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Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
The Boys From Brazil by Ira Levin
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
The Man With the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
A Man of Property by John Galsworthy 39. (Comfort) Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
40. (New) Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon Nature Girl by Carl Hiassen
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
The Choir Boys by Joseph Wambaugh
The City Boy by Herman Wouk
The Playboy Prince by Nora Roberts ... I didn't feel like I
had been there, but I did get a sense of a farmer's love for the land.
6. 08/09/09 Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon (Pennsylvania)
overall book: 3/5. Good, but not my favorite Chabon book. I think I probably liked the movie
better. Is that a ... From Audible.com:
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
From Doon with Death by Ruth Rendell #148 & 151 - I tried so hard to love Wonder Boys, but it just didn't happen. It killed me, too, because The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay went straight onto my Top 10 list. I've heard that a few of Chabon's books are hit-or-miss with some readers, though, so I'll persevere. I just finished Wonder Boys, which was rather meh. Chabon's prose is great, but the story did nothing for me. I plan to rad The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde next; I figure it's time for something a little less erudite. I started Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon yesterday evening, and I've got a good feeling about it. ... Great World Spin by Colum McCann, fiction, TBR
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania -- Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon, fiction, finished 08/09/09
Rhode Island -- The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty, fiction, finished 11/15/09
South Carolina
South ... ... Robertson's work, not just because he drew my favorite comics ever (Transmetropolitan) but also for his stuff on The Boys. He does violent scenes very well, with just enough blood and such to be realistic but not enough to be gratuitous. And when you work with Warren Ellis and Ga ... ... at the formatting inconsistencies and gave up (also, it's two seasons out of date). I'll go back to it after I finish Wonder Boys, which is pretty good so far (even if it's not a TBR challenge book). And then Lolita, because I have to make my (school-)yearly attempt at it and my year is ... ... about baseball, but makes good reference to it. The closet thing I've read that I can use as a reference point would be Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon, but with a bit more baseball or history than that.
Any recommendations? I am really out of my element here.
eta: if you check my ... ... about baseball, but makes good reference to it. The closet thing I've read that I can use as a reference point would be Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon, but with a bit more baseball or history than that.
Any recommendations? I am really out of my element here. ... for TV)
Dune
Clan of the Cave Bear
Persuasion
Sense and Sensibility
Flags of Our Fathers
Butterfield 8
Wonder Boys
The Swimmer
The Andromeda Strain
Ragtime
The Robe
From Russia With Love
The Spy Who Loved Me
Live and Let Die
(actually all the James Bond ... ... James
Library Haul- the total was $2.50
Witness To Myself- Seymour Shubin- I adore the Hard Case Crime series
Wonder Boys- Michael Chabon
Character Parts- John Mortimer
The Little Nugget- P.G. Wodehouse
Hot Water- P.G. Wodehouse
Slowness- Milan Kundera ... OK, The Boys is going to topple something then. ... on getting to 75 already! I hope you reach your 500 goal.
Thanks for those WW2 references. I have Martin Gilbert's The Boys downstairs and will grab it tomorrow and try to get to it soon(ish). Have you read it?
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon; a book I would like to read ... 'Birds of a feather' by Jaqueline Winspear ****
33. 'Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp' by Philip Pullman ****
34. 'Wonder Boys' by Michael Chabon ***
35. 'The Shifting Fog' by Kate Morton ****
36. 'I Capture the Castle' by Dodie Smith ****.5
37. 'The Girl Who Played With F ... ... ff...
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Life and Death of Laura Friday by David Murphy
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Black Oxen by Elizabeth Knox (in the bargain bin) ... A quick rummage in the mark-down bin turned up Black Oxen by Elizabeth Knox. Since I was on a roll, I threw in Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon as well. Just as well the lot had 25% off... ... here. I think that it will give you plenty of variety so that you'll always have something on it that suits your mood. The Wonder Boys is a fast-paced, fun read. ... 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 great. I've been meaning to read A Room With a View for quite awhile. There was a movie of it ... ... Godfather by Mario Puzo
6. Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella ("Field of Dreams")
7. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
8. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
9. Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim ...
