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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | 50 Book Challenge : Well Here Goes - Whicker's | | 37 | Whicker, Friday 12:54pm |  |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What is the Best Book you've read so far this year? April 2008 | | 122 | AMQS, Thursday 10:36pm | |
| 50 Book Challenge : LittleTaiko's 2008 book quest | | 26 | LittleTaiko, Thursday 9:43pm | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : brochettes is trying to read 1001 books before she dies- and hopes that she lives a very long life.. | | 3 | brochettes, Thursday 7:24pm | |
| Top 100 Novels of All time : Which books on the list have you already read, and are you reading one now? | | 16 | Dilsey, July 16 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Anatomy | | 13 | Scratch, July 15 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Opposites Attract II: Paired Titles | | 13 | ostrom, July 9 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : soylentgreen23 wants to read 1001 books | | 14 | soylentgreen23, June 20 | |
| The Green Dragon : Wow! I actually like that book ... who knew? | | 16 | WillSteed, June 18 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : Tigertwo's 75 Books for 2008 | | 17 | blackdogbooks, June 15 | |
| Book talk : Cry like a baby | | 183 | Medellia12, June 14 | |
| 888 Challenge : maryanntherese's 888 | | 2 | medievalmama, June 9 | |
| Reading Globally : Group Read: May - The Former Yugoslavia | | 95 | whymaggiemay, June 6 | |
| Book talk : Guess the Book Ver 2.0 | | 308 | thorold, June 5 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : The End? | | 13 | lakingston, May 30 | |
| Readers Against Struggling Through Books We Hate : What book are you leaving behind? | | 35 | shacurington, March 12 | |
| What do you recommend? : Getting down to the basics. | | 20 | bsquared46, February 25 | |
| Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : Is it Over? | | 20 | pscindy, February 9 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 19 January 2008 | | 209 | Cariola, January 26 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : What book would you like to see made into a movie? | | 58 | KimberlyL, January 26 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Adobe's 100 Book Challenge | | 29 | Adobe, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Books that lead to other books | | 10 | rdurick, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Giving Up on a Book You Don't Like | | 127 | Esta1923, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: 1001 Books to read before you die : August-October: Which one of the 1001 are you currently reading? | | 99 | trinah, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: BIG READ and Other Community Wide Reading Programs : Big Read, across the U.S. | | 2 | dperrings, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Literati : 20th Century Literature | | 17 | MarianV, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Reading Globally : War Fiction | | 34 | emaestra, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : anatomy | | 33 | KromesTomes, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 7 July 2007 | | 157 | loumarday, July 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : klagregory's Book Challenge | | 21 | klagreg, July 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Modern Library II | | 10 | emaestra, June 2007 | |
| Dormant: Readers Under 30 : A little pretension does a mind good. | | 23 | mcglocklin, May 2007 | |
| Book talk : Books that everyone loves and you hate | | 359 | somecrazyperson, Yesterday 1:54am |
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| Geeks who love the Classics : What classic are you reading now? | | 151 | SilverTome, July 19 |
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| 1001 Books to read before you die : How many have you read? | | 146 | dczapka, July 13 |
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| Awful Lit. : Awful Classics? | | 454 | Sandydog1, July 10 |
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| Geeks who love the Classics : What are your favorite classics? | | 49 | Sandydog1, July 6 |
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| The Green Dragon : I will never again read anything by | | 280 | RuneFirestar, June 26 |
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| 40-Something Library Thingers : Re-reading High School English Class Novels | | 42 | timjones, June 24 |
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| The Green Dragon : All-Time Favorite Opening Lines | | 167 | Rapier, May 2 |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : Top Five books read during 2007 | | 255 | RcCarol, March 17 |
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| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : TheOneandOnly 50+ goal | | 31 | TheOneandOnly, December 2007 |
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| Dormant: The Green Dragon : High school curriculum | | 123 | aviddiva, November 2007 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : Stupid game to play | | 432 | siubhank, October 2007 |
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| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : fuzzy_patters' 50 book challenge | | 20 | fuzzy_patters, October 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Top Books first quarter of 2007 | | 115 | grkmwk, October 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : How long do you read for every week? | | 129 | MaggieB, June 2007 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : Fun with Libraries: Body Parts! | | 24 | NotSunkYet, February 2007 |
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... The Great Gatsby
60. Mrs. Dalloway
61. To The Lighthouse
62. Orlando
63. All Quiet on the Western Front
64. A Farewell to Arms
65. Cold Comfort Farm
66. Tender is the Night
67. Gone With the Wind
68. The Hobbit
69. Rebecca
70. For Whom the Bell Tolls
71. The Ou ... ... - loathsome book
Wicked - I liked the first two parts, and then it just fell apart.
All of Hemingway, except for A Farewell to Arms
The Corrections - it takes a lot of willpower for me to not respond "No! Don't do it!" whenever I see someone posting that they are reading it.
