Okay, but I'm sure plenty of non-Americans have enjoyed it. It is a beautifully written work.
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Perhaps it was just me being too young when I read it.
It was required reading during my last year (Year 12) at high school short on the heals of 'Great Expectations'. What I saw was two social critical novels. One from the 19th century and the other from the 20th century. I ended up being required to write a paper on that theme after making the comparison to our teacher.
Quite frankly, I thought then that Dickens did the better job.
I just finished my son's first book - Culled - check it out on Amazon kindle. (if you'd like) Of course I think it is brilliant.
Donna Tartt: The Secret History. Wonderful writing. A modern classic.
Just finished The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung and Wait for Signs by Craig Johnson.
Billy Budd by Herman Melville. As great as stories are, the flowery writing-style by many 19th-century American novelists hurts my brain. I have to agree with Mark Twain on that score.
Peeps At People by John Kendrick Bangs (1899 Pub. Harper & Brothers New York & London). The (fictional) adventures with real people, of Miss Anne Warrington Witherup a very determined American lady journalist.
Rather funny.
Now turning my attention to Steven Hull's Mabie Todd book - which is as I expected excellent.
Cob
Just started The Many Lives of Jan Six, about the Amsterdam art family. The first Jan Six was a good friend of Rembrandt, who painted two portraits of him.
Not yet readily available in the US. As a lover of Amsterdam, I gladly paid to have it mailed from the Netherlands.
Dr. Sleep by Stephen King
Agota Kristof: "Hier"
...I am deeply impressed and just ordered another book of her: "le grand cahier"
C.
*A Man from Corpus Christi (or the True Adventures of Two Bird Hunters and a Dog in Texan Bogs)* by Dr. A.C. Peirce. Interesting and amusing account by a New England physician (and amateur ornithologist) who hired one John Marion Priour to take him bird hunting in south Texas in 1887. Another reprint, with additional historical/biographical information, from Copano Bay Press.
The Secret Commonwealth, the second installment in Philip Pulman's Book of Dust trilogy.
All the Devils, the last of Barry Eisler’s “Livia Lone” trilogy.
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.
The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor.
Matt Bondurant: The Wettest County In The World.