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Best novel I've read so far:

Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

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*Watership Down, Richard Adams

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Kim, Rudyard Kipling

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White Noise, Don Dillio

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*A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin

Worst novel I've read so far:

Scoop, Evelyn Waugh

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Candide by Voltaire

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Catch-22, Joseph Heller

Saddest novels I've read so far: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

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To the End of the Land by David Grossman

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"The books we call classics possess intrinsic qualities that endure, but possess also an openness to accommodation which keeps them alive under endlessly varying dispositions." Frank Kermode

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Nov 5, 20231 min read

Rabbit, Run

John Updike, 1960 Date read: 11/4/23 Every single person in this novel is horrid and I would run too. Everybody is cruel. Everybody is...

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Oct 14, 20231 min read

Blindness

Josè Saramago, 1995 Date read: 10/14/2023 We made our eyes a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result they often show without...

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Oct 4, 20231 min read

The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope, 1875 Date read: 10/3/23 I just learnt there is a miniseries of this novel and I'm kind of surprised because...it isnt...

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Sep 21, 20231 min read

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka, 1912 Date Read: 9/21/23 First I want to point out the amazing graphic design on the cover of the WW Norton & Co edition of...

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Sep 20, 20231 min read

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami, 1987 date read: 9/19/23 First the writing. I thought it was very well written, especially given it is a translation and...

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Sep 6, 20231 min read

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe, 1722 Date Read: 8/7/23 Frankly, this novel was boring as fuck. It is written entirely in the passive tense. There is no...

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Jul 29, 20232 min read

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1938 Date Read: 7/29/23 This novel belongs to the same genre as Old Yeller: books about pets dying. This one...

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Jul 22, 20231 min read

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck, 1939 Date read: 7/22/23 Jesus. You'd think in nearly 100 years, things would have changed. That people, society, would...

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Jul 13, 20232 min read

The Once and Future King

T. H. White, 1939 Date Read: 7/13/23 The 1960s Disney film The Sword in the Stone is one of my all time favorite movies and I hadn't...

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Jun 14, 20232 min read

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper, 1826 Date read: 6/13/23 So, I am literally from where this movie is set. I currently live about 5 miles from Fort...

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May 2, 20231 min read

Arrowsmith

Sinclair Lewis, 1925 Date read: 5/1/23 This was one of those novels I feel would be improved if about the first 35 percent was removed....

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Apr 18, 20231 min read

The Heart of the Matter

Graham Greene, 1948 Date Read: 4/18/23 This novel was about responsibility. Henry Scobie felt the responsibilities towards his wife, his...

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Apr 17, 20231 min read

Jazz

Toni Morrison, 1992 Date Read: 4/17/23 I don't think I'm smart enough for Toni Morrison. I really didn't understand Beloved (which I...

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Apr 8, 20231 min read

The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga, 2008 date read: 4/7/23 [Spoiler] Indian society is awful, and the only way to move up is murder and theft.[/Spoiler]...

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Mar 19, 20231 min read

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

I'm pretty sure I've never read a spy novel before this one. The closest I can think of is The DaVinci Code which honestly, isn't very...

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Mar 14, 20231 min read

Home

Marilynne Robinson, 2008 Date Read: 3/14/23 I'm not entirely sure what I think of this novel. It tended towards repetitiveness. There was...

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Mar 12, 20232 min read

Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence, 1913 Date Read: 3/11/23 I devoured this novel. Couldn't put it down. I like the writing style, the pacing, the...

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Feb 3, 20231 min read

1919

John Dos Passos, 1932 Date read: 2/3/23 In general, I am enjoying these novels. The main problem for me, is remembering who was doing...

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Apr 12, 20222 min read

Nostromo

Joseph Conrad, 1904 Date Read: 4/12/22 This is, by far and away, the single most racist piece of media I have ever encountered. Conrad...

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Mar 23, 20222 min read

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut, 1968 Date Read: 2/23/22 I surprised myself by liking this novel. I liked it quite a bit. I did not expect to. A satiric...

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