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... of Freedom by James M. McPherson,
The Little Grey Men by B.B.,
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell,
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak,
The Black Fawn by Jim Kjelgaard,
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen or Karen Blixen,
The Little Princess by Frances H ... Second Doctor Zhivago
Nominate Les Miserables I would like to second The Pickwick Papers and Howards End.
I would like to nominate A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Doctor Zhivago. ... the battle of Stalingrad. To me the human characters are much more interesting.
nannybebette:
Thanks for your info on Dr. Zhivago. I assume I'll read it later. Just now I'm going to read some of my unread Norwegian books on my TBR pile, and some Steinbeck (in Norwegian), I think.
(I've ... ... same time.
kjellika;
If you liked and appreciated Life and Fate, it might be well worth your time and effort to read Doctor Zhivago. It is rather political and is also a love story based on the time of the Russian Revolution. So the storyline is not the same at all. But of the two, I ... ... characters as well.
I think the chapters about them are quite "people main-charactered".
By the way: I haven't read Doctor Zhivago yet. Should I? ... book to look up all the authors, poets, painters, etc. that are mentioned in the book. This one reads much faster than Doctor Zhivago did for me, but then I have also read much more about WWII than the Russian Revolution.
Now I must get back and finish Part 3.
belva ... to know and getting involved with them other than perhaps Victor.
I recall reading that this book is much better than Doctor Zhivago but I am finding it difficult to compare the two. Doctor Zhivago is about people in the Russian Revolution and in a totally different space. Life and Fat ... Lovely. Yes, I agree that this are right and wrong times for a great book. The late 70s was my Doctor Zhivago era. I should reread it now (if only they would stop publishing new books...or I would stop discovering new authors!) I finished Miss Pettigrew Lives for a day. Cute and sweet, but not sure it belongs on the list.
Next up is Dr Zhivago. I also checked out The Sea on cd. I'm not good at listening to books. I start thinking about other things and then miss important parts. I tried to listen on my commute ... ... by Harper Lee,
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston,
The Land of Spices by Kate O'Brien,
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Little Grey Men by B.B.,
The Black Fawn by James Kjelgaard,
The Little Princess by Frances Hodgeson
Burnett ... ... Union?
And can we include Brodsky and Nabokov?
This will be an excuse to read one of my very favorite novels, Doctor Zhivago for the umpteenth time... (from which my 2nd daughter got her name...) And I can dust off my Pasternak collection!
I have an anthology of 20th century Russ ... Doctor Zhivago ... 1957; the sensation it caused was soon obscured by the publication (in W. Germany?) and translations of Pasternakʻs Dr. Zhivago. Pasternak he wasn;t, but "Bread Alone" became unjustly under-rated. Border crossings - books from countries other than the US or UK
A. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak - Russia
B. Independent People by Halldor Laxness - Iceland
C. Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Spain
D. The Vagrants by Yiyun Li - China
E. Anthills of ... ... the kids (Japan)
TBR possibilities: Out of Africa (Kenya)
September - Russia, 20th century
TBR possibilities: Doctor Zhivago
November - Turkey
... spoil your own reading pleasure. Suffice to say I regard it as the definitive 20th century Russian novel, over and above Doktor Zhivago. ... of Wrath, The Long Valley, Cannery Row, East of Eden, Travels with Charley, The Pearl
1958 - Boris Pasternak: Dr. Zhivago
1957 - Albert Camus: L'Etranger, La Peste, The Fall,
1954 - Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea, Death in the Afternoon, For Whom ... ...
* Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy
* The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
* Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
* Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak These might not be in order of apprecation. Also I probably forgot a few.
Kristin Lavransdatter
War & Peace
Dr. Zhivago
Lonesome dove
Raintree County
Gone with the Wind
Grapes of Wrath
Look Homeward, Angel
The Rains Came
The Awakening Land trilogy ... I've read Doctor Zhivago, Advise and Consent and Lolita. I own Only in America but haven't read it yet. I am reading All Quiet on the Western Front and Doctor Zhivago next year for my War category, but they would work for classics as well. I nominate:
East of Eden
and
The Grapes of Wrath
I second Dr. Zhivago I would like to nominate
Dr. Zhivago
and second
Sea Wolf.
--BJ ... a desert island, which three books would you want to find there?
