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brocade_city

Half-Year Booklist

Jun 30, 2008 22:21

The books I have read since the beginning of January are listed below. Ones that I would recommend to everyone are emphasized:

1. Middlemarch by George Elliot
2. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
3. Youth by JM Coetzee
4. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
5. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf ( Read more... )

Comments 6

schwarzbrille July 1 2008, 04:24:07 UTC

2. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

*vomits everywhere*

thesleepyvegan July 1 2008, 05:16:15 UTC

brocade_city July 1 2008, 11:08:28 UTC

I gave Ethan Frome a shot because the age of innocence is pretty cool.

That being said, the whole "swamp yankees in love whose affair is revealed by a broken pickle dish" concept is so fun to mock.

schwarzbrille July 1 2008, 15:29:58 UTC

The words of someone who has never had to write a middle-school essay about "the symbolism of the pickle dish."

It's sad when you think of how many books - that may otherwise be decent - have been ruined by shitty English teachers.

i dont know nothing bout nothing, and especially nothing about no book readin x0a July 2 2008, 00:22:28 UTC

but i find the chatty and funny books to be the easiest read.

cleverchicken July 3 2008, 01:15:16 UTC

The Idiot...yeah...balls hard.