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The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles read in 1972.
... what was going to happen to Cromwell, who is one of my favorite characters of 2009. Now I can't wait for the sequel.
2) The French Lieutenant's Woman - of the three possible endings, I will choose the happy one.
3) The Color Purple - Celie is another fantastic character
4) In The Woods ...
... of Winter by Helen Dunmore
4. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
5. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
6. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
7. The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
8. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
9. The Book of Night Women by M ...
The Woman Next Door by Barbara Delinsky
An Independent Woman by Howard Fast
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Sleeping Lady by Sue Henry
Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown
#110 The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Super good. I liked the way the author continually put himself into the story, and implied that he had as little idea of how the book would end as the reader had.
#111 The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
Thoroughly ...
... you've inspired me to go look up some Marianne Moore!
My reading this week is almost exactly the same as last week: The French Lieutenants Woman , In The Woods (which I can't read before bed because then I can't sleep), The Emperor's Children, and The Return of Depression Economics ( ...
... is on my shelf and I am hoping to get to it in 2010.
>#21:
Jennifer;
I am so envious of you and a first time read of The French Lieutenant's Woman . I absolutely loved it the first time I read it. Then I watched the movie and it goobered it all up for me. But Meryl Streep was wonderful, ...
This week I'm reading The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles. So far I'm a fan.
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Possible candidates:
Possession by A S Byatt
Monkey by Wu Cheng'en
Lust Caution by Eileen Chang
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Hoeg
B ...
... :
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
Emma or Persuasion, depends on my mood - Austen
A Room With a View - Forster
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
Straight Man - Richard Russo (I really think everyone in the world should read this book, and certainly no one in academia ...
For my classes I'm reading Dickens' Bleak House, Rawi Hage's De Niro's Game, and John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman .
On my own I'm happily enjoying Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea.
#60, 103: I agree. The Girl Who Played With Fire avoids the sophomore slump.
... of Katharina Blum
343 The Siege of Krishnapur
354 Surfacing
356 In A Free State
375 Slaughterhouse Five
376 The French Lieutenant’s Woman on Mount TBR
390 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
394 A Kestrel for a Knave on Mount TBR
395 The Quest for Christa T.
399 One ...
... Anything more? Enh--perhaps, but it wasn't an anything more that was right for this reader.
Now? I'm midway through The French Lieutenant's Woman (yes, what a change of pace!) and absolutely adoring it, so I'm wandering back thataway after checking out a few threads I've been behind on. ...
... Trollope ?
Cyrano de Bergerac?
Wilkie Collins (e.g., The Woman in White)
The French Lieutenant's Woman ?
Thomas Hardy ?
The End of the Affair? (perhaps a bit of a stretch, depending on how you define "romanc ...
... Shakespeare
Howards End by E. M. Forster
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
I'm intermittently reading The Body-Snatcher and Other Stories, between "main" books - currently The French Lieutenant's Woman (in Vintage paperback) and a book of Welsh history called Land of My Fathers. The last Folio I read cover-to-cover was I Capture the Castle, which I read in one ...
The Case of the General's Thumb by Andrey Kurkov
Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium by elizabeth Peters
Looking for Carroll Beckwith: the True story of a Detective's Search for His Past Life ...
... as Stage, Bill Bryson
71. The Collector, John Fowles
After a half-hearted and unsuccessful attempt to read The French Lieutenant's Woman a few years ago, I put John Fowles on the 'authors I don't like' pile, until I picked up The Collector. Following Frederick (or 'Ferdinand' C ...
... week the Alexandria Quartet (I think I'll count them as 4 separate volumes, and just read as many as I can in a week) and The French Lieutenant's Woman , but I'm sure I want be able to finish them all in time.
I'm also taking a sneak peak now and then into The Cat Who Could Read Backwards ...
The English Patient
Ethan Frome
The Fall of the House of Usher
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Gone With the Wind
The Graduate
The Great Gatzby
The Green Man
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit or To There and Back
... or think are crap, which will still be in print 50 years from now. But here are some I'd like to see still in print:
The French Lieutenant's Woman , John Fowles
The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy, Olivia Manning
The History Man, Malcom Bradbury (actually, this might all ...
