Read in 2007

Submitted by Nance on Tue, 01/30/2007 - 07:26
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  2. January
  3. [4/5] Marie-Antoinette, Simone Bertière

  5. February
  6. [4/5] The City and the Pillar, Gore Vidal
  7. [1/5] Just In Case You Think You're Normal, Murray Banks
  8. [3/5] Friendship, Francesco Alberoni
  9. [3/5] Angels and Demons, Dan Brown

  11. March
  12. [3/5] The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
  13. [4/5] The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe
  14. [4/5] The Purloined Letter, Edgar Allan Poe
  15. [3/5] The Gold-Bug, Edgar Allan Poe
  16. [1/5] The Balloon-Hoax, Edgar Allan Poe
  17. [2/5] The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall, Edgar Allan Poe
  18. [1/5] Tintin #1: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, Hergé
  19. [1/5] Tintin #2: Tintin in the Congo, Hergé
  20. [1/5] Tintin #3: Tintin in America, Hergé
  21. [3/5] MS. Found in a Bottle, Edgar Allan Poe
  22. [3/5] A Descent into the Maelstrom, Edgar Allan Poe
  23. [4/5] The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Edgar Allan Poe
  24. [1/5] Mesmeric Revelation, Edgar Allan Poe
  25. [3/5] A Tale of the Ragged Mountains, Edgar Allan Poe
  26. [2/5] Morella, Edgar Allan Poe
  27. [2/5] Ligeia, Edgar Allan Poe
  28. [4/5] Metzengerstein, Edgar Allan Poe
  29. [4/5] The Exeter Text: Jewels, Secrets, Sex, Georges Perec
  30. [2/5] (lit. To Understand Painting), Élizabeth Lièvre-Crasson

  32. April
  33. [5/5] Germinal, Émile Zola
  34. [2/5] The Imp of the Perverse, Edgar Allan Poe
  35. [4/5] The Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe
  36. [5/5] William Wilson, Edgar Allan Poe
  37. [2/5] The Man of the Crowd, Edgar Allan Poe
  38. [3/5] The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe
  39. [4/5] Berenice, Edgar Allan Poe
  40. [4/5] The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe
  41. [4/5] The Pit and the Pendulum, Edgar Allan Poe
  42. [4/5] A Home at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham
  43. [5/5] The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, Douglas Adams
  44. [2/5] Hop-Frog, Edgar Allan Poe
  45. [5/5] The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe
  46. [4/5] The Masque of the Red Death, Edgar Allan Poe
  47. [3/5] King Pest, Edgar Allan Poe
  48. [2/5] The Devil in the Belfry, Edgar Allan Poe
  49. [1/5] Lionizing, Edgar Allan Poe
  50. [1/5] Four Beasts in One: The Homo-Cameleopard, Edgar Allan Poe
  51. [2/5] Some Words with a Mummy, Edgar Allan Poe
  52. [1/5] The Power of Words, Edgar Allan Poe
  53. [2/5] The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allan Poe
  54. [2/5] The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, Edgar Allan Poe
  55. [1/5] Shadow: A Parable, Edgar Allan Poe
  56. [1/5] Silence: A Fable, Edgar Allan Poe
  57. [2/5] The Island of the Fay, Edgar Allan Poe
  58. [4/5] The Oval Portrait, Edgar Allan Poe
  59. [4/5] The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce
  60. [3/5] Skinned Alive: Stories, Edmund White
  61. [2/5] (lit. Calligraphy), Véronique Sabard and Vincent Geneslay

  63. May
  64. [3/5] Side Effects, Woody Allen
  65. [2/5] High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
  66. [4/5] Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Suetonius
  67. [3/5] Maurice, Edward Morgan Forster
  68. [5/5] [The Lady or the Tiger?], Frank Richard Stockton
  69. [3/5] The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams
  70. [5/5] In the Penal Colony, Franz Kafka
  71. [2/5] First Sorrow, Franz Kafka
  72. [3/5] A Little Woman, Franz Kafka
  73. [5/5] A Hunger Artist, Franz Kafka
  74. [4/5] Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk, Franz Kafka
  75. [5/5] The Burrow, Franz Kafka
  76. [3/5] The Village Schoolmaster, Franz Kafka
  77. [4/5] The Scapegoat, Daniel Pennac

