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post #61 of 72
12/21/08 at 8:08pm
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I have to agree.
I was surprised by how moved I was by the book.
(Never saw the movie)


Movie was quite good, though I haven't read the book. Tough stuff at parts.
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post #62 of 72
12/22/08 at 12:27pm
Under The Volcano by Lowry. Best novel ever, and I'm sure I'll catch flack for this here, but it beats to hell anything written by Joyce.
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post #63 of 72
12/22/08 at 1:11pm
Some favourites I often re-visit:

A Time to Live and a Time to Die
Arch of Triumph
The Road Back
The Black Obelisk
(above all by Erich Maria Remarque)

Sentimental Education (Flaubert)
The End of the Affair and Dr. Fischer of Geneva (Greene)
Hotel DuLac (Anita Brookner)
Life After God (Douglas Coupland)
Hopscotch (Cortazar)
In the Lake of the Woods (Tim O'Brien)
The Tunnel (Ernesto Sabato)
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post #64 of 72
12/22/08 at 2:10pm
imo the English do this the best. Remains of the Day (altough he's technically Japanese) The English Patient etc Look at Booker Award winners
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post #65 of 72
12/22/08 at 8:06pm
The English have their melodrama, but postwar American realists stake a damn good claim here. Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes Leonard Gardner, Fat City Richard Yates, The Easter Parade, Revolutionary Road
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post #66 of 72
12/23/08 at 5:42am
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Why haven't I read Brideshead Revisited yet?

Because your life isn't worth living. Don't worry, once you read Brideshead it will be.

My favorite novel, by far. The prose is very overwritten, and a turnoff for many. I'm not sure it's a novel about loss. Perhaps regret. It is a novel about a middle aged man, looking back at college and afterwards, and thinking how much his life has changed, the people he met, what happened to them, etc. I would suggest it for Christmas break. You can read it in a week probably.

Have you seen either the new or old movies? I own the old Grenada miniseries on DVD, haven't seen the new one.

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I read The Remains of the Day this past summer and it lingers with me still. A powerful book. I'd like to get some more Ishiguro, but I'm not sure what's best.

I just sent an email to a friend about 2 minutes ago saying I'd like to see this movie. I haven't, nor read the book. Heard nothing but great things about both.
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post #67 of 72
12/23/08 at 1:24pm
Duhhh - there's milosz already! After my Yates post I figured I had a natural tie-in here....
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post #68 of 72
12/23/08 at 5:12pm
+1 The English Patient (Michael Ondaajte); A River Runs Through It; East of Eden (Faulkner); Philadelphia Fire (John Edgar Wideman); A Little Yellow Dog (Walter Mosley);
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post #69 of 72
12/24/08 at 8:17am
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East of Eden (Steinbeck)

Ahem.
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post #70 of 72
12/24/08 at 9:12am
Just finished for the umpteenth time my favorite book ever. Nadja by Andre Breton.
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post #71 of 72
12/24/08 at 2:49pm
A Soldier of the Great War- Mark Helprin
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post #72 of 72
12/30/08 at 4:50pm
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Ahem.
My mistake, thanks for the correction.
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