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Which LIST book did you just finish?
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Aug 14, 2022 05:29PM
Just finished The Nose by Nikolai Gogol. Short book if you want to add another book to your list. This makes #105 for me.
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Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, the first part of Remembrance Of Things Past. Not a writing style that I appreciate.
I just finished Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann. Having read two other Mann novels and being in the middle of a third, I must say this is the only one I struggled to get through. I totally understand its place on the list. But it was dense! And full of stuff I just had to sludge through.
James wrote: "Ulysses by James Joyce Third time read and enjoyed it more than ever"I'm on my second time through now. Currently wandering the streets of Dublin with Bloom somewhere around 10:00 a.m.
Before the funeral. He has just left the post office and encountered McCoy who ask him to shove his name in as a funeral attendee.
Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel. It's like Catcher in the Rye meets Ingmar Bergman in 1924 at the Norwegian Arctic Circle.
Ellinor wrote: "Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi. At least it was short."
I did not like that one, though I did like his later book, Gabriel's Gift.
I did not like that one, though I did like his later book, Gabriel's Gift.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos. Very amusing, I laughed so much during the part set in Paris.
I finished an influential collection of Gothic horror stories that is not on the list, but it contains all of the stories from list book In a Glass Darkly and MORE:
Green Tea and Other Weird Stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished John Fowles's first novel
The Collector by John Fowles
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Club Dumas (aka The Dumas Club) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
I really enjoyed this book; it contains references to so many other Boxall authors and books. Plus, it was rather a thrilling, hard-to-put-down book.
I really enjoyed this book; it contains references to so many other Boxall authors and books. Plus, it was rather a thrilling, hard-to-put-down book.
Pamela wrote: "News from Nowhere by William Morris"
Utopia can be rather boring, especially with no books!!
Utopia can be rather boring, especially with no books!!
If This is a Man, aka in the US as "Survival in Auschwitz". That's the 3rd of the three Primo Levi books inthe 1001 list for me. Thanks to determination, resourcefulness, help and luck, he survived, "so that I could tell what happened there".
Karen wrote: "Pamela wrote: "News from Nowhere by William Morris"Utopia can be rather boring, especially with no books!!"
Ha ha, absolutely!
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