Wisconsin08 commented on…
Dr. Peter Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
From 5 to 6% — 15 weeks ago
I thought I would rank the books I read from most to least favorite of the last 10 I read:
1. Summer by Edith Wharton: very good, pre-automobile New England. Reads like a fantasy novel but with groups of humans, not fantasy races. Great author. 2. Heart of Darkness: like an impressionist painting creating partial images with good lighting and texture and it has meanings on multiple levels. 3. Death of Ivan Ilych 4. Ethan Fromme by Edith Wharton again 5. Poisonwood Bible: good follow up to Conrad’s Heart of Darkness because it also takes place in the Congo in the 1960’s to 1980’s 6. The Kreutzer Sonata: also by Tolstoy like Ivan.. is. 7. The Fox: good 8. Invisible Man, HG Wells’ 9. The Last September: written with great art and subtlety and 10. Foe by Coetzee which was the only one I felt not worth consuming which is too bad because he is a very great author. The book fizzled for me but I almost recommended it too. Now I’m going to read some longer works like Anna Karenina. See yah!

Wisconsin08
Wausau