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Which LIST book did you just finish?
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Oct 16, 2025 12:19AM
The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
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Mia wrote: "The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen."I really like Franzen. This is not my favorite of his novels, but it was still enjoyable to read.
Bob wrote: "Mia wrote: "The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen."I really like Franzen. This is not my favorite of his novels, but it was still enjoyable to read."
This was my first by him. I've had an idea in my head that I wouldn't like him, but it wasn't that bad, altought I didn't really care any of the characters. Which is your favorite?
Mia wrote: "Bob wrote: "Mia wrote: "The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen."I really like Franzen. This is not my favorite of his novels, but it was still enjoyable to read."
This was..."
I think my favorite novel is Freedom, another list book. But I really like his book of essays, How To Be Alone.
Just finished Slaughterhouse-FiveFound this beauty that was on my too read list in a Spanish house-library swap. Damn..This book is just mind blowing. So many different genres and entwined within it is a real life and a real account of what happened. The great thing about this book is, for me it just left me wanting to seek out more information and questioning things I had been taught and my knowledge, alas seemingly rather lacking when it comes to Dresdan. My understanding of his message which is akin to my own is, "Where there is power and riches to be had , there will always be people at the top willing sacrifice those at the bottom in order to hold on to that power and wealth, there will always be wars" And so it goes.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. ThompsonI am happy to have finished this drug-addled frenzy and will happily forget its tour-de-force nonsense.
I read three this past month:Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
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The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
All good. I enjoyed Frankenstein the most.
I've recently read The Great Gatsby, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, The Diary of a Nobody and Chess story!
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