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... challenge. You've got some of my favorites on your list including The Secret River, and Say You're One of Them, and Regeneration .
... (my tbr): Potiki by Patricia Grace - made me realise I should be reading more New Zealand fiction.
Runners Up: Regeneration and The Secret River - both excellent
9) Favourite Writers: Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon - enjoyed this one so much
Runners Up: BloodTide by ...
... Isabel Allende
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Attwood
The Handmaid's Tale
Cat's Eye
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Regeneration , Pat Barker
Eucalyptus, Murray Bail
Pere Goriot, Honore de Balzac
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Home, Larissa Behrehndt
Labyrinths, Borges
...
... (my tbr): Potiki by Patricia Grace - made me realise I should be reading more New Zealand fiction.
Runners Up: Regeneration and The Secret River - both excellent
9) Favourite Writers: Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon - enjoyed this one so much
Runners Up: BloodTide by ...
I love Proof too, and the film.
Regeneration too - I didn't mind Rivers and Melanesia, thought The Ghost Road picked up a bit after the eye in the door, which seemed to be trying too hard to me, on the other hand its picture of how different ranks were treated for what was then ...
#15,16
I would second Birdsong which I preferred to Regeneration (I never bothered with the rest of the latter trilogy).
I'd second Regeneration but want to suggest Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks as an amazing, moving depiction of the tunnelers and so much more. Highly recommended.
Also, if you like mysteries, Charles Todd actually a mother/son team have a series starting with the award winning A Test ...
... on the WF and can't believe I hadn't read it till this year. It might be in my top 5 books for the year. Have you read Regeneration by Pat Barker yet? That was another amazing WW1 book (although I was not as keen on the second two in the trilogy.)
Cait, in a few years maybe you could go ...
... read the first two novels in the Regeneration trilogy so thank you, Kambrogi for reminding me about those! BTW, I found Regeneration stunning, The Eye in the Door didn't hold my interest in quite the same way.
Women Writers that don't fit into any other category. Read 9. Well that one ...
... for injured soldiers. In 130 pages, she describes life in the hospital for the nurses and the patients. If you've read Regeneration or All Quiet on the Western Front, you'll probably like this book. The prose is less lyrical but the hopelessness and waste of life is just as plain. And ...
Well, that is a tough one.
Of the ones I have read this year so far, I would say Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, the Regeneration series from Pat Barker, Snow and Petals of Blood.
This is a link to the ones I have read so far this year:
http://soffitta1-bookcrossing.blogspot.com/searc ...
... The Crow Road
156 The English Patient
157 Smilla’s Sense of Snow
165 Wild Swans
166 American Psycho
170 Regeneration
172 Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord on Mount TBR
175 Amongst Women
183 Possession
184 The Buddha of Suburbia
187 Sexing the Cherry on Mount TBR
1 ...
#23 Life Class is on my tbr pile, I finished Regeneration a couple of weeks ago and was impressed. Fiasco looks interesting but my tbr is overflowing and I have library books.
New Zealand has changed quite a lot in these past years as the population has become much more international with ...
The trilogy starting with Regeneration by Pat Barker.
#138 Regeneration is a fantastic book - glad you enjoyed it - just a warning though, the next two are nothing like as good as the first (particularly the third)... (although, that's just my opinion, of course!)
#138: I have had Regeneration out as a request on PBS for a while now. I sure hope I can get a copy soon.
Regeneration by Pat Barker (1991)
Good Intentions category (my tbr pile)
I originally intended to read The Ghost Road for my challenge but then found out it was the third in a trilogy. I have read some reviews of Regeneration on the LT threads so knew it would be a good read but what a ...
187) Regeneration by Pat Barker (1991)
fiction, 999 challenge
I originally intended to read The Ghost Road for my challenge but then found out it was the third in a trilogy. I have read some reviews of Regeneration on the LT threads so knew it would be a good read but what a stunning and ...
187) Regeneration by Pat Barker (1991)
fiction, 999 challenge
I originally intended to read The Ghost Road for my challenge but then found out it was the third in a trilogy. I have read some reviews of Regeneration on the LT threads so knew it would be a good read but what a stunning and ...