  79. June
  80. [5/5] The Fairy Gunmother, Daniel Pennac
  81. [3/5] Write to Kill, Daniel Pennac
  82. [5/5] Possession, Antonia Susan Byatt
  83. [2/5] Matilda, Roald Dahl
  84. [5/5] Monsieur Malaussene, Daniel Pennac

  86. July
  87. [2/5] (lit. Christians and Moors), Daniel Pennac
  88. [2/5] Passion Fruit, Daniel Pennac
  89. [4/5] Confusion, Stefan Zweig
  90. [5/5] The Nightingale and the Rose, Oscar Wilde
  91. [3/5] The Diary Of A Mad Man, Guy de Maupassant
  92. [5/5] The Horla, Guy de Maupassant
  93. [4/5] The Flayed Hand, Guy de Maupassant
  94. [3/5] Doctor Heraclius Gloss, Guy de Maupassant
  95. [4/5] On The River, Guy de Maupassant
  96. [1/5] Coco, Guy de Maupassant
  97. [2/5] Suicides, Guy de Maupassant
  98. [1/5] Magnetism, Guy de Maupassant
  99. [1/5] Dreams, Guy de Maupassant
  100. [2/5] The Wolf, Guy de Maupassant
  101. [1/5] (lit. A Christmas Story), Guy de Maupassant
  102. [2/5] Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse, Guy de Maupassant
  103. [4/5] The Catcher in the Rye, Jerome David Salinger
  104. [4/5] The Lesson, Eugène Ionesco
  105. [3/5] The Object of my Affection, Stephen McCauley
  106. [3/5] Sulphuric Acid, Amélie Nothomb
  107. [4/5] The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
  108. [3/5] A Boy's Own Story, Edmund White
  109. [2/5] Description of a Struggle, Franz Kafka
  110. [1/5] An Ancient Sword, Franz Kafka
  111. [3/5] Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor, Franz Kafka
  112. [1/5] (lit. The Return), Franz Kafka
  113. [2/5] The Bridge, Franz Kafka
  114. [2/5] The Hunter Gracchus, Franz Kafka
  115. [3/5] The Proclamation, Franz Kafka
  116. [5/5] The Great Wall of China, Franz Kafka
  117. [3/5] The Knock at the Manor Gate, Franz Kafka
  118. [1/5] My Neighbor, Franz Kafka
  119. [5/5] A Crossbreed, Franz Kafka
  120. [1/5] New Lamps, Franz Kafka
  121. [4/5] A Common Confusion, Franz Kafka
  122. [1/5] The Truth about Sancho Panza, Franz Kafka
  123. [2/5] The Silence of the Sirens, Franz Kafka
  124. [4/5] Prometheus, Franz Kafka
  125. [5/5] The City Coat of Arms, Franz Kafka
  126. [2/5] Poseidon, Franz Kafka
  127. [3/5] Fellowship, Franz Kafka
  128. [1/5] At Night, Franz Kafka
  129. [1/5] The Test, Franz Kafka
  130. [5/5] The Vulture, Franz Kafka
  131. [1/5] The Helmsman, Franz Kafka
  132. [1/5] The Top, Franz Kafka
  133. [1/5] The Departure, Franz Kafka
  134. [4/5] A Little Fable, Franz Kafka
  135. [1/5] Advocates, Franz Kafka
  136. [2/5] The Animal in the Synagogue, Franz Kafka
  137. [1/5] (lit. The Burning Bush), Franz Kafka
  138. [1/5] The Refusal, Franz Kafka
  139. [1/5] The Married Couple, Franz Kafka
  140. [3/5] Investigations of a Dog, Franz Kafka
  141. [1/5] On Parables, Franz Kafka
  142. [2/5] Contemplation, Franz Kafka
  143. [1/5] Great Noise, Franz Kafka
  144. [5/5] The Judgment, Franz Kafka
  145. [5/5] The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
  146. [1/5] The Stoker, Franz Kafka

