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The Sea, John Banville. Won the Man Booker in 2005. Max Morden, a dilettante art critic returns to the Irish seaside village where he holidayed as a child after his wife dies of cancer. He reflects on his life, and one particular summer when he met the Grace family - father Carolo, mother Constanc ...

Book 98: The Sea, John Banville. Won the Man Booker in 2005. Max Morden, a dilettante art critic returns to the Irish seaside village where he holidayed as a child after his wife dies of cancer. He reflects on his life, and one particular summer when he met the Grace family - father Carlo, mother ...

... that doesn't really make the grade. A blog post on it is in the works and will be posted in a day or two. Just started The Sea by John Banville, who I've not read since reading his Kepler and, I think, Doctor Copernicus back in the 1980s. The Sea won the Man Booker in 2005.

... Lives for a day. Cute and sweet, but not sure it belongs on the list. Next up is Dr Zhivago. I also checked out The Sea on cd. I'm not good at listening to books. I start thinking about other things and then miss important parts. I tried to listen on my commute today, but still zoned ...

John Banville won the Booker indeed for De Zee, not my favorite i must say although i'm not sure if it is due to the book or due to the translation into Dutch. In Dutch it has a very strange use of words.

I gave up on John Banville's The Sea. Just couldn't get into it. maybe it was the time or my mood, but for a Booker Prize winner it just failed to grab me. I guess it is an example of not all books are for everyone. I also finished the YA book Mimus and started listening to the second ...

I'm reading The Sea by John Banville, recommended to me because one of my favourite books is The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney. Only on page 10 but I love it already.

I finally gave up on John Banville The Sea. It was so slow and depressing that I laid it aside for awhile. I picked up A Great and Terrible Beauty and am finding it a fast start. I finished Into a Paris Quartier by Diane Johnson. I enjoyed this nice light travel book. There ...

... candidates: The Siege of Krishnapur by J G Farrell The Famished Road by Ben Okri The Bone People by Keri Hulme The Sea by John Banville True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall In The Countr ...

The Sea - John Banville. Back with another in a mo but I have vistors right now.

43. The Sea - John Banville

Cool, I must read on! Although I'm not really going in chronological order. I've ordered The Sea the Sea from the library; after that I fancy The Black Prince and The Unicorn. Hope you're enjoying the Love Machine! Will pop back to your group pages soon ..

... up: "Galileo's Daughter" - Dava Sobel & "The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh" 7) Prize winners: 8/9 i) The Sea - John Banville (Man Booker 2005) ii) The Road - Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer 2007) iii) Skellig - David Almond (Whitbread Children's Novel of the Year Award & ...

Thank you all for your warm welcome. The Sea sounds interesting. Marcia keeps me very informed!

... Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel & The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh 7) Prize winners: 6/9 i) The Sea - John Banville (Man Booker 2005) *** msg55 ii) The Road - Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer 2007) ***1/2 msg71 iii) Skellig - Da ...

... The Black Swan when I have cleared the deck of a lot of my own books - that might in another year! You might enjoy The Sea by John Banville (Black's real name), but it is an entirely different sort of book (won the Man Booker prize a few years ago).

... but I'm going to have fun trying :) Books read so far: 1. Crystal Rain by Tobias S. Buckell (sci fi) **** 2. The Sea by John Banville (fiction) **1/2 3. Erewhon by Samuel Butler (fiction) ***1/2 4. Howard's End by E.M. Forster (fiction) ***** 5. Alice's Adventures ...

... mystery story, and I wouldn't even categorize it as such. I believe Banville has written another in this genre. I read The Sea a few months ago - almost gave up on that but stuck it out and in the end I had to admire Banville - but his style as Black is much easier to read.

... reading to find out what happened next, so it wasn't one of those introspective-boring-nothing-ever-happens stories (like The Sea. 46. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell **** Esme was an out spoken teenager in Edinburgh and every now and then had a 'strange ...

... I like a lot of your favourites and loved TKAM too - we read it for School Cert English years ago. I haven't read The Sea because it just looks offputting and has never grabbed me, but I read The Untouchable by Banville earlier this year and thought it was fantastic.

I've read two of the 21st C selections recently.... 12.The Sea by John Banville * What to say about this book?? Ok. It's about a guy in I would assume his late 50's who is grieving for his wife. He decides to do his grieving at The Cedars, a house from his childhood summer at the beach. ...

... the ARC/ER program, read it, reviewed it and discussed it. I had never heard of it before. So I guess I need to read The Sea & Elizabeth Costello of which I have not heard anything either. Are they not good? Help me out here. hugs, belva

... the ARC/ER program, read it, reviewed it and discussed it. I had never heard of it before. So I guess I need to read The Sea & Elizabeth Costello of which I have not heard anything either. Are they not good? Help me out here. hugs, belva

... take out a few of the stories to make it better! Oh, what's that you say? It won the Pulitzer for "Best Fiction?" Well, The Sea and Elizabeth Costello won prizes too. Enough said! Coppers, you are easy! ;-) I thought Jim the Boy was beautiful too; I just wondered whether ...

