Which LIST book did you just finish? Showing 4,551-4,600 of 10,248

[Diane]

Finished Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe.

[Tim]

Finished The Professor's House by Willa Cather

[George P.]

Tim wrote: "Finished The Professor's House by Willa Cather"

My fiancée and I read this last year and we both thought it excellent literature. When we visited some ancient native American ruins in AZ recently we read that Cather had visited there.

[Bob]

Shame by Salman Rushdie. Well written story with interesting characters. Allegorical in one sense as to the results if shame is allowed to live.

[Inder]

I just finished The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen. It had many interesting things to offer, but overall I found it a difficult read and a slog.

[Karen]

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Great book -- excellent audiobook!

[Diane]

Finished Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen. Sounds like Inder (see above) and I had similar experiences with Bowen books.

[Karen]

Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus by John Arbuthnot, Alexander Pope, John Gay, Thomas Parnell, Jonathan Swift, Charles Kerby-Miller, and Robert Harley Oxford.

[Hinda Rochel]

The White Tiger, which I loved.

[Sabrina]

The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, wasn’t expecting much, but I really enjoyed this one! 😊

[George P.]

Regeneration by Pat Barker. I've previously read Barker's "Another World". I liked reading "Regeneration" significantly more, and am thinking of reading the rest of this trilogy.

[George P.]

Brenda wrote: "Sorry. I think I was mistaken."

That's ok- I've done it too.

[Diane]

Finished The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke.

[Karen]

Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard

[Bob]

The Master by Colm Tóibín, story about Henry James and the people in his life. Interesting background, if true, considering the number of HJ books on the list.

[Tim]

The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen

[Tim]

Sabrina wrote: "The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, wasn’t expecting much, but I really enjoyed this one! 😊"

One of my top ten favorite fiction reads.

[Diane]

A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White

[Mia]

Haven't read a lot lately but I finished A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.

[Karen]

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

[Mia]

Karen wrote: "Hunger by Knut Hamsun"

How did you like it? I'm gonna start reading that next, I really loved his other list book Growth of the soil.

[Karen]

Mia wrote: "Karen wrote: "Hunger by Knut Hamsun"

How did you like it? I'm gonna start reading that next, I really loved his other list book Growth of the soil."

It was excellent and would be a great starting point for the stream of consciousness novels of Kafka and Joyce.

[Karen]

Vathek by William Beckford

[Ellinor]

Last World by Christoph Ransmayr

[Ella]

I read Gilead by Marilynne Robinson and I adored it, so I read the trio in swift order. They're quite excellent (the first two: Gilead & Home being slightly more to my liking than the final one, but I loved them all.)

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Ella wrote: "I read Gilead by Marilynne Robinson and I adored it, so I read the trio in swift order. They're quite excellent (the first two: Gilead & Home being slightly more to my li..."


Gilead is excellent. I haven't read the others yet, though I have them on my TBR.

[Jaide]

Finished Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

[Diane]

Finished The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt.

[Benjamin]

I just finished Swann's Way (book 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) by Marcel Proust. And damn, did I absolutely love it. I will admit, near the middle of the book, I found myself getting bored during certain scenes. Perhaps it's an age thing, seeing as though I am rather young. But the first 200 pages were absolutely mesmerizing, and same with the last hundred.

[Ella]

Ben wrote: "I just finished Swann's Way (book 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) by Marcel Proust. And damn, did I absolutely love it. I will admit, near the middle of the book, I found myself getting bored duri..."

I read and loved Swann's Way, moved along to book II, then I stopped - so I will probably have to reread or at least skim through before picking up the rest of the books. I liked them, but I didn't have a copy of Guermantes Way that I could get, so I moved on and didn't go back. Silly.

Meanwhile I just finished two more:
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
and then Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. Both of which I really liked quite a bit and hadn't read or seen the movies of.

[Benjamin]

Luís wrote: "Ben wrote: "I just finished Swann's Way (book 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) by Marcel Proust. And damn, did I absolutely love it. I will admit, near the middle of the book, I found myself gettin..."

Absolutely. Proust has such an ability to document, to the best of his talent, those weird human experiences that seem ineffable. Those long passages that describe those mental and physical human sensations we get (prime example is the madeleine and tea) were my favorite parts of the book.

[Diane]

Finished The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez.

[Tim]

George wrote: "Tim wrote: "Finished The Professor's House by Willa Cather"

My fiancée and I read this last year and we both thought it excellent literature. When we visited some ancient native American ruins in..."

Fascinating!

[Bob]

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

[Peter]

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Thoroughly enjoyed and deserves to be on this list.

[Karen]

Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen

[Tim]

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe

[Benjamin]

Murphy by Samuel Beckett. While I didn't think it particularly moving or incredible, I did love it for the most part. Beckett's prose was fantastic, and there were some hilarious, pessimistic, and sardonic passages. The ideas and themes were fascinating, though I don't think fully developed. This is Beckett's first novel, and definitely reads as such. I can't wait to get into his later work to see how his prose and ideas developed.

[Diane]

Finished Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende.

[Benjamin]

I just finished Naked Lunch by William Burroughs...
...Well that was an experience, wasn't it?

[Karen]

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
A deeply disturbing book but hard to put down.

[Bob]

Karen wrote: "The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
A deeply disturbing book but hard to put down."

I thoroughly agree.

[Carol]

Just finished "Birdsong" by sebastian faulks last night, excellent read set during WW1

[Diane]

The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier.

[George P.]

Diane wrote: "The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier."

For anyone who wants to read a book by a Cuban writer, this is a great one to start with. Not all libraries have it, unfortunately.

[Ellinor]

Finished The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd. I honestly wonder how this one made in onto the list.

[Karen]

The Nun by Denis Diderot

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I just finished:


Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Tim]

Hermann Hesse, Sidhartha

[Diane]

Finished The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa.