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cloudscapes wrote:Check out House of Suns by the same author. As much as I liked Revelation Space, HoS was so so much better.

Yeah I definitely will, I liked this one enough.

UglyCasanova wrote:

Not as good as To the Lighthouse, but because that's one of my all time favourite books I might have set my expectations too high. She just hadn't perfected her style/the form yet in Mrs. Dalloway, in my opinion.

Thanks That's next.

Just about to finish Slaughterhouse 5.

Vonnegut is so good! I keep giving Breakfast of Champions to people for their birthdays. My cousin even got it two years in a row.

Let me know what ou think of Woolf.

UglyCasanova wrote:Vonnegut is so good! I keep giving Breakfast of Champions to people for their birthdays. My cousin even got it two years in a row.

Let me know what ou think of Woolf.

To The Lighthouse is on its way.

While I'm waiting I'll try to skim through a couple of other books I half read when I thought I couldn't read books.

UglyCasanova wrote:Not as good as To the Lighthouse, but because that's one of my all time favourite books I might have set my expectations too high. She just hadn't perfected her style/the form yet in Mrs. Dalloway, in my opinion.

Just started To The Lighthouse. I read the Unbearable Lightness Of Being while I was waiting for it to arrive.

Virginia Woolf liked long sentences didn't she?

I like the one about the mark on the wall.

UglyCasanova wrote:Vonnegut is so good! I keep giving Breakfast of Champions to people for their birthdays. My cousin even got it two years in a row.

Let me know what ou think of Woolf.

Finished To the Lighthouse.

I enjoyed it. It's a different style of writing. Huge half-page long sentences within sentences. Recursion of thoughts.

100 pages covering the evening of one day. Then about ten pages covering about ten years. Then a final short part to bring it together.

I thought it was very good. So there.

Just finished The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

Read The Old Man and the Sea yesterday and have today started another Russell Hoban - The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz.

Books. I suddenly can't get enough.

That's good. I don't have nearly as much time to read as I'd like, and it kills me.

facelessfx wrote:Finished To the Lighthouse.

I enjoyed it. It's a different style of writing. Huge half-page long sentences within sentences. Recursion of thoughts.

100 pages covering the evening of one day. Then about ten pages covering about ten years. Then a final short part to bring it together.

I thought it was very good. So there.

I'm glad you read it and enjoyed it!

I'm halfway through this, and I'm actually getting some Woolf vibes from her, if perhaps a more Austen-social-criticism theme and atmosphere. Liking it more than I thought I would.



Question: Is Wharton still a known/much read writer in the US?

The Demolished Man by Bester
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UglyCasanova wrote:

facelessfx wrote:Finished To the Lighthouse.

I enjoyed it. It's a different style of writing. Huge half-page long sentences within sentences. Recursion of thoughts.

100 pages covering the evening of one day. Then about ten pages covering about ten years. Then a final short part to bring it together.

I thought it was very good. So there.

I'm glad you read it and enjoyed it!

I'm halfway through this, and I'm actually getting some Woolf vibes from her, if perhaps a more Austen-social-criticism theme and atmosphere. Liking it more than I thought I would.

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Question: Is Wharton still a known/much read writer in the US?

Wouldn't know. I'm in the UK. I'd heard of her but couldn't name any of her books.

I'm gonna keep bumping this even if nobody else does!

Just finished 'The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz' by Russell Hoban.

Nice story. Not as brainy as Riddley Walker, but still a nice bit of philosophy hanging off some mythology and a story of life, death, and love.

I'll read more of his books.

Next = Ubik

Fanny Price: Best character Austen ever wrote? Quite possible!