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| Combiners! : Authors with same name | | 120 | BarkingMatt, July 16 | |
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| 30-something LibraryThingers : Re-readers? | | 31 | the_hag, July 5 | |
| Historical Fiction : Sebastian Faulks | | 3 | margad, July 4 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : The 1001 "I've Read That" chain game | | 300 | BKieras, June 16 | |
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| List Five Books Parlour Game : Hear, Hear | | 11 | amandameale, May 7 | |
| 888 Challenge : RMXtreme's 888 | | 12 | RMXtreme, April 6 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading for March 2008 | | 128 | odysseya, March 31 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - FEBRUARY 2008 | | 261 | Jodyreadseverything, March 1 | |
| Book talk : There's a Time and a Place for Everything | | 48 | littlegeek, February 25 | |
| world war one literature : regeneration trilogy | | 21 | margad, February 20 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 February 2008 | | 148 | GreyHead, February 17 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Top books read 3rd quarter 2007 July-September (really) | | 77 | 3M3m, December 2007 | |
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| Dormant: 1001 Books to read before you die : August-October: Which one of the 1001 are you currently reading? | | 99 | trinah, November 2007 | |
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| Dormant: Reading Globally : War Fiction | | 34 | emaestra, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Anglophiles : Sebastian Faulks | | 11 | amandameale, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : The Birds and the Bees | | 22 | marell, July 2007 | |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - #1: JULY. 2008 | | 270 | teelgee, July 16 |
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| List Five Books Parlour Game : One word says it all... | | 61 | bookcrushblog, May 6 |
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| The Green Dragon : Have you bought and books lately? Do tell! | | 298 | AnnaClaire, February 17 |
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| Dormant: Eerste Wereldoorlog : Wat zijn je meest favoriete boeken met betrekking op de ? | | 4 | MarioW, January 20 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : books that changed your life | | 46 | bookishbunny, January 17 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : ww1 books | | 14 | fannyprice, January 8 |
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| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Rebekahn's reading list for 2007 | | 8 | rebekahn, December 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 15 September 2007 | | 181 | sorsopkel, September 2007 |
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| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Tell us what you are reading now, part II | | 279 | readhead, July 2007 |
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#72: I am SO with you on Birdsong. I know so many people who have raved about it, but I found the love story so unbelievable - very male perspective, no great surprise he's writing James Bond now... I also went on to feel the same way about Charlotte Gray so goodness only knows why I've just ... Returned books to the library and came home with:
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears and Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, both for $1 from the library store. I'll add them to one of the many TBR piles. ... d'Or by Sebastian Faulks (fiction, 249 pages)
Part of Faulks' French (what? series? meditation? trilogy?). I read Birdsong last year, and loved it. While this didn't hit me quite as hard, it was still lovely--so well written, and continuing his examination of the effect of WWI on those ... If you haven't read this one already, I would recommend Birdsong for your WWI category. It's fantastic and though it deals a lot with the war, it has other angles as well. Girl at the Lion D'Or comes first, Birdsong next, and Charlotte Gray is #3 in the trilogy. I haven't read them, but researched them for my historical novels website (www.HistoricalNovels.info), and I understand that the plots of the three novels ... ... World by Jostein Gaarder
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Just in case anyone's interested
Edited to remove books that have gone already! ... a superb wwii book set in Italy close to the end of the war, that belongs in the august company of Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong, Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy and Norman mailer's The Naked and the Dead.
It is about 7 soldiers, an old Italian fascist, and a sniper. It ... I have read Birdsong, twice, without reading the Girl at the Lion D'Or, I tried but gave up. Charlotte Gray is definitely not a sequel to Birdsong. ... in our multicultural stew. My Review
#27 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. It is hard to understand how this was not a huge award-winner when it was published in 1993. It is a beautifully written tale, well-researche ... ... to reread. what is the point of keeping books if you are not going to read them again?
There are some books, such as Birdsong which I have enjoyed by I don't think I will reread... I've read Birdsong. How about The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells ... in the thread (April 1). I pounced on it then, and I'll pounce on it now!!
Moving on ... how about Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong? ... Here goes -- and sorry for the long post:
1. Lady Susan by Jane Austen
2. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
3. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks*
4. The Giver - Lois Lowry
5. As We Are Now - May Sarton
6. Run - Ann Patchett
7. Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson*
8. Sitting P ... This month I've read the following books that are also on the list:
Birdsong,
Frankenstein,
Catch-22,
Robinson Crusoe,
The handmaid's tale,
The woman in white,
One hundred years of solitude &
Disgrace Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
The Sound of Thunder by Wilbur Smith
Singing the Sadness by Reginald Hill ...
