Kyle’s Comments (group member since Nov 05, 2023)

Kyle’s comments from the NYRB Classics group.

I plan to read both Chevengur and Bomarzo next year. I'm calling it my Chevengur-Bomarzo Year.

This is no guarantor that I'll read it, but I just picked up a copy of Bomarzo. It will likely sit on the shelf next to my two-year-old copy of Chevengur, though I may make it a 2026 project to read both.

alexis wrote: "I'm new to reading/collecting NYRB classics so I don't have a full list of 10 yet, but I'm sure I'll get there quickly at the rate I'm burning through them. They are so hard to rank when I gave the..."

If you haven't checked out Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter, that's a pretty solid noir read.

Resurrecting this thread to say that Janos Szekely's Temptation is a stunner. Great coming-of-age novel set in Hungary between the World Wars.

Of course NYRB has to have a really good sale right after I had to drop 400 bucks on my car...

Unranked:

The Land Breakers - John Ehle
Stoner - John Williams
The Year of the French - Thomas Flanagan
The Long Ships - Franz Bergstrom
Hard Rain Falling - Don Carpenter
Life and Fate - Vasily Grossman
Warlock - Oakley Hall
The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G Farrell
Naked Earth - Eileen Chang

and the last spot I'm reserving for The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, by G.B. Edwards. I'm about 3/4 of the way done and it's spectacular.