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Thursday, August 18, 2011

52x 1001 Books in 2011 - 3/4

The third quarter, and I am ahead of schedule (for now!).  Actually I still have quite a stack of 1001 books with me in Spain, so I should complete my challenge with a little bit of time left over.
My favourite, in terms of the way it was written, was Invisible Cities, I don't think I have ever read such beautiful prose.  The Age of Innocence (Wordsworth Classics) was an achingly moving love story, and shame on me for having taken 3 years to read it!  All Quiet on the Western Front was a reread for me, but affected me just as much as the first time I read it.  I was impressed by Half of a Yellow Sun, for the author's treatment of a little known civil war.  I enjoyed all the books this time, though a couple weren't great books, you could see how they had influenced those that followed them: Fantomas (Penguin Classics), Three Lives (Twentieth Century Classics) and The Vicar of Wakefield (Oxford World's Classics).  Here's to the final quarter!

27.  All Quiet on the Western Front Written to describe the horrors of WW1, but sadly relevant today.
28. Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) A tome dealing with the harshest punisher of all, our conscience.
29. Lord Jim: A Tale (Penguin Popular Classics) How an act of cowardice could be the making of a man.
30. The Vicar of Wakefield (Oxford World's Classics) A funny look at marriage obsessed vicar and his family.
31. The Age of Innocence (Wordsworth Classics) An impossible love set against the backdrop of high society.
32. Three Lives (Twentieth Century Classics) Three women, three very different lives and a very modern narrative style.
33. The Trial (Modern Classics)  Kafka on crime, how can you clear your name if you don't even know the charge?
34. Fantomas (Penguin Classics)  A modern criminal and the detective after him, great fun.
35. The Immoralist a man's musings on life.
36. Half of a Yellow Sun Relationships set against the backdrop of civil war.
37. Invisible Cities Marco Polo describing cities to Kublai Khan.
38 Journey to the Alcarria post Civil war trip to the countryside by a traveller, writing his observations. 
39. The Rainbow Three generations of a family, from yeomen to teacher.

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