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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
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- The Ace by Jack D. Hunter
- The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker
- Berlin Noir Trilogy by Philip Kerr
- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
- Knife Song Korea by Richard Selzer
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi was Thiongo
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne DuMaurier
Jenny Wren by E. H. Young
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I would second Birdsong which I preferred to Regeneration (I never bothered with the rest of the latter trilogy).
I'd second Regeneration but want to suggest Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks as an amazing, moving depiction of the tunnelers and so much more. Highly recommended.
Also, if you like mysteries, Charles Todd actually a mother/son team have a series starting with the award winning A Test ...
... 6 years to get married though.
But I find it very annoying in books if it's not credible, although Rachael I loved Birdsong and Charlotte Gray so I think I'm being rather inconsistent...
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217. The Day the Falls Stood Still by Buchanan
218. Fear the Worst by Barclay
219. Certainty by Thien
220. Birdsong by Faulks
... Declares: A Testimony
129 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
133 The Shipping News
134 Trainspotting on Mount TBR
135 Birdsong
140 What a Carve Up! on Mount TBR
141 A Suitable Boy
142 The Stone Diaries
145 The Robber Bride
146 The Emigrants
147 The Secret History
151 Po ...
... of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (2 or 3 times)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (own but have not ...
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Girl at the Lion D'or? Was really good! Sad but good. Once I get my 'new arrivals' fix taken care of, it's back to Birdsong and Charlotte Gray.
But now what do I read to follow something that good? I think I might start The Girl at the Lion D'Or so then I can read Birdsong next but I just don't know! That's the one problem when you read something amazing. Everything else seems to pale in comparison :)
... Heights, The Great Gatsby, Animal Farm, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Go between, Schindler's List and Birdsong are the 8 we need to get.
#10 Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
My second Faulks and just as impressive (in a different way) to Birdsong . Engleby is a near genius loner bordering on the sociopathic. His story is told in the first person allowing Faulks to use one of my favourite narrative techniques, the unreliable ...
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Good morning Rebeki;
I have added Birdsong and The Baader-Meinhof Complex both to my TBR listing. They both sound very good and though I think the latter will be a tough one to slog through, it sounds worth the effort.
Thank you for the recx and have a great day.
belva
Hi billiejean! Well, I definitely recommend Birdsong The Baader-Meinhof Complex though, as there's an awful lot of detail.
Hi, Rebeki!
Just wanted to say thanks for your review of Birdsong , a book that I had wanted to know more about. The Aust book looks pretty interesting as well. Have a great day!
--BJ
... who end up in WW1 trenches.
There are a lot of books that have successfully portrayed WW1 (the small masterpiece Birdsong for example), so it is a tough area to make new ground successfully. Despite some good writing, which I suspect was designed to reflect 1910s, it did not quite ...
... Press editor Fergus Barrowman.
Sebastian Faulk does seem to be a writer on a downhill trend - every book I read after Birdsong was never as up there. I quite liked Engleby, but I felt at the time that it wasn't as strong a story as it could have been.
I didn't mind TC's GWAPE, I just ...
... off reading this book for so long. It was great. He is a gifted author.
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks - finally!
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates
The Hiding Place ...
20. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Not a book from my shelf but one lent to us by one of my husband's work colleagues. Given how universally loved this book is, it would have been wrong not to take the opportunity to read it!
I wasn't disappointed. It's a beautifully written book ...
... by Herodotus
3. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
4. The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks
5. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
6. Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
7. The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B by Sandra Guiland
8. Kristen Lavransdatter ...
I finished birdsong which did pick out and it turned out to be a decent read. I am now reading The Piano Teacher.
... know what happened to the characters, so skimmed ahead. Having done so, I'm glad I stopped.
So I'm now moving on to Birdsong Sebastian Faulks , which I'm sure will be much better!
... Which was a shame because I liked the premise of the story and it did have such a strong start.
Now, I am reading Birdsong . I don't seem to be satisfied with my reading at all lately. The book began seeming like a badly written romance novel. I am now a 100 pages in and its a little ...
