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José Carlos Somoza - La caverna de las ideas (The Athenian Murders)
Mallarme- Poems
Mariama Ba - Une si longue lettre (So long a letter)
Julian Barns - Falubert's Parrot
Jim Crace - Quarantine
purplybob
11-30-2009, 03:50 PM
T.C. Boyle - Tortilla Curtain
Ray Bradbury - A Graveyard for Lunatics
Tom Robbins - Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
Ernest Hemingway - In Our Time
Padgett Powell - Edisto
Mark Helprin - Digital Barbarism
Jane Goodall - Hope For Animals and Their World
Saul Bellow - The Actual
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
neilgee
11-30-2009, 04:56 PM
Have you guys done reviews of these books anywhere?#
I read:
Kieron Smith, boy - James Kelman
Love and summer - William Trevor
Wizard of the crow - Ngugi
Memories of a failed footballer and crap journalist - Paul Hince
All quiet on the Western Front - Remarque
Coriolanus - Shakespeare
maddystewart
11-30-2009, 05:02 PM
Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
and I started The Name of The Rose - Umberto Eco
Barbarous
11-30-2009, 05:13 PM
The Crying Lot of 49-Thomas Pynchon
American Pastoral-Philip Roth
Waiting for Godot-Samuel Beckett
Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
The Golden Notebook-Doris Lessing
I'm also about half way through Wuthering Heights!
Miss Juventus
11-30-2009, 07:30 PM
Only "East of Edan" for Steinbeck and "Toxic Bachelors" for Danielle Steel :(
Dinkleberry2010
11-30-2009, 08:08 PM
I read Poor Folk by Dostoevsky and Persuasion by Jane Austen, and I've started reading Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte and The Double by Dostoevsky.
Catch-22
The Sun Also Rises
Disgrace
1984
Howards End
My name is red
12-01-2009, 12:53 PM
Quiet American-Graham Greene:nod:
The Black Book-Orhan Pamuk (Still reading,it's like a black hole more than a black book to me):redface:
The Painted Bird-Jerzy Kosinski:thumbs_up
A Phantom from the East - Pierre Loti:nod:
Dark Muse
12-01-2009, 10:51 PM
The Road ~ Cormac McCarthy
Emma ~ Jane Austen
A Farewell to Arms ~ Ernest Hemingway
A Living Nightmare ~ Darren Shan
The Fall ~ Camus
Also within a few Cantos from finishing Dante's Inferno which is a re-read.
And read a collection of short stories by various authors.
My name is red
12-02-2009, 10:52 AM
I'm also about half way through Wuthering Heights!
Congrats!Cause,it's a hard job to be about half way through Wuthering Heights!I mean really...i hope to finish it someday:D
The Comedian
12-02-2009, 11:01 AM
Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
Of Wolves and men, Barry Lopez
American Widow -- Alicia Torres
Watchmen -- Moore/Gibbons
Jazz_
12-02-2009, 11:43 PM
Regeneration - Pat Barker
Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare
The Payback - Mike Lawson
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
4th of July - James Patterson
Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
Modest Proposal
12-03-2009, 01:32 AM
Vanity Fair - William Thackeray
The Storyteller - Mario Vargas Llosa
The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
The Red and the Black - Stendhal
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay
The Oresteia Trilogy - Aeschylus
King - John Berger
A Canticle for Lebowitz - Walter M. Miller
The Lover - Marguerite Duras
OrphanPip
12-03-2009, 01:35 AM
I didn't get much read this month.
The Faerie Queene Books 1 and 2 by Spenser
The Fall by Camus
Jozanny
12-03-2009, 07:16 AM
Well, let's see. I have a number of bookmarks, both real and virtual, and to include them all would increase my stress level significantly, but I finished a much needed reread of Wilkie Collins The Woman In White (see the author's list for my thread), started my Library of America collected works of Thomas Paine, but only started, am maybe 25 pages in on Niall Ferguson's Empire, a delightful scholar who makes me feel frisky, and maybe 15 pages in on Vonnegut, who spares us nothing in being lewd and smart in equal doses, but doesn't make me feel frisky, perhaps because he was old and dead by the time I got to Slaughterhouse Five, 15% through a competent but boringly typical Randy Singer thriller, finished a short collection of Tolstoy's end of life novellas, which reconciled me mildly to the greatest Russian mystic, although he is still a PIA (you can figure those caps out) and reread The Man Whom the Trees Loved, which, if I had remembered that I had read it, would not have downloaded, and am in Chapter 4 of Oblomov, not counting my Foucault and Lampedusa bookmarks, etc.
Oh yes, read some H.G. Wells to remind myself why he is not and never will be to my taste, regardless of Speilberg's fairly ambitious adaptation of TWoTWs that makes the novel seem almost the science fiction classic it is supposed to be. I just don't like Wells, or Verne, but Sturgeon-- he is another matter, and rivals the best in the literary genre.
Thespian1975
12-03-2009, 07:55 AM
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde :thumbs_up
Lost Light - Michael Connelly :thumbs_up
Cards on the Table - Agatha Christie :thumbs_up
Sovereign - C J Samson :thumbs_up:thumbs_up:thumbs_up
The Clock Strikes Twelve - Patricia Wentworth :as-sleep:
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