1. My King James Bible
2. Gone With the Wind and
3. Dr. Zhivago
Your house is burning down and you can only rescue three books, which would you grab?
1. My King James Bible
2. my 1908 edition of Evangeline and
3. the ... Portugal
Romania
Russia - Doctor Zhivago, TBR; The Winter Queen, TBR
San Marino
Scotland: non-fiction - The Sea for Breakfast, 2009 ****
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain: fiction - Don Quixote, 2009 **
Sweden: fiction - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2009 ****
Switzerland
Tu ... Doctor Zhivago is on my list for next year. I've actually never seen the movie. I just know that it's loved by a lot of people. ... one (or more) of the big Russian novels, but I don't actually have any desire for them. Last year, I got half way though Doctor Zhivago, and thought I might try it again after watching the movie, so that's an option. This is a category where I'll really be hoping for suggestions.
#11 The ... ... Who Dared
4. One Woman's War: Letters Home
5. 1066: The Year of the Conquest - oops, read early, need another
6. Doctor Zhivago
7. All Quiet on the Western Front
8. Vienna Prelude
9. Scoop
10. Briar Rose - own
11. Agincourt: Henry V
12. War Trash ... s..nice!
#3- I read The Birth of Venus a few years ago. It was good, but I haven't read anything by her since. Should I?
Doctor Zhivago is definite must read! I'll admit the first time I read it, sometime in high school, I found it dense. But I tried again and loved it. 1969 miniseries also ... ... Ride the Wind
Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds
Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago
I have recently ordered Sara Donati's Into the Wilderness and I dislike Philippa Gregory.
Pleaseeeeee help? I want to be awed by something fresh! ... ... me now that I can't find it aaaargh.
I'm usually pretty good at finishing books apart from "classics". I started reading Doctor Zhivago about 25 years ago and still haven't quite finished it. I'm planning on taking The Children of Hurin on holiday to Portugal with me so I'll see how I get ... ...
Aesop's Fables
Anna Karenina
Brideshead Revisited
Cannery Row
A Christmas Carol
Cry, the Beloved Country
Doctor Zhivago
... or Master and Margarita is chosen, then I'll definitely participate as I'd be reading both of those soon anyhow. If Dr Zhivago is chosen, then I'll do my best to source a copy and make some reading time. Etc.) It's just a matter of shuffling my reading commitments elsewhere (several ... I will second (and third and fourth, if I could) Haruki Murakami. I also notice that no one has mentioned Doctor Zhivago - definitely worth reading. I think I'll participate whatever book is chosen.
I've voted for The Master and Margarita, but Doctor Zhivago or Buddenbrooks would be a great read as well, I imagine. And Doctor Zhivago gets edged out yet again! I think I'm going to just go ahead and read that on my own. If Master and Margherita wins I'll look into it but I must say I don't get along with the Russians too much. With Zhivago I already know and love the story so I figured it'd work. ... Russians?
Not sure, but I'll have to go for French just because I can't keep up with the names in Russian literature - even Dr Zhivago which I loved on TV!
18) Roth or Updike?
Never read either.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Never read either, but I have a David Sedaris book or two ... ... Russians?
Not sure, but I'll have to go for French just because I can't keep up with the names in Russian literature - even Dr Zhivago which I loved on TV!
18) Roth or Updike?
Never read either.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Never read either, but I have a David Sedaris book or two ... ... to decide when to nominate/vote.
I think 34 books are suggested so far.
Books suggested by more than one member:
Doctor Zhivago (6)
The Master and Margarita (5)
The Woman in White (4)
Madame Bovary (4)
Buddenbrooks (3)
The Idiot (3)
Tristram Shandy (3)
Don Qui ... The Stranger Albert Camus
Slow Hand: Women Writing Erotica Michele B. Slung
The Long Hot Summer Rochelle Alers
Dr. Zhivago Boris Pasternak
The Spy Who Loved Me Ian Fleming ... Wrath (unless it's already been done?)
I'll second (or third?) :
Don Quixote
The Woman in White
The Idiot
Doctor Zhivago
I also loved Madame Bovary when I read it last year! ... busy at work lately.
So I'll just second (and hope I find the time to read!):
The Master and Margarita
Doctor Zhivago
The Sound and the Fury
Don Quixote
Possession
(Is that too many?)
