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Amie
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If I can find it! Looks like I'm going to have to buy another copy.
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nicnic
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So I've read 15
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Slow Man by J.M Coetzee
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Dead Air by Iain Banks
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
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Amie
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:44 am Post subject: |
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Now on 18:
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
Perfume - Patrick Suskind.
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Oranges are not the only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
Money - Martin Amis
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick
A Passage To India - E M Forster
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Name Of The Rose - Umberto Eco.
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nicnic
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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What did you think of The Virgin Suicides Amie? I've got it on TBR
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kay
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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Given that there is so much talk on this 1001 books list I've decided to take a look at it. Here's what I read so far (I don't feel like counting  ):
Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Perfume – Patrick Süskind (my thoughts on it)
Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Shining – Stephen King
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote (my thoughts on it)
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell <-- a favorite
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell <-- I absolutely recommend it
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Les miserables - Victor Hugo
Great Expectation - Charles Dickens
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell <-- love it
Vilette - Charlotte Bronte
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Scarlett Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (my thoughts on it)
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray <-- currently reading
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens <-- love it
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
The Red and the Black – Stendhal
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
Emma – Jane Austen
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen (yes I have read everything Jane Austen wrote  )
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
To tell the truth I am a bit disappointed in this list. I didn't like about a third of the books presented above (whereas for example in The Guardian's list of 100 books you can't live without almost all of them were among my favorites). Oh well. Another problem I have (not the list's fault this time  ) is that I read many of them ages ago and so I only vaguely remember what they were all about (but it won't happen anymore in the future as I created my book blog precisely for that purpose ).
I'm looking forward to read more books from this list though as some of them have made very successful movies (not that this is very relevant to the actual book content but I am quite curious about them). Even though I have quite a pile of TBR books already |
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Amie
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Nicnic, I really liked the Virgin Suicides, it was interesting and had a good strong plot. Some things looking back were a bit strange, but it worked while I was reading it. I preferred Middlesex though it just seemed more real and possible.
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eightlegs
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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Unless - Carol Shields
The House of Dr Dee - Peter Ackroyd
The Thirty Nine Steps - John Buchan
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime - Mark Haddon
The Virgin in the Garden - A S Byatt
The Fingersmith - Sara Waters
The Scarlett Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Veronika decides to Die - Paul Coelho
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Added the last one, so 11 now. |
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nicnic
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| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:14 am Post subject: |
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I've read 16 now:
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Slow Man by J.M Coetzee
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Dead Air by Iain Banks
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
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Amie
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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21 now:
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
Perfume - Patrick Suskind.
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Oranges are not the only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
Money - Martin Amis
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick
A Passage To India - E M Forster
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Name Of The Rose - Umberto Eco
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy.
Tess was much less painful than I expected, maybe I'll be able to get into some other books that I thought I never would now.
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nicnic
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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I've read 17 now:
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Slow Man by J.M Coetzee
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Dead Air by Iain Banks
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
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eightlegs
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:50 am Post subject: |
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Unless - Carol Shields
The House of Dr Dee - Peter Ackroyd
The Thirty Nine Steps - John Buchan
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime - Mark Haddon
The Virgin in the Garden - A S Byatt
The Fingersmith - Sara Waters
The Scarlett Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Veronika decides to Die - Paul Coelho
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Sea - John Banville
Just added the last one so that's 12 for me. And my target was one a month so I'm doing ok but I have done several very skinny ones!! |
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Tigerlily
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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I've read 8 books so far:
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Under the Skin - Michel Faber
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (loved it!)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (loved it)
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Amie
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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25 now:
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
Perfume - Patrick Suskind.
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Oranges are not the only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
Money - Martin Amis
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick
A Passage To India - E M Forster
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Name Of The Rose - Umberto Eco
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Life of Pi - Yann Martell
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
Watchmen - Alan Moore
Atonement - Ian McEwan.
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eightlegs
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| How did you find Cry, The Beloved Country? I thought it was a great book, I read it when I was working out in France on a campsite one summer and someone lent it to me. Then, because I could, I swapped for my own copy on RISI and have now lent it to a friend who loved it too. |
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Amie
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I loved it too, it was a real eye opener. I'd like to read more stuff like that but don't really know where to start, so any tips would be great!
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eightlegs
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Not sure I can help! Will have a think and an ask around! |
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Amie
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:52 am Post subject: |
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29 now:
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
Perfume - Patrick Suskind.
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Oranges are not the only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
Money - Martin Amis
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick
A Passage To India - E M Forster
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Name Of The Rose - Umberto Eco
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Life of Pi - Yann Martell
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
Watchmen - Alan Moore
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
I really need to get a life, I'm averaging three books a week right now.
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eightlegs
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Amie wrote: |
I really need to get a life, I'm averaging three books a week right now. |
Sounds like a wonderful life to me!!!!!!!!!!!!  |
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Tigerlily
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I'm impressed!
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jobar
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| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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I have come rather late to this challenge, so I shall see how many of the first 69 for 2000 I have read so far....... 
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