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... The Atom Station by Halldor Laxness (new) - Got this to read while in Iceland, but found it disappointing after loving Independent People last year, it all felt a bit too surreal and stylised with too little substance.
34. The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas (book club) - well this is ...
Several folks indicated that they were interested in the reaction that my book club would have to the novel Independent People . We met last night and it was by far one of the best book discussions that we have had in a while. They all agreed that no one should read the forward before beginning ...
143, libraryrobin, I'm with karenmarie (159) in hoping that you will post your group's take on Independent People .
I've read it twice, for two interrelated book groups. My church used to have two groups: a pretty serious group and a lighter group. The serious group read the book and all ...
#143 libraryrobin - I think I had a similar reaction when I finished Independent People . I, too, read it for a bookclub. I'll be interested in hearing how your group liked/disliked it.
I'm about 60 pages away from finishing the marathon read World Without End by Ken Follett. I was ...
I finished Independent People last night. I still have no idea what to say about this novel. Wrenching is definitely one word and hysterical is another. I am looking forward to book club on Tuesday so that I can hear what my friends have to say. Picked up The Tender Bar last night.
I am still reading Independent People . Fabulous, but not for the faint of heart.
... 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 ...
I am about halfway through Independent People . I am loving the read but am seriously questioning some of my responses to the main character. Appalled laughter has bubbled up more than once.
I am about 80 pages into Independent People . It's next to the last book on my table. No comments to make yet.
... time, I've been reading a mix of Icelandic literature and self-help/relationship books, along with some photography.
14. Independent People , Halldór Laxness
A beautiful introduction to Icelandic history and literature. A sad story, but worth the time.
- Voler dans les plumes, Florence ...
29 and 42......Independent People is one of my all-time favorites!
29 libraryrobin, just a reminder, Independent People is the best novel.
Robert
I am in the home stretch of A Prayer for Owen Meany. On deck is Independent People , our book club choice for the month. Midnight's Children will have to wait for a while.
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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robi ...
(50 years or so a go, Independent People was one of the 4 or 5 easiest hardcov ers to obtain 2nd hand in the Greater Boston area. In the past few decades I havenʻt seen it in any store (there still are a few) that has 2nd hand books.)
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
>129, 130: Okay, you've convinced me; I'll read Hunger and Independent People this month. Thanks!
I also loved Independent People .
... inappropriate for a polar read (Iceland is below the Arctic Circle), I think you're missing something if you don't read Independent People . When my profile had greater decoration I listed it there as The Best Novel; I've read it twice very happily, and I personally know several others who ...
... up four books from Borders this morning:
Hunger by Knut Hamsun: recommended by kiwidoc, I'll read this instead of Independent People for this month's Reading Globally theme read
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway: the newly restored version, with additional entries, was ...
I had heard that about Hamsun, and so I decided to read Laxness' Independent People for the Reading Globally monthly theme read. But, your description of Hunger was compelling, especially from a medical standpoint(!), and I think I'll read it first, and maybe bring Independent People with me ...
... of Cures last night, and submitted a review. Today I'll read Chess Story, then get back to An African in Greenland and Independent People .
... sites of medical importance in history in the city by district, and six walking guides to medical London. I'm also reading Independent People by Halldór Laxness for the Reading Globally monthly theme read (Polar Regions), and The Song of False Lovers by Sylvie Germain.
... and Sunday) in the hospital. After tonight's shift I'm off for the rest of the week, so I'll have time to get back to Independent People and An African in Greenland, my current books. It's been a slow reading month so far.
... have a least a couple of hours to read, and I'll bring a few books, including the two for my Reading Globally monthly read, Independent People and An African in Greenland, The Thing Around Your Neck, the new collection of short stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Bad Science by B ...
... African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie and Independent People by the Icelandic Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness, both for the Reading Globally monthly theme read (Polar Regions).
