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132, that's wierd - I'm 150 pages into Kavalier and Clay and I'm really enjoying it. I also dug out The Golem to follow it up with. Northanger Abbey was a delight, in the end, and very funny, indeed.

My girlfriend is going through Chandler novels like they're going out of style. She also started reading Kavalier and Clay

... large tome. I have a few biggies on the shelves too: The Wizard of the Crow, Kristin Lavransdatter and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. A category of their own is a good idea.

#33 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

... suggestions for good novels about Judaism, Israel, by Israeli authors, etc which aren't so depressing. I had thought of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Girl from Foreign. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

avatiakh Clay is a dark tale. It isn't one of my favorites, still I would recommend reading it.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, for at least the third time. It had been years since I last read it - lent it to my mother to try to get her to read it (unsuccessfully) and only recently recovered my copy. I'd almost forgotten just how good it is.

... Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, and April and Oliver. I think I will try to read Dracula before Halloween. Kavalier and Clay is one of my favorites - I was kind of sad for it to end. This: "Hated Moby Dick" does not help me. I keep trying to get pumped up to read it one day ...

... and the ending is left somewhat open. I enjoyed it more than another of Almond’s works, but I have enjoyed Skellig and Clay more in the reading. Killing Castro by Lawrence Block is another Hard Case Crime by a master of the genre. Block better be a master because in the 204 pages of ...

... 65) Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson APRIL 66) The Doll People by Ann M. Martin 67) Clay by David Almond 68) Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck 69) The Heavenly Village by Cynthia Rylant 70) The Meanest Doll in the World by Ann. ...

... first book by Chabon that I read, and while I liked it, I did not like it nearly as much as I thought I would. I read his Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and loved it! I have read a couple of his since and preferred them to YPU, so you might want to give him another go, Sandy.

... assessment of The Yiddish Policeman's Union. Chabon is a great writer but I sometimes found this to be a hard slog. His Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is a far superior book and I suppose it's unfair to compare all his books to that one. I've read all of Agatha Christie's books ...

... assessment of The Yiddish Policeman's Union. Chabon is a great writer but I sometimes found this to be a hard slog. His Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is a far superior book and I suppose it's unfair to compare all his books to that one. I've read all of Agatha Christie's books ...

"She really ought to know better than to take offense at his secretiveness." The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon " 'You're moving out? You're moving here?' "

... really interesting sentence out of all those titles! I'll give it a go but may add later. In no particular order: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan The Colour by Rose Tremain The Invent ...

"This, as Sammy had known it would, shut her right up." The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon " 'Is this Men's Sportswear?' "

>86 Linda - I had the same experience with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. It went really slowly for me until I got a good 100-150 pages in. Once I got into the flow of the book, it read more quickly, but it definitely wasn't one that I read in one big long marathon. I'd read 50 ...

... President's Secret Service is interesting, though not exactly what I'm in the mood for right now. 9 percent finished. Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay continues. Roughly 15 percent finished. Again, just not in the mood for this right now. When Did We Lose Harriet? is a bit of ...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

... that had been tormenting Sammy's imagination for months seemed all at once to have a shot at getting off the ground. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon " 'He's a foreigner? Where's he from?' "

... to go through the kitchen drawers, working his way around the cabinets until he came up with a pair of scissors." The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon "How had Thomas gotten himself locked out?"

... in Jerry Glovsky's bedroom, he saw that, in his nocturnal reimaginings of the moment, he had badly misremembered her." The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon " 'Do you have to have cheated death?' "

... in retirement and had in fact been considering a perhaps ill-advised return to the stage when the summons had come." The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon "Can you tell me what you were doing in California?"

You have great categories! I'll be interested to see what you put in them. I'm also reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Graveyard Book for my Award Winners category and I absolutely adored Howl's Moving Castle.

#136 teelgee I read Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay soon after it came out. It was a selection for the reading group to which I belong. The best part of the book was the first part in which the author incorporated the Golem story. I will confess that I wasn't that enamoured with the ...

Having just finished having Amazing Adventures with Kavalier and Clay in New York City, I'm returning to the sedate meditations of Gilead Iowa.

I finished the most remarkable Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay last night. Will now return to my regularly scheduled program of finishing Gilead.

Oh, I'm glad you liked Kavalier and Clay! I thought it was excellent as well.

... src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312282990.01._SX140_SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> 66. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. Really amazing book. (4.5/5)

Book #76 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon - Finished August 30, 2009 Joe Kavalier escapes Poland as the Nazis invade. He arrives in the US and partners with his cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic book heroes. In this expansive novel, the boys become men, ...

Award Winners 1. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 2. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 4. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 5. Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann 6. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 7. Atonement ...

I thought I had it on hold at the library but I didn't - do now. I should have it in a day or two - but need to finish Kavalier and Clay for my F to F book group first.

... pace is just right for me. It's lovely writing. Now I have to set it aside for awhile though to read a boy book - Kavalier and Clay - for my book group. I think it'll be easy to pick Gilead back up.

... book. I am loving Gilead, much to my surprise. But will have to put it aside to allow myself enough time to read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay for my book group next week. It's a chunkster.