(edited to fix touchstone) ... nd:
The Master and Margherita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Martin chuzzlewit by charles Dickens
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes How about a totally fun read like Dr. Zhivago? Grin! ... *
42- Memoirs of Hadrian
43- The old man and the sea *
44- Lord of the flies
45- The lord of the rings
46- Doctor Zhivago
47- Manon des sources
48- One hundred years of solitude
49- 2001: a space odyssey
50- The godfather
51- The year of the hare
52- Interview ... ... OOOPS. *blush*
I heard a homage to Jarre on my local NPR station the other day. I had no clue he also scored the movie Dr. Zhivago. One of my favorite scores of all time! And Dead Poet's Society, too. ... and movies. I'm saying that because it is SciFi does not mean it is automatically 'less' than so-called proper literature. Doctor Zhivago is a great read and a great movie IMO, but so is Aliens IMO ... they are just different. ... kind of time to just immerse myself in the great books. I liked this one a lot -- even better than War and Peace, but Dr. Zhivago is still my No. 1 Russian book. Maybe influenced by the movie?
I'm going to experiment here with my new ticker. I'm having trouble getting the dark ... I second Doctor Zhivago. A recent choice would be Monumental Propaganda by Vladimir Voinovich. Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago - one of the great novels of the 20th century ... now - I read some before but out of order so I'm starting at the beginning.)
For global reading, what about Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina for Russia, March by Geraldine Brooks from Australia and last there is Louise Penny from Canada with her Chief Inspector Armand ... Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
my copy is one of the original 1958 US editions, but I read it probably 30 years ago ... The Forsyte Saga is a voluminous book (even the first volume of trilogies).
What about Pale Fire?
Buddenbrooks and Doctor Zhivago are quite loong novels as well.
#62 (and others)
I agree in picking the next two books (the top two) now. We SPEND a lot of time VOTING! (#67). We could ... ... the Life of Ivan Denisovitch and you know that was published without incident and was a best seller for years - but that Dr. Zhivago became this huge production of smuggling efforts and wasn't even available in the former Soviet Union until after the fall...well, you wonder.
But two ... Doctor Zhivago
Anna Karenina
Forsythe Saga The Woman in White
Villette
Doctor Zhivago I'll vote les miserables
I wouldn't mind re-reading the woman in white
Doctor Zhivago
I need to get hold of the Leopard soon!
edited to make touchstones work My votes are:
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Forsyte Saga by John Galswoirthy
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
I've read Doctor Zhivago. I really enjoyed reading it and read it as my pre-Christmas book (always a good film to watch around Christmastime!) anybody read Dining on Stones by Iain Sinclair?
yes indeed! anyone read Doctor Zhivago?
eta: trying to make the touchstone work I nominate:
Doctor Zhivago
The Forsythe Saga (The first volume of trilogies) I'll go with all of the above... ;) Okay, if I *must* choose (and it's a tough choice!):
Doctor Zhivago
Dance to the Music of Time
Anna Karenina
Plus: Falling Man by Don DeLillo, and The Forsythe Saga by John Galsworthy because it was getting some good comments last year and I ... I'd like to nominate Doctor Zhivago. I keep nominating it and people like the idea but then it slips through the cracks. Might this finally be the month we read it? :) ... Anna Karenina as well after all these glowing reviews - how is the Russian name situation in it though? I struggled with Dr Zhivago simply because I couldn't keep track of all the names!
>124 porchsitter55 - my copy of Firmin - about a rat who eats books and learns to read - is getting ... ...
Angela's Ashes
Black Dahlia
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Brideshead Revisited
Clockers
Cry the Beloved Country
Dr. Zhivago
Dry White Season
Election
Endless Love
Ethan Frome
Great Expectations
How Green was my Valley
In Her Shoes
Kite Runner
Last Temptation ... From callmejacx library, I chose Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak because I have never read it. ... Nabokov, 2007
164. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, 1980's
165. Justine, Lawrence Durrell, 1969
166. Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1968
167. On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1967
168. The Midwich Cuckoos, Wyndham, 1960's
169. Voss, Patrick White, 1990's
170. The On ... ... Nabokov, 2007
164. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, 1980's
165. Justine, Lawrence Durrell, 1969
166. Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1968
167. On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1967
168. The Midwich Cuckoos, Wyndham, 1960's
169. Voss, Patrick White, 1990's
170. The On ... I've read War and Peace, but I have never read Doctor Zhivago. I'm assuming it is not a repeat of Doctor Zhivago, so how about an"E"? Doctor Zhivago? I've just finished Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak which I thoroughly enjoyed, and have now started Pickwick Papers. I read Christmas Carol last Christmas but still fancied reading some Dickens over the holidays. ... 22
v. Brideshead Revisited Finished Apr 5
vi. Dubliners Finished May 31
vii. The Aeneid Finished June 25
viii. Dr Zhivago
ix. 1984 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.
