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    Antonio Tabucchi: The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro

    This is the second novel I have read of his in english translation. I am so far unimpressed. Not sayin' he's not a good writer, just surprised that he's considered THE heavyweight living Italian novelist. I question the quality of his (various) English translators... Reviewed on blog...
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    Cees Nooteboom- Rituals

    Just read this. What an amazing novel. Much better than The Following Story (which itself was pretty interesting read). I would not mind at all if the Swedes recognized him this October. Its a 140 page novel that contains no filler...(if one were to ad water, it would be a 500 pager..;) )...
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    Per Petterson: Out Stealing Horses

    I could almost recommend reading Out Stealing Horses on the strength of the last sentence alone. Which of Petterson's novels should I get next? ---
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    Your opinion of my long TBR list...

    I bow down before your TBR list! What an excellent range of books...I am happy you included a couple of Native American works as well. I went to a Sherman Alexie reading (I live not too far from the reservation where he grew up). I took an Native American Fiction course in college and the proff...
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    Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

    Interesting, I had a similar experience with this same book.I read it @ 22 and liked it...my review here 30 years later.... ---
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    Marilynne Robinson

    I need to read Home and Gilead. I have read Housekeeping and loved it. I have to chime in that I don't quite abide by pegging her to the midwest. She was born and raised in Sandpoint, Idaho (the town I reside in) and it is definitely not in the Midwest. Housekeeping is set here...
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    Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions

    I have been looking at this novel and have vacilated whether to add it to the cart...I think its really exciting the number of new voices emerging out of Africa...its been sort of a personal recent voyage of discovery for me. When one considers the violent social and cultural upheavel and...
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    What Did You Read in August

    The only other Llosa I have read is The War At The End of the World, but it was a long time ago and my (poor vaporous) memory does not serve me well if it was a remarkable read or not. The Green House is NOT a novel to be read as an entertaining, plot driven novel, as it is a kaliedescope of...
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    Bohumil Hrabal

    I really, really need to read ISTKOE...I fell in love with Hrabal after Closely Watched Trains, Too Loud a Solitude, and his Total Fears...Letters to Dubinka Thirwell has intereting things to say about Hrabal. Hanta is one of my favorite characters in 20th century fiction... ---
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    What Did You Read in August

    The Slynx-- Tatyana Tolstaya In The Skin Of A Lion-- Michael Ondaatje Aura-- Carlos Fuentes A Wild Sheep Chase-- Haruki Murakami The Ghost Writer-- Philip Roth The Book of Laughter and Forgetting-- Milan Kundera The Green House-- Mario Vargas Llossa (not quite finished) all (but the...
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    Per Petterson: Out Stealing Horses

    As ST says, its a book that that takes a bit to get used to the narrative tone. He has a unique voice, but once you get used to it, it becomes affective. His distancing himself from the world IS part of the story. Highly recommended.
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    Which books did you read in March?

    Tartuffe--Moliere The Misanthrope--Moliere The Orestes--Aeschylus The Oedipus Cycle--Sophocles The Medea--Euripedes Hippolytus--Euripedes King Lear--Bill The Following Story---Cees Nooteboom 4/5 Blood Meridean--Cormac McCarthy 5/5
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    Underdogs

    I remembered In My Fathers Court and Crown of Feathers as being really good reads (but again, that was A LONG time ago...)
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    Underdogs

    This is a great thread idea ST. Its an easy one for me, since I have come back to literature after a 3 decades of AWOLness... I have noticed the following formerly respected (at least academically) authors whose books are no longer as available nor names rarely come up in discussion...
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In ancient Corinth, just murdered my kids to get back at my husband for being such a d*^k ... The Medea--- Euripedes
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    Which Books Did You Read In February?

    Marcel Proust, A Life--- William Carter 4/5 In Search of Lost Time-- Marcel Proust (Half way, volumes 1-3--- I have set aside for the time being, willl take it back up at some point) 6/5 Divine Comedy-- Dante (kind of stupid to rate this so I won't)
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    J.M.G. Le Clézio: Desert

    Thanks for the excellent review. As a recent Le Clezio fan, its frustrating how few of his works are currently available in English. This is one of those that are not available yet (that I am aware, someone please correct me if this is wrong!). I can only hope his Noble prize exposure get's more...
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    Which Books Did You Read In January?

    Pere Goriot-- Balzac :stars4:+ The Charterhouse of Parma-- Stendhal :stars5: Onitsha-- Le Clezio :stars4: Madame Bovary-- Flaubert :stars5: Having recently read (and/or re-read) 2 Balzac novels, both Stendhals and Flaubert's MB. I am a contrarian and personally like...
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    What are your top books of 2008?

    No trying to side track, but Stewart, your World Lit & Blog links have been down for awhile... Keep it coming, great thread!
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    What are your top books of 2008?

    Not having started reading literature again until September, my list is a short one: Crime & Punishment-- Fyodor Doestoyevsky The Red and the Black-- Stendahl (a re-read) Murphy-- Samuel Beckett Dubliners-- James Joyce (re-read) As good as these were one was "Above category" (and...
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