What a fun set of books you've read. I'm not fond of Kavalier and Clay because it seemed to end repeatedly, but others love it. I have to laugh about Moby Dick because, for some weird reason, I have three copies and have never finished it. However, I read on a thread in this group last year a ...

Tad - Wow! Lots of good choices to add to my TBR. I always enjoy your reviews. I'm especially glad to hear that you liked The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. My book club has that one scheduled for September.

... Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill Jane Boleyn by Julia Fox The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Just put some new books up, sorry but right now I'm not doing out of USA. I've listed Kavalier and Clay, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and many TV show related books.

... Leaves The Blind Assassin Middlesex Fingersmith White Teeth On Beauty Never Let Me Go Bartleby and Co The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Platforme Atonement Snow Kafka on the Shore The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Cloud Atlas 2666 ...

#35 jennieg - I listened to The Yiddish Policeman's Union and thought it quite wonderful. Maybe it's better listened to.

I'd intended to read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay next, but Beauty, (which I loved), has got me craving more beautifully written fantasy. I've decided to dive into Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey instead.

... 18th haven't panned out at all. I read one of them. That said, I think I'll be reading these five books next: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey Kushiel's Mercy ...

61. Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay ... by Michael Chabon Excellent adventure, a pleasure reading with some interesting history--at least involving comics.

... (not counting rereads) 1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 2. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 4. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis 5. Solos by Kitty Burns Florey Observations: - I ...

I am reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 1. I borrowed the book from one of my sons. 2. no cost 3. In order that I can return it. 4. 3 months. 5. Interesting adventures as well as some history. 6. As expected. 7. On page 498/636. 8. ?

... I would have had a problem too, gee, I hope not or I would have missed out on one of my top books of the year. I have Kavalier and Clay sitting half read on my shelf, maybe it deserves another look.

I agree with Cliff on Kavalier and Clay. Finishing it was, for me, a discipline, not a pleasure.

#34: My favorite of Chabon's books is The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, so if you have not tried that one, I highly recommend it.

Maybe it's just me being a fanboy, but I think The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay could eventually become a classic. It's gorgeously written, but not overwrought in its prose. It's a love letter of sorts to another era, and to a particular genre, but still manages to keep the focus on ...

... I did. That being said, it did not stop me from reading several of Chabon's other books which I much preferred to Union: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Gentlemen of the Road, and The Final Solution. Kavalier and Clay especially is excellent, IMHO.

... Union last year and really enjoyed it. I know many have mixed feelings about it, but I thought it was great. I have The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay sitting in the den, waiting to be read. I'm glad to hear another opinion that it's worth the read as I'm looking forward to it.

For the Pulitzer Prize Winners Category: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon My visceral response to this book was "Wow." I finished it, put it down and needed to just think for a second to organize what I thought. I actually agree with many of the reviews I ...

... I've been reading a lot between packing, although now I only have about 10 unpacked books. I already miss them all! 21. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (2000, 636pgs, English) My visceral response to this book was "Wow." I finished it, put it down and ...

Let's see... Nightingale Wood - Stella Gibbons 84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh Put Out More Flags - Evelyn Waugh Love's Labour's Lost - William Shakespe ...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. Read last year.

... that out really well. What I'm Reading Next: I've already started (and gotten about a third of the way thru) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon.

... surprised because this sequel shows more confidence in his writing abilities and more zeal on his subject. I'm reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay now by Michael Chabon, which is great so far, but long, so it might take me awhile to finish. I'm hoping to reinsert myself ...

... about my long list when I keep recommending books as well. Oh, well, I guess it's only fair. I really enjoyed the Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay and my son did too, so I think it has a wide range of appreciative readers.

... you want starting July. What have you been missing? I've put aside some thick books for later - Wizard of the Crow and The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay - and have massively reduced the crime novel intake.

... Foer's Everything Is Illuminated Englander's The Ministry of Special cases Krauss's The History of Love Chabon's Kavalier and Clay

... Foer's Everything Is Illuminated Englander's The Ministry of Special cases Krauss's The History of Love Chabon's Kavalier and Clay

... short story collection where not a single one of them strikes me poorly. They were incredible. Recently read: No. 22: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the best Michael Chabon I have yet read (And I've read The Final Solution and Gentlemen of the Road AND The Yiddish Polic ...

... * 61- The english patient 62- The secret history 63- A fine balance 64- Alias Grace * 65- The hours * 66- The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay * 67- Life of Pi 68- The corrections * 69- The sea * 70- The blind assassin 71- Never let me go *

Your experience with Apocalypse Pretty Soon mirrors mine with Kavalier and Clay--only there were 140 pages reprinted starting two-thirds of the way through the book. I had been struggling with the book until the Arctic section and was really annoyed about the misprint. Especially annoyed when ...

25. The Final Solution by Michael Chabon. I really liked Kavalier and Clay and since reading it, have been trying to get hold of other books by Chabon. I think I might stop now. The Final Solution is, I believe, an affectionate homage to Arthur Conan Doyle. In a ...

