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Which LIST book did you just finish?
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Sep 05, 2024 01:37PM
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. This was my first book by her and I liked it more than I thought I would. She seems interesting author.
Last night I finished The Murder of Roger Ackroyd read by Richard Armitage on Audible. Absolutely fantastic!
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. An interesting book from a psychological perspective and I am somewhat of a loss as how to rate it. I couldn’t decide whether I loved or hated it, probably both.
Mia wrote: "Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit by John Lyly. This was painful to read."Totally agree, I nearly gave up several times.
Like Jennifer, I just read another Robert Louis Stevenson book that I don't think should be on the list, The Master of Ballantrae. Very unfocused and confusing. His best book by far is The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
I read Euphues in graduate school. Not a fun read, but a landmark in artistic prose in English: it may have had novelty value, transferring Latin rhetorical figures into English in a big way. The literary movement it inspired is known as Euphuism. Moderate examples, serving as purple passages in plainer prose, can be entertaining, if you like Elizabethan literature beyond Shakespeare.
I finally read Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. On a Vonnegut kick now--wish I'd started much sooner.
Jess wrote: "Like Jennifer, I just read another Robert Louis Stevenson book that I don't think should be on the list, The Master of Ballantrae. Very unfocused and confusing. His ..."
I really enjoyed Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I wasn't expecting the same level of nuance and deep questions in Treasure Island, but if I didn't know, I wouldn't have said that both books were written by the same person.
I just finished re-reading this book and it stands up to the test of time:Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally - 4+* - My Review
Platero and I by Juan Ramón JiménezThe author through poetic prose muses about his life, his home, and those around him to his donkey, Platero.
I finished my re-read of a classic anti-war novel
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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