I'm reading Regeneration right now and enjoying it a lot.
67. Regeneration
An amazing book that I cannot praise enough. I'll be posting a review of it soon.
Regeneration by Pat Barker
... to the front. It was good, but I really don't understand why this volume got all the accolades. I thought the first, Regeneration , was far superior.
The Hero's Walk by Anita Rao Badami. A wonderful novel about a middle-class Indian family that focuses not on the exotic as much ...
... The Ghost Road was a Booker Prize winner and is on my 999 challenge list. Now I'm really looking forward to reading Regeneration .
... insatiable war machine. I'm not sorry that I read all three books, but I could as easily have stopped after the wonderful Regeneration .
... insatiable war machine. I'm not sorry that I read all three books, but I could as easily have stopped after the wonderful Regeneration .
3 out of 5 stars.
Regeneration is one of the few books that I'll read again one day - I loved it. I enjoyed the next two in the trilogy much less (and gave up on The Ghost Road). Hope you find the Ghost Road better.
... The Return of the Soldier. I just couldn't get into the first, probably in part because I've been reading Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy and seem to be stuck in World War I.
... trilogy. As such, it reads a bit like a transitional novel and doesn't quite stand on its own as well as the first, Regeneration . I'm hoping that the final installment, The Ghost Road, will raise the bar again.
In The Eye in the Door, psychiatrist Dr. Rivers and several of his ...
... trilogy. As such, it reads a bit like a transitional novel and doesn't quite stand on its own as well as the first, Regeneration . I'm hoping that the final installment, The Ghost Road, will raise the bar again.
In The Eye in the Door, psychiatrist Dr. Rivers and several of his ...
... reader about the head with things; rather, there are tiny, understated shifts in the way characters interact.
Like the Regeneration trilogy, Life Class is set during the First World War. There are two distinct parts to the novel: it opens with a group of young art students at the Slade ...
And I just edited my list as well, replacing A Number and Outlander with Regeneration and Birdsong. That was hard, however!
57. Regeneration by Pat Barker.
... posting on the old one! So I'm transferring the latest reads. Here we go! (There were several posts on Brooklyn and Regeneration on the old thread--sorry!)
56. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin.
Nickelini in Club Read 2009 : Cariola's 2009 Reading (Jun 24, 2009, 11:02am)
Deborah -- we watched the film version of Regeneration in my 20th century Brit lit class this past term. I really enjoyed it and thought both the casting and the sets/costumes were well done. As for the books, I own the trilogy, but don't know when I'll have time to fit them in. Sounds like they'r ...
Just dropping in to second your recommendation of Regeneration , Cariola, and to recommend the next two volumes as well. I'm reading another Barker at the moment, Life Class, set at the same time and also excellent.
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Regeneration by Pat Barker
A beautifully written novel, the first in Barker's "Regeneration Trilogy" (the third volume won the Booker Prize). Set in a war hospital ...
57. Regeneration by Pat Barker.
... won a rack of Emmys.
I listen to audiobooks in my travels and during workouts. Right now I'm listening to Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy, read by Peter Firth. It's wonderful. The first book focuses on Siegfried Sassoon's stay in a mental hospital during World War I; he has been put ...
... novels.
6. I'm on page 112 (just started "Lois the Witch") and have 242 pages to go.
I'm also "reading" an audiobook, Regeneration by Pat Barker.
1. I downloaded the book from audible.com.
2. Barker's "Regeneration Trilogy" has been raved about by many LTers whose opinions I ...
... anif
Second Quarter:
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
Regeneration by Pat Barker
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
(subject to change if I read something wonderful in the next 10 ...
#201 - Regeneration opens with Siegfried Sassoon's letter of protest, "A Soldier's Declaration", that he wrote in June 1917; copies of which were forwarded to the press and the government. It was read in the House of Commons and subsequently published in "The London Times".
Almost court-martia ...
52 Regeneration and 53 The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
OK, so I've just read 3 books in a row by Pat Barker, and am just about to start on the fourth (The Ghost Road). Addictive stuff. Brilliantly written, very profound (I confess some bits I didn't really get).