Yes to Brave New World. How about The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay?

... c="http://www.deffler.com/lt/number_7.bmp"> Clay by David Almond The words unsettling, creepy, supernaturally eerie, bizarre, spooky and unconventional come to mind when describing this book. Geordie ...

So glad you liked Kavalier and Clay! Great review. I have never got into self-help books. The ones I see seem to be based on one somewhat original idea, or an old idea cleverly phrased -- as in Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus -- and then stretched out for chapter after ...

... Not that you asked, but I loved these three 1001 books a lot, if any of them are of interest to you for your next book: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Cloud Atlas At Swim, Two Boys

To all who have given Kavalier and Clay such thoroughly rousing rounds of applause - I am beginning to feel intrigued. Hitherto, I felt no "intriguement" at all. I simply didn't plan to waste my time with it. Perhaps I must rethink the matter.

... to use the 2008 list for a simple, and maybe slightly fickle, reason or two. Mostly the decision was made because The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (possibly my favorite book of all time) is on the 2008 list, but was unconscionably left off the 2006 list. To make matters ...

I liked Chabon's The Final Solution: A Story of Detection for the prose style, which I thought was very classy. Kavalier and Clay is quite different in style but I was in awe of Chabon's ability to keep me fascinated for the entire length of this hefty book.

... for the first time, in that it plays into his whole genre fascination. Summerland was also ok, but not great. But I think Kavalier and Clay is light-years beyond both of those books.

... reading Peeps, and I wasn't the happiest with the ending, so it was mainly those facts that I found so fascinating. 4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon It took me a month or two, but I finished it, and I'm so happy I did. It really is a pretty good book, ...

I haven't decided not to try Kavalier and Clay, but I have to say that I started reading Gentlemen of the Road when it was serialized in the New York Times Magazine and I really really wanted to like it . . . but I just could get into Chabon's style and gave up. But it would be boring if we ...

Just joining in the chorus on Kavalier and Clay. I loved that book (and, like Bob, just about anything else Chabon has written). Now I'll have to figure out who I lent my copy to so I can read it again!

... reviews. Glad you're careful with the 5/5. I've almost finished the excellent The Radetsky March and today have bought Kavalier and Clay.

I read Kavalier and Clay this summer and loved it as well. There are so many aspects of the story that I feel like it appeals to a wide range of people. It sucked me in instantly, and I couldn't get enough.

Maybe I'll try Kavalier and Clay based on your encouragement. It's been on my shelf for a long time, a gift from a friend whose taste I don't always agree with, and I've been resisting it because I thought I wouldn't enjoy it. But with you giving it 5 stars . . .

Glad you enjoyed Kavalier and Clay -- I did, too ... more than I expected in fact. Love you review of Happy for No Reason ... sounds like true drivel.

... written, it's balanced without being artificially so, it has awesome maps, and was pretty darned comprehensive. 11. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon Beautiful. Thoroughly deserved its Pulitzer. In one word: "crafted". The whole time I was reading I got the ...

... when I was a bookseller and many of my friends were too, the phrase we heard so often about Harry Potter or even The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay was "It's not like reading at all, it's like turning pages!" Well, something tells me that those "readers" are never going to ...

... God Little byDBC Pierre, 2006 324. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, 2007 325. Snow by Orhan Pamuk, 2006 326. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, 2006 327. Fall on Your Knees by Anne Marie MacDonald, 2004 328. Remembering Babylon by David Malo ...

... It's happened to me in this book, An Acceptable Time, Troubling a Star, and The Moon by Night. Also, I need to read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay anyway for English. (for details on why this is numbered the way it is, see message 23)

Good to hear you enjoy Chabon, Stasia. I heard good things about The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay from more people, so I guess I've found a new favorite author!

The Gentlemen of the Road is good fun. I have not read a book by Chabon yet that I have disliked, but his The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is probably my favorite thus far.

I second The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I see you made it through See: Under Love, avatiakh. What did you think of it?

I really liked The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

... 8. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl 9. Atonement by Ian McEwan Edit: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is now in the Finish-ups, and has been replaced with a new Michael Chabon book.

... title itself refers to Hitler's plan to eliminate the Jews, and maybe that isn't common knowledge either? I haven't read Kavalier and Clay, so I can't speak to that.

Yes, I have read Kavalier and Clay. I didn't get that sense of needing to know more about the historical time period in it but I did with The Final Solution. I didn't like the ending of Kavalier and Clay-I found the beginning of the novel more interesting-but I will go back and look at it. I ...

... of the episodes of Foyle's War)" hmm...do you think that applies to other works by Chabon too? My boyfriend read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay not so long ago and he told me that, while he enjoyed the book overall, he was quite baffled by the ending. I haven't had a ...

... my own reading this year I have a bunch on my list, but not a category. I plan on rereading Night (barely remember it), The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I was also considering Schindlers Ark and The Yiddish Policeman's Union. Michael Chabon ...

I have both The Chosen and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay on my 999 list in "Novels That Have Sat on My Shelf For Years." I also have a category for religion, current events, politics, and history, and some Jewish/Israeli themes may find their way into that.

