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• "Fiction" by Alice Munro finished
• The Iliad finished
• Wikipedia Tour: Greek Mythology finished
• Don Quixote finished

  I think I missed the point of it all..... It took me four months (reading other things as well, but still a mightly long time to be reading a book) and I don't think I've done it justice, but for what it's worth, here's my review http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/don-quixote-by-miguel-de-cervantes/ I posted this on 14 September 2009
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• A Tale of a Tub finished

  Review: A Tale of a Tub I knew from the first instalment from Daily Lit that this was not going to be easy. What I did not know was whether it was going to be worth it, because it’s not a work that I had ever heard of. Swift wrote it in 1697, and his sentence structure is challenging to say the least. Still there were only 42 instalments, and they’re short, so I decided to press on if for no other reason than to stretch the brain… see the rest at http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/a-tale-of-a-tub-by-jonathan-swift/ I posted this on 29 December 2009
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• Wikipedia Tour: Masterpieces of Western Art finished

  Masterpieces of Western Art - fantastic if you love art! This is a really useful 'tour' which shows you all those famous artworks that you've read about and takes you straight to the Wikipedia page to give you all the info you might need about. Not quite as good as the real thing LOL but for those of us marooned in the antipodes, far away from the art galleries of the world, it's not a bad substitute. I posted this on 18 April 2009
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• The Good Soldier finished

  The Good Soldier - a classic worth reading... The Good Soldier is a strange book, and I’m not surprised toto see that 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die suggests that opinion is divided about it. First published in 1915, and now reissued as one of the Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century, it’s a very early example of modernism, in which a foolish, rich American discovers that his wife, Florence, has been having a long-term affair with his friend, Edward Ashburnham. Dowell is hopelessly ignorant about life in general and very naive about his wife and friend in particular, and the story is constructed to show his dawning awareness of events. As he finds out more about what’s going on, he keeps having to revise his opinion about Florence, Ashburnham and his rather strange wife, Leonora, with the result that the reader becomes as confused and befuddled as he is.
  
  For more see http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/the-good-soldier-by-ford-madox-ford/ I posted this on 18 April 2009
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• Moby Dick finished

  More than I wanted to know about whaling - barbaric! http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/making-sense-of-moby-dick-by-herman-melville/ I posted this on 01 March 2009
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• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button finished

  Quaint but intriguing. http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button-by-f-scott-fitzgerald/ I posted this on 01 March 2009
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• The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle suspended

A Tale of a Tub - Review: A Tale of a Tub

I knew from the first instalment from Daily Lit that this was not going to be easy. What I did not know was whether it was going to be worth it, because it’s not a work that I had ever heard of. Swift wrote it in 1697, and his sentence structure is challenging to say the least. Still there were only 42 instalments, and they’re short, so I decided to press on if for no other reason than to stretch the brain… see the rest at http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/a-tale-of-a-tub-by-jonathan-swift/

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Don Quixote - I think I missed the point of it all.....

It took me four months (reading other things as well, but still a mightly long time to be reading a book) and I don't think I've done it justice, but for what it's worth, here's my review http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/don-quixote-by-miguel-de-cervantes/

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The Good Soldier - The Good Soldier - a classic worth reading...

The Good Soldier is a strange book, and I’m not surprised toto see that 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die suggests that opinion is divided about it. First published in 1915, and now reissued as one of the Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century, it’s a very early example of modernism, in which a foolish, rich American discovers that his wife, Florence, has been having a long-term affair with his friend, Edward Ashburnham. Dowell is hopelessly ignorant about life in general and very naive about his wife and friend in particular, and the story is constructed to show his dawning awareness of events. As he finds out more about what’s going on, he keeps having to revise his opinion about Florence, Ashburnham and his rather strange wife, Leonora, with the result that the reader becomes as confused and befuddled as he is.

For more see http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/the-good-soldier-by-ford-madox-ford/

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Wikipedia Tour: Masterpieces of Western Art - Masterpieces of Western Art - fantastic if you love art!

This is a really useful 'tour' which shows you all those famous artworks that you've read about and takes you straight to the Wikipedia page to give you all the info you might need about. Not quite as good as the real thing LOL but for those of us marooned in the antipodes, far away from the art galleries of the world, it's not a bad substitute.

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Moby Dick - More than I wanted to know about whaling - barbaric!

http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/making-sense-of-moby-dick-by-herman-melville/

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Quaint but intriguing.

http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button-by-f-scott-fitzgerald/

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