  148. August
  149. [4/5] Prometheus, Franz Kafka *
  150. [5/5] Perfume, Patrick Süskind
  151. [3/5] The Holy Terrors, Jean Cocteau
  152. [2/5] (lit. Swallow's Diary), Amélie Nothomb
  153. [4/5] Young Törless, Robert Musil
  154. [3/5] The Devil and Daniel Silverman, Theodore Roszak
  155. [3/5] The Big Green Book, Robert Graves
  156. [3/5] Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare
  157. [2/5] [Sex], Madonna Louise Ciccone
  158. [5/5] To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  159. [2/5] The Mint, Thomas Edward Lawrence
  160. [1/5] (lit. Mixed Tales), Philippe Dumas and Boris Moissard
  161. [5/5] Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll *
  162. [5/5] Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll
  163. [3/5] Tintin #4: Cigars of the Pharaoh, Hergé
  164. [5/5] Tintin #5: The Blue Lotus, Hergé
  165. [4/5] Tintin #6: The Broken Ear, Hergé
  166. [3/5] Tintin #7: The Black Island, Hergé
  167. [5/5] Tintin #8: King Ottokar's Sceptre, Hergé
  168. [2/5] Tintin #9: The Crab with the Golden Claws, Hergé
  169. [2/5] Tintin #10: The Shooting Star, Hergé
  170. [3/5] Tintin #11: The Secret of the Unicorn, Hergé
  171. [3/5] Tintin #12: Red Rackham's Treasure, Hergé
  172. [3/5] Tintin #13: The Seven Crystal Balls, Hergé
  173. [3/5] Tintin #14: Prisoners of the Sun, Hergé
  174. [1/5] Tintin #15: Land of Black Gold, Hergé
  175. [5/5] Tintin #16: Destination Moon, Hergé
  176. [5/5] Tintin #17: Explorers on the Moon, Hergé
  177. [5/5] Tintin #18: The Calculus Affair, Hergé
  178. [1/5] Tintin #19: The Red Sea Sharks, Hergé
  179. [2/5] Tintin #20: Tintin in Tibet, Hergé
  180. [4/5] Tintin #21: The Castafiore Emerald, Hergé
  181. [1/5] Tintin #22: Flight 714, Hergé
  182. [3/5] Tintin #23: Tintin and the Picaros, Hergé
  183. [1/5] Tintin #24: Tintin and Alph-Art, Hergé
  184. [4/5] The Married Man, Edmund White
  185. [5/5] The Vulture, Franz Kafka *
  186. [4/5] She, Henry Rider Haggard

  188. September
  189. [4/5] Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
  190. [3/5] The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  191. [3/5] (lit. Write or Crawl), Diane de Margerie
  192. [5/5] Selected Tales, Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
  193. [5/5] Othello, William Shakespeare
  194. [3/5] The Immoralist, André Gide
  195. [4/5] Prometheus, Franz Kafka *
  196. [4/5] The Master of Go, Yasunari Kawabata
  197. [3/5] The Shape of a Girl, Joan MacLeod
  198. [3/5] The Paper House, Carlos María Domínguez
  199. [2/5] The Book of Disquietude, Fernando Pessoa (Bernardo Soares)
  200. [3/5] Frisk, Dennis Cooper
  201. [3/5] (lit. Sailor Moon #16: The Starlights), Naoko Takeuchi
  202. [3/5] (lit. Sailor Moon #17: Sailor Galaxia), Naoko Takeuchi
  203. [3/5] Hugh Pine and the Good Place, Janwillem van de Wetering
  204. [3/5] The Mystery of Marie Roget, Edgar Allan Poe
  205. [3/5] Maelzel's Chess Player, Edgar Allan Poe
  206. [2/5] Eleonora, Edgar Allan Poe
  207. [1/5] A Tale of Jerusalem, Edgar Allan Poe
  208. [1/5] The Angel of the Odd, Edgar Allan Poe
  209. [2/5] The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, Edgar Allan Poe
  210. [1/5] The Domain of Arnheim, Edgar Allan Poe
  211. [1/5] Landor's Cottage, Edgar Allan Poe
  212. [3/5] The Philosophy of Furniture, Edgar Allan Poe
  213. [3/5] The Philosophy of Composition, Edgar Allan Poe
  214. [2/5] Little Children, Tom Perrotta
  215. [4/5] Mr. Peabody's Apples, Madonna Louise Ciccone and Loren Long
  216. [1/5] Yakov and the Seven Thieves, Madonna Louise Ciccone and Gennady Spirin
  217. [2/5] The Adventures of Abdi, Madonna Louise Ciccone, Olga Dugina and Andrej Dugin
  218. [3/5] Lotsa De Casha, Madonna Louise Ciccone and Rui Paes
  219. [3/5] The Dragon With Red Eyes, Astrid Lindgren
  220. [4/5] The Fall, Albert Camus
  221. [2/5] Boyhood, John Maxwell Coetzee

