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Beckett, Boccaccio, Calvino. *NM* Stephen Send a noteboard - 30/01/2011 10:29:38 PM
Conrad, Heart of Darkness

James, The Portrait of a Lady

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Boccaccio, The Decameron

Beckett, En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot)

de la Barca, La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream)

Plato, The Republic

Mills, Political Writings (omnibus)

Calvino, Il barone rampante (The Baron in the Trees)

Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

Morrow, The Diviner's Tale

McDermott, Never Knew Another

Conrad, Lord Jim

Gurney, The Hittites

Bloom, Flight to Lucifer

Gardiner, The Egyptians

Cook, The Persians

Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Conrad and Ford, The Inheritors

Browning, The Poems of Robert Browning

Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

Ramuz, Jean-Luc persécuté

Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales

Hunt, Across Five Aprils

Saggs, The Babylonians

Aira, Los fantasmas (The Ghosts)

Harman, Towards Speculative Realism

I posted this list in a poll on The OF Blog. Voters could select as many of these works as they desired and I agreed to choose the top 3-5 and review them in the next couple of weeks. Thought I'd put it up here and see if the choices would be mostly the same or different. And if they are different, I'd review those works here as well.

So...which interest you?
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So you're given a list of books from which to choose those you want to know more about... Larry - 30/01/2011 04:13:47 AM 1377 Views
That looks like pretty standard fare stuff. No offense intended. Ghavrel - 30/01/2011 06:51:09 AM 1108 Views
I'm mostly revisiting books I read in my late teens to mid-20s Larry - 30/01/2011 07:42:48 AM 1134 Views
The themes may improve. His inability to form any sort of coherent style likely will remain. Ghavrel - 30/01/2011 08:55:10 PM 1054 Views
I disagree. Quite strongly, actually. *NM* Larry - 30/01/2011 09:10:34 PM 529 Views
Well, you're entitled to be wrong. *NM* Ghavrel - 30/01/2011 09:24:55 PM 509 Views
These ones: Rebekah - 30/01/2011 01:07:58 PM 1148 Views
Don't choose Gurney! Tom - 30/01/2011 02:23:14 PM 1148 Views
It certainly was the worst of the four Ancient Empires books *NM* Larry - 30/01/2011 04:18:53 PM 505 Views
I'm just intrigued by someone writing about the Hittites. *NM* Rebekah - 30/01/2011 07:15:00 PM 499 Views
There is a much better book on the Hittites, though. Tom - 31/01/2011 02:11:03 AM 1004 Views
I think Camilla ought to read Flight to Lucifer Larry - 30/01/2011 04:42:32 PM 1103 Views
I am doing very well pretending Bloom does not exist Camilla - 30/01/2011 06:54:24 PM 978 Views
You might like his novel, though Larry - 30/01/2011 07:03:09 PM 965 Views
Re: You might like his novel, though Camilla - 30/01/2011 07:12:30 PM 1107 Views
Not too badly Larry - 30/01/2011 07:21:03 PM 968 Views
S'why I chose it. *NM* Rebekah - 30/01/2011 07:15:29 PM 567 Views
Ha! *NM* Larry - 30/01/2011 07:20:23 PM 528 Views
Okay. Legolas - 30/01/2011 01:13:24 PM 1057 Views
The number of votes for Chaucer is curious Larry - 30/01/2011 04:41:37 PM 1127 Views
I find Chaucer less interesting than Boccaccio *NM* Tom - 30/01/2011 06:50:44 PM 537 Views
I'm divided on the two Larry - 30/01/2011 07:02:32 PM 1013 Views
Well... could be an international readership? jh - 30/01/2011 07:38:51 PM 1088 Views
Very possible, considering 1/3 or so of the blog's readership isn't Anglo-American *NM* Larry - 30/01/2011 09:11:26 PM 511 Views
Re: Very possible, considering 1/3 or so of the blog's readership isn't Anglo-American DomA - 30/01/2011 11:04:11 PM 1000 Views
There is that as well Larry - 02/02/2011 03:52:40 AM 1117 Views
Re: There is that as well DomA - 02/02/2011 11:57:26 AM 1286 Views
Very true. *NM* Legolas - 30/01/2011 09:12:46 PM 527 Views
Re: So you're given a list of books from which to choose those you want to know more about... Napoleon62 - 30/01/2011 08:02:49 PM 1688 Views
Well, at least two of those will be reviewed, it seems. Larry - 02/02/2011 03:53:28 AM 1132 Views
Hm. nossy - 30/01/2011 09:35:18 PM 1418 Views
Heathen! Larry - 02/02/2011 03:55:46 AM 1218 Views
Beckett, Boccaccio, Calvino. *NM* Stephen - 30/01/2011 10:29:38 PM 663 Views
Re: So you're given a list of books from which to choose those you want to know more about... DomA - 30/01/2011 10:31:09 PM 1298 Views
Re: So you're given a list of books from which to choose those you want to know more about... Camilla - 31/01/2011 09:41:16 AM 1143 Views
I've read one Vian book Larry - 02/02/2011 03:50:16 AM 1472 Views
Hmm ... The_Muted_Grimaud - 31/01/2011 12:20:37 AM 1388 Views
Re: So you're given a list of books from which to choose those you want to know more about... Sir Tybalt - 31/01/2011 03:44:01 AM 1054 Views
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