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Okay. I'm halfway through this "greatest modernist novel" and still don't know what the f*** it's about. I even broke down and read what an episode was about, went back to the episode and still couldn't find it. I get that there are creative bits, and I certainly understand there are things which were new/taboo in 1922 and that's why it was banned. But so far, what I'm mostly seeing is Joyce's avowed effort to keep p

Hello readers, can any of you recommend any novels (or short fiction) by contemporary Asian writers? I need some suggestions for my book club. Thanks!

The most watched movie in history is only loosely based on this book. The plot is so classic one could do worse than outline any story on the same basis.

"Why, there were not six men in the world who had ever reflected that words forced out of a person by horrible tortures were not necessarily words of verity and truth, yet this unlettered peasant girl put her finger upon that flaw with an unerring instinct."

As night falls in Europe on the 20th of August, I'm reading about events that took place 100 years ago to the hour. The French are about to attack the Germans in the Ardennes forest, and we all know disaster awaits, but like people living through the war, are helpless to stop it.

I opened this book and saw many well-deserved blurbs for Lee Lynch's work. Recognized one of them as mine!