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[Monika]

Saturday by Ian McEwan. This one left me feeling depressed for some reason. Felt his way every time that I picked it up. A decent read and i really like the one day in the life of concept. As a scientist, I enjoyed all the neurobiology in the book and wonder if medical doctors see and think the way that the main character does.

[Deanne]

Monika
I worked for 4 years in a neuro operating room. When I read Saturday I read the list of operations that the main character had to perform, I was hoping it would be in the course of a week. Most of the operations would take on average 6 hours to perform without complications.
Wouldn't want him operating on me at the end of the week he'd be exhausted.

[Kara]

Liz, it's ok. :) really, i must have been in an especially irritated mood when i wrote that. i apologize.

i actually left the time traveler's wife on a greyhound bus, so i never got to finish it. it was a library book too! i had to pay $25. :(

[Sheila]

I just finished When We Were Romans..interesting and worth the time

[Galen]

Just finished Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White. Long, the ending didn't wrap up as quickly as I wanted it to, but it was overall a really well-developed suspense story. Great characters! On to something modern.

[Monika]

Deanne - I often feel that way when I read books that have science in them! Things always take much longer in real life than in the book world! What I really was wondering about was if doctors or even psychologist analyze the people they meet with regards to conditions that they may have.

[Pam]

I finished The End of the Affair over the weekend. It's a quick read - I thought the writing was incredible, but the story/plot was just okay for me. I gave it 4 stars, mostly for the writing.

[Karen]

I just finished listening to "Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. Talk about a wild trip! That man must have been on drugs when he wrote this, but it was fun to listen to the original of so many familiar phrases--I want to go around saying "Off with Your head!" to anyone who messes with me today.

[Charity]

Finished The Cider House Rules by Irving.

[Julie]

Isabella, Christopher Moore is always great for a laugh -- Island of the Sequined Love Nun is one of my faves by him.

Also, I loved Eat, Pray, Love. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about her journey.

[Annemaria]

Franny and Zooey

[Alie]

The Great Stink. It stunk.

[Laura]

Eat Pray Love definitely stays with you - I couldn't put it down for long stretches of time, and I think lots of people were affected that way by that one.

[Kieffala]

I love Moore too! Practical Demon Keeping is my favorite so far.

[Katherine]

Hi Isabella,

I loved this book! And I'm proud to say that I discovered it before Oprah did... he he he. I came across it randomly and I just loved going through all her adventures in the different countries and accompany her on her journey of self-discovery. I would reread this again and again. I've learned that this book has different meanings for everyone, and Elizabeth Gilbert seems to have written the book especially for you.

Enjoy the reread!

[Ravenskya]

I love Christopher Moore!

Just finished "Count of Monte Cristo" today... Long and difficult read (mainly because of the volume of characters and sub-plots rather than language) it also was not at "adventurous" as I had ecxpected. Oh well. On to re-reading "Frankenstein" because I can't recall if I ever finished it before.

[Erin]

I just finished Smilla's Sense of Snow. I liked it, but I would have liked it more if it had less characters and wasn't so long. But the descriptions of the land and snow fit perfectly with the story.

[Tiffany]

The Picture of Dorian Gray. Beautiful story but almost too witty.

[Hashi]

A two-week slog through "The Ambassadors" by Henry James, followed by a hour or two re-reading Orwell's "Animal Farm". I think I want another short one before tackling "Anna Karenina", the next book on my list. I call The Ambassadors a slog, but I gave it 4 stars in the end. Even though nothing really happens!

[Kieffala]

I REALLY didn't care for Smilla's Sense of Snow. About the only thing I liked about it was the descriptions of the landscapes and her "discussions" of snow. I remember turning the page, and discovering the book was over. I actually checked to make sure some pages weren't missing! It was so strange. It really left me hanging.

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Silas Marner. I really did like it. I can't wait to read more of Eliot's works. She is a great writer.

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not on the list but The Book Thief. It should be on the list! It's amazing!

[Deanne]

Monika
I would say they do as part of making the diagnosis, sometimes the experiences you've had also gives you a kind of sixth sense. I've had patients who the warning bells go off about. You try to look at people as a whole, that being said I do the same with people I've just met and I know medical staff and nurses who do the same. It's not something you can turn off. I also complain when medical programmes get it wrong, really annoys my family.

[Denise]

Deanne- Funny what you say about medical progammes. My nurse friend can't watch such shows in general, but loved Grey's Anatomy. She felt they got a lot of the medical stuff right, although no nurse or doctor would have enough time to dart into a broom closet for hany panky.

[Hashi]

"Another World" by Pat Barker. According to many reviewers here on goodreads, her Regeneration trilogy is wonderful but this book is a disappointment. It had an interesting setup but failed to coalesce. It was like she lost interest half way through writing it, or just couldn't figure out how to get all the strands to come together.

