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  1. 11-30-2009, 03:29 PM #1
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    What did-we read in November ?

    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
    ...As a moth mistakes a bulb
    for the moon, and goes to hell...

    -Tom Waits-
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  2. 11-30-2009, 03:50 PM #2
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    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
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  3. 11-30-2009, 04:56 PM #3
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    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
    What are regrets? Just lessons we haven't learned yet - Beth Orton
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    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
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  5. 11-30-2009, 05:13 PM #5
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    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!
    If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
    -W.Blake
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  6. 11-30-2009, 07:30 PM #6
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    Only "East of Edan" for Steinbeck and "Toxic Bachelors" for Danielle Steel
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    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.
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    Catch-22
    The Sun Also Rises
    Disgrace
    1984
    Howards End
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    Quiet American-Graham Greene
    The Black Book-Orhan Pamuk (Still reading,it's like a black hole more than a black book to me)
    The Painted Bird-Jerzy Kosinski
    A Phantom from the East - Pierre Loti
    While you live your life, you are in some way an organic whole with all life. But once you start the mental life you pluck the apple.You've severed the connexion between,the apple and the tree:the organic connexion. And if you've got nothing in your life but the mental life, then you yourself are a plucked apple...
    You've fallen off the tree.
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    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.

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
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  11. 12-02-2009, 10:52 AM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barbarous View Post

    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
    While you live your life, you are in some way an organic whole with all life. But once you start the mental life you pluck the apple.You've severed the connexion between,the apple and the tree:the organic connexion. And if you've got nothing in your life but the mental life, then you yourself are a plucked apple...
    You've fallen off the tree.
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  12. 12-02-2009, 11:01 AM #12
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    Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
    Of Wolves and men, Barry Lopez
    American Widow -- Alicia Torres
    Watchmen -- Moore/Gibbons
    “Oh crap”
    -- Hellboy
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  13. 12-02-2009, 11:43 PM #13
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    Regeneration - Pat Barker
    Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare
    The Payback - Mike Lawson
    Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
    4th of July - James Patterson
    Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
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    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
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    I didn't get much read this month.

    The Faerie Queene Books 1 and 2 by Spenser
    The Fall by Camus
    "If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
    - Margaret Atwood
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