  223. October
  224. [4/5] Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Joanne K. Rowling *
  225. [4/5] Quidditch Through the Ages, Joanne K. Rowling (Kennilworthy Whisp) *
  226. [4/5] Story #2, Eugène Ionesco and Etienne Delessert
  227. [2/5] Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe and Gilles Tibo
  228. [4/5] Selected Poems, Edgar Allan Poe
  229. [3/5] Selected Poems, Paul Claudel
  230. [2/5] Selected Poems, Olivier Cahuzac
  231. [3/5] Selected Poems, John Keats
  232. [3/5] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Joanne K. Rowling *
  233. [3/5] The Lolitas, Humbert K. *
  234. [4/5] Selected Poems, Stéphane Mallarmé
  235. [2/5] Berthe, Guy de Maupassant *
  236. [2/5] The Pearl, John Steinbeck
  237. [2/5] The Pigeon, Patrick Süskind
  238. [3/5] The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
  239. [3/5] Taste, Roald Dahl *
  240. [2/5] Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl
  241. [3/5] Man from the South, Roald Dahl
  242. [1/5] The Soldier, Roald Dahl
  243. [3/5] My Lady Love, My Dove, Roald Dahl
  244. [4/5] Dip in the Pool, Roald Dahl
  245. [1/5] Galloping Foxley, Roald Dahl
  246. [4/5] Skin, Roald Dahl
  247. [5/5] Poison, Roald Dahl
  248. [1/5] The Wish, Roald Dahl
  249. [4/5] Neck, Roald Dahl
  250. [4/5] The Sound Machine, Roald Dahl
  251. [3/5] Nunc Dimittis, Roald Dahl
  252. [3/5] The Great Automatic Grammatizator, Roald Dahl
  253. [1/5] The Ratcatcher, Roald Dahl
  254. [1/5] Rummins, Roald Dahl
  255. [1/5] Mr. Hoddy, Roald Dahl
  256. [1/5] Mr. Feasey, Roald Dahl
  257. [3/5] (lit. I Am The Strongest), Mario Ramos
  258. [2/5] A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound, John Irving
  259. [5/5] The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams Bianco
  260. [2/5] Early Sorrows, Danilo Kis
  261. [3/5] Siegfried the Mighty Warrior, Maria Luisa Gefaell de Vivanco
  262. [5/5] Exit the King, Eugène Ionesco
  263. [3/5] The Spectacles, Edgar Allan Poe
  264. [2/5] Selected Poems, Olivier Cahuzac
  265. [1/5] The Finishing School, Muriel Spark
  266. [1/5] Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson
  267. [3/5] Respected Sir, Naguib Mahfouz
  268. [5/5] Ball of Fat, Guy de Maupassant *
  269. [5/5] The Necklace, Guy de Maupassant *
  270. [1/5] Mr. Jocasta, Guy de Maupassant *
  271. [4/5] The Hair, Guy de Maupassant *
  272. [3/5] Little Black Book of Stories, Antonia Susan Byatt
  273. [4/5] Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Joanne K. Rowling
  274. [4/5] Story #1, Eugène Ionesco and Etienne Delessert
  275. [1/5] More Perfect than the Moon, Patricia MacLachlan
  276. [3/5] The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde
  277. [1/5] The Selfish Giant, Oscar Wilde