[Lori]

"Trainspotting" by Irvine Welsh. Loved it.

[Chloe]

I finished Graham Greene's The End of the Affair last night. It was amazing. I've read 5-6 different Graham Greene books in the past year and I'm constantly amazed at how each book is so completely different from the other. This was heart-breaking and beautiful as well as a great look at theism and faith. I felt so much sympathy for the woman and the dilemma she found herself in with her promise to a god that she didn't believe in.

I love the way that Greene is able to write such biting philosophical asides without sacrificing anything in the way of story. Scratch that. The philosophy isn't an aside from anything, it forms the crux of the story. Because we care about these characters and their pain we are able to more accurately feel the burden these thoughts place upon them. Attaching a very real face to questions that have plagued humanity from day one allows the reader to more fully understand the frustration and despair that come with wrestling with the inevitable paradoxes of every day life. It is these same paradoxes which define us as a species; the ability to make a promise to an entity we are unsure even exists and then actively work toward subverting that promise while still remaining faithful to it. If there's a more fitting description of humankind then I don't know it.

[Carrie]

Just finished Dirk Wittenborn's Pharmakon. Excellent. Interviewed him on Words To Mouth author interview talk show. If you're interested, come listen to Dirk talk about his life and book in his own words at http://wordstomouth.com/?p=215

Next,Sin in the Second City--anyone read it?

[Anna]

Auto da fe by Elias Canetti

[Jennifer]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Makr Haddon. I was dissapointed.

[Jennifer]

I am so glad to hear you like this book. I tried reading it a couple of weeks ago and couldn't understand a word. I decided to put it down and try again later when I had more time to focus.

[Katerina]

i just finished catch 22. it took me a while because i've been so busy.

[Denise]

I didn't see it on the list, but I just finished The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. I thought it was great.

[♥Fantasia♥]

anybody have any recomondations?

[Tara]

so glad to hear End of the Affair was so good, Logan. I read Heart of the Matter years ago in college and just fell in love with him.

[Paula]

Wind up bird Chronicle. For the first half of it, I was enjoying it. Very imaginative. Then I struggled with the last half, so I wouldn't recommend it since that last half was 300 pages long!

[Liz]

"Twilight" - definitely a teen read, or maybe a teen Harlequin romance (although I like the cover of "Twilight" better!). Read it to see what all the fuss is about ...

[James]

What were you disappointed about Jennifer? I loved it for what it told me about autism. The way the boy looked at the world was simply fascinating.

[Galen]

Fantasia, It looks like you like mysteries--I highly recommend Rebecca (by D. DuMaurier), The Secret History (by Donna Tartt), and the mysteries by Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. On the List AND good mysteries/suspense.

[Linda]

Bleak House. Yea! One more Dickens to check off my list! Took me most of the summer because I was reading several books at once. A really gratifying ending; the movie version was good too.

[Vicky]

I just finished "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell -- not fiction, not on the list, but really amazing! I recommend it for anyone who wants to take a break from the List.

[Deanne]

Just finished the lost language of cranes. Very interesting plot with some likeable characters. Really enjoyed reading a book which didn't need to be read with a theasaurus.
Also finished Lives of girls and women, also very enjoyable, at turns sad and happy tale of a girl growing up in the 30's and 40's.

[Ravenskya]

Finished re-reading "Frankenstein" over the weekend... did you know that there are two versions of it? This time I stumbled across the earlier version of it and although it seemed the same, it came across as much less sympathetic then the second version that I think came out in the 1830's. I had no idea that there were two versions until I finished this one and thought to myself "I remember the creature being a much more sympathetic character" I looked it up online and realized that there was a difference in versions.

[Lisa]

It was a beauty, wasn't it?

[Dave]

Just finished Saturday. Quick easy read, entertaining. Starting On Beauty, and already discouraged. It sounds like a bad soap opera, I'd take encouragement from any fans of it!

[Julie]

Just finished The Shipping News, which I loved.

[Lisa]

I have to re-read Bleak House. I eard it in college (a long time ago) and remember hating it. But I think I was hating life in general at that point and that's not a good lens to look at literature or anything else through.

[Beth F]

I’ve recently finished The Reluctant Fundamentalist (from the 2008 updated version of the list) and I loved it. Not knowing anything about the author, I’d checked it out from the library instead of buying it but it’s now on my “need to buy” list. I thought the painfully abrupt ending was perfect, given the subject matter.

[Kieffala]

Vicky, I thought Tipping Point was on the list.

[Judith]

"The Hamlet" by Wm. Faulkner

I'm not sure I would recommend this book to anyone who is not a Faulkner fan already, but I enjoyed it very much. It takes you into the dregs of society in the south, and most of the characters are just barely tolerable, if at all; but they are certainly interesting! And so are their stories.