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... to find out.
28/06/2008 - 7/08/2008
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
10/08/2008 - 13/08/2008
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
14/08/2008
I started reading The Art of Being Dead by Stephen Clayton. ... many books I actually do read in a year, so I figured that this is the best way to find out.
10/08/2008 - 13/08/2008
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
14/08/2008
Started reading The Art of Being Dead by Stephen Clayton. ... about "For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well". That's from Disgrace J.M. Coetzee. And then who can resist "I have no reason not to answer the door so I answer the door". I love Dave Eggers, and What is the What. Disgrace by JM Coetzee? ... thread is very old, so you probably wont' see this comment. Oh well, for the next person to come along:
I have not read Disgrace so I can't speak for that. But I have read Life and Times of Michael K. Coetzee's language is very simple. But for me, that was what gave it power. It's not ... I liked both Youth by Coetzee and The Yellow Wallpaper. But Coetzee is one of my favorite authors, and Youth is an absorbing read. In parts it's quite depressing and in other parts comical. The sufferings of the artist as a young man.. ... to be another George Pelecanos book)
Prize Winners and Nominees
1.Last Orders Graham Swift (Booker Prize 1996)
2. Disgrace J M Coetzee (Booker Prize 1999)
3. The Gathering Anne Enright (Booker Prize 2007)
4. Cloud Atlas David Mitchell (Booking 2004)
5. The Shipping News Anne Pr ... ... (ie, good airplane books) have been Glass Castle and Three Cups of Tea. Most interesting literary work has been Disgrace. I have not had an overall fav fiction read yet, alas, so I'll be checking out other people's favs for this half of 2008! ... the Pretty Horses, The Invention of Morel, Post Office, Steppenwolf, The Wild Geese/Gan
Disappointments:
Disgrace by Coetzee
Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro
The Secret Agent by Conrad
Worst of:
The Body Artist by DeLillo
The Chronicles of Narnia by Lewis Alcottacre, I highly recommend Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. 14. Disgrace
Novel set in South Africa about a lit professor who has been fired for having an affair with a student. The author, Coetzee, is a Nobel winner. I THINK it is about how the whites of South Africa are adjusting to their new position in society. I'm still pondering its various ... I don't think Disgrace is Coetzee's best . . . Of the six, I've only read Midnight's Children and Disgrace, and I'd have to choose the former. I have The Siege of Krishnapur, but haven't read it yet. I'd like to hear more from supporters of any of the other three books. ... this with the 6 chosen by the panel -
# Pat Barker The Ghost Road
# Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda
# JM Coetzee Disgrace
# J G Farrell The Siege of Krishnapur
# Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist
# Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children Clearing out the last remaining duplicate in my French category with Germinal. Finally polished off Disgrace with Night on it's heels (just a placeholder at present).
I'm also looking to polish off my short story category this week, leaving me free to double the book count in most of my ... A Hero of Our Time ****½
by Makhail Lermontov
05/29/08
Germinal ****
by Emile Zola
05/31/08
Disgrace ***
by J.M. Coetzee
05/31/08 For me it was Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee it was grueling and nauseating! I guess it was sort of the point but hah never again! ... a Great Notion Sunday. Currently reading/listening to: Humboldt's Gift, The Time Machine, A Hero of Our Time, Disgrace, Winesburg, Ohio and Letters from a Stoic by Seneca. ... July 8. There is a short list of six books to choose from. The others include Oscar and Lucinda, The Ghost Road, Disgrace, The Conservationist and The Siege of Krishnapur. I'm still to read the last three. ... up my Victorian catagory to introduce more authors.
I still need to iron out my Nobel Laureates catgory; after I finish Disgrace and perhaps more Gide I'll feel better about things. I'm sorry I stalled the list...