I'll read the novel Independent People by the Icelandic author Halldór Laxness, the winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize for Literature, and An African in Greenland by the Togolese author Tété-Michel Kpomassie , a nonfictional ...
... this month's Brooklyn Rail Independent People by Halldór Laxness: recommended by multiple LTers
Knowledge of Hell by Antonio Lobo Antunes: I'd never heard of this book by the great Portu ...
... this month's Brooklyn Rail Independent People by Halldór Laxness: recommended by multiple LTers
Knowledge of Hell by Antonio Lobo Antunes: I'd never heard of this book by the great Portu ...
I am reading Halldór Laxness' The Atom Station. I've read his Independent People and Iceland's Bell, so I'm fairly sure this one will be good as well.
For what you say was not a great reading week, it looks pretty good to me. Glad you liked Quartet in Autumn.
I read Independent People many many years ago and really loved it. I can't say much about it, because I don't remember much, other than I retain very positive feelings about it.
... later this year, even though I know it is not really required.
I will be interested in seeing your thoughts on Independent People . Iceland's Bell was pretty good and I would not mind reading more of Laxness' works.
... long drama.
>8: I read Laxness' The Fish Can Sing earlier and it's one of the top books so far for this year. I have Independent People sitting on the shelf awaiting the right mood.
... anything. The gap of which I am most conscious is the poetry I haven't read.
23) What is your favorite novel?
Independent People
24) Play?
Possibly The Tempest
25) Poem?
Buffalo Bill's by e.e. cummings
26) Essay?
So many are exquisite; I have no favorite.
27) ...
... anything. The gap of which I am most conscious is the poetry I haven't read.
23) What is your favorite novel?
Independent People
24) Play?
Possibly The Tempest
25) Poem?
Buffalo Bill's by e.e. cummings
26) Essay?
So many are exquisite; I have no favorite.
27) ...
... anything. The gap of which I am most conscious is the poetry I haven't read.
23) What is your favorite novel?
Independent People
24) Play?
Possibly The Tempest
25) Poem?
Buffalo Bill's by e.e. cummings
26) Essay?
So many are exquisite; I have no favorite.
27) ...
Hi Violetbramble - I suspect that if you do not like Independent People , this will not be to your liking. It is not plot-driven and depends upon its descriptions of people and place to provide the allure. I heard Independent People was his best.
The Fish Can Sing sounds good. I'll add it to the wish list. I have attempted to read, twice, Independent People . I even took it on vacation to Iceland with me hoping I'd be more inspired to read it there. I couldn't get passed the seemingly endless chapters about sheep, sheep poop and sheep ...
... (recently published by Archipelago Books in the US), and Independent People .
Hmm...I was planning to read the Einstein biography later this year, so that I could hand it off to a good friend and his wife. Maybe I'll ...
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I should perhaps have started reading this author with his famous Independent People , generally considered his best book. However, The Fish Can Sing is beautifully written – essentially a coming of age story about an orphan boy ...
... Horan
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Conjurer's Bird by Martin Davies
Others that I would second are Independent People , The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, and The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell.
Others I'd recommend are The Road, The Glass Castl ...
... Mary Doria Russell; we have not yet done Dreamers of the Day (we will be doing a life of Gertrude Bell instead).
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Have fun,
Robert
... Laxness's first major novel. Published when he was 25. It is not of the same quality of what I consider his 3 masterpieces--Independent People , World Light and Iceland's Bell or even of Salka Valka which is also excellent. Great Weaver is a bit biographical--as I understand as a young man ...
... comes immediately to mind), I read things I wouldn't have read otherwise. Two stunners this year were The Road and Independent People . As many suggestions as I get through LT, I would never have picked those books from what I read here.
We meet for 2 hours, have snacks or a meal, ...
Beware of Introductions, too - I started reading the introduction to Independent People by Halldor Laxness and when he started talking about a key scene that occurs about 2/3 of the way through the book, I put it down, but of course I kept waiting for that scene and of course it colored how I ...
