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0016 | Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Read this in 42 installments from dailylit.com REVIEW: Took a while to get into but once Wharton sets up the conflict in this story, you can’t put it down. The…
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0010 | Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
REVIEW: So pleased that this was a delightful read. I’d read Tess of the D’Urbervilles many years ago and found it flowery, overlong and downright depressing. So, it was nice…
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0009 | The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
I was lent this by a colleague at work and laboured at it for a few weeks. REVIEW: Boy this was tough. Don’t get me wrong. Despite Hesse’s love for…
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0008 | Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut
REVIEW: Well it started out okay with some of Vonnegut’s witty aphorisms causing me to laugh out loud on the bus. But as the book went on, and particularly as…
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0007 | Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
I read this in 69 daily installments care of dailylit.com – a wonderful idea of a website. REVIEW: Huxley had a masterful vocabulary and he uses it to full effect…
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0006 | Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
REVIEW: I actually listened to the public domain audio version of this available at www.librivox.com Dark is the right word for this book. On every level I found it depressing…
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0004 | Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
I actually downloaded a copy of this and listened to it over 4 hours. Beautifully read by Jerry Farmer in a great American drawl. REVIEW: The characters were magical and…
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0003 | Cancer Ward – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
REVIEW I started this wondering where the novel was going to come from. Then it crept up and hit me with such force that I was left reeling for the…
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0001 | Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
Read this with Sheena while travelling around SE Asia. Never read a book about S. Africa so it was an insight simply from that point of view. A S. African…