Which LIST book did you just finish? Showing 3,901-3,950 of 10,324

[Bob]

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute. Excellent characters and interesting story, I rated it four.

[Diane]

Finished The Floating Opera by John Barth. Quite enjoyable.

[Ed]

Finished Kokoro by Sōseki Natsume Five stars.

[Tyler]

I finished listening to an audiobook of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. It was great!

[Dee]

Finished The Summer Book a few days ago, while in bed with the flu. A wonderful novel, written as a series of vignettes, such that it almost feels like a short story collection. Lovely prose, (at least in the French translation I read), full of evocative descriptions of nature.

[Diane]

Finished Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan. Odd book.

[Karen]

Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

[Christina Stind]

Orlando is amazing. So much food for thought in such a slim book.

[Jenny]

Finished Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse. I had read other Jeeves books before, so I knew what I was getting into. I love the style of the narration.

[Karen]

Christina wrote: "Orlando is amazing. So much food for thought in such a slim book."

It was definitely a wild romp through British Literature and fashion! I usually jump right into a book, but this is one I wish I had started by reading the introduction. My favorite quote -- "For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing."

[Karen]

Just finished Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz.

[Tim]

Just finished The Overcoat and Other Short Stories (including The Nose, The Overcoat, Old-Fashioned Farmers, and The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich

[Sarah]

Wishing I was finished with The Brothers Karamazov. This is quite the slog. Crime and Punishment was better!

[Tim]

Just finished Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Enjoyed this one much more than Alice in Wonderland. I gave Through the Looking Glass a five star rating.

[George P.]

Sarah wrote: "Wishing I was finished with The Brothers Karamazov. This is quite the slog. Crime and Punishment was better!"

Some parts are a slog but other parts I really liked.

[George P.]

CC wrote: "Just finished Siddartha by Hesse. A short, wonderful book. This is the 12th book for the year for me, which means my reading challenge is now completed... and way too early."

You can increase your challenge number whenever you want (or decrease, but that seems to defeat the idea).

[George P.]

Epitaph of a Small Winner aka Posthumous Memories of Bras Cubas, which was added to the list in 2008, by Machado de Assis of Brazil (1885). Very amusing and thought-provoking.

[Bob]

Diane wrote: "Finished Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan. Odd book."

I agree.

[Bob]

Sarah wrote: "Wishing I was finished with The Brothers Karamazov. This is quite the slog. Crime and Punishment was better!"
If you're into psychology, think of the three brothers as Freuds Id, ego, and superego. It adds a new layer to the story.

[Bob]

Her Privates We by Frederic Manning. A very good discussion of what the men went through before going into the trenches in WW I.

[Bob]

Karen wrote: "For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.
Love Hemingway's sparse prose (especially after a few of the classics from the 1700s)!"

I just finished Her Privates We by Frederic Manning, another good book describing what the men faced in WWI.

[Karina]

Just finished Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. I really enjoyed it.

[Karen]

Bob wrote: "Karen wrote: "For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.
Love Hemingway's sparse prose (especially after a few of the classics from the 1700s)!"

I just finished Her Privates W..."</i>

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain is also an excellent book on the experiences of the nurses during WWI and her involvement in the peace movement following the war.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Finished Northanger Abbey by J. Austen. Solid, mid-level Austen.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Finished Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family, by Thomas Mann. Much more realistic than I had expected--more in the tradition of the late 19th Century than the early 20th.

[Diane]

Finished The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary. Great book.

[George P.]

Bryan wrote: "Finished Northanger Abbey by J. Austen. Solid, mid-level Austen."

I thought it funnier and less maudlin than Pride and Prejudice, her only other novel I've read.

[Diane]

Finished Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster. My favorite by Auster so far.

[Karen]

Broken April by Ismail Kadare.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

George wrote: "Bryan wrote: "Finished Northanger Abbey by J. Austen. Solid, mid-level Austen."

I thought it funnier and less maudlin than Pride and Prejudice, her only other novel I've read."

Hello, George--I've been part of a small group who are reading the six major novels of Austen this year. I'm not especially an Austen fan, but I haven't minded the experience--I probably never would have read them otherwise. (I might be getting closed to being 'Austen-ed' out though. Or Austentistic, take your pick). Anyway, we saved her biggie for last, so I haven't read P&P yet, and it'll be interesting to compare. Emma had a dislikable main character, and Persuasion seemed like thin material, but S&S and Mansfield Park were both pretty good--so that puts NA firmly in the middle for me.