... to gamble? Nancy Mitford The Pursuit of Love Love in a Cold Climate Meh. Iris Murdoch The Black Prince The Sea, The Sea Similar books. I recommend The Black Prince, however, and not The Sea. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands The best book you've never read. The Onc ...

27. The Sea by John Banville I am going to have to admit to giving up on this one, a product of my most recent excursion to the library. It is going back! Many, many books are lauded not because they are good, but because they are pretentious guff in which nothing happens. I thought I could ...

... is online, if you're interested. I actually haven't read any John Banville under his real name - have a copy of The Sea which was given to me by a friend of my mother's, and picked up a copy of Eclipse recently, but just haven't got onto them. He seems to have a reputation for ...

... else. I read The Untouchable by John Banville earlier this year and loved it. It's based on Anthony Blunt's life. The Sea has always looked hard to get into, but so did The Untouchable and it was un-put-downable. I might give it a go.

... the same book I'm in heaven. I hate introspective books with heavy prose and no real plot driving it forward (I just read The Sea ugh).

I had exactly the same reaction to The Sea when I read it last year. In fact, at the end of the year, it won my award for "I Felt Like I Should Have Liked It, but I Didn't." I wasn't a huge fan of On Chesil Beach either (although I usually like McEwan). But Good Omens is moving up on my TB ...

... this book and will of course be reading more Neil Gaiman books and possibly give Terry Pratchett a go too. 26. The Sea by John Banville * What to say about this book?? Ok. It's about a guy in I would assume his late 50's who is grieving for his wife. He decides to do his ...

... 6) The Tooth Fairy - Graham Joyce (999: 4) 7) Candide or Optimism - Voltaire (999: 5) February 8) The Sea - John Banville (999: 7) - Reviewed 9) The Blue - Maggie Gee (999: 4) 10) N.P. - Banana ...

... Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel & The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh 7) Prize winners: 5/9 i) The Sea - John Banville (Man Booker 2005) *** msg55 ii) The Road - Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer 2007) ***1/2 msg71 iii) Skellig - Da ...

Just read The Sea by John Banville. Have to admit I only kept reading this one because I wanted to tick it off the list... and then just to see if anything ever actually happened?! I found this to be really pretentious... followed by a 4 letter word.

I have a few pages to go on Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Next up is The Sea by John Banville and then probably The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James

... Adamson and The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff. This week I am reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett and The Sea by John Banville then I will finally read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

... on the bargain table at a local independent bookshop. Today I got Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman and The Sea by John Banville out of the library. Then I went to the Dymocks closing down sale and got Seeress of Kell book 5 of the Mallorean by David Eddings to complete my ...

When I said the book was boring, I was referring to The Sea, not any of Lawrence's books.

(69) The Sea by John Banville. First of all, I almost gave up on this book about one-third through, but I'm glad I finished it. Banville's style takes getting used to - on every page he used 1 or 2 words I was not familiar with, which of course, hurt my pride and made me feel dumb : ). A ...

29 the sea john banville charbutton in Girlybooks : What Books by Women Are You Reading: JUNE 2009 (Jun 6, 2009, 6:51am)

I've read a few - The Sea, the sea, The Green Knight, The Philospher's Pupil and A Word Child. I think the philosophical points go right over my head, and I sometimes feel like I'm just reading a more intellectual version of the Archers. Lots of middle-class angst that I'm not that ...

tried to read The Sea. boring. tried to read Brideshead Revisited. couldn't get into it. sat in front of bookshelves. stared. sighed. trying to read Billy Budd by Melville. I'm just not feeling anything right now! also reading Tarzan of the Apes and Kidnapped via dailylit

ok, I gave up on The Sea by John Banville. That's...that's just a boring book. It's just boring. And it's summer and I can't be bored. So I've moved on to Brideshead Revisited.

... border="0" alt="Photobucket"> #24: The Sea by John Banville Objectively speaking, I know this is a very well written book. But ultimately I wasn’t able to enjoy this book about grieving, which I ...

YAY SUMMER! I'm starting The Sea by John Banville

... Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel & The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh 7) Prize winners: 3/9 i) The Sea - John Banville (Man Booker 2005) *** msg55 ii) The Road - Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer 2007) ***1/2 msg71 iii) Skellig - Da ...

... Trail From Istanbul to India Who Are You?: 101 Ways of Seeing Yourself Battle Cry for My Generation Athena The Sea

... Smith The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway +21/ 2. Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote +22/ 3. The Sea, John Banville +23/ 4. Wild Swans, +24/ 5. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende +25/ 6. Lucky Jim, ...

... need to revisit in the future. I am eager to try reading Banville as I've never had the pleasure. In addition to having The Sea on my bookshelf, I also have a copy of Birchwood which I came across somewhere. Has anybody read it? I have neither read Keep the Apidistra Flying or Down ...

... Kill a Mockingbird 6) Biography: 0/9 Galileo's Daughter still lined up. 7) Prize winners: 3/9 i) The Sea - John Banville (Man Booker 2005) *** msg55 ii) The Road - Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer 2007) ***1/2 msg71 iii) Skellig - Da ...