Read in 2005. 7. Classics
1. Little Women
2. Animal Farm
3. Great Expectations
4. Doctor Zhivago
5. Dracula
6. A Midsummer Night's Dream
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
9. To Kill A Mockingbird
... Zagajewski
However, sometimes the still of night is the perfect time to fall completely into a deep world or story:
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Falling Man by Don DeLillo ... ... lit. experience. I wanted to scatch my eyes out reading The Brothers Karamazov and almost died of cold boredom during Dr. Zhivago. So, a pleasant surprise so far. ... february)
2 das kapital volume two karl marx (22 march- 31 march)
3 das kapital: volume three karl marx
4 doctor zhivago boris pasternak
5 lolita vladimir nabokov (29 november-2 december)
6 moll flanders daniel defoe (20 january-22 january)
7 an american tragedy ... Jody -
Well, Doctor Zhivago should certainly counteract all that Christmas cheer! It's a great book, but the mood it sets you in might not be a festive one. Enjoy! ... unravelled with an old advent calendar as a regular Christmas reread and as my new book for this year I am going to read Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. I don't know if any of it is set at Christmas but it does involve lots of cold weather and snow so it should still be a nice mood setter. ... are non-english names in a novel, the reader was assigning nicknames or guy 1, guy2.
A while back I started reading Doctor Zhivago - lots of Russian names. I didn't finish it (darn), but the names sure slow things down. I've been riding around Russia in a train with Dr Zhivago for a couple of weeks now, but this morning landed on Madagascar from The Sapphire Sea for what looks to be a fun-filled adventure. ... of weeks - then took it back without ever opening it up. Just too intimidating. Right now, I'm about half through with Dr Zhivago, and it's going OK, so maybe next year I'll be ready for another Russian. There are plenty of places in my 9 categories where BK would fit. Give me a heads up ... ... becomes a group read. Either way, I'll be reading, group read or not.
Otherwise, I go back to my original suggestion of Doctor Zhivago if you guys are willing to Russian again.
Recommendations of large tomes I've already read but wouldn't mind following a discussion on:
Les Miserables
... Talbin, I'd also like to read Vanity Fair and Dr. Zhivago. I've read The Odyssey but would be up for a reread... ... I wrote on the last "what should we read next" thread: I like Ivanhoe, The Odyssey, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Dr. Zhivago. A few from past votes that I wouldn't mind revisiting are Wives and Daughters, Vanity Fair, and The Count of Monte Cristo.
Having already read Portra ... ... "what should we read next" thread - it still stands:
I like Ivanhoe, The Odyssey, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Dr. Zhivago. A few from past votes that I wouldn't mind revisiting are Wives and Daughters, Vanity Fair, and The Count of Monte Cristo.
Having already read Portrai ... ... so I think that I have a copy of that around here somewhere. I think that maybe they made a movie of that. I also loved Doctor Zhivago and have been thinking about rereading it sometime soon. I have never read The Master and Margarita, but it seems like everyone loves it. Other ... ... it and enjoying it. I still don't know if I liked it or not.
And Russian lit? I loved The Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago. I tried Crime and Punishment and, much to my embarrassment, couldn't get into it. I'd love to know what you think. I'd like to try the Brothers Karamazov ... ... Leavitt
30. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
31. Pirate's Price by Darlene Marshall
32. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
33. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
34. Beyond the Highland Mist by Karen Marie Moning
35. Devoted by Alice Bor ... ... Norway with Kristin Lavransdatter, Denmark and France in search of the Templar Legacy, and just arrived in Russia with Doctor Zhivago. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh
Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Ambassadors by Henry James
The Making of a Marchioness by Francis Hodgson Burnett 7) Dr. Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
8) P is for Peril - Sue Grafton I'll pick Dr. Zhivago. I found it in the TBR file of callmejacx. >7 No, I was not thinking about Dr. Zhivago, but I have some books that are Dutch translations from other translations. >5 Are we really talking a Dr. Zhivago which was written in Russian but first published in Italian?