I've read Birdsong , Charlotte Gray, and Girl at the Lion d'Or and thought Birdsong was far & away the best. I enjoyed Charlotte Gray and felt Girl at the Lion d'Or was the weakest.
Bob, Birdsong is worth the splurge. You could probably find it used on Amazon, Alibris, etc. too.
I am also in the 'loved' it camp wrt Birdsong . I also loved Charlotte Gray but thought Engleby was a big disappointment.
And I just edited my list as well, replacing A Number and Outlander with Regeneration and Birdsong . That was hard, however!
Glad to see someone else enjoying Birdsong , which I consider one of the most realistic descriptions of the horrors of war (I would imagine). Despite the unnecessary romance at the beginning, and the side story of the granddaughter, I think the language and descriptions more than redeem it.
The ...
Almost finished Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks and have The Little Prince lined up ready to go.
... Barker's "Regeneration Trilogy" has been raved about by many LTers whose opinions I respect. Also, I recently finished Birdsong by Sebastiain Faulks, and I think I wasn't quite ready to leave the realm of World War I just yet.
3. I only recently downloaded the book (within the last ...
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Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
Regeneration by Pat Barker
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
(subject to change if I read something wonderful in the next 10 days)
(And I did make two changes, adding Regeneration and Birdsong . ...
... high praise of Pamela Aidan's books have got me and I am going to add them to my list of books to buy.
You review of Birdsong also has me sold.
I second Birdsong . Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake and Interpreter of Maladies also come to mind.
Arthur and George or Birdsong are great reads for a group.
I remember loving Birdsong though I can't remember any of it now, but I hated Charlotte Gray as FlossieT says - implausible, couldn't get my head around how utterly stupid the plot was. There are much better books on the resistence in WWII even in the YA arena - Tamar by Mal Peet and Aidan Cha ...
... Malcom Bradbury (actually, this might all ready be out of print)
Berlin Noir, Philip Kerr
Nice Work, David Lodge
Birdsong , Sebastian Faulks
The Crow Road, Iain Banks
Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess (although I suspect A Clockwork Orange will stay in print longer)
The Innocent ...
Birdsong does sound wonderful - thanks for the review!
#7 - I really hate when the media focus on little mistakes like that. No public speaker is perfect; we all make mistakes, even world leaders. Tripping over a word, mispronouncing something - is it really that important?
Birdsong is now on the tbr pile. I really like your description. My husband reads a lot of WWII themed books. I'll get this one for him.
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Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Faulks's vivid prose captures better than any other novel I've read the experience of being a soldier in the trenches in World War I. St ...
52. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.
Baby! by Ros Asquith
Babylon by Jill Paton-Walsh
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Blitzcat by Robert Westall
... up there.
Of the ones that i haven't read and are not, as yet, on mount TBR but I would like to read at some stage
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
53 C ...
... A natural history of the supernatural by Lyall Watson
Trawler by Redmond O'Hanlon
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
To Sir With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
Diana Mosley by Anne de Courcy
Mediterranean Winter by Robert D. ...
... A natural history of the supernatural by Lyall Watson
Trawler by Redmond O'Hanlon
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
To Sir With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
Diana Mosley by Anne de Courcy
Mediterranean Winter by Robert D. ...
... Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Diaz, Mudbound by Jordan, The Air We Breathe by Barrett, The Echo Maker by Powers and Birdsong by Faulks.
Whew! I've just read through your 181 messages and have starred your thread. We love many of the same books: Birdsong , A Fine Balance, Night, etc. I also found Middlemarch challenging but very worthwhile.
Btw, your comment on the "What Are You Reading Now?" about my current book, A Ha ...
... Four, George Orwell
13. The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
14. Half a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
15. Birdsong , Sebastian Faulks
16. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
17. Cat's Eye, M Atwood
18. Watchmen, Alan Moore/ Dave Gibbons
19. The Secret History, Don ...
Asa 50 year old Brit, have read 86 of these, the latest being Birdsong . Of the remaining fourteen, the next on my TBR is The Time Traveller’s Wife (which I have on order) and I know that I have a copy of Middlemarch somewhere. So, that leaves a dozen to be acquired and consumed:
The Kite ...