A fresh new take on ...
... to her as a narrator some years ago.
am continuing with fire from heaven by mary renault, tale of two cities, regeneration by pat barker and dribs and drabs of barchester towers by anthony trollope as the mood strikes. he's a very comfortable read for me so i use him as ...
... - how could I let that opportunity pass by.
Reviews for Life Class were pretty mediocre, unfavourably compared with Regeneration etc, so I thought the fairest way would be to read it first. I liked it, and particularly the slant towards the underlying theme of whether art is still ...
... itself very handily and I did end up enjoying the read.
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker is the second in her Regeneration trilogy (and the one which is not on the 1001 Must Read list—note Chinua Achebe’s African trilogy, where the same thing happens and the first and third ...
... blind and handicapped who did the best they could and at least the narrator pronounces 'ruthven' correctly as 'rivven'.
regeneration , the first book in the regeneration trilogy, by pat barker. peter firth does outstanding work as the narrator. revisiting this book.
fire from heaven ...
... from harm's way by friends who essentially "locked him up." The fictional recounting of Sassoon's story in Pat Barker's Regeneration is absorbing and highly recommended. I, too, found myself looking up his work as a result of reading that novel.
I'm sure you recognize these from his War ...
... ...
In 2008 I managed
1. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
2. Dead Air, Iain Banks
2. Regeneration , Pat Barker
3. Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
4. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
5. The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
6. Kitchen, ...
... with the experience of those who fought it, rather than the larger geopolitical forces at work.
Pat Barker wrote Regeneration , Ghost Road, and The Eye in the Door (English)
John Dos Passos wrote Three Soldiers (American)
Ford Maddox Ford wrote Parade's End (English)
...
14. Regeneration
Very interesting to hear how your personal experience was reflected in Regeneration .
Hi Keren, I love Regeneration too - I see you read the eye in the door out of order, are you going to read the third installment now?
So I finished Regeneration and fell in love with this book on the first page. What beautiful sentiments. I also currently practice therapy with soldiers and this book really related to me on both a professional and personal level.
The book partly deals with the feelings of a famous war ...
... persepctive wears off and I found myself wondering - whats the point. I am dissapointed in this book.
Now I reading Regeneration and am already enjoying this book more than Paddy Clarke.
Yes, Kate Atkinson certainly falls into the category of pure enjoyment!
Have you read Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy? The third one won the Booker (I think that was the prize) but all three books are fantastic and need to be read in order. They deal with the experiences of those who ...
Following on from Regeneration and Sassoon, just wondering if you've ever read any of Wilfred Owen's war poetry also? Definitely worth a read if you haven't...
... detail, and I thank you all for the recommendation.
The War Poems by Sassoon was a book I chose because I had read Regeneration by Pat Barker, a fictionalized account of Sassoon's involuntary hospitalization in WWI. His poems are a great adjunct to the story because they are very raw, ...
... bygone era!
I have a preference for Goodbye to all that however, as a record of the first world war. Have you read the Regeneration trilogy - they complement these novels beautifully.
... other recommendations down (Nickelini, I have Goodbye to All That at home) and will try to read them soon. I also loved Regeneration by Pat Barker, and felt that it had similar emotional impact to AQ.
My husband and I visited the British, New Zealand and Canadian memorials in north-east ...
Just finished: Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud.
Next up: Regeneration by Pat Barker, and while I'm on the World War I dilemma kick, I'll probably also line up Harp Song for a Radical and throw in some Madness and Civilization for good measure. I usually feel the need to read some non-fict ...
65> The Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker is marvelous. I'd also recommend Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks for WWI fiction (about, not written during), if you haven't read it already.
... meant that I actually ended up adding about 30 new books to my wishlist that did not come up in Showalter's book, including Regeneration by Pat Barker (which is based on Siegfried Sassoon's life & institutionalization) - which is itself part of a series of books.... - and The First World War ...
... on ReadItSwapIt yesterday and managed to snag/blag/acquire a copy of The Return of the Soldier and the first two Regeneration books. And what with the Vera Brittain book which my grandmother said I should read when I was 17 and I still haven't (yes, I am ashamed), it looks as if my Wor ...
