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I'm currently reading The Good Earth. I must say it is greatly exceeding my expectations. emaestra 331:
Oh my God, I'm so glad that someone shares my opinion of the Oprah seal of approval. The Good Earth is one of my favorite books ever (and has been since well before Oprah got her claws on it), and now whenever I mention it, people are like, "Oh, yeah, that Oprah book!" Um, no, it' ... ... some of my favorite books in the past, East of Eden, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Good Earth, etc. I think she has better luck when she is choosing more classic novels. It makes me wonder who helps her pick which novel she is going to promote. I ... Thanks Aga for your review of both Kapuscinki and Pearl's The Good Earth. You make them both sound like they are worth reading. I am starting The Good Earth either tonite or tomorrow on my ride to work. Happy reading!! ... to remember. For me 4-5/5 (depened which book).
I know you may find his books for example on Amazon website.
Coming to The Good Earth. I read the 2 books out of trilogy (so, also "Sons") and waiting for the last one. It's a specific literature I would say. It's a story of the family, going ... ... I have been meaning to read some of his work but I have not gotten around to it.
Also what did you think of Buck's The Good Earth? Its on my short list to be read next week. I believe Cariola who is a member here is also reading it. ... Petal and the White by Michel Faber
2. Past Lifes by Ken McClure
3. Golden Buddha by Clive Cussler
4. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
5. Sons by Pearl S. Buck
6. Revenge of the Rose by Nicole Galland
7. Bay of Souls by Robert Stone
8. The bad girl by ... 7. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
8. With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child Vol 1 by Keiko Tobe ... Dream/The Winter's Tale
Revelation/The Secret History
Never Let Me Go/Farewell My Lovely
The Waste Land/The Good Earth I'm almost done listening to The Good Earth. Right now I want to smack the husband.
Also reading Excellent Women by Barbara Pym and just started Half of a Yellow Sun. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck I just started a new audiobook, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. I'm almost ashamed to admit that I've never read it--it's such a classic. ... nners
As I Lay Dying/Born Again
Now and Then/Nevernever
Circle of Friends/Waking with Enemies
Fault Lines/The Good Earth The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Pearl: A Journal of Voluptuous Reading
Pearls of Lutra by Brian Jacques
The Good Earth by PEARL S. Buck
Knitticisms . . . And Purls of Wisdom by Kari A. Cornell Motomama....I recently read Revolution is Not a Dinner Party and really thought it a great YA book. The Good Earth is one of my all time favorite books. I only read it a few years ago and why didn't a high school teacher put it in my hands? ... Madame Mao herself" and it "lacks the pizzazz to get the reader involved".
Perhaps it's also time for me to reread The Good Earth - which I read more than 40 years ago! ... incredible to say the least - but anyway, she told me that she's working on a biography of Pearl Buck so I've begun reading The Good Earth which I had never picked up. Anchee said that when she was young, she was told to write an article denouncing this "imperialist" writer named Pearl Buck by ... I believe the oldest book in my TBR list is a copy of The Good Earth from the early 1940's. ... tchell
1935: Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
1934: Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1931: Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
1929: Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
1925: So Big by Edna Ferber ... The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Pale Fire by Nabokov
Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky Not much CanCon there, eh?
Anna Karenina? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter?? The Good Earth??? Either this list includes evergreens, or a new translation of Anna came out that year, or I missed a whole bunch of films (which is eminently possible). Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
04/19/08
The Good Earth ***½
by Pearl S. Buck
04/20/08
Unions ***
by Robert Musil
04/20/08 Finished - Walden, The Good Earth, and Unions
Closed out my female author catagory; started 8 More Languages in my extra credit section. ... The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Winner by David Baldacci
Middle Age: A Romance by Joyce Carol Oates
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Anais Nin Reader edited by Philip K. Ja ... ... Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
22, My Antonia
Willa Cather
23. The Magician of Lublin Isaac B. Singer
24. The Good Earth Pearl Buck
25. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
I have included only novels & short fiction. There should be separate lists for poetry & plays.
... The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing **½
5. White Teeth by Zadie Smith ***½
6. The Awakening by Kate Chopin **½
7. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck ***
8. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen ***½
Double {complete}
9. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton *****
10. The ... ... Chronicle, and it was as if I was in Tokyo in my head (in the bottom of a well even). Another I could see vividly was The Good Earth. It is as if I will be perfectly at home should I ever travel to Asia. ... rtry
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Good Earth Pearl Buck 10. The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
11. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck The ones I was eye-balling were:
Bleak House
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Good Earth
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
ALL of Jane Austen books.
