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[George P.]

Just finished The Lost Steps (or Los Pasos Perdidos)-the English translation by Harriet de Onis- by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, which was added to the 2008 edition. It's a challenging read though not overlong. I enjoyed it and gave it a 4 star rate.

[George P.]

Bryan wrote re: The Talented Mr Ripley: The only thing I can come up with is that when this was originally published, it must have been pretty much outside the mainstream.."

I read it 30 years ago I think, just picking it out by chance from the library shelves, and it was a literary knock-out punch!

[Ellinor]

Finished The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch. I guess I have a new favourite author!

[Karen]

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland

[Mia]

I finished Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. This was my second book from her, I enjoyed it far more than Jacob's Room.

[Diane]

Finished Shame by Salman Rushdie and The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis.

[Tatiana]

I just finished Adam Bede by George Eliot

[Samantha]

The Rainbow by DHL. Really enjoyed it actually.

[Diane]

The Deadbeats by Ward Ruyslinck

[Tim]

Neuromancer, by William Gibson - did not care for it at all.

[Diane]

Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal.

[Karen]

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El-Saadawi

[Tyler]

Finally finished listening to 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami today! What a wonderful, strange, exciting story.

[Dina]

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez. Masterpiece.

[Karen]

Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

[Aileen]

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, Short, gloomy and perfect for me being stuck in the house by sheet ice!

[Mia]

I finished Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Finished Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti. Took a long time to get through it. One of the back blurbs describe it as a comedy; I don't know--maybe if you think it's kind of funny to see someone trip...and then fall down the stairs...and then tumble into the street where a steam roller runs over them.

[Tyler]

I finished Death in Venice yesterday.

[Ella]

Just re-read Of Mice and Men with my nephew and got reminded how great it is.

[Aileen]

The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, which completes Poe's entries on the list for me.

[Emma]

Ellinor wrote: "I just finished The Ill-Made Knight, the third part of The Once and Future King. It started slowly and got better and better towards the end.

I also recently finished Candide by Voltaire which I d..."

What is the 2nd book in that series? I liked the first one...

[Yrinsyde]

I just finished Suite Francaise. I was blown away - marvellous. And to think it was a first draft! I'm still reading the appendixes - have nearly done. I highly recommend it - just, wow.

[Diane]

Finished Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes and Inland by Gerald Murnane.

[Ellinor]

Emma wrote: "Ellinor wrote: "I just finished The Ill-Made Knight, the third part of The Once and Future King. It started slowly and got better and better towards the end.

I also recently finished Candide by Vo..."

The Witch in the Wood

[[deleted user]]

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. I really recommend this, it's very good.

[Ella]

Yrinsyde wrote: "I just finished Suite Francaise. I was blown away - marvellous. And to think it was a first draft! I'm still reading the appendixes - have nearly done. I highly recommend it - just, wow."

I'm so glad you say that, as I just ordered a copy for myself.

[Angelique]

Just finished Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.

[Diane]

Finished The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

[Ellinor]

Finished Pnin, my first Nabokov.

[George P.]

I've finished The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Polish writer Andrzej Szczypiorski. Added to the Boxall list in '08. Set mostly during the holocaust in Poland, so not a pleasant story/stories, but I enjoyed the writing. I've been reading quite a few translated-to-English books of late.

[Karen]

Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel by J. M. Coetzee

[Karen]

The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett

[Tim]

Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

[George P.]

A few days ago I finished Thomas Of Reading, oldest piece of literature I've read, from about 1600. Listed at 80 pages. Available online from U of Michigan website. The archaic spelling is a challenge, but it's interesting.

[Aileen]

George wrote: "A few days ago I finished Thomas Of Reading, oldest piece of literature I've read, from about 1600. Listed at 80 pages. Available online from U of Michigan website. The archaic spell..."

Interested to hear that you've read this one. I've been trying to source a copy over here in England, without any luck so far. My library consortium doesn't have any copies.

[George P.]

Aileen wrote: "
Interested to hear that you've read this one. I've been trying to source a copy over here in England, without any luck so far. My library consortium doesn't have any copies.

If you're willing to read it in your web browser as I did you can access it at-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A20...
"eebo" stands for early english books online. "umich" is the University of Michigan. In the lower right of the page there's a button to click that says "view full text". It's not very long, about 80 pgs. In places where they weren't sure what a letter was, apparently, there is a dot instead of a letter. Otherwise it seems to be a good copy. It doesn't seem to be on the Gutenberg web site.

[Aileen]

George wrote: "Aileen wrote: "
Interested to hear that you've read this one. I've been trying to source a copy over here in England, without any luck so far. My library consortium doesn't have any copies.

If yo..." Oh that is fantastic! Thank you, I'm not sure I could handle more than 80 pages in OE but I've bookmarked this and will willingly try it out.

[Karen]

Thomas of Reading is also available (download PDF and other types of files) from Open Library at www.openlibrary.org.

[Dree]

I have recently finished To the Lighthouse and Blonde.

[Mia]

I finished Unless by Carol Shields.

[Ellinor]

Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

[Bob]

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño. Not so much. I don't see why this book is supposed to be good. Too many narrators, not too many characters, made the story difficult to track. Also, I know little about Hispanic poets, so any significance there was lost on me. I guess I just didn't get it.

[Ellinor]

Finished A Ballad for Georg Henig by Viktor Paskov. This is one of the list‘s precious little gems.

[Karen]

Cecilia by Fanny Burney

[Mia]

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

[George P.]

Dina wrote: "The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez. Masterpiece."

I found it rather challenging to keep on to the end of it. Not exactly light reading, but worth the effort I thought.

[Dina]

George wrote:

I found it rather challenging to keep on to the end of it. Not exactly light reading, ..."

I agree completely. I like these books that make a man think and do not forget easy. Marquez is a great writer who made me even sympathize with the tyrant.

[Diane]

Finished:

Monkey: The Journey to the West
Lives of Girls and Women
Carry Me Down

[Bob]

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. So much has been said about this book. It has great characters with really believable foibles set against a monumental historical backdrop. Add the star crossed lovers and you have a great saga that reaches across the years. I will mention one detracting aspect that turned me off, the author's sympathetic treatment of the Lost Cause and the society of the Old South. In this she was part of the problem and not the solution.