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It's not Arthur and George, because I thought that too, and checked... Random stab in the dark here....is it Arthur and George by Julian Barnes? ... Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
It's lovely to have such a wonderful selection to choose from. I must confess I do go to my ... ... avinia
Victory of Eagles - signed too! Yes, it was a struggle, I was going to wait for the paperback, but I succumbed.
Arthur and George
Here Be Dragons
The Book of Air and Shadows
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
I remember MrsLee saying once the feeling of ... ... ton
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Will o' the Mill by R L Stevenson
Howard's End by E M Forster
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes Arthur and George by Julian Barnes ... U-Bahn Typ B - found secondhand, bought because I have a thing about Berlin public transport, well worth the money.
Arthur and George - picked up in a secondhand shop because I like Julian Barnes and hadn't read it yet - turned out to be agreeable but nothing special.
In the company ... Oh yes, I quite enjoyed Arthur and George...! Karen, try Arthur and George if you like Julian Barnes. It is a moving novel, with two very interesting main characters: Arthur conan Doyle of sherlock holmes fame, and an anglo-Indian lawyer, son of a vicar (George). It was Arthur and George so here's my line.
"A sealed envelope is an enigma containing further enigmas." I think it's Arthur and George.
Edited to put in touchstone. Now I have to find my copy and check it. I tried to read Arthur and George, got about 1/3 of the way in, and just could not motivate myself to go on. So, I guess that is my clunker for the year, though I didn't finish it.
Like mariekat, I have no memory of the ones I merely read a chapter or two of and gave up on. I too hated The Gathering. It did nothing except bore me. I didn't find Arthur and George interesting either. ... House by Charles Dickens
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Runners-up:
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
... The last post was getting a bit unwieldy at 274 messages. Clean slate ---
On my immediate list:
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Accordion Crimes by Ann ... ... see >1
(thanks GreyHead I wasn't aware of the new style!)
Having finished Suite Francaise on Thursday, I'm now onto Arthur and George by Julian Barnes (more 'Britishness'!)
Arthur and George ....alcottacre: try it with "and" instead of the ampersand. Author touchstones have been wonky for quite some time now. Arthur and George ... 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 Adventures in Wonderland
The Way We Live Now
The Story of Lucy Gault
Suite Francaise
... Two in the mail from a friend on the other side of the country:
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid.
I love sharing books! September was a good month! I think I would have to say Snow Flower and the Secret Fan but I am still reading Arthur and George, so this might change ?? >30 sorsopkel . . I have read about half of Arthur and George now and have found it really good. There is cruelty to horses and cows, but it is not dwelled upon and not too descriptive. Haven't read Water for Elephants yet so can't compare them for you. #10, 13 and 15... I have been very curious about Arthur and George, but I heard there is cruelty to horses. Considering I couldn't make it through Water for Elephants should I try Arthur & George? I second the comment on Arthur and George. It took me a while to get with it but I ended up loving it. I'm stuck in Bangkok for another week and have completed rereading Jitterbug Perfume and am now trying again with Doctor Zhivago. If A and G was hard to get into, well I've been trying Doctor ... I've started Arthur and George but haven't quite got into the rhythm of it yet. After that will probably be Atonement. Finished Salt Rain - not impressed. About to start Arthur and George by Julian Barnes. Its been on my list for a long time. Hope it lives up to its reputation! The Lizard Cage, by Karen Connelly. Hands down.
Julian Barnes' Arthur and George was my second favorite (not that you asked!). ... great books listed so far. For me, my favorite book was The Lizard Cage, which is truly amazing. Second favorite was Arthur and George. #43 lindsacl: Arthur and and George was one of my top two books last year. Glad you liked it. I finished Arthur and George last night, which was thoroughly enjoyable. I'm now reading Heat and Dust, which won the Booker Prize in 1975. I really spend too much time in England. I just finished North and South and started Arthur and George. Not just the same country, but at least at the beginning, roughly the same time period. Sheesh. ... last night ... rather ho hum actuallly. Part of my problem might have been that I was eager to dive into my next read, Arthur and George. ... South - review, a classic exploring English classism.
