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... definitely be books from LTers Top 10 lists. Here are my top 9 of the year:
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The True Deceiver - Tove Jansson
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Complete Stories - ...
... definitely be books from LTers Top 10 lists. Here are my top 9 of the year:
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The True Deceiver - Tove Jansson
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Complete Stories - ...
Great categories! I'm also going to be reading Of Human Bondage for my off the shelf challenge this year, after re-reading Razor's Edge (and loving it) last year. Not sure I could manage Ayn Rand, however -- that would be a 'wallbanger' of a book for me, I suspect!
Have you starred and look ...
... by Timothy Garton Ash
3. Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor
4. Reinventing Knowledge by Ian McNeely et.al.
5. Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham (since I recently read & loved Razor's Edge)
6. The Magical Chorus by Solomon Volkov
7. Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz (amazing ...
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
... are some hefty tomes for the winter months! Anna Karenina is excellent though.
I've just finished a non 1001, so back to Of Human Bondage . Sigh - I'm still just not sure about it.
I shall nominate The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot.
Second Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham.
Then I'll jump right in and nominate:
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
and
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
... potty train so everything is 'Poo'. Hopefully Dickens will be a calming influence!
Just finished Amsterdam and started On Human Bondage . I've been reading it online and just picked up the paperback and realised that it's a lot longer than I'd thought. Not too sure about it yet...
... was pretty yucky...
Sorry alcottacre - just really hated it!
Nearly done on Amsterdam though. But also started On Human Bondage and I think that may take me a while...
... the Count).
I've just finished The Scarlet Letter which I loathed with a passion. I think I'm going to read Of Human Bondage next possibly with Amsterdam (which I still haven't got more than 10 pages in to cos I never get round to it) and maybe Bleak House on the side.
I've ...
... didates:
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
Moonheart, by Charles de Lint
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
Of Human Bondage , by W. Somerset Maugham
At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft
I'm currently reading Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham and Peter and the Shadow Thieves by Dave Berry and Ridley Pearson.
Laura, you might try The Razor's Edge by Maugham (my personal favorite) or Of Human Bondage . Those two are generally accepted to be his best.
... time. ;) (Is there anyone better than Thomas Hardy?)
Silas Marner
Crime and Punishment
An American Tragedy
Of Human Bondage
Ethan Frome
As far as Maugham is concerned, my favorite is Of Human Bondage . Well worth the read.
Congrats by the way and have a blast on your hmoon!
As far as Maugham is concerned, my favorite is Of Human Bondage . Well worth the read.
Congrats by the way and have a blast on your honeymoon!
... Postman Always Rings Twice
The Woman in White
Look Homeward Angel
The Sun Also Rises
The Age of Innocence
Of Human Bondage
Tarzan of the Apes
Kim
Lord Jim
The War of the Worlds
Lord Jim
Of Human Bondage
A Farewell to Arms
The Razor's Edge
The End of the Affair
Vanishing Point
The Emigrants
Vertigo
Get Shorty
Billy Bathgate
... books that transcend time. You read them and can idetify with the story or charactors no matter when the book was writen. Of human Bondage , The Good Earth or Les Miserables are all classics every generation rediscovers them and can get it.
But with sci fi we tend to look at the future ( ...
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford from the Killer Inside Me, Tom Ripley, Humbert Humbert, Philip Carey Of Human Bondage , Lieselotte Vitzliputzli Fifth Business, April Wheeler Revolutionary Road, Zenia The Robber Bride.
... kind words on the reviews. I do appreciate it.
I haven't seen anything on here at all regarding your favorite but I read Of Human Bondage way back when I was just out of high school and while I liked it, a lot of it was over my head at eighteen. I think I might try it again here soon. I ...
... List with The Razor's Edge. It, and #201, are both great reviews.
I haven't heard anyone mention my favorite Maugham, Of Human Bondage . I consider it on a par with Razor . I have not read The Painted Veil--yet.
