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Group Reads - Literature : The next book; Nominations open for January - March 2010		77	nannybebette, Ontem 4:24pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Here we go again! RedBowlingBallRuth's reading challenge '09!		245	RedBowlingBallRuth, Ontem 12:01pm
Alphabet Challenges : LadyViolet's Alphabetti Spaghetti		76	elliepotten, Ontem 7:21am
999 Challenge : Prop2gether's for 2009		58	judylou, Ontem 2:42am
Geeks who love the Classics : What classic are you reading now?		232	rolandperkins, Sexta-feira 10:42pm
Book talk : World's best Reading- Reader's Digest		363	marfalous_star, Sexta-feira 9:48pm
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50 Book Challenge : Lilisin in 2009		55	lilisin, Sexta-feira 3:32pm
What Are You Reading Now? : BBC Meme: How Many of These 100 Books Have YOU Read?		228	Octane, Sexta-feira 12:57pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : jmaloney17's reads in 2009		162	jmaloney17, Sexta-feira 11:39am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : avatiakh reads some books in 2009 - Part 2		332	alcottacre, Sexta-feira 4:36am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : petermc loves nonfiction - Part III		268	petermc, Quinta-feira 7:14pm
50 Book Challenge : spacepotatoes 50 Books for 2009		213	bonniebooks, Domingo 3:53pm
Lectures des francophones : Cecilturtle - lectures de 2009		72	Cecilturtle, Domingo 2:50pm
Geeks who love the Classics : What are your favorite classics?		64	Mr.Durick, Dezembro 12
999 Challenge : Sir Furboy's		24	sirfurboy, Dezembro 12
999 Challenge : avatiakh's 999 challenge		148	SqueakyChu, Dezembro 8
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Liz K's 75 books for 2009		20	busy91, Dezembro 7
1001 Books to read before you die : Paruline's attempt		40	paruline, Dezembro 7
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : ateolf 2009		32	ateolf, Dezembro 5
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999 Challenge : Sarams's challenge		96	cmbohn, Dezembro 3
Group Reads - Literature : The next book; Nominations open for Autumn/Spring of 2009		106	nannybebette, Dezembro 2
What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home - November 2009		151	cdyankeefan, Dezembro 2
1001 Books to read before you die : Blondierocket's 1001 Progress		14	blondierocket, Dezembro 1
Girlybooks : Books about women by men?		69	theaelizabet, Dezembro 1
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Prop2gether's Reading, Act III		72	VioletBramble, Novembro 30
Awful Lit. : Awful Classics?		558	chapterofaccidents, Novembro 27
1001 Books to read before you die : maryjanemanolos progress		123	maryjanemanolos, Novembro 23
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Your personal top 10 all time favorites list(s)		296	tomcatMurr, Novembro 22
1001 Books to read before you die : How many have you read?		265	ekebivibeke, Novembro 15
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Thinking aloud thread for 2010		318	semckibbin, Novembro 15
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Listmania I -- Ten Novels Likeliest to Survive the Test of Time, Not Written Originally in English		42	Macumbeira, Novembro 9
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 24, 2009?		220	bibleeohfile, Novembro 9
1001 Books to read before you die : What Book of this Series Changed You Personally		16	perlle, Novembro 9
The Green Dragon : Quiz - What Kind of Reader Are You?		27	BritAnnia, Novembro 7
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 31, 2009?		201	teelgee, Novembro 7
Scottish LibraryThingers : Vernacular writing		29	bcamp0404, Novembro 2
Canadian Bookworms : What are we reading in October?		55	ajsomerset, Outubro 31
50 Book Challenge : kambrogi in 2009		189	kambrogi, Outubro 31
1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading from the 1001 list in OCTOBER 2009?		85	soffitta1, Outubro 30
1001 Books to read before you die : Sara's 1001, with Opinions		23	Sarasamsara, Outubro 25
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 17, 2009?		184	PaperbackPirate, Outubro 24
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : The Tortoise's Reading List 2009 No.3		54	alcottacre, Outubro 24
TBR Challenge : Welachild 2009 TBR List		10	Welachild, Outubro 24
Alphabet Challenges : nannybebette's ABCs		50	elliepotten, Outubro 23
Italians - Italiani : top 5		81	ousia, Outubro 23
Awful Lit. : Books to be struck from HS reading lists!		263	dukeallen, Outubro 22
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 10, 2009?		182	teelgee, Outubro 17
999 Challenge : ReneeMarie's 999		102	bruce_krafft, Outubro 14
Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond		38	SilverTome, Outubro 11
1010 Category Challenge : Rosemeria's 1010 Challenge		14	rosemeria, Outubro 8
Book talk : Looking for male authors writing romantic content.		30	omboy, Outubro 6
Book talk : Do women's fiction appeal to male readers?		48	ninjapenguin, Outubro 4
999 Challenge : Heidi's		32	hjjugovic, Outubro 3
1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading, September 2009		83	jdaniel3760, Outubro 1
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Questions about Translations		5	booksontrial, Setembro 24
999 Challenge : shootingstarr7's		55	shootingstarr7, Setembro 21
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of September 12, 2009?		239	teelgee, Setembro 20
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : KIWIDOC # 3 for 2009		268	kiwidoc, Setembro 6
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : MusicMom41's 2009 Reads 2nd Quarter		356	Cauterize, Setembro 4
What Are You Reading Now? : Book Brought Home - August 2009		165	Bridget770, Setembro 1
1001 Books to read before you die : What 1001 Book are You Reading: August 2009		86	klobrien2, Agosto 31
999 Challenge : What are you reading, August 2009?		63	AnnieMod, Agosto 31
The Chapel of the Abyss : The Scapigliatura movement		21	aluvalibri, Agosto 27
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : 75 reads in 09		87	alcottacre, Agosto 10
Book talk : Books that everyone loves and you hate		501	bookladykm, Agosto 8
What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of July 25, 2009?		226	Arten60, Agosto 8
What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of July 18, 2009?		274	morriss003, Julho 31
Literary Snobs : Audiobooks		41	ajsomerset, Julho 30
French literature, 19th & 20th century : Favourite Works/Authors?		23	Cecilturtle, Julho 28
The Green Dragon : Drop a word, add a word V		602	hfglen, Julho 27
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Books you haven't finished		17	clfisha, Julho 21
1001 Books to read before you die : belva's list		19	judylou, Julho 6
Club Read 2009 : Polutropos's Polyphony		204	polutropos, Junho 29
Club Read 2009 : In which urania starts for Mt. TBR but hits the Russian detour (2009)		234	urania1, Junho 28
1001 Books to read before you die : Arubabookwoman's 1001 Quest-1-36		15	arubabookwoman, Junho 28
Librarians who LibraryThing : Literary Classics & Popular Fiction Assistance		36	goydaeh, Junho 27
999 Challenge : merry10's 999 challenge		51	merry10, Junho 23
Book talk : Are Likeable Characters Important to a Good Novel?		39	Tid, Junho 3
Girlybooks : What Women's Books Are You Reading - May 2009 ?		106	lindsacl, Junho 3
Group Reads - Literature : The next book after 'Pale Fire' and 'The Forsyte Saga'		94	kjellika, Junho 3
Book talk : Who thinks that Edward Cullen is HOT AND SEXY?		295	Thresher, Maio 31
Audiobooks : What Are You Listening to Now? Part 4		273	alans, Maio 19
Girlybooks : The Books by Women that Every Woman Should Read and Why		37	ElizabethPotter, Maio 4
1001 Books to read before you die : What books are you most and least looking forward to reading on the list?		30	BekkaJo, Maio 2
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : 100 Favorites		90	blackdogbooks, Abril 22
Books I Hated : Most Dreadful Book Ever?		26	Sandydog1, Abril 18
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Tiffin's 75 for 2009		230	tiffin, Abril 5
50 Book Challenge : Billiejean tries for 50 in 2008		49	billiejean, Abril 2
Book talk : Book club shortlist advice		3	lilithcat, Março 31
1001 Books to read before you die : Favourite 1001 Book of 2008		37	elephantango, Março 10
Hogwarts Express : More than 6?		98	compskibook, Março 5
Book talk : can you name main characters in books who commited suicide?		50	MissTeacher, Março 2
Club Read 2009 : If everybody's reading it, can it be that good?		103	Nickelini, Março 1
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Finished Lady Chatterley's Lover, and about halfway through Madame Bovary. Hopefully it'll be done before Christmas!

I'll fourth (or is it fifth?) Madame Bovary and nominate The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann because I have a lovely Franklin Library edition that is begging to be read.

I'll also second Madame Bovary and I'll also second The Sound and the Fury (so I'm echoing #8's nominees). I'll nominate The Pickwick Papers and The Gold Bug Variations

Seconding Madame Bovary.

Seconding Madame Bovary and Growth of the Soil (that sounds very interesting!)

I'll stick with my nominations from last time: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner I'm still keen on reading either/both of them! And I'll have to second 2666, and Shirley. And maybe some more, once some more nominations have come in!

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert is one of the classics I should have read, so I added it to my 999 Challenge list (plus it's on the 1001 Must Read list). After several false starts with the foreword bogging me down, I finished the novel. My copy included the transcripts of the statements of the ...

... listed above, I need to add as completed: Greenwich Killing Time by Kinky Friedman Moonheart by Charles de Lint Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor My thoughts... The Wood Wife was Terri Windling at her best, combining myth, ...

#180 Kerry - I'm glad you're enjoying The Art of Travel, and while I fully intend to read Madame Bovary it won't be in the immediate future. Thank you for the heads-up on the Steve Braunias book. It goes directly to the wishlist. You know, I've birded extensively in Australia, Japan and Engla ...

... back and look forward to your review. I'm enjoying The Art of Travel and can now see why you were thinking about reading Madame Bovary. #164 - yes, 5. Yasmin, my oldest daughter now lives in London, so only 4 at home. I have had a year off from my voluntary & part time work so have read ...

... change a person is a tall order. Even having said that I would be tempted to put one book in that category. When I read Madame Bovary I was confronted with a personality type I always struggle to understand. The main character was so different than any character I had read about before--b ...

On Friday I picked up Black Bird volumes 1 and 2 from the local indie bookseller and on Saturday I received Madame Bovary and Beautiful Monster from BookMooch.

Dedicated reader. And I left question #6 blank, because out of all those books, I had only ever read Madame Bovary, The Great Gatsby, and some of Huck Finn.

... by Murasaki Shikibu Don Quixote by Cervantes The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette Germinal by Zola or Madame Bovary by Flaubert -- or both The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky War and Peace by Tolstoy Kristin Lavransdatter by Undset Steppenwolf by Hesse The Tin ...

