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Sammy (sammystarbuck) | 12885 comments That was one of those books where I liked the ideas, but wasn't a fan of the execution.
didn't enjoy the movie either!


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Sammy (sammystarbuck) | 12885 comments The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez

I'm beginning to think Marquez may have needed some serious therapy for his unresolved sexual issues...

Or maybe he should have just gone and changed to writing pure smut. It may have helped him work through some stuff. 😆


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Denise | 137 comments I finished A Passage to India E.M. Forster. I did not enjoy it as much as Howard's End and A Room With A View


message 104: by Sammy (new)

Sammy (sammystarbuck) | 12885 comments I feel much the same about A Passage to India I preferred the other two as well.


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Gabby | 243 comments I haven't read a large number of these but am interested in reading more.
Read prior start 16

My Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Not sure how far I will get but it definately a good long term project :D


message 106: by Denise (new)

Denise | 137 comments I finished The Razor’s Edge W. Somerset Maugham. I really liked it and want to read more of his books


message 107: by Sammy (new)

Sammy (sammystarbuck) | 12885 comments I love Maugham! The Painted Veil is my personal favourite, but I haven't read a bad one yet!


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Eldarwen | 13647 comments Mod
I've only read "The Painted Veil" so far and I enjoyed that a lot. I also watched the film first, not realising it was based on a book, and I loved that, so I was pretty sure I wasn't going to not like the book ;-)


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Sammy (sammystarbuck) | 12885 comments And finally finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Easier said than done, because I broke my reading glasses, and the print in this book was easily the tiniest I've seen yet 😆

really enjoyed it though, but that didn't come as much of a surprise, as I love Murakami.


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Sammy (sammystarbuck) | 12885 comments London Fields by Martin Amis

so I hated Money, but I mostly loved this one.

It's becoming a pattern with most male literary fiction authors I read... I always hate the first one and tend to love the rest.

Except for Saul Bellow and Jonathan Franzen. they just can't seem to budge from the 3-star range in either direction 😆


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Sammy (sammystarbuck) | 12885 comments The Information by Martin Amis

Didn't like this as much as London Fields, but still better than Money.

I've not been doing so great this year in getting list books read. I guess I can blame that on very few of them showing up in the Plus catalogue, and I'm not allowed to buy books this year 😆


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Sammy (sammystarbuck) | 12885 comments At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

I've been working my way through a hardback copy of the Lovecraft complete collection, but it's kinda languising because challenges keep getting in the way. So when this one popped up in the plus catalogue, I grabbed it!

Really enjoyed it. lovecraft was really great with the atmospheric writing!


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Sammy (sammystarbuck) | 12885 comments No One Writes to the Colonel, and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez

Woohoo, I'm on a roll this week!

Really enjoyed the title story, beautifully written. the rest of the collection was so-so.


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