... Animals, Excellent Women, Lark Rise to Candleford, Midnight's Children, Things Fall Apart, The Long Weekend, Birdsong --well I won't go on at the risk of becoming tedious, but I think you have to agree that given the price of ordinary new books, the Folio books are not really ...
Okay, here's a shot in the dark: Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks?
My copy is a red paperback with an Edwardian woman's portrait on the cover. It is historical fiction about the Great War. There's a love story at its core, but it's certainly not a corny romance. It was first published in 1993, ...
... Grossman
2. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
3. The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
4. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
5. Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
6. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
7. The Radezky March by Roth
8. The ...
65> The Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker is marvelous. I'd also recommend Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks for WWI fiction (about, not written during), if you haven't read it already.
I remember reading and being disappointed by Charlotte Gray after being impressed with Birdsong . I read lots of WW2 memoirs when I was a teenager and the whole plot that Charlotte Gray was based on seemed implausible. Mal Peet's Tamar is good, it won the Carnegie Medal.
... I haven't read... Carolyn, to my shame I haven't read Day yet either - you'd recommend it, then?
I have to admit that Birdsong and Charlotte Gray, which I loathed, rather put me off reading wartime-themed books (oh - and Amsterdam, which wasn't terrible, but disappointed me - I ...
Donna, I agree with your assessment. I loved Birdsong and was disappointed that Charlotte Gray didn't live up to it. So whatever you do, don't bother with The Girl at the Lion d'Or. I really disliked that one ...
Book #4. Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks did not pack the same emotional impact as Birdsong . It did have its good points. The buildup of the German occupation in France was well done, and the story of the Jewish brothers sent to a concentration camp was a heartbreaker, but the ...
My first three books:
1. To Catch a Highlander by Karen Hawkins
2. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
3. Safe Harbor by Christine Feehan
#27 alcottacre
I can't believe you've never read Birdsong . Its an amazing book, I read it at school but have read it at least 5 times since then and it never stops producing the same emotional reaction.......one of a lot of emotions!!! Definitely up there with my top books ever read.
I trust your judgement then, and won't bother with On Green Dolphin Street.
As far as I recall Birdsong is similar to All Quiet on the Western Front, which was one of my last reads of 2008, but not from the German point of view (which was one of my favourite aspects of AQOTWF - the fact ...
I read All Quiet on the Western Front last year, and if Birdsong is in that vein, I would probably enjoy it as well, so on to Continent TBR it goes!
On Green Dolphin Street was OK, not terrible, but not something I would go out of my way to read again.
... wishlist (don't necessarily buy them from there, just store the wishlist there).
It was a few years ago that I read Birdsong , so it's probably significant that I still remember it well and it's certainly one of my favourite ever books. I love first world war lit/non-fiction, so that ...
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I read On Green Dolphin Street by Faulks last year, but have not had a chance to read any of his other fiction works. Is Birdsong his best?
... feeling of "wow". There's no doubt that Faulks is an incredibly good writer who carries you along with him.
Nothing like Birdsong though.
... Sebastian Faulks has been long neglected on my TBR pile. I'm not really expecting it to measure up to the magnificent Birdsong which I read last year.
... by Barbara Kingsolver
30 Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
31 the Ghost Road by Pat Barker
32 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
33 Animal's People by Indra Sinha
34 Falling Man by Don de Lillo
35 Small Island by Andrea Levy
36 Suite Francaise ...
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18. Das bleiche Herz der Revolution by Sophie Dannenberg
19. The Baader-Meinhof Complex by Stefan Aust
20. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
21. Seven Dials by Anne Perry
22. Estates: An Intimate History by Lynsey Hanley
23. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford ...
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2. The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse
3. Journey to the Stone Country
4. The Painted Veil
5. Birdsong
Other standouts, in no particular order:
Hotel du Lac
The Lizard Cage (second reading, last year's fave)
The Doomsday Book
Fifth Business
A Human ...