... goodness Murnighan said that I do not need to read the rest of it. One other book I was interested in reading about was Madame Bovary. I hated that book. Well, Murnighan hates it too. I am so glad he agrees with me. This is not the greatest book in the world, but I enjoyed reading it to ...

I finally finished Madame Bovary last week, and Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder last night. I actually preferred the novella at the back, a little festive heart-warmer about a young runaway who turns up at The Cookie Jar just before Christmas... So now I'm in the middle of three books. My ...

... so I'm heading over to your reviews prontissimo. Hopefully my ABCs might speed up a bit now I've finished Madame Bovary, especially since I'll be reading some easier stuff alongside the group read of People of the Book... you're racing ahead with yours! ETA: Reviews read - ...

43) Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke I was reading this as light relief from Madame Bovary during moments of sleepiness, headachiness, and general weariness. It was like the book version of 'Pushing Daisies', which was rather nice. No dead people coming back to life, but where ...

Hi Ellie, thanks for your review of Madame Bovary. I was 17 when I read it (I was doing something similar to HeathMochaFrost!) and didn't enjoy it very much. You make me feel much better about disliking Emma Bovary, although you clearly got much more out of the book. I think I should try it again ...

Hey ellie! Just wanted to chime in with appreciation for your comments on Madame Bovary. I read it SO LONG AGO -- I was about 16 and new to "the classics" and more serious reading. I wanted to read literature and "better myself," but didn't have much guidance or any plan, I just read whatever I ...

So, given the heavy themes in Madame Bovary and the impending start of the group read of People of the Book, I'm going quick and fluffy (literally) this time with Marley and Me. Within three pages I'd giggled aloud and welled up with tears, so I figure it'll be a good one. Plus I used to ...

Since you say Spoiler Alert I won't read the review right now because Madame Bovary is a book I want to read. I hope you enjoyed it.

THE 'F' READ Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert * SPOILER ALERT * I thought I'd better put that in since every reflection I have seems to mention key plot points. Well, first let me say that I am 95% sure that I will never read this novel again. That is not to say ...

42) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert * SPOILER ALERT * I thought I'd better put that in since every reflection I have seems to mention key plot points. Well, first let me say that I am 95% sure that I will never read this novel again. That is not to say that I'm not glad I read ...

I'm still making my way slowly through Madame Bovary which, thanks to an unfortunate week full of headaches and 'I'm getting a cold' fluffy-headedness, has kinda slipped onto the back burner a bit. Equally enjoyable now it's taken off a bit is Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, which has definitely ...

191. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert- D.H. Lawrence wishes he was that cool. But he's not. (read: this book is great).

... not consist of ten, is liable to change any time, is idiosyncratic, of books that affected my life. Not in any order: Madame Bovary Anna Karenina The Idiot Light in August Good Soldier Svejk Pride and Prejudice Passage to India Iliad, Odyssey Huckleberry Finn Goo ...

... only Camus not on the list. Le sigh. At least it was short, and I like Camus so it wasn't a total waste of time. Starting Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.

... naughtily double-reading on my 'F' read for my Alphabet Challenge. I just couldn't choose and now I'm thoroughly enjoying Madame Bovary, with Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder on the side... If only they didn't use so many names in Fluke's little book I might be enjoying it more. 'These ...

... that doesn't matter - it just means one more TBR book down, right?! I'm reading two of my 'F' shortlist now - Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Fluke's Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, because I couldn't choose between them. I'm reading alternate chapters behind the counter, since they're so ...

... recommendations; Cryptonomicon because I'm half-way through and it's not that difficult to get back into the plot; Madame Bovary because I'm trying to complete another of my 999 Challenge sections; and Fear on Trial for a different section of my 999 Challenge. Also trying to deal ...

... Little Children de Tom Perrotta Une déception : la prémisse était prometteuse - un départ sur le grand classique Madame Bovary, mais très vite, le roman s'étiole, les personnages, bien que bien développés, s'embourbent dans leur monde. Ce serait encore passable s'il n'y avait pas ...

At the moment I've read a few pages each of Madame Bovary and Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, and might just end up reading them both... The next shortlist: The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid by Pat F. Garrett Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylo ...

I've read a few pages of Flaubert's Madame Bovary AND Joanne Fluke's Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder and I haven't decide between them yet, so I may be back to two books on the go and a double whammy for 'F' in my Alphabet Challenge... In the meantime, here are my next round of contenders:

... last night, in a flood of tears every bit as impressive as Tita's in the novel... Now I'm trying to choose between Madame Bovary and Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder. I read a bit of both over breakfast this morning and I still can't decide, so I might have to take them BOTH on for the ...

... September wrap-up: 52) Crime and Punishment part 1 by Fjodor Michajlovic 53) Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 54) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 55) Å lese litteratur (To Read Literature) by Hans H. Skei 56) The Host by Stpehenie Meyer 57) Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood 58) ...

... who doesn't like it can cast themselves into the Cracks of Doom 6. The Illuminatus! Trilogy 7. Riddley Walker 8. Madame Bovary 9. Monsignor Quixote 10. The Baron in the Trees Ten already? Shit.

... other it has vague pretensions of being intellectual but just doesn't pull it off. There are heavy-handed allusions to Madame Bovary but it never quite makes it the parallel (perhaps later?) - presumably because it assumes that the readers probably haven't read it and it would be too ...

... width="200" height="246" /> 3) French literary works * Madame Bovery by Gustave Flaubert * Germinal by Emile Zola * The Red and the Black by Stendhal * The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhals * The Women's War by Alex ...

... call? (I am of course just happy to be here, and happy with any process at all.) That said, although I LOVE LOVE LOVE Madame Bovary, I have never read Temptation of Saint Anthony and the Goethe Faust comaprison sounds fantastic. (M., have I told you recently you are great? LOL) I ...

... is willing". Fun, fun, fun. And I will, Murr-style, jump up and down in excitement, maybe even faint if we do Madame Bovary.

... obsessed with Flaubert and the minutiae of his life only. Pros: Read Arthur and George for Julien Barnes and Madame Bovary for Gustave Flaubert,. My Rating: anna_in_pdx in Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond (Set 26, 2009, 6:25pm)

... Summer" when I read War and Peace, Fathers and Sons, The Brothers Karamazov and short stories by Gogol, as well as Madame Bovary and Lorna Doone, all off of my parents' bookshelves (they are English majors) 20: Amelia Peabody mysteries by Elizabeth Peters, lots of Spanish and F ...

... of a few books of my favorite books that are romance or focused on women's issues (whatever that means): Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Lolita... what do you know, all written by men.

... Wilkie Collins, and we're in classics book group, so we voluntarily read different narrative styles. I wasn't a big fan of Madame Bovary, which Stendhal's book reminds me of, but I didn't have as strong a reaction to it. And Anne liked Madame Bovary more than I did, but had the same reaction ...

2: Cait86, I agree with most of what you said. :) I never read Madame Bovary, because one of the favorite writers of my youth (I can't remember the name) biased me against it. He wrote, to the effect that, Flaubert wasted too much time writing about the life of a degenerate woman. But, ...

A Troubador's Testament, by James Cowan Jack Finney's Time and Again. Anna Karenina Madame Bovary Maurice, by E.M. Forster (not to mention other of his works Lots of Henry James Silk (no touchstone?), by Alessandro Baricco and I could go on and on.

... the best - I want footnotes and a well-researched introduction, especially if I am reading a classic. My copy of Madame Bovary is a random publisher, and it is awful - stilted prose, awkward sentence structuring, no footnotes, etc. I just cannot read it, no matter how many times I ...

... es) 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (I have read this several times 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Con ...

... the debate begin. I will also throw out there for consideration two Important Pieces of Literature that I've not read: Madame Bovary and Lolita.

I'd like to third Madame Bovary and nominate the Magic Mountain

... Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett, and the shortlist for 'F' will be: White Oleander by Janet Fitch Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Moonraker by Ian Fleming Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

OK, onwards and upwards! The 'F' Shortlist White Oleander by Janet Fitch Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Moonraker by Ian Fleming Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

I'll second The Octopus, The Sound and the Fury, and Madame Bovary.

I second Madame Bovary!

I would like to nominate: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner For the reasons that I've never read anything by either Flaubert or Faulkner. And I'll second The Good Earth - my parents had a copy on their shelves when I was a kid, and the name ...

... classwork has left Beowulf, All My Sons, and The Rise of Silas Lapham on my plate -- but I'm slowly getting through Madame Bovary when my schedule allows. I'm fast becoming a Flaubert fan.

... of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (post 30) 41) Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (post 57) 42) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (post 69) 43) Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke (post 78) 44) What It Feels Like, edited by A.J. Jacobs (post 79) 45) Marl ...

... Baskervilles (post 20) E - Laura Esquivel - Like Water for Chocolate (post 25) F - Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (post 34) G - John Grogan - Marley and Me (post 42) H - Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (post 49) I ...

54) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert When Emma Rouault marries the good, but rather boring, doctor Charles Bovary, and becomes Madame Bovary, she believes her life is destined for the "happy ever after"-ending she's always dreamed of. Quickly, however, reality dawns on her and she realises ...

I have just started reading Madame Bovary. I think that I tried it years ago and found it dull. This time, however, it seems quite interesting.

#112/113 Seconded/Thirded for Madame Bovary - depressing, but a great read... #114 Love the idea of the Heathrow airport thingy - I've a mate who's a pilot based there - will have to get him to give updates!

I do recommend Madame Bovary though the heroine is quite exasperating it is still a wonderful portrait of the times. kiwidoc gave it a rave review on her thread back in June or July. I've seen an Alain de Botton documentary, I think it was Status Anxiety. I started his The Consolations of Ph ...

#104 - Have been somewhat inspired to read Madame Bovary, after reading of Flaubert in Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel. Should finish Botton's book tonight - my second by him, and every bit as brilliant as his first non-fiction work, How Proust Can Change Your Life, which I read earlier ...

#119 Madame Bovary was almost a joke when I was at Uni - whenever I signed up for a new literature class, it was sure to show up on the syllabus! It was my personal nemesis! :) I'd say for romantic classic, go for Pride and Prejudice even though it plays with the norms of the time - ...

... with A Passage to India at high school and I really disliked that book. #116 A quick read of the wikipedia entry on Madame Bovary shows that Emma acted out of character for her times and social class at almost every turn and the author's motive for this was in writing a realist novel ...

177) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857) Classics, 999 challenge While I enjoyed reading this classic, I did not warm to any of the characters, which is the author's intention I expect. It does accurately portray life in provincial France at the time. Beautiful Emma, married to a young ...

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857) Classics While I enjoyed reading this classic, I did not warm to any of the characters, which is the author's intention I expect. It does accurately portray life in provincial France at the time. Beautiful Emma, married to a young doctor of little ...

