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Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates
Read this around 4 years ago.
51: cafepithecus >> I hope you enjoy Beasts. It's dark but I found it hard to put down. Liked it a lot.
... thing, and the police/family believes another.
I should probably read something light after that one, but I also have Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates out from the library. It's a pretty short book. ... alls
2004 Take Me, Take Me With You
2003 Rape: A Love Story
2003 The Tattooed Girl
2002 I'll Take You There
2002 Beasts
2001 Middle Age: A Romance
2001 The Barrens
2000 Blonde
1999 Broke Heart Blues
1999 Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon
1998 My Heart Laid Bare
1997 ... Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates. Read a couple of years ago. ... paper, taking down names of books that you have read that sound so interesting.
I gotta say that I really want to read Beasts. It sounds amazing(well amazing in that depressing, bleak Joyce Carol Oates kind of way).
And a belated congrats on reaching 75!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! Very Cool.
... ... The Interpretation of Murder. Can't put it down! Great! Not at all what I expected! (actually finished now)
I have Beasts, Joyce Carol Oats and The Crime Writer, Gregg Hurwitz, going right now. 1. Books based in England
Consequences by Penelope Livey underway
2. Books by Joyce Carol Oats
Beasts will be first.
3. Books based in Massachusetts
4. Mysteries
The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg begun. I may end up changing the category, depending on how it evolves.
5. Crime D ... ... Dance Dance, by Haruki Murakami (2)
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami (1)
Beasts, by Joyce Carol Oates (1)
The Secret Books of Venus I and II, by Tanith Lee (4)
A Bed Of Earth (The Gravedigger's Tale), by Tanith Lee (4)
... and was wondering about including "the" in spite of philosojerk's message. But, once I got started, it was easy....
Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates
Vox by Nicholson Baker
Think by Michel R. Legault, which was a response to
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Cod by Mark Kurlansky
Finn ... Unfit to Practice
Old Filth
The Clown
Beasts
Poor Cow
Ragged Dick
Wicked
The Possessed
The Know-it-All
Son of a Witch
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
Beasts
The Phantom of Manhatten
Mister Sandman
Porcupines and China Dolls ... Dance, by Haruki Murakami (2)
4. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami (1)
5. Beasts, by Joyce Carol Oates (1)
Cod
Alligator
Giraffe
Beasts
Awakening
Restlessness
Fury
Wicked
Cocksure
Snow
Seeing
Blindness
Away
Rerun
Distance
Reconciliation
Unstolen
Intimacy
Limitations
Rockbound
Faithful
Couples
Sideways
Self
Housekeeping
Call ... ... that I very much enjoyed! The novel is full of compelling characters and situations that are very real. Lovely!
5. Beasts, by Joyce Carol Oates
Dark, sensual, gothic, obsessive, rich, bestial, lyrical, addictive... Joyce Carol Oates amazes me with her vivid and compelling prose! C ... ... five books that you chose because of the author; five because of the subject and five because of the title.....
Author
Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Everything You Know Zoe Heller
Spadework by Timothy Findley
How to Be Good by Nick ... ... early 80s and I just couldn't get into her novels. Life was certainly different for me back then. Off the top of my head Beasts was a small gothic novel I read, more recently was Rape: A Love Story which I thought quite horrible and quite a powerful meditation on justice. I'm picking up a ... ... that was why), but recently I've found Rape a Love Story to be compelling and thought-provoking (also brutal). I read Beasts a while back also. There are others I will some day get to...
I have If Today Be Sweet on the kitchen table. It came to the bookstore signed to me so they ... 20. Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates
My review:
The best thing about this book was its brevity - only 138 pages long and thankfully so.
This is the story of a college student's journey into an obsessive relationship with her professor and his wife.
It wasn't very well-written; their ...
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