#1 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon I really enjoyed this, it was epic and wonderfully told. A great story of family and loss and laughs all through the eyes of two cousins; two very different cousins, but I really enjoyed it! The ending came about so quickly, ...

I have read Gentlemen of the Road and The Final Solution and liked them, but not The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which I really ought to get around to. I hear it's pretty awesome. I Am Legend in itself was fine, but I bought the movie tie-in edition, which has a whole bunch of Mathes ...

... it nearly as much as I thought I would, but I have certainly appreciated Chabon's other works like Gentlemen of the Road, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Final Solution more. Perhaps one of those would be more to your liking. I really liked I Am Legend, although I did not ...

>33, kurohyou, thank you for the recommendations for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Picture of Dorian Gray, especially the added "favourite books ever!" for emphasis :-), because I need a little push to convince me to tackle Kavalier and Clay because it's so big and it's ...

... by Antoine Wilson The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Icefields by Thomas Wharton The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

... I guess--Thomas Mann's Der Tod in Venedig was a pain to read. As for Jewish fiction/non-fiction, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon is one of my favorite books (if I had to pick one favorite, that one might be it). I also loved Adam Langer's ...

We have quite a few of the same categories (1001, non-fiction, Australia, graphic novels)! Kavalier and Clay and Dorian Gray are two of my favorite books (ever!--for emphasis), so I hope you like them! Also, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is my second-favorite Chabon book, which it seems ...

I don't have such a category, but a lot of my favorite books have Jewish themes or authors (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The History of Love, Crossing California and The Washington Story to name a few), so I'd like to see what you guys end up reading. I'll be reading The ...

The Disch is a collection, The Wall of America; the Chabon is The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. The Jeunet & Caro short is called "The Bunker (of the Last Gunshot)".

I posted a review today of The amazing adventures of kavalier and clay. My review is on my blog rhapsodyinbooks which is here

I've read Genji. From the new list - has anyone read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon?

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. Read earlier this year.

... by William Gibson finished 2009 May 2 20. Lost In A Good Book by Jasper Fforde finished 2009 May 8 21. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon finished 2009 May 26 22. Proof by David Aubu ...

... 8: Pulitzer Prize Winners 1. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Fiction, 2003) finished 2009 Jan 18 2. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction, 2001) finished 2009 May 26 3. Proof by David Auburn (Drama, 2001) finished 2009 ...

I have The amazing adventures of kavalier and clay in one of my TBR piles, but haven't read any Chabon yet. That's definitely one of his longer ones!

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon; read it the year it was first published, whenever that was.

... by Suzanna Clarke 3. Moo by Jane Smiley 4. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson 5. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 7. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 8. Room with a View by E.M Forster 9. Out by Natsuo Kirino

Thanks avatiakh for the recommendations for Ender's Game and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Amazing Adventures in particular I KNOW will be good, but I think it's size kind of puts me off. I've only read Wonder Boys and Summerland by Michael Chabon but I thought both were ...

... of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith ...

I'm starting with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and so far so good! I'm new to the Library Thing, but really looking forward to checking in here and taking the 50 Book Challenge!

For me, I think it might be The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay simply because I've owned a copy for about 5 years and have just never got around to reading it. I want to read it, it's just that every time I plan to do so another book catches my eye and I read that instead. I wonder if my ...

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... Enduring Love by Ian McEwan 3. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho 4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 5. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 6. A Room With A View by E.M. Forster

... the gap a little. Again ignoring rereads (The Professor and the Madman) my three favorites for the quarter were: 1) The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay 2) His Majesty's Dragon 3) The Victorian Internet

... llins) 2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin) 1999 ...

I enjoyed it. I borrowed it from my Dad. I had lent him The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and after he read that he bought The Yiddish Policeman's Union and lent it to me. I just bought Gentlemen of the Road online so we will see if I like that one enough to lend it to him after.

... Grace, was underdone. I wanted to know less about the 'events' and more about the life of the main character. Im hoping The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is going to be better!! I am way under my 50 book target, so thats an aim for next year - read more! (or less thick books :)

... Wilce Flora's Dareby Ysabeau Wilce Princess Ben by Catherine Murdock Farewell summer by Ray Bradbury The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Charlie Bone and the Shadow by Jenny Nimmo Into the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst Airball: My Life in ...

City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder by Herman Wouk The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Beyond Coincidence: Amazing Stories of Coincidence and the Mystery Behind Them by Martin Plimmer The Garden Club Mystery by Graham Landrum The Bone Garden ...

... it is so slim, but I did enjoy this, probably more than I liked his Yiddish Policemen's Union but not as much as his Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 327. The Byzantine Achievement by Robert Byron - nonfiction; I have had Byron's Road to Oxiana on my TBR continent forever now, ...

... target="_blank"> The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - review From my review: Despite its length, this book was ...

... have one book that we want to read. This year I had two that I wanted to consider, and The Glass Castle won out over The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay. A couple of years ago I only wanted to read The Time Traveler's Wife and last year I only wanted to read The Stolen Child. ...