... out in the desert on a 3 week training - I just had to laugh and this was probably the best of all. Now I'm back to Madame Bovary and The Line of Beauty.

... Jour d'un condamné Guy de Maupassant : Une Vie and Pierre et Jean Emile Zola : Thérèse Raquin Flaubert : Madame Bovary

Just finished Madame Bovary for my book group -- again, another smelly library edition that I ended up returning and getting a different copy somewhere else. Now I can get back to Dangerous Liaisons.

... Jour d'un condamné Guy de Maupassant : Une Vie and Pierre et Jean Emile Zola : Thérèse Raquin Flaubert : Madame Bovary A fun purchase of mostly classics and definitely authors I've read before and very much like. It'll be nice to get to these although I will still have to ...

I'm currently reading the classic Madame Bovary and also The Line of Beauty which won the Booker Prize in 2004. As well I'm slowly getting through the nonfiction Tel Aviv.

... Life - Louise Hay 23. Go Ask Alice - Anonymous - Beatrice Sparks 24. Biblical Mysteries - Lonely Soul April 25. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 26. Turbulent Souls - Stephen J. Dubner 27. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel - Thomas Monteleone 28. The Glimpses of the M ...

I'm reading Huckleberry Finn and after that plan to start Madame Bovary. I'm also going to have Dark Alchemy: magical tales from masters of modern fantasy on the go.

... Liaisons, How to Read Novels Like a Professor and ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life. I have to read Madame Bovary for my book group, I Am a Cat for an online group, and I'm trying to get folks in this group to do a group read for Possession. I have over 45 books ...

Madame Bovary

I'm still reading Madame Bovary, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, One Piece and just picked up The Snow Goose. I dropped Pride and Prejudice.

... e Wuthering Heights The Tenant of Wildfell Hall The Temptation of Saint Anthony The Yellow Wallpaper Walden Madame Bovary The Woman in White Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Crime and Punishment Journey to the Center of the Earth Little Women Treasure Island Hu ...

2. Classics i. The Metamorphasis - Franz Kafka ii. Madam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert iii. The Story of the Treasure Seekers - E. Nesbit iv. Siddharta - Hermann Hesse v. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Scott Fitzgerald vi. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand vii. The Hobbit - J R R ...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. The latter is better so far. Also One Piece by Eiichiro Oda - my favorite shounen. Everyone should read this series.

Madame Bovary. I try every few months to read it, and fail. Every time I get a bit farther into the story, so I guess I will finish it eventually, but it may take several years. I don't know why I am trying so hard to finish it - just pure stubbornness, I guess. :)

... of the Day Love in the Time of Cholera Slaughterhouse-five The Magus A Farewell to Arms A Passage to India Madame Bovary Vanity Fair Jane Eyre Oliver Twist Emma Mansfield Park Those are all the ones that I own at the moment, and haven't read, but I would ...

#140 Madam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert This was a surprisingly good read. I should have known this, of course, seeing as it is an acknowledged classic, but I was afraid it was going to be a classic romance - a book with more feminine appeal. As it turned out it was a fairly biting criticism of ...

Madame Bovary is on my 999 challenge list and your review encourages me to read it fairly soon. I just got a copy of The Lost City of Z after reading other positive reviews of it. Have you read Rachel King's novel The Sound of Butterflies, it won the Montana Best first book award in 2007? I ...

I may need to re-read Madame Bovary. I read it for a college world lit class and liked it, but I am oh so older & wiser now ...

I reread Madame Bovary a few years ago, and was surprised at how much more I had enjoyed it than when I first read it as a teenager. I also started a biography of Flaubert by Frederick Brown that was very interesting but, alas, I never finished it; perhaps this will inspire me to get back to ...

... was more of a personal take on the sentimental content that dragging it down for me. It is not my usual fare. ....and Madame Bovary is so wonderful, so seamlessly perfect in construct and observation, that I am calculating how long to wait before I can reasonably return for a re-read. I ...

87.Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert There is not much to say about this classic French novel, that you cannot read in literary reviews. I ...

The Lord of the Rings Madame Bovary The Mill on the Floss Les Miserables Moll Flanders Mrs Dalloway Native Son Of Mice and Men The Old Man and the Sea Out of Africa

... so a bunch of books were 50% off. I got some REALLY good deals so I'm a very happy book worm today :) Here's the haul: Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky The War of the Roses, Warren Adler At the ...

... Dog Years by Günter Grass Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard Rosencrantz & Guildentern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

... Dog Years by Günter Grass Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard Rosencrantz & Guildentern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

... Dog Years by Günter Grass Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard Rosencrantz & Guildentern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

... suggested by more than one member: Doctor Zhivago (6) The Master and Margarita (5) The Woman in White (4) Madame Bovary (4) Buddenbrooks (3) The Idiot (3) Tristram Shandy (3) Don Quixote (3) Possession (3) The Brothers Karamazov (2) Martin Chuzzlewit (2) ...

... written by a woman, I marvel at the contemplative male voice she has created. Sort of like Flaubert's wonderful voicing of Madame Bovary. I find myself thinking "now how do they do that?"

... Grossman I'll also "second": Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

#80 unaluna - I've read The Hours and now have read Mrs Dalloway but did not do it justice - see post #59. I did start Madame Bovary a couple of years ago but didn't get far before I had to take it back to the library, then got my own copy and haven't read it, so will be reading it over the ...

Madame Bovary is one classic I actually have read, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope you like it when you get to it. Mrs. Dalloway is another of my favourites. Out of curiousity, have you read The Hours? Also, Lonely Werewolf Girl is great and wonderful too! Martin Millar is one of my ...

... Cities by Italo Calvino Kim by Rudyard Kipling And I'll second: The Master and Margherita by Mikhail Bulgakov Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Martin chuzzlewit by charles Dickens Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert King Lear by William Shakespeare Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

... fall of the house of Usher * 15- The pit and the pendulum * 16- The three musketeers 17- Uncle Tom's cabin 18- Madame Bovary 19- Les miserables 20- Alice's adventures in wonderland 21- Little women * 22- Through the looking glass 23- Ben-Hur 24- The adventures of Huc ...

30. Le grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier Adolesence, Romanticism, French rural life, early 20th century 31. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert French classic, Romanticism, rural life, interpersonal relationships, marriage

#4, I hated the characters of Wuthering Heights; 'loved the book. Madame Bovary, Lolita, or more accurately the character HH, are equally "bad". All of these titles get pummeled throughout the chats in LT.

... in the company of such people? I'm hoping my tolerance for stupidity will one day improve. I'd love to be able enjoy Madame Bovary for the beautiful prose.

... War and Peace? That vapid French girl at the Bolkonski estate was really hot and sexy. So was Anna Karenina. Madame Bovary, er, not so much... :)

... David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (I watched the movie) 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventur ...

Not looking forward to: Madame Bovary. From what I've heard, she's annoying, self centered, and just sleeps around a lot. I know it was daring when it was written, but I've never been a fan of novelty at the expense of...good writing, engaging characters, etc. Yeah, you may have been first to do ...

Not looking forward to: Madame Bovary. From what I've heard, she's annoying, self centered, and just sleeps around a lot. I know it was daring when it was written, but I've never been a fan of novelty at the expense of...good writing, engaging characters, etc. Yeah, you may have been first to do ...

... they did a great job and it is pretty faithful to the book. Also think it was well cast. Anna Karenina was good, as was Madame Bovary. And there are some great versions of Austen's books (and some dreadful ones). One that has always disappointed me is The Scarlet Pimpernel; for some ...

... s Outlander - Diana Gabaldon The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy Danny the Champion of the World - Roald Dahl Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Skallagrig - William Horwood Black Beauty - Anna Sewell Best 10 Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift Alice's Adventures ...

... Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint- ...

... Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint- ...

... 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 ...

... Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures ...

... 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry *87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom *89 Adventur ...

... Novel by Lisa See message 9 3. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates 4. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot 5. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 6. Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn 7. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 8. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides ...

... src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192833995.01._SX140_SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> #11 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (April). This is a reread, and I didn’t enjoy it as much as the first time. It is a book in which there is no one to love, but more ...

... tale, uplifting ending. A Fine Balance is the classic in that regard --- sooo depressing and sooo good. I am reading Madame Bovary now, a reread, and it is too depressing for me at the moment. It's definitely a mood thing, no?

... lit. My shortlist is currently; Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski, published by Persephone Books Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro and for a fourth I am torn between They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple (als ...

... Punishment now. In the past few years, I have listened to, among others, Moll Flanders, Silas Marner, Hard Times, Madame Bovery, and Moby Dick. And, yes, even the passages on cetology and the meaning of “white” were entertaining when read out loud. As the six readers of my

... could one than postulate or predict future classics? So, for example, if we consider what has made To Kill a Mockingbird, Madame Bovary, Ulysses, Silas Marner, and Great Expectations will we be able to come up with a formula?

... though I like the latter better. Anne of Green Gables, definitely. Memorable characters, especially Anne herself. Madame Bovary is interesting (and there's a good movie with Jennifer Jones!). If you decide to tackle Dickens again at some point, one of my favorites is Bleak House. ...

... just one favorite.) I really enjoyed Middlemarch, Ethan Frome, Of Mice and Men, and A Day Off. I'd give Madame Bovary honorable mention as well. See, just not good at this...

... Among the books required for reading were The Fountainhead(gah!) Henderson the Rain King, Heart of Darkness, and Madame Bovary as well as multiple plays and short stories.. there was this one terribly depressing one that I cant remember the name of but it was about a girl preparing ...

... Bovary de Philippe Doumenc Suicide? Non meurtre! Doumenc recrée à merveille les personnages et le climat de Madame Bovary. L'enquête elle-même est croustillante et vivante. Dommage qu'à la fin, Doumenc se laisse aller dans des explications sans fins sur le devenir des ...

... was wrong to say it was suicide - it was murder! The actual investigation is great:the author really captures the feel of Madame Bovary and all its characters - Flaubert even has a guest appearance! The end is a little botchy however and a bit of a disappointment. A fun read nonetheless. On ...

For those of you who loved Madame Bovary, you now get to read the sequel Contre-enquête sur la mort d'Emma Bovary by Philippe Doumenc, a delightful mystery which sets out to prove that Flaubert was wrong. Flaubert even does a cameo appearance! I highly recommend it.

I think I am supposed to read Madame Bovary although I really have no idea why.

... now planning to search the Internet for background information. Interested to read that the book influenced The Idiot and Madame Bovary (according to Wikipedia), both being books I enjoyed. Now I have 11 months for the other 74 books - oh dear!