I like the French Lieutenant's Woman and the Alexandria Quartet also very much indeed.
I also feel that The Sound and the Fury and Absolam Absolam are among the greatest works of fiction ever, and under the definitions Stellar provided above of post modernism they would surely qualify. I ...
As far as postmodernism goes, I like John Fowles and thought The French Lieutenant's Woman was excellent. Mantissa was less good. I am also a huge Lawrence Durrell fan and consider The Alexandria Quartet one of the greatest works of postwar British literature. The Avignon Quintet is also ...
... play you've seen? Not that obscure The Merry Wives of Winidsor
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians? French
18) Roth or Updike? Neither, though I've met Updike and found him very nice. I wonder if the signature I got is worth anything since his demise?
19) David Se ...
... book when you were ten years old? From Earth to the Moon
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year? The French Lieutenant's Woman
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year? Room with a View
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, ...
...
French site don't have them because they have translated (or there have been unvoluntary translations) the book titles:
French jbettinelli translated Fairy tales as Contes de fée
French jbettinelli a traduit The Prince as Le Prince
French jbettinelli translated Histoire d'une à ...
... and for a grand total of £2.45 acquired:
Mortal Causes - Ian Rankin
Tess of the D'Urbevilles - Thomas Hardy
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
Finnished French Lieutenants Woman by John Fowles what a good book. Decided to do a light mystery The Cherry Blossom Corpse Robert Barnard.
... the book, but couldn't.
In any case I've just read three John Fowles in a row. The Magus, The Collector, and The French Lieutenant's Woman . In The Magus, I felt Fowles bit off more than he could chew. I very much liked the other two..but the problem with books that have been ...
Still enjoying The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles. Would like to start a Civil War book.Will probably be The March by E.L. Doctorow.
I now wish I had given up on The French Lieutenant's Woman . It was so good until the last 100 pages or so. Bah!
15. The French Lieutenant's Woman
*SPOILER ALERT*
I don't like this book. It's stupid. The first 250 pages were beautiful. Then, just like Captain Corelli's Mandolin, the book goes completely off the rails. Bah!
And the characters make me so angry. He's just a snob. He 'believes in ...
Started The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles.As old as this book is makes me wonder why I am just now reading it. Off to a good start !
... enjoy 1776 despite it being non-fiction which is usually out of my comfort zone. It read like a novel.
#185 - loved The French Lieutenant's Woman !
Currently reading Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South for the first time. It is slow going so far, but I feel as if I am really going ...
... that, 'K? It was earlier this week.
From Barnes & Noble online:
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
and for fun and reference: 501 Great Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to the Giants of Literature by Julian Patrick (general ...
Finished with The Hours. I think I'll start The French Lieutenant's Woman .
... Harrison, In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent, Pope Joan by Donna Cross, Martha Peake by Patrick McGrath, Possession and The French Lieutenant's Woman by Byatt and Fowles respectively (both have dual timelines) and finally, the trilogy written by Jane Stevenson which begins with The Winter Qu ...
... (fairly brief appearance as author)
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami (as Hiraku Makimura, minor character part)
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (sort of)
13. The French lieutenant's woman - John Fowles
A historical novel with a twist.
... Monk, Schubert (played by his friend Mitsuko Uchida) and Beethoven, alongside music from one of the films he wrote - The French Lieutenant's Woman .
... by Fowles last year and thought it was brilliant and wanted to read more by him. So now thanks to you I think I will read The French Lieutenant's Woman .
I am currently reading Tibet, Tibet by Patrick French, which I'm loving. After that I think it will be Coraline by Neil Gaiman, which I ...
I'm in 1867 with The French lieutenant's woman .
... recommendations..i finally bought THE COMPLETE...because my two separate volumes were so ragged!!
I am finishing The French Lieutenant's Woman ...anyone who has not read..i heartily recommend...a very interesting take on Ye Olde Victorian Novel....i may post a review if i can come up ...
51. Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice
52. Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
53. The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
54. The Godfather Mario Puzo
55. Cancer Ward Alexander Solzhenitsyn
56. 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke
57. The Graduat ...
... to force myself to finish it.
put the dreadedHopscotch in the Quiet Room, and have somehow lost the key...so started The French Lieutenant's Woman this morning..and it is corking right along...
