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[George P.]

Ed wrote: "Just finished #160- The Garden Where the Brass Band Played by Simon Vestdijk. Liked it...seemed Proustian to me. If you know more about classical music than me...you m..."
That's a very seldom-read one- less than 300 ratings. And it's in the 2006 edition, not a later added one.

[Ed]

George wrote: "Ed wrote: "Just finished #160- The Garden Where the Brass Band Played by Simon Vestdijk. Liked it...seemed Proustian to me. If you know more about classical music than..."

I thought it was very good...and someone who knows about classical music would enjoy it more..... lol...I just noticed that I essentially said the same thing above.

[Ed]

Just finished #161 for me- Vanishing Point by David Markson
I know this book, full of factoids, is not for everyone...but it's right up my alley. Glad I had access to the internet while I read it.... constantly looking things up on Wikipedia.

[Mia]

Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Edith Somerville.

[Dree]

Finished my #161 The Sorrows of Young Werther yesterday and #162 The Midwich Cuckoos today.

[Anne-Kari]

Just finished The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[Heather]

Just finished Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates - my 263rd book - now at 20.2% of the combined lists. I believe my completion of the book (of more than 900 pages) says more about my bloody-mindedness than about the book itself. It has wonderful bits of writing but, as a whole, it is overblown and a bit self-important. If you are a fan of Golden Age Hollywood or Marilyn Monroe, it will provide a very thoughtful perspective.

[Nicola]

Ed wrote: "Just finished #160- The Garden Where the Brass Band Played by Simon Vestdijk. Liked it...seemed Proustian to me. If you know more about classical music than me...you m..."

Yes i thought the same thing when I read it. I like music but im no classical aficionado.

[Nicola]

Brideshead Revisited - I liked it but i was never quite sure what was going on with the characters. They were terribly British about not revealing anything as vulgar as feelings.

3 1/2 stars

[Diane]

Finished Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. Took me a while, but definitely worth it.

[George P.]

Diane wrote: "Finished Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. Took me a while, but definitely worth it."
Yes that's a long one. I want to read it sometime. I read Great Expectations this yr, Bleak House last yr.

[Lasse]

I have read Choke and The Call of the Wild

[Mia]

Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun. I gave it 5 stars, I think that says it all.

[Carol]

Iain Banks "Crow Road" very good book some suspense but without the creepiness of "The Wasp Factory'

[Mia]

And I finished The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela.

[George P.]

Mia wrote: "And I finished The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela."

to find the real Goodreads listing for this novel go to https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... or if you read Spanish, to Los de abajo.

[Diane]

Mia wrote: "Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun. I gave it 5 stars, I think that says it all."

I agree. Great book.

[Tyler]

I finished The Nose by Nikolai Gogol today. Such an odd little story. I enjoyed it, though I couldn't really decide on its meaning. There are so many different ways to interpret Gogol which is what makes him a great writer.

[Diane]

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind.

[Sarah]

Weekly reads:

A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Professor by Charlotte Brontë (side read)

[Mia]

Summer by Edith Wharton.

[Ed]

Just finisjed #162- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov- had to give it five stars despite it being so disturbing.

[Diane]

Ed wrote: "Just finisjed #162- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov- had to give it five stars despite it being so disturbing."

I felt the same way.

[Diane]

Mia wrote: "Summer by Edith Wharton."

I love that book..

[Lasse]

I finished The Wasp Factory and Lolita

[Mia]

Diane wrote: "Mia wrote: "Summer by Edith Wharton."

I love that book.."

I liked it a lot, even I wasn't that fond of the ending... Today I finished So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ.

[Kirsten]

I just finished Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

[Carol]

Read Notes from the Underground The longest 115 pg book I have ever read.Thought provoking and depressing.,

[Mia]

I finished The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. It was my second Chandler from the list and I liked it more than The Long Goodbye.

[Diane]

Finished Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, which was a re-read for me. I read it for the first time when I was a kid.

[Rowizyx]

I finished Midaq Alley... good!

[Diane]

Rowizyx wrote: "I finished Midaq Alley... good!"

It is good. I look forward to reading Miramar, too.

[Anne-Kari]

Just finished Notes from the Underground

[Viv]

I just finished The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. I enjoyed aspects of it but thought the temperance message was kind of heavy handed!

[Diane]

Finished Contact by Carl Sagan. Great book. Reminds me that I really need to read sci-fi more often.

[Kirsten]

Diane -- it was very good, wasn't it? If you liked it, may I recommend Calculating God by Robert J Sawyer?

[Diane]

Kirsten *Dogs Welcome - People Tolerated" wrote: "Diane -- it was very good, wasn't it? If you liked it, may I recommend Calculating God by Robert J Sawyer?"

It was very good. Thanks for the recommendation! I will definitely look into this one.

[Nicola]

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - a 'realistic' spy novel which means there is a lot more thinking than action.

3 1/2 stars

Things Fall Apart - rather grim but I love reading about places and ways of life so alien to mine. 3 stars for the book and an extra 1/2 for the setting.

[Anne-Kari]

I just finished "Gulliver's Travels".

[Laura]

Finished Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier last night, really liked it, beautifully written, intelligent & spooky.

[Kirsten]

Nicola wrote: "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - a 'realistic' spy novel which means there is a lot more thinking than action.

3 1/2 stars

Things Fall Apart - rather grim but I love read..."

I loved "Things" mainly because of that reason. It opens up your world to read about new cultures.

[George P.]

Laura wrote: "Finished Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier last night, really liked it, beautifully written, intelligent & spooky."

Yeah, du Maurier was great, great moody tension. I've read Rebecca and recently My Cousin Rachel which is excellent, and probably deserves to be on the list as well. Her Jamiaca Inn is considered one of her 3 best also- I plan to read it as well.

[Lasse]

Finished Under the Skin and To Kill a Mockingbird

[Tasha]

George wrote: "Laura wrote: "Finished Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier last night, really liked it, beautifully written, intelligent & spooky."

Yeah, du Maurier was great, great moody tension. I've read Rebecca and ..."

I loved Rebecca so much that I also plan to read Her Jamaica Inn.

[George P.]

Hunger by Knut Hamsun of Norway. Amazing that it's 125 years old and still gripping. Dostoevsky -> Hamsun -> Kafka. If you've read the 1st and last you should read the middle one as well. Pull up the Goodreads entry and read the 2nd review by Stephen which I totally agree with but can't put as eloquently.

Also finished earlier this month: One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello. An existentialism precursor, It fit nicely into 2 reading challenges for me, and I enjoyed it though it did make my head spin a bit sometimes. [That's 27 new List books for me so far this year, plus 1 re-read]

[Aileen]

I read Candide by Voltaire, a quick little read which reminded me a lot of Sterne's Sentimental Journey.

[Diane]

Finished The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal. Good story, but could benefit from some good editing. If it was written today instead of 200 years ago, it would probably be half the size.

[Ed]

Finsihed Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburō Ōe which is #163 for me.
Disturbing attack on war-time Japanese society.... akin to Golding's Lord of the Flies. Four stars.

[Nicola]

Crome Yellow - For a debut novel it's marvelous. And for those who have read Brave New World you'll recognise a few themes.

3 1/2 stars


also Cat's Cradle - rather grim but entertaining.

3 stars

[Mia]

I finally finished The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien. It took me quite a while to read the whole trilogy but I liked it. And I kinda miss reading it now :D