Finished The Story of Lucy Gault, which I really enjoyed !! I found it quite dreamy... it reminded me of The Sea, by John Banville which I read in 2007. In fact, on the page for TSOLG it has The Sea as the number 1 recommendation - 'if you liked that, try this'. It was quite unusual for ...

... * 65- The hours * 66- The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay * 67- Life of Pi 68- The corrections * 69- The sea * 70- The blind assassin 71- Never let me go *

Murr, I haven't read anything by John Banville yet. I have his Booker winner The Sea, but I haven't touched it yet. Have you read it? If so, how does it compare to The Untouchable? I have read elsewhere that some think that The Sea is not as good as his other books that were listed ...

I bought The Sea last summer; one of these days I'll get to it... I picked up The Gift of Rain when I visited London two years ago; Foyles had all of the books longlisted for the 2007 Booker Prize on one table. It was very good, it reminded me ...

Add me to the menagerie of readers who didn't warm up to Gilead. Reading it on the heels of Banville's The Sea and Brooks's March may not have been a good thing though. I've picked up Robinson's Housekeeping recently and may have a go at that sometime in the future.

... All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well by Tod Wodicka - an ARC Fool by Christopher Moore - an ARC The Sea by John Banville Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (based on ...

... education programs and should be shot * cough * 31) What is your desert island book? Can't be just one!! The Sea, The Sea would probably fit the island mood. And Cat's Cradle will appease my suicidal tendencies. 32) And... what are you reading right now? Virtual Light. St ...

... inger Watership Down by Richard Adams Mitchell Is Moving by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger The Moonlight Sonata by Giannes Ritsos Filth by Irvine Welsh Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melv ...

... How Late Kingsley Amis – The Old Devils Thomas Keneally – Schindler’s Ark Iris Murdoch – The Sea, The Sea --Nobel Laureates-- Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook Jose Saramago – The Gospel According to Jesus Christ Rudyard Kipling – Kim

... and letters from now on. 12. Read another Booker winner The Gathering and loved it. It was so much more engaging than The Sea. I picked it up because I'd read some of Anne Enright's columns in the weekend paper and was a fan of her writing style. The book didn't disappoint me in the ...

Starting slow, but so far I've read: 1. The Sea, John Banville 2. Consider the Lobster & Other Essays, David Foster Wallace 3. Angler, Barton Gellman 4. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson - wonderful! I had to run out and buy all his other works available in English! 5. The Whiskey Rebels ...

... Cormac McCarthy 16. The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff 17. True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey 18. The Sea by John Banville 19. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 20. Litte Bee by Chris Cleave (Early Reviewer book) Of course this list will continue growing as I add books ...

... De vlieger by Maarten 't Hart 13 Truismes by Marie Darrieussecq 14 Svart krabba by Jerker Virdborg 15 The Sea by John Banville 16 Samlade dikter by Tage Danielsson 17 Röda rummet by August Strindberg 18 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García ...

Finished The sea yesterday, just picked up The Nose and Candide at the local library. Looking forward to reading them!

... year 27. Fantasia--Assia Djebar 28. Do not touch--Eric Laurrent 29. The lizard cage--Karen Connelly 30. The sea--John Banville 31. The shock doctrine: The rise of disaster capitalism--Naomi Klein 32. The scheme for full employment--Magnus Mills 33. Purple H ...

... month I'm reading The immoralist in the original french. Probably going to finish tomorrow. After that it's going to be the sea.

... be for a while!) 6) Biography: 0/9 Galileo's Daughter still lined up. 7) Prize winners: 2/9 i) The Sea - John Banville (Man Booker 2005) *** msg55 ii) The Road - Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer 2007) ***1/2 msg71 Next one up will be ...

... in my TBR stacks, but after about a year, I gave it away, knowing I'd never read it. #18 I was equally unimpressed with The Sea. I wanted to like it, some passages were beautifully written, but it was a real snoozer. #23 I started reading The Corrections but hated it. That was about ...

>18 yeah, I couldn't get into The Sea or Gilead but it might be that I just find older men reminiscing over their lives to be a yawner. Some of you must respond to the hyping of Virago titles, yes? It's out there (cue scary SF-like music). The gushing, the ooing and ahhing. There has to be ...

... in the Last 9 Years 2000:Emotionally Weird, Kate Atkinson read 2001: 2002: 2003: 2004: 2005: The Sea, John Banville read 2006: The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud read 2007: 2008: Bonus - 2009:

... to Have Read Beware of Pity, Stefan Zweig (read) The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster (read) The Sea, John Banville (read) Swann's Way, Marcel Proust - begun, on hold because of a trip, but about to be taken up, again This qualifies ...

... word of warning that you can ignore and others will disagree with: I usually love the Bookers, but found Banville's book, The Sea incredibly boring, even banal, so wouldn't recommend that one.

... sum it up for me too! I've had Ghosts for ages (an ex-library book) and keep meaning to read it, but I have to say, The Sea put me off a little bit...

flissp - I share your feelings about The Sea. I read it last year, and named it "The Book I Thought I Should Have Liked, but Really Didn't." But I did like Christine Falls, which Banville wrote under his Benjamin Black pseudonym.