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Lord of the Rings of course
Anna Karenina - several adaptations
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Possession
Wide Sargasso Sea
Love in the Time of Cholera
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Frankenstein - several adaptations
Rebecca
to name a few in the classic category. Plus it ...
... Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1970s
64. Wide Sargasso Sea, 2008
65. Eva Trout, 2006
66. The Godfather, 1970s
67. The French Lieutenant's Woman , 2007
68. Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, 2008
69. High Rise, 2008
70. The Shining, 1980s
... Puzo, 1970
207. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth, 1970's
208. *The Green Man by Kingsley Amis, 1970
209. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles, 1970
210. *Troubles by J.G. Farrell, 2008
211. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, 1972
212. Rabbit Redux by John ...
... are about his friends, Iddesleigh and Harry? Did anyone else think this book was reminiscent of Jane Eyre and a bit of The French Lieutenant's Woman in parts? Now, I'll begin reading Julie Garwood's Gentle Warrior.
#34 - Oh, thats not too disheartening then - I like plot twists. I guess you won't be too inspired to read The French Lieutenant's Woman now, but for what its worth - I thought it outstanding.
jhowell, it's too bad I haven't read The French Lieutenant's Woman so I can't say how The Magus compares. I did think Fowles' writing was quite striking, but I lost emotional connection with the plot after one too many twists. It wasn't an unpleasant reading experience, but wasn't really as ...
... it from the used book store and it is looking like quite a doorstopper sitting on my shelf, but I thought because I loved The French Lieutenant's Woman so much that it would be a pleasure to read despite its legnth.
After finishing Unaccustomed Earth and loving it, I am now settling into ...
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Private Pages by penny Franklin
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton by Edward Rice
Smith of Wooton Major by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Little Colonel by Annie Fellows Johnston
... Le Carré's. Didn't care for Atonement myself, and for Austen adaptations you can't beat the BBC.
The film of Fowles' The French Lieutenant Woman was almost a different book, but worked pretty well. The Magus was less successful.
... and must get to The Idea of Perfection as well.
Medallia - what a great selection you managed to read - I just adored The French Lieutenant's Woman for instance.
... the new year, I expect.
This year's list:
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Co ...
... I'll officially finish the book as a whole.
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Co ...
... the Day-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Famished Road-Ben Okri, Cloud Atlas-David Mitchell, Plowing the Dark-Richard Powers, and The French Lieutenant's Woman -John Fowles.
I don't usually buy my father a book, but this year I did. A while back he mentioned a SF short story that he had read when ...
... I've read this year - well, for a start, the year's not over. But the list is likely to include The Jewel in the Crown, The French Lieutenant's Woman , The Yiddish Policemen's Union... Um, no novels by a genre writer.
John Fowles' Sarah Woodruff from The French Lieutenant's Woman . She is one complex gal. The grandmother in Proust's In Search of Lost Time, which I'm currently reading, is fast becoming one of my literary heroes. (And I know, I know what's coming. I'm prepared. *sob*) Also David Foster Wal ...
... is wonderful, as is Tipping the Velvet. You might also try 98 Reasons For Being, Arthur and George, The Unburied, The French Lieutenant's Woman , The Great Stink, Mr Wroe's Virgins, The Quincunx, This Thing of Darkness.
I think those are some of the best I have read - and, ...
... as his earlier A Fine Balance (also on the 1001 list). That book sent me into therapy.
My fav F book is still The French Lieutenant's Woman (comments with my original posting near the top of this thread). Shall we move along to G-books? I'm going with The Garden Party. Just love K ...
... Run by John Updike A re-read but wanted to refresh my memory before reading the other three Rabbit books.
125. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
126. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
127. Sula by Toni Morrison
128. Song of Solomo ...
I sent out to PBS The French Lieutenant's Woman
#78 The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles. I'm a bit torn by my reaction to it. There were parts of the book I loved, but I was very disappointed by the ending, which I found ambiguous and a let down. I'm not a fan of Victorian poetry either, but at least it was nothing as much as Po ...
