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The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Quiet American by Graham Greene made me wish to go to live in a country where you have to cope with a very different culture , not only far east as in the book, but also Africa or South America
... Like Alice
487 The Wonderful “O”
494 The Lord of the Rings
495 The Talented Mr. Ripley
496 Lolita
499 The Quiet American
... reading your entire thread and my TBR has grown more than I had planned for today :) You have some great titles here and The Quiet American is one of my favourite Graham Greene novels. Have you read The Heart of the Matter by Greene? That's my other favourite of his.
The Quiet American by Graham Greene (UK, 1955)bobmcconnaughey in Literary Snobs : Harold Bloom: Pro on con? (Sep 10, 2009, 6:05pm)
... ratcheting up the suspense level as the series developed, and serving up intriguing plot lines -> ripping yarns.
The Quiet American , the Russia house, The Translator,the glass palace work well for me. Looking over Bloom's 20thC American Western Canon authors, i ENJOY many more ...
... enough—to make the journey worthwhile.
Tree of Smoke is a Vietnam novel that will bring to mind Graham Greene (The Quiet American is invoked throughout), but also, and perhaps especially, the Robert Stone of Dog Soldiers, two writers who are always concerned with god—what ...
Working Through the List - 1001 Books to Read Before You Die
1 The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
2 The Quiet American by Graham Greene
3 House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski
4 The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
5 An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro
6 Chocky by John ...
... Letter From Birmingham Jail
3. Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
4. Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory and The Quiet American
5. Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook
6. Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward
7. John Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle
8. Robert Caro’s P ...
>76: This is actually my 4th Greene novel, though it seems to be the most 'personal'. Quiet American , Our Man in Havana, and The Power and the Glory are all great books, I have The Heart of the Matter lined up and am eyeing Brighton Rock... when I get into an author I tend to start ...
... The ones I like best are his "political" novels from the mid 50s on. My favorites include, in chronological order: the Quiet American - a prescient take on the American presence in SE Asia; the honorary consul set in Argentina; and The Human Factor based in England and S. Africa. Le ...
29. The Quiet American by Graeme Greene
I was expecting more from this. It is often taught in Australian high schools, and students I know often have a lot to say about it. However, I was disappointed. This was one of those books in which the high point comes and goes in a page and you have to ...
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Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond (Jul 23, 2009, 10:05pm)
... in Time; 1066 and all that
13 Lord of the Rings; a canticle for Leibowitz
15 the Alexandria Quartet; the quiet American
20 be here now - Absences; the structure of scientific revolutions; das capital
25 Limits to Growth - (orig. Club of Rome rpt);Cutting ...
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Thailand - Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski {8/14}
Turkey - The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Şafak {7/20}
Vietnam - The Quiet American by Graham Greene {3/13} {+1}
AFRICA : 12
Algeria: The Stranger by Albert Camus {8/4}
Angola: The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agua ...
... do you like best about this book?
I like novels where western people have to cope with very different cultures, like A Quiet American by Graham Greene or Burmese Days by George Orwell
6. So far, is it better or worse than you thought it would be?
It is as I remembered , but I ...
... fiction - but there's a big difference between the ministry of fear - great title though - and the human factor or the quiet american .
... Progress
Pippi Longstocking
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Purloined Letter
The Quiet American
Quo Vadis
The Reader
... & Michael Herr's Vietnam fictions and/or semi-fictions are classics. Not an American VN book, but Graham Greene's the quiet american is probably the very best of them all. 54 yrs old though. sigh, snickersnee will rule it out on a technicality. I forget - are we talking all fiction ...
... account of rearing wild British animals. Unfortunately things didn't always go altogether right...
No. 28 The Quiet American byGraham Greene 17/08/2009
I'm reading The Quiet American and like it a lot so far. Is Benjamin Button on the list? I'm reading short stories by Fitzgerald right now, but I don't remember it being on the 1001 list.
13--I don't know if I'll finish the list just because Pynchon is included. I had to read The Crying of Lot ...
#59: I read one of Greene's books last year, A Burnt Out Case, but have not yet read The Quiet American . I will look for it. Thanks for the recommendation!
Am reading The Quiet American , which I'm not enjoying all that much... However, I finished One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest last night and that was brilliant.
15. the quiet american , graham greene
don't think i'm going to make it this year - far too busy and no time to read
Greene is one of my favourites! I'd highly recommend The Quiet American , zwoolard. I also really love The Heart of the Matter.
