I Read Therefore I Am discussion

Not even one fifth of the whole thing...

1. A Room with a View
2. All Qiet on the Western Front
3. Anna Karenina
4. Brave New World
5. The Buddenbrooks
6. Cat and Mouse
7. The Royal game
8. Death in Venice
9. Die Mittagsfrau
10. Effi Briest
11. Eyeless in Gaza
12. Faceless Killers
13. Go Tell it on the Mountain
14. Gone with the Wind
15. Heart of Darkness
16. 1Q84
17. Jane Eyre
18. Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
19. Love in the Time of Cholera
20. Madame Bovary
21. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
22. North and South
23. Passage to India
24. The Perfume
25. Pippi Longstocking
26. Professor Unrat
27. The Catcher in the Rye
28. The Count of Monte Christo
29. The German Lesson
30. The Great Gatsby
31. The Hobbit
32. The Invention of Curried Sausage
33. The Life of a Good for Nothing
34. The Lord of the Rings
35. The Name of the Rose
36. The Piano Teacher
37. The Reader
38. The Scarlet Letter
39. The Sorrows of Young Werther
40. The Stechlin
41. The Tin Drum
42. The Trial
43. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
44. The Virgin Suicides
45. To Kill a Mockingbird
46. Uncle Tom's Cabin
47. War and Peace
48. Wild Swans

I think you deserve a gold star just for getting though War & Peace - I've made the attempt but was so confused by the 5 different names that everyone seemed to have that I gave up about a quarter of the way in.
Did you enjoy the Unbearable Lightness of Being? I liked it alot though I hadn't thought that it would be my sort of book at all.

Ulli - all the ones that I've read from your list I've really enjoyed so that makes me look forward to the others!
War & Peace... was supposed to be reading that this year but just couldn't face it (although I really enjoyed Anna Karenina). I think I will need to read it with the group cos it may require some moral support! How did you find it??

Lee, I was a little disappointed in the Unbearable Lightness of Being. I read it, when it got out and when it was on every bestseller list I know, so I expected a lot (which was the mistake, I guess...)
But I really liked War and Peace (although it's true that the names are sometimes a little confusing!)

Laurel, it's funny because between the two books, I thought that War and Peace was easier to read than Anna Karenina with its sometimes unterminable descriptions. I still liked Anna Karenina, though (I named my dog Laska, after Levin's dog in AK :-))

Everyone just so puts me to shame on Boxhall's reads :( I really must do some catching up. I was lured by the beautiful binding of an edition of All Quiet on The Western Front recently, so will read that soon.

I am such a sucker for lovely bindings, when I was working I used to treat myself to Folio society books sometimes but sadly now I'm retired they out of my budget.

I enjoyed War and Peace also Ulli and have read some of the books on your list. The one that intrigues me is The Invention of Curried Sausage - I can't imagine what that's about!

You and your sausages, Hilary :0)

Ulli wrote: "Laurel, it's funny because between the two books, I thought that War and Peace was easier to read than Anna Karenina with its sometimes unterminable descriptions. I still liked Anna Karenina, though (I named my dog Laska, after Levin's dog in AK :-))


That makes me feel more positive about it! I did enjoy AK, I think sometimes the sheer size and also the reputation of some of these things can put me off a bit.