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Garden of the Last Days by Andre Dubus ... about half-way in, it's okay, not great, the "strip club" is actually rather boring ... but it's keeping me interested enough to continue. I agree with flissp about The Slap--I'm going to look for it.
I have Garden of Last Days, which I hope to get to soon. ... Put everything else aside when you start to read this one because you might not be able to stop til you're done.
#77
The Garden of Last Days
A sad, dark, depressing story taking place days before ... From Audible.com:
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
From Doon with Death by Ruth Rendell Yesterday I finished Cormac McCarthy's The Orchard Keeper and before that I read My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk and The Garden of the Last Days by Andre Dubus, so my friends are surprised my current fiction choice is Dead Until Dark by Charlene Harris, the first novel in the Sookie Stackhouse ... ... first novel and ironically the last of his novels for me since I have now read the whole catalog.
I recently finished The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus. book 26 was Scream for Me by Karen Rose
book 27 is The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
Was this the Garden of Last Days? Because if so, I received 20+ notifications saying that I didn't win the book, and one notification that I did. 7. Contemporary Fiction
1. The garden of last days : a novel: Andre Dubus III
2. Hold tight: Harlan Coben
3. When will there be good news? Kate Atkinson
4. Little giant of Aberdeen county: Tiffany Baker
5. The Condition: Jennifer Haigh
6. The Beach House: Jane Green ...
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
Beginner's Greek - James Collins
Dangerous Laughter - Stephen Millhauser
The Garden of Last Days - Andre Dubus III
Beautiful Children - Charles Bock
... and Deborah, I guess I am not your twin :-)
I loved House of Fog and Sand and am currently listening to his latest, The Garden of Last Days and enjoying it too. One key difference in the reading, I think, based on D.'s comment, is that for me it was not Kathy's book, but Colonel Behrani' ... I finished The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus. It was a dark, well-paced observation of a group of people struggling with their demons, in the days before 9/11. Readers seem to love or hate this book but I enjoyed it. Anyone else read this yet?
For musicmom- I also finished El Libris. T ... ... So Many Books, So Little Time. This was a very entertaining journal, that all book-nuts should relate to.
I started The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III. It's a promising beginning. He's a powerful writer. I know it has received some strong reviews. Anyone read this yet? Any ... This is the objective:
The Garden of Last days by Andre Dubus
Lush life by Richard Price
and hopefully I can start Feast of Crows by George R.R. Martin
Wish me luck! Sitting on my night stand waiting patiently while I finish The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier are...
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus
AND
Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation by Natalie S. Bober (because I've decided that I have to read a biography of each ... ... Monday in August! I recently re-joined BOMC. These were in the mail:
Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus
Lush Life by Richard Price
Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst
Rome 1960 by David Maraniss
Boy, I got some reading to do!! Signed copy of The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III ...
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Not sure how I feel about this book, each chapter was told from a different character's perspective - there's April, a stripper who brings her daughter to work with her when she can't find anyone to watch her; Jean, the woman who normally babysits ... Currently reading The Garden Of Last Days. My only complaint would be that it's slow-going but I'm still enjoying it. ... sometimes a final-print-run book when being sent to reviewers. (Rare, in my experience.)
Welcome! Join right in! Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III? Touchstoning a book or an author helps us biblioholics find a fast way to a title we're looking to assess for possible reading. ... I'm going to soon finish Uglies which I'm loving and then it's on to one of my other library books - either The Garden Of Last Days, A Thousand Splendid Suns or The Time Traveler's Wife. I just hope I can keep renewing these until I finish them, and that no one has a hold on any of them! ... Strout was one of the best novel-in-short stories I've ever read, I loved Olive and think most other readers will too.
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III was a page-turning blockbuster of a novel, probably not for everyone, but for me it was riveting down to the last page.
De ... ... of hand, I come here!
Two new ones for me in the last week or so - both big fat ones:
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
The Garden of Last Days
and I see my son, who has been urging me to read Heart of Darkness, has put a copy right at the top of my TBR-Soon! pile (as opposed to my ... ... took a crate of books the kids have outgrown to Half Price Books thinking to make a little cash. Instead I came home with The Garden of Last Days and Crooked Little Vein. Oh well. I'll be entertained anyway. ... every year since his untimely death in 2004. Two new books I read this month were both dedicated to Brown, (Andre Dubus's The Garden of Last Days and Jonathan Miles' Dear American Airlines), and thought we might kick off this rejuvenated Deep South group with one of Brown's greatest novels F ... Picked up The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III at Costco today. Resisted buying more, though sorely tempted. I finished The Garden of Last Days, and it is, quite literally, a story that kept me way up past my bed time and on the edge of my chair. Story telling of the best kind. I spoke with a friend today who thought that the ending was rushed, and we got into quite a friendly argument about it, but for ... ... what Charlie Parker said when asked why he liked country music: "Listen to the stories."
And speaking of great stories, The Garden of Last Days has been taking away from things I need to get done, but the story is so compelling, moves so fast, that I just hate to stop reading. In an author ... ... that this is the 2nd book I've read this month that's been dedicated to Brown, the other being Andre Dubus's tour-de-force The Garden of Last days, and I love it that Brown's finally getting the props he always richly deserved.
... is just so great, and hope you find it as warmly spectacular as I did.
#70, SeanLong: Sean, the first 200 pages of The Garden of Last Days is pure adrenalin, one of the most exciting set of sequences of any book I've read this year, but it was the ending that really got me, have ... ... literature. It was so haunting, so surreal, that I went back and read it again.
I'm 100 pages into Andre Dubus III's The Garden of Last Days: A Novel, and am officially sucked into the story. I have a feeling I'll rip through the next 400 plus pages in lightening-like speed if the story ... I only just finished Andre Dubus's The Garden of Last Days and can't recommend it enough. And yes, there'll be those who call it manipulative, or maybe just too down-and-dirty for their personal taste, but I don't think any reader who's hungry for a great story will be able to put this ... I wrote to W. W. Norton, publisher of Andre Dubus III's new title, The Garden of Last Days and they answered in less than 24 hours...it was published on June 2, 2008 and will soon be available on Kindle!
Dubus also wrote the excellent HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG.
A very responsive publisher! ... right down to the end, and will be recommending this one for a long time. Right now I'm 50-plus pages into Andre Dubus's The Garden of Last Days and have been knocked speechless so far, wow.
Brought home some arcs today: Gardens of Water by Alan Drew, A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs, The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III, The Aviary Gate by Katie Hickman ... 2/29/2008
Two Old Women by Velma Wallis finished 3/6/2008
The Race by Richard North Patterson finished 5/1/2008
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III Finished 8/3/2008
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom Finished 8/29/2008
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson Finis ...
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