Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century

next book is Lolita

ok ok so here we go again

most favorite:
THE SUN ALSO RISES / THE SHELTERING SKY / DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP

least:
I, CLAUDIUS / ANGLE OF REPOSE / THE MOVIEGOER

still reading ulysses. almost done chapter 15. this book’s really weird. stopped reading Zuleika Dobson. not into ebooks.

Hello everybody. Right now I’m reading Ulysses (and i think im gonna throw up) and it’s the 67th book i read from the list. Pending books are Lolita, Nostromo and A High Wind in Jamaica.

Hello everyone!

Terrible, dull and without any apparent purpose. The author hasn’t aim and lacks focus. His thoughts wander restlessly here and there leaving everything half baked. And details and descriptions and frock coats and red ties and brim hats! CAN ANYBODY TELL ME WHAT THIS NOVEL IS ALL ABOUT? I am familiar with novels where nothing virtually “happens” but this one has got the nerves of me. And stockbrokers? and businessmen? lawyers? Give me a f—-ing break! People will get the idea that New Orleans is a materialistic hell.

Next book is Justine (Book I of the Alexandria Quartet).

24 hours after reading Portnoy’s Complaint I’m still not sure what to make out of it. Is it something to take seriously and recommend to your friends? or merely a dirty little book which you’d still recommend to your friends? But I’m certain that it left me harried and deeply satisfied. It’s fun to see guys like Alex Portnoy (or Porte-Noir, or PortNoise, or PortNose) suffer, but a part of me feels sorry for him too.

Next book is The Moviegoer.

5/5
The Great Gatsby, The Sound & the Fury, To the Lighthouse, An American Tragedy, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Golden Bowl, The Sun Also Rises, The Rainbow, Women in Love, Death Comes for the Archbishop, The Catcher in the Rye, The Sheltering Sky

4.5/5
Catch-22, Under the Volcano, Winesburg Ohio, A Passage to India, Pale Fire, The Age of Innocence, The Day of the Locust, Kim, Wide Sargasso Sea, The Ginger Man, Howards End

4/5
The Magnificent Ambersons, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Brave New World, Darkness at Noon, The Grapes of Wrath, 1984, Slaughterhouse-5, Invisible Man, Native Son, Henderson the Rain King, The Wings of the Dove, Tender is the Night, The Good Soldier, Lord of the Flies, Light in August, The Maltese Falcon, A Farewell to Arms, A Room With a View, The Call of the Wild

3.5/5
Animal Farm, Sister Carrie, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Deliverance, Point Counter Point, Heart of Darkness, Brideshead Revisited, Sophie’s Choice

3/5
The Ambassadors, All the King’s Men, Of Human Bondage, The House of Mirth, Ironweed, The Magus

2.5/5
Sons & Lovers, Lord Jim

2/5
Main Street, Ragtime

1/5
I Claudius, Angle of Repose

This hairsplitter of a novel is way too smart for me, although I did like the sum of its parts. A nice companion to the list’s Animal Farm, 1984 and Brave New World.

Next book is Portnoy’s Complaint.

This gave me a different reaction from what I anticipated. This is not altogether your everyday average adventure book. Kim’s on the most mysterious characters I’ve encountered. My dog’s name by the way is Kim.

Next book is Darkness at Noon.