I read Disgrace and hated it!! How about Gone With the Wind? Hmm the list stalled so I will pick it up :)
Who has read Disgrace? ... purple- beautiful, 2 books by hanif kureishi which I think I must have read before and last but not least youth by coetzee. this morning on the train I started listening to an audiobook version of bleak house. ... -- Chuck Palahniuk
13) The Blind Assassin -- Margaret Atwood
14) after the quake: stories -- Haruki Murakami
15) Disgrace -- J. M. Coetzee
16) Amsterdam -- Ian McEwan
17) American Pastoral -- Philip Roth
18) The Virgin Suicides -- Jeffrey Eugenides
19) American Psycho - ... ... nstein,
Catch-22,
Robinson Crusoe,
The handmaid's tale,
The woman in white,
One hundred years of solitude &
Disgrace Just finished reading Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee, my first Coetzee. A spare and tense book that deals with post apartheid South - Africa. Coetzee manages to convey so much of the tensions in South - Africa in so little words.
9/10 ... Borders with a friend. I came away with:
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
The Queen of Everything by Deb Caletti
Me and Mr. Darcy by Alexandra Potter
H is for Homicide by Sue G ... ... - Victoria **
11. Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf ****
12. V.S. Napaul - A Bend in the River ***½
13. J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace ***
14. Rudyard Kipling - Kim (reading)
15.
16. ... MacBeth
6. Gilgamesh
7. Odyssey
8. Iliad
1001 books you must read before you die
1. Birdsong FINISHED
2. Disgrace FINISHED
3. The black dahlia FINISHED
4. The virgin suicides
5. Kafka on the shore
6. Cloud Atlas
7. American psycho
8. Never let me go
I haven't read A clockwork orange either - I feel a bit scared, like when I read disgrace and was unsettled for days.
The more I read of the long goodbye the more it reminds me of the great gatsby with some P.I. vitriol thrown in. Anyone else think so?
I don't know what to read next. I ... ... me it is The God of Small Things. Closely followed by The Life of Pi, Amsterdam, True History of the Kelly Gang and Disgrace.
I haven't read all of the winners - although that is one of my goals - but the only one I have not liked so far is The Line of Beauty. It is Disgrace! I thought that would be much harder. Oh well. Congratulations BKieras! I just read this! It's Disgrace by Coetzee. My first Coetzee and I really enjoyed it.
I got a little confused when we had multiple books running. Did anyone post a book that did not get solved? If so, I pass my turn to that person. Otherwise, I'll post a clue tomorrow after official ... ... Orders
1997: Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
1998: Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
1999: J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace
2000: Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
2001: Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang
2002: Yann Martel - Life of Pi
2003: DBC Pierr ... #10 and #31 trinah: Dickens and Coetzee are two of my favourite authors and I believe they deserve multiple listings (perhaps ten is too many). Not being "overly exciting" need not be a fault in a novel, just a difference between readers. To me, Youth was a perfect novel.
And Dickens. For G ... I just finished Disgrace which was my first Coetzee novel. I thought it was very good. Does anyone want to offer up their favorite Coetzee novel? He has quite a few on the 1001 Books list, so I will certainly be reading more of them.
My next book will be Profiles in Courage for the "Other ... ... all had a connection. If you like books that are a bit off-beat, I'd recommend trying this.
Next, I'll either start Disgrace or The Chili Queen. Probably the latter - it looks like pretty easy read, but it won the Spur Award so it ought to be good. ... with this.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
Disgrace
The English Patient
Profiles in Courage
In Arabian Nights - hmmmm no touchstone for this? It's by Tahir Shah
The Chili Queen
The Undertaker's Wif ... #5 Keren7 i agree, Disgrace is great. Its the only Coetzee book I have read, and I think it is well worth reading. ... like Master harold and the Boys,
j.m. Coetzee for besides Foe: Master of Petersburg, elizabeth costello, disgrace and slow man,
nadine gordimer for the burger's daughter, A sport of nature, jump,
Alan Paton for Cry the Beloved Country;
The Dry Whi ... ... or 15,000 pages.
1. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera.
pgs: 228. Read 01-02 January.
2. Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee.
pgs: 220. Read 02-03 January.
total pages: 448 ... Eli Weisel - Germany
Award Winning Books
1. Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold - 2004 Hugo Award
2. Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee - 1999 Booker Award
3. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carre - 1965 Edgar Award
4. The Chili Queen, Sandra Dallas - 2003 Spur Award ... ... won the nobel prize for literature in 1999
I suggest if you want to really a good book by Coetzee, you should try Disgrace. He also won the booker prize twice, the only author to do so. He won it for The life and times of Michael K and for Disgrace. I've read a buch of his books ... ... i
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
I am a bit ambivalent about Middlesex - it was almost usurped by Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee or The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
Non-fiction:
Saxons, Vikings and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland by B ... ... read from the list this year, but the ones which immediately stand out in my mind are:
Atonement
Northanger Abbey
Disgrace
An Artist of the Floating World
The Midwich Cuckoos
There are plenty of other books on the list which I love and have read, but most of them are not ones I ... ...
From Here to Eternity - >800 pgs but quite good actually
Midnight's Children -- good
White Noise -- just so - so
Disgrace - not sure why I put this in; it was actually more of a novella; but quite good
and . . . drumroll please . . .
Ulysses -- painful painful slog Middlemarch was my absoulte favorite.
Grapes of Wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
and A Bend in the River by Naipaul (?I think thats on the list)
Worst, worst, worst -- Ulysses Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee is both depressing and good. Read it and ache. ... I wouldn’t put so many there. Maybe it was felt he was outstanding in the 1900s, but still. I love Ian McEwan and J. M. Coetzee, but no Cormac McCarthy, especially Blood Meridian? Bad choice in my opinion.
I also was very surprised not to see Raymond Carver. There were ... ... her own life in the process. Foe is the retelling of the Daniel DeFoe story about a sailor stranded on a desert island. Disgrace Coetzee's second Booker prize revolves around a university professor who gets sacked for his part in a sexual harrassment scandal. Later on his own daughter is ... ... before So Big, I read O Pioneers, and the comparison is a remarkably interesting one to make.
ellevee: I enjoyed Disgrace very much. I left my copies of Oracle Night and I Like You at my apartment (of course), so I'm starting Disgrace. I'm visiting family for the weekend, so I have a pile of books to get through. ...
The Redwall Cookbook
A Mother For Choco
Show Way
Before You Were Mine
The Book That Jack Wrote
Purchased
Disgrace
Shadow Of The Wind
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Ordered From Amazon.com
The Gun Seller
Bizarro Starter Kit
And today to celebrate being unemployed and ... ... the corporate bookstore (and the take shelves).
Song of Susannah
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Spook Country
Disgrace
Shadow of the Wind
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Total cost? $17.39
Also - met a lovely man who was lost, wandering by my desk carrying a package. Personally ... ... bookstore, since my internship ends tomorrow.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Spook Country by William Gibson
Disgrace
Shadow of the Wind
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Song of Susannah
Total cost? $17.39
Also - met a lovely man who was lost, wandering by my desk carrying a ... For All the Wrong Reasons by Louise Bagshawe
Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter
Whispers and Lies by Joy Fielding Disgrace was a bit strange but quite interesting - I'm not quite sure I "got" it's message, but it was very beautifully written and that often makes up for a lot.
I also finished listening to Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure which was EXCELLENT.
So, two new titles to start now: ... I'm moving onto Disgrace by J M Coetzee next. I'm new to this author, but from the blurb on the back of the book, it sounds pretty interesting, so I thought I'd give it a shot... Rosemary's Baby was excellent. Now I'm hoping that my next choice, Disgrace by J M Coetzee will be as good! I'm about to start reading Disgrace by J M Coetzee for my South African entry. Has anyone else read this one, or any other authors from South Africa that they'd like to recommend? Rosemary's baby was excellent. I'm hoping my next book, Disgrace by J M Coetzee will be as good! I'm just about to start Disgrace by J M Coetzee. ... today.
Then I couldn't pass up the buy two, get one free table and snagged:
Plainsong, by Kent Haruf
Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier ... book? At age 14? The most academic book I've read would be Gone With the Wind or Pride and Prejudice. I tried reading Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee because the LibraryThing Suggester suggested it, but I read the first page and was like, "ah, yeah, I don't quite think this is for me!" I now ... ... completed Foe by J.M. Coetzee. My favourite Coetzee so far - which some people may find blasphemous if they liked Disgrace. I like how Coetzee puts his characters in with the author - great read.