... 80 Days by Jules Verne (DONE 3/9/09) 8. Dubliners by James Joyce (DONE 3/16/09) 9. Madame Bovary by Gustave DFlaubert (DONE 4/17/09) 2. Science Fiction 8/9 1. Just Another Judgement Day by Simon Green (DONE 03/31/09) 2. ...

Rosemeria (4), and WilfGehlen (6), Madame Bovary and The Red and the Black also immediately came to mind. Oh, such happy endings!

... Collins - Woman in White 05/01/09 2. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby 03/03/09 3. Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovery 29/03/09 4. Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace 5. Henry James - The Turn of the Screw 14/06/09 6. 7. 8. 9.

... of the hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 29. Au revoir by Mary Moody 30. Le grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier 31. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 32. Water for elephants by Sara Gruen May 33. The wolves in the walls by Neil Gaiman 34. Coraline by Neil Gaiman 35. Win ...

Emma Bovary (in Madame Bovary) edited to add a touchstone

... of the Earth 36. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 37. Notes from the Underground 38. Great Expectations 39. Madame Bovary 40. Agnes Grey 41. Jane Eyre 42. A Christmas Carol 43. Frankenstein 44. Persuasion 45. Pride and Prejudice 46. Sense and Sensibility 47. ...

... Dick, Herman Melville, 1970's 31. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe, 1970's 32. Bleak House, Charles Dickens, 2009 33. Madame Bovary, Flaubert, 1970's reread 2000 34. Adam Bede, George Eliot, 2008 35. *A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens, 1960's 36. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins, ...

... the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee East of Eden by John Steinbeck Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett Alternates: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Little ...

... – J.R.R. Tolkien 3. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 4. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 5. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 6. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway 7. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster 8. Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier 9. The ...

... of Tours – Balzac Cousin Bette – Balzac Pere Goriot – Balzac Droll Stories – Balzac Balzac – Zweig Madame Bovary – Flaubert A Very Long Engagement– Japrisot Shame – Ernaux Piano Shop on the Left Bank – Carhart A Year in the Merde – Clarke Long Ago ...

VI. Classics & NonFiction (Shame on me for not having read these yet!) *Finished 06/27/09 1. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman *Finished 02/07/09 Enlightening, but took longer than I thought it would. 2.

... ex-king of one of the smaller European countries has been spoken of in this connection. And Guinevere on Madame Bovary

Finished Madame Bovary by Flaubert last night. The part where she buys the poison and dies is very true to life. How horrible to live ...

cerievans1 in 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Books read 2009 (Dez 23, 2008, 4:11pm)

... but my plans include to read Ishq and Mushq, Austerity Britain, more Rohinton Mistry, A Mercy by Toni Morrison, Madame Bovary, more Sherlock Holmes and a couple of idiots guides to pregnancy, later in the year, after the marriage!

Prop2gether in 999 Challenge : Prop2gether's 999 Challenge for 2009 (Dez 17, 2008, 5:40pm)

List 2: Reading Around the Globe --France: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (November 2009) --Australia: Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey --Turkey: Snow by Orhan Pamuk --England: Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (June 2009) --Greece: Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernie ...

merry10 in 999 Challenge : merry10's 999 challenge (Dez 12, 2008, 6:49am)

... ckeray 4. Moby Dick, Herman Melville 5. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky 6. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky 7. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert 8. The Awakening, Kate Chopin 9. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell

Katya0133 in Aide en français : Anarchie au niveau des groupes? (Dez 10, 2008, 4:28pm)

... membres du groupe 19th Century French Lit a le livre Madame Bovary. Donc, si vous, aussi, avez ce livre, peut-être que vous y intéresseriez, aussi. Les autres membres de LT pensent que c'est une bonne idée, pour la ...

teelgee in Group Reads - Literature : Next book after Kafka and Joyce (Dez 10, 2008, 1:41am)

Madame Bovary The Leopard O Pioneers!

rosemeria in Group Reads - Literature : Next book after Kafka and Joyce (Dez 10, 2008, 1:11am)

Pere Goriot Madame Bovary The Count of Monte Cristo

shootingstarr7 in Group Reads - Literature : Next book after Kafka and Joyce (Dez 9, 2008, 8:24pm)

My three are: Madame Bovary Les Miserables The Count of Monte Cristo

lilisin in Group Reads - Literature : Next book after Kafka and Joyce (Dez 9, 2008, 5:47pm)

... my grandmother and mother have been trying to get me to read this one for years) Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (And I believe my aunt loves this one) Although I've already read them, for anyone with concerns, I do recommend: Les Miserables by V ...

hemlokgang in Group Reads - Literature : Next book after Kafka and Joyce (Dez 9, 2008, 3:29pm)

... than 24 hours ago, so I thought I would make a list of nominations: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery ...

CliffBurns in Literary Snobs : Christmas reading (besides Dickens, I mean) (Dez 9, 2008, 12:55pm)

... this recurring fantasy where I take four or five days off, plant myself on the couch and devour some big, fat classic like MADAME BOVARY, LES MISERABLES or WAR AND PEACE. But as to whether that will ever actually happen... (Sigh)

katrinasreads in Group Reads - Literature : Next book after Kafka and Joyce (Dez 7, 2008, 4:17pm)

Lots of good choices, I wouldn't mind tackling The Forsythe Saga (the first triology), Les Miserables or Madame Bovary. This will be my first group read with this group!

Killeymoon in Group Reads - Literature : Next book after Kafka and Joyce (Dez 6, 2008, 2:52am)

... great, Balzac and Dumas both appeal (and I have The Count of Monte Cristo on my bookshelf). Wasn't a big fan of Madame Bovary, though I wouldn't rule out another Flaubert. I'd take a crack at the Forsythe Saga too.

shootingstarr7 in Group Reads - Literature : Next book after Kafka and Joyce (Dez 5, 2008, 3:44pm)

I'm definitely up for something French, and would like to throw my support behind The Count of Monte Cristo, Madame Bovary, and Les Miserables, since I was hoping to read them all next year anyway.

tututhefirst in What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today?--November 2008 #2 (Dez 4, 2008, 4:12pm)

... them a box of books they had requested, hoping to clear out some of our dupes. However, I came home with The Angler, Madame Bovary, From Hardtack to Home Fries, The Omnivore's Dilemma, one I really wanted for my 999 challenge, What Einstein told his cook, The Perfectionist, Sense ...

jonesli in What Are You Reading Now? : Your BEST BOOKS of 2008 (Dez 3, 2008, 8:19pm)

... Tale Judgment in Stone Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity, and The Postman Always Rings Twice The Big Sleep Madame Bovary The Friday Night Knitting Club

teelgee in Group Reads - Literature : Next book after Kafka and Joyce (Dez 2, 2008, 3:09pm)

I'll throw Madame Bovary into the mix. Oh, someone beat me to it I see. Well then I'll second it. Also, for a contemporary French read, I'd suggest The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. Wonderful book.

rosemeria in Group Reads - Literature : Next book after Kafka and Joyce (Dez 1, 2008, 11:40pm)

I'm in the mood for French... Madame Bovary by Flaubert Pere Goriot by Balzac Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas Les Misérables by Hugo

rosemeria in Group Reads - Literature : DECEMBER 2008 Message Board (Dez 1, 2008, 9:59pm)

... My 2008 was filled with British and Russian literature... so in 2009 I think I'll venture towards French literature like Madame Bovary, Pere Goriot, Count of Monte Cristo, and Les Misérables. Please help with suggestions of more French novels to put on my Christmas list.

sarams in 999 Challenge : Sarams's challenge (Nov 27, 2008, 5:35am)

CLASSICS 1.Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (read) 2. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (read) 3. Det skvallrande hjärtat by Edgar Allan Poe (read) 4. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (read) 5. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (read) 6. The war of the worlds by H G Wells (re ...

avatiakh in 999 Challenge : avatiakh's 999 challenge (Nov 18, 2008, 10:22pm)

New Encounters - books by great writers that I should have read by now 1. Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert finished 28Aug 2. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf finished 16Mar 3. Ragtime by E L Doctorow finished 7Jul 4. Prime of Miss ...

blondierocket in 50 Book Challenge : Blondierocket's 2008 50 Book Challenge (Nov 12, 2008, 1:07pm)

105. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert I have heard a lot about this story an couldn't wait anymore to get to it. Emma Bovary is a woman who can't sit still and settle down. It's a story about adultery and emptiness in Madame Bovary's life and how despite it all her husband sticks by her ...

blondierocket in 1001 Books to read before you die : November 2008: What Book from the 1001 List are You Reading? (Nov 11, 2008, 7:22pm)

I just started Agnes Grey. Most recently I finished Madame Bovary.

blondierocket in 50 Book Challenge : Blondierocket's 2008 50 Book Challenge (Nov 10, 2008, 12:36pm)

... me like her or sympathize with her even more. Can’t wait to see what else is in store. Currently Reading: Madame Bovary Away Laughing on a Fast Camel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire The Kite Runner

shootingstarr7 in 999 Challenge : shootingstarr7's 999 Challenge (Nov 7, 2008, 11:19pm)

Classics 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

blondierocket in 50 Book Challenge : Blondierocket's 2008 50 Book Challenge (Nov 7, 2008, 1:47pm)

... hard to get bored, easy to pick up and put down, and quick to finish. Currently Reading: Flowers for Algernon Madame Bovary Away Laughing on a Fast Camel B is for Burglar

Prop2gether in 999 Challenge : Prop2gether's 999 Challenge for 2009 (Nov 4, 2008, 5:53pm)

... of God by E. L. Doctorow -- -- -- ********Reading Around the Globe (9 Nations by story or author): --France: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- *********Reading Nationally (9 states by story or author): -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ** ...

littlebear514 in 50 Book Challenge : Lisa's 50 Book Challenge (Out 22, 2008, 4:00pm)

1. Dracula by Bram Stoker 2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 4. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice 5. Sing to Me of Dreams by Kathryn Lynn Davis 6. Robin Hood by Paul Creswick 7. Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt ...

hannahj26 in 50 Book Challenge : hannahj26's 50 book challenge (Out 11, 2008, 2:50am)

... of the North by Tracie Peterson - this was alright. not really my thing but the story was interesting #18: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - Beautifully written #19: Antigone by Sophocles - short but sweet #20: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown - I was ...

mejix in Audiobooks : What Are You Listening to Now? Part 4 (Out 5, 2008, 1:46pm)

finished the worst reading of madame bovary ever. avoid the ronald pickup version at all costs. tis painfully bad. just started american pastoral by philip roth, read by ron silver. silver is perfect for roth. he was great on the plot against america and is doing great on this one too. oh ...

mejix in Audiobooks : What Are You Listening to Now? Part 4 (Out 5, 2008, 1:46pm)

finished the worst reading of madame bovary ever. avoid the ronald pickup version at all costs. tis painfully bad. just started american pastoral by philip roth, read by ron silverman. silverman is perfect for roth. he was great on the plot against america and is doing great on this one ...

richardderus in What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? SEPTEMBER, 2008, Part 2 (Set 15, 2008, 8:33pm)

... and newspaper pieces about life in turn-of-the-19th-century NYC. Flaubert by Frederick Brown--the author of Madame Bovary. Need one say more to justify the purchase of this biography? How about "hardcover remainder for $2"? Shinto Norito translated by Ann Llewellyn Evans ...