Are there any Michael Chabon fans out there? I'm going to add The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. It's a trade paperback in good condition. Anyone have any other of his books for a swap? I'm also going to list a hardback of Tropic of Night by Michael Gruber.

I liked The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, and Unless. The only other Carol Shields I've read was Stone Diaries and I liked Unless much better. What I'm really interested in is the whole book club thing. I was only in one for a ...

52. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. I hesitated because it was so popular but this novel was amazing.

... you might want to give it a try. After that one the sequels got downright Herbertish, if you know what I mean. I tried Kavalier and Clay this week. I liked it but it was a bit deeper than I have the mental resources for right now, so I've just started A is for Alibi, which seems nice and ...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay?

... it so far), and am savoring The Best American Short Stories, 2007 ed. by Stephen King. When I finish Liss, I'm picking up The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

... by Linda Berdoll The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

am expecting Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon today in mail

I've been reading the Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay and finding it to be a really enjoyable read. I got it for fifty cents at my aunt's church, and am definitely glad I grabbed it. I'm also reading BKS Iyengar's Light on Life and really enjoying it. Most people seem to see yoga ...

I just finished People of the Book and have started The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I must be on a Pulitzer kick. I've got The Crimson Petal and the White in the wings though.

I have Kavalier and Clay just not tried it yet, sometiems I am a bit put off as its about comics which I was never that into really. I got it as I read wonder boys which is fantastic imho as is the movie.

I read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay last year, and I absolutely loved it. If you haven't, I highly suggest reading it.

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26. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon. I liked it but didn't find it even near the calibre of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Edited to add the number. Then edited again because it turns out I don't, in fact, know how to make italics, ha ha.

Two words: Michael Chabon. If you need a "why," go out and buy The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay right now, and clear out the next two or three days of your schedule. That is all. (P.S. I'm cheating a little: he's represented in the second edition, but not the first -- a ...

... Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu. I got this from the library in part because I enjoyed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which is, in part, about the Congressional Hearings criticizing comic books. When I read Kavalier & Clay I was very shocked, so ...

... . I also just started Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink. It seems interesting so far. I also have just been assigned The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay in "Go Review that Book." I think that one is still in my classroom so I will have to make a trip up to the school this weekend. ...

... and Men. My review is here. emaestra, please read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I'm curious about it. Whoever picks for me, please do so from the "to read" tag (sorry, I can't get my library to have a ...

This is kind of out there, but I need another clue so here's a guess: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon?

Today I bought: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay by Michael Chabon Dragon And The George by Gordon R. Dickson Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert Out ...

My son-in-law had the same reaction to Gentlemen of the Road. Kavalier and Clay is one of his favorite books, so he was disappointed. He's passed Gentleman on to me & it's been sitting in my ever-growing TBR pile for a couple of months, but with the lukewarm reactions I keep hearing, it's ...

... - are being overtaken by war. Definitely worth reading. 83. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon. I loved Kavalier and Clay, but I found this a little disappointing - although it is Chabon's first book, so you can see the elements there which make Kavalier and Clay so ...

I'm going to have to get in the Kavalier and Clay Fan Club. One of my favourites for sure. The only other I've read is Where the Heart Is. I actually really liked it the first time I read it but when I reread it I couldn't figure out what I likes so much the first time.

... Hosseini - read for our book club. 2. Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra - also read for our book club. 3. Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon - one of my new favourites. 4. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik - as a bubble bath read it wasn't too ...

... it's all subjective, isn't it? The heck with you, D.H. and Henry! That is what I say. I do have to add my 2 cents to the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay discussion-- I really liked this book a lot. I can't specifically remember WHY, but I do remember that I couldn't sleep after I ...

Currently reading This Rough Magic. I'm liking it more than I expected I would. Also in my backpack are The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Summerland and The Ghost Brigades.

... com/ And since we're speaking of comics, I can't skip a chance to recommend that every human being read the amazing novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

... then, as if he had been unplugged, stopped moving. He neither tossed nor fidgeted nor even so much as flexed a toe." -The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

I finished reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay a few months ago and I thought it was pretty good... does anyone know if The Yiddish Policeman's Union is any good?

... The Shotgun Rule by Charlie Huston Steampunk by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer Summerland by Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

... The Shotgun Rule by Charlie Huston Steampunk by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer Summerland by Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

... Apocalypse this morning (both very good; the Millar was better, but I liked the Rankin quite a bit). I'm now moving on to The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, as I read The Yiddish Policeman's Union just last week and becames an instant Michael Chabon fan. I also plan to tackle The Somn ...

#67 & 73 I read Kavalier and Clay and will say that it wasn't my favorite book. However, it was not totally hopeless. For me it started strong and then ran out of steam at the end. It really did turn into a fairly good novel but the part I liked best was at the beginning with all the ...

I have read both The Glass Castle and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I found them both to be very good, if not excellent. Let me know what you think.

