It's hard for me to judge the audience reaction as the people who'll go to this usually know their stuff and are fairly appreciative, which is after all an improvement on people clapping mid-aria because there was a pause. And overall, I find that except for truly bad performances, the smaller the audience the more…

Also read The Ocean at the End of the Lane, I liked it, even if not as much as most of his others. It is however the first book of his where the ending doesn't make me cringe.
It's the first books of his where you don't really get the feeling that there is a whole universe behind the story he I telling, this just…

AV Club Classics Book project

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The whole 10,000Hz Legend album by Air, I only listen to it between April and September. It's ideally suited to spending an hour lying down in a park under the sun.

I think there have been a few previous instances where they missed a few weeks. They haven't contacted me anyway.
I did however start to receive spam from the A.V. Club.

Woohoo Tropical Malady!!!

I came here just to say this, it is one of the best in the US, and they can play anything,

Yes, if there is one thing Coetzee is known for, it's cheap publicity tricks.

Not that new anymore, but have you read Peter Esterhazy's Celestial Harmonies (with the Revised Edition follow-up)?

Look further than the US if you need excitement, have you read Esterhazy for instance?

I'm guessing he's better known in the UK (his books are fairly widely available), but he is a superstar in France.

Illusions Perdues and Splendeurs et Miseres des Courtisanes (sorry, too lazy to look up the English translation titles) would be the next steps, they are big sweeping novels, and will give you an update on a few characters met in Le Pere Goriot. They should be read in that order for chronology purposes though, you…

I've actually only read Le Voyage, which I did very much like. I do plan on reading more, but there's just so much,

Ce n'etait pas un commentaire sur la liste en general, juste les grands classiques francais qui manquaient; donc oui, ce sont principalement des auteurs froggies.

To qualify, Hernani is the most historically important Hugo work, it's more or less the birth of French romanticism, and caused a huge scandal (taught in school as "La bataille d'Hernani").
As a whole he has fallen in a bit of critical disrepute anyway (a bit like Dumas who is almost considered a YA author).

That's quite a list.

What's your definition/list of the classics for this project?

So far probably V., I love that it's almost a standard reply on this thread.

Awesome! I love Middle-Eastern cuisine, happy to know it was the subject of his best work.