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Which LIST book did you just finish?
Just finished Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. What an undertaking!
The Life of PiWhat a wild ride that was!
I read that it may be a movie in the future?
It would be good
Haylee, I loved Ragtime. Coalhouse is one of my favorite characters in literature.I've been tucked into Cider House Rules for the past few days. Irving is always rough on me.
Paige, I haven't heard of Life of Pi becoming a movie but it would be even more odd since the last several books I have read are coming out as movies soon. Craziness.
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. It's my first Atwood, and I've heard it's not her best. I thought it was very slow. I kept waiting for the payoff but it didn't come.
Portrait of a Lady. Took a long time for me to get through. Loved the dialog, the way people never quite say what they mean. Allows the reader to decide what happened. But then the end was unsatisfying for that same reason.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denishovich was finished in one day of my life!
I just finished The Hours by Michael Cunningham and am starting Life of Pi. Had previously read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. I happened to pick these books because they were on hand. I found all of them at a used book store around the same time.
Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier. I loved it!
I finished Martha Quest recently, which I quite enjoyed. I am now reading A Proper Marriage, the next in the series. I am enjoying that as well. I am not sure they're as good as The Golden Notebook but definitely worth a read.
I just finnished A Name of The Rose by Eco. I found it very interesting
Finished Spring Torrents by Turgenev. Quick read.
Lectures on literature by Nabokov and The Discarded image by C.S. Lewis
Just finished Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America." It was good. Good character development, and a great/scary plotline that was one of the better historical fiction novels I've read.
Watchmen by Alan Moore. First graphic novel I've ever read (and possibly ever will). Really looking forward to seeing the movie now.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.I actually really enjoyed it. :)
I just finished Cider House Rules. It was a bit of a struggle but I think that in the end I ended up quite enjoying it. At the very least it left me thinking, which tends to be a good result for any book.
i just finished Kite Runner and must say that it was amazing, simply for the fact that it caused me to feel so many emotions. Great book
Just finished Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham. I loved it.
Elementary particles by Houellebecq not what I was expecting at all.
I just finished Fathers and Sons by Turgenev.
Saturday I finished "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K. Dick. It was very strange to read science fiction where the 1990's was considered the future.
I finished The Hound of the Baskervilles which was a good, fast read. I was rotating between it and The Book of Illusions, so I'll be getting back to Auster tonight.
Finished The Handmaid's Tale this weekend and am now starting The End of the Affair.
Lots of reading lately: Cost: A Novel by Roxana Robinson
The Turnaround by George Pelecanos
Finished The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster. A nice surprise.
Since last commenting here, I've read Cat's Cradle, The Wide Sargasso Sea, and Casino Royale. They were all relatively short and easy reads. I've posted reviews of all of them ...The first two were wonderful (although very dark) and highly recommended. But Casino Royale was, in my opinion, terrible - badly written, shallow, and full of misogynist zingers. What surprised me was that it wasn't even mildly enjoyable in a fluffy way - rather, it was slow and boring and about 70 pages too long (and it was only 200 pages total). All I took away from it was a greater appreciation for the women's movement - given the literature of the 50s and 60s, no wonder the women got a little uppity! Otherwise, it wasted my time.
Perfume by Patrick Suskind. The ending was AMAZING!
CharityIn a good way.
Dimitra
After I read Perfume found that I was thinking about the sense of smell. Are you?
Just finished Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. It was awesome!
Finally! Finished "Time Traveler's Wife" today - sorry all lovers of this book, it was tedious and confusing! The only portion I really liked was Henry's death and his return to Claire when she was old ...Oh well, win some, lose some!
Finished "Kite Runner" currently reading "The Name of the Rose"
DeanneI was thinking about how Grenouille could control the emotions and behaviors of people around him by kniowing what appealed to their sense of smell, and making the right perfume for it. I enjoyed the ending the most because it was also a lesson on power and love, in a way, and how love can turn into obsession and how power can kill you. Not to mention Suskind's amazing description.
I just finished "Glamorama", and what can I say? Sex, drugs and rock 'n Roll. High fashion models, clubs, The New York Post, page 6; La Monde; white French tulips, confetti, and it's really, really cold in here. Terrorists, bombs, Paris, London, gruesome death, etc, etc. It could be a really cool opera!I expected to hate it, but I didn't. On the other hand, I feel I don't need to read any more by this author.
the virgin suicides...so haunting and so well written..
Just finished the Life of Lucy Gault-- it was just OK
Tess of the D'Urbervilles. So tragically Victorian. Loved it!
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