I have only read two: Our Man in Havana and The Quiet American . I liked both of them, but Our Man in Havana was a funny take on the spy novel. Both books were made into movies. That is how I learned about the books.
--BJ
... Dangerous by Mary Balogh
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
... 03/11/09
078. Oh What a Slaughter by Larry McMurtry 03/12/09
079. The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Laxness 03/13/09
080. The Quiet American by Graham Greene 03/13/09
The Quiet American is one of my favourite Greene novels, along with The Heart of the Matter. I remember liking The End of the Affair too, but I read it so long ago that I barely remember, and I was also probably too young to fully appreciate it...I just love Graham Greene in general, highly ...
079. The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Laxness 03/13/09
080. The Quiet American by Graham Greene 03/13/09
The Quiet War sounds like the kind of science fiction I like. I have never heard of McAuley--I see you have read some of his other works. Which would you recommend and what are they about? Thanks.
Finished McAuley's the Quiet War recently. I thought it excellent, if not his best book, one of his best.
Now reading The Quiet War by Paul McAuley, which avaland just finished.
... of me!
Currently, I'm reading an excellent collection of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates and a science fiction book, The Quiet War by UK author Paul McAuley (I have enjoyed a number of his books).
Regarding Greene, I read The Quiet American when I was a TA for a class on the History of Vietnam. Also good was Novel without a Name, for a perspective from the North Vietnamese side.
... Graham Greene is one of my favourite authors so I wanted to chime in with a few recommendations. My personal favourites are The Quiet American (also made into a movie) and The Heart of the Matter. If you're interested in Greene himself, Norman Sherry's biographies are supposed to be excellent ...
... but it didn't have the impact I was expecting it to. Will have to try that again sometime. My favourite Greene novels are The Quiet American and The Heart of the Matter. If you like Greene's work but haven't read those yet, check them out!
yes! The Quiet American was my first Graham Greene, and now he is one of my favorites!
How about Pere Goriot?
I've read The Big Sleep, although it was many (many!) years ago.
Has anyone else read The Quiet American , one of my new all-time favourites I discovered while working my way through the 1001 list!
... generations. This is a young adult book and terrific. I also liked the Graham Greene that I read, Our Man in Havana and The Quiet American . Good luck with your challenge.
--BJ
Edited to try to fix touchstones.
... love, which will be repeated at some stage ad infinitum on Channel Teen!)
And I'm sure my parents can eventually dig up The Quiet American or I shall have to go over with a skip and help them throw things out, as threatened on many occasions. (Depression era children, they have problems with ...
... They also did one of Tipping the Velvet, but imho Fingersmith was much better.
You can have my copy of The Quiet American if you want to give it to your folks.
crimson-tide, I'm glad you liked The Quiet American ! My parents can't find their copy anywhere (I was with Mum when she bought it last summer, so I *know* they have a copy) so I lent Dad The Power and the Glory as that was the only Greene I had to hand that I had read (I'm hanging onto Travels ...
Finished The Quiet American and thought it was a great read. Excellent book all round. Now I'm into Half of a Yellow Sun which is a 1001 bookring (from the updated list). Going by the first two chapters it should be a winner.
Edited to add that the second touchstone is not working atm. He ...
... on my mood in trying to pick one, I'd choose The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Stealing Athena by Karen Essex, The Quiet American by Graham Greene, or Killer Angels by Michael Shaara.
The Road was stark and well-written. The father and son dynamic was brilliant and I ...
... for You to her last month - but as yet she hasn't actually read it . . . (oh dear!)
Next up for me will be either The Quiet American or Postcards from Surfers by Helen Garner, or perhaps both.
... {1/31}, The Glass Bead Game {3/11}, Narcissus and Goldmund {4/16}
4. Greene: The Power and the Glory {3/4}, The Quiet American {3/13}, The Heart of the Matter {5/13}
5. Auster: Brooklyn Follies {1/29}, Man in the Dark {5/2}, Travels in Scriptorium {5/19}
6. Lethem: Moth ...
... be able to knock over AK & nine of her friends in three months.
>47 crimson-tide, I was "lol" at your description of The Quiet American with the oxygen bottle. I love it too - er, the novel, not the bottle - it's one of my absolute faves.
Oh, and lastly, wookiebender (being a fellow New ...
oh...i thought the last remake of the quiet american was v. good.
also liked..the last pride and predjudice (kiera et al) and atonement, ditto.