  279. November
  280. [4/5] The Devoted Friend, Oscar Wilde
  281. [3/5] The Remarkable Rocket, Oscar Wilde
  282. [4/5] Selected Poems, John Godfrey Saxe
  283. [5/5] The Birds, Daphne du Maurier
  284. [4/5] The Apple Tree, Daphne du Maurier
  285. [1/5] A Mistake, Guy de Maupassant
  286. [1/5] The Father, Guy de Maupassant
  287. [1/5] Confessing, Guy de Maupassant
  288. [1/5] Happiness, Guy de Maupassant
  289. [1/5] The Moribund, Guy de Maupassant
  290. [3/5] Coward, Guy de Maupassant
  291. [1/5] The Drunkard, Guy de Maupassant
  292. [2/5] A Vendetta, Guy de Maupassant
  293. [1/5] The Beggar, Guy de Maupassant
  294. [1/5] A Parricide, Guy de Maupassant
  295. [1/5] The Child, Guy de Maupassant
  296. [1/5] The Penguins' Rock, Guy de Maupassant
  297. [1/5] Timbuctoo, Guy de Maupassant
  298. [1/5] An Unreasonable Woman, Guy de Maupassant
  299. [1/5] Farewell, Guy de Maupassant
  300. [1/5] A Recollection, Guy de Maupassant
  301. [1/5] The Confession, Guy de Maupassant
  302. [3/5] Macbeth, William Shakespeare
  303. [2/5] Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, Raymond Queneau
  304. [2/5] (lit. Thank You), Daniel Pennac
  305. [2/5] Macbett, Eugène Ionesco
  306. [3/5] Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
  307. [3/5] Britannicus, Jean Racine
  308. [2/5] The Star-Apple Kingdom: Poems, Derek Walcott
  309. [1/5] (lit. The Prompters), Cécile Ladjali
  310. [4/5] Selected Poems, John Godfrey Saxe
  311. [3/5] Seven Blind Mice, Ed Young
  312. [2/5] Kamo and I, Daniel Pennac
  313. [2/5] (lit. Messrs. The Children), Daniel Pennac
  314. [2/5] (lit. Kamo, The Idea of the Century), Daniel Pennac
  315. [2/5] Kamo's Escape, Daniel Pennac
  316. [1/5] Eye of the Wolf, Daniel Pennac
  317. [2/5] (lit. Kamo, Babel Agency), Daniel Pennac
  318. [1/5] (lit. At Peak), Frank Secka
  319. [3/5] (lit. All Boys and Girls), Jérôme Lambert
  320. [3/5] The Man of the House, Stephen McCauley
  321. [5/5] The Bee-Man of Orn, Frank Richard Stockton
  322. [4/5] The Griffin and the Minor Canon, Frank Richard Stockton
  323. [4/5] Tales of Mother Goose, Charles Perrault
  324. [1/5] Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary

  326. December
  327. [3/5] My Shadow, Ted Rand
  328. [3/5] Aurora Montrealis: Stories, Monique Proulx
  329. [4/5] (lit. A Page of History), Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
  330. [4/5] Story #1, Eugène Ionesco and Etienne Delessert *
  331. [4/5] An Elderly Mistress, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
  332. [2/5] Story #3, Eugène Ionesco and Philippe Corentin
  333. [1/5] Story #4, Eugène Ionesco and Nicole Claveloux
  334. [3/5] (lit. The Perronisms), Michel Morin and Yvon Landry
  335. [1/5] (lit. Sleeping Ugly), Grégoire Solotareff
  336. [2/5] (lit. Thinking, It's To Die A Little, volume 1), Ghislain Taschereau
  337. [2/5] (lit. Thinking, It's To Die A Little, volume 2), Ghislain Taschereau
  338. [3/5] I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews: 1962-1987, Kenneth Goldsmith
  339. [4/5] SCUM Manifesto, Valerie Solanas
  340. [4/5] The Lottery: Stories, Shirley Jackson

Author Comments: 

Read in 2007. I've read all of these in french language, but I wrote the titles in engligh for a better understanding.
I hope I didn't forget anything.
(lit.) means literally.
[] are read in english language.
*re-read.

Favorite new readings 2007:
Documentary: Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Suetonius
Novel: Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll
Short story: The Lady or the Tiger?, Frank Richard Stockton
Poem or Poetic Work: Selected Poems, Edgar Allan Poe
Play: Exit the King, Eugène Ionesco
Comic or Graphic novel: Tintin #18: The Calculus Affair, Hergé
Album: The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams Bianco

CaptMal04/20/2007

I love Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. I've only read the first four, but it's great.

After The Vampire Lestat, the next in the series, Queen of the Damned is nowhere near as good as the first two but still very good. However, the fourth one, The Body Thief, is the best so far. Simply fantastic stuff.

