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[Charity]

Just finished Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind. Fabulous!

[Kate S]

Kelly wrote: "I just finished The Elegance of the Hedgehog which I found to be MARVELOUS! It is on the 2010 list."

I am so glad to hear this!! Just downloaded it to my NOOK from the library, so looking forward to it!

[Sandi]

Finished Pavel's Letters some time ago. I quite enjoyed it, it's sort of an autobiographical novel exploring her family's past - mostly about her Polish-Jewish grandfather who was murdered by the Nazis, and her communist mother who had part in establishing communist dictatorship in East-Germany.

[Kerem]

Charity wrote: "Just finished Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind. Fabulous!"

I agree, it's a fantastic book! The movie is really good too.

[Bea]

I recently finished Carry On Jeeves. I love Wodehouse! He always brings a smile to my face.

[Leonard]

Just finished Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. Interesting saga.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Vincent wrote: "Kerem wrote: "Charity wrote: "Just finished Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind. Fabulous!"

I agree, it's a fantastic book! The movie is really good too."

I love the book as much as I hated the movie."

I hated the book and wouldn't bother with the move.

[Charity]

Haha! So many strong feelings about Perfume...

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Charity wrote: "Haha! So many strong feelings about Perfume..."

my review

[Charity]

Very interesting, Elizabeth. I can certainly see where you're coming from.

[Jennifer W]

I finished S.. A horrifying, yet somehow quite readable book.

[Kerem]

Vincent wrote: "Kerem wrote: "Charity wrote: "Just finished Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind. Fabulous!"

I agree, it's a fantastic book! The movie is really good too."

I love th..."

Really?? I saw the movie first, and then read the book about a year later. Loved both!

[Yrinsyde]

Leonard wrote: "Just finished Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. Interesting saga." I loved Buddenbrooks, including the sometimes stodgy writing. Recently, the German Warner Bros film of the novel was shown on SBS - I enjoyed how they translated the story to the screen.

[Yrinsyde]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Yrinsyde wrote: "I just finished The Story of Lucy Gault ..." This is the first Trevor novel I've read Elizabeth but if there are others on the list, I'm looking forward very much to reading them!

[Lisa]

I just finished The Secret History, by Donna Tartt. WICKED good book!

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Yrinsyde wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Yrinsyde wrote: "I just finished The Story of Lucy Gault ..." This is the first Trevor novel I've read Elizabeth but if there are others on the list, I'm looking forward ..."

Felicia's Journey and Fools of Fortune are (or were) on the list, and I've added them. Turns out I had already added to my wish list another of his, Two Lives: "Reading Turgenev" and "My House In Umbria", which is not a list book, but I'm guessing is one which mentions a list book (or two).

[Genia]

Finished Bleak House. For a Dickens, it was pretty engaging. A bit melodramatic, I suppose, and rather stuffy; Dickens is much too self-indulgent as an author in ho awesome he is. His prose makes me think he'd be the kind of large, vocal type of man who harps at his own greatness to an unwilling audience.

[Kerem]

Genia wrote: "Finished Bleak House. For a Dickens, it was pretty engaging. A bit melodramatic, I suppose, and rather stuffy; Dickens is much too self-indulgent as an author in ho awesome he is. His ..."

Ha ha! This is true, i tried to read great expectations and just had to give up and admit defeat.

[Linda]

Summer by Edith Wharton. Didn't end the way I wanted it to (I'm sort of old-fashioned that way!)

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Linda wrote: "Summer by Edith Wharton. Didn't end the way I wanted it to (I'm sort of old-fashioned that way!)"

I read Summer a couple of weeks ago. Can't read enough Wharton, I'm thinking.

[Kate]

Yrinsyde wrote: "Of Mice and Men. I first read this as set reading in high-school - I would have been about 14-15. I don't think it would have been set reading if the teachers understood what a glove full of vaseli..."

I think you should give your teachers a little more credit. Of course they realize what the suggestion was, I did when I read it at about 14 or 15. I don't think a man keeping a hand soft for his wife is any worse than George having to put Lennie down. Sex is as natural as death, both themes that people have to learn at some point, why not junior high?

[Judith]

Yrinsyde wrote: "Leonard wrote: "Just finished Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. Interesting saga." I loved Buddenbrooks, including the sometimes stodgy writing. Recently, the German Warner Bros film of the novel was sho..."

Does The German film have English subtitles or dubbing?
I'be be interesting in seeing it if it does...

Thanks,
J.

[Anu]

Never let me go and Lolita

[Yrinsyde]

Judith wrote: "Does The German film have English subtitles or dubbing? I'be be interesting in seeing it if it does... ..."Hi Judith, it does but I'm not sure whether our local station subtitled it or not. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1058601/

[Sandi]

Finished Life of a Good-for-nothing last night. It reminded me of a fairy tale, especially the ending. I enjoyed it.

