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Jack, I've been wanting to read this book, yet still can't get a copy :(.
How is it in your opinion? I mean I know you considered as one of the best books you ever read, but maybe you can share some of the high points..
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Originally Posted by Jack_Aubrey
Nope. Although it is a good book, I was not very moved by it personally.Quote:
Originally Posted by mono
Sorry to disappoint! :D
The Giver by Lois Lowry scared me and also gave me hope that through one person others can have a chance at life.The Perilous Land by Tolkien was enchanting and touched deep into my heart. I loved leaf by niggle.
"faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for though not yet beheld" Holy Scripture.
Regarding my previous post:
Now I have a copy in my hand and I'll read it fast and see whether it can be included in my list for this year :)Quote:
Jack, I've been wanting to read this book, yet still can't get a copy
Fates Worse Than Death - Kurt Vonnegut
He says what he thinks, and describes his father so sweetly.
By the way, anyone care to share about F Scot Fiztgerald (sp)? I know that some of his works are included in the list of best novel ever written.
Hands down I'd have to say Anna Karenina. I can't even remember what all I've read this year though! And that was my fifth read thru on AK, I think everyone should read it!
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Old man and the sea,
As i lay dying,
huck finn,
the sound and the fury,
diary of anne frank, (surprisingly)
the things they carried,
hocus pocus,
slaughter house 5,
ham on rye
and innumerous short stories.
I'm going to have to add to the two I posted about earlier as I've read more since and they would def be included on my "best books I've read this year" list:
Girl With a Pearl Earring
The Traveler
Both fantastic books - I had seen the movie for Girl with a Pearl Earring and still thoroughly enjoyed the book - outstanding - and The Traveler just deals with such interesting privacy issues that it's a stand-out to me.
Just had to add those!
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A while back I re-read George Eliot's Middlemarch,and I enjoyed it even more the second time around. Not only are the characters memorable (especially Dorothea, with her romantic idealism), but the novel is also a commentary on the British society of the time. Yes, it's long...around 750 pages, but it's good reading and (in my opinion) Eliot's best writing.
'Unending Design - the Forms of Postmodern Poetry' by Joseph M. Conte
'The Faber Book of Science'
I just finished "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey. That was a really good read if I say so myself.
I've read alot of good books this year but my favorite has been Susan Kay's ~ Phantom. Without a doubt.
Limiting it to books that were released this year, as I reread a lot and for the purposes of not repeatiing classics everyone has read:
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Vellum by Hal Duncan
Genziah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin
Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land by John Crowley
I also want to mention one book that I did read for the first time this year not published in 2005, and that was Edward Whittemore's sequence The Jerusalem Quartet which was just excellent.