One that I haven't seen listed yet is Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks, author of the marvelous WW1 classic, Birdsong . Charlotte Gray is a very moving yet suspensful tale about a young British woman looking to make a contribution in the war effort who joins the covert forces of the British SOE ...
Eagle In The Sky by Wilbur Smith
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Stonor Eagles by William Horwood
Tommo & Hawk by Bryce Courtney
The Sunbird by Wilbur Smith
I've only read two 'B' books. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks and Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote. And while they were ok to read I can't really rave about them and tell people that they must read them.
As if I needed another book about books, I got 1001 Books For Every Mood, as well as Birdsong , Oblomov, and The Castle of Otranto.
... Monsarrat
How Far Can You Go?, David Lodge
The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe
The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
Birdsong , Sebastian Faulks
Dear George & Other Stories, Helen Simpson
... something by Anthony Burgess - Earthly Powers? Any Old Iron? A Dead Man in Deptford?
#248: Unfortunately, my local library does not have Faulk's trilogy of The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong , and Charlotte Gray so I am going to have to hunt for them elsewhere.
Also, if you are reading for Veteran's Day, check out the previously recommended The Fatal Englishman, most ...
I'm so glad I've chose WWI as one of my 888 Categories, Birdsong is unbelievable- and yet this actually happened !
My stomach turns as I read it. I don't understand why people read 'horror' by Stephen King and the like; maybe because if they do get scared they can reassure themselves - like ...
I'm enjoying The Sea and should be finished with it relatively soon. I also enjoyed Birdsong , but found The Girl at the Lion D'or more intriguing. I'm also nearly finished with both White Noise and Things Fall Apart. Somehow found myself splitting my reading into a book for the bus, a ...
... I've read a lot of great books and many more and varied than I would have read without the challenge.
I hope you like Birdsong !
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I love The Talented Mr Ripley!
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I also really enjoyed The Sea, how are you finding it ?
I've just started Birdsong , by Sebastian Faulks.
Started my 2nd for WWI : Birdsong , as per group read over on Babbling Books.
... many good books?
Further to your comment on my challenge thread I just thought I'd let you know that I've started on Birdsong - which you recommended to me !
... actually about something important, something real...
As per the polls over on Babbling Books I have dived straight into Birdsong , rather than Cold Comfort Farm. I prob would have preferred to have had some light relief in the form of CCF, but I polled rather strongly in favour of Birdsong ...
... about halfway through it now and it's just OK. The plot is kind of dragging. I really enjoyed two of Faulks' other books (Birdsong and Charlotte Gray), and this one is coming up short.
However, I should finish it soon and then it's time to read something in honor of Banned Books Week, ...
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- Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, or
- Birdsong , Sebastian Faulks.
I really enjoyed Birdsong too, Marise.
I also really liked Charlotte Gray and found it to be a very moving book, although most critics seem to prefer Birdsong. The Girl at the Lion D'or was also excellent. All these books have the war as a binding theme. I think I preferred CG as it had ...
marise, what did you think of Birdsong ? It's on my shelf, and I keep meaning to read it.
55. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.
melstar73 in 1001 Books to read before you die : Post with touchstone for all 1001? (Aug 30, 2008, 11:47am)
... Mandolin
Felicia’s Journey
Disappearance
The Invention of Curried Sausage
The Shipping News
Trainspotting
Birdsong
Looking for the Possible Dance
Operation Shylock
Complicity
On Love
What a Carve Up!
A Suitable Boy
The Stone Diaries
The Virgin Suicides
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I have that and Birdsong to read. I am looking forward to them. I have heard good things about Birdsong as well.
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Finished: Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.
... on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Regeneration by Pat Barker
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#72: I am SO with you on Birdsong . I know so many people who have raved about it, but I found the love story so unbelievable - very male perspective, no great surprise he's writing James Bond now... I also went on to feel the same way about Charlotte Gray so goodness only knows why I've just ...
Returned books to the library and came home with:
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears and Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, both for $1 from the library store. I'll add them to one of the many TBR piles.