Oklahoma in What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? SEPTEMBER, 2008, Part I (Set 10, 2008, 10:01pm)

... Stockton Breakfast of Champions--Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five--Kurt Vonnegut Sirens of Titan--Kurt Vonnegut Madam Bovary--Gustave Flaubert Have His Carcase--Dorothy L. Sayers Red Dragon--Thomas Harris A Perfect Spy--John Le Carre Tis--Frank McCourt The Bowl is Alread ...

kjellika in Group Reads - Literature : Next Book Suggestions After Bleak House/Midnight's Children (Set 5, 2008, 5:34pm)

... hoping for Kristin Lavransdatter as the next group read. Ohh, I still remember the competition between.. ehhh ... Madame Bovary and The Age of Innocence. (???).

xicanti in Book talk : Your top 10 Classic Books (Ago 20, 2008, 9:02pm)

... y The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Odyssey Great Expectations The Histories Macbeth (do plays count?) Madame Bovary Moll Flanders Compiling this, I realize just how few of the classic novels I've read I'd consider good enough to be in any sort of Top X List. I need ...

TheTortoise in Book talk : Books that everyone loves and you hate (Ago 17, 2008, 4:06pm)

... others, gave up, too boring. Enjoyed Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow, dislike everything else by Lawrence. Enjoyed Madame Bovary found everything else by Flaubert unintelligble. Enjoyed Far From the Madding Crowd not keen on much else by Hardy. - TT

TheTortoise in 1001 Books to read before you die : LT1001 Favourite Reads: Lists of Ten (Ago 16, 2008, 6:07am)

... Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 5. Robinson Crusoe by DanielDefoe 6. Middlemarch by George Eliot 7. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 8. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 9. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee 10. The Leopard by Guiseppe ...

deebee1 in 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : deebee1's 2008 challenge (Ago 15, 2008, 6:08pm)

53. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - straight out i have to say that Emma is the most selfish, self-centered, delusional, manipulative, corrupt, pathetic protagonist i've ever come across. The plot is practically the template for what we know today as telenovelas, cheap entertainment and ...

flipflopgirl in Book talk : Books that everyone loves and you hate (Ago 15, 2008, 5:52pm)

Hated Great Expectations -- I had to use SparksNotes to finish it for school. I also was not impressed with Wicked. Madame Bovary dragged so much for me I stopped about halfway through, though I like Flaubert, and might try reading it in French. I've never been able to finish any LotR. I ...

asurbanipal in Book talk : Flaubert - probably my favourite novelist (Ago 10, 2008, 10:49am)

It's easy to be Flaubert's fan because he wrote so little. I've read Madame Bovary (twice), Salammbo, Sentimental Education, Three Tales, even Bouvard and Pecuchet. For me the masterpiece is Sentimental Education with its moods, its revolutionary atmosphere, its Paris and ...

Ortolan in French literature, 19th & 20th century : Favourite Works/Authors? (Ago 8, 2008, 3:21pm)

... just started De L'Amour, but the novels are pretty hard-going for me. I'm reading them in French. I of course love Madame Bovary and L'Education Sentimentale. In the 20th century, my favorite French writers are Henry de Montherlant and Georges Perec, and I want to read Proust ...

writergirl in Author Chat : Karen Harrington, author of Janeology (July 30-August 13) (Ago 6, 2008, 12:37pm)

... we do read about them, it’s usually from the point of view of the person they treat the most cruel. Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary Lexy Ransome in The Dogs of Babel The nameless bad girl in The Bad Girl Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind I wonder what that says about me ...

rebeccanyc in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 2 August 2008 (Ago 3, 2008, 3:31pm)

... I hadn't known Yates was such a big Flaubert fan when I read Revolutionary Road, but I see what you mean. I reread Madame Bovary a few years ago, and had a much different impression of it than when I read it as a teenager. I'm reading A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O'Brien ...

klarusu in BookMooching : wish lists? (Ago 2, 2008, 5:24pm)

... time I finish one that I remember you want and if it is still there, you can have first refusal. So far I can offer you Madame Bovary (it's read but in good condition) and Life, The Universe and Everything. Again, message on my profile if you're interested and I'll let you know when they'r ...

billiejean in 888 Challenge : 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Ago 1, 2008, 1:04am)

... my 1001 books category, I have read: A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell Contact by Carl Sagan Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert I am planning to read in August for this category: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Bleak House by Charles Dicken ...

billiejean in 50 Book Challenge : Billiejean tries for 50 in 2008 (Jul 27, 2008, 12:49am)

... told me to hang in there, and she was right. I liked the last third much better and found the ending interesting. 39. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. I enjoyed this book. Although I had heard in high school (long years ago) that it was boring, I did not find it to be boring at all. ...

billiejean in 888 Challenge : Billiejean's 888 (Jul 25, 2008, 2:14am)

... was right. About 2/3 of the way through, my opinion changed and I liked it all the way to the end. The second book was Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. I enjoyed this book all the way through. And to think that I thought Scarlett O'Hara was selfish! I think that I am on track, ...

Clarencex in Book talk : Books that everyone loves and you hate (Jul 24, 2008, 11:08pm)

Madame Bovary I love 19th century novels so I thought I'd give this on a try. I hated it but plowed through because this is supposed the be the best novel ever written! Boring, stupid book about boring stupid people that I could care less about. Maybe it's beautiful prose in French. But ...

aleguc in Italians - Italiani : top 5 (Jul 23, 2008, 6:38pm)

The Sun also Rises La Storia Madame Bovary Phèdre di Racine Cyrano de Bergerac

britbrit in 50 Book Challenge : britbrit 2008 books.... (Jul 17, 2008, 4:03pm)

#36 - Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)

billiejean in 1001 Books to read before you die : June 2008: Which Book from the 1001 List are You Reading? (Jul 15, 2008, 12:37am)

I am reading both Madame Bovary and Contact. Very different from each other, but I am enjoying them both. --BJ ETA: Oops! I guess I should have posted this on July!

sydamy in Group Reads - Literature : Next Book Suggestions - After The Age of Innocence (Jul 14, 2008, 2:02pm)

#148 I remember well. As I sit staring at my unread copy of Madame Bovary bought the day the polling was to end, with it in the lead that morning.

kjellika in Group Reads - Literature : Next Book Suggestions - After The Age of Innocence (Jul 14, 2008, 1:24pm)

... the poll that it seems to be a very close race between The Count of Monte Cristo and Midnight's Children. Remember Madame Bovary and The Age of Innocence? EXCITING !! /:-O

hemlokgang in Group Reads - Literature : Next Book Suggestions - After The Age of Innocence (Jul 6, 2008, 7:49am)

... a wonderful selection! Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Bleak House by Charles Dickens Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Vanity F ...

hemlokgang in Group Reads - Literature : Next Book Suggestions - After The Age of Innocence (Jul 6, 2008, 6:12am)

... titles receiving 2 or more mentions. Please let me know if there is an error: Don Quixote - 11 Bleak House - 8 Madame Bovary - 7 Midnight's Children - 5 The Tin Drum - 5 Magic Mountain - 4 Vanity Fair - 4 The Count of Monte Cristo - 4 Independent People - 4 Les Mi ...

i.should.b.reading in Group Reads - Literature : Next Book Suggestions - After The Age of Innocence (Jul 5, 2008, 12:04am)

I wouldn't mind Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Vanity Fair or The Count of Monte Cristo. I have them all sitting on my shelf just waiting for a reason to be read.

sydamy in Group Reads - Literature : Next Book Suggestions - After The Age of Innocence (Jul 4, 2008, 3:21pm)

... them and then start another "easier to read," then finish that and so on. I am with #49 kticesk8s for the next book, Madame Bovary or Count of Monte Cristo

kticesk8s in Group Reads - Literature : Next Book Suggestions - After The Age of Innocence (Jul 4, 2008, 2:03am)

Madame Bovary or Count of Monte Cristo

billiejean in 1001 Books to read before you die : July 2008, Which book from the 1001 List are You Reading? (Jul 3, 2008, 3:17am)

I am reading Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.

rosemeria in Group Reads - Literature : Next Book Suggestions - After The Age of Innocence (Jul 2, 2008, 11:37pm)

... for If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. Well so far the leaders are ... Don Quixote -- 9 Bleak House -- 6 Madame Bovary -- 4 So many great books being suggested, thanks to all the literature majors and librarians on libraryThing helping us poor technology people discover ...

rosemeria in Group Reads - Literature : Next Book Suggestions - After The Age of Innocence (Jul 2, 2008, 10:46pm)

... have had Don Quixote beside my bed for six months ... I hope, hope , hope we decide to tackle this great Spanish novel. Madame Bovary would be my second choice. Another Italian author I wish to read is Italo Calvino; I'm not sure what is considered his best book?

billiejean in 50 Book Challenge : Billiejean tries for 50 in 2008 (Jul 2, 2008, 12:51am)

... and this was no exception. This one was very different as it was a murder mystery. That is all for now. I am starting Madame Bovary next. --BJ Edited to fix typo and touchstones.

teelgee in Group Reads - Literature : Next Book Suggestions - After The Age of Innocence (Jul 1, 2008, 4:36pm)

So far I favor Independent People or Madame Bovary or one of the Italian books. I'd like to stay away from England and Russia and the US. for this round.

geneg in Group Reads - Literature : Next Book Suggestions - After The Age of Innocence (Jul 1, 2008, 9:25am)

What about Madame Bovary the presumptive winner last time until the last minute crush from The Age of Innocence. I, personally, would like to see Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls.

abbottthomas in List Five Books Parlour Game : honorifics (Jun 28, 2008, 5:53pm)

Madame Bovary Sir Isumbras at the Ford The History of Mr Polly Lady Chatterly's Lover Meet Mr Mulliner

billiejean in 888 Challenge : Billiejean's 888 (Jun 27, 2008, 12:03am)

1. 1001 Books 1. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell. 2. Contact by Carl Sagan. 3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. 4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding. 5. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. 6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

nancyewhite in What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - #2: June. 2008 (Jun 19, 2008, 10:52am)

... Christie, Typhoid Mary by Anthony Bourdain, Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk, Creation in Death by J.D. Robb, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and Dark Dance by Tanith Lee.

dreamlikecheese in Book talk : Guess the book v3.0 (Jun 15, 2008, 12:28pm)

I'm sure there's a very similar statement somewhere near the beginning of Madame Bovary when Charles first meets Emma. Anyway, don't we get another clue when someone makes a wrong guess? (In other words, I'm determined to work this one out but the first passage is giving me nothing!) :)

dreamlikecheese in Book talk : Guess the book v3.0 (Jun 15, 2008, 12:50am)

Madame Bovary?

