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Posted by eyez: Could you generalize just a little more - that isn't quite judgemental enough. What tripe. Your opinion is your opinion - it's hardly "simple fact." Unless, I suppose, you have research data supporting your opinion?

Well, I just finished Kalooki Nights and was pretty disappointed. I love dark comedies and this one had incredible potential but at 400+ pages and a very sluggish pace it ended up being primarily tedious. I just started Black Swan Green and am looking forward to the short-list coming out this...

Life of Pi - there's no un-knowing that ending; it changes everything.

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson...it has stayed with me since I read it years (and years) ago in high school. A recent re-read confirmed that as an adult, I still find it pretty shocking.

I'm on a bit of a non-fiction/WWII/Holocaust binge: Night - Wiesel Survival in Auschwitz - Levi Ordinary Men - Browning Eyewitness Auschwitz - Muller Maus 1 & 2 - Spiegelman The Rape of Nanking - Chang Rena's Promise - Gelissen 80629: A Mengele Experiment You could say I have a...

Good cries as of late: Of Mice & Men - Steinbeck Night - Wiesel Bel Canto - Patchett Life of Pi - Martel (cried on the re-read...I'm pathetic) The House of Mirth - Wharton

Well....I do, as compared to Anna Karenina, The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, etc. :p In the bigger picture I guess I consider novels within the last century to be "recent."

Oooooh - I love making recommendations.... Life of Pi by Martel is an excellent novel - my favorite - has great character development and is a fabulous story Lolita by Nabokov and The Bell Jar by Plath are two classics of recent years and both feature great character studies Lamb by...

Saramago's new novel: Seeing. A kind-of sequel to Blindness, with the same characters in the same city. I ordered it the other day. From Amazon.com: From Publishers Weekly In Nobel Prize–winner Saramogo's best known novel, Blindness, an unnamed capital city experiences a devastating...

I live in Grosse Pointe, MI - where The Virgin Suicides and a good part of Middlesex took place. It was interesting to read about my own neighborhood in a fictional book - he depicts the neighborhood very well (Eugenides is from Detroit).

A Very Long Engagement by Sebastian Japrisot - not a traditional romance story tho.

I finished: A Very Long Engagement by Japrisot I read: In the Skin of a Lion by Ondaatje and Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre I started: The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov - I know this is supposed to be great, but I'm finding it kind of tedious...struggling to stay interested.

I finished Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie I stared & finished In Cold Blood - Truman Capote, Beasts of No Nation - Uzodinma Iweala and The Sea - John Banville and started A Very Long Engagement - Sebastian Japrisot I've been so tired at night after work (when I usually read)...

I too have a serious book buying problem. The way I look at it is - there are way worse addictions to have - I'm not doing coke, just buying books faster than I can read them :)

the best I've read (so far) Hi all, I'm new here Life of Pi - Martel Blindness - Saramago The Bell Jar - Plath Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Clarke Lolita - Nabokov Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck Midnight's Children - Rushdie Lord of the Flies - Golding Cloud Atlas - Mitchell The...