... ... choice for me as I've had some really great books on my list this year. Here are my three top picks: The Human Stain, A Farewell to Arms and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It might not be fair to put Midnight on the list, as I just finished it last night (ostrom in List Five Books Parlour Game : Anatomy (Jul 9, 2008, 6:26pm) A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
Skinny Legs and All Tom Robbins
The Breast Philip Roth
An Instance of the Fingerpost Iain Pears
Jaws Peter Benchley The Big Sleep/Bright Lights, Big City
Farewell, My Lovely/A Farewell to Arms
Trout Fishing in America/Paris Trout
Go Tell It on the Mountain/When the Mountain Fell
Train Whistle Guitar/Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone ... read them in school so I was very surprised when I enjoyed A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
And I disliked A Farewell to Arms so much that I gave up on it after a couple of chapters so I was surprised that I loved For Whom the Bell Tolls. ... sure there are more, especially authors we had to read in school...
Yes: Hemingway. I was really turned off by A Farewell to Arms. When an author doesn't seem to care about his own characters, my reaction is, "Well, why should I?"
World's End by Neil Gaiman
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The Fall of the House of Usher, and other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Famous Last Words, Fond Farewells, Deathbed Diatribes, and Exclamations Upon Expiration by Ray Robinson
... classic so that you would all spot it immediately...
This was published, as we established, within a few years of A farewell to arms, and was a huge bestseller at the time. It had a sequel, and there is a well-known film version, which has only a very faint family resemblance to the ... War and Peace, the newest translation.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Dangerous Summer
Islands in the Stream
A Farewell to Arms
The Sun Also Rises
Don Quixote
are what I have read over the last year.
I'm currently working on:
Aenid, the Fagles translation
Iliad, the Fagles ... A Farewell to Arms? ... Jancar
Microcosms (Panther S.) by Claudio Magris
The sound of one hand clapping by Richard Flanagan
A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway
The historian : a novel by Elizabeth Kostova
Trieste and the meaning of nowhere by Jan Morris I have not heard of Three Soldiers...must look that one up too.
Book 10: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. An interesting, very different book to All Quiet. Detached, childlike and sad.
Book 11: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. A bit of a deviation from my current ... ... even cheating I still left out some great books, however:
1. Anna Karenina
2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
3. A Farewell to Arms
4. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
t5. The Painted Veil
t5. Swann's Way
Honorable Mention
Atonement
Les Miserables
One Day in the Life of ... 5. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
6. Wash and Die by Barbara Colley
I finished the classic book! Yea!!!
Fiction - 4
NF - 1
Classic - 1 Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein (yes, weird things make me cry)
Four Quartets, T.S. El ... ... selections)
1. Wuthering Heights
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. The Remains of the Day
4. Message in a Bottle
5. A Farewell to Arms
IV. Homesteading
1. Back to Basics
2. Storey's Basic Country Skills
3. Animal Vegetable Miracle
4. Fast Food Nation
5. The Self Sufficien ... I'm reading A Farewell to Arms, my Hemingway for the year.
Also I'm almost done with Travels with Charley, which I'm in love with. I'd never read any non-fiction by John Steinbeck and I've found myself enjoying it more than his fiction. I'm a sucker for travel memoirs anyway, but I really ... 9. A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway (Finished Jan 19) 332 pgs
Completely and thoroughly enjoyed this book.
Now onto:
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad Farewell to Arms made in 1932 with Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes; again in 1957 with Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones.
All very good actors in their day, well, most. I don't know if I can call Rock Hudson a good actor, but he was very easy on the eyes.
Again, go rent them.
OK, I'll shut up ... I am sure Farewell to Arms was made into one of those great 1940s movies, maybe with Ingrid Bergman. Go rent it! Also, For Whom the Bell Tolls has been made into a movie.
I hate it when really good old movies are remade by not so good updated movies. ... (Finished Dec 24) 178 pgs
8. The Diary of Jack the Ripper - Shirley Harrison (Finished Jan 6) 318 pgs
Now onto:
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway ... refrain from commenting on the rest of your statement and just answer this: I had to read Old Man and the Sea as well as A Farewell to Arms. I did read some of his short stories. I can't recall the name as it has been over 25 years since I've read them but I know that they were a series ... 45.
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
trying to get there by the end of the year, I do not think I will. This book is decent, but I just do not think I am a Hemingway fan. ... Woman by Peter Handke
37. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
38. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
39. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
40. Fiesta: the sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway
41. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
42. To Have ... ...
11.Animal Farm George Orwell
12. Cannery Row John Steinbeck
13.The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
14.A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
15.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
16.Nana Emile Zola
17.The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorn ... ... Aldous Huxley
To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Animal Farm by George Orwell
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
1984 by George Orwell
Emma by Jane Austen
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
... ...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Glass Menagerie
To Kill a Mockingbird, (middleschool)
Billy Budd, Sailor
A Farewell to Arms
The Old Man and the Sea
The Great Gatsby
Winesburg Ohio
Cannery Row
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Macbeth
... ... Grapes of wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Animal Farm
A Clockwork Orange
A Farewell to Arms
The Scarlet Letter
Beloved
Herzog
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
and Charlotte's Web
in my TBR pile are the following:
Catch 22
T ... ... and it was positive comparisons of his writing to Ernest Hemingway's, as well as a story that featured one of his novels (A Farewell to Arms I think) that finally convinced me to try the author out. Steve Stern's An Angel of Forgetfulness convinced me to try Franz Kafka. And on it goes. 129. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Sprawls blandly.
