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[Maya]

The Crime of Father Amaro by Eca De Queiros...This is my new favorite author and favorite novel. Everything about this book is wonderful and wholesome: style, atmosphere, setting... What a great book!

[Chloe]

Maya, I had no idea that it was a book, let alone a book on the 1001 list! I saw the film a few years ago and loved it. I'm going to have to track that down rather soon.

[Carl]

I think that my latest release, "Bader Field" published by Nightengale Press may have a far reaching and profound effect on a great many lives; at least that is my hope and my vision.

Check out the overview at www.nightengale.com in their store to get a sense of what I have written. Fair warning, it is a very emotional story which reads like fiction but is absolutely real. Having taken me well over twenty years of writing and rewriting and then finding the right publisher and editor, this book has been a true and exhausting labor of love.

It is currently only available through their website but it will be in barnesandnoble.com, borders.com, amazon.com, and others shortly and will be in the book stores in 2009.

Thank you for your time and consideration. I truly appreciate it.

Carl David

[Lisa]

Just finished Never Let Me Go. I thought it was excellent and the end was a heartbreaker.

[Annemaria]

I FINALLY finished "The Corrections" and it left me feeling like a lot of books on this list do - like it was good and I appreciate it but it just wasn't MY kind of book. I've had this opinion about a lot of the books I've read recently on this list and I'm starting to think that maybe I'll use the list as a list of suggestions which I may never have found on my own....Anyone else feel this way?

[Emma]

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

[H.J.]

I just finished Jane Eyre and I LOVED it!!! Anyone who has not read it should make it a priority.

[Eliza]

i just finished Anna Karenina I enjoyed it but I think the translation I read left a little to be desired. I might try a different one sometime in the future

[Vicky]

Annamaria -- First, I LOVED "The Corrections", but that's me, and that's okay. My feeling about the List is that there's a lot of good suggestions for things to read, most of them I have heard of, and many of which I have always wanted to read. But I at no time have felt I really wanted to read the whole 1,001. Too many good reads not on the List, and life is too short!

[Rahil]

I have read the count of Monto cristo and loved it. I also watched the film. I think both the book and the film are good. but as the film version is not complete, I prefer to first read the book and then watch the film to see how they imagine the events of the original version of the book.I have seen the three musketers too but didn't like it as the count, perhapse because the count is more mysterious and it is more romantic because there are more women in it and I don't like a story without much role from women.

[Niche]

I didn't enjoy Margaret Atwood at all until I had to rip Surfacing apart for a Psychology and Literature course. I had attempted The Robber Bride 3 times at that point and given up on it. Surfacing was fascinating because there was just so much to analyze in it. There's just so many layers to Atwood and I wasn't delving below the surface before. (God, that's a bad unintentional pun.)

[Jeff]

I just started the English Patient by Michael Ondaatje.

[David S. T.]

A Clockwork Orange -- I remember thinking that the movie was OK but not great, but I think having seen the movie a few times before I read the book, added to the book. Reading the book has put me in the mood to revisit the movie.

[Kristi]

Niche--My first was Margaret Atwood was Oryx and Crake, and I absolutely loved it. Then I read The Handmaid's Tale, then The Blind Assassin. Loved them. Next was The Robber Bride, and I hated it! I'm not even sure why at this point, but I was actually happy that they took it off the updated list. A couple years ago I tried Alias Grace, but didn't get through it. (My copy of the book was damaged in a flood, and looking back at that time of my life upsets me, so I just haven't wanted to try it again.) I intend on reading Surfacing someday, and I picked up a used copy of The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus, but I don't think I will love another of hers as much as Oryx and Crake.

[D.]

A Thousand Splendid Suns.. worth to read it..damn good book

[Niche]

Kristi, I have a copy of Oryx and Crake. Thanks, I'll take a crack at it at it for my next. I guess I'll try The Robber Bride again one day.-give it another chance. I ended up giving my copy away so next time I'll try the library. :)

[Deanna]

I finished up Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" the other day and it's now at the top of list in terms of books I absolutely adored from 1001 Books.

http://tragicrighthip.blogspot.com/20...

It's such a good book.

[Kristi]

Finished Dracula last night. I figured this was a good time of year to read it!