Just finished The French Lieutenant's Woman , and I'm a bit torn by my reaction to it. There were parts of the book I loved, but I was very disappointed by the ending, which I found ambiguous and a let down. But, overall I liked the book and glad I read it.
Just finished The French Lieutenant's Woman , and I'm a bit torn by my reaction to it. There were parts of the book I loved, but I was very disappointed by the ending, which I found ambiguous and a let down. But, overall I liked the book and glad I read it.
I am in 1867, Lyme, England in The French Lieutenant's Woman .
#180 - One of my favorite books of all time, The French Lieutenant's Woman - I hope you enjoy it!
I'm now beginning The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles.
I'm now beginning The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles.
>242...what's a little Steely Dan between friends, eh?...never saw the movie..but have worn out a few copies of The French Lieutenant's Woman ..the one i have now is creaky but readable...and do try The Collector..i did see that movie..oh lord..John Fowles..what a wonderful writer
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#231 jdthloue - thank you, glad you like my ID, usually no one gets it! Thanks for the rec, I saw the movie of The French Lieutenant's Woman ages ago when it first come out, but don't even remember it now, so reading the book will all be new to me, I'm looking forward to it!
>228 ktleyed (love your moniker, by the way)..i loved, and still do The French Lieutenant's Woman ..if you want to read more of Fowles" work, try The Collector..it is seriously creepy,,,be warned
>229 cameling Cat's Eye was my re-introduction to the wondrous Ms Atwood..i read Lady Oracl ...
I received two books from PBS today, The French Lieutenant's Woman and Spell of the Highlander.
... Quartet, John Crowley
Best crime:
Best western: aren't they a chain of motels? anyway, never read any
Best romance: The French Lieutenant's Woman , John Fowles (well, if you can have Tropic of Cancer...)
best historical: will have to think about this one
best biography: Anthony Burgess ...
... and all of these I've read in the last few years. Be that as it may:
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
If On a Winter's Night ...
... Durrell
The Master Mariner, Nicholas 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? ...
... cheek, reminds her father--high time indeed--that a thousand violins cloy very rapidly without percussion."
John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
"All the roads multiplied, reproducing themselves, subdividing themselves, turning in on themselves, like snakes, tails in their mouths, ...
... R. Lawhead...dunno why, just wanted it.
Daniel Martin by John Fowles...I've read A Maggot and The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman , but never this one, and I can't imagine why. So I will set out to rectify that soon.
The Fear Makers by Wilfrid Schilling...I am ...
... novels since 1923.
Like any other of these lists, I'm sure folks will find things to quibble with. I like that The French Lieutenant's Woman was chosen instead of The Magus. I think the choice of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go rather than The Remains of the Day is baffling-- ...
... Philip Pullman is very good, although YA. There is also a fourth novel with one of the characters, The Tin Princess.
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles is deservedly a classic.
The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr are good, although set in New York, not Lon ...
Calling it a fantasy would be a bit like saying The French Lieutenant's Woman is a Victorian novel...
76. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles. 1001. Intriguing, beguiling even disingenuous can only begin to describe both this novel and the French Lieutenant's woman. To say that the Victorian era Charles is putty in her hands is somewhat of an erroneous assumption, in that perhaps he ...
... often appeared a little haphazard. Likewise, no character of Asimov's can compare in depth to Sarah Woodruff in Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman .
There are other elements in any value judgement of a science fiction work. Such as the ideas - their originality and their deployment. Not ...
The FRENCH Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The GEOGRAPHER'S Library by Jon Fasman
The GREEK Treasure by Irving Stone
The Simple ART of Murder by Raymond Chandler
MUSIC in the Night by V.C. Andrews
... in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka
Blessed ART Thou a Monk Swimming Miriam Dunne
The ENGLISH Patient Michael Ondaatje
The FRENCH Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
... Sergeants
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling
Private Lives by Noel Coward
The History of Corporal Punishment
The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
Out of Africa
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Boys from Brazil
The Rivers of Babylon
The Incas
Touchstones FUBAR-ed as usual. That last one won't link right because the list won't load. I give up.
