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Book 2:Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Not the best book I've ever read but, well, at least it was much better than the previous one.
Book 3:Wild at Heart The Story of Sailor and Lula by Barry Gifford
Finally! Something I am not ashamed of having read.
Great book choices! "Slaughterhouse-Five" is really interesting and your Peter Pan comment made me laugh. It's funny when we are so used to the commerical Disney versions of things and then see how they are "truly" supposed to be.
Oh Turn of the Screw. What a wonderfully odd book.
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How'd you like Daisy Miller? It's one of those books that most people either LOVE (!!!!) or HATE (!!!!!). What side of the fence did you fall on?
congrats on your first ten! Wasn't Daisy Miller a movie with Warren Beaty in the 70's?
Book 12:The Road by Cormac McCarthy
One of the bleakest and most depressing books I've ever read. Just thinking about the last pages makes me cry my heart out.
Book 15:When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Now I'm ready to start writing my dissertation on this book!
Long time since I posted. Well, I've not been in a reading mood. Just finished (again)
When We Were Orphans
by Kazuo Ishiguro. Is it number 22?
Book 24:Pet Sematary by Stephen King
You see, one day I read a beautiful, poignant novel, and the next I read just crap. I think I've really had enough of the king of crap now, and I've got him out of my system. Now I feel ashamed I've wasted so much time reading this trash.
Book 25:Drown by Junot Díaz
Very similar to How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, but a little bit cruder.
I accidentally deleted Book 11, and now I've forgotten which one it was... Well, never mind,
Wow, You know better than me, Tiffany, thank you!!!
Ok, only 25 more books to go... Will I be able to make it??
Now, second half. Just like me. Had an entire year to read 50 books, but I like reading half of them in just a couple of months.Book 26:
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Gory, violent book. Yet, the character I liked the least was Oliver Twist. He's such a pansy.
I forgot I read this for my Shakespeare class!Book 27:
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Wonderful! It's a shame that Marc Antony is such an ass in Antony and Cleopatra
Book 31:The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories by Carson McCullers
I can't believe how dull and obvious these stories were.
Book 33:La Symphonie Pastorale and Isabelle by André Gide
The first novella had some interesting ideas presented in the corniest possible way. I really liked Isabelle though.
Alex wrote: "Sorry, didn't make it this year."That's okay. You read some excellent and very important books. Now, you can laugh at all those people who talk about those classics when they have no idea what they're talking about.
Yeah, I'm happy about that. Actually, I've decided to read more classics this year. Long, classic books that everybody talks about but nobody has read. In Search of Lost Time, The Idiot, Don Quijote, Middlemarch, among others.
oh, you are brave. I tried to read Don Quijote once...
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Salem's Lot by Stephen King
I'm a little bit embarrassed that this is the first book I finish this year, but hey, I wanted something light and fun (things which I didn't get, however). Now, there lies ahead a year full of more meaty lit.