That is actually the pice of trivia that most would find more interesting. After all, everyone knows Pasternak was Soviet, but how many folks know which country first published the smuggled ... ... Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4/5 stars
Russia
Not too sure what I want to read next. I was thinking about reading Doctor Zhivago but I don't know if I'm ready to read another Russian novel so soon. Hmm... Finished Crime and Punishment last night. I'm not too sure what I want to start next. Maybe Doctor Zhivago? It'd be nice to read one of the shorter 1001 books to change things after having just read C&P and Don Quixote. Some suggestions:
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Or Vanity Fair, Dr. Zhivago, The Count of Monte Cristo. And maybe Don Quioxte.
Personally, I struggled a little with Moby Dick. But I see that geneg is offering cetology lessons, it could be a interesting choice ...?! :)
I would also enjoy reading Dead Souls or Doctor Zhivago. I have started them both a couple of times, but never finished either. ... ahead at the end, while I'm moving in the middle of October, but don't think that's a problem.
@ 47: My choice would be Dr Zhivago because that's on my shelf already an really needs to be read. A group will certainly make it easier. ... book. What are your suggestions?
My suggestions would be as follows:
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Germinal by Émile Zola
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
I ... ... doesn't seem long enough to sustain a group read. That's just me, though.
I like Ivanhoe, The Odyssey, Tess and Dr. Zhivago. A few from past votes that I wouldn't mind revisiting are Wives and Daughters, Vanity Fair, and The Count of Monte Cristo. ... and start voting?
For my part, all the suggestions sound great, and I won't add my own, but Crime and Punishment or Doctor Zhivago sound particularly good. I'm not very good at the Russians and hopefully, joining with other like-minded readers will stop me giving up about thirty pages ... ... to vote on it.
I'm currently reading Crime and Punishment so that would be nice to see on the list. Plus, I have Doctor Zhivago coming up on my TBR list so that would be fun to read as well.
Or, anyone up to reading Notre Dame de Paris?
So many books to recommend. :) ... James Joyce, Ulysses; W.B. Yeats Collected Poems
Russia: Tolstoy, War and Peace and Anna Karenina; Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago, Chekhov's plays, especially Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard
United Kingdom -- oh where to start?? Chaucer, Malory, Shakespeare, Milton, Behn, Austen, ... TheTortoise... too funny. Sounds like you got a good deal on it. I am sure you have room for one more book.
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
My mother loved this movie. I rather buy the book than watch a movie. I really ought to try and remember to pick this one up. Three classic historical romance titles:
"Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak
"Anna Karinina" by Leo Tolstoy
"Lorna Doone" by R.D. Blackmore
Also: "At the Going Down of the Sun"
by Elizabeth Darrell ... by Salman Rushdie
Brazil -- anything by Jorge Amado
Mali -- Sundiata
Russia -- Anton Chekhov' s plays, Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Cuba -- The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano by Margarita Engle
... was no Cause for Alarm, despite the fact that The Bride Wore Black and loudly complained "I Married a Dead Man."
Dr. Zhivago decided this was a Case for Three Detectives. So he recruited Miss Pinkerton, The Professor and the Madman to solve the Murder in the Madhouse.
During ... ... When I met my husband (second semester of college) the only novel he and I had in common (outside of required reading) was Dr. Zhivago--instant connection! ... English by Angela Livingston, Research Professor at Essex University. Written in Moscow in 1910, nearly 40 years before Doctor Zhivago, Evening bears the influences of the impressionist paintings of Pasternak's father as well as the Symbolist movement in Russian poetry. It centres on a poet ... Great list, Marian, but only the last two fit the category. Peyton Place was published in 1956. Dr. Zhivago in 1957, Raintree County in 1948
Not picking on you---A Room at the Top and Lucky Jim were written in the 1950's as well.