After reading Regeneration by Pat Barker, I got interested in Siegfried Sassoon's poetry. Currently reading his war poems.
... and researching which interferes with my own reading. With that said, the second novel I'll be starting on is:
2) Regeneration
... You do make a book sound interesting, even when it is not exactly my "type." Wishlist growing.
If/when you read Regeneration , I suggest you read all three books in the set as one book in rapid succession (they are short).
... Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
35. Smilla's Sense of Snow Peter Hoeg
36. Wild Swans Jung Chang
37. Regeneration Pat Barker
38. Sexing the Cherry Jeanette Winterson
39. Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
40. Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel ...
... rthing
The Whole Equation
Hand Me My Travellin' Shoes
The Tribes of Britain
The Unauthorised Version
Regeneration
Selected Poems: Auden
Hi Kambrogi, thanks for stopping by!
Also thanks for the reminder about Regeneration . This has been on my wish-list so long I'd almost forgotten about it. I'll have to be more active about seeking the books out.
Alice Munro is fab. Enjoy!
... Alice Munro on my list for ages. Shall add her to my 2009 list now. Btw, if you haven't already read them, I think the Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker is the most powerful WWI fiction I have read. It is a period I find very moving.
I finished Regeneration by Pat Barker - Meh. Am now reading Dreams of my Father by Obama which is engaging and so far pretty well written, but I've just gotten started.
#20 jhowell - I put Regeneration down a while back. (Like last year). But I've tried to send it off to the thrift store or bookmooch and am reluctant to, so guess I'll pick it up sometime down the road.
#30 ktleyed - I love Thomas Hardy! Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The Mayor of Cast ...
I finished For Whom the Bell Tolls which I loved and am now reading Pat Barker's Regeneration which is somehow not quite what I'd thought it would be.
#54 I loved Regeneration too - so beautifully written and a really engrossing story. Flissp, I didn't enjoy the next two anywhere near as much. I think I gave up on The Ghost Road when it got into all the anthropological stuff.
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon was ...
Hey Prop, just saying hi and Happy New Year! I see your off and running already. Regeneration sounds really interesting.
... books by or about poets. Since I didn't specify the books about poets had to nonfiction and that's a "real" poet in Regeneration I figure I can sneak it past the 999 police (I know, no problem) and my conscience (that may be a problem!). I have memoir type book by Donald Hall and a book ...
MusicMom, I'm not sure how Regeneration works into poetry, except that the language is poetic and it is about several poets. It was, however, a beautiful read. And LOL, shooting journalists is seriously considered in several books I've read!
Wow! Spounds like 4 great books. Regeneration I can work into my poetry category so I'm going to look for that one. I think I already planned to read The Bride Wore Black and I can add Zachary Taylor into my overloaded biography section and count it in the presidents challenge. The Lost H ...
#54 I also enjoyed Regeneration very much. I'm not as much of a poetry reader as I would like to be, but there is some deeply sad WWI poetry that even I can't help but be affected by - not least from Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, which just made the book even more moving for me.
There ...
Regeneration was another surprise for me. Another WWI story of treating "battle fatigue," this one has a great twist: the main characters and the issue are real. S. Sassoon (S for Siegfried--his mother was an opera fan) wrote a letter during his military service which stated essentially that the ...
... a classy noir mystery:
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll
Zachary Taylor by John S. D. Eisenhower
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Rendezvous in Black by Cornell Woolrich
Will have to review at another point, although all are recommended.
... under the tree, but I got a gift card, with which I bought Conceit, by Canadian author Mary Novik, and two British books, Regeneration and The Eye in the Door, the first two parts of Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy.
... in my shelves, I had a gift card at a book shop and had to buy (full price, no sales):
Conceit, by Mary Novik,
and
Regeneration and Eye in the Door, by Pat Barker. These are the first two books in the Regeneration trilogy. I already own the third (Ghost Road), which won the Booker. I ...
... Ann Shaffer
4. The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby
5. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West -- February
6. Regeneration by Pat Barker
7. The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
8. The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
9. Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski
... Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
My only Murakami started and never finished:
Kafka on the Shore
And etcetera...
