75 Books...More or Less! discussion

1.The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield***

2.The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg***

3. Iceland's Bell by Halldór Laxness***

Good luck this year!

Thank you!

4. White Teeth by Zadie Smith***

5.We the Living by Ayn Rand****

6. The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk****

Hi, Silver. Looks like you are off to a great start for this year's challenge . . . and with some meaty reads included!

Hehe yeah, I am doing better this year than last year.

7. Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert****

8. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman*****

9. The Ten Thousand: A Novel of Ancient Greece by Michael Curtis Ford***

10. Jack Maggs by Peter Carey****

11. Pavane by Keith Roberts***

12. Purge bySofi Oksanen****

13. The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney****

14. Trials of Death by Darren Shan****

15. The Round House by Louise Erdrich****

16. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy****

OOh great choices! I love neil gaiman, and the round house is on my to-read list. you should check out Gaiman's American Gods... Brilliant :)

Kat wrote: "OOh great choices! I love neil gaiman, and the round house is on my to-read list. you should check out Gaiman's American Gods... Brilliant :)"

I read American Gods last year. It is a great book up there with Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch<

17. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming***

18. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith ***

Silver wrote: "6. The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk****"

How was this one? I read My Name is Red a couple of years ago and loved it so last year I picked-up Snow. I didn't care for it so I've been hesitant to read anything else by Pamuk.

Adriana wrote: "Silver wrote: "6. The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk****"

How was this one? I read My Name is Red a couple of years ago and loved it so last year I picked-up Snow. I didn't..."

It was interesting I thought, though I did not think it was quite as good as My Name is Red or Snow (which personally I loved).

Some of the writing is really good but I did feel that it dragged a bit in places.

19. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis****

20. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin****
21. Stalked by Lorraine Taylor****

22. The Way of Wyrd by Brian Bates****

23. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome***

24. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis****

25. The Collected Poems by W.B. Yeats****

26. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann****

27. The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy****

28. A Thousand Cuts by Simon Lelic****

Silver, I've heard quite a lot about A Thousand Cuts and I see you've given it a good rating. Any thoughts on the type of reader you'd recommend the book for?

It was quite an interesting book.

I would say that this is a good book for readers who like thought provoking stories that offer a different perspective. It is also a good book for anyone who has an interest in the topic of bullying. In a way this book is kind of like a puzzle and you are given bits and pieces along the way to slowly start to form the fuller picture.

And this book is not your typical Crime/detective fiction but I think people who do enjoy those kind of books would like this one.

Sounds awesome, from the description! On my to-read list now :)

Silver, ditto what Kat said! Thanks for your comments.

29. The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan***
30.Anxious Pleasures: A Novel after Kafka by Lance Olsen*****

31. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter***

32. Grettir's Saga by Jesse Byock****

33. One False Move by Alex Kava***

Silver wrote: "31. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter***"

How was this one? A couple of years ago I read The Passion of New Eve and have been meaning to pick-up another of Carter's books.

Adriana wrote: "How was this one? A couple of years ago I read The Passion of New Eve and have been meaning to pick-up ano..."

It was very strange, but it did have its interesting moments. I had mixed feelings about this one. I felt it started off really strong but towards the end it just started to get a bit more tedious for me.

34. The Seven Who Were Hanged by Leonid Andreyev****

35. Pivot by L.C. Barlow*****

36. The Sea Wolf by Jack London****
37. The Third Man by Graham Greene****

38. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne***

39. A Brother's Price by Wen Spencer**