The library didn't have this one either! This is bullshiznit!
Andre Gide--Fruits of the Earth
Something tells me the library isn't going to have this, either.
249. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
WTF.
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http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Khazars-Lexicon-Novel-Words/dp/067972754X
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Gotta roll the dice!
Wyndham Lewis--The Revenge for Love Never heard of it.
Isabel Allende--The House of the Spirits Already read it. Good book.
E.L. Doctorow--Billy Bathgate Saw the movie. IIRC, Nicole Kidman got naked. Meow.
Hmmm. Good question.
[Counts on fingers and toes and...]
118.
Alright, so I tried reading The Revenge for Love but I couldn't get into it. I picked up a copy of Strait is the Gate as a substitute for The Fruits of the Earth, but then I noticed that it was on the list in its own right, so I never read it.
I think I'm ready to roll again.
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard.
Hmm, I guess it's about time I read some Ballard...
906, Scroll Master Rob.
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Loads of repetition of authors, loads of great books I have read not on the list.
Just goes to show how limited the canon is.
Oh, and, in my opinion, they picked the wrong James Baldwin, should have had Just Above My Head.
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
35. Dead Air – Iain Banks
45. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
46. Fury – Salman Rushdie
54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
153. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
265. Waterland – Graham Swift
358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
499. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
510. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
579. The Outsider – Albert Camus
587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
589. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
742. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
749. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
783. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
982. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (not finished yet)
Weird to see so many translations but ignoring any epic poems which are usually translated in prose.
WTF? Not only have I already read The House of the Spirits, I've already rolled it!
[Shakes die to see if it's loaded]
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
"The Kreutzer Sonata (Russian: Крейцерова соната, Kreitzerova Sonata) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The novella was published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage."
Emphasis added.
Yeah, maybe I'll take my time getting around to this one...
"The Kreutzer Sonata (Russian: Крейцерова соната, Kreitzerova Sonata) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The novella was published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage."
Emphasis added.
Yeah, maybe I'll take my time getting around to this one...
Turns out it took me the rest of the year...
Waterland by Graham Swift
It's gonna have to wait until at least after I read The Jewels of Aptor though.
Aw heck, might as well give it another go.
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The Invisible Man, by H G Wells. Hmm...Or I could watch the movie!
That's a winner!