Msg 11: I picked up The Sea because like you I've never got round to reading Booker winners and thought it was about time. I disliked the narrator though from the start so couldn't really connect with the book, but I can see why it won the prize. It's a very descriptive book, I can't remember ...

... be for a while!) 6) Biography: 0/9 Galileo's Daughter still lined up. 7) Prize winners: 1/9 i) The Sea - John Banville *** Next one up will be Remains of the Day. 8) Plays: 0/9 9) Recommendations: 0/9 Comments, as before flissp in 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : flissp 2009 (Feb 6, 2009, 5:25am)

#54 BDB - my pleasure! 8) The Sea - John Banville 999 Category 7: Prize winners (Man Booker 2005) (1/9) Following the death of his wife, Max returns to 'Ballyless', a childhood family holiday destination with many memories attached. Somehow, I never got carried away by this. ...

4. Just finished The Sea by John Banville. 5. The Granta Book of the American Short Story lent to me by a customer.

... Nicholas Nickleby, and the G K Chesterton selected prose (both are good for dipping in and out of) and have begun The Sea by John Banville. I drove to the coast yesterday afternoon (Southwold), with the intention of using up the rest of my black and white film for my photography ...

... Desai 3. Carry Me Down M.J. Hyland 4. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka 5. The Sea John Banville 6. The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst 7. Small Island Andrea Levy 8. Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 9. The Curious ...

... Toni Morrison, 1978 227. Dispatches by Michael Herr, 1978 228. The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell, 1980 229. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch, 2007 230. Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, 2007 231. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, 2000 232. A B ...

FOUR THE SEA by John Banville Masterfully written story of grief and memory. Full of imagery, rich and unusual vocabulary, complex time lines. I acknowledge the beauty of the book, but can't say I enjoyed it all that ...

Alright, The Sea, The Sea has been added to my TBR list!

>5. Thanks for posting this list, it will certainly help me in deciding which books I want to read. I already have The Sea and Choke on my 2009 list to read.

... Spirits in 2007, but gave up after 100 pages as I just wasn't getting it :( >4. On the other hand, I really enjoyed The Sea. Fingers crossed that The Woman in White is a good one !

>52, Well I loved White Tiger too, so maybe we have similar enough sensibilities for me to say, I wouldn't make The Sea by John Banville one of your choices. I still can't figure out how it got any award, much less the Man-Booker! My favorites: Paddy Clarke Ha! Ha! Ha!, True History of the K ...

This was so much fun, I had to do it twice.... The Sea Ghost Train to the Eastern Star The Shack The Gates of Trevalyan There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled

... feel that way when I've waited a long time to read a 'classic' or prize-winner. For example, I was really shocked that The Sea by John Banville won the Mann-Booker; I thought that was just about the most boring book I'd ever read! So much of my reaction depends on what I'm in the mood for ...

... I'd heard of Banville, but had a feeling it'd sit unloved on the shelf. The cover is kind of spooky, and I'd tried to read The Sea for about 2 minutes and gave up. I stuck it in a pile in my Booknudging thread and Thrin told me it was based on Anthony Blunt's life. I read Miranda Carter's ...

... - For fans of the Mitford series, it's great to have Father Tim back again. I Felt Like I Should Like It, but I Didn't: The Sea by John Banville What fun this was! Thanks for starting the thread, lunacat!

... avoid her other books on the basis of this one, particularly not her fiction. Another one I just didn't really like - The Sea by John Banville. I'd enjoyed one of his other books but not this one.

Great lists! I want to read The Sea, The Road and The Blue Flower myself. Good luck!

... of reading in translation. I may well pick up on some more of the ideas in this thread in the New Year (have my eye on The Sea in particular) but December is going to belong first of all to Doris Lessing; once I've finished The Golden Notebook (hmm, maybe that should be "if I finish", ...

... Club Reads now completed 1. Uncommon ReaderAlan Bennett 2. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor 3. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch 4. City of God - E L Doctorow 5. Book of Lost Things - John Connolly 6. Norwegian Wood - Hanuki Murakami 7. Two Caravans - Marin ...

... I hated the smug characters so much that I wanted something bad to happen to them. Not worthy of a place in the list. The Sea John Banville I quite enjoyed this one, very beautifully written although not much happens at all. Unsure about whether it deserves a place on the list Drop Ci ...

And these are the ones I've read in 2008 since becoming aware of the 1001 Book. Saturday Ian McEwan The Sea John Banville Drop City T. Coraghessan Boyle The Light of Day Graham Swift Choke Chuck Palahniuk City of God E L Doctorow Whatever Michel Houellebecq The Shi ...

... eugenides (pulitzer prize 2003) (20 june-30 june) 3 life of pi yann martel (man booker prize 2002) (21 june-25 june) 4 the sea john banville (man booker prize 2005) (7 june-8 june) 5 the white tiger aravind adiga (man booker prize 2008) (5 december-8 december) 6 gilead marilynne ...

