Which LIST book did you just finish? Showing 3,001-3,050 of 10,246

[Aileen]

Nicola wrote: "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

That's good to know. I just bought this two days ago!

[Dree]

Finally finished my 163rd read: The English Patient. It took me 10 days to get through 300 pages! Once all of the characters were introduced it picked up a bit, and things started happening (in the past--but I'll take it!).

[Diane]

Finished Platero and I by Juan Ramón Jiménez.

[Anne-Kari]

Finished The Pilgrim's Progress, and The Golden Ass

[Nicola]

Ivanhoe - I listened to it on audio and for two days I fairly much didn't draw breath. Very exciting :-)

4 1/2 stars

[Heather]

Finished Surfacing by Margaret Atwood - I've now read all the Atwood books on the combined lists. Probably the weakest of the lot - very much of its time - but still thought provoking if untimately unsatisfying.

[Sarah]

Recently finished:

Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

[Dree]

Finished Embers by Sándor Márai. I found the chapters taking part in the past to be interesting, but the longwinded old-man-ruminating-on-his-life chapters to be boring--(the old man ruminating books exhaust me--Gilead and Sense of an Ending are the same thing LOL).

[Lasse]

I just finished The Great Gatsby

[Sarah]

Finished The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

[Anne-Kari]

I just finished Frankenstein, and Pnin.

[Mia]

I finished Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf.

[Sarah]

Finished Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev.

[Amanda]

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Trying to read "scary" List books for the month of October.

[Sarah]

Finished Howards End by E. M. Forster.

[Tyler]

I finished The Kreutzer Sonata. It's a stark contrast to Tolstoy's earlier works both in terms of size and philosophy.

[Sarah]

Finished Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. The uncanny similarities to his works and our current conditions are pretty unsettling.

[Sarah]

Finished Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin and happy it's done!

[Lasse]

I have finished A Room with a View

[Peter]

Just finished The Namesake which I found a very enjoyable read.

[Sarah]

Finished The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. I really enjoyed the book although it started slowly.

[Anne-Kari]

I just finished Hyperion by Friedrich Holderlin.

[Mia]

Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist.

[Sarah]

Recently finished The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro and Summer by Edith Wharton.

[Nicola]

Sarah wrote: "Finished Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. The uncanny similarities to his works and our current conditions are pretty unsettling."

That one never goes out of date. It was creepy when it was published, creepy when I read it (30 years ago) and, no doubt, just as creepy now.

If ever a book gave me nightmares, that one did!

[Sarah]

Nicola wrote: "It was creepy when it was published, creepy when I read it (30 years ago) and, no doubt, just as creepy now. If ever a book gave me nightmares, that one did!..."

Certainly. I revisited Animal Farm afterward. It neatly sets the stage for the mindset 1984 addresses. A relative suggested that we watch Soylent Green. At that point my bed was calling!

[Sarah]

Finished What Maisie Knew by Henry James. The parental depravity is subhuman but I couldn't put it down.

[Tyler]

I finished The Wasp Factory yesterday.

[J_BlueFlower]

Wittgenstein's Nephew by Bernhard Thomas.

A short book. An odd friendship between two strange men. Both of them ill and at the same hospital. The description of the relation between the ill and the healthy was thougth provocing. It sounded so... strange, but most of it may be true.

The book is written in one long text. No paragraphs. It felt a bit breathless.

[Sarah]

Just finished The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

[Sarah]

Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin was very good. I imagine it would be difficult to stomach during the time it was written, but with our current depravity it's merely another morbid tale.

[Mia]

I finished Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff.

[Diane]

I finished The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham.

[Mia]

I finished The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. It was a quick read.

[Linda]

I really need to get back to updating my list, I've been so bad at keeping track of the 1001 books I've made progress on this year! But today I finished two of them - A Tale of Two Cities (4.5 stars), the sixth book in my journey to read all of Dickens' novels, and Rabbit Redux (3 stars), started out with a bang, and then dragged in the middle with too much uncomfortableness, although it left me wanting to continue with the series.

[Sarah]

I finished Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

[Carol]

I like to read horror in October so I read The Monk and plan to start Hawksmoor.

[Carol]

Amanda wrote: "In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Trying to read "scary" List books for the month of October."
I do the same, any that you particulary liked?

[Carol]

Anne-Kari wrote: "Finished The Pilgrim's Progress, and The Golden Ass"

Interesting choices to read together I have read both and was fascinated by them. What did you think?

[Kirsten]

Try the H.P. Lovecraft book on the list. A must read and a favorite in my family.

[Anne-Kari]

Carol wrote: " Interesting choices to read together I have read both and was fascinated by them. What did you think?"

I thought the first part of The Pilgrim's Progress was ok, and would probably have given it 3 stars had the book ended there. Instead I ended up with 2 stars.

The Golden Ass was a fascinating read, and quite funny at times, so that book got 4 stars.

[George P.]

Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. There was a lot of excellent writing, though it sometimes wandered in digressions. He deserved that Nobel prize though.

[Sarah]

Just wrapped up A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. Morally depraved and bad dream inducing. But a great read!

[Diane]

Finished The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells.

[Dree]

Finished The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, book #165 for me. I liked it quite a lot, especially seeing as I had never heard of it!

[Sarah]

Loved The Trial by Franz Kafka!

[Kirsten]

Dree wrote: "Finished The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, book #165 for me. I liked it quite a lot, especially seeing as I had never heard of it!"

It's recently been dramatized starring Toby Jones.

[Sarah]

Finally got around to reading Oroonoko by Aphra Behn. I really enjoyed it.

Also read The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan.

[George P.]

My 1st book by a Brazilian writer, The Hour of the Star. A novella, and a short one at that, that poses a lot of simple philosophical questions while depicting a young woman's crappy life.

[Bob]

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. Old school story but it was pretty fast paced with romance, violence, and a touch of the supernatural.