I've liked most of the Le Carre adaptations.
And one of the very few movies from comics that i've liked was V for Vendetta. Yeah,i know ...
Hey wookiebender, I have a copy of The Quiet American on my shelf. After that recommendation I think I'll go find an oxygen bottle so it can climb up to the top of the pile. ;)
... Skies. Looks like another ripsnorter. But I put it down once I got home to continue reading Mr Greene.
I got my copy of The Quiet American through bookcrossing and I have to say that it jumped instantly to the top of my "best books ever" list. It was just perfect in so many ways. (I'd ...
... the fondest memories of sitting on the shores of a lake in Hanoi with a persistent street bookseller with a pirate copy of The Quiet American which he was trying to offload to me, despite all its pages being out of order!! I thought I'd got rid of him by patiently pointing out every typo & ...
... Art of Death, Ariana Franklin - TAKEN
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The Quiet American , Graham Greene
Selected Poetry, Lord Byron
A Song of Stone, Iain Banks - TAKEN
Song of the Beast, Carol Berg - TAKEN
Strange Cand ...
... Verne.
1001 Books to Read Before You Die: Independent People by Halldor Laxness with honorable mention to The Quiet American byGraham Greene.
Biography/Memoir: The Glass Castle by Jeanette Wall.
Award Winners: I'm having difficulty here but will go with The Ki ...
... by Halldor Laxness - Nobel Prize for Literature 1955
The Road by Cormac McCarthy - Pulitzer Prize Winner of 2007
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
It's been a great year so far, and I have ...
The Power And The Glory - Graham Greene
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
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The Star Thrower - Loren Eisley
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47. Maxfield Parrish: 1870-1966 - Sylvia Yount
48. The Quiet American - Graham Greene
49. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
50. The Stranger - Albert Camus
51. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
The Sanctuary Sparrow by Ellis Peters
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
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... Connelly for your California category. His Harry Bosch mysteries take place in LA and are very good.
I just read The Quiet American . It's a wonderful book, so well written. I hope you enjoy it.
... Band competitions and I was very busy with Band Boosters Treasurer’s stuff.
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
My least favorite book was The Fland ...
... of The Quiet War* somewhere. Can't remember where, though. Strange Horizons?
(* Ha. Stupid touchstones - throws up The Quiet American for The Quiet War. Despite absence of the word "American" (it happens: not every sentence has to have "American" in it :-)) in the title.)
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Thomas Fowler the cynical journalist in Graham Greene novel The Quiet American
I just finished The Quiet American by Graham Greene and found it to be very well written and subtle. I liked it a lot.
... by Paul Auster
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Stone Junction by Jim Dodge
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
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I think The Quiet American caught the spirit of book quite well.
Another one in my opinion is The Prince of Tides even if I read somewhere that Pat Conroy
didn’t agree with Barbra Streisand about the script and left. Instead , always in my humble opinion,
Barbra Streisand did a good work ...
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
... didn't particularly like it either.
I'm reading Midwife of the Blue Ridge, an ARC and think I'll really enjoy it.
The Quiet American and The Watercooler Effect are probably next - the first is for bookclub and the second is an over-due ARC.
... was in high school long years ago. I would like to do some historical detective work myself! To the Spy category, I added The Quiet American by Graham Greene. I wanted to read this after seeing the movie and I liked it.
I see that my poetry and science/exploration categories need some ...
... Also, I liked how things threaded throughout the whole book. I will read some more Rushdie, but only after a break.
47. The Quiet American by Graham Greene. I wanted to read this book because I had seen the movie. I did like the book, although not as well as Our Man in Havana.
48. ...
57) The Comedians by Graham Greene--This reminded me a lot of The Quiet American , except more complex and, I believe, more interesting. I also learned about Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, which I almost couldn't believe actually existed. One of the best Greene novels that I've read.
Slowly but surely getting through my list, 3 more read:
Graham Greene's The Quiet American . Written in the mid-Fifties when it was France's Vietnam war, a short novel narrated by a cynical/realistic English journalist about his relationship with a naive/idealistic American CIA operative. Very ...
I finished The Quiet American and have finally started Bleak House. I think that I will be reading this one for quite a while!
--BJ
... the Chamber of Secrets, both for the second time, both to my five-year-old daughter. I've also read Water for Elephants, The Quiet American , Wicked (not that good), Guests of the Ayatollah, Anna Karenina, The Kite Runner, White Teeth, Will in the World, All the King's Men (one ...
