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Finally finished If on a winter's night a traveler. What a bizarre little book!
Time to take a break and read my Early Reviewer books before moving on in 1001-Land. On the agenda for this week: Escape from the Deep by Alex Kershaw, whose books I really like, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, The Adrian Mole Diaries by Sue Townsend, Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh, Cod: a Biography of ... ... having finished A Confederacy of Dunces, I've now officially finished 100 books from the list!
Next on the docket is If on a winter's night a traveler. I don't really think If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is Calvino's best book. I tend to prefer the trilogy formed by The baron in the Trees, The Cloven Viscount, and The Nonexistent Knight.
I am presently reading The Castle of Crossed Destinies, which is quite enjoyable, but I would ... #41, #42
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a rather curious and interesting novel. I'm not sure if you can call it a classic (yet). I read it a year ago, and I remember the READER to be the main character.
I'll vote for Don Quixote, (cf. #35).
I read about half of it a few years ago, ... 41 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is the one I hear touted as his best. Too many good ones this month. But, here goes...
1) If On A Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
2) Three Plays: Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives - Noel Coward
3) The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
... Byatt
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
Three Plays: Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives by Noel Coward
A Dance to the Music of Time by Antho ... ... just 5 was hard this quarter, but I think my top 5 were:
1)An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
2)If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
3)The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
4)Three Plays: Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives by Noel C ... Finished Adjunct: An Undigest through an interlibrary loan.
Finished If On A Winter's Night A Traveller last week. It was a very unusual book and definitely worth reading. A must-read for readers, writers, read-writers and writer-readers.
Finished Never Let Me Go over the weekend. Dec ... #32 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Another very strange book, but completely enchanting. It was organized like no other book I've read - told in the second person, the hilarious first chapter draws you in, and I found the book impossible to put down. The main character ... ... month:
1. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
3. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
All of which I highly recommend. Two Calvinos in one month:
Cosmicomics
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
and another candidate for best-book-ever:
On the Road original scroll # 102 Megi53 - I also just finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler this afternoon! I agree that it was breathtaking - I kept re-reading chapters as I finished them. My favorites were the first chapter and "Without fear of wind or vertigo". I am so glad I read this book. I finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino a few hours ago. Breathtaking! My favorite incipits were "Outside the town of Malbork" and "What story down there awaits its end?" I'm halfway through If On A Winter's Night a Traveler. Sometimes, I read a book and it is so good that when I finish it I turn right back to the first page and read it through again, immediately. This book, I've been going back and re-reading each chapter as I finish because I love them so much. S ... ... it will keep me from others on my to-be-read shelves for months to come.
I'm among those who were completely charmed by If on a winter's night a traveler; it's on my long list of favorites as is The Golden Notebook. Over many years I've replaced my original copy of the Doris Lessing ... From the first chapter of If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino describing the process of going to the bookstore to purchase your copy of If On A Winter's Night A Traveler :
"And thus you pass the outer girdle of ramparts, but then you are attacked by the infantry of Books Th ... #65 Smiley
Gagged you? Really? How come? I've never heard anything but praise for If On A Winters Night a Traveler, so I'd be interested in hearing negative reviews. It is gross?
Speaking of gross, you want to know what is a really disgusting book? Tropic of Cancer. I keep feeling bugs ... #33 jfetting, #42 Joycepa: I'm another big admirer of Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, even own a 1st US edition of it too. #33 jfetting: I found If on a Winter's Night a Traveler bizarre but fascinating. I like Calvino's work a lot. Be interested to hear what you have to say about it when you start reading it. ... my favorite reads of last fall. I hope you enjoy it!
I am starting Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, and probably If on a Winter's Night a Traveler later in the week. mstrust - No I haven't read If on a winter's night a traveller..., although this is the one Calvino title I knew of before joining LT.
I picked up Invisible Cities from a recommendation on this site. ... as the tragic story of animals trying to be humans, it was such an unusual story.
Although, there was enough posts about If on a Winter's Night a Traveler that I read the description and it sounds like a good book. In my TBR queue now.
