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Hotel by Arthur Hailey
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Citadel by Morris West ... nonfiction.
They're all very "safe" choices, though - not a one that isn't a NYT bestseller or that hasn't won an award. Fortress of Solitude was the only, "Hey! Awesome, someone else has read that!" book out of all the fiction. Hi, How does Gun with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem compare to his other two? I really enjoyed it but then I tried The Fortress of Solitude which just bored me. ... Woman by Solveig Eggerz
Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem On the verge of finishing The Fortress of Solitude, starting An Artist of the Floating World. ... to the Monkey House, Vonnegut. He works well in small doses, too - Harrison Bergeron being the standout so far.
Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem. I've heard a couple of "he's trying too hard" criticisms of this book, but overall I like it - a pretty solid coming-of-age story ... ... societal norms and expectations for women. Can't help but compare her to Betty Draper on Mad Men...
Started Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude, and am finishing up Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned. Both are pretty good, though Fitzgerald's extremely ornamented prose and spoiled ... ... the year. Funny, I was visiting a used book store the other day and picked up Motherless Brooklyn but decided to go with Fortress of Solitude instead. Please let me know what you think! ... Lehane. I've been waiting for this baby. I think it comes out in paper soon but I got a nice hardback for five bucks.
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem This has been on my WL forever.
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson LT rec'.
The World at Night by Alan Furst. Now, I ... I finished The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem this morning. Excellent writing. Enjoyed the music references.
Then cleaned house for about 5 hours. It could probably use another 5 but I'm over it. Time to be reading again. Started Serena by Ron Rash. Only about 10 pages in, too ... ... losses, vanity, and sweetness of small town life where everyone lives in each other's pocket. Satisfying ending.
74. Solitude by Robert Kull. Kull has obviously been seeking wisdom and peace in a number of ways in his life, but this book was his theses for a doctorate from a ... I have decided to chuck the 'must-read' list. I am not getting them read and have decided a list approach is just not for me. I will eventually get to them, but probably not all this year.
 bojanfurst in Central/Eastern European History : The Balkans (May 4, 2009, 9:45am) ... and his Bosnia Chronicle and The Bridge on the Drina are very good as is Meša Selimović's Death and the dervish and The Fortress. From Croatia, I would suggest Miroslav Krleža and The Return of Philip Latinovicz as well as The banquet in Blitva. Unfortunately, I don't think that his ... ... ays
Fatal Justice
Modern Times
Noah’s Choice: The Future of Endangered Species - Read 05/24/09
The Fortress of Solitude
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Coming out of the Ice
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Arms of Nemesis
The Life and Death of Mary Wollsto ... 106. The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin 04/10/09
107. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 04/11/09
108. Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch 04/14/09
109. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 04/14/09
110. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 04/15/09
FILM ... 106. The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin 04/10/09
107. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 04/11/09
108. Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch 04/14/09
109. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 04/14/09
110. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 04/15/09 How about Jonathan Lethem: Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude
for contemporary writers and then the classics: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf.....so many! ... - Read 04/20/09
The 900 Days
Fatal Justice
Modern Times
Noah’s Choice: The Future of Endangered Species
The Fortress of Solitude
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Coming out of the Ice
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Arms of Nemesis
The Life and Death of Mary Wollsto ... ... 2/16/09
Sin in the Second City
Fatal Justice
Modern Times
Noah’s Choice: The Future of Endangered Species
The Fortress of Solitude
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Coming out of the Ice
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Arms of Nemesis
The Life and Death of Mary Wollsto ... ... Follies {1/29}, Man in the Dark {5/2}, Travels in Scriptorium {5/19}
6. Lethem: Motherless Brooklyn {3/3}, The Fortress of Solitude {4/11}, Gun, with Occasional Music {5/20}
7. Turgenev: The Diary of a Superfluous Man {4/29}, First Love {5/12}, Fathers and Sons {6/21}
8 ... ... unishment
3. Infinite Jest
4. Gilead
5. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
6. The Remains of the Day
7. The Fortress of Solitude
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Train to Pakistan by Kushwant Singh (190)
Mr Perrin and Mr Traill, Rogue Herries, Judith Paris, The Fortress, Vanessa, The Bright Pavilions, Katherine Christian, Jeremy, Jeremy and Hamlet, Jeremy at Crayle - all by Hugh Walpole (124 in all)
Rupert Hart-Davis: Ma ... The Good Years by Walter B. Lord
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
The Digital Effect by Steve Perry
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* Dahlgren, Samuel Delany
* Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
* Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks
* The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem
* Evolution, Stephen Baxter
* Engine Summer, John Crowley
* A Fire upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge
#9 Flannery O'connor rocks.
My candidate is The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem. Made me cry, it did.
edited because touchstones are buggy today. #87: Lethem's one of my favorites, and can easily recommend The Fortress of Solitude and the great Motherless Brooklyn too. #80: Nope! Gun, With Occasional Music is my first Lethem book. Would you recommend The Fortress of Solitude? #78, doctorsidrat: Have you read Lethem's 'Superman of Brooklyn' book The Fortress of Solitude?
Kenilworth
The Fortress of Solitude
The Proud Tower
Ivanhoe
Deus Lo Volt! A Chronicle of the Crusades The last book that made me cry was The Fortress of Solitude. I hated the Time Traveler's Wife, but to each his own. 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, ... ... looking for suggestions, I don't know if you've ever read A Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin; you might be interested...
Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem can be a difficult read (i.e., not always pleasant) and I didn't love the ending, but overall well worth it.
Good luck with your ... 13. You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem (224 p.)