44. Arthur and George - review, highly enjoyable historical fiction. My second favorite book of August.
45. Heat ... ... Valleys of the Assassins and scale Brokeback Mountain, with nothing but A Map of Glass to guide them. Nevertheless, Arthur and George set forth in The Confident Hope of a Miracle. #Jotamac: Arthur and George was one of my top two books last year. I hope you like it. ... A Thousand Splendid Suns which I enjoyed a lot, but didn't bowl me over like The Kite Runner... Tomorrow I start into Arthur and George, as it were! I have Julian Barnes' Arthur and George on my TBR list and plan to read it in the next few months. I am not familiar with Barnes but recently stumbled across another of his books in a box in my basement: A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters. Not sure how it came to be there but am ... I got a late start but I've been watching a lot less TV thanks to the list.
1. 84, charing cross road
2. arthur and george
3. confessions of an ugly step-sister
4. the haunting of hill house
5. heart of darkness
6. heart-shaped box
7. the historian
8. journey to the ... Couples by John Updike
Oscar and Lucinda
Arthur and George
Oryx and Crake
The Professor and the Madman ... then started Dark Moon Defender, a fantasy novel of the Twelve Kingdoms, by Sharon Shinn. Am also listening to George and Arthur by Julian Barnes on audio. ... The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks. It was pretty good but I couldn't attach emotionally to it.
LOVED Arthur and George by Julian Barnes. I'm reading Arthur and George by Julian Barnes I left Cape Bretton and am now in England with Arthur and George who are so far keeping me entertained. ... a diverse bunch...I am not particular whom I drag down with me):
Margaret Atwood
The bronte sisters
jane austen
george rr martin
irving stone
john irving
phillip pullman
Favorite co-dependents (both recent and from my dark, lonely past; but is one ever alone with a book? ... katylit,
If I'm rembering correctly from Arthur and George, and if the timeline there is accurate, he was already into spiritualism when he married Jean. And that was well before WWI.
I just found an online timeline that says that he joined the British Society for Psychical Research in 1893 ... Arthur and George was my personal Book of the Year for 2006 so I won't mind if it wins. A Long, Long Way is a very good novel about an Irish soldier in WWI. I quite liked Slow Man but wouldn't give it a prize. Of the others I'm most interested in reading Out Stealing Horses because it's ... And the shortlist is...
Arthur and George, Julian Barnes
A Long Long Way, Sebastian Barry
Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
O ... ... of the way through with an absurd and unnecessary co-incidence and a weak ending;and Julian Barnes's quite delightful Arthur and George - highly recommended.
Achhh - ridiculous problems with Touchstones yet again: for instance 'The Magus' won't touchstone but 'The magus' does! I took 19 ... ... the unknown story and My name is Red but am overwhelmed by work constraints and related reading. Have to speed re-read Arthur and George and The Observations for Reading Groups but really want to start one of the eighteen books sitting by the side of the bed.
Due to (yet another) ... ... unremarkable, and certainly not deserving of the lavish praise that poured forth.
I picked up Flaubert's Parrot and Arthur and George because they looked interesting. I enjoyed both, without anyone having told me why I should. :-)
Reverse snob, I guess. ... end of the address. Delete them and it works OK.
Personally my prejudice works the other way. Because I had heard that Arthur and George by Julian Barnes was heavily promoted on the Richard & Judy Show I was initially hesitant about choosing it. Even though I knew Julian Barnes was a ... ... McMaster Bujold stopped writing her books about the Universe inhabited by Miles Vorkosigan!
