Anonymous
Post 06/25/2024 19:12     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion.
Anonymous
Post 06/25/2024 13:47     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
Anonymous wrote:A Prayer for Owen Meany. It’s the only book I reread. It really strengthens my faith and reminds us that we all have a purpose, even if we can’t see it. And that it’s ok to be a Joseph.


This book was 300 pages too long. A horribly written slog of a book. PASS!
Anonymous
Post 06/25/2024 13:45     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner and The Ciderhouse Rules by John Irving
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2024 16:46     Subject: Re:What is the best book you have ever read and why?

Blackwater by Michael McDowell

A southern gothic with some horror and the best characters, family dynamics ever read. Can’t recommend enough
Anonymous
Post 06/13/2024 23:52     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Anna Karenina

Read it and see why.
Meh, I thought it did not live up to the hype. First of all, Anna is not the main character; instead the book is about Levin; and Levin in turn was modeled after Tolstoy, himself. Book’s main story is about Levin finding God.


Well there you go. That's the TLDR for Anna Karenina.
Anonymous
Post 06/13/2024 23:51     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
Anonymous wrote:A Prayer for Owen Meany. It’s the only book I reread. It really strengthens my faith and reminds us that we all have a purpose, even if we can’t see it. And that it’s ok to be a Joseph.


John Irving came to University of Michigan in the late 80s and read some excerpts from his forthcoming book. It was this one.
Anonymous
Post 06/13/2024 23:47     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner


I loved this one. So beautifully written.

Yes, but so devastating. I’ll never read it again, though I don’t flinch away from it the way I do Atonement by Ian McEwan, which is also brilliant but worse on that front.
Anonymous
Post 06/13/2024 23:39     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
Anonymous wrote:The Wolf Hall series.

I just reread them all in order and just realized that the first and third books are mirrors of each other. I loved them before but find them even more impressive now.
Agree, love The Wolf Hall series.
Anonymous
Post 06/13/2024 23:01     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
Animal farm
Anonymous
Post 06/13/2024 22:53     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
Anonymous wrote:A Prayer for Owen Meany. It’s the only book I reread. It really strengthens my faith and reminds us that we all have a purpose, even if we can’t see it. And that it’s ok to be a Joseph.


I’ve read it like 5 times. Have you read The Tin Drum? It is what inspired Irving to write Meany.
Anonymous
Post 06/13/2024 22:46     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
Anonymous wrote:Anna Karenina

Read it and see why.
Meh, I thought it did not live up to the hype. First of all, Anna is not the main character; instead the book is about Levin; and Levin in turn was modeled after Tolstoy, himself. Book’s main story is about Levin finding God.
Anonymous
Post 06/13/2024 14:34     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
Anonymous wrote:I don't think I could pick just one, but I really loved Cloud Cuckoo Land and still think about it more than a year after reading it.


This is the best book I’ve read in the last few years. Starts off weird but it gets good really quickly.
Anonymous
Post 06/13/2024 14:29     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
A Little Life. I just wish it weren't so devastatingly sad.
Anonymous
Post 06/13/2024 14:28     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
Anonymous wrote:Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner


I loved this one. So beautifully written.
Anonymous
Post 06/13/2024 14:25     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
The Wolf Hall series.

I just reread them all in order and just realized that the first and third books are mirrors of each other. I loved them before but find them even more impressive now.