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[Daniel]

The Savage Detectives- I am sooooo loving this book.. Robert Bolano wrote the book.

[Wilfrid]

Interested to know what you make of it, Daniel. I enjoyed it. It did get a little repetitive in the later stages.

[Lippy]

Just finished Every Man Dies Alone, Hans Fallada. This book is a visceral experience.

[Wilfrid]

I'd say it's a book everyone who reads should read.

[splinky]

my interest piqued by viewing the steins collect: matisse, picasso, and the parisian avant-garde exhibition, this evening, i downloaded gertrude stein's "three lives"

[SLBunge]

Just finished Every Man Dies Alone, Hans Fallada. This book is a visceral experience.

I'd say it's a book everyone who reads should read.

I'm just about done and I agree it is a must-read.

I'll be passing it on to a friend next week so I'll probably finish tonight.

[Suzanne F]

The 10 best first lines in fiction (from The Guardian, by way of Publishers Weekly)

[SLBunge]

The 10 best first lines in fiction (from The Guardian, by way of Publishers Weekly)

How nice that they chose a photo of Sylvia Plath in a bikini.

[Wilfrid]

I guess it goes with the quote.

[Stone]

Pride and Prejudice. I remember reading it in high school and thinking, "this is just a soap opera with a lot of annoying people." I like it better this time, but not as much a Jane Eyre or Middlemarch. (Not sure if it's fair to lump these together, except that they're all English classics written by women.) Also Barchester Towers. I've always meant to read some more Trollope, but never got around to it.

[Lippy]

Just finished The Closed Circle, the sequel to The Rotters Club, by Jonathan Coe. It was a page-turner, too, but somehow without the humor of the first book.

[Wilfrid]

I am going to recommend Open City by Teju Cole. It looks like it's going to be a novel about walking around in New York City and meeting odd characters. It's much more than that, and it holds some shocks. Exquisitely written, not over-long, highly intelligent.

[Daniel]

Interested to know what you make of it, Daniel. I enjoyed it. It did get a little repetitive in the later stages.

I hit a rut.. I am struggling with this book. But, I am going to China in 8 days. I am sure to burn through a few books.

[Lippy]

I'm reading Phineas Finn, the second of Trollope's Palliser novels, on my Kindle. I'm carrying around an entire bookshelf of 19th century novels.

[Suzanne F]

The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat, by Thomas McNamee (the new bio of Craig Claiborne). Interesting because I remember his tenure at the Times, and it did seem to be quite a change from what was done there and elsewhere before. Not sure I care about the details of his private life, other than as they influenced his work.