... d'Or by Sebastian Faulks (fiction, 249 pages)
Part of Faulks' French (what? series? meditation? trilogy?). I read Birdsong last year, and loved it. While this didn't hit me quite as hard, it was still lovely--so well written, and continuing his examination of the effect of WWI on those ...
If you haven't read this one already, I would recommend Birdsong for your WWI category. It's fantastic and though it deals a lot with the war, it has other angles as well.
Girl at the Lion D'Or comes first, Birdsong next, and Charlotte Gray is #3 in the trilogy. I haven't read them, but researched them for my historical novels website ( www.HistoricalNovels.info ), and I understand that the plots of the three novels ...
... World by Jostein Gaarder
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Birdsong by Sebastian FaulksEdited to remove books that have gone already!
... read Regeneration which was about WWI
I now have the other two books in the trilogy on my shelf:
1. Regeneration
2. Birdsong
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3. The eye in the door
4. The ghost road
5. The First World War
6. All quiet on the western front
7. The great war & modern memory
8. Good-bye to ...
... a superb wwii book set in Italy close to the end of the war, that belongs in the august company of Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong , Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy and Norman mailer's The Naked and the Dead.
It is about 7 soldiers, an old Italian fascist, and a sniper. It ...
I have read Birdsong , twice, without reading the Girl at the Lion D'Or, I tried but gave up. Charlotte Gray is definitely not a sequel to Birdsong .
... in our multicultural stew. My Review
#27 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. It is hard to understand how this was not a huge award-winner when it was published in 1993. It is a beautifully written tale, well-researche ...
... to reread. what is the point of keeping books if you are not going to read them again?
There are some books, such as Birdsong which I have enjoyed by I don't think I will reread...
I've read Birdsong . How about The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
... in the thread (April 1). I pounced on it then, and I'll pounce on it now!!
Moving on ... how about Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong ?
... Here goes -- and sorry for the long post:
1. Lady Susan by Jane Austen
2. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
3. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks*
4. The Giver - Lois Lowry
5. As We Are Now - May Sarton
6. Run - Ann Patchett
7. Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson*
8. Sitting P ...
This month I've read the following books that are also on the list:
Birdsong ,
Frankenstein,
Catch-22,
Robinson Crusoe,
The handmaid's tale,
The woman in white,
One hundred years of solitude &
Disgrace
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
The Sound of Thunder by Wilbur Smith
Singing the Sadness by Reginald Hill
...
4. Divine Comedy
5. MacBeth
6. Gilgamesh
7. Odyssey
8. Iliad
1001 books you must read before you die
1. Birdsong FINISHED
2. Disgrace FINISHED
3. The black dahlia FINISHED
4. The virgin suicides
5. Kafka on the shore
6. Cloud Atlas
7. American psycho
8. Nev ...
... matter because nobody else I've read does it as well as he does.
378 pages
dihiba and Cariola - you should both read Birdsong . I think you'll like it.
I just put Birdsong on my wish list last week.
Your post about Birdsong caught my eye as I have just finished The Wars by Timothy Findley which deals with WWI. I Mooched Birdsong a couple of months ago - now I think it should be moved up the TBR pile.
I had some issues with The Wars re Findley's writing but it certainly paints a very ...
No. 11 - Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. This was a Christmas present from a good friend that I finished last night during the commercials for American Idol (I have many bad habits). It was not what I expected - indeed it was far better. It was dark, tragic and sad. Except for All Quiet on ...
Birdsong in Perth, Scotland while researching my grandfather's death in WWI (Black Watch Regiment).
Will be in Rye (aka Tilling) rereading the Mapp & Lucia series by EF Benson for the umpteenth time this September
Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies in small town Ontario
Touchstones ...
Am reading Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks right now. It hasn't taken off for me, but it's early days yet. I like to give a book at least 100 pages as I've had them begin to amount to something good as late as 98 pages before. I particularly want to finish this one as it was a Christmas gift ...
Today in the mail I recieved Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.
I really need to ban myself from bookmooch!
... Goodbye to all that van Robert Graves. Erg interessant omdat het zijn eigen herinneringen zijn die hij beschrijft.
