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There were only seven in that period I rated 4 star or better so, in no particular order:
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Farthing by Jo Walton
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King 56) (25) Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad - another good one. I might have to give up Lord Jim. I just don't think I can focus enough on the book and I seem to have to look up every other word. ...
The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud by Julia Navarro
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison by James Riordan Rereading Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. It's on the nightstand for late-night reading. I used it in a game here on LT and realized that it's been 34 years since I read it and very little is fresh in my mind.
Reading Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.
Still listening to H.M.S. Surprise by P ... Lord Jim ? I just read Lord Jim. It has a well written ending that makes the sluggish parts worthwhile. I'm still reading Lord Jim. It's really dragging on but for some reason I'm not ready to give up on it. And I bought 6 books and still have 40-ish on my bookshelves, so I'm thinking of starting an Agatha Christie book or maybe Les Liaisons Dangereuses. ... that reeeeallly slowed me down). Of the lot, these were the best.
1. The Grasshopper Trap--Patrick McManus
2. Lord Jim--Joseph Conrad
3. Me and Emma--Elizabeth Flock I am just curious how they do the weighted most commonly shared book. I know at least three of us have Lord Jim and several of us have To kill a Mockingbird and yet they don't appear on the list. 65. Lord Jim--Joseph Conrad
A very interesting study in character development and personal ideals of courage and nobility. At first the book was not intriguing. It seemed to lack any real direction and the author was being seemingly overly dramatic about issues and gestures that today ... #104 I didn't enjoy Lord Jim until the last part of the book. Then it all came together and made all the of the first part interesting as well. I can't wait to get hold of Heart of Darkness now. I cannot believe I overlooked Conrad all these years! ... O'Brian
54) The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury
55) (24) The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
56) (25) Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
57) Superior Saturday by Garth Nix
58) (26) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
< ... Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad ... > Oklahoma, you've made me jealous. Imagine having all of Conrad to read for the first time again! I hope you're enjoying Lord Jim. I know Conrad doesn't resonate with everyone, but for me he stands with those authors who represent the peak of the reading experience. I'm nearly through Lord Jim. It's my first Joseph Conrad. ... Heart of Darkness is one of the most prescient tales I've ever read. End of the Tether, Youth, Almayer's Folly, Lord Jim, Nostromo. . . the list just goes on and on: all books I've read more than once.
... lit, but, as a female, I find it impossible to find anything in Conrad to relate to. I tried numerous times to slog through Lord Jim, but it wasn't happening. Don Quixote
Lord Jim
Saint Maybe
Prince Caspian
Sister Carrie Probably time for a clue...?
(I inadvertently googled it, so I'm out of the running: I thought it must be Lord Jim, but of course the Malabar in Lord J is an hotel, not a ship...) I'm still reading Lord Jim and World's Love Poetry. Also started A Briefer History of Time because it's due back at the library soon-ish. A search on "Jim" gave 10,060 hits. Includes authors and series titles. Top of the list was Lord Jim ... I haven't quite managed to get into yet. I've tried a couple of time and will defeat it one of these days. I did read Lord Jim, which I thought was okay.
On the Bible*, Sandydog, color me impressed. I'm all for knowing the Bible since, as you said, it factors into so many other works, ... ... blah. About as relevant to me as the inner life of an amoeba, all the same. I've ranted elsewhere about my struggle to read Lord Jim. Ugh.
But the choices made by the Bennett girls were vitally important, not only for their own lives, but for the lives of their sisters and parents and ... ... account of shipwreck off western Scotland. Then there are Joseph Conrad's novels, most of which are steeped in the sea: Lord Jim and the short The Secret Sharer are two favourites of mine.
The non-fiction shipwreck story that most impressed me was Endurance, about Shackleton's ... ... on the Mississippi
The Education of Henry Adams
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Nostromo and Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth
Kokoro
Works by Robert Frost
Stories by Chekov and Lu Hsun
Zuleika Dobson
Stories by Joyce and Portait ... ... the Artist as a Young Man
Maurice
Moby Dick
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tom Jones
Island of Dr. Moreau
Lord Jim
Around the World in Eighty Days
Madam Bovary
Modern Classics:
Brideshead Revisited
The Bell Jar
The Jungle
Bridge of San Luis Rey ( re-rea ... So far, I've read Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. I just couldn't get into them, and Nostromo made me want to beat my head against a wall until the last 100 pages or so (when things start to happen). I recognize his ability as a writer - I suppose I just didn't much like his ... Lord Jim
Einstein:His Life and Universe
The Sound and the Fury
A Land So Strange
Palaeoepidemiology:The Measure of Disease in the Human Past ... anything by Danielle Steel. Worst best-selling author ever. Barbara Cartland wrote better books!
