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Book challenge
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 12:01 pm17.
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15.
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane.
Blegh. This is one of the coming-of-age stories we really can do without.
Blegh. This is one of the coming-of-age stories we really can do without.
16.
Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy.
I love this book. It is the second of Hardy's books I ever read, in a small cottage in the Brecon Beacons, and in spite of the prominence of the love plot, I always loved this book. Gabriel Oak is one of the most likeable characters I ever read about, and his and Bathshebas love plot one of the most interesting, too.
Why can't all couples in all love plots be like this? I liked it such a lot during my teenage years that I am worried that if I reread it now, it will be worse than it is in my head.
I love this book. It is the second of Hardy's books I ever read, in a small cottage in the Brecon Beacons, and in spite of the prominence of the love plot, I always loved this book. Gabriel Oak is one of the most likeable characters I ever read about, and his and Bathshebas love plot one of the most interesting, too.
Why can't all couples in all love plots be like this? I liked it such a lot during my teenage years that I am worried that if I reread it now, it will be worse than it is in my head.
15.
Pompeii, Robert Harris.
Watch the manly, grieving widower battle the forces of bisexual promiscuity (although the terms are apparently interchangeable in this book) and see the world's first volcano with moral awareness who spares the innocent.
In spite of the fast-paced account of the final hours of the city this book does not live up to my expectations at all. This could have been so much better.
Watch the manly, grieving widower battle the forces of bisexual promiscuity (although the terms are apparently interchangeable in this book) and see the world's first volcano with moral awareness who spares the innocent.
In spite of the fast-paced account of the final hours of the city this book does not live up to my expectations at all. This could have been so much better.