LittleKnife in The Green Dragon : June's New (or Used) Books (Jun 9, 2008, 9:22am)

... to miss them and despite the fact I don't have space I'm going to love them. They include: Steegmuller's translation of Madame Bovary (which I've never read -blush), a copy of Three Musketeers that belonged to my grandfather & Carve her name with pride which looked intriguing.

dreamlikecheese in What Are You Reading Now? : First Line Game Chapter 8 (Jun 8, 2008, 11:32am)

Is it Madame Bovary by Flaubert? ETA: Ignore me....I'm wrong.

rosemeria in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Jun 7, 2008, 4:21am)

I voted for Madame Bovary but I am very happy with the out come and look forward to reading Age of Innocence. My library is having their quarterly book sale tomorrow morning -- perfect timing, I hope I can get a copy of both books. We only have one book store on Kauai and it is a hour and half ...

Irisheyz77 in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Jun 6, 2008, 4:43pm)

... poll closed today at noon (EST) and a total of 87 people voted. For much of the voting time the leader of the pack was Madam Bovary.....but in the final stretch Age of Innocence made a huge surge forward and took the lead. Winning with 36.8% of the vote. So the next book to start when ...

i.should.b.reading in What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - JUNE 2008 (Jun 6, 2008, 4:32pm)

Used my borders coupon to buy Rumors by Anna Godbersen and also got Madame Bovary while I was there.

socialpages in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Jun 5, 2008, 10:34pm)

Have just checked the poll. Age of Innocence and Madame Bovary are tied at 34.9% each. This is more exciting than a US presidential race. Unfortunately, I voted for Buddenbrooks. When is the cut off for voting?

geneg in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Jun 5, 2008, 5:25pm)

... open at once and just report on whatever book we are reading. Oh, wait, there are already fifty groups like that. If Madame Bovary wins, submit Age of Innocence again next time and see if you can get it accepted. Just to point out my neutrality in this fight, I voted for Buddenbrooks ...

ladygata in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Jun 5, 2008, 12:00pm)

I wouldn't mind that because I could read Age of Innocence and read the threads on Madame Bovary from time to time.

sjmccreary in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Jun 5, 2008, 11:08am)

Since Age of Innocence is short, and Madame Bovary isn't really very long, either (300+ pages, depending on the edition), and the results are getting closer each day, maybe we could do as kjellika suggests and have two threads - we could read either/or or both. There were multiple threads for ...

kjellika in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Jun 5, 2008, 6:41am)

It looks like a rather close race between Madame Bovary (36,8%) and The Age of Innocence (30,3%). We might have two threads going (cf. #12). Is 'Age of Innocence' a voluminous novel?

Fourpawz2 in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Jun 4, 2008, 1:20pm)

Hello - new person to the group here. Just voted for The Age of Innocence as I am desperately hoping Madame Bovary will not be the choice. Read it six or so years ago and was not really thrilled with it.

klarusu in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Jun 4, 2008, 3:29am)

So, is Madame Bovary claiming victory in the face of The Age of Innocence's refusal to officially conceded defeat? Maybe we should go to superdelegates?

geneg in Christianity : How do you avoid immoral books? (Jun 3, 2008, 12:01pm)

... "Group Reads". We just finished War and Peace, are in the process of reading Middlemarch, and are about to select Madame Bovary for our next read. These books are neither specifically Christian in nature, nor are they full of filth. They do examine and present cultural motifs of the ...

ladygata in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Jun 3, 2008, 11:23am)

I might have to back out of this one, because I read and didn't really like Madame Bovary. Will wait and see the results I guess.

teelgee in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Jun 3, 2008, 11:20am)

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Madame Bovary has been out front since the beginning.

Leuntje in 1001 Books to read before you die : How many have you read? (Jun 3, 2008, 10:47am)

... of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde 33. Crime and punishment - F. Dostojevski 34. Fathers and sons - Toergenjev 35. Madame Bovary - G. Flaubert 36. Uncle Tom's cabin - H. Beecher Stowe 37. Wuthering heights - E. Bronte 38. Candide - Voltaire 39. The golden ass - Lucius Apulei ...

Cariola in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 29, 2008, 4:17pm)

#119, same here with Age of Innocence, Madame Bovary and The Brothers Karamazov. I've read them, and I have way too many unread books stacked up to invest the time in a reread right now. Not sure I'm that eager to read either of the other two, so I may not be in this time. Too bad, since I ...

kjellika in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 29, 2008, 3:05pm)

... one of them now. They are moreover rather (very) voluminous novels (especially Dostoyevsky's). I guess I'll go for Madame Bovary. Or Buddenbrooks ?? :-/ Age of Innocence: I know near to nothing about this novel or its author, but I imagine it a well-known and "popular" novel in 'E ...

teelgee in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 29, 2008, 9:28am)

... please! -- no, they really are written on the back of an envelope!) The Magic Mountain The Brothers Karamazov Madame Bovary Age of Innocence Buddenbrooks These aren't in order of # of votes, I didn't want to skew the survey, so I mixed them up. Good job, everyone. What ...

jfetting in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 28, 2008, 5:29pm)

My comment is pretty much identical to #90 - I also haven't participated in this group before, and would vote for Madame Bovary or Far From the Madding Crowd. Or The Brothers Karamazov since I've been putting it off forever.

rebeccanyc in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 27, 2008, 10:22am)

... Enchantress of Florence because it's only available in hardcover and The Magic Mountain, The Brothers Karamazov, and Madame Bovary because I've reread them all in the past several years. (I also would vote for several in the 2-vote category -- The Red and the Black, Cairo Trilogy, ...

Jthierer in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 26, 2008, 12:41pm)

Put me in for Madame Bovary

teelgee in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 26, 2008, 9:59am)

Oh, I guess I'd better put in my 2 cents: Madame Bovary Far From the Madding Crowd Wives and Daughters

Irisheyz77 in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 26, 2008, 9:16am)

... the imagery of you try though. lol My votes are for the following Les Miz Wives and Daughters Brothers Karamazov Madam Bovary IMO Enchantress of Florence is just too new to be considered at this time. Perhaps its something that we can shelve until its out in paperback? Just a ...

marvas in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 26, 2008, 4:49am)

I'll vote for Magic mountain, Madame Bovary or The age of innocense.

kjellika in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 26, 2008, 2:01am)

I'll vote for Buddenbrooks or Madame Bovary.

shootingstarr7 in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 25, 2008, 11:11pm)

I'd put in my vote for either Les Miserables or Madame Bovary.

kjellika in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 25, 2008, 3:09pm)

... Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann 2. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 3. The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie 4. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

marvas in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 25, 2008, 3:16am)

Of those mentioned above I like: Madame Bovary The trial The tin drum The invisible man The adventures of Huckleberry Finn I would like to add The magic mountain by Thomas Mann I've read The enchantress of Florence and didn't like it at all, it might have put me off R ...

Sandydog1 in Reading Great Books : Great Books I have read (Maio 24, 2008, 12:12pm)

... and Civil Disobedience Fathers and Sons Moby Dick and Bartleby the Scrivener and Benito Cerino and Billy Budd Madame Bovary Crime and Punishment War and Peace and Master and Man and The Death of Ivan Ilyich Works by Emily Dickinson Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and ...

kjellika in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 23, 2008, 1:58pm)

... (Norwegian) Wuthering Heights (Eng. + Nor.) The Brothers Karamazov (Nor.) Pride and Prejudice (Eng. + Nor.) Madame Bovary (Nor.) David Copperfield (Eng.) Great Expectations (Eng. + Nor.) Bleak House (Eng.) To the Lighthouse (Nor.) Don Quixote (Nor.) Mansfield Park ...

kjellika in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 22, 2008, 6:49am)

... it with this group. I am a little confused, but I guess I'm going to vote for: either Enchantress of Florence or Madame Bovary (Norwegian edition)

teelgee in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 22, 2008, 1:06am)

... - Victor Hugo = 3 The Brothers Karamozov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky = 3 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte = 4 Madam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - 6 I may have missed some, but this is a general overview and by no means excludes others. Just wanted to get an idea of what seems ...

sydamy in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 21, 2008, 8:01pm)

... of Monte Cristo is on my list of want to reads, as is Jane Austen , or how about Frankenstein, or Dickens? Madam Bovary seems to keep popping up.

alynnk in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 21, 2008, 4:54pm)

... trudge through the harder bits. My vote for next book would go to any of the following: Tess of the D'Urbervilles Madame Bovary Les Miserables The Age of Innocence The Portrait of a Lady

kticesk8s in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 21, 2008, 11:27am)

My votes are for (most are listed above already): Wuthering Heights Madame Bovary Les Miserables Count of Monte Cristo

kjellika in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 21, 2008, 10:39am)

... on my bookshelves. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- But I surely want to read Madame Bovary. I did a start on it some years ago, but I never finished (I just checked it up and I found that I stopped reading after some 80 pages. Sorry about faulty ...

kjellika in Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch (Maio 20, 2008, 6:04am)

... by Charles Dickens Julie or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Trial by Franz Kafka Why not choose a French novel as the next read? I've just mentioned ...

Oklahoma in 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : Reading Classics in 2008? (Maio 16, 2008, 12:11am)

... Dick Tess of the D’Urbervilles Tom Jones Island of Dr. Moreau Lord Jim Around the World in Eighty Days Madam Bovary Modern Classics: Brideshead Revisited The Bell Jar The Jungle Bridge of San Luis Rey ( re-read) Orlando Sons and Lovers ...

krazy4katz in Kindley Book Club : Madame Bovary (Maio 14, 2008, 8:45pm)

I just downloaded Madame Bovary for reading in the near future. To save money (hah!), I am trying to alternate between free classics and Amazon books. My last free classic was Jane Eyre, which I liked. I also downloaded The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. So those will be my freebies ...

garrybuck in Kindley Book Club : Um...Whatcha Readin? (Maio 14, 2008, 2:28pm)

... I really had to force myself to finish it. I kept telling myself it would be good for me, as penance for giving up on Madame Bovary. I suppose I'm a better person for having dragged myself through this book, but it was not a fun process. This is Virginia Woolf's first novel so maybe I'l ...

perlle in Geeks who love the Classics : What classic are you reading now? (Maio 8, 2008, 11:14pm)

Decided to go with Madame Bovary next.

perlle in 1001 Books to read before you die : May 2008: What are you reading from the 1001 list (Maio 5, 2008, 1:29pm)

Still reading The Crying Lot 49 but can't really get into it. Started Madame Bovary while I take a break from Pynchon.

jfetting in What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - May. 2008 (Maio 3, 2008, 1:47pm)

... Stone Diaries by Carol Shields The Sea by John Banville The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler Madame Bovary Like Water for Chocolate The Remains of the Day The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood And more, which I can't remember at the moment. The ...

polutropos in Reading Globally : France - fiction (Maio 3, 2008, 12:25pm)

... now I have Balzac's Cure of Tours, Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Zola's The Debacle. I have recently reread Madame Bovary. Does anyone have suggestions about other fiction works I should read, especially anything dealing with France in the last thirty years, easily available in E ...