4. Divine Comedy
5. 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. Nev ... ... matter because nobody else I've read does it as well as he does.
378 pages
dihiba and Cariola - you should both read Birdsong. I think you'll like it.
I just put Birdsong on my wish list last week. Your post about Birdsong caught my eye as I have just finished The Wars by Timothy Findley which deals with WWI. I Mooched Birdsong a couple of months ago - now I think it should be moved up the TBR pile.
I had some issues with The Wars re Findley's writing but it certainly paints a very ... No. 11 - Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. This was a Christmas present from a good friend that I finished last night during the commercials for American Idol (I have many bad habits). It was not what I expected - indeed it was far better. It was dark, tragic and sad. Except for All Quiet on ... Birdsong in Perth, Scotland while researching my grandfather's death in WWI (Black Watch Regiment).
Will be in Rye (aka Tilling) rereading the Mapp & Lucia series by EF Benson for the umpteenth time this September
Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies in small town Ontario
Touchstones ... Am reading Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks right now. It hasn't taken off for me, but it's early days yet. I like to give a book at least 100 pages as I've had them begin to amount to something good as late as 98 pages before. I particularly want to finish this one as it was a Christmas gift ... Today in the mail I recieved Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.
I really need to ban myself from bookmooch! ... Goodbye to all that van Robert Graves. Erg interessant omdat het zijn eigen herinneringen zijn die hij beschrijft.
Birdsong van Sebastian Faulks is ook erg goed en gruwelijk realistisch over de, vooral ook ondergrondse, loopgravenoorlog.
De trilogie van Pat Barker, bestaande ... ... because AQotWF is much more acclaimed and better known. Either way, they are both very good.
High on my TBR pile is Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks. Haven't read it though, so I don't know that it's good. ... Choice”
1. The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester
2. The English Patient, Michael Ondaajte
3. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Biographies/Memoirs
1. First Lady of the Confederacy, Joan E. Cashin
2. Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography, Jean H. Baker
Other ... Reread Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks about wwi in France. A great book imho. I'm struggling to narrow my fiction choices down this quarter.
FICTION
1. Restoration by Rose Tremain
2. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
3. Middlemarch by George Eliot
4. The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
5. (tie) Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
(tie) ... ... very good, although I found it a very challenging read. (I guess that's what I should expect with Burgess.)
I finished Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks last night. It was such a well-drawn picture of WWI and particularly trench warfare--the tedium, the fear, the deprivations. It was a ... I am reading Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. I am interested in the WWI time period, so I have high hopes for it.
keren7--I thought Fingersmith was a very enjoyable read. While I thought War and Peace was excellent, I must confess I never read the dissertation on war Tolstoy put at the ... ... Scotland and then the Sudan in The Translator by Leila Aboulela, but now I'm in France in the early 20th century with Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.
almigwin, I'm going to have to come visit you in that English village--it sounds delightful. ... devout Muslim woman, and I thought her struggle to reconcile her love and her faith was very well done.
I am now reading Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. ...
Grassroots Leaders Building Skills
The Victorian seaside cookbook
Another Anne Bishop has authored:
Belladonna
Sebastian
Pillars of the World
Shadows and light
House of Gaian
Black Jewels Trilogy (omnibus collection)
Daughter of the Blood
Heir to the Shadows
Queen ... ... by Ross Dunn, Crow Lake by Mary Lawson, Earth Odyssey by Mark Hertsgaard, The Tender Bar by J.R.Moehringer, Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks).
Adjacent to my computer sits God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens which I began reading yesterday. ... well the thrillers/horror/romance. I paused briefly today wondering whether to buy a Sebastian Faulks book (I enjoyed his Birdsong) but was in a hurry and moved on. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Tower of Ravens by Kate Forsyth
Ladyhawke by Joan D. Vinge
The Stonor Eagles by William Horwood
Disney's Winnie the Pooh: The Big Fat Bee by Rh Disney
Don't miss Birdsong and A Very Long Engagement has some haunting scenes in the trenches.
A few i haven't seen mentioned:
The Charles Todd WWI mystery series featuring Inspector Ian Rutledge who is literally haunted by a fellow soldier he is responsible for having killed by firing squad. ... Well, I know I am in a minority but I thought Birdsong was a not very good book, and really didn't like Girl at the Lion D'Or. I have been told to give On Green Dolphin Street a go, but if if I didn't like the other two, is it worth it? Mercy by Jodi Picoult
Once by Morris Gleitzman
Tsotsi by Athol Fugard
Soho by Keith Waterhouse
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks >4: karenwardill, I did not realize Birdsong, Girl at the Lion D'Or, and Charlotte Gray were a trilogy. Is that also the order they are meant to be read? If so I skipped the middle one ... I swallowed up the trilogy of Birdsong, Girl at the Lion D'Or and Charlotte Gray - all of which I loved. Charlotte Gray seemed the saddest to me. I also read his nonfiction account of Three Englishmen, which was quite good - but his forte is fiction.