-- M1001 ... move on to the letter I. Haven't read that many books from the 1001 list that start with I, but I guess my fav was If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, just because it's so different and quirky. Has anyone read any I books that they liked? Why did you like it? Just started with If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino. It's a book about buying and reading books, can it get any better? It's funnier than I expected it to be, and more exciting too. I read Kokoro several months ago. Lovely and elegiac.
How about If on a Winter's Night a Traveler? ... t.
These are kind of the ones that haven't changed over time. I have others that might be dubbed as "current favorites" (If on a Winter's Night a Traveler)... and some "past favorites" (Salinger), but... I dunno. It's a constant shift, you know? Iriley:
I ordered L'Inquisitoire from Amazon. And I also plan to get Si par une nuit d'hiver un voyageur. With this two books and the latest Roubaud (Nous, les moins-que-rien, fils aînés de personne) it should make a good start for my next holiday next June. Sometimes more relaxing to read ... ... As I write this, I need to check that my Italo Calvino books are so tagged. I thought of this when you mentioned If on a winter's night....
You might try doing Touchstones for your works.. This is accomplished by putting cingle brackets around titles and double brackets around ... ... the Peloponnesian War; The Histories by Herodutus; The Mabinogion; The Brothers Karamazov; Pensees; Ficciones; If On A Winter's Night a Traveler; Runaway Horses; The Count of Monte Cristo. Currently reading If on a winter's night a traveler. It's fantastic. My mind is being blown. Please, please give Notes from Underground and If on a Winter's night a traveler another chance!!
They are both very important books to the post modernism movement. Notes challenges they way we view the narrator (as he is slowly going insane throughout the story) and If on a winter's night, ... You might like Italo Calvino. My favorite of his is If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. If On a Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino. It's a little more complicated than just book-within-a-book. You could say that "the books within the book ARE the book" or "the search for the book within the book IS the book." ... boring.
Are there any other books you might have read where the Author themselves narrates the book? Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night's Traveler is one I've heard of that does something similar.
Any Fantasy books that are narrated by the Author? ... shops in London, especially the script of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
A copy of Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler that my first boyfriend bought me
My very well-worn copy of Ayn Rand's We the Living, which I read about 20 times in high school 1. Infinite Jest by David
Foster Dallace
2. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
3. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Stern
4. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
I also ... Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is largely second person. ... is a requisite of second-person narration.
However, the one example I do know of is the beginning of Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler which is a great book. ... Books You Must Read Before You Die and today I bought a few recommended by Boxall et al. The Bell by Iris Murdoch, If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino, and Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson all came from the used bookstore. All looked interesting enough in ... 15. If on a winter's night a traveler, by Italo Calvino
Finally. As far as I was concerned, this was the book that would not end. The people I have asked seem to be split between loving it, thinking it's clever but having trouble reading it, and disliking it. I definitely didn't love it, ... Wasn't If on a Winter's Night a Traveler amazing!
I just finished it for my challenge and was blown away the both the plot and format. Any thoughts? 51. If on Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino ... and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov pp 402
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite satires.
Halfway through If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino which is an incredible read.
 ... hope.
5. Jung: A beginners guide by Ruth Berry
I found this an ok introduction I guess but was not spellbinding.
6. If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino
I loved how this started but did not enjoy most of the book. I found it frustrating and where I guess it was meant ... Stopped at the Book Barn in Niantic, CT and purchased:
Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino
If on a winter's night a traveler also by Italo Calvino
The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Vivian Gornick
Squares and Courtyards: Poems by Marilyn Hack ... I too like Calvino, especially If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Another favorite that I think qualifies is Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale. I wonder if Gene Wolfe's Castleview, subtitled "an Arthurian epic of modern Illinois," is considered MR? ... Kay
And,
"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler."
-- If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino, obviously
"Burning ice, biting flame, this is how things begin."