[Deanne]

Finished American Rust by Meyer, very good and Pricksongs and Descants by Coover. Favourite story was The Babysitter, enjoyed the way Coover breaks the story down and writes the various scenarios that can or could occur.

[Sandi]

Started and finished The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead, a short and enjoyable book about how the yellow press twists the truth and ruins peoples' lives.

[Marialyce]

Just finished and so liked Agnes Grey.

[Maggie]

I just finished The Count of Monte Cristo. I found it to be totally delightful. I had thought that because it was so long it would maybe drag a little in parts. But it did not. It was amazingly imaginative and ingenious throughout.

[Max]

The Glass Bees by Ernst Junger - I was a little disappointed by the book, some really forward-thinking ideas on technology and very ahead of its time, but just not what I was after.

[Hannah]

Marialyce wrote: "Just finished and so liked Agnes Grey."

I am reading it now. I'm not very far, but I love it so far. It is so interesting how each of the siblings have a different writing style: Charlotte wrote in third person, Emily through the retelling of a story the narrator had no part in, and now in Agnes Grey where it is first person. I love how different they are.

[Marialyce]

Very true, Hannah. I want to read soon The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde It was okay though I found some of the other short stories included in the book to be much better.

[Mikela]

Just finished The Unconsoledand although I loved Ishiguro's writing I no more understood it at the end than I did at the beginning. I would be eternally grateful if someone could enlighten me.

[Lisa]

I just finished Fear of Flying, by Erica Jong. Very quick, easy read, very funny in a sarcastic, witty way, & I really enjoyed it. I gave it a 4 star rating & wrote a review :)

[Chel]

I finished three books over the weekend. In a Glass Darkly, by Sheridan Le Fanu who is an Irish author of French Huegenot descent-hence the French last name, is a collection of five gothic horror novellas. The one called Carmilla stands far above the rest but I would imagine the editors wanted mostly novels so they put the whole book on the list. The others are passable and I would recommend the book overall. Eugene Onegin by Pushkin I reluctantly can't recommend because it was belabored and long winded, however, many people may like it. It is on the list as a foundational Russian work and Pushkin has great gifts. I also read Tarzan and liked it. I had read his Mars series of books (Edgar Rice Burroughs) as a kid and liked them alot, they were very adventurous like Tarzan is. I almost finished a fourth book I'll comment on in a day or two.

[Asa]

I finished Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities yesterday - interesting but a bit too much.

[Dr. Zyllihapping]

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. Even wrote a review of it.

[laut]

I just finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Really absolutely loved it.

[Dr. Zyllihapping]

The Catcher in the Rye was pretty awesome. One of my favorite books :)

[Tomchicago]

I'm nearly finished with Durrell's Justine. It is like an exotic perfume that lingers. There are some strange viewpoints about "women" and "homosexuals", however, and if the rest of the work was not so fascinating, I would have dismissed it as merely dated and walked away.

[Tomchicago]

Mark wrote: "Meredith,

It's at: http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibr..."

thanks, I'm list lover and this one is cool.

[Chel]

I finished Barbusse's The Inferno, a series of dialogs about many aspects of life. I thought it was great.

[Rusty]

Beginning Beloved by Toni Morrison.

[Lauli]

Tomchicago wrote: "I'm nearly finished with Durrell's Justine. It is like an exotic perfume that lingers. There are some strange viewpoints about "women" and "homosexuals", however, and if the rest of the work was ..."

I've just finished that one too, and I'm still making up my mind about it. The writing is impeccable, and there are some astonishing passages, but I wasn't really hooked on the story. Some characters I felt were not so relevant. But apparently they feature more prominently in the rest of the series. I guess I'll have to read the other three.

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I just finished Wuthering Heights. Didn't love it. Didn't hate it.

[Deanne]

Finished L'Assommoir by Zola, great book and as relevant today as it was in 1877.
Also read God bless you Mr Rosewater by Vonnegut, funny and a great ending.

[Craig]

The Red and the Black by Stendhal. Engrossing and enrobing prose. Sorel stands out as an almost naive tragic character. Almost naive because he is very intelligent, just not enough to notice the machine which soon grinds him to a mortal end (maybe not naive, just blinded by desire both for women and status).

[Lisa]

I just finished I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou last night & wrote up my review. This is the first of her memoirs/autobiographies spanning her very early childhood through her 16-17th year. I found it to be engaging, well written, funny in places, sad in others. The book flowed easily, kept me turning pages, was a quick read, & I very much enjoyed it.

[Bea]

Just finished H.G. Wells's The Time Machine. I had my own imaginary vision of the plot based on misleading movie posters. What I got was something very different and more disturbing.

I've been pondering Wells's world view as revealed by this book. I'm not so sure I would have liked Wells. In addition, the writing style was not for me. And yet, and yet ... I have to give the novel a four. I won't be forgetting it anytime soon.