... of the best novels about a local paper.
War correspondents - wouldn't that be Scoop again? Or Graham Greene - maybe The Quiet American ?
I was going to start Bleak House, but decided to read The Quiet American instead.
--BJ
Hot Whispers of an Irishman by Dorien Kelly
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Every Breath You Take by Judith McNaught
Breathing Room by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Night Whispers by Judith McNaught
... Wood by Haruki Murakami
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by E Somerville
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
England, My England by D H Lawrence
... Fforde - after The Eyre Affair
William Faulkner - after The Sound and the Fury
Graham Greene - after The Quiet American
Evelyn Waugh - after A Handful of Dust
Iris Murdoch - after A Fairly Honorable Defeat
Muriel Spark - after The Prime of Miss Jean Brod ...
shootingstarr7 is right. Graham Greene is fantastic. I love The Quiet American .
Our Man in Havana was a great Graham Greene choice, it reads like a "beach" book, but there is much more in it. The Quiet American is still my favorite though.
I just finished the incredibly fun and interesting and long:
9: Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America ...
... C. Masterman.
4. Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene.
5. The 39 Steps and The Power House by John Buchan.
6. The Quiet American by Graham Greene.
7. The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers.
8. Tamar by Mal Peet.
I used to read alot of spy books years ago ...
... eandOnly,
I just read my first Graham Greene book, Our Man in Havana, and I really loved it! I have been looking for The Quiet American at the bookstore but no luck so far. I will be interested to hear what you think of Brighton Rock. By the way, I agree about law school being no fun - ...
I just finished The 39 Steps. I wanted to read The Quiet American next but could not find a copy, so I am going to read If This is a Man by Primo Levi.
--BJ
I really liked The Quiet American by Graham Greene - particularly the contrast between the narrator's cynicism and the enthusiasm and idealism of the aforementioned American.
... soylentgreen23,
I was looking over your list of books (I am only at about 45, myself), and I noticed that you have read The Quiet American . I recently saw the movie and was wondering what you thought of the book. Did you like it? Thanks for any info you have on this book!
--BJ
27) The Human Factor by Graham Greene--My thoughts on this one are pretty much the same as my thoughts on The Quiet American (see #5 above), although TQA had a couple of memorable scenes and THF, well, didn't. It wasn't bad, but I wouldn't recommend that anyone go out of their way to read it.
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... by the end (which came too soon; I think it's less than 100 pages long). Definitely one I want to reread soon.
5) The Quiet American by Graham Greene--This one wasn't nearly as good as I was hoping it would be. This was the fourth or fifth Greene novel I'd read and, as with all of the ...
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7. God's Problem Bart Ehrman
8. The Moonstone Wilkie Collins
9. The Quiet American Graham Greene
10. Possession A.S. Byatt
11. Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote
12. The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
13. ...
The Friends of the Pittsboro Memorial Library are having a book sale. I came home with:
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
We Are Our Mother's Daughters by Cokie Roberts
Naked in Baghdad by Anne Garrels
The Elizabethans and America by A. L. Rowse
Vanity Fair by W ...
... Daniel Tammet
The Road Cormac McCarthy
Pretty Little Mistakes Heather Mcelhatton
The Quiet American Graham Greene
Independent People Halldor Laxness
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart Gordon Livingston
The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett ...
21. The Quiet American by Graham Greene 180 pages ****
Interesting, a good read, and a 1001 read.
21/50 (42%)
6,879/16,000 (43%)
... Cormac McCarthy
October 5 Pretty Little Mistakes Heather Mcelhatton
November 2 The Quiet American Graham Greene
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... The Human Factor. I finally started on it after, oddly, having recently seen and enjoyed the recent film adaptation of The Quiet American .
Well, in the end I decided on The Quiet American which was fantastic. In fact, it was so good I want to go and get the rest of Graham Greene's books. After that a friend lent me Castle Rackrent and The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth. I read the first one which was only 56 pages long, and I'm ...
... very good acting, and an interestingly roundabout way of getting at some current issues. Sort of like a funny version of The Quiet American , if you can imagine that.
dreamlikecheese, how are you liking The Quiet American ? I just finished it. It was my first Graham Greene.
... getting up...) so I'll throw my random guess out now. I'm going down the path of Graham Greene (simply because I'm reading The Quiet American at the moment) and I'm going to say Our Man In Havana
... The Line of Beauty and then last night I jumped feet first into 1950s French colonial Vietnam with Pyle and Fowler in The Quiet American by Graham Greene.