... by Andrea Barrett Man Booker Prize 1.The Gathering by Anne Enright 2.The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 3.The Sea by John Banville 4.The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 5.Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre 6.Life of Pi by Yann Martel 7.True History of the Kell ...

... support the nudges for John Banville and Angela Carter, two of my most favourite authors. If you've not read him before, The Sea is a good introduction to John Banville because it's a little more plot driven than some of his books. Although I tend to prefer the dreamlike reminiscences, self-ex ...

Oh my, I would never call John Banville superfluous!!! I could nudge The Sea, also G, but I think I'll give you a gentle push towards a very fine social study: Estates. And I'll de-nudge Watching the English, simply for being too repetitive! Marvellous list Rachael, by the way!

... better than The Kite Runner, in my opinion. Flossie, I've read a few of your book, but they didn't quite knock me out: The Sea, Scandal of the Season, The Birth of Venus, The Meaning of Night. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont is lovely, if you're not in the mood for something action- ...

... A Thousand Splendid Suns. John Banville is a superfluous and intellectually stimulating writer - but have not read The Sea so cannot nudge that one. I read The Lemur which is his attempt at mystery - not too impressed so not yet tried The Black Swan. So, as I am a fan of dark ...

... Views the Body - Dorothy L. Sayers Katherine - Anya Seton End Games - Michael Dibdin Asking Around - David Hare The Sea - John Banville The Hamilton Case - Michelle de Kretser How to Live Dangerously - Warwick Cairns Ways to Live Forever - Sally Nicholls Julius Winsome - G ...

... over which they have no control. I'm not sure I will ever discover another Murdoch book quite as perfect as The Bell and The Sea, The Sea, my personal favourites, but this one comes close. Then I came across a little book I hadn't heard of before, by an author I didn't know. I'm not sure ...

... by Tibor Fischer Poland - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne Ireland - The Gathering by Anne Enwright and The Sea by John Banville South America Cuba - Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene Argentina, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama - all visited in The ...

... idea, do you mind if I use it too? On the Booker winners: loved The Life of Pi, hated The Gathering and ambivalent The Sea. You can't go wrong with Margaret Atwood - don't think she's written a bad book yet. Looking forward to gossiping through BK.

... of Pi but know plenty of people who didn't enjoy it - I think it is a love it or hate it kind of book. I didn't mind The Sea although very little happens, but I didn't enjoy Saturday or The Gathering at all. Again just a personal preference thing and they weren't very long so not too ...

I haven't updated my Prizes category for a while and this is full but with some overlaps. 1. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch, Booker Prize Winner 1978 (overlap) 2. The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills, McKitterick Prize / Booker Nominee 3. Last Orders - Graham Swift, Boooker Prize Winne ...

... update. Book Club reads 1. Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett 2. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor 3. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch 4. City of God - E L Doctorow 5. Book of Lost Things - John Connolly 6. Norwegian Wood - Hanuki Murakami To read - 2

The Sea, John Banville!

Make a Dent in the 1001 List 1. The Sea by Jogn Banville 2. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre

The Sea, The Sea?

The Sea, The Sea? or The Sea?

... book, even though there's an extremely sad essay called "A Hanging" in it. I hope you enjoy it! Currently reading: The Sea by John Banville; Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski; A Woman's Life by Guy de Maupassant; and The Finishing School by Muriel Spark. Three are from the 10 ...

... of King's works with a great deal of heart in it, as opposed to horrific or scatological references. Currently into The Sea by John Banville and Novel with Cocaine by M. Ageyev--very interesting reading.

... to hear John Banville (OK, actually alter ego Benjamin Black) read from The Lemur last Thursday :-) I have a copy of The Sea on my TBR bookshelf and it's definitely jumped up the list after his comments on his attitude to writing - really a fascinating evening.

... resolution of issues. Okay, I got it, but I didn't enjoy the ride at all. I am, however, greatly enjoying Blaze and The Sea by John Banville. Just finishing up Things Fall Apart, and will read the supplemental essays because of the novel. These three I can recommend, and I haven't ...

I'm enjoying The Sea and should be finished with it relatively soon. I also enjoyed Birdsong, but found The Girl at the Lion D'or more intriguing. I'm also nearly finished with both White Noise and Things Fall Apart. Somehow found myself splitting my reading into a book for the bus, a ...

>7 I love The Talented Mr Ripley! > 2 I also really enjoyed The Sea, how are you finding it ? I've just started Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks.

Reading White Noise by DeLillo and The Sea by Banville at the moment.

... ene Book Club reads 1. Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett 2. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor 3. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch 4. City of God - E L Doctorow 5. Book of Lost Things - John Connolly To read - 3

From christiquc's library I pick The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch. I haven't read much by her but I've liked what I've read. And you rated it 5 stars.

36. The Sea by John Banville I picked this up in a charity shop - I'd heard of it as a Booker Prize winner. It was ok, but left me rather cold. 37. Naive Super - Erlend Loe This was a recommendation from Amazon, based on other books I'd bought and viewed. It turned out to be a great ...

