0070 | Atonement ~ Ian McEwan
REVIEW Friend lent me this as we both wanted to get it done before (if?!) the film is released in Korea. Quick read and well worth it I think despite…
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0069 | The Invisible Man ~ H.G.Wells
REVIEW This is what happens when science goes to your head. At least that’s what I think Wells was on about.
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0068 | Enduring Love ~ Ian McEwan
REVIEW My first McEwan and it won’t be the last. This guy can write a very engrossing novel.
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0067 | Walden ~ Thoreau
REVIEW This started out really well with some very erudite remarks about the way the material world, if you, Atlas-like, manage to find a position to observe it correctly from,…
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0066 | Trainspotting ~ Irvine Welsh
REVIEW This was an amazing read. It’s violent, offensive, stomach-churning, tragic and yet somehow, under all this, deeply poignant.
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0065 | Underworld ~ Don DeLillo
REVIEW Having got to the end of this finally last night, I can be very glad of one thing: I can speed-read. This has to be one of the most…
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0064 | Metamorphoses ~ Ovid
REVIEW This is a 400-page poem. It’s over 2000 years old to boot. If ancient poetry grabs you, this is your thing. Is it mine?
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0063 | Orlando ~ Virginia Woolf
REVIEW I’m firmly convinced now that, for all her genius, Woolf was also bonkers. This novel had me completely lost until the Wikipedia entry gave me the key to understanding…
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0062 | Junky ~ William Burroughs
REVIEW After battling my way through Naked Lunch, I wasn’t sure what to expect from my second Burroughs novel. It wasn’t half as bad though thankfully.
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0061 | Istanbul ~ Orhan Pamuk
REVIEW A friend at work bought me this for my birthday way back last May. I’d said I was interested in it after reading Pamuk’s The White Castle while I…
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0060 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
REVIEW Finally got through what was one of the best librivox.org recordings I’ve heard. Coming only a couple of months after Cloudsplitter, I don’t think I was really ready for…
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0059 | The Godfather ~ Mario Puzo
REVIEW The films are great (well, at least I and II are) and the book is well worth a read whether you’ve seen them or not.
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0058 | Lady Chatterley’s Lover ~ D.H.Lawrence
REVIEW My second Lawrence book and he is turning into one of my favourite writers. This didn’t disappoint. In fact, in places, this unexpurgated 1928 edition downright startled me.
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0057 | The Hours ~ Michael Cunningham
REVIEW This was a surprise. Here’s when reading something because it’s on a list pays off. I wouldn’t have touched this book if it hadn’t been on the 1001 list….
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0056 | Unless ~ Carol Shields
REVIEW Described on the back as “breathtaking… a masterpiece” I was delighted to find that a healthy cynicism of cover blurb reviews is entirely justified.
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0055 | Cider With Rosie ~ Laurie Lee
REVIEW Beautifully evocative, this is a classic memoir of the English idyll, where even winter is ‘summery’ and death has a romantic sheen.
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0054 | The Famished Road ~ Ben Okri
REVIEW Erm… well… this was fantastic. Quite literally fantastic.
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0053 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ~ Hunter Thompson
REVIEW Definitely a product of it’s time and country. Having visited Las Vegas twice now (once I had no choice, once I wanted to see why I’d been taken there),…