... for a class. :)
My first choice for "F" is Fowles ~ I've read and very much enjoyed The Collector, The Magus, and French Lieutenant's Woman . Second choice is Fitzgerald, because, although I think The Great Gatsby is brilliant to the point that I read it twice in the past year or so, ...
... characters was... off-putting.
This "Reading Classic Authors" thing hasn't been working out so well... I mean, I read The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (a favourite mainstream author) in three days, and thoroughly enjoyed it. But Joseph Conrad's Nostromo was hard work. ...
... End of the World by Haruki Murakami
The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
A Tale of 2 Cities by Charles Dickens
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
Nine Stories ...
... plenty who don't.
I suppose one way round it is to give the narrator a modern voice and the characters period language (The French lieutenant's woman , etc.), but that gets irritating too, after a while.
The odd thing is when you look at something like Rob Roy - written 200 years ago and ...
Officers and Gentlemen by Evelyn Waugh
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
Sir Dominick Ferrand by Henry James
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
... throws in something that makes you think "hmmmm . . . maybe not."
I also wrote a blurb comparing Alias Grace and The French Lieutenant's Woman over at the Books Compared thread:
http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=39856
I recently read Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood, and right from the start it strongly reminded me of The French Lieutenant's Woman , by John Fowles.
Both books are written in the 20th century, but are about the Victorian era. Both of the authors did a tremendous amount of research into daily ...
... the 60s or 70s. I also loved The Magus, though it is not universally appreciated by everyone on LT. I read both after The French Lieutenant's Woman , which, though I enjoyed it, I didn't find as compelling as the others for some reason.
Well, I think anyone who liked Alias Grace might also like The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles.
... up, literary level up, literary level up.
Currently reading: Conflicts that Changed the World, On the Road, and The French Lieutenant's Woman
#37 ekpyrotic - I read The French Lieutenant's Woman a few years ago, right after I first learned about postmodernism. I found it just fascinating. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
I'm currently taking a short break from The Virtu by Sarah Monette. I'm not 100% sure that I really ...
... stick in a noun. Don't recommend! (although only half way through)
On t'other hand, I also picked up John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman after reading his beautifully crafted The Magus; can't wait!
... looking for Victorian-era historical fiction that gets the details right, I recommend Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood and The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles--oops, scratch that second suggestion--not written by a woman. Oh well, it's still a good book.
I'd love Merrylegs from Dickens' Hard Times as a pet.
And the main character from The French Lieutenant's Woman or the time traveler from The Time Traveler's Wife as a boyfriend.
The female characters from A Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing as friends.
Oh and to hang out with ...
... Finn (and subsequently thought I wasn't a Twain fan, until I ran across Letters From the Earth). How about John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman ?
... Also Jane Eyre and Agnes Grey. If you want something with more psychological complexity to it, I highly recommend The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles. Sarah Waters' Fingersmith is a well-written, entertaining read.
... but it's often clumsy.
A Maggot is the most overtly genre of Fowles' novels, which is why I picked it. I enjoyed The French Lieutenant's Woman more, but I think the wroting in A Maggot was probably better.
Lucius Shepard has written some excellent stuff. Life During Wartime ...
... and I'm now reading John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman and enjoying it so much - damn it - I want to see the film of it again.
I certainly wouldn't think of it as a "chick flick" but, for me anyway, the film of John Fowle's novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman was definitely very romantic and the ending was ambiguous enough that it could be construed as "happy" if the viewer wished it so. Brilliant acting by Meryl Streep ...
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Date with a Dead Doctor by Toni Brill
Roustabout by Michelle Chalfoun
The Squire's Tale by Gerald Morris
The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
My favourite F 1001 book is The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles. I think the way he mixed 19th century Brit lit with the modern commentary was well done and clever. If you like 19th century literature, this is a fun twist on it.
Because I cannot bear to choose between them, I'm going to list two: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, and The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles.
... with the Wind
Rebecca
Anna Karenina
Atonement
Doctor Zhivago
Fear of Flying
Lady Chatterly's Lover
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Reader
Wuthering Heights
I have read and did own The French Lieutenant's Women .