8. The Quiet American
I'm going to have to think about this one for a while.
... I'll be reading next on the list but I suspect Graham Greene might have something to do with it. Brighton Rock or The Quiet American ?? I can't decide...
>94 sanja
How are you liking The Quiet American ? A movie by that name has been recommended to me and I tend to be partial to the books.
Finished Sense and Sensibility. I came home early from work sick, so I started The Quiet American . I like it so far. One thing that I didn't notice when I bought the book is that the price was in Russian. So is the foreword and all the end notes. The actual book is in English though. My Rus ...
Although Graham Greene's The Quiet American is fiction and Neil Sheehan's A Bright Shining Lie is non-fiction they share a major theme: the innocence with which America inserted itself into the affairs of Vietnam in the late forties and early fifties, well before the French disaster at D ...
... Man and the Complete Short Stories.
Has anyone read The Human Factor? Or any of his other "entertainments" like The Quiet American , Our Man in Havana*, or the earlier novels? Which of his short stories also deal with espionage?
* The closest I've come to this one is John Le Carre ...
2. The Quiet American by Graham Greene - a good book, but I wouldn't agree with those who put it in the towering masterpiece class.
Now moving on to Connie Willis' collection Fire Watch.
I'm now about halfway through The Quiet American , a book that I came to with very high expectations.
... by Dudley Barker. This week I should finish up The Warden by Anthony Trollope, and then I will be reading The Quiet American by Graham Greene, Marconi by W.P. Jolly, The Confessor by Daniel Silva, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, and if time permits, The ...
... Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
30. The Collector by John Fowles
31. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
32. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
33. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
34. ...
Picked up a couple at the library today: The Quiet American by Graham Greene and also The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva.
I also received a package today from the Strand Bookstore with a copy of the final book in the WWI series by Anne Perry, We Shall Not Sleep.
... indsey
Up The Down Staircase - Bel Kaufman
The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Comedians - Graham Greene
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? - Henry Farrell
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
... books which belong to my wife, I'm just not interested in them. I have My Country Right or Left by George Orwell, The quiet American by Graham Greene who I just absolutely love. I also have an Interlinear Greek/English New Testament which I use for theological work.
Behind me I ...
I finished The Quiet American which was very interesting.
I'll probably start a Cormac Mccarthy book next, either The Road or All the Pretty Horses
I finished They Shoot Horses dont they? this morning and I decided to read The Quiet American .
Horses was good, not to mention very savage.
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I'll start again:-
Doctor in the House by Richard Gordon
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
Horrid Henry's Big Bad Book by Francesca Simon
Should be a lot ...
I've only read two by him, The Quiet American , which was great (and amazingly the movie was pretty good too) and also The Power and the Glory. I enjoyed Power and the Glory but not as much as the other one. I guess I will have to check out Our Man in Havana
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Doctor in the House by Richard Gordon
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
Horrid Henry's Big Bad Book by Francesca Simon
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The African Queen by C. S. Forester
The Spanish Bride : A Novel of Catherine of Aragon by Laurien Gardner
The Russian Master and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
The English Assassin by Daniel Silva
Good to know you enjoyed The Quiet American , I checked it out of the library yesterday and plan on reading it next, and all the reviews I've read seemed quite mixed.
No TV or Internet the past week led to some good reading time.
24. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Enjoyed the book, I checked it our from the library, but bought the book at the bookstore after I read it. An amazing book to me.
25. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene ...
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Speak Softly, and Carry a Beagle by Charles M. Schulz
... husbands, and both this and The Heart of the Matter center around adultry. (He uses the same theme in a different way in The Quiet American .) Green struggled with his Catholicism all his life, and I think he was asking, pushing actually, the same questions you are asking. On the one hand, he ...
... Lay Dying by William Faulkner
27. Howard's End by E.M. Forster
28. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
29. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
30. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
31. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
32. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hem ...
To me Greene is a hit and miss writer. There are several however that are excellent among which are The quiet american , Our man in Havana- which may be his funniest work, The end of the affair, Brighton rock, The heart of the matter and The power and the glory which with the exception ...
Actually based on Killeymoon bringing up Graham Greene, I'm reading The Quiet American ...
... it up without remembering, later, when the names did mean something. At any rate, it hasn't dulled my desire to read The Quiet American , which I hope to get to this summer.
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