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My brief exposure of Literature in school didn't cover analysis and literary theories. I began to take Literature a bit more seriously for interest these couple of years. After my first reading of...

The only book by Hermann Hesse which I have read is Gertrude. I read the English translation. I like this book very much mainly due to the simple yet beautiful language. I stumbled upon it in the...

I have wanted to read more from Camus after I read his play Caligula last year. Both The Stranger and The Plague are "appealing" titles, and I haven't known about The Fall until I saw this forum....

Even if you have read the Sparks Notes and you know the ending of the book, please still read the novel if have the time. It's not a long novel, and it's not difficult to understand. I enjoy it and I...

I am half way through the book "The Idiot". I have not tried long novels originally written in Russian. The English translation I have is published by Oxford World Classics. It is written in an...

I am Chinese. I have minimum exposure to literature as a serious study discipline during school days. I seldom read English translation of text originally in Chinese, but when I was a kid, I had read...

I have read Saturday and On Chesil Beach. I do find Saturday to be dragging a little, and I still could not decide whether the ending is a little bit unrealistic compared to the rest of the book. ...

The last time I cried when reading a novel was Jeannette Wall's The Glass Castle.

I am a fan of Dan Brown. I read Digital Fortress first, then Da Vinci Code, followed by Angels and Demon, and Deception Point last. I will be collecting The Lost Symbol today. I think it is better to...

The Father – August Strindberg
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
Waiting – Ha Jin
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev

A Doll's House, Ibsen
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith
The Good Natur'd Man, Oliver Goldsmith

I have read only The Bourne Identity. I love the plot. I could not put down the book. Even if you have seen the movie, I think it's still worth reading. The most significant difference will be the...

I haven't read any of those Russian great classics. I don't know Russian, and I will like to read the English translation of War and peace, Anna Karerina, Crime and Punishment, Father and Sons,...

Has anyone read Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House ? I feel there is some similarities in the plot and characters between The Awakening and A Doll's House.

I do not see enough evidence on Edna being unstable. She is certainly not very strong. In real life, if there is a soulmate for her to speak to things could have a different outcome in the end. On...

On the ending, I interpret it this way. Go for love and search for spiritual freedom, but do not overly depend on someone else. Edna has in a way built her new dreams on another person, and she was...

For me, it's about half fiction and half non-fiction.
For fiction, my favourites are crimes, mysteries and thrillers. For the past year or so, I have been paying some attention to classics, which...

The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
Novel with Cocaine, M Ageyev
Marriage and Moral, Bertrand Russell
The 158-Pound Marriage, John Irving
Songs of Innonence and of Experience, William Blake

All the CSI. CSI, CSI Miami and CSI New York.

Jinjiang,

I'm afraid that people with full-time job, part-time studies, and also a family to take care of, will not have much time to read. And reading to gain knowledge to be immediately applied...

I have a lot to catch up. I have read only eight of them.

Somewhat surprised that there isn't any from P D James in the nominations.
Look forward to see the polls.

Very recently, I tried one John Irving's book for the first time. There were explicit sex scene in the book. I was told that his work is considered literature. Sex and different kinds of sexual...

The last book I bought, which was last week, was the English translation of The Reader originally written in German by Bernhard Schlink.
The reason I bought it was that Kate Winslet won an Academy...

I read The Awakening very quickly once last year, and it is a book that I want to re-read. I don't know exactly what "novel of manners" means, and looking at its definition in Wiki, I do not think...