Finding Time Again is just so great. Conflicted as I loved Flight Without End, Envy also.
Read Hesse and Woolf too.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 07:21 (three years ago) link
Thérèse Desqueyroux is a hoot (and made Sartre care so much he was livid with the book), but my vote, too, goes to To The Lighthouse. Sprawling masterpiece.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 08:05 (three years ago) link
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― System, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
I voted "The The Lighthouse". The Mauriac and Sinclair Lewis books are worthy of consideration though. I would also at least consider voting for several Hesse books over To the Lighthouse but Steppenwolf is kind of a bore.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
Post your favorite passages.
He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.
-- The Bridge Of San Luis Rey
A tough challenge for To the Lighthouse, there are so many.
― alimosina, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
For me it's either the bit with "the long steady stroke, the last of the three, which was her stroke" or there's a great bit about the windows of the dining room and something about the reflections creating a world or something like that; my memory is fuzzy but I could find it if needed
― coup coup kajoo (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 22:04 (three years ago) link
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― System, Thursday, 24 December 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1928
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 27 December 2020 12:43 (three years ago) link