... a jerk or, according to one report, a clown. If he said anything important it is available elsewhere.
The best novel is Independent People .
Robert
... Dust, Evelyn Waugh, 1980's
118. *Burmese Days, George Orwell, 1970's
119. Auto-da-fe, Elias Canetti, 1980's
120. Independent People, Halldor Laxness , 1970's
121. Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner, 1980's
122. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1960's
123. Eyeless in Gaz ...
... son are trying to reach the coast and their conversations and experiences are riveting. I found this book very hopeful.
Independent People by Halldor Laxness about an Icelandic crofter in the early 20th Century. Bjartur of Summerfields is an independent man, which is both admirable and ...
January 1, 2009 Top of the TBR pile
The Master and Margarita – Bulgakov
Independent People – Laxness
The Prospector – LeClezio
Dead Souls – Gogol
Madame Bovary’s Ovaries: a Darwinian Look at Literature – Barash
The Last September – Bowen
Mosquito – Tearne
Sca ...
... reads are, in no particular order:
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
The Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series by M.C. Beaton
... I Should have Read by Now: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.
1001 Books to Read Before You Die: Independent People by Halldor Laxness with honorable mention to The Quiet American byGraham Greene.
Biography/Memoir: The Glass Castle by Jeanette Wall.
...
... neers!
Here are my best books of 2008 (so far)
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara - Pulitzer Prize Winner of 1974
Independent People by Halldor Laxness - Nobel Prize for Literature 1955
The Road by Cormac McCarthy - Pulitzer Prize Winner of 2007
The Quiet American by Grah ...
... whether I liked the book or not and give several reasons. Some of my reviews are short, some are long. I just reviewed Independent People by Halldor Laxness and I had such strong feelings about the book (I loved it), that my review is sort of all over the place.
I do not go to ...
Hi all:
November was a strange month reading-wise. I was stressed for 3 weeks reading Independent People . It consumed me yet I put it down twice for more than 3 days each time to read other things to free my mind up, as it were. In order of least to most favorite, here are my books.
Funn ...
Hurrah! I finished Independent People by Halldor Laxness. This book is not for the faint of heart. It took me 20 days to read it - an amazingly long time for me. I read a few other books in the meantime, but still...
I have to think about my review. Whew. What a stunner.
Have you read any books by Halldor Laxness, the Icelandic writer. The Atom Station and Independent People are two of his works. I can recommed The Atom Station.
... so don't have to worry about it any more.
I'll report my books later today - I'm going to cheat a tad and finish up Independent People at lunch today and count it for November.
And yes, let's have some kind of year end discussion, best-of-the-year thread. It can sort of develop as we ...
... episode - the one with the Ministry of Silly Walks. I almost laughed myself sick seeing it again.
But I didn't finish Independent People like I wanted to for November. I have 48 pages to go out of 482. I still may count it for November anyway on my 75 book challenge for Book Of The Month ...
#109 karenmarie: Good news is the Panthers pulled it out. Let me know how you like Independent People - it looks very interesting.
#110 TadAD: Steelers won lopsidedly (which kind of surprised me), but as I am also a Steelers fan, is good news. Bad news is next week they go against the Cowbo ...
... favorite Nobel pick as it happens is a Scandinavian--Iceland's own Halldor Laxness (1955). I'd particularly recommend Independent People , Iceland's Bell and World Light. Other favorites of mine include this year's winner Le Clezio--I have all his translated novels including the early ...
... done yesterday at all, and haven't so far today either. After the game is over I'll go off to the library and read some Independent People .
Beeg - the recipes are on their way!
I've taken a brief respite from Independent People to read 2 Edmund Crispin mysteries and The Amish Cook by Lovina Eicher and Kevin Williams, my November ER book. I've reviewed it and it's a wonderful book.
If any of you are bakers, I'll be glad to e-mail her Sourdough starter ...