[Helena]

Just finished Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami.
I'm going to re-read it after 2-3 weeks.

[Heather]

I finally finished Dracula a few days ago. I'm glad to have that one checked off my list.

[Ravenskya]

Just Finished "The Bunner Sisters" It was fairly interesting, depressing and short.

[Erica]

Finished Dracula right on Halloween. Definitely worth the read!

[Jeff]

I just finished that one too. I felt I needed to read Tale of Genji to understand some of it.

[Deanne]

Just finished The daughter Pavlos Matesis, really enjoyed it and found it reminded me of Captain Corelli though not quite so quirky.

[Ravenskya]

Just finished "Last of the Mohicans" can't say that I was a very big fan... the language was so tedious.

[Anna]

The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Charity]

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski...extremely trippy!

[Christina Stind]

Just finished A Clockwork Orange. Didn't really get into it untill the second part but it was okay. I think I liked the idea more than the execution of it.

[Lisa]

I felt like I was on drugs the whole time I was reading House of Leaves. I really liked it but I don't exactly know why. Probably one of the most imaginative books I've ever read.

[Charity]

Lisa, that is exactly how I felt!! :-)

[Rod]

In this, and several other books among the 1001, the language can be a barrier. But it can also be an opportunity to immerse yourself in the culture and the thought processes of the period. It's helpful to read essays and articles in the same period and to look into the historical setting. The difference in your experience as a reader... immense. It transforms tedium to fascination. Honest!

[Christophe0808]

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Enjoyed most of it. Though sometimes the characters talk too much about irrelevant things.

[Anna]

Pies i klecha. Tancerz I'd read it in one day.

[Susan]

I just finished The Master and Margarita (on the list) and The Red Tent (not on the list-but great story none the less.)

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Sense & sensability

[Annemaria]

Just finished Gotz and Meyer (not on the list but very interesting).

[Melissa]

Just read White Noise by Don DeLillo and Choke by Chuck Palahniuk in the same week. Now I need something a little less postmodern...

[Nic]

What did you think? I read that a long time ago, but remember really enjoying it. Loved the suspense!

[Jeff]

I just finished the English Patient. I didn't think I would like it as much as I did. Wonderful story, more about characters than plot.

[Silver]

Just finnised Kidnapped

[Niche]

I just read The Lover by Marguerite Duras. It's a very quick read. I read it in about an hour. The story is written in a very disjointed, stream of consciousness manner. It's broken down into paragraphs. This is my first book by this author and I can't wait to read another book by her. The writing is very beautiful. She says a lot with very little.

[Lynnie]

Atonement: A Novel

[Denise]

Niche, I'm a huge Duras fan. The Lover is something of a rewrite of an ealier novel, The Sea Wall, which is one of my all time favorite novels.

[Christina Stind]

I just finished 'The Curious incident of the dog in the nighttime' and 'The Long dark teatime of the soul' - both were good, but I really loved 'The Curious...'

[Nikki]

I have just finished To Kill a Mockingbird. Somehow I missed out on reading this one whilst at school so it was the first time I've read it. My mind is swimming at the moment trying to make sence of all the different themes in it. It was a great book.

[Nawar]

I just finished Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close.
Amazing book! ;)

[Judith]

Just completed "The Power and the Glory" by Graham Greene. It was a very thought provoking book about man and religion. Excellent. I plan to read all of Greene's books that are on the 1001 List.

[Michelle]

I finished Ian Fleming's Casino Royale just in time to huzzah Quantum of Solace this weekend (which, irritatingly enough, is named after one of Fleming's short stories and there the resemblance begins and ends). It inspired me to write another alcohol and lit article for the Book Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/x-562-Book-Ex...
And whatever book you're reading right now, find an adult beverage to go with it at The Book Examiner's ultimate guide to pairing alcohol and literature: http://www.examiner.com/x-562-Book-Ex...
Any suggestions?

[Stephanie]

Just finished Kafka on the Shore. It was OK - I know a lot of people really loved it but it left me with too many unanswered questions and lots of loose ends. I did enjoy his writing style, though. Reading an off-list book now but I'm starting Middlesex next.

[Ann from S.C.]

Just finished ANIMAL FARM after having it on my shelve for years!!