckett.

[Dina]

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke

[Joy D]

Jazz by Toni Morrison - 3* - My Review

[Kathleen]

The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy. (A late-in-life very troubled Tolstoy, apparently.)

What a bunch of dreck! I have to wonder how this one ever made it to the list.

[Alice]

The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence

[Pamela]

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

[Ellinor]

Kathleen wrote: "The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy. (A late-in-life very troubled Tolstoy, apparently.)

What a bunch of dreck! I have to wonder how this one ever made it to the list."

I also just read this, but I didn't finish. After about a third I couldn't bare the misogynistic talk anymore.

[Nocturnalux]

Ellinor wrote: "Kathleen wrote: "The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy. (A late-in-life very troubled Tolstoy, apparently.)

What a bunch of dreck! I have to wonder how this one ever mad..."

YES! I finished just so I could write a scathing review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Kathleen]

Thanks Elinor and Nocturnalux! Glad I'm not alone. Can't imagine what people could possibly like about it.

[Sean]

Germinal by Émile Zola. It took me many pages to finally get into it. But when it got good it got really good!

[Alice]

Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster

[Angie]

As If I Am Not There by Slavenka Drakulić. A very distressing book about the crimes against women in the Bosnian War. Rather difficult to read on an emotional level, but I'm glad I did read it.

[Leila]

I just finished Woman at Point Zero. It was a riveting (and short) read, but also quite bleak. Would love a lighter read from the list next if anyone has a good suggestion?