The Sand pebbles (1962)
The Reivers (1962) by Wi ... Dr. Zhivago Boris Pasternak
Raintree county Ross Lockridge
Peyton Place Grace Metalious
Couples John Updike
The Ugly American Lederer & Burdick I succumbed to Dr. Zhivago and Wind in the Willows. Just couldn't help myself...well, I did help myself, but the credit card isn't happy. ... When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation,
Metamorphosis, and Development - Lois Rostow Kuznets
17. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
18. Lectures on Literature - Vladimir Nabokov
19. Lectures on Russian Literature - Vladimir Nabokov
20. Wittgenstein: ... ... edition. I think we would be at a considerable loss (or at least I would) if we did not have Folio editions of Tolstoy, Pasternak, and Marquez. Let's hear it for more Folio translations! Would that be Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago? (Doc Z was one of my dad's fav movies.) ... tedious.
Although, I have fond memories of War and Peace, I am just not sure about Russian Lit. Between Brothers K and Dr. Zhivago which I read recently --- I don't know, tough going for me. ... Breckinridge (384)
15. In Cold Blood (408)
16. To Kill a Mockingbird (456)
17. Breakfast at Tiffany's (467)
18. Doctor Zhivago (486)
19. Justine (488)
20. Lolita (496)
21. The Story of O (506)
22. Lord of the Flies (508)
23. For Whom the Bell Tolls (587)
24. The Power ... Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Books with an occupation in the title.
Friday The Rabbi Slept Late (And, of course, all of Harry Kemelman's titles)
Too Many Cooks
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Judge is Reversed by Frances & Richard Lockridge
The Collector
The Historian
Shoes of the Fisherman
The ... ... Chimney (Nancy Drew--I think at last count, when I stopped re-reading it about 40 years ago, I had read it 14 times.)
Doctor Zhivago I've read quite a few of these; Inside Russia Today, Doctor Zhivago, Anatomy of a Murder, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and Lolita. I remember only the first and last. I may have read Kids Say the Darnedest Things, as that was another one that was kicking around the house, but I reall ... US F I C T I O N
1. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak 2,071 copies on LT
2. Anatomy of a Murder, Robert Traver 195 copies
3. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 8,212 copies
4. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis 132 copies
5. From the Terrace, John O'Hara ... ... Silly me.
Here are a few more possible romances:
Gone with the Wind
Rebecca
Anna Karenina
Atonement
Doctor Zhivago
Fear of Flying
Lady Chatterly's Lover
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Reader
Wuthering Heights Finished Beneath a Marble Sky today, which I really liked. Solid four-star novel. Also finished yesterday Doctor Zhivago, which wasn't as phenomenal as I'd hoped it would be. Definitely worth reading though.
I'm just about to start Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - I've been wanting to ... #84 - I didn't really like them either, so don't feel bad, Seanie.
I'm reading Doctor Zhivago. Currently more than halfway through and liking it more as I go along. It's a bit tedious in parts, but I think it will be worth reading. Since I was too lazy to get the book out of my bag last ... ... store and $10.60 bought me:
Dog Stories by James Herriot
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Walden and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau
Tartuffe and Other Plays by Jean-Baptiste Moliere
Memoirs of a Geisha ... ... n
Blood and Roses - Helen Castor
Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
Shield of Three Lions - Pamela Kaufman
The Venetian Mask - Rosalind Laker (my ER book)
This is all over the space of ... ...
13. Little women Louisa May Alcott
14. Raintree County Ross Lockridge Jr.
15. Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
16. Dr. Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
17. Collected Short Stories by Anton Chekov
l8. The God of small things by Arundhati Roy
19 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
... ... Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them." -- Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago. ... were all big readers, and with one exception, I was allowed to read any book on the shelves. The one exception was Doctor Zhivago; I think that my mother thought it might be too sad for me, but I'm not sure.
I was in the 5th or 6th grade when my brothers and I read The Hobbit. That ... ... were all big readers, and with one exception, I was allowed to read any book on the shelves. The one exception was Doctor Zhivago, I think that my mother thought it might be too sad for me, but I'm not sure.
I was in the 5th or 6th grade when my brothers and I read The Hobbit. That ... Well, I went to the library, I looked at Dr. Zhivago, then I looked at it again, then I left with The Tattoo History Source Book . Maybe this isn't the year for Zhivago after all. I haven't read Dr. Zhivago, but I read and loved Transit of Venus. It was so long ago that most of the plot has completely left me, but my lingering impression is of consistently beautiful language -- I remember going through the book thinking, "What a wonderful way to describe that." In fact ... ... other books I read were Shirley Conran's Lace 1 and 2 (in the same book - hated it), The Thorne Birds which I liked and Dr Zhivago which I liked but it didn't suit being read in the summer.
