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Which LIST book did you just finish?
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★★★★★
Coming to this book as an adult, I thought it deserved all the praise that has been heaped on it. It did not grab me as a y..."
Love it!! Always makes me cry.
Tenda dos Milagres by Jorge AmadoNot the most obvious of choices, I would have picked Capitães da Areia that, incidentally, was publicly burnt by the military dictatorship.
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy AckerI thought The Necrophiliac was the worst book I'd ever read... until I read this.
I read The Plague by Orhan Pamuk a few months ago and couldn’t put it down! Loved it.
#116 - I finished the Gothic novel written in French but first published in English and set in Arabia: 
Vathek by William Beckford
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Not the best book I've ever read, but still my favorite book. *sigh*
Mansfield Park--very long--Did people really pontificate so much?
The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers by J.R.R. TolkienThe Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Fruits of the Earth by André Gide
Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair
As you can see, I haven't posted in a while.
Alice wrote: "The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers by J.R.R. TolkienThe Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger
Disgrace by ..."
Clearly you have been very busy reading, though! Wow!
JenniferAustin wrote: "Alice wrote: "The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers by J.R.R. TolkienThe Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger
[book:Disg..."
Jennifer, several of these books are very short......while I read the epic LOTR. I tell my daughter I have a daily date with Frodo.
#117 - I finished the classic gothic romance novel 
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann RadcliffeThe beginning of this book made me fear I was having to read another Clarissa (which I could not stand). But I stuck with it and it improved substantially in the second half!
Hawksmoor by Peter AckroydThe plot rambles and nothing much happens for large chunks of it. Even the ending is inconclusive. By the time I'd reached the end of the book I wondered why I'd bothered.
Nemesis by Philip Roth. After reading The Breast by Roth, I thought I wouldn't want to read him anymore. But I did enjoy this one.
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler.
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville.My copy of this book was only 88 pages long but I didn't find it a particularly quick read and whilst I enjoyed it more than the author's 'Moby Dick' I cannot in all honesty say that I would recommend it.
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★★★★★
Coming to this book as an adult, I thought it deserved all the praise that has been heaped on it. It did not grab me as a younger person, so, as with many books, there is a time and place for the read to work. I am going to have nightmares about Madame Lefarge and her knitting.