Frankly, a disappointment after Fortress of Solitude. Maybe it's an East-Coast/West-Coast thing, but I just found the characters unsympathetic and ultimately vapid and uninteresting (&/or underdeveloped); it was probably a bad sign that I ... ... which it seems like I have been reading forever, Einstein, and The Intellectual Devotional. New on the agenda are The Fortress of Solitude, Slander, Experiment with Death, and A Death in Vienna. >37 That seriously just made my night. Thank you! :-D
I've had Fortress of Solitude on my "books to keep an eye on" list for a while now; I guess I should promote it up to regular wishlist status, huh?
>36 Diana Wynne Jones sounds really familiar, although I'm 99% sure I've never read ... ... you really should try a little Trollope. I recommend Barchester Towers.
(and for fyrefly, I was about to recommend The Fortress of Solitude or Motherless Brooklyn both by Jonathan Lethem. He's cool.) ... Founders of the Western World and Slander. For fiction reading this week, I am reading Bootlegger's Daughter, The Fortress of Solitude, Experiment with Death, and A Death in Vienna. ... read with entertaining characters, this one is enjoyable. If you want a meatier, less upbeat read, you might try Lethem's Fortress of Solitude. >230 My husband would've chosen Fortress of Solitude as a favorite in the year he read it. He really loved it. I very much enjoyed Middlesex also. ... Amnesia by Clive James
Bootlegger's Daughter by Deborah Maron
Christ the Lord by Anne Rice
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Experiment with Death by E.X. Ferrars
and finally, The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs I forgot The Fortress of Solitude! Awesome book... and just finished Into the Wild which I won't say is great, but a top read for me in '07... The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem. Actually, anything by him is great.
Anything by T.C. Boyle, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Michael Chabon, Peter Carey or Colson Whitehead. The Fortress of Solitude. The ending is a shocker. I cried and cried and I never do that. ... changes all the time, but here goes. No particular order.
Little, Big by John Crowley
Geek Love by Katharine Dunn
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Aubrey/Maturin seriesby Patrick O'Brian
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Har ... Finishing Fortress of Solitude tonight -- 2 thumbs up! -- and then will start Uglies and The Physics of Superheroes ....
and will add English Patient, have seen a lot of good reviews on LT lately. I seem to remember liking the movie.... ... (13) gave up after 1 chap -- ("boooorrrring!) Go figure. Is Fortean Times the same authors/characters?
I'm 1/2 way thru Fortress of Solitude and extremely impressed and engrossed, not to mention listening to a ton of 60's & 70's R&B/funk.... TeacherDad (#23)--I listened to The Fortress of Solitude on audio last year and really enjoyed it.
I finished An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer yesterday--an enjoyable, quick read. I wish there was a map of the battle of Waterloo in the book. That was the best part, but I had to find a ... Fortress of Solitude by J. Lethem, which might be ongoing for a couple of weeks, and The Outsiders by SE Hinton... also have to re-read The Number Devil since the book report is due Tues! ... ist...
Just gave up on Neuromancer, I was lost and confused; so going to read Portrait as Young Dog tonight and start Fortress of Solitude by J. Lethem. I've read Girl in Landscape, Motherless Brooklyn, and Fortress of Solitude. Motherless and Fortress are more mainstream than anything else he has written, but he definitely jumps in and out of genre, a bit like Chabon and Saunders in that respect.
Hope I'm here for next year's con. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
edited to see if touchstones work today...hey, they do! ... e.
A teacher suggested Jonathan Lethem to me. He moves a story with verbs rather than modifiers. My teacher gave me Fortress of Solitude, then I read Motherless Brooklyn and both were great. I'm looking forward to reading his new one, You Don't Love Me Yet.
So, who do you ... ... Motherless Brooklyn truly is a brilliant book, and so is Gun, With Occasional Music, and my personal favorite The Fortress of Solitude. Two books that come to mind about Brooklyn: Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude and practically any Gilbert Sorrentino novel, specifically The Sky Changes, and Steelwork. I own The Sky Changes but haven't got around to reading it. Any thoughts? ... Smith and, despite a few quibbles, I liked it a lot, especially the character of Kiki.
Right now, I'm listening to The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem. I read this too fast for my book club last month and am now trying to absorb more of the story. This was one of those ... ... Guide to the Galaxy." Whew. I'm taking a break for a month from the next month's book, and reading Lethem's "The Fortress of Solitude." My group is reading Brave New World, which I'll start in the next couple of days. I loved Fortress of Solitude, angstrat--there was a lot to talk about in it. My group just met this past week. We discussed Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude. We had a very poor actual book discussion because very few people had read very far into the book. We do end up talking a lot about books in general, what else we've been reading, which I enjoy as much ... Ah, excellent, Louis: thank you. I've wanted to read Gun, with Occasional Music, but may start with The Fortress of Solitude, instead. Just depends on what they have left when I get back. :) ... writers of our time, and while others might make a case for Gun, with Occasional Music or Motherless Brooklyn, I think The Fortress of Solitude is truly his magnus opus so far. It's certainly not a book for everyone, particularly if you're not interested in the evolution of pop music from ... ... for Hadji Murad, included)
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
All for $14. I nearly added Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude, and then didn't. Anyone have a swaying comment on it? ... and a comparison with William James' Varieties of Religious Experience.
Also currently reading Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude for my book club. I'm only a few chapters in but love his description of the dynamics of the relationships between the neighborhood schoolkids. ... now. The membership fluctuates but we've been holding steady at around 8 members for several months. Our current read is Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem, after reading Gregory Maguire's Wicked last month. Sometimes we struggle with getting a good discussion going that goes ...
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