Wow, the enthusiasm for Arthur and George here has convinced me to move it higher up the TBR stack. I've got to get around to entering more books soon. I'm woefully behind in cataloging the ... cathf: I LOVED Arthur and George and could not put it down. As I've said before, the differences of opinion on LT are really interesting, especially those novels that divide readers about 50/50. The Historian, for example, which lots of us hated was also enjoyed by many. Well I just finished Arthur and George last night (finally, it took about 2 weeks just because it never lured me to pick it up again particularly). It was an intresting story, fine writing, good characterisation - nothing wrong with. It just wasn't an especially satisfying read for some reason. It ... #91, 121, 122 and 124
Arthur and George was one of the best reads I experienced in 2005. Julian Barnes is one of my all time favourite writers who has never disappointed and always surprised this reader. He is such a good writer he can even make recipes a transport of delight. I would urge ... #121:cathff: I've recently read it i.e. Arthur and George and found it interesting but not a great read. What interested me were the attitudes of the time. You couldn't really like either Arthur or George could you. #121
Hi, Cathf ~ I found it difficult to get into Arthur and George too, so I put it aside in favor of something else and haven't gotten back to it yet. After you are further into it, please let me know if you think it's worth another try. I'm reading Arthur and George by Julian Barnes, which - Ozzy (91) might be interested in as the Arthur character is also Conan Doyle.
It's good, but I'm finding it strangely difficult to really get into.
I'm 3/4 way through Arthur and George by Julian Barnes and have tasted the first few pages ofThe Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber. Have enjoyed the former and looking forward to the latter as the Victorian setting of the St Giles area of London interests me and the author has ...
Small Island by Andrea Levy*disregard the mad touchstone
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
1599: A Year in the life of Shakespeare by James Shapiro
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
Lots of stuff appearing on touchstones which I haven't ... Saturday by Ian McEwan
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J.Gaines
Remember Me by Trezza Azzopardi
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Digging to America by Anne Tyler Uniform Justice by Donna Leon
The Master and Margarita byMikhail Bulgakov
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
and one non-fiction The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome
It depends on my mood and if I'm tired or not as to which I turn to. ... I hope the winner is someone I know nothing about so that I can discover a new writer.
MY WINNER: Julian Barnes, Arthur and George
MY SPECIAL FAVOURITE: Simonetta Agnello Hornby, The Almond Picker
MY SHORTLIST: John Banville, The Sea; Sebastian Barry, A Long, Long Wa ... ... Boys - Neil Gaiman
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
Luck in the Shadows - Lynn Flewelling
Arthur and George - Julian Barnes
The Seven Dials Mystery - Agatha Christie
The Stupidest Angel - Christopher Moore
Sabine's Notebook - Nick Ba ... ... a very long list, most of which probably have very little chance of winning, including three of the four novels you list. (Arthur and George has a slight chance but I just can't see it winning). I think we have to wait until the shortlist is announced before any bets can be made. ... ies
The Harmony Silk Factory
Ten incarnations of Adam Avatar by Kevin Baldeosingh
The Waiting Time
The Sea
Arthur and George
A Long Long Way
The Time in Between
Children of the Day by Sandra Birdsell
A Cause Untrue by David Blacker
Three Day Road
Praying ... ... this afternoon. An interesting mix see here: http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/2007/Longlist.htm
I've actually read Arthur and George, Anansi Boys, The Historian and Labyrinth and there are a few others catching my eye!
I'm adding them in clumps to spare my brains! I found Arthur and George absolutely gripping from the start. Very well-written and a plot to keep you going - I loved it. Marilynne Robinson's style is unique - rather meditative. At first I was put off by this aspect of Gilead but the gentle tone of the narrator gradually drew me in - I ... ... in prose fiction is no less real than film "illusion"! If that makes any sense at all...
I would love to hear about Arthur and George and Gilead, dylanwolf. Both are books that I have been strongly considering reading. I even recently mooched Gilead on BookMooch. ... let me know how you get on with The Book of Illusions. It's my favourite book by Paul Auster.
I've just finished Arthur and George by Julian Barnes and The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin. Currently half-way through and enjoying immensely Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. ... and I'm now on The Fellowship of the Ring. I've also downloaded The Two Towers and The Return of the King, and have Arthur and George and Dreaming the Eagle on the i-Pod, waiting to be listened to. One of my favorite books-on-tape is The Screwtape Letters read by John Cleese ~ he's ...
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