What did-we read in May ?

[lupe]

"Congo Journey" by Redmond O'Hanlon (started in April)
"Abel i Lisa" by Vidosav Stevanovic
"The shadow of the Wind", by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie" by Maya Angelou
"Death of a Murdered" by Rupert Thomson

[miyagisan]

Cabbages and Kings – O. Henry
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
East is East – T.C. Boyle
The Metamorphosis – Franza Kafka
Oedipus the King – Sophocles

[*Classic*Charm*]

Far from the Maddin Crowd- Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles- Thomas Hardy
The Old Man and the Sea- Hemmingway
The Tales of Beedle the Bard- J.K. Rowling :p
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams- Wayne Johnston

And now I'm part way through Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics, which is driving me bonkers.

[Stargazer86]

Oh not much

The Maltese Falcon
Beowulf
1984 (I think it was in May that I read it)
Started The Sun Also Rises though i haven't been reading much the past week or so

[Cafe Rob]

Miyagisan, I notice your read The Metamorphosis. I read it some to ago, it's where a guy wakes up as a spider I recall. Franz Kafka is included in those writers known as Existentialists.
I just read Doestevesky's book "Notes from Underground." It's about a guy that wallows in self pity about his past life. The story is reputed to be the World's first existential novel. The book talks about feelings of resentment, and the problem of being unable to move forward. Actually it's a relatively short story. It was included with other stories in a book called Existentialism from Doestevsky to Sartre by Walter Kaufmann

[Hank Stamper]

edward said orientalism
frantz fanon the wretched of the earth
homi bhaba the location of culture
em forster howards end

[Mark F.]

Alcools - Apollinaire
The Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon
The Hawkline Monster - Brautigan
A Confederate General from Big Sur - Brautigan
An Unfortunate Woman : A Journey - Brautigan

[Thespian1975]

The Inimatable Jeeves - P G Wodehouse
Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
Halfway through Nation - Terry Pratchett

[crystalmoonshin]

1. The Game- A.S. Byatt
2. The Willow Pattern- Robert von Gulik
3. Sula- Toni Morrison
4. Island of the Blue Dolphins- Scott O'Dell
5. The Princess of Cleves- Madame de Lafayette
6. Esperanza Renace- Pam Ryan Munoz
7. Martin the Warrior- Brian Jacques
8. Francois le Champi- George Sand

[Mariamosis]

Rider Haggard - 'She'
Robert Louis Stevenson - 'Treasure Island'
Emile Zola - 'The Beast Within'
Kobo Abe - 'The Box Man
Rider Haggard - 'Ayesha: the Return of She'

[promtbr]

Tristram Shandy- Lawrence Sterne
Jacques the Fatalist-- Denis Diderot
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
Wide Sargasso Sea-- Jean Rhys
Twilight/ Moombean Alley-- Stefan Zweig
The Invention of Morel-- Adolf Bioy Casares
The Immoralist-- Andre Gide
Music of A Life-- Andre Makine
The Living End-- Stanley Elkin
Things Fall Apart-- Chinua Achebe
Ghosts- Cesar Aira
Goodbye Columbus--Philip Roth
Barabbas -- Par Lagerkvist
The Beetle Leg-- John Hawkes
By Night in Chile-- Roberto Bolano
Doctor Glas-- Haljmar Soderberg

Looks like a lot because 90% of them were short novels/novellas...

The Makine, Elkin, Hawkes and Soderberg novels were among the top novels I have read. ever.

[mayneverhave]

The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
Poetry - Shelley
Endgame - Beckett
Poetics - Aristotle
Swann's Way - Proust
Poetry - Dryden

[Amethyst2010]

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

[Dark Muse]

I do not think this thread has been started yet, so I will put it up

The History of Love ~ Nicole Krauss
The French Lieutenant's Woman ~ John Fowles
The Hunter ~ David Case
The Burning ~ Estela Portillo Trambley
Has Anybody Seen Miss Dora Dean ~ Anne Lane Petry
The Tooth Shirley Jackson
The Legend of Miss Sasagawara ~ Hisaye Yamamoto
Angels and Demons ~ Dan Brown

[lupe]

Sorry, Dark Muse, I started the thread on Sunday...

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44605

[thelastmelon]

In May I read the following books:

Enhet - Ninni Holmqvist
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Other Side of the Story - Marian Keyes
Handling the Undead - John Ajvide Lindqvist

[ThousandthIsle]

What did you think of The History of Love, Dark Muse? A friend of mine lent it to me, and secretly I have been snubbing it, because I am put-off by the title. (I know, I know... judging a book by its cover.) But I generally respect this friend's intellect and know that there must be a good reason she passed it my way...

[Desolation]

Not nearly as much as I should've...

'The Plague' by Albert Camus
'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoevsky
'Existentialism is a Humanism' by Jean-Paul Sartre
'The Thief's Journal' by Jean Genet
'Beyond Good and Evil' by Friedrich Nietzsche

[Dark Muse]

I had to read it for a class and at first the title made me groan, but I can say it is NOTHING like what the tile would suggest. It was not a bad book, and most everyone who read the book really liked it, including the teacher and she is pretty discriminating when it comes to liteature. I did not dislike it, but there was just something about it, that for some reason I don't know, it just didn't do it for me. I feel sort of neutral about the book.

But it does have some interesting elements to it.

Well maybe the mods can merge the two to together. I must have just missed it somehow becasue I skimmed to see if the thread had been started and did not notice it.

[Page Turner]

The Complete Stories - Kafka
Tortuga - R. Anaya
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Zafon
The Diary of a Young Girl - A. Frank
Best Short Stories of - Dostoevsky
The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
Collected Short Stories Vol. 4 - W. Somerset Maugham

Lupe: What did you think of The Shadow of the Wind? I loved the story but thought some of the wording was a little too flowery for my tastes. I kind of wonder if it wasn't the translation.

[lupe]

Lupe: What did you think of The Shadow of the Wind? I loved the story but thought some of the wording was a little too flowery for my tastes. I kind of wonder if it wasn't the translation.

Page turner, the book was..well, a real page turner, and I'm not surprised it has become an international best-seller. It has a catchy plot which includes history, love, mystery, murder and the magic of books. An easy reading, specially for young people. Nothing too impressive though in terms of writing style and quality; just well writen enough to keep you interested on the story and even make you search of other books that are mentionned. I has a good time reading it. I'd only wish I was 20 years younger, to like it even more...! ;)

[Page Turner]

Page turner, the book was..well, a real page turner, and I'm not surprised it has become an international best-seller. It has a catchy plot which includes history, love, mystery, murder and the magic of books. An easy reading, specially for young people. Nothing too impressive though in terms of writing style and quality; just well writen enough to keep you interested on the story and even make you search of other books that are mentionned. I has a good time reading it. I'd only wish I was 20 years younger, to like it even more...! ;)

Well there's something we have in common. :D You probably already know but just in case, Zafon's The Angel's Game is due out June 16th.

[JimmyRow]

Lord Hornblower - Forester
Lolita - Nabakov
Oliver Twist - Dickens
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde

[grotto]

Therese Raquin, - Zola
Crime and Punishment, - Dostoyevsky
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, - Rilke
Letters to a young Poet, - Rilke