Last night I concluded my reading of The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch which I found very absorbing. Now halfway through Daughters of the House by Michele Roberts - the house is in Normandy in which two cousins, Therese and Leonie, one French and the other English, grow up after the war. As ...

... overlap) 7. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay (overlap)) Read so far: 7 To read: 1 Prize Winners and Nominees 1. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch, Booker Prize Winner 1978 2. The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills, Booker Nominee 3. Last Orders - Graham Swift, Boooker Prize Winner ...

... Palahniuk (overlap) 7. Dearly Devoted Dexter Jeff Lindsay Read so far: 7 To read: 1 Prize Winners and Nominees 1. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch, Booker Prize Winner 1978 2. The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills, Booker Nominee 3. Last Orders Graham Swift (overlap) Read so far: ...

Never Let Me Go Saturday On Beauty Slow Man Adjunct: An Undigest The Sea The Red Queen The Plot Against America The Master Vanishing Point The Lambs of London Dining on Stones Cloud Atlas Drop City The Colour Thursbitch The Light of Day What I Love ...

... it may have entered my all time favourites list. It was poetic, but very real and readable. Highly recommended. 12. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch Read this for an online Book Club. I'd never read anything of hers before but felt I should have. I struggled with the first 20 pages, ...

Yeah, I've put The Sea on my list. There's another Quirke book I want read first, but I'm definitely going to look up his non-Benjamin-Black works.

#113: Just an FYI: The Sea won the 2005 Man Booker prize, not the Orange Prize (which I believe is for women only).

Benjamin Black also writes under the name of John Banville, whom I believe won the Orange Prize for The Sea. I have not read it yet, it's on my pile...apparently a highly regarded writer.

... by Muriel Spark In a Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiuguro The Sea by John Banville Ursula Under by Ingrid Hill The Master by Colm Toibin Fifth Business, The Manticore and World of Wonders (the Deptfo ...

#33, after reading The Sea by John Banville, I've become immune to verbal gymnastics. Nobody loves to throw around their vocabulary weight more than that guy. The Corrections does tend to ramble at times, particularly when it comes to Alfred's musings, but the basic storyline is fantastic.

... Bookstore and bought four books that have won or been listed for the Booker Prize: 1. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan 2. The Sea by John Banville 3. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 4. The Accidental by Ali Smith

... A recent favorite is John Banville, if it's fair to claim someone as a "favorite" after only reading one of his books (The Sea). I do want to read more of his books, and that's always a good sign. His writing is beautiful.

... Hay Fever, Private Lives by Noel Coward 5)A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro Honorable Mention goes to The Sea by John Banville

... en: The Poisonwood Bible - I'm going to have to read more on Africa I think A Passage to India - racial tension The Sea - lots of big descriptive words, little story, boring To Have and To Have Not - full of racist comments and attitudes, bothered me Think I will start I Know ...

... of writing a duff line. And now that I think about it, I believe that as great a book as it is, John Banville's The Sea, stole the Booker from Barry a couple of years ago. I hope to finish it this weekend so that I may start Barry's latest, The Secret Scripture, which is due to ...

The Sea by John Banville

The SeabyJohn Banville Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor There was a ship, the story of her years at sea by Patsy Adam-Smith Sea Change by Robert Goddard

... Black is a pseudonym for John Banville. I read a review of this book that said it includes the same lyrical writing as The Sea, but is much more accessible. I have to say that I agree. The book is well-written. A mystery that takes place in Dublin in the 1950s, this book tells the story of ...

I just finished The Sea by John Banville. Loved it!

A Dance to the Music of Time movement 3 by Anthony Powell The Sea by John Banville Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson I think movement 3 is my favorite of the Powell series, but movement 2 is a close second.

I have read The sea and really loved it. Anyone read Franny and Zooey?

Yep! It's the best book I read so far this year! Anyone read The Sea by John Banville? I don't think we've done that one yet.

... of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields The Sea by John Banville The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler Madame Bovary Like Water for Chocolate The Remains of the Day The Robber Brid ...

... about it when I've finished, but so far, I'm finding the same beautiful writing, but a much more compelling story than in The Sea.

... played itself out in the first and wasn't so funny the second time around. And I actually had much the same reaction to The Sea. He does indeed write beautifully, but I found the story to be a real yawn.

... der Welt 2 Lørdag Ian McEwan Saturday 3 Vi har det bra Arno Geiger Es geht uns gut 4 Havet John Banville The Sea 5 Konspirasjonen mot Amerika Philip Roth The Plot against America 6 Mesteren Colm Tóibín The Master 7 Boken om Blanche og Marie Per Olov Enquist Boken ...

18 The Sea by John Banville Wonderful book. He reminds me a bit of Nabokov.

... to the Music of Time: Movement Four, which is very good so far, but not as good as the third movement yet. I also read The Sea by John Banville. A quick read, and quite sad, but I enjoyed it. I almost didn't return it to my friend who lent it to me - I'll have to get my own copy and ...

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... The joyluck club 9) The life of insects 10) Midnight's children 11) Life of Pi 12) The poisonwood bible 13) The sea 14) Sophies choice 15) The things they carried 16) Vanishing Point 17) War and Peace 18) Catcher in the rye 19) I know this much is true 20) The ...