Regeneration by Pat Barker
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew Bacevich
Happy reading!
Wi_Jessamine
... Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier (348p; 5 April 2009)
Execution Dock by Anne Perry (306p; 19 April 2009)
Regeneration by Pat Barker (250p; 31 May 2009)Marrying the Captain by Carla Kelly (275p; 25 June 2009)
The Surgeon's Lady by Carla Kelly (277p; 26 J ...
... Charlaine Harris
* Robin: The Lovable Morgan Horse (Morgan Horse Series) (The Morgan Horse Series) by Ellen F. Feld
* Regeneration by Pat Barker
* I Was a Rat! by Philip Pullman
* The Big Book of Grimm (Factoid Books) by Jonathan Vankin
* Beyond My Father's Farm by George J. Zeller ...
... bk 4 on my 999 challenge. I've also got Ghost Road down to read but have just noticed that it is the third book in the Regeneration trilogy. Good luck with your reading it's a great challenge. You have lots of interesting books listed here.
... John Connolly finished 01Mar
7. The Secret History by Donna Tartt finished 10Apr
8. Regeneration by Pat BarkerPotiki by Patricia Grace finished 12Apr
Bonus:
10. The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
11. The ...
... a Traveller by Italo Calvino (good condition)
Jennifer Government by Max Barry (creased spine, otherwise good)
Regeneration by Pat Barker (creased spine, slightly worn edges, good reading copy)
The Abortionist's Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde (good condition)
... I can't remember why exactly. The writing was beautiful, but I think the plot annoyed me somewhere along the way.
Regeneration is one of the most affecting novels I've read. I still remember finding it in a bookstore in Boston, reading the blurb, reading the first few pages, buying it, ...
... ker.
As my wife was leaving she reminded me, "Pat Barker is one of your favorites, isn't she?"
Well, of course.
The REGENERATION trilogy is breath-taking.
#3 I've read The Ghost Road and Regeneration , but since I'd read a lot on Wilfred Owen her characterisation of him annoyed me.
... POWERS (Anthony Burgess)
GOSPEL (Wilton Barnhardt)
THE LAST GOOD KISS (James Crumley)
UNDERWORLD (Don DeLillo)
REGENERATION (Trilogy) Pat Barker
TOWING JEHOVAH (James Morrow)
PROJECT X (Jim Shepard)
CIVILWARLAND IN BAD DECLINE (George Saunders)
PASTORALIA (George Saunders ...
... just got accepted. I'm really excited because not only is this my first Virago Modern Classic, but also I read her Regeneration and actually quite liked it - so I'm very excited indeed!
I just added Regeneration by Pat Barker, Old School by Tobias Wolff and Naples '44 by Norman Lewis. I loved all 3 of these but have so many books I'm getting ruthless. I've resisted posting Regeneration for ages...
I've already put them up so just go ahead and grab them. Sorry, forgot ...
WWI England, at Craiglockhart - Pat Barker's Regeneration .
55. regeneration , pat barker
i really don't know which side of the line i come down on in regards to this book. i appreciate all the different themes barker (it's a she, btdubs) is able to weave into there - contraception, honor, masculinity, religion - and her prose ain't too shabby neither. ( ...
... Asphodel
Black Dogs
Hideous Kinky
Arcadia
Wild Swans
American Psycho
Time’s Arrow
Mao II
Typical
Regeneration
Downriver
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
Wise Children
Get Shorty
Amongst Women
Vineland
Vertigo
Stone Junction
The Music of Chance
...
81. Regeneration by Pat Barker
Reading Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones:The Edge of Reason for a light fun read before I go on to Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker
I am waiting for Regeneration by Pat Barker, which I have ordered from Amazon Marketplace, then I shall read the trilogy.
In the meantime I am going to read Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood. Years ago I read an extract of this in an anthology and thought it would be a good book to read.
... Ernest Hemingway
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
And a similar tagmash for historical fiction,wii
#206 - I shall read the Regeneration trilogy as soon as I can get hold of Regeneration .