#67 Lindsayg - I put down Kavalier and Clay. I really wanted to read it, heard so much buzz about it, then about half way through I put it down for the night, with full intension of reading it the next day as usual, but that was two years ago! It still sits on my bedside table taunting me. I ...

... have to remember when I really want to put down something I suspect I should like. Right now I'm trying not to give up on The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay since everybody else in the whole world apparently loved it and I adore Michael Chabon. Maybe I'm just not in the right mood ...

... my second Chabon novel (the first was Gentlemen of the Road, which I couldn't necessarily recommend. I hope to read his The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay later this year, which he won the Pulitzer for.

Let's start with the books I've already read this year: #1 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon #2 Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult #3 A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore #4 A Place Called Freedom - Ken Follet #5 The Dirty Girls Social Club - Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez #6 ...

... the Yiddish Policemen's union -I am about 130 pages in and really enjoying the story. A couple of years ago I read The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay and thought it was a classic. Am going to put Wonder boys on my TBR pile. What is Gentlemen of the Road about? I have never ...

... and, I didn't see the "atonement" in Briony, yah she was saddened by what she did, but... well that's another thread. Kavalier and Clay is another I am half way through, but I've been there for a few years, I think I just got bored. #1 Greyhead - With regards to God Delusion, I didn't ...

Hope you have fun with Kavalier and Clay! I liked it better than I did The Yiddish Policemen's Union with surprised me. I also read Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road, so you might check that one out as well.

> 11 : karenmarie : Yes I read Kavalier and Clay a couple of years ago and enjoyed it.

Thanks, kambrogi! Have you read Chabon? I think The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is probably my favorite of his, but The Yiddish Policemen's Union is also very good, and is currently nominated for the Edgar, the Nebula, and the Hugo. As I said above, I need to catch up on my ...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is currently stuck in development (has been for several years). There have been rumors of both Maguire and Aidan Quinn as Kavalier, but no cast is currently attached.

... they are based on, but this is generally a minority of cases. All of that said, I know they have been discussing making The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay into a movie for years, with many fits and starts. It appears to be stalled again, but as a book I love, I am interested (and ...

... on those lists that I have read have comic passages or are very funny. For example, Confederacy of Dunces, Middlesex, Kavalier and Clay, Midnight's Children, Amsterdam. They may not be written solely as comedies, but humour is used throughout to bring out the meaning. The Coen ...

91> I started The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay once, go about 50 pages, and fell away from it. Returned to it (and started over) a year or two later. Might be my favorite book of all time.

... wish I had abandoned, Jonathan Strange & Memory Keepers Daughter. Reading this topic I noticed I too have put down Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and not picked it up again. I liked it too, wonder what happened there??

Michael Chabon is brilliant! Wonder Boys is my favorite of his so far. I don't own a copy of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay yet either. It's one I want to reread at some point. I still haven't read Summerland, though, so that comes first... *mentally places it near top ...

... It is a little longer than I think it needs to be, but on the whole I am impressed by my first read from JCO. Next up: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. I was actually too anxious to read it and have already read the first 60-70 pages. I'm loving it already.

I'll go after a theme/genre as well -- after Kavalier and Clay I grabbed a ton of Chabon but also books like Fortress of Solitude with comics/superheroes theme, as well as graphic novels... now my boys and I are entering an Arthurian/knights/mythology theme, and of course since it's spring, ...

... Grisham. I've read numerous Ken Follett after loving A Dangerous Fortune The last few years: after reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay I want to read everything by Michael Chabon

... into a life far removed from your own (at least that is my take on it). I just got in March by Geraldine Brooks, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon and The Human Stain by Philip Roth. I think I am going to start on March after I finish The Gravedigg ...

... today) I had all but one of his books, but I love him so much I just want to buy them all again. Also, that new cover for Kavalier and Clay is just wonderful-- my favorite of any edition anywhere. Borders has a deal on where if you buy any Chabon book, you get a set of postcards of the new ...

... don. Another author coming to the Festival of Faith & Writing next month. Not sure how I felt about the book though. 43. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. He's coming to the Festival of Faith & Writing too. I enjoyed this book. 44. Digging to America by Anne ...

I liked A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Anil's Ghost, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and Icy Sparks. I definitely did not like Unless. It's Sunday morning and I am too sleepy to explain my likes and dislikes however.

Oh definitely reading Michael Chabon (specifically The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay) gets my juices flowing, because he writes these really intimate, human stories that at the same time are pretty ambitious in their scope. And he makes it look easy! Vonnegut reminds me to ...

At last! I'm finished. 1. Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay I know it took me long, but it was a long book and I didn't have much spare time. I am glad that I read it, because it is quite an original novel; the contrast between occupied Prague from which Joe ...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is a good read, although I'm half way through and very worried about how it's going to turn out. World on Fire by Amy Chua is very disturbing, about how ethnic minorities in the developing world become targets for attack as globalization ...

... in keeping this thread up to date. Here are my latest reads: 5. The Friday Night Knitting Club:Kate Jacobs 6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: Michael Chabon 7. A Walk to Remember: Nicholas Sparks 8. The Kite Runner: Khaled Hosseini 9. The Queen of ...