StarGazer72 in The Green Dragon : Please share us a few lines from something you are currently reading. (Maio 1, 2008, 2:13am)

... was shaking in the darkness, under the burden of an immense grief, softer than the moon and fathomless as night." Madame Bovary

kjellika in World Library : The first 10 suggested books (Abr 24, 2008, 4:10pm)

1. Don Quijote 2. Madame Bovary 3. Things Fall Apart 4. Great Expectations 5. Medea 6. The Brothers Karamazov 7. Pride and Prejudice 8. Tristram Shandy 9. War and peace 10. Molloy

dreamlikecheese in 1001 Books to read before you die : April 2008: What are you reading from the 1001 list (Abr 21, 2008, 2:05am)

Thanks Polutropos. I really enjoyed Madame Bovary. While Emma Bovary herself was completely misguided and a rather annoying character, the writing was amazing, and despite not liking Emma I really felt sorry for her....a sign of very good writing if an author can make you sympathise with an ...

dreamlikecheese in 1001 Books to read before you die : April 2008: What are you reading from the 1001 list (Abr 20, 2008, 9:21am)

I finally finished Madame Bovary a couple of days ago. I'm almost finished Empire Of The Sun by J G Ballard which I can cross off both the 1001 lists and my Booker Prize shortlist list. It's a very powerful and disturbing look at the effects of war on people, both combatants and non-combatan ...

polutropos in LT's list of great books you should read : Top 25 (Abr 17, 2008, 8:54pm)

... Anderson Fairy Tales Old Testament The Good Soldier Svejk (Hasek) Pride and Prejudice (Austen) Madame Bovary (Flaubert) Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) The Idiot (Dostoevsky) The Little Prince (St. Exupery) The Outsider (Camus) A Passage to I ...

dreamlikecheese in 1001 Books to read before you die : April 2008: What are you reading from the 1001 list (Abr 13, 2008, 9:55am)

I'm still going with Madame Bovary which I'm enjoying but I forgot to take it on holiday with me so I started a whole load of other books instead. Yesterday I started King Solomon's Mines which is a good old-fashioned rip-roaring adventure tale...complete with British imperialism and insulting ...

lindsacl in 1001 Books to read before you die : The 1001 "I've Read That" chain game (Abr 10, 2008, 1:10pm)

Oh I'm so glad the titular women have returned! I read Madame Bovary for a university world lit course, a million years ago. More recently I read Elizabeth Costello, another in a long line of titular women!!

HeathMochaFrost in 1001 Books to read before you die : The 1001 "I've Read That" chain game (Abr 10, 2008, 1:08pm)

I've read Madame Bovary. I don't think Anna Karenina has been mentioned yet...who has read that?

A_musing in 1001 Books to read before you die : The 1001 "I've Read That" chain game (Abr 10, 2008, 12:35pm)

I've read Autumn of the Patriarch; how about Madame Bovary, returning to titular women?

MarianV in Girlybooks : Books about women by men? (Abr 9, 2008, 3:35pm)

... the mark, his own POV comes thru loud & clear. Henry James, does a good job, particularly Washington Square. We read Madame Bovary in school & our teacher, a woman , thought Flaubert was a real genius at portraying a woman. Tolstoy is really good at all his women characters, from ...

flissp in 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : flissp 2008 books (Abr 9, 2008, 12:46pm)

... the bottom of the pile... ...so, progress, well, I've now finished no. 17) and my description still stands - I preferred Madame Bovary really, but it was an interesting read. 16) The President's Last Love - I've had to start this again as it's been such a long while since I touched it - ...

garrybuck in Kindley Book Club : New thread for what are you reading, now? (Abr 2, 2008, 12:38pm)

I tried to read Madame Bovary by Flaubert. I gave it the old college try, but I gave up half way through. I'd say it was as slow as a glacier, but that would be too fast by today's standards. I had much better luck with Funny In Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas. It's the story of a woman who's ...

Jthierer in What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - March. 2008 (Mar 31, 2008, 12:52pm)

... used my employee discount on Sat. to get: 1001 Nights The Last of the Mohicans The Pact Pillars of the Earth Madame Bovary

Sandydog1 in LT's list of great books you should read : Your Top 10 works from "immensely important and influential non-English literatures" (Mar 30, 2008, 11:30am)

... a bit unrepresented. Perhaps Crime and Punishment and War and Peace and maybe some Chekhov short stories. I'd add Madame Bovary and The Stranger or The Plague. Hey, my flip comment about Augustine reminds me about how most people in USA!USA!USA! think the Bible was written by ...

dreamlikecheese in 1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading for March 2008 (Mar 29, 2008, 11:37pm)

I started Madame Bovary yesterday. I'm only 40 pages in but I'm enjoying it so far. Been a while since I read a "classic".

verbafacio in Book talk : what are some classics that have to do with psychology? (Mar 28, 2008, 1:56pm)

Both Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary do an excellent job of getting inside the main character's head. Not sure if that's what you mean by psychology...

kqueue in Librarians who LibraryThing : Literary Classics & Popular Fiction Assistance (Mar 13, 2008, 3:51pm)

Tom Perrotta's Little Children is based on Flaubert's Madame Bovary. I'm not sure if you consider A Confederacy of Dunces a classic yet, but Andrew Fox's Fat, White Vampire Blues is an homage to it. There's lots of updated Shakespeare - Julie and Romeo for example.

dreamlikecheese in 1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading for March 2008 (Mar 2, 2008, 10:41pm)

... book at the moment (though it does mention books from the list, Reading Lolita In Tehran, but next up is probably either Madame Bovary or Amsterdam. Edited to add: The touchstone for the Three Musketeers probably isn't coming up because it's spelt wrong

thekoolaidmom in Awful Lit. : Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre (Fev 24, 2008, 5:44pm)

... and I actually BELEIVED crap like that could really happen. I read Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Pride and Prejudice, and Madame Bovary all around the same time as JE, and was really screwed-up for the next ten years. Reality can be cruel.

sorsopkel in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 February 2008 (Fev 22, 2008, 4:40pm)

I recently finished Madame Bovary. I am really glad that I read it, but what a thoroughly unlikeable woman! I am currently reading Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman, which is set in a time period I normally avoid, but I have to say that I absolutely love this book!!! I will be ...

Ruthbie in 888 Challenge : Ruthbie's challenge (Fev 18, 2008, 7:03am)

... /strike> Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

philosojerk in What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - FEBRUARY 2008 (Fev 2, 2008, 3:56pm)

... Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser The Golden Compass, The Amber Spyglass, and The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman ...

bsquared46 in Book talk : Your First Book of 2008 (Jan 20, 2008, 3:30pm)

have just finished Eric Clapton, the autoboigraphy. My first for this year. I have now started Madame Bovary.

ChocolateMuse in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 5 January 2008 (Jan 10, 2008, 9:04pm)

... read enough translated books, to tell the truth. All I can think of off the top of my head are the two above-named, plus Madame Bovary and All Quiet on the Western Front which I read years ago and didn't even finish. And a few others by Cornelia Funke. And the Bible, which goes in a ...

ksmyth in What did YOU buy today? : What are you buying OTHERS for the holidays? (Dez 23, 2007, 9:54pm)

My wife has taken a renewed interest in books, so I bought her The Annotated Pride and Prejudice and Madame Bovary. I also bought Easton editions of Little Women and Madame Bovary. For a friend I bought copies of the Landmark Thucydides, and the Landmark Herodotus: The Histories. Fo ...

lindsacl in What Are You Reading Now? : How your childhood influenced your reading? (Dez 22, 2007, 3:59pm)

... about 20, I took a couple of summer courses including World Literature. I loved sitting outdoors reading classics like Madame Bovary. For some reason most of my formal education skipped over major works and authors, and I've spent some time as an adult getting caught up. In my 20s and 30 ...

verbafacio in Book talk : i'm reading anna karenina . OMG. (Dez 11, 2007, 3:47pm)

I loved Anna Karenina too. If you haven't already read Madame Bovary, you might like that a lot too. The two books have a lot in common.

LizT in Reading Globally : Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (China) - Potential Spoilers (Dez 7, 2007, 8:10pm)

So, I feel a little bit sheepish, but I found this really frustrating. I've not read The Count of Monte Cristo or Madame Bovary or Old Goirot or (as far as I can tell) any of the other books referred to, and I really hate spoilers (this is someone who just blubbed excessively at the end of Go ...