Thanks very much, hairballsrus. You've definitely convinced me. :)
#20: The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles. I love love love this book. The story was interesting, the characters complex, and the structure fascinating. The author/narrator's commentary on the Victorian age and on ...
I love these threads! I read some great books this quarter.
In no particular order:
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
1984 by George Orwell
...
... Key - Stephen King - the best novel he's written in years, maybe the best novel he's written period.
4.5 stars
3. The French Lieutenant's Woman - after a bit of a rough acclimation period, I was blown away by the power of the story.
4 stars, the most memorable of the 4-stars for Q1
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... try and help.
I second Nickelini's recommendation of 19th century literature. I'm also reading a great novel right now--The French Lieutenant's Woman --which is written in the style of Victorian literature. The prose is both literate and beautiful.
Another writer who comes to mind is Ita ...
... The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa and am continuing to read Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. My current audiobook it The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles.
... et)
Persuasion is properly read at the Assembly Rooms at Bath; and then down at Lyme Regis. Where you should also read The French Lieutenant's Woman .
What else is the proper setting for reading which book?
And - more importantly - has anybody here actually done this sort of thing?
... years)
3. Mansfield Park
4. The Yellow Wallpaper
5. Enduring Love
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At the end of December I read The French Lieutenant's Woman , which I thought was great. It bumps off either Animal Farm or The Yellow Wallpaper.
Finished The French Lieutenant's Woman this morning and then started The Water's Lovely this afternoon. Very glad I finally read the former even though I didn't make it through The Magus. Rendell doesn't disappoint, so this next one isn't as much of a crapshoot for me.
The Madness of a Seduced Woman
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Caesar's Women
The Kindness of Women
Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women
Plus I have all the Uppity Women books by Vicki Leon.
... a few pages here and there. You need hours of quiet contemplative time for a good effort.
#116 Bookmarque - I loved The French Lieutenant's Woman -- one of my all time favorites.
#131 system13 - loved Salem's Lot -- the most chilling King ever written, IMO.
Finished Duma Key in a couple of days. ABSOLUTELY GREAT.
Will start The French Lieutenant's Woman today at lunch which is imminent. Am still working through The Diamond Age as an audio book as well.
From B&N online sale & a sale at BOMC
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
Briarpatch
Twilight at Mac's Place - both by Ross Thomas
What Was She Thinking - Zoe Heller
Deeper
The Reckoning - both by Jeff Long
The Witness at the Wedding - Simon Brett
and
The Video Houn ...
... of Possession -- not bad, just lacked emotion. I imagine if you hadn't read the book, it was even worse. And also The French Lieutenan't Woman -- I understand why they added the modern day plot line -- but it just didn't work for me; although Meryl Streep was great as usual.
... but overall, my top reads of 2007 were:
1. Mosquito, Roma Tearne
2. Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
3. The French Lieutenant's Woman , John Fowles
4. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
5. Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
I may be back to change this . . . it's so hard ...
... The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
4. The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
5. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
6. The Observations by Jane Harris
7. The Terror by Dan Simmons
8. TBA
Edit for #7, ...
... Schlink
82. Overexposed: a Granville Island Mystery, by Michael Blair
83. The Thirteen Clocks, by James Thurber
84. The French Lieutenant's Woman , by John Fowles
85. This is Your Brain on Music, by Daniel Levitin
Life happened and I didn't make my 100 goal, but I'm okay with that. I ...
... books over the past few months. In no order, I think these were my 5 favourite:
Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan
The French Lieutenant's Woman , by John Fowles (only half way through, actually, but so far it's great).
Mosquito, by Roma Tearne
The Golden Compass, by Phili ...
I'm taking a wee break from The French Lieutenant's Woman to read The Thirteen Clocks, because I just found that my daughter has it out from the library and it's due later this week. It looks interesting and short, so I should be back to FLW shortly.
#29 -- The French Lieutenant's Woman was just about my favorite book of the year; maybe one of the best I've ever read. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
... make an excellent book club read, because there is lots to discuss and debate. And it's a quick read.
Now I'm on to The French Lieutenant's Woman , by John Fowles, which promises to be yummy. I'm going to read this slowly and closely, so I won't be back to post here for a few weeks.