Could not finish Lord Jim despite three attempts. Ugh. Women seemed completely irrelevant, and I'm a woman, so--I'm pretty sure that's not the only reason.
Let me add most of the ... I'm surprised that Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim isn't on this list, seeing as it's the 1900 representative that has survived on high school and college lit reading lists.
Still an interminable novel, though. Lord Jim, Typhoon and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ... and Edited by Jeffery Henderson.)
Heart of Darkness & The Secret Agent (2 novels in 1 volume) by Joesph Conrad
Lord Jim by Joesph Conrad
I will add more as I read them and as I determine the other books I plan to read this year.
Conrad's Lord Jim plays around with the contrast between secular and mythical time. Hard to escape the former, no matter how attractive the latter. #204 I got lucky--did not have to read The Secret Agent. I did, however, get stuck with Lord Jim.
Another bad class experience was having to read a series of Melville's short stories. I learned more than I ever wanted to know about guano. ... times - she's the one who told me it was really good, but I haven't read it myself. We've read Benson's SF as well (Lord of the World and The Dawn of All), but it's been such a while ago I can't really remember much about them. ... a beginning, middle and end:
Candide, ou L'optimisme
Jonathan Wild
Typee
Omoo
The master of Ballantrae
Lord Jim
David Copperfield
B. Those that don't, but also happen to be great, great classics that you can't put down until you've finished and then you wish there had ... knightkrm, I've not read Lord Jim so I cannot comment, I'm sure there are others who have and can!
I would be interested in what books in English you are required to read in your classes though. Did you choose Lord Jim or what it required of everyone to read? ... makes a good collectible book. A leather-bound edition of The Firm isn't as collectible to me as the cheapest edition of Lord Jim, but a fine edition of a great book will do things to most of us.
3. What is it about an author that makes them your favourite?
Truth in content and ... thorold,
Hm. . . well it IS Lord Jim!
The island references the island where he went after the disgrace when other jobs weren't enough to escape his infamy. There he met a woman (Jewel). When the raiders land and are driven off, the leader's son (Dain) is killed. That's why they seek ... Hmm - the first two clues are shouting 'Lord Jim' at me, but I don't think I can make it fit the rest...
... dangerous title
The Bereaved Parent by Harriet Sarnoff Schiff - excellent book!!
Putting Parents at Ease by Jim Fay
You can analyze handwriting - people get paranoid about this one
Coping with Difficult People by Robert Bramson - I don't know any difficult people, not ... Lord Emsworth and others by P.G. Wodehouse
Lord Mullion's secret by Michael Innes
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Lords and ladies by Terry Pratchett
Lord Hornblower by C.S. Forester
... by Evelyn Waugh
53. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
54. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
55. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
56. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
57. The Magus by John Fowles
58. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
59. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
THE O ... Go easy on me - I Am Not A Librarian (s).
Just added to my catalog Storm Front by Jim Butcher, the first Dresden Files title. I always try to use LOC for source for adding books... Got a very strange LOC number :
CPB Box no. 1853 vol. 11
This looks nothing like the typical LOC ... My favorite authors are George R. R. Martin, J.R.R Tolkien, J.K Rowling, Jim Butcher, Paul Kearney, Nina Kirki Hoffman, John Moore, Graham Joyce.
PS: None of the touchstones added have ANYTHING to do with the authors I mentioned - haha! ... – The Age of Innocence (own)
2003: F. Scott Fitzgerald – This Side of Paradise
2003: Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim
2004: H. G. Wells – The Invisible Man & The Island of Dr. Moreau (own)
2004: Willa Cather – My Antonia (own)
2004: W. Somerset Maugham – ... ...
A Town Like Alice - 1995
War of The Worlds / The Time Machine - 2005
The Wind in The Willows - 1993
In regard to Lord Jim and The Magnificent Ambersons -- per my previous posting, I do not have these books, but I have seen them, and I can confirm that they do exists as part of the Re ... ... be quite interested to know the ISBNs and release dates of the following titles on your list:
How Green Was My Valley
Lord Jim
Lorna Doone
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Moon And Sixpence
The Thirty-Nine Steps / Greenmantle
Three Men in a Boat / ... ... engine, and yes they are from the Australian series. The books I have been having trouble locating are as follows:
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I have seen these three missing books ...
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