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Groups75 Books Challenge for 2009, 75 Books Challenge for 2010, Scottish LibraryThingers, What Are You Reading Now?

Favorite authorsThomas Hardy, John Steinbeck, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain (Shared favorites)

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Real nameSteve Clarke

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Member sinceAug 3, 2009

Currently readingCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Harper Perennial Modern Classics - The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Vintage Classics) by Haruki Murakami

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Classics) by Leo Tolstoy

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The Ultimate Guide to the Munros, Volume 4: Cairngorms South by Ralph Storer

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A Taste for Death by Baroness P. D. James

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An Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

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Rogue Moon (S.F. MASTERWORKS) by Algis Budrys

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Sense and Sensibility (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen

Hello, and belated thanks for adding me as an interesting library

Just had a look through yours, and have to concur on many of your star ratings(notably The 'Caine' Mutiny and *ahem* Jonathan Livingston Seagull!)

Happy reading

Jayne

posted by jayne_charles at 3:10 am (EST) on Dec 22, 2010

Congratulations on your hot review listed on today's home page.

posted by Whisper1 at 10:32 am (EST) on Feb 15, 2010

What a wonderful review of Silas Marner! That is one of my favorite books of all time, and it disappoints me that so few people seem to appreciate it—what have high school English teachers been doing to make it so distasteful for their students? I had never thought of it as a response to the popular poor-to-rich stories of the time, but really it is! Thanks for adding another insight to my reading of this old favorite. :)

posted by ncgraham at 10:45 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2010

Steve, I've been racking my brains for a book that hit all your categories, but sadly, between the P and the war books, I just couldn't manage it. However, I did come up with one that hits for sure 4 categories, plus being my favorite nobel prize winner.

Gao Xingjiang's SOUL MOUNTAIN. It's gargantuan, Chinese, a nobel prize winner, I haven't snooped your library thoroughly but I bet you haven't read it. I was hoping it didn't have 5 reviews, but over 1000 LTers have read it and 16 of them took it upon themselves to write reviews! He lost the MSS somehow or had to leave it behind and rewrote the whole thing in Paris.

It is a book that requires patience. It's very very Chinese, I think. Unfolding. Not for impatient readers. But you don't strike me as that sort.

I went to this bother because your list struck me. Oh, and a great great war book, very short, is James Jones' The Thin Red Line. I read it long ago, in my twenties, but it made a big impression on me and has the virtue of not being From Here to Eternity......

posted by sibyx at 11:44 am (EST) on Feb 10, 2010

Hello Steve! Thank you for adding me as your (apparently first!) interesting library. Quite a compliment!

I'm awaiting with bated breath your rating of "Silas Marner". Anyone who gives de Maupassant 5 stars and "Dracula" 2-1/2 stars has a definite literary vision. I look forward to seeing it revealed as time passes.

Inverness...that's in Cornwall, right? Where Arthur was conceived...? (Joking, just joking!)

Cheers, see you round the Thing,
RMD

posted by richardderus at 10:27 pm (EST) on Jan 20, 2010