130. Brokedown Palace by Steven Brust
Aided and thwarted by supernatural forces, four royal brothers reluctantly struggle with one another within a rotting castle.
131. Daily Life in Spain in the Golden Age by Marce ... ... client, avenges the death of his partner, and chases a priceless treasure, in this classic American private-eye novel.
A Farewell to Arms
A story of love and pain, loyalty and desertion, Ernest Hemingway's World War I novel features the tragedy of an American ambulance driver on the Itali ... Last of the Breed
The Last Defender of Camelot
A Farewell to Arms
Elfquest: Journey to Sorrow's End
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
... are great, but his short stories just weren't my cup of tea, however acclaimed they may be. Try The Sun Also Rises or A Farewell To Arms.
If you've read Fitzgerald, I'm sure you've read The Great Gatsby. After that I'd recommend Tender Is The Night. A terrific book (if you can ... "An ignorant wop."
A Farewell to Arms I just finished a farewell to arms and found it very boring. no one talks like that.
also, great expectations i have started twice and couldnt pull through.
Lord of the flies was dumb too. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Eye by Frank Herbert
Footfall by Larry Niven
The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson
Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke
I am currently reading A Farewell To Arms. I am not reading one after another and nothing else. But I am trying to throw one in every once in a while. I think the opening paragraph of A Farewell to Arms is one of the most elegant sentences in English Literature. ... is lyrical and scientific all at once. One of my favorite writers.
Greenalida--I also went through a Hemingway phase. A Farewell to Arms is my favorite, but I still have others to read by him. I'm reading A Farewell To Arms, I have developed an obsession with Hemingway and started "Farewell" almost directly after completing The Sun Also Rises. Did you enjoy The Good Earth? I am a student and it was a summer reading book...I personally didn't enjoy it all that much but would ... I totally agree with saying farewell to The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway (message 12). I sort of liked A Farewell to Arms, but this book just seemed like a bunch of annoying drama, even though I love Paris. 25. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
26. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Over the halfway hump!
And bonus points, since I got to cross off three books off my 'classic must-reads'! Only about eleventy-billion more to go!
... Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, then I totally sympathize! I hated that book with a passion, although not as much as A Farewell to Arms.
If you mean The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, I can't sympathize because I've never read it! ... I'm going to give Wuthering Heights another chance. But some of the books that I've had to read (like Invisible Man and A Farewell to Arms) were pure and utter torture. Again, I blame that on the school.
I haven't read Frankenstein yet, but it's definitely on my reading list, along ... ... to enjoy those. We were able to choose from a list a few times, but not very often, so I was stuck reading duds like A Farewell to Arms. (Apologies to whomever might actually enjoy this book, but I hated it.) ... Street by Sinclair Lewis
46. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
47. A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
48. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
49. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
50. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
51. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
52. Bri ... My top 5:
1. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
2. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
3. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
4. Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
5. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Obviously, I spent most of the first ... 1. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
2. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
3. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
4. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
5. Ron Kittle's Tales from the White Sox Dugout by Ron Kittle with Bob Logan
6. To Have and ... The Anatomy Coloring Book
Blood Rites
Bloodsucking Fiends
Bloody Chamber
Dancing Skeletons
A Farewell to Arms
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
In Cold Blood
Jelly Belly
Private Parts
Stranger with my Face
There was ... ... the Wedding
Romeo and Juliet
The Robe
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus the King
Antigone
Rebecca
The Great Gatsby
A Farewell to Arms
Lost Horizon
Brave New World
The Things They Carried
O Pioneers
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lost Horizon
Amphigorey
Bloody Chamber- ... ... for the military stuff.
Also, the Hemingway I haven't read since I was a teenager: For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms. ... -- so I am slowly trying to add them in to my repetoire. I think my favorites would have to be Pride and Prejudice and A Farewell to Arms. I did really like War and Peace too - but I read a long time ago.
What are some suggestions for the most enjoyable, yet important classics that y'al ... ... think the copy I have was anything like Hemingway's noted curt style, which is probably why I liked it. I read it after A Farewell to Arms and found it 'softer' in style. Of course, this may be a false memory of an impression. I still have my copy. I'll have to look at it again. ... Hills Like White Elephants, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber and then move on to A Farewell to Arms. I also like The Sun Also Rises, but most Americans have been forced to read that in high school so it is almost pointless to recommend it.
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