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Some favorite reads since I've joined Shelfari:
20091.
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
2.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
3.
Dracula by Bram Stoker
4.
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
20085.
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
6.
The Passion by Jeannette Winterson
7.
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut:
8.
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
9.
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
2007 (starting in August)10.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy:
11.
”The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel
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My
top 10 are my all-time *personal* favorites, not necessarily the books I think have the most objective merit. ^_^
1.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov:
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”2.
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner:
“Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished.” 3.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy:
“However much she tried, she could not become stronger than herself.”4.
The Plague by Albert Camus:
“What's natural is the microbe. All the rest —health, integrity, purity (if you like) — is a product of the human will”5.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy:
“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow.”6.
The Once and Future King by T.H. White:
“Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right?”7.
The Mismeasure of Man by Steven Jay Gould:
“Walt Whitman managed to hear America singing with only 1,282 grams.”8.
The Iliad by Homer:
“The immortals know no care, yet the lot they spin for man is full of sorrow.”9.
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky:
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men.”10.
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson:
“Love is holy because it is like grace.”***********************************************************
My
ratings refer to what I perceive as the quality of the book, not whether I liked it or not.
***** One of the best books I have ever read ^_^ (about 1%)
**** A great book, possibly a classic! (about 5%)
*** A good book, and one you will probably love if you like the genre. (about 25%)
** A decent book, and one you will probably like if you like the genre. ^_^ (about 45%)
* All bets are off on whether you'll like it or not. ^_^; (about 24% of shelf)
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