... is the best of all Nobel literature laureates--at least if you're reading one of the following--all of which are epics--Independent people , Salka Valka, World Light or Iceland's Bell. Le Clezio has been a favorite of mine for a long time and I was very happy when he won the Nobel this ...
#69 richardderus - Angela Thirkell is on my list.
I'm taking a very temporary break away from Independent People - it's very dense and requires lots of quiet time for me - and have read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Buried for Pleasure by Edmund Crispin, and am reading The L ...
... to all the wonderful books described in the threads...
Thanks karemarie for recommending The Solitaire Mystery and Independent People --- on to the HUGE tbr mountain they go.
I am almost 3/4 of the way through Independent People by Halldor Laxness. A marvelous book so far.
I'm still working on Independent People . I usually breeze through books, but this one deserves a slow, thorough savoring.
I'm also not reading anything else right now, which is unusual.
Well, here it is November 17th! I've had a slow reading month because the book I'm reading now, Independent People by Halldor Laxness is wonderful but slow going. Can't rush through it at all.
I've read two other books.
Hope everybody's having a good month, in life and in reading. See ...
The Trial for 'Group Reads - Literature'.
+ I'm planning to read Independent People (Norw. "Sin egen herre") soon.
... wonderful - Shakespeare: The World as Stage and The Mother Tongue come to mind.
I'm progressing nicely on Independent People by Halldor Laxness. This is not a book to just skim or read for a few minutes at a time, so I have to have enough time to focus and concentrate. It' ...
... right now, and I just may put it in a second category to help myself along (it fits in both 1001 Books and Award Winnners - Independent People by Halldor Laxness.)
I may or may not get everything read this year, but it's been a great ride so far.
3 read Classics I Should Have Read ...
#33 lg - Independent People is wonderful. I am enjoying it immensely even though I don't have Norwegian relatives or even Icelandic relatives.
I recently read The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman which was very good. It wasn't really a biography in any meaningful way, but once I ...
#118 - karenmarie, Independent People is not only one of my all time favorites, but also one of the most memorable reads and conversations in my book club who are currently in their 16th year of monthly conviviality, intellectual stimulation, and yummy desserts!
... one of my favorite authors and A Judgement in Stone is my favorite book by her.
I'm currently about 100 pages into Independent People by Halldor Laxness. It's beautifully written.
... rarely getting in bed before 6am and most nights (days?) not before 8am.
I will add both The Solitaire Mystery and Independent People to Continent TBR. I will look for your views on the latter once you have had a chance to read it.
The Solitaire Mystery was very strange and creative and thought-provoking.
Now on to Independent People for December's bookclub meeting.
Hi christiguc!
Congratulations on completing your 888 challenge! What did you think of Independent People ? I have been seeing good things about Laxness.
--BJ
ETA Oops! I thought I was on the 50 book challenge page! I hope that I will be able to finish my 888 Challenge before the end of the ...
Next, for my December bookclub meeting, is Independent People by Halldor Laxness.
I'm reading The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder and it's good but not stunning. Next is Independent People by Halldor Laxness for my December bookclub meeting.
I just started The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder last night and am really enjoying it.
Next up will be Independent People by Halldór Laxness.
... Jostein Gaarder last night. I'm still working on The Power Makers and The World in Six Songs.
Next up will be Independent People by Haldor Laxness.
... Tomasi di Lampedusa - Il gattopardo (1959)
I need help selecting the Nobel Prize winner's books. I'm thinking Independent people by Laxness, My name is red by Pamuk and Blindness by Saramago. As for Le Clézio, I don't have a clue.
Has anyone read some of these books / ...
How about Independent People by Halldor Laxness?
It's not Independent People is it? That's the first thing that comes to mind when I think of sheep, but I don't remember sheep washing...
... by Bohumil Hrabal
18: The Girl from the Chartreuse by Pierre Peju
19: A Heart So White by Javier Marias
20: Independent People by Halldor Laxness
21: Love Invents Us by Amy Bloom
22: Getting Back Brahms by Mavis Cheek
23: Agua by Eduardo Berti
24: The Russian Jerusalem ...
