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Reading list 2007

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TheFifthElement
, 01-02-2008 at 02:33 PM (842 Views)
Going with the flow and posting my reading list from 2007. These are the ones I can remember, there may be others but if so I've forgotten.

In no particular order :

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J K Rowling
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Pulp : A Novel - Charles Bukowski
The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Dying Animal - Philip Roth
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Cats Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Memories of my Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Woman and the Gypsy - D H Lawrence
The Flight from the Enchanter - Iris Murdoch
Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
The Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guevara
The Conquest of Happiness - Bertrand Russell
Heroes and Villains - Angela Carter
The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter

Currently I'm reading 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveller' by Italo Calvino - enjoying it very much so far


oops, missed one:

Prince - Ib Michaels

you'd think I'd remember because I quoted it here in my blog : http://www.online-literature.com/forums/blogs/viewblog.php?userid=37531&entry=3488 D'oh!
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  1. Virgil's Avatar
    Oh you just reminded me. I read Slaughterhouse 5 and I forgot to list it. Nice amount of reading by the way. The Woman and the Gypsy is one of the few Lawrence works I haven't read. Any good? And I'm going to try to read Murakami later this month. I've got Kafka On The Shore ready to go. So fifth which was your favorite read?
  2. 's Avatar
    He he, welcome Virgil! The Woman and the Gypsy was excellent, it moved me and I thought about it for days afterwards, I would very much recommend it. Kafka on the Shore isn't the best introduction to Murakami, in my opinion, but then I did read it first and then went on to read his others. Which was my favourite, phew, that's a tough one. The Magic Toyshop I've read many times before and it is my favourite book of all time, but of the others probably Slaughterhouse 5, or I Capture the Castle, or The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. All very different but very excellent.
  3. Countess's Avatar
    Nice list - I've read a number of these already (read alot of Vonnegut in HS - though it's been 20 years since I was in it). Thanks for sharing.