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... sure what I think about it yet...though I definitely plan on reading Chabon again with The Yiddish Policeman's Union and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay waiting on my bookshelf. Next up is an ARC of The Sister by Poppy Adams.

... to my job, but I will not record those here. I'm only listing the books I read purely for pleasure. I have just started The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. It seems interesting and quite an unusual novel. Smuggling the Golem out of Prague. Where is this going ...

... Chabon - I enjoyed this book by Chabon better than I did The Yiddish Policemen's Union, but not more than I liked Kavalier and Clay 50. Comeback: Conservatism that Can Win Again by David Frum - nonfiction; I like this guys ideas 51. Ripples of Battle by Victor Hanson - ...

... in to help solve the case. This is a slim novel and thus doesn't allow for the same level of character development as Kavalier and Clay. Still, I quite liked the book, the language, and the traditional-yet-not detective novel.

Now I'll start to obsess over who I think they'll get to portray the various characters... I wish someone would make a Kavalier and Clay film version. I guess some sort of screenplay has been in the works for a few years now - not sure what the current situation is...

... by mary hunt 2) a short history of nearly everything by bill bryson 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) Authors new to me 1) the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay by michael chabon 2) the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides 3) the loved ones by evelyn waugh 4) the book of lost ...

#28 I read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay two years ago and enjoyed it very much--well written, educational (for me), and very interesting. I didn't, however, think it was worthy of the prize it won. I read others written that same year and thought they were more worthy.

... either though, I can't think of one character in it that I liked or cared about. #24 - I have been thinking about buying Kavalier and Clay but since you've put that I think I'll try a library copy first with that one. With The Memory Keepers Daughter I knew without even trying that this ...

I stopped reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay about 80% of the way through and never picked it up again. It zipped up to that point and then just fizzled. I tried reading The Time Traveler's Wife forward, backwards and from the middle but for the life of me I couldn't bring ...

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... Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Assigned category: (6) Favourite authors (1/8) Could have been categorised as: -- 5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Assigned category: (4) Award Winners (1/8) Could have been categorised as: (2) Authors not previously ...

10. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis - Puddleglum saves this one. 11. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon - I thought the first two thirds or so of this book was just about perfect, but the last third left be a bit disappointed.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay was amazing; by Michael Chabon Bel Canto by Ann Patchett was just as "bel" the second time around Reluctant Genius by Charlotte Gray

... Union, by Michael Chabon Set in the bleak world of Sitka, Alaska, this alternative history by the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is an odd mixture of detective story, personal redemption, and Judaica. For this familiar with the escapades of Kavalier and Cla ...

Kavalier and Clay is the only one I've read; I thought it was a too-long book with many moments - and some longer passages - which were breathlessly revealing and poignant. Some of them were unforgettable.

... Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon - a funny, dense, literate book, one that cries out for a re-read. Now about halfway through The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, and liking it very much.

... suited my holiday mood. In progress now are Kate Jacobs' The Friday Night Knitting Club and Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Edited (unsuccessfully!) to try to fix touchstones :(

... see if it holds your attention." Hmm. I like the idea of a page limit but 50 seems too short. I ended up really liking The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, for example, but it took closer to 100 pages to really get interesting. Which is silly, in my opinion, since that boring ...

... how much, at the end of a year, I've done in what. So far: 1. Persepolis (French) 365 p. (contains both I & II) 2. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (English) 656 p. 3. Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue (English) 319 p. 4. Divided City (YA, English) 259 p.

I think I'm going to have to abandon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay at page 156 because I'm just not into it and it's really slowing me down; at this rate, it would take me over a month to finish it.

As I was finishing up The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, I'd decided to read another of the Canada Reads books. Ebba's message steered me away from King Leary for now, and I've just started Brown Girl in the Ring. By the way, Kavalier and Clay was 100% amazing and a great read. ...

I have three Michael Chabon books, waiting on my bookshelf: The Yiddish Policeman's Union, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and Gentlemen of the Road. I don't even know where to begin!

I got Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood from BookMooch and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon from PaperBackSwap.

I loved The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay! It was actually one of my last of 2007. I read it because I also read Chabon's new book, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, which is also amazing. I love an author with an imagination that just takes off, creating a parallel reality. Enjoy ...

... Watch -- Sarah Waters March -- Geraldine Brooks The Girl with the Pearl Earring -- Tracy Chevalier Kavalier and Clay -- Michael Chabon The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse -- Louise Erdrich The Jane Austen Book Club -- Karen Jay Fowler Ca ...

My first book of the year is The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay which I got for Christmas. My last book of 2007, by the way, was Kafka's Soup

... the hall, he noticed that someone had discarded a pile of clothes on the carpet outside the door of his family's home." The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

... for God the Larger Faith: a Short History of American Universalism the Dangerous Book for Boys Meditations the Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay What God Can Do For You Now Love Without End: Jesus Speaks Love Without Conditions Books will be removed from this ...

100. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Woohoo! I made it to 100! I'm going to attempt to read a 500+ page book by the end of the year as well so that way I can say I made it to 30,000 pages as well, but if I don't, that's okay - a new challenge for next year ...