#207 - I used to have a balanced approach to author gender, but now I'm older and there are so many books by woman I want to read, men are on the backburner (their books I mean). ;p
I agree with the suggestion of All Quiet on the Western Front. The Wars by Timothy Findley. Also the Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker is good, although more about the effects of WWI on the men's psyches than their experiences in combat.
... the time this weekend I'm going through and getting rid of anything that doesn't make sense anymore - Sue Monk Kidd, Regeneration , Paolo Coelho, some duplicates, etc.
I'm considering joining BookMooch.
I agree, mckait - LT is evil but in the best of all possible ways. I'm ...
48. Regeneration ... by Pat Barker
A novel regarding a psychiatrist in a hospital dedicated to shell-shocked soldiers recovering from the trench warfare in France, during World War I.
I recently read Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy , which focusses for the most part on various men. I wouldn't have said that the way she wrote men was identifiably "female", but I wonder whether there might be tendencies in the men women write about in particular. superfancy's comments on Reg ...
... Prize Winner 1995, Booker of Bookers nominee 2008, Orange Longlist 1996.
The Ghost Road is the third book in the Regeneration trilogy imaginatively fictionalising the work of W.H.R. Rivers - a real army psychologist - with shell-shocked soldiers in World War I.
Pat Barker ...
168> keren7, the order is Regeneration , The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road last. Though any of them would work as stand-alone novels, that was the published order and it will make most sense!
#2: The Night Watch is a terrific book. I highly recommended it.
I just finished reading Regeneration by Pat Barker for the Women and War theme. It was so good, I'm thinking of reading The Eye in the Door or The Ghost Road for this one.
I just finished Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy , which I thought was brilliant. I didn't feel like I connected quite so well with the middle book, The Eye in the Door, but The Ghost Road was easily back up to the standard of Regeneration, exploring humanity and its reactions to the ...
I'm in Marseille with Gordianus the finder, whose son Meto was Last Seen In Massilia.
#46 LizT - I was the same with Regeneration - it really got under my skin and I couldn't wait to read The Eye in the Door. I got stuck somewhere along the Ghost Road though...must try again...
I'm in London in 1917. I appear to have finished Regeneration and started on The Eye in the Door immediately because I enjoyed part one so much. I must confess to not being as captivated by part two as I was by the first, but I'm certainly not about to put it down!
I'm using 1,001 as an 888 category too and so far this is my most 'successful' category.
1. The Handmaid's Tale
2. Regeneration
3. Oscar and Lucinda
4. Death in Venice
5. The talented Mr Ripley
6. The Floating Opera,
and current read
7. Seize the Day
However I might ...
I'm reading Regeneration by Pat Barker which is really excellent, mostly telling the story of the man who is treating Siegfried Sassoon for "shell shock" and some of his patients. It's very well written, exploring the impact and ethics of the war on both men and women.
8.WWI
Finally, something a bit serious ?
I read Regeneration which was about WWI
I now have the other two books in the trilogy on my shelf:
1. Regeneration
2. Birdsong
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3. The eye in the door
4. The ghost road
5. The First World War
6. All quiet on the western front
...
I started Regeneration by Pat Barker, and despite only having read about 20 pages, the characters have already wormed their ways into my head and I'm really looking forward to reading some more of it over the weekend!
... close to the end of the war, that belongs in the august company of Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong, Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy and Norman mailer's The Naked and the Dead.
It is about 7 soldiers, an old Italian fascist, and a sniper. It places you right smack in the ...
FInished American Gods and have picked up Regeneration . I also have the other two of the trilogy, so will get into those soon.
... up American Gods and although it took me some time to get into it, I have really enjoyed reading it. Next up either Regeneration or Extremely loud and Incredibly Close.
Gosh, stirring up controversy huh ? :)
Okay, what about Regeneration , by Pat Barker - which I did complete and thought was great.
... I need to read 17 of the 1001 a year.
So far in 2008:
1. The Handmaid's Tale M Atwood
2. Dead Air, Iain Banks
3. Regeneration , Pat Barker
... it, but I didn't keep the book and I know that I wouldn't read it now. Terrible subject matter, heartbreaking.
The Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker is also very dark.
