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Which LIST book did you just finish?
George P. wrote: "Winter wrote: "Alice wrote: "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera"I have this on my kindle, how was it?"
I rated it four stars. By the way, Kundera is..."
Wow that's an age!
August is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien.Initially banned in Ireland because of its sexual content but by today's standards it is pretty tame. However, overall I found this an OK read rather than a particularly gripping one.
George P. wrote: "Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann. Excellent. It blows me away that he published this at age 26- clearly a literary genius."I read this a few years ago and I loved it! It made me a Mann fan! :)
I finished the postmodernest of postmodern novels
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe. On the 2006 list but has been taken off later ones.
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Fatelessness by Imre Kertész
Holocaust -- story of a 14-year-old Hungarian boy who inadvertently winds up on a train for Auschwitz
The Hive by Camilo José Cela
Post-civil war Spain
The Blue Angel (aka Professor Unrat) by Heinrich Mann
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Non-fiction -- Vietnam War correspondent's memoir
I finished 
On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe.My rating would almost certainly been higher if it contained the 'tales' alone.
Alice wrote: "The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford"Prime Video has a great adaptation of the Pursuit of Love. Dominic West is a brilliant Uncle Matthew!
Charity wrote: "Due to high volume traffic causing the previous thread (of the same name) to act a bit quirky, I have opted to redirect the flow to this shiny, new thread!Soooo, tell us which book from the 1001 ..."
Just finished this month: Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford and Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.My fifth book by the author but my least favourite it was just too weird for me.
Robinson Cruso by Daniel Defoe (listened to an audiobook)Rating: 4 Stars
I really didn't expect much from this book...but was surprising impressed with it.
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I have this on my kindle, how was it?"
I rated it four stars. By the way, Kundera is still living, age 93! Maybe I should move to France too.