... by Bill Bryson and The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion; both books are nearly done. #50 - I picked up The Sea by John Banville yesterday - how did you like it?

... After that, the only book left is The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst, another Booker winner - finished The Sea by John Banville last week. Then it's a trip to the second hand English bookshop before returning home next month to my giant pile of TBR. Finding decent ...

... I came away with six new books for myself: The Time Traveler's Wife The Book of Illusions Cranford Ex Libris The Sea and Light a Penny Candle. I think my tbr list may now be 300 books long...

... cedars by David Guterson (1120/3457) Books with similar tags 1. The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai 2. The sea by John Banville 3. The god of small things by Arundhati Roy 4. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre 5. The line of beauty by Alan Hollinghurst Speci ...

... of small things by Arundhati Roy Amsterdam by Ian McEwan A fine balance : a novel by Rohinton Mistry The sea by John Banville I don't now if these books are enough like Pi to be useful -- I think this might be some sort of index of common ownership. Pi is owned by ...

I have loved every booker book that I've read, so I really can't way in - I really enjoyed The sea and Life of Pi and Moon Tiger. Oh and also Remains of the day.

... - Heat and Dust 1976: David Storey - Saville 1977: Paul Scott - Staying On 1978: Iris Murdoch - The Sea, the Sea 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald - Offshore 1980: William Golding - Rites of Passage 1981: Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children 1982: Thoma ...

>69 dreamlikecheese, you reminded me that I'm reading a "double-lister" as well: Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea which, like Line of Beauty, is on the 1001 list and won the Booker. And it's pretty good so far ...

... above the poverty line. Raises questions about low-paying jobs, education, and safety in America's neighborhoods. #7 - The Sea - John Banville - Finished January 24, 2008 I was a little disappointed. Banville does write lyrically, but the story did not pull me in. Perhaps it was timing ...

The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch

... src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/014118616X.01._SX50_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> The Sea, The Sea - review, enjoyable Booker Prize winner. I quite like Iris Murdoch. 11. laurahutch in Book talk : What is the WORST book that youve ever red? (Feb 1, 2008, 5:17pm)

... The books that immediately sprang to mind were The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald (Booker prize winner along with The Sea which I don't even want to dignify with a most anything!) and My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. I despised that book with every fiber of my being even as it ...

I hatedhatedhated The Sea by John Banville, and the Gathering by Anne Enright- both of which won the Booker prize! I can't remember any of the books I didn't finish- I think I erase them from my memory as soon as they're out the door on Bookmooch!

... Yesterday I went to a used bookstore in downtown Vancouver that seemed to have every book in the world. I brought home: The Sea, by John Banville, which I now hear is boring (oh well) Captain Corelli's Mandolin, by Louis de Bernieres Going After Cacciato, by Tim O'Brien Th ...

... manipulative as any Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation. Out Stealing Horses is a far better father-son story, imo. The Sea has the most wonderfully written prose, that said, I found it a bit of a snoozer, but having just read Gilead and March, I think I was just impatient with yet ...

#133 I have to agree that The Sea was a snoozer for me as well last year. Another highly hyped book that I detested was Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. Just didn't interest me at all.

Great. I just bought The Sea this morning. Oh, well. At least it was a used copy and I didn't pay full price.

#133 Detested The Sea Loved The Road

... end up reading them anyway, through a misguided sense of "I should really give those a chance..." My two clunkers are: The Sea by John Banville - His writing is good, but the story just seemed so torturous. Took me about a week to read, and it's a short book (a week is a long time for ...

... The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous 13. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen 14. The Sea by John Banville 15. Marx for Beginners by Rius ...

Books I hated: Everyman by Philip Roth The Sea by John Banville Grendel by John Gardner The first two were incredibly misogynistic, while Grendel was too nihilistic. Books that didn't live up to the hype: Inheritance of Loss felt like a school assignment. The God of Small Thing ...

... & Mr Hyde Travels with my Aunt The New York Trilogy A Bend in the River The Talented Mr. Ripley Nightwood The Sea The Shadow of the Wind English Music by Peter Ackroyd Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer Gods and Monsters by Christopher Bram Name of the Rose Fr ...

... novel I read (also one of the first novels I read in English), and her later works, such as The Philosopher's pupil, The sea, the sea and Message to the planet.

I've been thinking of picking up a copy of The Sea, The Sea. Do you think it's a good one to start off with, having never read any other book by Murdoch?

... bought:- Mister B Gone by Clive Barker 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch Steve & Me by Terri Irwin Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas

... West through my women's history course and was worried that she wouldn't loive up to my expectations. But she did! 41. The Sea by John Banville I really did not enjoy this book. I found the passages about the narrators wife very sad and unsettling. But I could not connect with him and I ...

I am now reading Shroud by John Banville and am really enjoying his book. I really liked the sea and am just as impressed so far by shroud.

#133 I loved The sea and I hope you enjoy it as well.