... place. I want to know what Reykyavik/Iceland is like, not read a mystery set there. I do want to read Laxness and have put Independent people on reserve at my library.
... O'Faolain
The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Christine: SOE Agent and Churchill's Favourite Spy by Madel ...
mrspenny, please let me know how you like The Atom Station. I have only read Independent People and Iceland's Bell, but I would like to read more from Laxness. Just which ones??
...
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (again, being westerners, we were so moved by the depiction of the Santa Fe area and ...
... for example. But urban they barely have and certainly not to speak of in the two Laxness books I have read, namely Independent People and The Fish Can Sing.
Independent People , by the way, is the best novel there is.
Robert
... n!!!
Two paperbacks: The Babes in the Wood by Ruth Rendell and The Zero Game by Brad Meltzer
Plus I bought Independent People by Halldor Laxness at B&N on Saturday.
... either. So I get books from Amazon, and the Library's book sale, and the Thrift Shop and BookMooch - and yesterday I got Independent People from B&N (retail - yech) for my bookclub.
Good question. Strange answer.
... all innocent, into a wall, falling backwards, and looking up at the beautiful mural on that wall, marveling.
With Independent People , I knew what I was getting into. Still, it was good. I'm glad I read it and will read more Laxness. However, I approached it with great trepidation ...
An Icelandic-to-English translaton: Independent People by Halldór Laxness
76. Independent People by Halldór Laxness
>15 Having also recently read Independent People , I couldn't agree with you more!
I finished Independent People by my Iceland read. Very good, but it wasn't one of those books that you can breeze through. Sometimes tough-going but definitely worth it.
... Saramago
Sri Lanka - Mosquito (review) - Roma Tearne
Iceland - Independent People (review) - Halldor Laxness
... target="_blank"> Independent People - review
From my review: While Independent People is sobering and often sad, I also ...
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
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Independent People is wonderful. Annix, thanks for the information about learning Icelandic.
I absolutely loved Independent People .
I'm reading Independent People for this group read which I know is the obvious choice, but I thought it would be a good place to start for a part of the world I know nothing about. And I'm about halfway through and enjoying it.
We read Independent People in our book club a few years ago and ended up with some longlasting jokes about barren land, snow, and sheep! Great novel!
#s 19, 80 -- I read Independent People last summer and really liked it. I thought the writing and descriptions of Iceland were beautiful. It was a bit slow-going at first, but before I realized it I was completely hooked.
I met someone from Iceland a few years ago and when I asked him for a reading recommendation, he suggested Independent People . I too enjoyed it once I got into the swing of it. It describes a very different world, but people are people anywhere
I'm reading Halldor Laxness' Independent People and, now that I've slowed myself down and gotten into the rhythm of it, I find I'm enjoying it quite a bit.
... in a distinctive, thoughtful, and deeply entertaining book."
I'll be reading more Laxness soon. Everyone reads Independent People - yet Laxness' other work is as good, perhaps even better.
It is always great to "read" Dosteyevksy. Even if I did read by listening this time, with ...
... rman
Duma Key by Stephen King the only King I've ever wanted to read
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Everything That Rises by Lawrence Weschler
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
etc.
All of your suggestions are great ...
#81 I'm with you on moving to another country. Midnight's Children, The Tin Drum, and Independent People also take us to other regions--and other eras.
I'll vote for Independent People .
... Thomas Mann
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Independent People by Haldor Laxness
... 7
Midnight's Children - 5
The Tin Drum - 5
Magic Mountain - 4
Vanity Fair - 4
The Count of Monte Cristo - 4
Independent People - 4
Les Miserables - 3
The Invisible Man - 3
The Cairo Trilogy - 3
Dead Souls - 2
Howard's End - 2
The Brothers Karamazov - 2
The Betr ...