Nance04/20/2007

It's in the plan to read them all. I have almost all the books from Anne Rice. I have problems to read her series all in one shot. I will probably read Queen of the Damned and The Body Thief this year.

Nance05/19/2007

The Lady or the Tiger? is a gem. I recommand it for anyone.

Slothrop3305/25/2007

Kafka is great! I would highly suggest this really fun comic type of book done by Robert Crumb detailing Kafka's life and dramatizes his fiction. It really brings out the black humor found in Kafka.

Nance05/25/2007

I found too! In the Penal Colony, A Hunger Artist and The Burrow were amazing. I'm not sure about the others, maybe I didn't begin with the most known stories. I will probably read the rest of his work during the year. Do you have a personnal favorite?

I will try to put my hand on Robert Crumb's Kafka, but maybe I should read more Kafka to really appreciate it...

Slothrop3305/25/2007

I am glad you like! "Blumfeld the Elderly Batchelor" is completely insane and I love it. The Judegement is also another favorite of mine. Amerika is his weakest novel, but has some really funny parts. The Trial and The Castle are truly amazing and very funny as well.

Nance07/29/2007

I've just read Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor. I understand what you mean! It was crazy!!! I especially appreciate the two balls part and the repetition.
Lastly, I've read around thirty short stories of him, I will take a little break (sometime I feel I didn't catch everything...) and I will continue (I like the guy). The Judgment is in my other book of collection of short stories of him.

Nance07/31/2007

You're right about The Judgment. I like it too!

Slothrop3308/07/2007

The Holy Terrors, wasn't that totally over rated? I really did not enjoy that book at all. I read The Impostor a long time ago and remember liking it a little more. Did you read it in French? I read a translation and worry that is wasn't translated well.

Nance08/07/2007

Yes, I read the the book in french (Les Enfants Terribles). I cannot tell that I hate it or enjoy. Maybe because I have hurt my feet and I must remain in the bed, I can connect "vaguely" with Paul. Well, this is not enough. This is sad because I was waiting for a classic.
Maybe the story is better to the theater or into movie.

Beside Les Enfants Terribles, I have just read Orphée which I found soso either, but the movie is one of my favorite. Maybe Cocteau writing is just not my style, I will try something else from him later.

I hope my next read will be better. My next read are "probably" (I never know for sure in advance):
The Mint, T.E. Lawrence (more than 5y that I'd search for the french version, I have high hope on this)
Young Törless, Robert Musil
Journal d'Hirondelle, Amélie Nothomb
She/She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, Henry Rider Haggard
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John Le Carré
The Devil and Daniel Silverman, Theodore Roszak

Slothrop3308/08/2007

I think Cocteau might be the jack of all trades but the master of none.
I would suggest Young Torless; it is a great novel, very dark.

Nance08/08/2007

I borrowed Young Törless from the library, so this is my next read. I'm supposed to read The Man Without Qualities from Musil too, but I feel a bit depressed by the length (~2000 pages). One day...

Nance08/10/2007

I’ve finished it. I don’t know how to judge this in my top 200 favourite books! The book is strong, but definitely not something I COULD read again. It was very harsh to continue until the end. I hate the passivity of Törless and I hate him (but less than the two other losers!!!)!

I need to read something not depressive now, I mean I’ve read lastly The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and this. I feel blue right now...

Slothrop3308/15/2007

Lol, I can't remember the last time I read a happy book!

Nance08/15/2007

I know what you mean! Mostly I search for something funny or smooth, not necessary happy, before read something dramatic again. I'm not in the mood to read an adventure or fantastic novel... I've just finished The Devil and Daniel Silverman and it has some humor, but the story was frustrating too, like The Stepford Wives. Today, I will probably read a children book by Robert Graves (I like this author for The Greek Myths) and Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare... I have to give him another chance). My cue is now (always changing depending on the mood):

The Big Green Book, Robert Graves
Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Mint, Thomas Edward Lawrence
Coriolanus, William Shakespeare
The Married Man, Edmund White
She, Henry Rider Haggard
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Nance08/16/2007

See my "appreciation" of Antony and Cleopatra.
I prefer read something depressive... (^_~)

Slothrop3308/17/2007

I see that :) I started reading The Stranger again. Once he is able to reflect he achieves some sort of happiness... of course he is executed then.