... now -- I supose something fabulous could come along and cause me to edit.
in order:
Middlemarch George Eliot (2)
The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles (3)
A Bend in the River V.S. Naipaul (2)
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry (4)
I am Charlotte Simmons Tom Wolfe (1)
... are equally good.
For me -- like with Cold Mountain loved both the movie and the book.
I am just about to watch The French Lieutenant's woman on DVD -- I am nervous because I loved the book and I just can't imagine they can really do it justice.
... received high praise, for me, reading the book was such an incredible experience that the film was just a pale imitation.
The French lieutenant's woman , 1981 - screenplay by Harold Pinter. Now this film was a magnificent adapation of the book. And the film is all about - wait for it! - a film ...
... kids down hill until the neighbor fell and broke his arm.
1. Love Story, Erich Segal 497 copies on LT
2. The French Lieutenant's Woman , John Fowles 1,377 copies
3. Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway 498 copies
4. The Crystal Cave, Mary Stewart 1,186 ...
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
... collection from BlackBook. Honestly, I only picked it up because Chuck Palahniuk had a brief contribution.
18. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Beautiful historical novel with some postmodernism thrown is. How could that be? you're asking. Wonderful enough you need to ...
... rates slowing to abysmal levels recently, it's been a while since I've read a good novel. The last one I really enjoyed was The French Lieutenant's Woman and I read that back in July. Gah!
Anyway, there are only two books from my mostly mediocre third quarter reading that I'd recommend:
1 ...
Some of my favorites lately:
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent
The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck
The Year Of Living Dangerously - C.J. Koch
The Remains Of The Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
Midnight Express - Billy Hayes
Prizzi's Honor - Richard Condon
Deliverance - James Dickey
Spartacus - Howard Fast
Myra Breckenridge - Gore Vidal
F ...
3rd quarter BESTS (in order):
1. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamnada Ngozi Adichie
3. Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
4. In the Fall by Jeffery Lent
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseni
... years of US politics, starting with Burr;
John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, colonial Maryland;
John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman , Victorian Britain, and A Maggot, 18th century;
George Garrett, Death of a Fox, and The Succession, Elizabethan era;
Ford Madox F ...
I finished The French Lieutenant's Woman last night. I absolutely loved it! I guess I am several decades late in discovering it -- but an instant favorite. All you Austenites and George Eliot fans, and people who have raved about Byatt's Possession MUST read it, if you haven't already.
...
I finished The Keep by Jennifer Egan. Very overrated; didn't really care for it at all.
I am currently reading The French Lieutenant's Woman which I am really enjoying so far.
I am reading The French Lieutenant's Woman and loving it so far. I also recently finished The Sound and the Fury which I struggled with and wasn't sure I liked -- but since finishing I find it haunting me.
#243 -- that is a good question? We may need to start a new thread not only to answer ...
Marley and Me by John Grogan
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Spock Enslaved by D.T. Steiner
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
The Spanish Bride by Georgette Heyer
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Nanook of the North By Julian Bilby
Lawrence of Arabia by Alistair MacLean
... or third read, once discovered.
My current 'absolutely must read all his books' is John Fowles, after reading The French Lieutenant's Women . I am going on to The Magnus ASAP. Actually, also MUST read more Angela Carter and Michael Chabon and..... so therein lies the ...
Private View: Inside Baryshnikov's American Ballet Theatre - John Fraser :-)
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton, 1582-1583 - E. G. R. Taylor
Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel - James B. Donovan ...
... Odd Women - George Gissing
13. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
14. Crown Duel - Sherwood Smith
15. The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
16. Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
17. Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
18. The Thief's Gamble - Juliet E. McKenn ...
... the name of a strong, lovely woman, i.e.,
actress Meryl Streep, who played strong women's roles in Out of Africa, The French Lieutenant's Woman , Sophie's choice, The Devil Wore Prada...
(Apparently the short form of "Mary Louise".)
Goes with Hannah and Klaus. Meryl L_______.
...
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles has some wonderfully rich descriptions of the Undercliff and the area around Lyme Regis. While I know it is not a British setting and takes us off at something of a tangent, the same author's The Magus has beautifully captured in words the ...
