Year: 2002

Earlier I was shocked by how few of the 100 best novels I had read. Now I find it is even worse for the 100 best nonfiction. I have only read 6 (and some of tho...

This weeks book of the week is MArtin Amis’ study of Bolshevism, Stalinism and fellow travelers in the West – Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twent...

This weeks book of the week is MArtin Amis’ study of Bolshevism, Stalinism and fellow travelers in the West – Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twent...

As readers of Addicted to Books will know, I recently became aware that I had read very few of the “100 greatest novels.” Being restless and given t...

Continuing my readings in “Great Novels” I next picked up Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell To Arms. I had previously read Hemingway’s The O...

As I noted below, I have not read a high percentage of the “100 Greatest Novels.” Having stumbled on a bunch of Everyman’s Library editions of...