I think I've only read four:
The brief and wondrous life of Oscar Wao
The Road
The Hours
The Old Man and the Sea
I liked them all, but The Hours is my least favorite of the group.
I think I've only read four:
The brief and wondrous life of Oscar Wao
The Road
The Hours
The Old Man and the Sea
I liked them all, but The Hours is my least favorite of the group.
"Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
-George Orwell
Hmm...I have actually seen more of the film adaptations of these than read the books.
My list is probably embarassingly short, but I have read some of these. I guess I will rate them in the other thread.
There are a lot of these that I have wanted to read. So I suppose now is as good a time as any to start some of those.
Originally Posted by PoeknowsProse
I really loved reading The Hours!
Great! The more, the merrier!There are a lot of these that I have wanted to read. So I suppose now is as good a time as any to start some of those.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Oooh I picked that up in a second-hand bookshop a couple of years ago but haven't had chance to read it. Good to hear something positive about it, though, makes me more keen to read it.
I've only read three of the books on this list! That's even worse than on the Lit Net top 100. I've read The Age of Innocence, Gone With the Wind, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Update:
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)
1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)
1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)
1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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You're doing well, Scher! (Stands back and gasps in admiration!) I looked back and your list was nine titles long at the start and now it's nineteen - dedication!
I'd rather forgotten the enterprise, having got waylaid by Somerset Maughan and the Summer Reading Challenge (What Summer Reading Challenge? I hear you ask....) but here's my updated list:
2006 March
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
1999 The Hours
1994 The Shipping News
1983 The Color Purple
1967 The Fixer
1961 To Kill a Mockingbird
1953 The Old Man and the Sea
1940 The Grapes of Wrath
1932 The Good Earth
1921 The Age of Innocence
Now I remember why I bought Beloved ; I bought My Antonia - should have plumped for One of Ours instead.
Kasie, I am so glad that you are doing this as well.
I am mostly a regular reader; don't get to read lots and lots but I read a little every day so it helps me keep going. Also, I place my library requests on the internet so when I get there, I do not get distracted and pick up only those books that are in my list.
I have nominated Beloved for our October reading so maybe we can read it then
While looking that my own list, I realised that I have not done much reading from 1950s 1960s and 1970s. I am hoping to remedy that soon. The trouble is that the library doesn't seem to keep most of those books.
At the moment, I am reading Foreign Affairs, though.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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An update:
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)
1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)
1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)
1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)
1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)
1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)
1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Now that the assignments are out of the way, I am hoping to go back to my regular reading.
So, an update:
2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)
2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)
1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)
1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)
1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)
1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)
1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)
1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)
1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I am having a hard time finding some of these titles :-/
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I have neglected this long enough so I will try to concentrate on the list again. At the moment:
2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)
2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)
1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)
1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)
1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)
1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)
1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)
1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)
1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)
1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I've read a bunch of those.
Reading Junot Diaz right now..I really like it..the style is a good fit for me for my times of lesser concentration. Oscar Hijuelos is coming up next for me on there. (Mr. Ives' Christmas is one of the best books I've ever read, so I'm excited to see how Mambo Kings stacks up)
"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult."
~E.B. White
Are you going to start from the beginning, reverse, or jump around?
Jumping around. I was hoping to read them in chronological order but some of the books are rather hard to find so I started skipping and ended up reading randomly.
I especially love the books up to the WWII. I think I should have lived then (might be already doing so in some ways).
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Update on the progress:
2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)
2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)
1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)
1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)
1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)
1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)
1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)
1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)
1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)
1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)
1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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