... it was going to happen, like moving a mountain, I mean, and you had faith, and it didn't happen, what would it mean?"
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
... above $2.00, including hardcovers) and end-of-term splurges in lieu of keggers, I've recently acquired the following:
Of Human Bondage -- a hardcover to replace my Signet edition with its text kindly running into the gutter of its pages
Lilith -- J.R. Salamanca one, not the touchstone ...
... Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Time After Time by Allen Appel
The Devil in the White City by Erik Lar ...
... or Dale Spender's Mothers of the Novel, not sure which.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Cioccolata da Hanselmann by Rosetta Loy
8) What is the best book ...
I finished Of human bondage and will start next Blue eyed devil by Lisa Kleypas.
Julia
... anyone, although i got to it through work.
A short essay by Abraham Verghese on how books, and in particular reading of human bondage when he was 12 decided his future.
....
"Middle-class Indian parents worshipped the professions, and only three existed for them: medicine, engineering, ...
... DuMaurier.
Also liked "socially relevant" literature as a kid--On the Beach, the aforementioned "Fahrenheit 451," and Of Human Bondage . Maybe explains my continued love for dystopians.
At age 12 discovered Jane Eyre and Silas Marner, books I continue to read every few years.
I ...
I'm learning so much from LT and these posts. I haven't read any of Somerset Maugham or Evelyn Waugh...
More books added to the tbr pile!
>337 Linda, I have read a fair bit of Maugham; 11 novels and most of his short stories. I do not recommend starting with Of Human Bondage . Save that for later. Try practically anything else, including his short stories. He is a master of the short story and his shorter novels are all worth ...
... booze.
Sylvia Plath--The Bell Jar is about mental health treatment that may have involved drugs.
Somerset Maugham--Of Human Bondage --wasn't Mildred a doper?
His short stories are amazing, too. Maugham is brilliant. Of Human Bondage is long, but totally worth the time.
#25 Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Maybe I should take back what I said about Maugham, because I wouldn't want to overhype him, because BAD THINGS happen when one reads a much-d ...
I started Of human bondage . Not far along so far.
I finished The Dubious Miss Dalrymple by Kasey Michaels and started Of human bondage by W. Somerset Maugham.
Julia
Whisper:
Maugham's Of Human Bondage is my absolute favorite book of all time. Definately read it if you get a chance. It gets you in an emotional twist that is for sure.
We aim to please ;)
And I'll take careful note of Of Human Bondage - have never read any Somerset Maugham!
... Truer words were never typed in a challenge thread.
What really stings my friend, lo these many years later, is that Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest books ever.
... his beloved firearm and a book, The Sorrows of Young Werther. The Girl brought a book she was reading, too, called Of Human Bondage .
The Boy said to The Girl "Hey, me and my dad and my batshit crazy friend with the handguns and my little stepbrother are going into the fields with my ...
... years ago- I liked The Moon and Sixpence ( inspired by the story of painter Paul Gauguin ) and the very long but great Of Human Bondage . I also liked his short stories.
... lists above, there are 7 titles I would pick up:
Lolita and Utopia
Waverley, The Master and Margarita, and Of Human Bondage
Leviathan and Moll Flanders
I find the lists fairly appealing.
Edited PS: But why don't they send a long list—I mean: a concatenation of the 3 ...
... and knows of a better group to post this in, please, let me know.
Question: While reading W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage , I came across this sentence: "He is the independent traveller, who uses Cook's tickets because they save trouble, but looks with good-humoured contempt on ...
... this group should definitely choose this author for February or another month -- you can travel to many continents reading Somerset Maugham . A man who wrote great female characters. Virginia Woolf said in her lecture A Room of One's own that you need to be both male & female mentally to ...
For all of those oppressed people out there, I have Das Kapital next to Of Human Bondage .
... & Prejudice, I started on Euphues just to realize it didn't make it to the new list.
