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So you're given a list of books from which to choose those you want to know more about... Larry Send a noteboard - 30/01/2011 04:13:47 AM
Conrad, Heart of Darkness

James, The Portrait of a Lady

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Boccaccio, The Decameron

Beckett, En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot)

de la Barca, La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream)

Plato, The Republic

Mills, Political Writings (omnibus)

Calvino, Il barone rampante (The Baron in the Trees)

Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

Morrow, The Diviner's Tale

McDermott, Never Knew Another

Conrad, Lord Jim

Gurney, The Hittites

Bloom, Flight to Lucifer

Gardiner, The Egyptians

Cook, The Persians

Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Conrad and Ford, The Inheritors

Browning, The Poems of Robert Browning

Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

Ramuz, Jean-Luc persécuté

Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales

Hunt, Across Five Aprils

Saggs, The Babylonians

Aira, Los fantasmas (The Ghosts)

Harman, Towards Speculative Realism


I posted this list in a poll on The OF Blog. Voters could select as many of these works as they desired and I agreed to choose the top 3-5 and review them in the next couple of weeks. Thought I'd put it up here and see if the choices would be mostly the same or different. And if they are different, I'd review those works here as well.

So...which interest you?
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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So you're given a list of books from which to choose those you want to know more about... Larry - 30/01/2011 04:13:47 AM 1314 Views
That looks like pretty standard fare stuff. No offense intended. Ghavrel - 30/01/2011 06:51:09 AM 1043 Views
I'm mostly revisiting books I read in my late teens to mid-20s Larry - 30/01/2011 07:42:48 AM 1071 Views
The themes may improve. His inability to form any sort of coherent style likely will remain. Ghavrel - 30/01/2011 08:55:10 PM 977 Views
I disagree. Quite strongly, actually. *NM* Larry - 30/01/2011 09:10:34 PM 503 Views
Well, you're entitled to be wrong. *NM* Ghavrel - 30/01/2011 09:24:55 PM 481 Views
These ones: Rebekah - 30/01/2011 01:07:58 PM 1076 Views
Don't choose Gurney! Tom - 30/01/2011 02:23:14 PM 1068 Views
It certainly was the worst of the four Ancient Empires books *NM* Larry - 30/01/2011 04:18:53 PM 472 Views
I'm just intrigued by someone writing about the Hittites. *NM* Rebekah - 30/01/2011 07:15:00 PM 468 Views
There is a much better book on the Hittites, though. Tom - 31/01/2011 02:11:03 AM 929 Views
I think Camilla ought to read Flight to Lucifer Larry - 30/01/2011 04:42:32 PM 1031 Views
I am doing very well pretending Bloom does not exist Camilla - 30/01/2011 06:54:24 PM 906 Views
You might like his novel, though Larry - 30/01/2011 07:03:09 PM 896 Views
Re: You might like his novel, though Camilla - 30/01/2011 07:12:30 PM 1025 Views
Not too badly Larry - 30/01/2011 07:21:03 PM 890 Views
S'why I chose it. *NM* Rebekah - 30/01/2011 07:15:29 PM 539 Views
Ha! *NM* Larry - 30/01/2011 07:20:23 PM 503 Views
Okay. Legolas - 30/01/2011 01:13:24 PM 980 Views
The number of votes for Chaucer is curious Larry - 30/01/2011 04:41:37 PM 1059 Views
I find Chaucer less interesting than Boccaccio *NM* Tom - 30/01/2011 06:50:44 PM 516 Views
I'm divided on the two Larry - 30/01/2011 07:02:32 PM 938 Views
Well... could be an international readership? jh - 30/01/2011 07:38:51 PM 1002 Views
Very possible, considering 1/3 or so of the blog's readership isn't Anglo-American *NM* Larry - 30/01/2011 09:11:26 PM 481 Views
Re: Very possible, considering 1/3 or so of the blog's readership isn't Anglo-American DomA - 30/01/2011 11:04:11 PM 920 Views
There is that as well Larry - 02/02/2011 03:52:40 AM 1046 Views
Re: There is that as well DomA - 02/02/2011 11:57:26 AM 1207 Views
Very true. *NM* Legolas - 30/01/2011 09:12:46 PM 491 Views
Re: So you're given a list of books from which to choose those you want to know more about... Napoleon62 - 30/01/2011 08:02:49 PM 1608 Views
Well, at least two of those will be reviewed, it seems. Larry - 02/02/2011 03:53:28 AM 1056 Views
Hm. nossy - 30/01/2011 09:35:18 PM 1339 Views
Heathen! Larry - 02/02/2011 03:55:46 AM 1158 Views
Beckett, Boccaccio, Calvino. *NM* Stephen - 30/01/2011 10:29:38 PM 636 Views
Re: So you're given a list of books from which to choose those you want to know more about... DomA - 30/01/2011 10:31:09 PM 1214 Views
Re: So you're given a list of books from which to choose those you want to know more about... Camilla - 31/01/2011 09:41:16 AM 1058 Views
I've read one Vian book Larry - 02/02/2011 03:50:16 AM 1386 Views
Hmm ... The_Muted_Grimaud - 31/01/2011 12:20:37 AM 1321 Views
Re: So you're given a list of books from which to choose those you want to know more about... Sir Tybalt - 31/01/2011 03:44:01 AM 983 Views
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