His Human Traces needed a good ... ... Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud, I love Bartimaeus, he's such an interesting character, fantasy is a favourite genre of mine.
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, because I'm also really interested in WW1 - amazing book!
Cherry by Sara Wheeler, again the Scott interest, and learning more about Cherry's ... Even though I took two books with me on holidays His Majesty's Dragon and Birdsong, both of which I read and enjoyed tremendously, other books mysteriously seemed to find their way into my luggage! While visiting in Ottawa I found hardcover editions of The Bartimaeus Trilogy on sale ($6.00 ... I just finished Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, a very intense, beautifully written WW1 story - amazing read.
And now I'm reading The Dark is Rising series which just arrived from Amazon. Delightful, I can't believe I've missed these books all these years *shakes head in wonderment*.
I ... I read Birdsong and thought it was quite good, mostly I think because I learned about WWI from a British perspective. I liked Charlotte Gray a bit less. I have The Girl at the Lion d'Or on my TBR pile but am not sure when I'll get to it. I've never read Birdsong, but have intended to for a long time. I had high hopes for Human Traces because the topic really interested me ... but I was very disappointed in it. I might have to add Engleby to my list. Thanks for the recommendation! Sebastian Faulks wrote the very popular (in England anyway) Birdsong. Most people I know loved this novel but I simply liked it. Then I read Human Traces which was enormously promising but turned out to have structural problems. Now I'm reading Engleby and I'm admiring it and enjoying it. ... Birdsong, anyone? ... and Unfinished Tales but they will have to wait as I'm travelling soon and need more portable books. So I'm taking Birdsong and Love in The Time of Cholera, both of which I've heard great things here on LT and haven't read, so I'm looking forward to them. And then when I get to Ontari ... ... publicly whenever possible, maybe too vociferously at times. I hate it so much.
I didn't much like Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong when I read it for my book club. The horrors of WW1 are well described but the main characters were unengaging and the love story completely unconvincing. I also ... ... caged bird sings
singing and swinging and getting merry like christmas
songs of innocence and experience
lullaby
birdsong ... ead
Ian Rankin - Strip Jack
Robert Harris - Imperium
Anais Nin - Delta of Venus
Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong
Susan Hill - The Pure in Heart
Nick Hornby - The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
To Finish ... Yesterday my mum came to visit, and brought me Born on a blue day, Birdsong, The Birth of Venus, and also brought down my Harry Potter collection for re-read prior to 21/7.
Hurrah for Mummy! Having read a few of the recommendations mentioned here, I now feel able to comment. I just finished Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks and it was stunning - I will need to read it twice more to really absorb it and understand the miserable environment the soldiers had to endure. I had to stop ... ... read her Grey Rabbit series when I was little, but her A Traveller in Time is my all time favourite time-travel book.
Birdsong - I've had so many people recommend this to me, I'm looking forward to reading it soon.
Winter in Thrush Green (a gorgeous hardcover edition with an almost ... I just read two or three months ago Autodafe's (#5) recommendation of Birdsong and found it very good. Especially as I had just indexed two books (non-fiction) relating to WW1 and that helped me connect to the story more. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. ... utt.
Henri Barbusse's Under fire which won the Prix Goncourt with Barbusse back at the front.
Sebastian Faulks Birdsong
Willi Heinrich's Cross of Iron
Wilfred Owen's war poems.
Kenn Miller's Tiger the lurp dog--another Vietnam novel about a squad of army rangers.
... ... for Owen Meany are really something, just because of the way John Irving writes.
Thats my two pence....
Oh, Birdsong too Birdsong is a brilliant read too, although Pat Barker is an exceptional author. Another interesting read is All Quiet On The Western Front as it shows the german prospective of the war. I loved the regeneration trilogy, and it inspired me to read Birdsong, which I enjoyed, but not as much. I thought the last scenes in the underground were just compelling, but the prelude romance was not to my taste at all. I enjoyed the book overall, especially from when the protagonist goes ... ... Fire sounds good, and I'll have to give Conflict and Dream a try too. I liked Sebastian Faulk's Charlotte Gray, so Birdsong is a great recommendation, plus the others. I'm a neophyte with this subject so look forward to any more suggestions.
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