Birdsong van Sebastian Faulks is ook erg goed en gruwelijk realistisch over de, vooral ook ondergrondse, loopgravenoorlog.
De trilogie van Pat Barker, bestaande ...
... because AQotWF is much more acclaimed and better known. Either way, they are both very good.
High on my TBR pile is Birdsong , by Sebastian Faulks. Haven't read it though, so I don't know that it's good.
... Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
29. Death in a Strange Country, Donna Leon
30. Half a Yellow Sun, C N Adichie
31. Birdsong , Sebastian Faulks
32. The Winter Queen, Boris Akunin
33. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
34. Lazybones, Mark Billingham
35. Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwo ...
... Choice”
1. The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester
2. The English Patient, Michael Ondaajte
3. Birdsong , Sebastian Faulks
4. Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver
5. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcie
6. The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler
7. Tuesdays with M ...
Reread Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks about wwi in France. A great book imho.
I'm struggling to narrow my fiction choices down this quarter.
FICTION
1. Restoration by Rose Tremain
2. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
3. Middlemarch by George Eliot
4. The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
5. (tie) Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
(tie) ...
... very good, although I found it a very challenging read. (I guess that's what I should expect with Burgess.)
I finished Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks last night. It was such a well-drawn picture of WWI and particularly trench warfare--the tedium, the fear, the deprivations. It was a ...
I am reading Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. I am interested in the WWI time period, so I have high hopes for it.
keren7--I thought Fingersmith was a very enjoyable read. While I thought War and Peace was excellent, I must confess I never read the dissertation on war Tolstoy put at the ...
... Scotland and then the Sudan in The Translator by Leila Aboulela, but now I'm in France in the early 20th century with Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.
almigwin, I'm going to have to come visit you in that English village--it sounds delightful.
... devout Muslim woman, and I thought her struggle to reconcile her love and her faith was very well done.
I am now reading Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.
...
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The Victorian seaside cookbook
Another Anne Bishop has authored:
Belladonna
Sebastian
Pillars of the World
Shadows and light
House of Gaian
Black Jewels Trilogy (omnibus collection)
Daughter of the Blood
Heir to the Shadows
Queen ...
... by Ross Dunn, Crow Lake by Mary Lawson, Earth Odyssey by Mark Hertsgaard, The Tender Bar by J.R.Moehringer, Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks).
Adjacent to my computer sits God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens which I began reading yesterday.
... well the thrillers/horror/romance. I paused briefly today wondering whether to buy a Sebastian Faulks book (I enjoyed his Birdsong ) but was in a hurry and moved on.
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Tower of Ravens by Kate Forsyth
Ladyhawke by Joan D. Vinge
The Stonor Eagles by William Horwood
Disney's Winnie the Pooh: The Big Fat Bee by Rh Disney
Don't miss Birdsong and A Very Long Engagement has some haunting scenes in the trenches.
A few i haven't seen mentioned:
The Charles Todd WWI mystery series featuring Inspector Ian Rutledge who is literally haunted by a fellow soldier he is responsible for having killed by firing squad. ...
Well, I know I am in a minority but I thought Birdsong was a not very good book, and really didn't like Girl at the Lion D'Or. I have been told to give On Green Dolphin Street a go, but if if I didn't like the other two, is it worth it?
Mercy by Jodi Picoult
Once by Morris Gleitzman
Tsotsi by Athol Fugard
Soho by Keith Waterhouse
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
>4: karenwardill, I did not realize Birdsong , Girl at the Lion D'Or, and Charlotte Gray were a trilogy. Is that also the order they are meant to be read? If so I skipped the middle one ...
I swallowed up the trilogy of Birdsong , Girl at the Lion D'Or and Charlotte Gray - all of which I loved. Charlotte Gray seemed the saddest to me. I also read his nonfiction account of Three Englishmen, which was quite good - but his forte is fiction.
His Human Traces needed a good ...
... Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud, I love Bartimaeus, he's such an interesting character, fantasy is a favourite genre of mine.
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, because I'm also really interested in WW1 - amazing book!