Madame Bovary, Les Miserables and Don Quixote are at the top of my interests list, but Independent People or one of the Italian books would be interesting as well (I think aluvalibri is right about Italian literature being overlooked; I admittedly know very little of Italian literature)
Is Independent People easily accessible to everyone? If so, that does sound like an idea - I've never read anything from Iceland, besides Bjork's lyrics....I need to get out more.
So far I favor Independent People or Madame Bovary or one of the Italian books. I'd like to stay away from England and Russia and the US. for this round.
#16 - I'd read Independent People too. I was planning on reading it for the Reading Globally Iceland thread that's coming up.
Many of those are good--I would join in the read for any of those I haven't read.
How about Independent People by Halldor Laxness? I've read his Iceland's Bell but think I would need support to tackle this one.
... Hrabal
18: The Girl from the Chartreuse by Pierre Peju
19: A Heart So White by Javier Marias
IN PROGRESS
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (have with me and still halfway)
Collected Stories by Vlaidmir Nabokov (halfway but lost ...
... Het is wel een behoorlijke pil, waar je even ruimte voor zou moeten maken in de rugzak.
En tenslotte nog als suggestie Onafhankelijke mensen van Halldor Laxness. Een fantastisch verhaal over een eigenwijze IJslandse schapenboer.
Een fijne vakantie wens ik je alvast toe.
I read outside, late night when everyone is asleep, with a pipe. I read Independent People during a Maryland winter with snow falling on the pages. The outside part is tricky in Arizona, where summer temps can top 100 even at midnight.
I absolutely cannot read in bed. The reward for that it ...
I only got about a third of the way through Independent People , and it was so long ago I'd have to start over. But with some motivation, anything's possible. I'm not good at finding groups (other than this one), but now that I know about the international group I will look for it.
Count me ...
Wow, that's truly amazing. And I've never heard of Icelandic-Canadian. Anyway, I've had Independent People in my TBR pile for several years, so I'm going to try to read it for this challenge. I know, not the most creative choice, but I already own it. Iceland has always fascinated me. I've tried ...
Reread Independent People by Halldor Laxness the Icelandic Nobelist. Story of harsh poverty in sheepfarming. Lengthy, powerful, and well written, but bleak.
This makes 68.
#11 Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Bjartur of Summerhouses has one goal: total independence. After being a servant for 18 years, he finally obtains his own land, and while ever seeking the land’s improvements, Bjartur and his extreme self-reliance costs his family dearly. He ...
... Cormac McCarthy
Pretty Little Mistakes Heather Mcelhatton
The Quiet American Graham Greene
Independent People Halldor Laxness
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart Gordon Livingston
The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett
Most of us loved Water for Elephants ...
Oops....forgot to mention Independent People for Iceland.
... Heather Mcelhatton
November 2 The Quiet American Graham Greene
December 7 Independent People Halldor Laxness
January 11 Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart Gordon Livingston
February 1 The Uncommon Reader ...
... the most memorable three for me among that crowd will be Mann's Doctor Faustus, Laxness' Under the Glacier (yes, I read Independent People as well - it is truly great, but there is something that really struck a chord in Glacier), and Kadare's Chronicle in Stone. Ask me another day, I'll ...
... of my list.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco--listened to this as an unabridged audiobook and ...
Somebody who has a favorite novel cannot be taken entirely seriously. My favorite novel is Independent People by Halldor Laxness. It has a chronological story line and ideas too.
Robert
... Garcia Marquez
Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Independent People by Haldor Laxness
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
World's End by T.C. Boyle
... Hanan al-Shaykh--I've just gotten a book of hers but have yet to read it. I love the Laxness choice for Iceland though Independent People , World Light and Iceland's bell all are more substantial IMO and all qualify as masterpieces. Again IMO the best Nobel choice ever made. I'll put in ...