I've also got Aithiopika and Of human bondage in my tbr pile. After that I guess I'm continuing with the pre 1700s.
Of Human Bondage anyone?
I've read The Neverending Story (which rocked) but I haven't read um....Of Human Bondage .
... high school, I brought books down from their attic and read everything I could find including plays by Shakespeare and Of Human Bondage . I was also checking out every book they had by Nevil Shute from our public library at about this same time.
... Sorrento"
3. Elizabeth Gaskell - "North and South" (Sept.)
4. W. Somerset Maugham - "Of Human Bondage " (Mar.)
5. Cormac McCarthy - "The Road" (Nov.)
6. Walker Percy - "The Moviegoer"
7. Kingsley Amis - " ...
... in Venice, Thomas Mann, 2000's
79. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence, 1960's
80. Kokoro, Natsume Soseki, 2008
81. Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maughm , 1960's
82. The Good Soldier, Ford Maddox Ford, 2000's
83. Rashomon, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, 2008
84. Portrait of the Artist of ...
Possibly some things by W. Somerset Maugham like Of Human Bondage and Razor's Edge or perhaps Thomas Pynchon.
... Guide to Chile, Endurance and The Battle for the Falklands.
However, the first few books of 2009 will probably be Of Human Bondage (a re-read, as I seem to have entirely forgotten this book!), Rebecca, Aira's How I Became a Nun and South of the Border, West of the Sun for the Read ...
... Whiskey League (already started)
The Diana Chronicles
Alpha and Omega
Of Human Bondage
The Invisible Man
Hawthorne's Short Stories (already started)
The Namesake
Rough Crossings
The Age of Reform
Theodore Rex ...
... Into a Movie(replaced Jan 21st with Ruth Rendell)
Stella Dallas
Lolita
The Manchurian Candidate
East of Eden
Of Human Bondage
The Forsythe Saga
From The Terrace
Forever Amber
Grapes of Wrath
... recommended by Anthony Burgess and even Edmund Wilson, who despised Maugham's novels."
I also hated his novels. Well, Human Bondage and Moon and Sixpence. I have not tried his short stories.
... novels (regency or vampires only) with a nonfiction book thrown in there once in a while. My favorite book of all time is Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maughan. I do not tend to reread books. I always want something new.
I want to write reviews for books but honestly I have trouble ...
"If it says so in the Bible it is so, Philip," said Mrs. Carey gently, taking up the plate-basket.
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
...and Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer, even though I seriously loathe the Twilight series. I think I enjoy hating it :(
... me hooked in the first place. He is one of those authors that I just can't put down. I also like Somerset Maugham. Of Human Bondage is probably my favorite book of all time. I think you would like it. It has a great tragic hero.
... treasures, and they did Cakes and Ale many years ago that I found in a bookshop in Victoria, B.C. Strangely missing are Of Human Bondage , of which the LEC did a memorable edition in the 30s with etchings by John Sloan, but which is outrageously expensive these days (and there wasn't a Heritag ...
My next book will be Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham :)
New books today, always exciting! :)
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Interpretation of Dreams by Freud
New books today, always exciting! :)
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Interpretation of Dreams by Freud
#34 - How is Kristin Lavransdatter so far? I ended up BookMooching it before reading...
No!
The Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Corsets and Crinolines by Norah Waugh
The Seven Year Itch by George Axlerod
Sorry, I was away for the weekend.
Nope, not Of Human Bondage .
Hints...hmmm...the quote above is the last line of the book. The work was somewhat novel (no pun intended) in that it did not use quotation marks.
hmm, a few days without so much as a nibble. Here's a random guess so we can get more hints/quotes:
Of Human Bondage
Here's my list folks:)
Of Human Bondage by Wm. Somerset Maugham
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Path to the Nest of Spiders by Italo Calvino
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Blaze by Stephen King
The Death ...