I am now going to read The feast of the goat and then read Islands. ... our conflicted trade and fiscal policies, I think it would be an interesting exercise.
Or post apartheid South Africa Disgrace by Coetzee
with post Civil War south, Faulkner
or post WWII Britain. The Jewel in the Crown?---
(loss of power, economic decline, loss of prestige, ... Started Medusa the shipwreck, the scandal, the disgrace by Jonathan Miles and Herman by Lars Assbye Christensen.
I can truthfully say I bought the latter because of the cover! (I work with the mother of the child model on the front cover.) 1. I am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe
2. Disgrace - J.A. Coetzee
3. Love - Toni Morrison
4. Katherine - Anya Seton
5. From Here to Eternity - James Jones ... and not new is the Nobelist Nadine Gordimer whose anti-apartheid books were powerful.And Coetzee 's Disgrace is one of the most touching and moving stories of the South African racial dilemma. This is from Disgrace by Coetzee. It makes me practically sob every time I read it. (I am an unabashed animal lover, though)
"What the dog will not be able to work out (not in a month of Sundays, he thinks), what his nose will not tell him, is how one can enter what seems to be an ordinary ... I felt like I kept seeing Madame Bovary referenced everywhere -- It was in I am Charlotte Simmons, Disgrace, Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout. I finally said -- enough already, I need to figure out who the hell Emma Bovary was. I am glad I did. ... abrahams, the plays of athol fugard and most recently under the yellow sunand purple hibiscus by adichie.also, disgrace by coetzee and the novels of nadine gordimer. Africa is the setting or the subject of these books although the authors are not all african themselves. ... having just finished Slow Man a few days back, I can't say I can recommend it. So glad I didn't read it before I read Disgrace, else I might have been put off Coetzee for good.
Just did nothing for me at all. I would vote for Atonement by Ian McEwan, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, and I would definately second the vote for Disgrace. I just finished Disgrace myself. Amazing little book. How can he make you feel so much, with really what amounts to quite a short novel?
Anyway -- I have the same inclination to go buy all of his books. Just finished Madame Bovary and am now already half way through Disgrace by Coetzee. It is the first book I have ever read by him and it is great so far -- no B.S. cleverness and philosophical angst like so many modern critically acclaimed writers -- just gripping narrative and good old ... Oh, no doubt. I don't know anybody who wouldn't call Nabakov classic.
For me, I insist on calling Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee a classic. I suppose I should wait to do so until I read the rest of his works, but... I can't help it. ... Salt
1998 - Peter Carey, Jack Maggs
1999 - Murray Bail, Eucalyptus
2000 - John Maxwell Coetzee, Disgrace
2001 - Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
2002 - Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish
2003 - Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe
2004 - ... Disgrace was my first Coetzee, and I only just got around to reading it this year. I agree with you, it is a superb, if harrowing, book, and I was on eBay looking for more of his work as soon as I finished the last page.
Slow Man is now sitting on my TBR pile, and I don't think I'll be ... J.M. Coetzee is amazing. Amazing as in, when I read his words, I almost fall in love with the person behind them. Disgrace gives me a flash of mixed feelings I can't even describe every time I think of it. I have From Here to Eternity by James Jones; White Noise by DeLillo; Midnight's Children by Rushdie; and Disgrace by Coatzee on my bookshelf for 2007. I also promised myself I would give Ulysses a go too.
dchaikin -- The border trilogy is difficult but worth it. SamHouston keep Them ... Caution - potential spoiler
I finished Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee and am still digesting this book slowly. I don't know why I'm used to book having happy endings. There are just so many things to comment on this book that I don't know where to start. I don't want to write any spoilers either ... eday6: Cloud Altlas is unusual but worth the effort.
keren7: loved Disgrace and Dubliners ... about inner thoughts was a little too obvious for my liking and the story was okay but not great.
I am now reading Disgrace by J.M Coetzee. I am excited for this book as I am South African and enjoy books set there. I am also reading The Dubliners by James Joyce and I will ... ... go back a long way for me.
Also, the very real image of degradation and despair illustrated in the excellent book Disgrace challenged whatever remained of sentimentality in my faith.
--JA
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