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« Reply #40 on: July 19, 2011, 04:28:PM »
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The Don Camillo stories by Guareschi.

These are excellent reading and hilarious, too.   I've got five of the books and I read them periodically.
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« Reply #41 on: July 19, 2011, 04:28:PM »
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The Don Camillo stories by Guareschi.

These are excellent reading and hilarious, too.   I've got five of the books and I read them periodically.

And the movies are great too  Smile.
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« Reply #42 on: July 19, 2011, 04:53:PM »
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh. It think it is traditionalist. It mocks the modern world. It's pretty sad though at the end there is the slightest note of hope.

Actually, after that I read some other things, of which I would also recommend Gone with the Wind. It is almost as good a book as the movie is a movie.

The very last thing I read was A Room with a View. Ugh!
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« Reply #43 on: July 19, 2011, 05:45:PM »
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The very last thing I read was A Room with a View. Ugh!

You didn't like it?? One of my favorite books.
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« Reply #44 on: July 19, 2011, 06:03:PM »
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The very last thing I read was A Room with a View. Ugh!

You didn't like it?? One of my favorite books.

To put it briefly: It is feminist; there is a rejection of the more hardcore feminism, but as it promotes the idea that men want to control women and so Women Are Oppressed, it is feminist. Also, it bashes religion. There is a character that is a saintly atheist sort - blah. And, as a romance, I am left unconvinced that the girl and the guy are so suited to each other, so it sucks. But admittedly "these two are so perfect for each other" is not the point of the story. It is not really a romance like the novels Jane Austen wrote. The point is to advance an ideology (feminism, irreligion, and the subversion of Victorian/Edwardian values).

I also really didn't like how it was stated again and again that the girl's life lacked something. She was not "wonderful" yet. Why? It bothered me.

This is one book I read without expectations. I had no idea what it was about. That made is a particularly unpleasant experience, I suppose, since I picked it up expecting only to be entertained.
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« Reply #45 on: July 19, 2011, 08:23:PM »
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The very last thing I read was A Room with a View. Ugh!

You didn't like it?? One of my favorite books.

To put it briefly: It is feminist; there is a rejection of the more hardcore feminism, but as it promotes the idea that men want to control women and so Women Are Oppressed, it is feminist. Also, it bashes religion. There is a character that is a saintly atheist sort - blah. And, as a romance, I am left unconvinced that the girl and the guy are so suited to each other, so it sucks. But admittedly "these two are so perfect for each other" is not the point of the story. It is not really a romance like the novels Jane Austen wrote. The point is to advance an ideology (feminism, irreligion, and the subversion of Victorian/Edwardian values).

I also really didn't like how it was stated again and again that the girl's life lacked something. She was not "wonderful" yet. Why? It bothered me.

It makes a pretense at feminism but it's more socialist, which is obviously unfortunate. Yes, she has this void, but how does she fill it? She... gets married. To a nice young man. And they live happily ever after.
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« Reply #46 on: July 24, 2011, 06:06:AM »
Bump.

Because what the forum needs now, is fun, sweet fun.  *stops singing*
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« Reply #47 on: July 24, 2011, 08:45:AM »
Hahaha.

So! I'm not going to bother with italics or authors or anything, I'm sure you can use Amazon as well as I can.

Prayers For Sale
The Birth House
Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norell (might be the other way around...)
The Sweetness of Tears
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« Reply #48 on: July 24, 2011, 11:30:AM »
I read very little fiction.  There's so little good stuff out there, besides, of course, the greats of literature.  Popular fiction is kind of lame these days.  Sex on every page, or CIA conspiracies.

If you like murder mysteries, try the Hard Case Crime series - I love these; real hard-boiled stuff.

I heartily second the earlier recommendation in this thread about Patrick O'Brian and CS Forester, love 'em both, and have the complete sets of Aubrey/Maturin & Hornblower.

The latest and last Spenser novel, Sixkill, is a good throwaway read if you are looking to kill an afternoon.

I am now reading a couple of the Brother Cadfael mysteries.  He's no Father Brown, but not bad for light fiction.

The Name of the Rose & 1984 are novels I pick up over and over again. 

William F Buckley's Bradford Oakes spy series was pretty good, too.

Traver's Anatomy of a Murder.  Freidrick Pohl's The World at the End of Time (scifi).  Hard to go wrong with Isaac Asimov.  Or any of the Perry Mason mysteries....love those!
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