Decided on my final categories for the challenge:
Extra Credit: (Semi) Autobiographical Novels {complete}
1. Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham ****
2. L'Amant by Marguerite Duras ***½
3. On the Road by Jack Kerouac ****
4. Down and Out in Paris and London by Georg ...
... the LEC The Grapes of Wrath in Fine condition fetches around $800--$900, a Fine Main Street brings $400--$500, a Fine Of Human Bondage with Sloan's illustrations $400--$700 and Ulysses can bring $5000 and up.
I just finished Up at the Villa. It is hard to believe this is the same man who wrote Of Human Bondage , but I loved them both. Yesterday I started White Noise and I am about a third of the way through. This is my first DeLillo and I am enjoying it. Next up is Slammerkin. I have taken ...
Just for fun:
The Nine Tailors Of Human Bondage (Martin Eden, Agnes Grey, Jane Eyre, Mrs Dalloway, Fanny Hill, Kim, Siddhartha, Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord) Back over A Severed Head On the Road In Cold Blood In the Heart of the Country As if I am not There.
*ED ...
... to the Music of Time sequence of novels, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There were quite a few similarities, I thought, to Of Human Bondage , which I also loved. I'd been going through a bit of a dry spell with the books I've been reading--the last few I finished and the ones I'm working ...
... to the Music of Time sequence of novels, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There were quite a few similarities, I thought, to Of Human Bondage , which I also loved. I'd been going through a bit of a dry spell with the books I've been reading--the last few I finished and the ones I'm working ...
Hello everyone,
I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring! Here's my list of 2008 reads; I actually started the first one on March 1st (I had some issues before then that made personal reading impossible), but I'm still attempting to reach at least 50 by December 31st.
In case you couldn't ...
... book with three EM Forster novels; A Room With a View, Maurice and Howard's End.
I also bought another copy of Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham because it included the DVD with Leslie Howard and Bette Davis.
... didn't know it. I went through some of my grandma's books she left to me when she passed away, and found:
A 1936 copy of Of Human Bondage by Maugham which was thrilling to me because I had just read it this past semester for a class, so I feel a connection through it.
East of Eden and The ...
... 79. He was the author of Every Common Sight, Two-Headed Monster, Cox on Cox: An English Curriculum for the 1990's, The Black Papers , Emeritus and My Eightieth Year to Heaven.
... href="work/1758236">The novel, volume 1
The first man in Rome
Mason and Dixon
Underworld
*Of human bondage
The 19th wife
Winter's tale
(Also interchangeable with others in catalogue.)
... wars
House of leaves
The stories of English
The way we live now
I married a Communist
Of human bondage
Modern philosophy: an introduction and survey
(These are interchangeable with certain others in the catalogue.)
... #3): Of Maugham's works, Folio has done Cakes and Ale and a four volume Collected Short Stories. Curiously missing are Of Human Bondage and The Moon and Sixpence, but I happily have the Limited Editions Club versions of these. No one has done a fine press version of The Razor's Edge as ...
... k
Ernest Hemingway
Camilo Jose Cela
Nadine Gordimer
Ismael Kadare
Mario Vargas Llosa
Ryszard Kapuscinski
W. Somerset Maugham
Anton Chekov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Halberstam
Barbara W. Tuchman
I'm about 100 pages away from the finish of Of Human Bondage , and I will be starting up Howard's End when I'm done.
I'm reading Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham.
Just happened to me today, actually. I got quite upset about it, because I absolutely LOVE the book. I am reading Of Human Bondage for an Edwardian Literature class, and as we don't have to have the book finished by the beginning of next week, I'm only (ha! only!) on page 468. Today in class, the ...
... think so?
I don't know what to read next. I saw the rossetti letter mentioned and it looks good. I have never read of human bondage though which is supposed to be a 'modern classic.' I have waiting at home the victorians but all I feel like doing is re-reading the discworld!
