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Sep 22, 2013 06:37AM
Just finished Rebecca. I really enjoyed it!
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Orwell's Burmese Days. Had previously only read his ever-assigned-in-school Animal Farm and 1984. Didn't have any expectations, but still was pleasantly 'surprised'. I now expect to enjoy his other two list entries.
Just finished the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way and In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower.You can read my review .
The Singapore Grip - FarrellVery good historical fiction of the WWII period in Asia.
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Just finished A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.
Tim O'Brien The Things They CarriedDickens A Tale of Two Cities
both excellent!
"Things: A Story of the Sixties" by Georges Perec. It could almost as easily have been written today. Terrific and uncomfortable reading.
"terrific and uncomfortable" ... awesome
i just finished Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway.Meh. Fast easy read, didn't 'float my boat' (groan, I know :o) but I can wee what critics found to like. Still, I say ***.
"A Man Asleep" by Georges Perec. A short read about depression and isolation. It goes well with cake and cigarettes.
I just finished This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. It was incredibly disturbing. My attempt at a review can be found here.
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I know this is not the topic, but I just read that author Tom Clancy has died. He was 66. He was a great writer.
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Lovely short tale. 5/5
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