AnnaClaire in Early Reviewers : November books are up (Nov 21, 2007, 2:13pm)

... came back with one result, Madame Bovary. Search #2: subject:sociology came back empty. As for ...

almigwin in Girlybooks : Books about women by men? (Out 30, 2007, 3:13am)

... inAnna Karenina, Balzac in Eugenie Grandet, Cousin Bette, and the rest of the Comedie Humaine; Flaubert in Madame Bovary, Hawthorne in the Scarlet Letter, Thackeray in Vanity Fair, Henry James in Washington Square, The Golden Bowl, Daisy Miller and all the ...

almigwin in Girlybooks : Books about women by men? (Out 30, 2007, 3:12am)

... inAnna Karenina, Balzac in Eugenie Grandet, Cousin Bette, and the rest of the Comedie Humaine; Flaubert in Madame Bovary, Hawthorne in the Scarlet Letter, Thackeray in Vanity Fair, Henry James in Washington Square, The Golden Bowl, Daisy Miller and all the ...

quilter1950 in 50 Book Challenge : quilter1950 (Out 18, 2007, 2:00am)

... by Ann Patchett - another one I read because of the author. A group is held hostage in what seems like South America. 37. Madam of the House by Donna Birdsell - I read because of a recommendation, but really not worth it.

margad in Books Compared : Dickens/Pasternak (Set 30, 2007, 12:21am)

I wasn't crazy about Flaubert. I've read his classic, Madame Bovary, but I couldn't identify with or even really like his protagonist. Reading a novel is like spending time with the people in it, and who really wants to spend a lot of time with someone we don't like? Although it's fun to spend ...

reptiliancandy in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 22 September 2007 (Set 27, 2007, 11:45pm)

... is easily one of my favorite books, and given other books of the time period...pretty radical stuff indeed. Granted, Madame Bovary has some similar themes, but not from a woman's POV. It has a very different feel from Chopin's work, for sure. The end to The Awakening is so sad and ...

mzonderm in List Five Books Parlour Game : The Five People You Wouldn't Meet in Heaven (Ago 31, 2007, 3:26pm)

... hjalian Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler (they're kind of like vampires) Whores on the Hill by Colleen Curran Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Cariola in What Are You Reading Now? : Literary Names (Ago 26, 2007, 12:43pm)

... Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Thomas Dekker's The Shoemakers Holiday. I had a cat named Emma after Madame Bovary and a parakeet named Dylan after the poet Dylan Thomas.

varielle in List Five Books Parlour Game : going up? going down... (Ago 6, 2007, 8:34am)

Strapless: John Singer Sargeant and the Fall of Madam X Snow Fallling on Cedars Chariot: The Astounding rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire The Rising sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

twacorbies in English majors! : HP: Books for the Ages? (Jul 26, 2007, 3:38pm)

Regarding the charges that the books are poorly written, when visiting my parents last Christmas I found an old box of books in their basement. Some of the titles were cherished ones from my childhood. I plopped myself down in my dad's comfy leather chair and tore through a few of them, becoming ...

aviddiva in List Five Books Parlour Game : Stories (Jun 30, 2007, 5:34pm)

The Man in the Iron Mask Kidnapped Madame Bovary. Thriving on Chaos, She Stoops To Conquer The Secret Sharer

ggchickapee in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 16 June 2007 (Jun 15, 2007, 4:50pm)

I hope to finish Madame Bovary on Saturday the 16th. But I will be deep into The Golden Bowl, Henry James's last novel, all week -- it is really slow-going as all later James novels are. But I have Empire Falls by Richard Russo to keep me entertained when James becomes intolerable. And ...

clamairy in Connecticut Nutmeggers : Book Club (Jun 5, 2007, 10:39am)

Nice list. The only one I have read previously is Madame Bovary. I'd vote for Middlemarch, just because the size isn't as intimidating to carry around. War and Peace just seems like a Winter read to me, for some odd reason. Are you suffering from any culture shock, perlle? I moved to CT ...

klagreg in 50 Book Challenge : klagregory's Book Challenge (Maio 20, 2007, 11:38am)

... this last month: 17.Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck 18.Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 19.Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 20.Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 21.Fat Land by Greg Critser 22.A Taste for Death by P.D. James 23.How to Read Literature Like a ...

almigwin in Girlybooks : The Books by Women that Every Woman Should Read and Why (Maio 1, 2007, 6:30am)

For explorations of the feminine psyche, I would add Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, My Antonia and the Anita Brookner novels (any or all). The Willa Cather is the only one in this list who portrays a really strong woman. She is probably the only feminist in the list. but in the time ...

klagreg in 50 Book Challenge : klagregory's Book Challenge (Abr 14, 2007, 11:32pm)

... Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 5. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 6. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 7. A World Lit Only By Fire by William Manchester 8. I, Claudius: From the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered ...

rebeccanyc in Book talk : Post books that you read at least 3 times (Mar 27, 2007, 10:48am)

... a teenager and gotten more out of them/a whole new perspective now that I'm older (e.g., Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Madame Bovary), but for the most part I would be unlikely to read books a third time (same reason as #31 and 33). I do plan to read the new translation of War and Peace ...

jhowell in Book talk : Name books you read because they were namechecked in other book (Mar 21, 2007, 2:39pm)

I felt like I kept seeing Madame Bovary referenced everywhere -- It was in I am Charlotte Simmons, Disgrace, Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout. I finally said -- enough already, I need to figure out who the hell Emma Bovary was. I am glad I did.

mistressalex in What did YOU buy today? : Message Board #3 (Feb. 2007) (Mar 5, 2007, 9:55pm)

... of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Othello by William Shakespeare The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and Mao : The Unknown Story by Jung Chang Then later, I headed over to the paperback exchange and killed! Slaughterhouse- ...

jhowell in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 24 Feb 2007 (Fev 24, 2007, 2:54pm)

Just finished Madame Bovary and am now already half way through Disgrace by Coetzee. It is the first book I have ever read by him and it is great so far -- no B.S. cleverness and philosophical angst like so many modern critically acclaimed writers -- just gripping narrative and good old ...

kicking_k in Scottish LibraryThingers : Vernacular writing (Fev 23, 2007, 6:51pm)

... may not have an effect on how non-native speakers view their work. I speak French, but I'm sure I don't get as much out of Madame Bovary as I would if I were a native speaker. I've just read Don Quixote in translation, because there's no way I could tackle the original. Probably in doing so I ...

jhowell in 1001 Books to read before you die : Which of the 1001 are you currently reading? (Fev 21, 2007, 9:50am)

I am reading Madame Bovary -- not really what I was expecting. although I am enjoying. I thought it would be Austen - like. But Flaubert is much more sarcastic and critical of everyone and everything. It is amusing to see that people were just as cynical back in the 1800's as some of us are today. ...

jhowell in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 17 Feb 2007 (Fev 18, 2007, 2:02pm)

finished the Red Tent -- found it vaguely annoying. Just started Madame Bovary -- strangely enough the introduction in the Penguin classic paperback is a scathing critique of Flaubert and his protagonists.

balzac in Geeks who love the Classics : What are your favorite classics? (Fev 17, 2007, 5:08pm)

... for me..... On another note, Zola's forbears Balzac and Flaubert might also be worth a go (though personally, Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education do absolutely nothing for me, just not enough angst, misery or conflict). Black Sheep, Old Goriot and Cousin Bette are all ...

jhowell in 1001 Books to read before you die : Which of the 1001 are you currently reading? (Fev 16, 2007, 9:40am)

... -- I have read 85/1001. Pretty pathetic, but it seems on par with most of us here. I have Great Expectations, Madame Bovary, A Bend in the River, Ulysses and Family Matters on my TBR bookshelf right now. I confess I started but couldn't finish The Brothers Karmazov and M ...

venture in Book talk : World's best Reading- Reader's Digest (Fev 9, 2007, 11:39pm)

... Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Main Street by Sinclair Lewis The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert The Man of Property by John Galsworthy Daisy Miller / The Turn of the Screw by Henry James I previously added Tanglewoo ...

HelloAnnie in 50 Book Challenge : Annie's 52 Book Challenge (Fev 4, 2007, 8:41pm)

... Book Thief * An Evening of Long Goodbyes * Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid * Elsewhere by Zevin * Madame Bovary * How I Live Now * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix * The Road * Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee * Not Buying It * ...

Amilam in 50 Book Challenge : Amilam's Book List (Jan 30, 2007, 4:41pm)

... Metamorphoses Fielding, Henry. Joseph Andrews and Shamela Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Karamazov Brothers Trans. Ignat Avsey Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Idiot Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Stra ...

rebeccanyc in Book talk : Rereadings (Dez 27, 2006, 10:54am)

... by how differently I reacted to them now, but now I am enjoying it. They included Anna Karenina, War and Peace. Madame Bovary, Crime and Punishment, One Hundred Years of Solitude. I intend to re-read War and Peace when the new Pevear-Volokhonsky translation comes out. I ...

HelloAnnie in Book Clubs : What books do YOU wish your book club would read? (Nov 17, 2006, 7:32pm)

... have read". Even though I have a degree in English, I still have missed out on a lot of classics. Here's my list: - Madame Bovary - Something by Austen other than Emma - 1984 - Anna Karenina - Grapes of Wrath - Vanity Fair - Gone with the Wind Some books that I ...

foggidawn in Awful Lit. : Awful Classics? (Nov 13, 2006, 1:15am)

I like most classics, but Pamela -- ugh! Didn't care much for Madame Bovary, either, or anything by Thomas Hardy. To each her own, I suppose!

EricaKline in Reading Great Books : Great Books I have read (Nov 9, 2006, 1:54pm)

... Bronte Great Expectations Charles Dickens (movie) Middlemarch George Eliot The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert (movie) Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway The Odyssey Homer The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing Be ...

HelloAnnie in Read YA Lit : What are you Reading in October? (Out 27, 2006, 8:37pm)

... the characters were quite flat which made it hard to care about any of them. Thinking of picking up a classic next. Madame Bovary maybe?

benwaugh in The Chapel of the Abyss : The Scapigliatura movement (Out 27, 2006, 3:00pm)

... their cue from Charles Baudelaire's highly sensational poems Les fleurs du mal and Gustave Flaubert's scandalous novel Madame Bovary (both published in 1857). Their high-minded approach translated into a slap in the face of Alessandro Manzoni, one of Italy's most popular writers of the 19t ...

hazelk in Francophiles : First French novels you read (Out 23, 2006, 1:41pm)

... it was in French. After leaving school, I read in translation Guy de Maupassant short stories, followed by Flaubert's Madame Bovary. It wasn't until I was in my 40s that my head was blown away by Albert Camus.

staffordcastle in LibraryThing en français : Titres pour une île déserte? (Out 11, 2006, 3:19am)

Peut-être Le petit prince Gargantua et Pantagruel Le Diable au corps Madame Bovary Le bourgeois gentilhomme Vingt mille lieues sous les mers Manon Lescaut La Cousine Bette

Killeymoon in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 30 Sep 2006 (Out 2, 2006, 4:15am)

Yesterday I finally finished Madame Bovary and went straight into something lighter with The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo. Now I'm 70 pages into The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde and I'm having a hard time putting it down...

Kraft in Can you recommend..... : Looking for fictional works on mental illness (Set 29, 2006, 5:37pm)

Hi! Flaubert´s "Madame Bovary" is something like a classic for embedding of a mental illness into fiction. Although i am not sure about the diagnosis for Madame Bovary, the book is also famous among psychologists, since Flaubert managed to describe matching symptoms over the lifetime of his ...

A_musing in Awful Lit. : Awful Classics? (Set 7, 2006, 10:06am)

... 30-40 years after Austen, Flaubert does a pretty good job as well (though I'll confess, there are times when I think Madame Bovary is incredibly derivative of The Red and the Black).

Wanderlust_Lost in What did YOU buy today? : What did YOU buy today? Message Board (Ago 2, 2006, 9:47am)

... Spanish Dictionary Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Brida by Paulo Coelho Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos Affinity by Sarah Waters Night Watch by Sarah Waters Oranges Are ...