Cherry by Sara Wheeler, again the Scott interest, and learning more about Cherry's ...
Even though I took two books with me on holidays His Majesty's Dragon and Birdsong , both of which I read and enjoyed tremendously, other books mysteriously seemed to find their way into my luggage! While visiting in Ottawa I found hardcover editions of The Bartimaeus Trilogy on sale ($6.00 ...
I just finished Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, a very intense, beautifully written WW1 story - amazing read.
And now I'm reading The Dark is Rising series which just arrived from Amazon. Delightful, I can't believe I've missed these books all these years *shakes head in wonderment*.
I ...
I read Birdsong and thought it was quite good, mostly I think because I learned about WWI from a British perspective. I liked Charlotte Gray a bit less. I have The Girl at the Lion d'Or on my TBR pile but am not sure when I'll get to it.
I've never read Birdsong , but have intended to for a long time. I had high hopes for Human Traces because the topic really interested me ... but I was very disappointed in it. I might have to add Engleby to my list. Thanks for the recommendation!
Sebastian Faulks wrote the very popular (in England anyway) Birdsong . Most people I know loved this novel but I simply liked it. Then I read Human Traces which was enormously promising but turned out to have structural problems. Now I'm reading Engleby and I'm admiring it and enjoying it. ...
Birdsong , anyone?
... and Unfinished Tales but they will have to wait as I'm travelling soon and need more portable books. So I'm taking Birdsong and Love in The Time of Cholera, both of which I've heard great things here on LT and haven't read, so I'm looking forward to them. And then when I get to Ontari ...
... publicly whenever possible, maybe too vociferously at times. I hate it so much.
I didn't much like Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong when I read it for my book club. The horrors of WW1 are well described but the main characters were unengaging and the love story completely unconvincing. I also ...
... caged bird sings
singing and swinging and getting merry like christmas
songs of innocence and experience
lullaby
birdsong
... ead
Ian Rankin - Strip Jack
Robert Harris - Imperium
Anais Nin - Delta of Venus
Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong
Susan Hill - The Pure in Heart
Nick Hornby - The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
To Finish ...
Yesterday my mum came to visit, and brought me Born on a blue day, Birdsong , The Birth of Venus, and also brought down my Harry Potter collection for re-read prior to 21/7.
Hurrah for Mummy!
Having read a few of the recommendations mentioned here, I now feel able to comment. I just finished Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks and it was stunning - I will need to read it twice more to really absorb it and understand the miserable environment the soldiers had to endure. I had to stop ...
... read her Grey Rabbit series when I was little, but her A Traveller in Time is my all time favourite time-travel book.
Birdsong - I've had so many people recommend this to me, I'm looking forward to reading it soon.
Winter in Thrush Green (a gorgeous hardcover edition with an almost ...
I just read two or three months ago Autodafe's (#5) recommendation of Birdsong and found it very good. Especially as I had just indexed two books (non-fiction) relating to WW1 and that helped me connect to the story more.
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.
... utt.
Henri Barbusse's Under fire which won the Prix Goncourt with Barbusse back at the front.
Sebastian Faulks Birdsong
Willi Heinrich's Cross of Iron
Wilfred Owen's war poems.
Kenn Miller's Tiger the lurp dog--another Vietnam novel about a squad of army rangers.
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... for Owen Meany are really something, just because of the way John Irving writes.
Thats my two pence....
Oh, Birdsong too
Birdsong is a brilliant read too, although Pat Barker is an exceptional author. Another interesting read is All Quiet On The Western Front as it shows the german prospective of the war.
I loved the regeneration trilogy, and it inspired me to read Birdsong , which I enjoyed, but not as much. I thought the last scenes in the underground were just compelling, but the prelude romance was not to my taste at all. I enjoyed the book overall, especially from when the protagonist goes ...
... Fire sounds good, and I'll have to give Conflict and Dream a try too. I liked Sebastian Faulk's Charlotte Gray, so Birdsong is a great recommendation, plus the others. I'm a neophyte with this subject so look forward to any more suggestions.
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