Which LIST book did you just finish? Showing 4,451-4,500 of 7,922

[Deanne]

Finished Buddenbrooks, it didn't grip me but I did come to care for some members of the family, and disliked others.

[Inna]

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

[Shovelmonkey1]

Finished Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and loved it. I would definitely read this one again and recommend it to 1001 book readers as a quick but absorbing short novella (and therefore an easy one to tick off the list as well as being a pleasure to discover)

[Sarah]

Recently finished A Passage to India. It was ok, I didn't think it was anything really special though. A lot of these books I am just not really getting the point of.

[Judith]

A re-read of "A Room with a View" - loved it more the second time.

[Inna]

Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

[David]

Buddenbrooks / The decline of a family by Thomas Mann
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97...



Not often when I have seen a film first, thus knowing the plot, I so much enjoyed a book. The 2008 film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1058601/ was very much criticized for it's filmic values, but follows the book strictly enough to give you an 'aha-Erlebnis' each and every time.
My initial fears the book would take me ages to read, proved unfounded. Such a rich language, such deep and refined, sometimes humorous descriptions of snobbism, moods, fears, against a world politically and economic rapidly changing, drove me from chapter to chapter, part to part.
Yes, I needed a dictionary frequently, sometimes even wikipedia to understand the meaning of outdated words, the impact of economic and political changes, the value of the currency to understand the capital mentioned.
I felt those pauses and sidesteps as en enrichment. Some of the funny descriptions on the use of different kinds of German will get lost in translations I suppose, but that won't matter.
This book is a MUST-read indeed, high in the list.

[Anand]

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

[Shovelmonkey1]

Finished The Lambs of London and liked it a lot better than The House of Dr Dee, also by Peter Ackroyd. Here's my review for anyone who's interested in my ramblings!
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

[Deanne]

Finished Oblomov last night and really enjoyed it.

[laut]

I didn't really finish Dining on Stones, more gave up on it. It really seemed like the author cared more about being clever than interesting the reader.

[Jeffrey]

The Kings Speech.

[Shovelmonkey1]

Finished The Child in Time by Ian McEwan last night because I had trouble sleeping. Not a massive fan of this book to be honest. Just a little bit pointless.

[Liz]

The Secret History. I loved, loved, loved it!

[Shovelmonkey1]

Liz Vegas wrote: "The Secret History. I loved, loved, loved it!"

This was a book I chose to take away with me for a long spell of work abroad last year and I loved it too! I was very pleased with my choice and thought it was a great read ( was much less pleased with What a Carve up by Jonathan Coe which I also took with me and can only summarise (in polite company) as being pants!)

[Charity]

Jeffrey wrote: "The Kings Speech."

Not a list book, sorry.

[Mike]

I just finished The Brothers Karamazov. Not for me. It was really a tedious book to read. It took some skimming to get through it.

[laut]

I've finally managed to finish Moby-Dick! I found I couldn't focus on it for too long at any one time, so it's taken forever.

I did really enjoy it though.

[Philip]

Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson. Yes, really, all NINE volumes. Took me 3 months. It WAS worth it despite some turgid bits in the first few volumes. Overall a deserved classic.

[Deanne]

Finished Rasselas by Johnson, getting together a list of books for my two weeks off work.

[Shovelmonkey1]

Today I finished Invisible by Paul Auster. Another very enjoyable (if slightly more inconclusively pointless) read than the last few Austers. The The Music of Chanceis still my favourite though!

[Mikela]

Just finished Fingersmith. This book just did not grab me although it was really well written. Sarah Waters captured the flavor of the Victorian novel and made her characters seem real and likeable, not despite their flaws but perhaps because of them. The ending was just a little too predictable in the mode of a Harlequin Romance with a lesbian twist.

[Haley]

Just finished The Princess of Cleves. I was surprised by how much I really enjoyed it once I got into it.

[Tom]

Name of the Rose gets kicked to the curb! False advertising. I thought it was a book about rose husbandry. The only mention of roses I noticed was on a decorative box description and none of the monks named any of them.