Actually, there are four John Fowles books in there: The Collector, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman , and A Maggot.
Anything by John Fowles, eg The French Lieutenant's Woman .
... Odd Women - George Gissing
13. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
14. Crown Duel - Sherwood Smith
15. The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
16. Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
17. Hogfather- Terry Pratchett
18. The Thief's Gamble - Juliet E. McKenna ...
I just finished The French Lieutenant's Woman earlier today and find it lingering in my mind, as the ending has left me wanting something more. It's one of those books that is going to take some time for me to wander through and sort out, I can tell that for sure.
Now I am enjoying my coming ...
... and worth working through all the medieval religious discussion, my least favorite part.
I am now going to read The French Lieutenant's Woman for my literature class, and then perhaps something by Terry Pratchett - I've got Hogfather with me at the moment, but my friend has ...
RE: The Magus
I also wanted to like this book, I really did. The French Luitenant's Woman is a favorite of mine, so I had high hopes for a John Fowles book that made the Modern Library's Top 100 list. But, dang! Not for me. The short review I posted on LT sums up my feelings:
I could ...
... my friend has given to me. She thinks I'll like it, I guess I'll find out! At the same time, I'm going to start reading The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles for my literature class. I'm really looking forward to that one.
... .
I am very rarely shocked by what I read. Disappointed: often. Disheartened: occasionally. Fowles shocked me in the The French Lieutenant's Woman , (to the point where I let out a yelp during a flight); and Stout shocked with his dirty neck remark. My immediate reaction was “low ...
I've just thought of another one I gave up on: The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles. I'd bought it because it had had such good reviews in Time Magazine (dumb, I know, but I was only fourteen then).
... older (maybe 9 or 10), my favorite book was The Robe.
In middle and high school, I read a lot of my mom's books: The French Lieutenant's Woman , Forever Amber, Dear and Glorious Physician, and Irving Stone's The agony and the ecstasy a novel of Michelangelo. I remember ...
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles. I had to read it several years ago for a discussion group. The leader of the discussion explained that there were really two endings to the book. I just didn't get it!
lizzier, Ooh, French Lieutenant's Woman . I haven't thought about that novel in a while. I it read a million years ago in college; maybe I'll reread that for my winter break. There are some resonances there, aren't there?
I think Atonement is clearly fiction, but it's certainly striving for ...
* booklifeozarks - In some ways this book connected with French Lieutenant's woman which you've probably read. Part of the fascination of the book, for me, is thinking where the story starts, which maybe at the beginning because it is a "story", and where it ends. Did you think it was the end or ...
... is a marvel of human invention and integration of important measurable and non-measurable concepts.
John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman ; The Magus (Original edition and the edition revised about 20 years later). It is interesting that the main protagonists in Zorba and Magus ...
... I read all of them.
At A level, I recall: Oedipus The King, The Heart of the Matter, The Taming of the Shrew, The French Lieutenant's Woman , Great Expectations, collected poems of Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'urbervilles, and The Winter's Tale.
Off the top of my head...
French Lieutenant's Woman Victorian London and the recent past (if I remember correctly)
Crimson Petal and the White Victorian London
Dress Lodger also Victorian London
Spell of Winter a modern gothic...and Orange Prize winner
Secret River fabulous ...
I know what you mean gforce. Even the cover of The French Lieutenant's Woman bothers me, because of that photo. But there are some exceptions, like the cover of Sarah Canary (the user-provided one), which I love for some reason.
I don't believe in knowing how a story is going to end. I did not like when I was reading The French Lieutenant's Woman and John Fowles started describing his process in the book. I stopped reading the book then and there, because I think in fiction there is no place for that. I'd already ...
dhalgren, I agree about Fowles' works. I really enjoyed The Magus and French Lieutenant's Woman , but wound up disappointed by A Maggot. It's been a few years and perhaps I should give it another try, but I remember being enthralled at the beginning and just feeling cheated by the ending. I' ...
... alternately awed and bored by and would recommend only to those who have already read and enjoyed Fowles' The Magus and French Lieutenant's Woman , A Maggot being the least accessible of the three. Another work of the historical-slipstream variety that I enjoyed and that should be better ...
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