Also on the non-fiction side, some of the journals of L.M. Montgomery are very dark. While reading them I'd ...
Re; Regeneration -
a piece on S Sassoon on today's Guardian site
http://books.guardian.co.uk/greatpoets/story/0,,2262876,00.html
... because it was so short and only took me about three hours to read, but it's still a book...and I still read it.
Book 8: Regeneration by Pat Barker - for the 888 Challenge one of my categories is books with WWI as the theme. I am so into them now, that I suspect I am going to read all 8 ...
... war--Under fire. Owen, of course, was killed in action one week before the armistice. Pat Barker's trilogy on World War I Regeneration , The eye in the door, and the Booker prize winning The ghost road revolve somewhat around Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves and especially Siegfried Sas ...
Oh no, I realised I never updated on real-life book journal re Regeneration !
Good thing it's nearly the weekend...
I might polish off Regeneration this evening, which has been another good read and I am keen to seek out the other two in the trilogy
* 2nd trilogy I have started reading this year- see also Kiss Me, Judas.
Next on my shelf is Thirteen by Sebastian Beaumont which I acquired after reading ...
... War, by Assia Djebar
Love My Rifle More than You by Kayla Williams (memoir)
The Chestnut Tree by Charlotte Bingham
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Flanders by Patricia Anthony
numerous war diaries ... etc etc.
... Kate Millett (memoir, US)
the Montreal Massacre, Louise Malette and Marie Chalouh, editors. (essays/letters, Canada)
Regeneration , Pat Barker (novel, England)
Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras, Chilean women, and the Pinochet Dictatorship, Marjorie Agosin (nonfiction, Chile, trans ...
Louis,
I haven't read Regeneration but just received Life Class. Is it ok to read this one without having read the other?
I finished Pat Barker's Life Class the other day and really liked it. It works the same territory as her Regeneration series, but is more war-time love story than anything else, and just like her other work, smartly written and completely engaging all the way.
Last night I finished Pop ...
I gave up on Dead Air and have moved onto Regeneration by Pat Barker, which even only a few pages in feels like a much better read.
I know it is the first in a trilogy- is the 1,001 entry for all of them or just the first book ?
... be a long one if I slog through it.
Well, it's not that bad, it's just not that good either...
My next read would be Regeneration , Pat Barker.
... as I would like to be, so I hope it is worth it.
It is good to hear that Life Class is worthwhile. I thought her Regeneration trilogy was stunning.
There's also Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy for WW1.
... group book :)
3. Kiss Me, Judas
4. Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose(8)
5. Dead Air by Iain Banks
5. Regeneration by Pat Barker
6. Thirteen by Sebastian Beaumont
7. Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kahehara
8. Endless Night by Agatha Christie
9. Sleepyhead, by Mark Bil ...
... Tale by Margaret Atwood
4. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
5. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
6. Regeneration by Pat Barker
7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
8. The 39 Steps by John Buchan
9. The Outsider by Albert Camus
10. The Plague by Al ...
Mine are:
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Regeneration (actually, I loved the whole trilogy--this plus The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road, but I think the first one was my favourite.)
The Wasp Factory
The House on the Borderland--this one really annoyed me at times as I was reading, ...
... away for the weekend and because I'm quite tired atm. However, I've managed to complete Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Regeneration (which last was so fabulous I was being deliberately slow because I didn't want it to end - something which hasn't happened for ages). Currently I'm just over ...
... and am annoyed at myself for not having read long ago. I'm going up to Leeds for the weekend, so I've got Possession and Regeneration in my bag for the journey and any little pockets of time I might get on Saturday and Sunday. Despite the chunkiness of Possession, there's a part of me ...
... The Hours, The Swimming Pool Library, the novels of David Leavitt, thr Pat Barker trilogy that includes Regeneration and Ghost Road, Proust for Remembrance of things past, the novels of Colette like the Claudine books for homosexual love, and Cheri, The Last ...
... It's fun.
I downloaded The Inimitable Jeeves, The Treasure Box by Orson Scott Card (touchstone not working) and Regeneration from audible last week, so I've got lots to keep me going when I finish with Lord Peter. I like variety in my audio books. :-)
... Jones - pure curiosity
The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea - never heard of it before but looks good
Regeneration , The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road by Pat Barker - looks interesting
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith - never read any, ...