[Shovelmonkey1]

Finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with mixed feelings. This will be on the shelf marked, things that make you go hmmmm.

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La Liseuse wrote: "Adam Bede by George Eliot"

Loved that book. I enjoyed it so much.

[[deleted user]]

Mikela wrote: "Just finished Fingersmith. This book just did not grab me although it was really well written. Sarah Waters captured the flavor of the Victorian novel and made her characters seem real..."

Oh Mikela, I loved that book. I read it three years ago and fell in love with her writing.

[[deleted user]]

I just finished Wuthering Heights and LOVED IT. There were so many emotions though packed into one book that I have to read something light now.

[[deleted user]]

The Mysteries of Udolphoby Ann Radcliffe and Madame Bovary byGustave Flaubert

[Grada (BoekenTrol)]

I finished The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan recently. Liked it a lot, although it is quite dark.

Now I'm reading One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn another gloomy book. Enjoying the read nonetheless...

[Summer]

I just finished "The Picture of Dorian Gray" as well

[Lianne]

The last book I finished reading from the list was Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Française. Wonderful book, it's a pity she wasn't able to finish the rest of it.

[Mikela]

Sonia, I know that I am very much in the minority with my view of Fingersmith but it just wasn't a book that appealled greatly to me. I do agree that she is a very good writer.

[Mark]

Death and a Penguin - Andre Kurkov

[Maggie]

The Book Thief

I really liked it!

[Charity]

Mark wrote: "Death and a Penguin - Andre Kurkov"

Not a list book. Sorry.

[Charity]

Maggie wrote: "The Book Thief

I really liked it!"

Not a list book. Sorry.

[Sarah]

I just finished Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. I still feel the episode of Doctor Who he "recycled" some of the plot from was better, but that was a bit-more Who-centered, while this was told from the point of view of a random person that got involved for one story. Interesting and very funny though.

[Jennifer W]

Orlando by Virginia Woolf. It was good, but I liked Mrs. Dalloway better.

[M]

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. It is PERFECT. You honestly shouldn't die before reading this book or at least its first chapter!

[Heather]

I've just recently finished Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Although it's quite short I found it slow to get going so it took me a while to read it. However it was definitely interesting and worth reading.

[laut]

Masanobu wrote: "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. It is PERFECT. You honestly shouldn't die before reading this book or at least its first chapter!"

I'm not sure that I'd enthuse about If on a Winter's Night that much, but I definitely enjoyed it. It's always good when the list gives you a gem of a book though, isn't it?

I just finished Les Enfants Terrible. I'm really not sure what to make of it at all.. it was very strange!

[Judith]

I finished Billy Budd, Foretopman by Herman Melville.

So very sad, but worth it!

[Judith]

Sarah wrote: "I just finished Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. I still feel the episode of Doctor Who he "recycled" some of the plot from was better, but that was a bit-more Who-centered..."

My husband and I read this one aloud to each other once when on a leisurely vacation. We doubled over with laughter a number of times. I think it is Adam's funniest book.

[Judith]

Boekenwurm wrote: "I finished The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan recently. Liked it a lot, although it is quite dark.

Now I'm reading One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by ..."

This one is a masterpiece!

[Leonard]

Judith wrote: "Boekenwurm wrote: "I finished The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan recently. Liked it a lot, although it is quite dark.

Now I'm reading [book:One Day in the Life of Ivan Den..."

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an excellent book, humor in the middle of suffering.

[Cindy]

Judith wrote: "I finished Billy Budd, Foretopman by Herman Melville.

So very sad, but worth it!"

This is probably going to sound crazy, but I had no idea Billy Budd was a book! I've only seen & heard the Benjamin Britten opera of the same name. Clearly I must not have read the playbill.

[Maggie]

I just finished The Trial by Kafka.

I liked it much more than I thought I would.

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I just finished Love in Excess. It was very over the top so there was like no characterization. It was really junky which was enjoyable.

[whimsicalmeerkat]

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster