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[Amanda]

I just finished Rameau's Nephew by Denis Diderot. My review is up on 1001everything.blogspot.com

[Karen]

Finished "Silk" by Baricco in one and a half evenings. Writing flows beautifully and it is short, so I recommend especially if you want to quickly take another another title off your "to read" list . The story is simple, but the characters are complex. I find myself thinking about them frequently day after day.

[Bucket]

Just finished In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower - volume 2 in Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time." Really enjoying Proust, including his semi-philosophical musings on love, art, and the disparities between what we think or imagine and what is actually true. Looking forward to volume 3 soon!

[Velma]

Most recent on the list for me was H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, which I enjoyed tremendously! My review.

[Liz M]

I just read Birdsong: A Novel Of Love And War by Sebastian Faulks. A very compelling read if oddly balanced between the time periods covered (WWI and 1970-something).

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Yes, Liz, I thought that was a bit odd too. On reflection, I decided the 1970s bit was to complete the story of how WWI affected soldiers beyond the battlefield.

[Jonpaul]

The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Pretty pretty pretty pretty good.

[Amanda]

I just finished The Three Musketeers. One of the best books I have ever read featuring arguably the best villain in literature. An amazing experience.

[Anthony]

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. One of the best books I've ever read.

[Jonpaul]

Blood and Guts in High School. How can a book be boring with that much sex? Just dull, dull, dull. It's supposed to be provocative, too, and I can't really even get up any steam to hate it. It was just a long bus ride with a disturbed person who isn't dangerous or smart but believes they're extremely both. Feh.

[Annina]

The Unknown Soldier

Finally I read it!! It took ages to finish, but now I can say that I did read it.

[~Calyre~]

I just finished Roots of Heaven

[Bea]

I finished The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë. I really enjoyed it. Essential reading for anyone interested in the treatment of women in Victorian times or the first flowering of the women's rights movement.

[jb]

I just finished Wuthering Heights.

[Marialyce]

Bea wrote: "I finished The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë. I really enjoyed it. Essential reading for anyone interested in the treatment of women in Victorian times o..."

Good for you, Bea! I have one more section to go and am I throughly enjoying it as well!

[Marialyce]

Bea wrote: "I finished The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë. I really enjoyed it. Essential reading for anyone interested in the treatment of women in Victorian times o..."

Good for you, Bea! I have one more section to go and am I throughly enjoying it as well!

[Mikela]

Just finished Waiting for the Barbarians and it is going to take me ages to get over the emotions that this magnificent but intense book brought out in me.

[Kristine]

Just finished which I devoured on a one hour plane trip and was mind-bendingly good and not what i expected.It seemed so modern given that it was written quite some time ago. I also finished the same day which was an emotional roller coaster which i certainly recommend.

[Laura]

I just finished Beloved by Toni Morrison. One word: Lyrical. I guess I never realized Toni Morrison fell into the Magical Realism category. The book was poetic, a bit creepy, but overall a great read. I look forward to reading more of her books that are on the list.

[Marialyce]

Finished The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. I truly enjoyed this wonderfully done picture of Victorian marriage. Bravo to Anne Bronte for presenting a true picture.

[Judith]

Emma - Austen

I'd have to re-read Pride and Prejudice again to be sure, but I think Emma may be my new favorite Austen novel.

[Kyle]

Finished my first read of "The Tin Drum" and my second read of "Cloud Atlas." Both books were fantastic - the deeper under the surface one looks at each of these books, the more they seem to show.

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

I've just finished Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell, which I really enjoyied, I just love Miss Matty.
Hoping to read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë soon too.

[Danyellemastro]

Katherine wrote: "I just finished To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. It was short, but very dense."

Have you read Mrs. Dalloway? Do you think one was easier/more enjoyable than the other?

[Jonpaul]

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Man, it got slow near the end but I really enjoyed the majority of it and even when it was slow I enjoyed it much, much more than I ever would have expected.

[Susan]

I just finished Main Street which I enjoyed but found it easy to put down when another book was claiming my interest.