I'm in Iceland with Haldor Laxness's Nobel Prize winning Independent People . I'm reading it for a book seminar that meets Tuesday night and fearing I won't get done in time. Wonderful, wonderful book as many people have already said. I want to mark every page or two with little sticky notes.
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#4 Robert--I'm also reading Independent People for a bookclub/seminar.
On the nonfiction side, I'm reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle about her experiment in eating only local foods. It's really opening my eyes to the stranglehold the large seed companies have and to the petrochemical costs ...
... of Philosophies, but I don't think I can entirely ignore opera for long. The church book group has me rereading fiction, Independent People , but we will take on The End of Faith on the first Wednesday of November, which may or may not be fiction.
Robert
I am rereading Independent People by Halldor Laxness. I read it first for a church book group, and we all liked it a lot ("the best novel"). Another book group formed in the church; some of us participated in it too. The first group disbanded. Independent People kept getting mentioned ...
... Trilogy
A Thousand Acres
Earth Abides
Books by Jessamyn West
Green Earth
Books by Bess Streeter Aldrich
Independent People
Under the Glacier
Cider with Rosie
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Out of Africa
Väinö Linna's trilogy - Högt bland Saarijärvis moar, U ...
Well I finished Knit One Kill Two and have started Independent People by Halldor Laxness.
I don't think I've seen Halldor Laxness' novel Independent People recommended here yet. While the main character, Bjartur of Summerhouses, an Icelandic sheep farmer, is male, his deepest, most challenging and most fully detailed relationship is with his adoptive daughter, Asta Sollija and she ...
Thanks for coming over littlegeek. I am glad you share enthusiasm for Independent People It is amazing that I have found 2 other people on LT who are fans and knitters- and Scandinavians.
Of course the HP books have good knitting references - in some other thread there was mention of the new C ...
Iceland. The Independent People by Halldor Laxness. I'm only about 70 pages in but I can already tell that I'm going to love it. It reminds me of Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil only it's more amusing.
I happened upon another novel that features knitting quite heavily: Independent People , by Icelandic author Halldor Laxness. It's a beautifully-drawn, if grim, picture of the insane independence and bare sustenance of the crofting life in the Icelandic countryside of the early 20th century, ...
i forgot this one--It belongs in the top 5, definitely -- Independent People by Laxness
... Collins
Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan LeFanu
The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Colette's Claudine books
Gaudy Nig ...
... Laxness who although a Nobel prize winner doesn't seem to me to get nearly enough attention for 4 great epic novels--Independent people , Salka Valka, Iceland's bell and World Light.
Well, I am in Iceland Against the Day where Independent People and their sheep can live freely without being spied on by people in dirrigibles looking through double refracting Icelandic spar. Unfortunately, it looks like I just missed basbooks here!
I am also in France, laughing it up with ...
There's a recent translation out of Independent People by Halldor Laxness that I picked up based on recommendations elsewhere on LT - well worth reading.
Hello everyone! I just left Iceland via Halldor Laxness' Independent People . I an currently both in the Dominican Republic with Edwidge Danticat and The Farming of Bones, and turn of the century New York with Edith Wharton's short stories. Now that Avaland has told me about Half of ...
Hi Everyone!
What are some of your favourite works by Scandinavian authors?
Mine include:
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
The Dwarf by Pär Lagerkvist
Wayfarers by Knut Hamsun
The Master of Hestviken by Sigrid Undset
Njal's Saga
The Natives of Hemso by A ...
... doesn't fit into their peculiar left or right wing mindsets. Anyway after posting #2 I was looking at a review of Laxness's Independent people written by another reviewer here and what a wonderful job he did of describing that book.
Having given up on Independent People (just didn't catch my interest, so I'll save it for another day), I picked up Lemprière's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk this morning.
Reading (finally) A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes and Independent People by Halldor Laxness.
... Johnson: Holy Land by D.J. Waldie
Richard McCann: Maps to Anywhere
Jane Brox: The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, Independent People
Frank Gaspar: Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i