... we added the extra 's' after being accused by my in-laws of picking a 'communist name" - this was 1982 (it comes from Doctor Zhivago, the book, not the movie). Anyway, welcome. I have always wanted to read Dr. Zhivago but have never gotten around to it. Maybe this is the year to try! ... I found two lovely editions that called out for me to take them home . . . The Robber Bride, by Margaret Atwood, and Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. These are the first books I've bought this year . . . I made it to the 13th before caving into the pressure to Buy A Book. Now I ... I also vote for Gone With the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird, and will add Dr Zhivago, all of which I consider great movies in their own right. Yet... all of these books were better.
I wonder if part of the equation is whether one reads the book before or after seeing the movie. I don't ... #24 Nickelini -- Dr. Zhivago is actually fairly beautifully written; but all style, no substance. The story and much of the incessant philosophizing is dull as dishwater. There is not much pay-off for how hard one has to work to read it and follow along. I did a full review sans spoilers on LT ... #22: JHowell
Sorry to hear that Dr Zhivago was a disappointment. What was it that you didn't like? Was it boring? Poorly written/translated? Or ?
I was looking forward to that one, though I'm not sure I've ever sat through the whole movie. Finished Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak - a disappoinment; I am reading Vanity Fair by Thackeray now -- good so far, but quite thick. I am still slogging away through Dr. Zhivago - not loving it. I was looking to read Vanity Fair next, but my brain may need some lighter fare. I am reading Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. A little slow going but starting to become enjoyable now ~ pg 200 or so. requires a little brushing up on the Russian revolution. jhowell, have fun with Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, and though it's a trifle slow developing, is finally a terrific book. ... He is very hit or miss for me - yet I feel compelled to keep reading his work inexplicably.
I think I will be starting Doctor Zhivago this weekend. ... here to mention that Pasternak was a very fine and highly innovative poet and that, despite the fame and popularity of Doctor Zhivago in the West, it's his poetry that's most appreciated in Russia and it's books like My Sister, Life, which influenced Madelstam and Tsvetayeva among other ... ... one. I just wanted to share two apparently wonderful love stories that both left me totally cold. Transit of Venus and Doctor Zhivago both failed to really engage me with charaters I felt worthy of betrayal. I finished Doctor Zhivago but only as some kind of penance for my lack of ... ... the following;
1. Exodus by Leon Uris just finnished reading Armageddon; a novel of Berlin which was excellant
2. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.
3. Hawaii by James Michener
4. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
5. Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell ... ... Town Called Alice - Nevil Shute
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
A Bridge Too Far - Cornelius Ryan
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
A Bell For Adano - John Hersey
Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Red Badge Of Courage - Stephen Cr ... ... books: Out of Africa, Pride and Prejudice (the Colin Firth version, natch), The Hours, Room With a View, Orlando, Dr. Zhivago, Sense and Sensibility, and even The Lord of the Rings (though I usually watch that one with my family).
I'm usually disappointed by films made from ... Both A Tale of Two Cities and Doctor Zhivago are novels about revolutions sparked by conditions of desperate poverty and injustice which rapidly degenerated into bloodbaths.
A Tale of Two Cities is a novel of the French Revolution. Charles Dickens published it in serialized form in 1859 ... ... 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 Z for about 20 years now... ... other Russian greats" (pg.398)
Wilson, of course loved Turgenev.
Also, this typical Nabokovan smirk on Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago "a piece of pulp fiction, regrettably written by a poet he admired..." (p.403)
Wilson, again, giving way too much credit to the man Nabokov thought a "...l ... ... classics & in no particular order
Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset
Raintree County Ross Lockwood
Dr. Zhivago Boris Pasternak
A Tree grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
To kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Thousand Ac ... ...
And hasn't Depressaholic been pushing The Railway? Though my favorite trip through the steppelands to date has been Dr. Zhivago's. ... Peter J. D'Adamo's Eat Right 4 Your Type.
Whew! I won't list what's in the two bookcases on the wall behind me.
Doctor Zhivago is in the stack of books on the bedside table in the other room.