[Deanne]

Finished Sodom and Gomorrah, over half way through In Search of Lost Time, still really enjoying Proust.
Also read All Souls by Javier Marias, an author I discovered as a result of doing the 1001 lists.

[Agustin]

Just finished Slaughterhouse-Five. It was my first time reading Vonnegut and I really enjoyed it.

[Kirsten]

Chamberk wrote: "Finished my first read of "The Tin Drum" and my second read of "Cloud Atlas." Both books were fantastic - the deeper under the surface one looks at each of these books, the more they seem to show."

Have you heard that they are making (or maybe already made) a movie version of Cloud Atlas? I'm really curious to see what they do with it. It has potential to be really good or really, really bad...

[Bea]

Villette by Charlotte Brontë. I found it an odd book, certainly not in the masterpiece category I assign to Jane Eyre.

[Kate]

Just finished Neuromancer for the second time. Hated it just as much as the first time I read it. I should have liked it. It was a well-written cyberpunk piece, with good use of metaphors and similes. And yet, it lacked an real sense of character growth, risk to the main character, learning curve, reason for reading it, etc.

[Marialyce]

I also finished Villette and agree with what Bea said. It could be at times a ponderous tale.

[Chel]

I finished Barabbas and it was very good. The setting is during the time of Jesus and his crucifiction and subsequent persecution of Christians by the Romans. It deals with questions of faith.

[Craig]

Moby Dick -Melville
This was such a wonderful surprise! Melville brings it and then some. I have learned more about whales than ever expected and about the potential impact of single-minded obsession.

Also finished
The House of the Seven Gables -Hawthorne
This was pretty good but nothing too thrilling. Hawthorne's writing makes up for the tired plot.

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

Craig wrote: "Moby Dick -Melville
This was such a wonderful surprise! Melville brings it and then some. I have learned more about whales than ever expected and about the potential impact of single-minded obse..."

I agree, you finish Moby Dick, and feel like you have just gained a pile of new knowledge :)

[Sophie]

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

[Liz M]

Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger

A memoir of a German officer's experiences in WWI. Jünger kept a diary throughout the war, presumably on which this book was based. It was an interesting alternative perspective to Birdsong which I read recently. But it felt rather impersonal and factual, given it was a real individual's actual experiences. Now I'm curious about The Glass Bees -- a sci-fi novel on the 1001 list by the same author.

[~Calyre~]

I just finished Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

[Mekki]

I just finished The New York Trilogy

[Sarah]

I just finished reading Emma by Jane Austen. I can't believe that i never read it before. The characters are fascinating. I highly recommend it.

[Sarah]

Mekki wrote: "I just finished The New York Trilogy"

How was it? I've been trying to think of what to read next.

[Katherine]

I just finished Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee. It really is a remarkable book. I feel like I could read it a dozen times and find something new each time. I will definitely be reading the other Coetzee books on the list very soon.

[Mikela]

Katherine wrote: "I just finished Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee. It really is a remarkable book. I feel like I could read it a dozen times and find something new each time. ..."

Isn't Coetzee a wonderful author. I think the book of his I most enjoyed was Life and Times of Michael K but each is good in its own way.

[Monica]

I just finished Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. I can't believe I didn't already know this story, though I was familiar with many of the elements in it. It was a fun quick read and I learned more about sailing than I bargained I would.

[Craig]

Northanger Abbey -Austen

So far, the worst Austen I have read. I understand that she was poking fun at Gothic novels, but I just could not get behind the characters or the plot--it all seemed flat and cold.

[Chel]

I just finished Quartet by Jean Rhys and it was excellent and she is one of my favorite authors now. It is in 1920's Paris and the main character is a woman in a love triangle.

[Judith]

Family Matters by Mistry

Very good read!

[Judith]

Craig wrote: "Northanger Abbey -Austen

So far, the worst Austen I have read. I understand that she was poking fun at Gothic novels, but I just could not get behind the characters or the plot--it all seemed f..."

I agree!

[~Calyre~]

I just finished The Kreutzer Sonata

[Genia]

Finally done with Parade's End. A fantastically difficult slog.