... But one thing that often happens to me is that the books themselves lead me to other books. Reading Pat Barker's novel Regeneration lead me to poetry and books about the poet Wilfred Owen, who is a character in the story. Reading Wilfred Owen led me to Edith Sitwell, who was kind of ...
... like the book. I am also into WWI stories these days, having just finished Three Day Road and thinking of rereading the Regeneration trilogy.
... loss, regret and the sources of joy. Thus, Boyden reveals the horror of trench warfare (reminiscent of Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy) and the cruel dispossession of the American Indian. In a way that is vaguely reminiscent of Louise Erdrich, minus the romance, both aunt and nephew ...
... to solve a mystery that runs through the whole series, . I've found it wonderfully written, not quite as graphic as the Regeneration trilogy, but very good.
I just watched a movie based quite faithfully on Regeneration . It was very powerful. Has anyone else seen it? Thoughts? I've always liked Jonathan Pryce as an actor, but he wasn't how I pictured Rivers. Still a well done movie. Had me in tears a couple of times.
Do you think British/Fren ...
*lol* Forgot why I clicked in the first place.
I just finished Pat Barker's Regeneration , which is the first in a trilogy, and I thought it was wonderful. I'll definitely be reading the other two books!
10. Regeneration by Pat Barker (256p). I've started reading more books by women - I think only a small percentage of my library is penned by the fairer sex, and I wonder how that can have happened. This one took me a while to get through though.
Total pages after 10 books: 2885! Go team!
It's been a while since I read it, but I believe Regeneration features a couple of "real" poets as significant characters ... Siegfried Sassoon and ??? (something about Sassoon's name stuck in my head).
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth is great and the Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker, the classic All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque and In Pale Battalionsby Robert Goddard, also A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
... on the topic of female authors/war fiction, I'm surprised Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy has been mentioned yet ... also on WWI.
... A Very Long Engagement and enjoyed it, will have to give the book a try.
I think one of the things I liked about the Regeneration series was how Barker touched on the cynicism, the disillusionment - I'm intrigued to read more, so Three Soldiers sounds good too. Being brought up in a ...
I loved the regeneration trilogy, and it inspired me to read Birdsong, which I enjoyed, but not as much. I thought the last scenes in the underground were just compelling, but the prelude romance was not to my taste at all. I enjoyed the book overall, especially from when the protagonist goes ...
I'm so glad this group was started. Since reading the Regeneration series this past summer I've been hooked on stories about World War 1. I have a little book of WW1 poems In Flanders Fields and other Poems of the First World War that is compelling reading. I have enjoyed Anne Perry's series ...
I would recommend Pat Barker's Regeneration (the first book in a trilogy) for a reflection on war, poetry, and psychiatry set in WWII, and (on a more hilarious note) Gerald Durrell's memoir of his childhood on Corfu, My family and other animals.
The best books I have read so far this ...
Over the weekend I read Regeneration by Pat Barker. Interesting, and disturbing in quite a few places, but it somehow didn't draw me in emotionally as I might have expected. Maybe because I didn't really find myself warming to any of the characters.
I've now started Robert Service's ...
... My last five books are:
--Wilfred Owen: A Biography by Jon Stallworthy – every time I read Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy, I end up at the library researching something.
--Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry – bought years ago and finally read because a discussion ...
OK, back on topic - bad stuff!
A book I had to read recently for work and detested - Pat Barker's Regeneration . It was so incessantly WORTHY without actually raising itself from the level of "dull", and I lost all respect for it when I found that the only interesting scene was lifted, word ...
... also wanted to recommend something else which I believe hasn't been mentioned yet, the Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker (Regeneration , The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road). These books follow some of the famous poets of WWI (Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon) through their time in a ...
Pat Barker is one of my favorites, although I haven't ventured beyond the remarkable Regeneration trilogy (Regeneration , The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road). She does a wonderful things with the ambiguous overlaps between psychotherapy, surveillence, government, and anthropology, and ...
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