5. All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein
6. Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
7. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
8. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
9. Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim ... Tanglewood Tales to start, supplemented with Bulfinch's Mythology and Edith Wharton's. I loved the class (of course). The Wonder Book had reminded me of those wonderfully happy years, and I grew curious to learn more about it. The many glowing remarks from our group have been fairly ... #8- The Wonderboys by Michael Chabon
An author I've been meaning to get to on a recommendation from Mr. Wilkie. A good book, but characters who make bad decision after bad decision after bad decision make me tense. OC: Wonder Boys, Le Père Goriot, The Comfort of Strangers, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead EX: Man in the High Castle, Up from Slavery, The Sound and the Fury Fun question.
I'm currently splitting my time between Pittsburg, PA in Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys and 12th century Paris, France (for starters) in Umberto Eco's Baudolino. Whirlwind excitement abounds! The Street of Crocodiles ****½
by Bruno Schulz
09/25/08
Wonder Boys **½
by Michael Chabon
09/26/08
Artifices (Fictions)
by Jorge Luis Borges
09/26/08
†Le Père Goriot ****
by Honoré de Balzac
09/27/08 no, not Wonder Boys, sorry I don't have my copy to hand, but Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon, maybe? ... 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. ... 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 and I'll just gird my loins (so to speak) and take the plunge.
Thanks again!
Note: I ... Wonder Boys: a Novel by Michael Chabon ... 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 heard of it. ... Kid: Ted Williams in San Diego... play ball!
#11 -- I really enjoyed Kavalier & Clay, as well as Summerland and Wonder Boys... ... Thief ***½
13. Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses ****
14. E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime ***½
15. Michael Chabon - Wonder Boys **½
16. Junot Díaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao *** ... to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The Cement ... 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 ... Now it feels like Christmas - I snagged Wrack and Ruin: A Novel. I thought, "hey, I have Wonder Boys, so that might be a sign... I read and enjoyed Obernewtyn over the holidays, and will have to finish my ER book before I dig into Wonder Boys, but I'm looking forward to it. ... shipment.) Of course, since they weren't wrapped, I had to open them... My santa did a great job chosing for me -- I got Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon and another I'd never heard of called Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody -- looks like a YA fantasy, absolutely up my alley. I can't wait to ... ... remember the name of the character, but the woman played by Frances McDormand in the film version of Michael Chabon's The Wonder Boys is described as reading the side of cereal packets if there is nothing else to hand. That to me is an avid reader, and it means I qualify as one.
... Las Vegas
* High Fidelity
* About A Boy
* Brokeback Mountain
* Trainspotting
* The Shawshank Redemption
* Wonder Boys
There are dozens more, of course, but those are some that haven't been mentioned.
I think it depends on who makes it, and who gets cast. I live in fear of ... ... needed the break...so heres hoping this will help me get going again. Since the start of March I've read these books:
1. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
I really enjoyed this. I love the film too and found their points of departure interesting. On the strength of it I've bought Kavalier ... I accidentally bought an audiobook version of Wonder Boys from Hamilton Books thinking it was actually the book. It's on cassettes. It came with a warning that it must be used on a "stereo" system. When I loaded it into my very high dollar car stereo system I get a warning message that if I ... ... John Irving Do you want me to stop yet?
FAVORITE BOOK(s): The Lord of the Rings, To Kill a Mockingbird, Wonder Boys, Far from the Madding Crowd, Ethan Frome
FAVORITE DRINK: Guinness, Gin Martini (on the rocks,) any good wine (red or white,) Margaritas
FAVORITE ... The library's book sale moved into Week Three yesterday, so everything was $2.25 per bag.
Sigh.
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Hiding My Candy by The Lady Chablis
What Was Always Hers by Uma Parameswaran
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
Daughter of the Forest by ... I always at least skim all of the posts here, see if anyone's reading something I have a strong opinion about.
Reading Wonder Boys, which is taking me a while to get into. I love and have devoured everything by Chabon I've read this far, and I'm enjoying Wonder Boys, but there's just not that ... Finished Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog, moving on to Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon. I'm excited... Chabon is one of my recent favorites. ... by a low start, and only continued because of the brilliance of the far different Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and of course Wonder Boys. It’s well worth persevering.
Read it and loved it in the summer of 1998, but now I finally own it! ... Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon.
(There are more, but that should get the ball rolling, right?)
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