I took a class this spring which is one of the reasons I didn't write as much for this as I had hoped. But one of the books they had me read for the class was this one. I started off finding it difficult to get into because I really didn't like the main character, but that was the point. We follow him on his redemptive journey through China's modern history. Starting with the civil war and finishing after the Cultural Revolution, To Live describes the desperate struggle to survive of one family in rural China. By the end I was thoroughly involved in the story.
The film is also very good although the setting is moved to the city.
Forty Pages is a book review blog. I hope it will help me remember what I've read. I've called it Forty Pages because for some odd OCDish reason, I decided when I was about eight that if I read forty pages of a book then I had to finish it. I've only broken my rule once.
Books I'm Reading Right Now
- Anthony Blunt: His Lives
- David Peace's GB84
- John Le Carre's The Night Manager
Favorite Novels
- Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
- Ian McEwan's Atonement
- Graham Swift's Waterland
- Philip Roth's I Married a Communist
Books I've hated, but finished anyway because I got past page forty.
- Robert Coover's Ghost Town
- Tibor Fischer's The Collector Collector
- Peter Hoeg's The Woman and the Chimpanzee
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