... (everyone here is invited), I have added a long list of novels to my "must read" list, and I am working my way through it. Doctor Zhivago is the one I'm reading now, inspired by some of Miriam's comments and my recollection of A Tale of Two Cities. I wanted to compare these, because both ... The Museum Guard
Doctor Zhivago
The Warden
The Barber of Putney by J B Morton
A Tenured Professor ... top ten are from Bowker's Annual/Publisher's Weekly.
1. Exodus by Leon Uris, 625 own this with 6 reviews.
2. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 1403 owners with 11 reviews. It was ranked #1 in 1958. I own, but have not read, although my wife did.
3. Hawaii by James Mi ... ... I bought Men at Arms: a novel of discworld and a book about cricket ties whose name escapes me at the moment. I put down Doctor Zhivago to try again with Terry Pratchett. I've tried before with The colour of Magic and finished it but found it hard going. I love most sorts of fantasy and ... Having just finished my reread of HP in tíme for 7 I picked up Doctor Zhivago and a couple of bits of paper fell out from my honeymoon in the Maldives almost 11 years ago. So I started again at the beginning and have to say that I'm finding it easier this time. Unfortunately my copy of His Maje ... ... considerably, or perhaps not at all?
I am going to reread Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. It occurred to me these would make interesting comparisons. I have read both, but too many years ago to compare them effectively. On my way home, I read the ... ... references to the peasants in both novels were quite deliberate, perhaps central to his purpose in writing these novels. Doctor Zhivago is from a later period, but might be the most relevant extension of Tolstoy's themes, since it takes us to the period when the continuing oppression of the ... ... time.
In Little Women, it was Jo March. In Jane Eyre, I identified with the plain, bookish, independent Jane.
In Doctor Zhivago I thought much about love, loyalty, poetry and the struggle between community and individuality. In The Handmaid's Tale it is everything from oppression, ... ...
My watershed novels are (presented chronologically as they appeared in my life):
Little Women, Jane Eyre, Doctor Zhivago, The Handmaid's Tale and...possiblyThe Idea of Perfection.
It's possible The Count of Monte Cristo figures in there also, around the same era as Zhiv ... As well as Doctor Zhivago and War and Peace, two among my favourite books, I would like to add All quiet on the Western front by Erich Maria Remarque on the horrors of World War I. ... have powerfully affected me and been important at various times in my life. They would be:
Little Women, Jane Eyre, Doctor Zhivago, The Handmaid's Tale and The Idea of Perfection.
While my first four are readily familiar, the last might not be. It's a story about history (all ... ... of Gallipoli (story is told from a British viewpoint).
Ok, not a recent read but one of my all-time favorite books, Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. Set during the (rather confusing) Russian revolution and subsequent Civil War. I suspect most everyone is familiar with this story from ... ... it has been been many books read since The Translator. And yes, I agree about the poetry - I could not help but think of Doctor Zhivago in the respect of creating and including poetry written by one of the characters (although this is, of course, not the only other books which do this).
Per ... ... a little naive (and very young) at the time. This experience is why books like The Handmaid's Tale, Fahrenheit 451, and Doctor Zhivago mean so much to me, why reading has become even more important to me and why "liberal" means more to me than just how I make my moral choices.
When I ... ... homeland literary militia would have already enlisted troops to memorize one book each...
I've volunteered for Doctor Zhivago...
... flawed. I would have much preferred that instead of releasing somewhat dubious (IMHO) titles such as "Beau Geste", "Doctor Zhivago", "Ben-Hur" or "The Robe" that RD had released more Dickens, Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe, or H. G. Wells instead. OTOH, I quite like the Cla ... ... suggest things for me - and now LT gives us (potentially) thousands of people to ask.
Looking at your list, I'd vote for Doctor Zhivago.
The older I get, the more I regret the time I've wasted reading ephemera. The classics are well-regarded for a reason. ... Gabriel Oak in Far from the Madding Crowd. But even before that, I fell for Yuri and his love for both Tonia and Lara in Doctor Zhivago; though it was the film that first did it for me and not the book, which I read a few years later.
Oh, and Margaret Forster's Georgy Girl was in ... Well, I enjoyed Doctor Zhivago, both the book and the movie (it is a classic old film, though perhaps not quite as old or quite as classic as Gone with the Wind), but have to admit that when I read it a long (long) time ago, Gone with the Wind didn't quite do it for me. But I think you'll find ... OK, that spelling got the wrong Doctor Zhivago - by Pasternak.
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