I've ...
... book to be the same. I've been avoiding reading things by Maugham because way back when in high school I was forced to read Of Human Bondage and hated it - never did finish it and fudged the report a bit (praise be for libraries!)....so I've been wary. But after reading this I think I might give ...
... oyevsky
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Best of January '08
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
2. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
3. A tough decision... I'll go with Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
... J.K. Rowling
01/16/08
Being There ****
by Jerzy Kosinski
01/20/08
Pnin ***½
by Vladimir Nabokov
01/20/08
Of Human Bondage ****
by W. Somerset Maugham
01/22/08
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ***
by J.K. Rowling
01/23/08
One Hundred Years of Solitude (#10) *** ...
... then the summer before high school they let me bring down the the books stored at the top of the attic stairs. So I read Of Human Bondage , Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, and a number of other, more forgettable adult books. By this time I was also reading every science book I could get ...
... wars
House of leaves
The stories of English
The way we live now
I married a communist
Of human bondage
3: Big books (this category is starting to feel WAY ambitious)
*War and peace
*Moby Dick
*The way we live now
*The novel: ...
I'm in, I'm always looking for a new reading challenge, and this will help me knock off some books on my TBR Pile.
Here's the topics/books I've come up with so far...
1001 Books to Read Before I Die:
1. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
2. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
3. Alias Grace by Ma ...
... Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
56. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
57. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
58. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
59. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
60. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
61. The English Patient by Michael Ondaat ...
... novel
2) Glory Enough for All (also published as the The Discovery of Insulin) - history of science at its best
3) Of Human Bondage - deservedly a classic
4) The Angle of Repose - I was surprised by the extent to which I got caught up in the characters and plot of this truly American ...
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
I just this afternoon finished evil for evil , the second in the engineer trilogy by k.j. Parker. I enjoyed the middle half (if that's an understandable description) a great deal... but towards the end I think I just got depressed. Will definitely try and read the third though... once I can ...
... wouldn't consider your personal library complete.
My list:
The Iliad
Euripides' Medea
L’Ecume des jours
Of Human Bondage
The Secret History
Leaves of Grass
The Debt to Pleasure
The Great Gatsby
The Interpreter of Maladies
Pride and Prejudice
(This might ...
Fanny Price in Of Human Bondage vs. Fanny Price in Mansfield Park. A nod? Hardly.
F.P. must be one of the most tragic figures ever portrayed. Maugham is so sensitive and so brutal at the same time; it's gorgeous and horrible.
Touchstones: Of Human Bondage .
I should really research Villa Mauresque - there has to be plenty of literature on it.
Also, literary salons during the 1920s and 30s in general.
Women in Maugham - they are either misfits, sexual carnivores or stereotypically subdued (but only if they're ...
Touchstones: Of Human Bondage .
They preferred to have tea by themselves, and after tea they played backgammon. Mrs. Carey arranged that her husband should win, because he did not like losing. (20)
She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer. (29)
... but he had the ...
... website this week and downloaded about 10 classics to read while quiet at work. Have read Aesop's Fables and now reading Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, which I am loving and may have to buy as a proper book anyway :)
'I say, Uncle William, this passage here, does it really mean that?'
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
careyi: I LOVE Of Human Bondage .
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham. I'm only a few pages in so I'm not sure if I like it yet, but I heard that it was like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man except more boring. I hope not. I'm only reading it because it's mentioned in The Catcher in the Rye.
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I just started Heavenly Date but I really need to do a cleanup pass on several half-finished books, especially Of Human Bondage . I hate how many books I leave half-finished like that, allegedly just for a day or two but inevitably for a couple weeks.
... READ IT
Black Dahlia -READ IT
The eye of the storm
For love alone
The Man of Property
In Chancery
To Let
Of Human Bondage
My life as a fake
The Red and the Black
Labyrinths
What I Loved: A Novel
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Food and Art
The story of art
Battle ...