>62 judylou Shame to hear you didn't enjoy The Sea- I really liked it and think I'm going to get my dad a copy for Xmas. I'm currently re-reading Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, which is a hoot. The Margaret character unfortunatley reminds me of one of my friends... For those of you ...

calvarez - I am one who liked The Inheritance of Loss, hope you do too. I finished John Banville's The Sea but didn't really enjoy it. I am about to start The Island of Four Rivers by Christopher Morgan. Reviews have been good so I am hopeful.

90. The Sea by John Banville Not what I was hoping for. Maybe I wasn't in the mood for a book like this or maybe after reading Marion Halligan's The fog Garden on the same theme of loss of a life partner it was all too much for me. I thought Marion Halligan did a much better job.

... After moving out of Bleak House I ended up in New Guinea with Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip and then on to Ireland with The Sea by John Banville, before returning to England with The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope. Perhaps its jet-lag on my part, but this book is a bit of a slog so ...

Next one for me is John Banville's The Sea.

... is fun! Hope you enjoy it. I've managed to knockover a few of my TBRs this week, i.e. Bleak House, Mister Pip and The Sea. Still to be tackled are: A Fine Balance Little Women The Unconsoled Arthur and George The God of Small Things Memoirs of a Geisha Alice's A ...

... Pip by Lloyd Jones. Something about the second half, esp. didn't quite gel for me. So, on to another Booker now, The Sea by John Banville and already I quite like this one.

My top five in order: 1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 1. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively 1. The sea by John Banville 2. The glass castle by Jeanette Wells 3. The time machine by H.G. Wells There was a three way tie for the top spot - what beautiful stories.

#103 I loved the sea #46 I loved Cather in the Rye. For me, at the time of reading this, I loved the alientation and the random thoughts he expresses (where do the ducks go in the winter?) and the feeling that everyone is phony. I totally related to his tone and his emotions and so for me, ...

... Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos, an excellent novel about New York City in the early 1900s. Now reading The Sea by John Banville - beautiful.

I'm in Ireland: The Sea by John Banville

>Jubby I very much enjoyed The Sea, hope you do too. I'm making a return to the 1,001 with Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell. I started it in November last year, but for some reason didn't get very far with it at all- I think it might have borrowed it from the library in a 1,001 binge & ...

... ack) The Story of Lucy Gault 126 x 197mm (almost a 'B' size paperback) The Memory Keeper's Daughter 131 x 210mm (??) The Sea 135 x 216mm (trade paperback) Mao's Last Dancer 152 x 230mm (?? a little larger than a 'trade paperback') Having said that, Wikipedia has some different ...

... zee The life of insects by Victor Pelevin Veronika decides to die by Paul Coelho Foe by J.M. Coetzee The sea by John Banville sorry - touchstones arent loading for the three books - but they are all on the list

I found John Banville's 2005 winner, The Sea, a fine work. Somewhat dark and introspective, but not overly so, and with some bright moments and humor as well. And the writing is exceptional. Os.

This list could go on and on... Picture books: Goodnight Moon Blueberries for Sal Leopold the See-Through Crumb picker and The Fabulous Firework Family by James Flora Bedtime For Frances and as a reader myself The Hobbit The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright The Little White ...

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch The Sea by John Banville On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan River Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke Greetings From Sandy Beach by Bob Graham

RE #4 and 5: I just finished The Sea and really enjoyed it. He had some great lines that made me chuckle (I will forever now use the expression, "long shrift") and some that were beautiful ("summer light, thick as honey"). The storyline about the wife really tugged at my heartstrings. I think ...

The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner The Sea by John Banville Mars and its Canals by P Lovell

... the Warden was invited to enjoy some light refreshment, being cakes and ale with a circle of friends down by the sea. **OK, don't laugh....I was pretty weak at creative writing at school, so this is VERY mediocre, I know :P**

Try The life of insects - its short - well written and surprisingly very easy to read Veronika decides to die The sea all good reads

... in Bora Bora :) But, I have done some interesting reading - finally have some time to relax and read I finished The sea by John Banville and I loved and adored it. Very sad but moving and he wrote it so well - but it is not sentimental at all considering the reading matter. I ...

I finished The Sea and think I might read Wild Swans next; although it's on a thread about 'books that made you cry'! -- I tend to do most of my reading on my commute to/ from work

Is this just a list of 'the last book you read'? The Sea, John Banville

I am 34% through The Sea by John Banville. There doesn't seem to be much of a plot, more a reminiscence of a childhood holiday getting told in fragments.

# 209 wonderlake: I loved The Sea and consider it one of my favorites. The language is so beautiful and flows together like poetry. Hope you like it!

I'm going to be starting The Sea by John Banville.

I just came home from the library used book rack with a copy of The Sea by John Banville. I saw it won the Man Booker Prize, so I figure it has to be good. Right? Anyone read this?

March 13. Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen 14. The Sea -- John Banville 15. Marx for Beginners -- Rius 16. Motherless Brooklyn -- Jonathan Lethem April 17. Suite Francaise -- Irene Nemirovsky 18. A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeleine L'Engle 19. O Pioneers! ...

... Road by Cormac McCarthy