Anonymous
Post 06/27/2024 12:31     Subject: Re:What is the best book you have ever read and why?
Anonymous wrote:Gentleman in Moscow. It's like hanging out with a good person with a good view of life. It's not what I expected from the summary.


Everybody loves this book so I'm sad I attempted to read an failed. I think all the foreign words/ names threw me, which makes me feel dumb. I was distracted, so maybe I need to give it another try when I can focus more.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2024 12:22     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
Anonymous wrote:A Little Life. I just wish it weren't so devastatingly sad.


This x 10,000
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2024 09:45     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
Don't have a true favorite but Prodigal Summer is my favorite from the past couple of years. It's such a beautiful book in so many ways.
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2024 09:41     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
Anonymous wrote:Far Tortuga. Impossible to explain why.


Interesting. I like PM a lot but that didn’t really do much for me.
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2024 09:40     Subject: What is the best book you have ever read and why?
If on a Winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino

because it is so compelling and weirdly experimental (structurally, thematically etc) at the same time
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.