Merry Christmas. I got Divisadero and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay for Christmas. I'm reading Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes

... fiction): Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon Plus I brought home from the library last night at ...

48 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 49 The New Year's Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini

... think of Love and Friendship it's just about the only thing of Jane Austen's I haven't read. >69: alcottacre I read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay first and loved it, but was kind of disappointed in Yiddish Policemen's Union. >78: mrstreme I loved Rebecca too. I ...

I finished The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon yesterday and I must say I enjoyed it more than his Yiddish Policemen's Union, which I actually thought I would enjoy more.

... Rings, Swords, and Monsters 812 - American Drama: The Crucible 813 - American Fiction: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 818 - Miscellaneous writings: The Zombie Survival Guide 823 - English fiction: Robinson Crusoe 833 - Germanic fiction: Th ...

I just finished the Pulitzer Kavalier and Clay. I really liked it, I though it was one of the better picks. All the main characters were likeable. It seemed almost more of a biography than a novel.

I just finished another Pulitzer Kavalier and Clay and I did like it. Even though it was a novel, it seemed so much like a true story. I liked all the main characters- something that seems rare. I finished it, wishing for a sequel.

... Oshinsky, Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson, The Conquest of Civilization by James Henry Breasted, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. Whew!!

... and can't access from here. I am reading two Pulitzers at the same time. Martin Dressler is my day time book and Kavalier and Clay is my bathtub/bedtime book. I just finished The known World which is really good also. I am surprised at how many good books I have missed over the ...

... with 1999 forward. I am nearly done with The known World but I had to stop to read a book I have to review. Then I have the amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay and Interpreter of Maladies left. I have quite a few to do in the 90's, so I am ordering them now.

... thought it was beautiful written and I really enjoy Michael Chabon's work, but I never got into the same way I did with The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. >114: alphaorder I was recently part of a One Book One Town committee and we chose Montana 1948 as our town's book.

Fear and Loathing, hands down. One of my favorite books of all time. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is pretty fantastic too.

... really enjoyed this. I love the film too and found their points of departure interesting. On the strength of it I've bought Kavalier and Clay for the future. 2. Solaris by S. Lem I like a lot of the ideas in this and I like both the movies based on it, but I didn't find it an enjoyable ...

... Whole Cloth - Terry Dowling Coyote Struck By Lightning - Terry Dowling Coming Down - Terry Dowling One Clay Foot - Jack Wodhams Breaking Through To the Heroes - Terry Dowling Schrodinger's Dog - Damien Broderick Time of the Star - Terry Dowling ...

My weirdest is Criswell Predicts. From Now until the Year 2000. It's by The Amazing Criswell of course. One of his predictions declared, "I predict that your television set will come on one side of the wall and the figures will be laser-caused, tri-dimensional and walk out into the room, in ...

... in immediately...i'm into a South American thing right now so it will be down the road that i get to it but i,too, loved Kavalier and Clay.

... I have it here next to my laptop and it keeps calling to me when I don't have time to sit down and wrap myself up in it. Kavalier and Clay was also wonderful, but this has been easier to put my mind around for some reason. Michelle

... White Noise, and really liked Rushdie's Midnight's Children. But disliked Franzen'sThe Corrections and Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay. I haven't read David Foster Wallace or Pynchon though. I think there is a subtle difference between being smart, ...

I agree with not getting into post-modernist stuff. I really did not like The Corrections by Franzen and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Chabon. People rave but I found myself just hating the characters, not caring about the story, and feeling like if I met the author I ...

... care about the male ones. Shoot the Moon I think Letts was thinking about television rights when she wrote this. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay This may have been my own mood and not the book. Would consider trying this again. Cold Mountain Still working on it, but ...

... case where unabridged recordings haven't been made? I can't find anything other than abridgements for a number of books, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The God of Small Things, and a lot of Anne Rice's stuff among them. For me, it's not a huge issue - I'll just read the ...

... me. I've read Beloved, The Turn of the Screw, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. You've got a nice selletion there.

... goodness, I'm sure there's a lot of them that I'm not thinking of, too. A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingso ...

magus..I know what you mean about having to stick with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay to begin with and I think I've gotten to the part where I just don't want to stop reading!

... gratuitously ugly at times, but it still managed to retain a certain charm. An unusual book. Tygerlilli keep going with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, I was nearly put of by a low start, and only continued because of the brilliance of the far different Mys ...

I just started to read The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Finished The Devil in the White City this morning. wonderful book..the juxtaposition of the story lines seems so impropable, but it really works!

84, Charing Cross Road, Clarissa, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay all arrived today. (Wonderful!) I haven't expended the effort of adding them to my library (as 'LibraryThing Add', via BookMooch, only nets you multiple copies of Every Visible Thing, as yet). I'd be happy ...

... fellow LibraryThing members? So far, I'm expecting copies of If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, by Italo Calvino; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon; and The First World War, by John Keegan. I also requested 1700: Scenes from London Life, from a ...