Not titles I've seen anywhere else.
... Penn Warren
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
The Caine Mutiny: A Novel of World War II by Herman Wouk
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
John Adams by David McCullough
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener ... A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Feast of Love
The Good Earth
Little Women
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Giver
and The Babysitters Club books when I need to go back to my childhood! The Good Earth? ... Kite Runner , Khaled Hosseini 11,739 copies
12. Atkins for Life , Robert C. Atkins, M.D. 142 copies
13. The Good Earth , Pearl S. Buck 2,850 copies
14. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter , Carson McCullers 2,340 copies
15. The Devil in the White City , Erik Larso ... ... (B&N sale)
Steel Guitar - Linda Barnes (charity table for $1)
Rolling Stone Cover to Cover - B&N sale - so addicting
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck (borrowed from mom)
Gun With Occasional Music - Jonathan Lethem
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck ... (with a book or two in between). Also on the list for the year: Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch, Brave New World, The Good Earth, Persuasion. All first time reads. And a couple of Shakespeare plays thrown into the mix.
Others that I read for the first time in the last 12 months: ... Wow. Could have thought on that one all I wanted, and never would have figured out where I recognized it from, since The Good Earth is still in my TBR pile! Must have read it in a dream.... I believe strongly that it is The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck the good earth ?
the human stain ?
gone with the wind ?
Looking up your library would be cheating. Guessing randomly, however, is not. I agree with a previous post. I could not believe that The good Earth was not included in this list. Perhaps my favorite book of all times. I also wondered about Viktor Frankl and Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning. I guess we each have our favorites, but these two seem to tell us so much ... ... of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8 Fiction
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chev ... I just started The Good Earth and have picked up my early reviewer's copy of Olive Kitteridge.
I re-read The Good Earth this past year for a book club. It was as good as the first time. I think my mother had The Fountain (should be right touchstone), but I never read it. I think everyone read the Good Earth in that generation. It's amazing how out of print much of Booth Tarkington is, but some of his stuff, like Penrod and The Magnificent Ambersons, are still in ... Loved The Good Earth in high school. I should re-read it. US Fiction
1. The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck 2,556 copies on LT
2. The Fountain, Charles Morgan 14copies
3. Sons, Pearl S. Buck 91 copies
4. Magnolia Street, Louis Golding 2 copies
5. The Sheltered Life, Ellen Glasgow 28 copies
6. Old Wine and New, ... The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck is one of my favourite novels in the OP's theme. I read the 1932 Pulitzer Prize Book The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
and the two other books in her trilogy Sons and A House Divided
I have not read Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather but I have have read My Antonia. Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
The Robe - Lloyd C. Douglas
Giant - Edna Ferber
The Pelican Brief - John Grisham
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin
The Bridges at Toko Ri ... The Good Earth by Pearl Buck ... there is little to fault in the simple pleasure that this story can provide the reader.
I have also edited my review of The Good Earth, above, in the italicized portion. I had second thoughts. ... Falls, Humbolt's Gift, and Middlesex are three favorites that I read in the past year.
I didn't much care for The Good Earth, The Hours, or Beloved. ... the group that is on your wave-length. Perhaps what you seek is simply not online.
I did have a new insight into The Good Earth, although I didn't get it at the book club meeting. I got it all alone, while exercising. I realized that the book is an argument for the upcoming/then-happ ... ... Lowry
Under the Blood-red Sun by Graham Salisbury
Men Are From Mars, Women are From Venus by John Gray
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck #26 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (September): A classic I read for a book club. It tells the now-famous story of a pre-Revolutionary Chinese farmer, Wang Lung, from the day of his marriage until shortly before his death, introducing us to family and community, through feast and famine. Altho ... ... Updike
Saul Bellow
John Cheever
Philip Roth Barbara KingsolverEdna Ferber Jonathan Franzen Alice Munro Pearl Buck Louise Erdrich
These are addition to those listed above. The 20th century has a lot of good writers. Those from the early part of the century have mostly ... The Good Earth - Pearl Buck ... Nancy Atherton
2. Debts of Dishonour by Jill Paton Walsh
3. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
4. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
5. Across the Miles: Tales of Correspondence by L.M. Montgomery
6. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
7. The Silver Chair by C. ... ... by Oprah book club members. People who have read Anna Karenina, Night, 100 Years of Solitude, East of Eden, The Good Earth and who could forget the Summer of Faulkner collection. The Sound and the Fury is a very dense and depressing book to get through, especially since a ... Back to the Depression with one great book and some obscure ones:
1. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, owned by 2,054, reviewed by 28. Her next most owned book is Imperial Woman, owned by 140 (3 reviews).
2. Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather, owned by 92 (no reviews). This ... ... stuck to it! Well, except for a few more that found their way into my basket.
Mrs. Dalloway -- Virginia Woolf
The Good Earth -- Pearl S. Buck
Elmer Gantry -- Sinclair Lewis
Brave New World, and Brave new world revisited -- Aldous Huxley
Confessions of an Ugly Ste ... #5 greenalida: I did in fact like The Good Earth, although it's not my favorite by a long shot. It's one of a handful of books that most people have to read in school but somehow I didn't and I am now trying to catch up with the rest of the educated world. It was a little depressing at the end, ... ... Town by Ronald Kidd
31. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
32. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
33. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
34. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
35. Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
whew. That gets us to fairly recently on my reading ... ... an obsession with Hemingway and started "Farewell" almost directly after completing The Sun Also Rises. Did you enjoy The Good Earth? I am a student and it was a summer reading book...I personally didn't enjoy it all that much but would love to hear your opinion on it some time! Next, I ... I've finished The Gunslinger and The Good Earth, and listened to The Handmaid's Tale on CD. I'm still working on Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded and Paradise Lost, and will start Lord Edgware Dies (aka Thirteen at Dinner tonight. ... Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
The Butterfly Net by Amber Frangos
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
It Begins with Tears by Opal Adisa
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
A Threshing Day by H E Bates
The Fallow Land by H E Bates
The Corn is Green by Emlyn Williams
I forgot to add my favorite book!
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck ... To Kill A Mockingbird is one of the first that came to mind. (I'd better write down the others before I forget! LOL!)
The Good Earth and Scarlet Letter are two more books we were assigned in school that I went back and read as an adult. Got a completely different perspective in them when ... ... say about it is that I learned something about Newark and the glove business.
I also liked So Big by Edna Ferber, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck and Advise and Consent by Allen Drury.
My least favorites include The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos, ... ... Dino Buzzati
(5) The Judges - Elie Wiesel
(6) Morality for Beautiful Girls - Alexander McCall Smith
(7) The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck (Pulitzer 1932)
Total Pages: 2,216
Total Words: 762,093
At the end of January, I am on track. Thank goodness, because February ... ... reason, the list for my book club this year contains 3 or 4 Pulitzer winners.
So far,this year, I have read Beloved, The Good Earth and Angela's Ashes and I have to say "so far, so good".
What do you think of my resolution?
If you were me, how would you pick the ones to read? I ... A lot of what I read has already been mentioned. I also read The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Huckleberry Finn by Twain and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. I personally love Flower Drum Song and The Good Earth and consider them classics.
Murakami is contemporary, but he's one of my favorite authors. You should check him out.
If my link works, here's an amazon.com reader list of Asian Fiction:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/f ... ... It totally turned me off the classics. It took 30 years for me to attempt them again and I'm having a great time. I've read The Good Earth, To Kill a Mockingbird and am currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo. Let's see, since the last time I posted (about a week ago) I've bought
A Game of Thrones ($4, new)
The Good Earth (20 cents, used)
A Brief History of Time ($1, used)... which I'm frankly somewhat embarrassed I didn't already own
Nextwave Vol. 1: This Is What They Want! ($20, new)
Y: ... The first book I ever read about Asia was probably The Good Earth by Pearl Buck but only because I had to read it for school. Now I actively seek out Asian literature. ... all kinds of books set in Asia. I can't read them fast enough.
The first book I ever read set in Asia was probably The Good Earth. I was avid about China as a child but on recently (about 8 years ago) revived that interest. It's not limited to only China, either. The revival came about ... ... remember, it was Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, which I read in grade school. I never did get around to reading The Good Earth. ... trust). Or "Kacang lupakan kulit"; lit. "The nut forgets its shell" ((don't be) an ungrateful person).
I did also read The Good Earth as a child and enjoyed it thoroughly.
Oh, and incidentally, that character 'treasure', is pronounced 'bao' in Mandarin.
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