... and original.
And of course for a literary 'classic' that has a medical theme, the aforementioned Somerset Maughm's Of Human Bondage is recommended.
There are a surprising (or not surprising?) number of MD's (or people who began by studying medicine) that later turned authors (as for S ...
... but it is not a bad coming of age story. I would liken it to Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Maugham's Of Human Bondage except that they were better written than This Side of Paradise. Still, I am glad I read it, and I will remember it.
in Awful Lit. : Awful Classics, Part 2: Son of Awful Classics (Jun 4, 2007, 8:01pm)
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. The book that taught me that it's okay not to finish a novel, that I didn't have to feel guilty for it. I read the whole thing and swore I would never again finish a book when I disliked it that badly only 50 pages in. It's been years, so I don't ...
I finished Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham yesterday. It was very good. There are many books from that time period that deal with artists choosing not to conform to societal conventions, and I appreciated Maugham's twist at the end.
I started The Road by Cormac McCarthy last ...
22. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham- A magnificent tale of love, life, sexual frustration, and a search for a sense of identity. Maugham's turn of the century London comes to life in a brilliantly told novel. I had no idea what to expect having not read Maugham before, but this is ...
... by Edith Wharton
41. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
42. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
43. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
44. Heart of Darkness by Jospeh Conrad
45. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
46. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
47. A Hou ...
... occasionally pick up DVDs in the US on holiday, nothing is impossible. And Somerset Maugham would be wonderful (the 1964 Of Human Bondage , I am thinking, and the 2006 The Painted Veil, right?). Thanks! (Sorry, my touchstones don't seem to work half the time -- none of the ones above came ...
... veil to begin with. Are you considering "old" movies as well, or only recent ones? If both, I would definitely add Of human bondage and Gone with the wind.
I will probably come up with more later.
:-))
... in an advanced state of withdrawal after reading the last word of each of their books (Les Miserables, Mother Night, Of Human Bondage , and Catcher in the Rye, respectively). I still feel, with the exception of Franny and Zooey in Salinger's case, that the first books I read by these ...
... great forum group - really alive with ideas and motivation!
I'm up to 8 so far, though mostly they've been quite short (Of Human Bondage being the exception). I'm going to spend some time reading longer books though; last year I read Don Quixote which took a good ten weeks - sure, I was ...
... good read, especially for anglophiles ... some of my favorites of his were The razor's edge, The moon and sixpence and Of human bondage ...
I'm currently reading Dr. Faustus by Thomas Mann and volume one of History of sexuality by Foucault ... I've got all three volumes of ...
6. Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham (699p). A wonderful book all round; okay, it's a bit of a cheat my listing it here as a 2007 book read, but at the same time I was only 100 pages in when I came back to it this month. Plus, it took me all week to read, which is as good an investment ...
... Francis – Nikos Kazantzakis
The Saviors of God – Nikos Kazantzakis
Barabbas – Par Lagerkvist
Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence – W. Somerset Maugham
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
... be required reading in Southern California where I live.
The Count of Monte Cristo Read in French in High School.
Of Human Bondage Maugham - Good.
Babel 17 Samuel Delaney - Scifi, a rarity on this type of list
Empire Falls Russo - Good
Girl in Landscape Leth ...
As far as content remaining the same...
The first time I read Of Human Bondage I was very young. Read it again about a year later and then a third time when in college. Each time I reacted to it as though it was a completely different book but the physical object it my hands was the same actual ...
As far as content remaining the same...
The first time I read Of Human Bondage I was very young. Read it again about a year later and then a third time when in college. Each time I reacted to it as though it was a completely different book but the physical object it my hands was the same actual ...
When I was 13 I was transitioning to adult novels, for example Of Human Bondage . Also beginning to read Shakespeare (I had always liked plays.) And even though female I read every science fiction book I could get my hands on. Mainly you should follow your interests.
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