-- Norse mythology If On a Winter's Night a Traveller- Italo Calvino
  mcglocklin in 1001 Books to read before you die : Which of the 1001 are you currently reading? (Jul 27, 2007, 5:23pm) Hey, just finished Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Truly original and unlike anything else I have ever read. There are 10 opening chapter to non existent novels strewn throughout the narrative, and the idea is interesting, and generally works well. I would recommend this ... Can anyone help me identify some of the real books and authors that inspired the fictional books in Italo Calvino's If on a winter's a traveler? ... to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler."
This, of course, is from a book titled If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, by--you guessed it--Italo Calvino. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, by Italo Calvino
Long March, Short Spring: the Student Uprising at Home and Abroad, by Barbara Ehrenreich
Summer of a Dormouse, by John Mortimer
An Autumn Sowing, by E. F. Benson
Five Seasons of a Golden Year: a Chinese Pastoral, by ... ... effective people by Stephen R. Covey
8. The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, Book 8) by Robert Jordan
9. Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, Book 9) by Robert Jordan
10. Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie
11. Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, Book 11) by Ro ... ... well), Proust's Swann's Way (got to see what all the fuss is about, eh?), and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, because If On a Winter's Night a Traveler... was just so darn cute. ...
What should I do with my life? by Po Bronson
Lord Butler's report: espionage and the Iraq war by Lord Butler
If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino
Invisible cities by Italo Calvino
... - Jonathon Franzen
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
The Castle - Franz Kafka
And almost everything by Nabokov
... etc. One particular unit was attributed to the police battalions, and it just shocked me more than anything else.
7. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
260 pages
It was the opening chapter that really caught my interest. There were all these little bits and pieces ... If on a winter's night a traveler, by Italo Calvino
Snow Country, by Yasunari Kawabata
Love in a Cold Climate, by Nancy Mitford
Orlando, by Virginia Woolf (who, having once read it, can ever forget her description of London in the grip of that deep freeze?)
Winter in Maj ... ... Panov
Ukraine: Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Bahamas: The Tribune Story by Sir Etienne Dupuch
Italy: If on a Winter's Night by Italo Calvino
(These touchstones are wonky this morning!)
I wll be in Fort Lauderdale this weekend where I am sure to spend a lot of ... If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
So far so good! It's a... strange book, where the author interacts with the reader. ;) I finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler a few days ago, which just got more fantastic (in every sense) as it went on. Also, has a great ending. Followed this up by reading Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife. I really enjoy the way she can show so clearly the misunderstandings between ... ... think of The Little Guide to your Well-Read Life? I've come perilously close to buying this before.
LouisBranning - if on a winter's night a traveler is turning out to be a real highlight of my recent reading. Do you have any recommendations for other Calvino novels to read? Killeymoon, Calvino's if on a winter's night a traveler is one of my favorite books, even have a 1981 US 1st ed. of it that's a highly prized item.
I just ran through Robert Graves' WWI memoir Goodbye To All That and really couldn't believe how good it was. And even though this ... Oh dear, here we are all the way from Mid-summer into Fall and no-one has mentioned If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. On the subject of actual books mooched:
If on a winter's night a traveler came yesterday, and was retrieved from the office today. (Usually they just stick them in my mail box.)
marcinyc, I see one or two threads running through your selections.... ;) I hope you and amandaellis both enjoy ... ... what I'm getting rid of, stagger me. How nice we all - in this - have different systems of value! And impeccable copy of If on a winter's night a traveler arrived today, save a previous owner's name on the flyleaf.
marcinyc: how would you describe the different audiences or markets for the ... ... mean by "books-in-books". The tag "books-nonexistent" suggests a book about an invented book, such as Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler, but "books about books" means to me bibliographies, books arts books and that sort of thing. Everything in my library could be ... What books have you mooched?
Are any of them from fellow LibraryThing members?
So far, I'm expecting copies of If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, by Italo Calvino; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon; and The First World War, by John Keegan. I ... I like Allende. I love Infinite Jest, Ulysses, If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, and Tristram Shandy, but while I've read and somewhat enjoyed Rushdie I can't somehow feel comfortable with any of his books to the point where I'd call them favourites or re-read them if something ... I just finished Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks---loved it. And now I'm starting If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino---I'm intrigued and think it might be one of the most unique books I've ever read.
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