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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie – 1926 Posted by guillermo maynez on 1/7/2014, 12:05:35 After a half-year reading mainly about WWI, and then “Du Cote de chez Swann”, I took a break and read...
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Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell – 1848 Posted by guillermo maynez on 26/3/2013, 14:29:41 Well, I did finish “Mary Barton” and I enjoyed it, though that may respond to my liking for Victorian fiction, a k...
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The Maias – José Maria Eça de Queirós
Depicts the rise and fall of an upper-class Portuguese family, with all the pathos, humor and satire that characterize this brilliant author.
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The Lover – Marguerite Duras
The Lover – Marguerite Duras – 1984 Posted by Joffre on 23/8/2010, 22:26:52 I like the tone of The Lover. I sometimes say that of books, but this time I actually do have a descriptive word. I find the tone intimate....
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The Lost Steps – Alejo Carpentier
The Lost Steps – Alejo Carpentier – 1953 Posted by guillermo maynez on 4/9/2013, 12:56:38 I finished this last night, and as I read I was thinking about what a pity it is that it took me so long to discover t...
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Lanark – Alasdair Gray
Lanark – Alasdair Gray – 1981 Posted by Joffre on 1/11/2015, 15:47:54 Anyone read Alasdair Gray’s Lanark? Any reason not to read that on Kindle? I’m reading Morrison’s Song of Solomon now. I just s...
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Jin Ping Mei / The Plum in the Golden Vase / The Golden Lotus
Jin Ping Mei / The Plum in the Golden Vase / The Golden Lotus – c. 1368–1644 (Translated by David Tod Roy) Posted by Joffre on 29/4/2013, 12:28:09 Maybe some of you have already noticed. I just saw that the final volume o...
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Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë – 1847 Reviewed by: Barb Bowling Date: 6 November 2006 If you haven’t read this Gothic tale, you should. I first read this as a romance when I was sixteen and loved it, reread ...
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell – 2010 Posted by Steven on 30/10/2012, 14:07:43 Much of the novel takes place in Dejima, an artificial island in Nagasaki harbor. There is a very nice Wikipedia...
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Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace – 1996 Posted by Robby McMahan Honest, lovely, smart. David Foster Wallace was the 800-pound gorilla of his generation of writers, could do whatever he wanted and proceeded to do...