[Sarah]

Finished The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The end was much better than the middle.

[Sarah]

Bob wrote: If you're into psychology, think of the three brothers as...”

I am a big fan of the subject but this isn’t the best treatment of the topic. It lacked a cohesive flow throughout.

[Sarah]

Bryan wrote: "I thought it funnier and less maudlin than Pride and Prejudice, her only other novel I've read."

Many have lumped Pride and Prejudice solidly into the romance category thanks to screen and movie adaptations. But it’s really a satirical treatise against the social customs of her day. However, Colin Firth is hard to resist.

[Diane]

Finished How it Is by Samuel Beckett.

[Kirsten]

George wrote: "Bryan wrote: "Finished Northanger Abbey by J. Austen. Solid, mid-level Austen."

I thought it funnier and less maudlin than Pride and Prejudice, her only other novel I've read."

I like it as it's a great satire of the gothic novel that were all the rage at the time.

[Sarah]

Finished The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. It was unexpectedly pleasant.

[George P.]

Karen wrote: "Broken April by Ismail Kadare."

I read this recently and my 3 Goodreads friends who have read it and I all really liked it, all rated it 4 or 5 stars.

[Christopher]

Bryan wrote: "George wrote: "Bryan wrote: "Finished Northanger Abbey by J. Austen. Solid, mid-level Austen."

I thought it funnier and less maudlin than Pride and Prejudice, her only other novel I'v..."

Whoa, Bryan.. you disliked Emma, and you liked Fanny Price.

I'm just going to do the Spock raised eyebrow... "Fascinating."

I went into MP this time thinking Jane Austen had meant for Fanny to be a little slow witted, but that wasn't it at all.

And EMMA seems to be the story of Jane Fairfax told from the back of the tapestry, so to speak.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Christopher wrote: "And EMMA seems to be the story of Jane Fairfax told from the back of the tapestry, so to speak.
..."

I'm not sure what you mean--did you mean Mary Crawford instead of Jane Fairfax? I think I've read too much Austen--it's all starting to run together.

[Christopher]

Bryan wrote: "Christopher wrote: "And EMMA seems to be the story of Jane Fairfax told from the back of the tapestry, so to speak.
..."

I'm not sure what you mean--did you mean Mary Crawford instead of Jane Fai..."

For the record, I love Mary Crawford; but I'm talking about Mrs. Bates's niece who is destined to be a governess unless..

[Aileen]

George wrote: "Karen wrote: "Broken April by Ismail Kadare."

I read this recently and my 3 Goodreads friends who have read it and I all really liked it, all rated it 4 or 5 stars."

I've read it too and was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it.

[Diane]

Finished Garden, Ashes by Danilo Kiš.

[Aileen]

Finished a short one today. So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba. My first Senegalese book too, so was a bit of an education as well as a 3/5 read.

[Karen]

George wrote: "Karen wrote: "Broken April by Ismail Kadare."

I read this recently and my 3 Goodreads friends who have read it and I all really liked it, all rated it 4 or 5 stars."

I gave it 4 stars -- the writing was excellent and the depiction of the bureaucracy surrounding the blood feud was intriguing. It's hard though to describe my feelings about the book as "liking it" because the lack of hope in escaping the endless cycle of the blood feud is so dark and depressing.

[Karen]

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.

[Ellinor]

Aileen wrote: "Finished a short one today. So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba. My first Senegalese book too, so was a bit of an education as well as a 3/5 read."

I also finished this one last night. A very interesting book and my first Senegalese book too.

[Sarah]

Kim wrote: "I did just buy a used copy of Crime and Punishment and am hoping to start that next year!”

You’ll enjoy this much more. If you can squeeze it in this year do so. In light of the unrest taking place in many areas the message is pretty evident.

[Aileen]

Another short one ticked off. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol. I thought it was a little too short to get stuck into, but it kept me amused on a bus journey. 3/5

[lawless]

Finished The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy. Thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend it for all the mystery/noir fans out there!

[Peter]

How the Dead Live by Will Self. I found it intriguing and at times compelling but it failed to really grab me.