Kristel's continues reading 1001 Books in 2018.

2017 list is here

442. The Monk by Matthew Lewis, 3.83 Stars

443. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.33 stars

444. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, 3.66 stars

445. Passing by Nella Larsen. Rating 4.17

446. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 3.5 stars.

447. The Third Man by Graham Greene, 4.16 stars. Enjoyed this story written to be a screen play. My edition, kindle had videos and pictures from the screen play.

448. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimotor. Enjoyable story that looks at loneliness, loss, comfort.

449. Jazz by Toni Morrison 4.3 stars. I had a hard time engaging with this book, still it is a masterful writing by Morrison.

450. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, 3.83 stars

451. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates 3.6 stars

452. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen, I really enjoyed this. Listened to audio. Was not able to get into the first time I tried reading it but I would love to own this one in book form.

453. A Ballad for Georg Henig by Victor Paskow. Really good, 4.5 stars/Bulgaria.

454.
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. 4.3 stars.

455. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord by Louis De Bernières Rating 3.5 stars.

456. Survival in Auschwitz AKA If This is a Man, by Primo Levi

457. Pastoralia by George Saunders,

458.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere. 3.8 stars.

459.
Justine by Lawrence Durrell. 4.17 stars

460.
The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell 5 stars. Well written Historical Fiction of Victorian Era British East India Company and the Sepoy Uprising.

461. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. 4 stars

462. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, 4.17 stars

463. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

5 stars

464. The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt 3 stars
465. Under the Skin by Michel Faber 4 stars
466. Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi 4.5 stars

467. Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

468. Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby, Jr. 4 stars

469. Unless By Carol Shields, 4.3 stars.

470. Independent People by Halldor Laxness, 4.5 stars
471. Libra by Don DeLillo, 3.8 stars
472. Day of the Dolphin by Robert Merle 3.3
473. The Enormous Room by e.e.cummings 3.3 stars

474. Hunger by Knut Hamsum

475. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell.

>30 Kristelh: I'd love to know what you think! This book made a huge impact and continues to resonate, over a year later.

>31 amaryann21:, I only rated it 3 stars. There are parts that I absolutely found profound but I disliked the sex and body fluids that were way over the top. Here are some of the spots in the book that I thought were very interesting commentaries;

Page 285, 3 attitudes. 1)refuses to see life as a joke, 2) life is a joke, 3) know that life is a joke but who suffers from it.

Page 300, race, scientifically indefinable--without theoretical value.

Page 329 Contrasts National Socialism and Communism

Page 393 Systems. "Christians preferred, no doubt out of jealousy, to let themselves be paganized and to turn against the witnesses of truth, to their own misfortune."

Page 454. National Socialism was coined by a Jew. Moses Hess. (a French Jewish Philosopher and founder of Labor Zionism. Socialist theories of racial struggle.) Moses Law (Bible) to separate the Jew from other people to keep them pure.

Page 590. "if man is a certainly not, as some poets and philosophers have made him out to be, naturally good, he is not naturally evil, either; good and evil are categories that can serve to qualify the effects of the actions of one man on another; but they are, in my opinion, fundamentally unsuitable, even unusable, to judge what goes on in the heart of that man."

Page 591. Law must refer to an authority outside of man, a power that man feels is superior."

#476, King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, first book that takes place in Lost Worlds, Africa setting, an adventure. 3.5 stars.

#477. Sula by Toni Morrison
#478. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela

Both were good.

479. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Great book, one I will reread.

480. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, interesting book of a resourceful woman in 1700s.

481. The Goldfinch (2016)
482. H is for Hawk (2016)

483. Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes

I think your numbering went a little askew. You have two 468's and then it jumps to the 500s.

You have read some interesting books lately. I have bumped a few up the pile :)

484. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe. 3.3 stars. convoluted tale of one gothic castle after another.

485. The Iron Heel by Jack London. Dystopian, Socialist propaganda.

486. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. 4.67 stars

487. The Hours by Michael Cunningham. Glad to have read this after reading Mrs Dalloway last month.

488. The Light of Day by Graham Swift, I was not impressed.

489. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Walters. 3.5 stars. Too much information for me.

490. Pierre and Jean by Guy deMaupassant. A good one. 3.67. Enjoyed this picture of a family living on the coast of Normandy.