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The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Find it at Amazon Finished 'The Return of the Native' by Thomas Hardy. It is, in many ways a very conventional novel. Set in the 19th...
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Mar 42 min read
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Find it at Amazon Holmes investigates the death of Sir Charles Baskerville who died of an apparent heart attack while walking upon the...
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Feb 162 min read
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The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
This is essentially the story of what happens when you throw a truly good man into the society of self absorbed aristocrats. Lev...
wrodawalt
Feb 142 min read
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Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
Find it at Amazon https://amzn.to/3WQyRCV It is rare that I read a book and find it as completely incomprehesible as this story, if it is...
wrodawalt
Feb 52 min read
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The Comfort of Stranger by Ian McEwan
Find at Amazon at https://amzn.to/42KSKiy 'The Comfort of Strangers' by Ian McEwan. It is a skillfully written short novel about a couple...
wrodawalt
Feb 51 min read
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Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Find at Amazon at https://amzn.to/4huuRAw A beautifully written book which opens with the funeral of a woman named Molly. She was a food...
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Feb 51 min read
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After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Find at Amazon at https://amzn.to/3Q52k8j A collection of short stories which occur after the 1995 Kobe earthquake. The cetral theme is...
wrodawalt
Feb 51 min read
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Pastoralia by George Saunders
Find at Amazon at https://amzn.to/3CqoUoY This is a series of short stories which originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine. They...
wrodawalt
Feb 53 min read
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Find at Amazon https://amzn.to/3Q5P8QD I have very fond memories in my late teens of going to game club in Lambertville, Michigan where a...
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Feb 53 min read
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The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Find at Amazon https://amzn.to/416skXu Dirk is back. In a puff of orange smoke, of a check-in desk at London Heathrow Airport disappears...
wrodawalt
Feb 51 min read
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Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
Find at Amazon at https://amzn.to/4jWOGSC I'm kind of amazed at my emotional response to even thinking about this book, or any of Douglas...
wrodawalt
Feb 52 min read
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2001: A Space Odyessy - Arthur C Clark and Stanley Kubrick
Find at Amazon - https://amzn.to/3Q6wjwL I read this book years ago, and I am sure that I am probably confusing parts of the book with...
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Feb 52 min read
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Reading anything by Hunter S. Thompson is always more of a trip into his psyche, than a literary journey. I think he is a brillant...
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Feb 51 min read
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Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Published in 1876, this is a book about the two main characters of Gwendolen Harleth and Daniel Deronda. Gwendolen is an exceptionally...
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Jan 83 min read
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
For anyone not familiar with the story, this is the tale of a racially charged rape trial of a black man named Tom Robinson, who has been...
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Dec 18, 20242 min read
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1000 Books to Read Before You Die
This section is devoted to my quest to finish reading the books on a list I encountered a number of years ago, 1000 Books to Read Before...
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Dec 10, 20242 min read
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Slaughterhouse Five
This is a semi-autobiographical novel by Kurt Vonnegut about a prisoner of War during World War II named Billy Pilgrim. Pilgrim and his...
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Dec 10, 20241 min read
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The Life of Pi
A fantastic story of a young man named Piscine Molitor Patel, but is known to his family as Pi. He is a very smart and curious young...
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Dec 10, 20241 min read
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