Last book(s) you read?

[a_contemplative_life]

And? And?

And I felt that it ended, just like life, without much satisfaction.

Part of this feeling comes from that the story is about the re-living, but we only follow their relatives.
I felt that I cared most about Flora, Mahler and David but when the book ended it ended for Eva and Elias, characters I didn't care much about at all.
It is still very readable but unlike LtROI it doesn't linger.

Harbour is up next, perhaps that one sits better with me.

I am willing to wager that you'll enjoy Harbour.

[Doosty]

Battle Royal by Koshun Takami:

I think that is my favorite book I've read apart from LtROI. It really stayed with me for long after I finished reading it. It did a great job of making me feel for the characters only to take them away from me one by one. Very hard to read, yet I couldn't put it down.

[drakkar]

And I felt that it ended, just like life, without much satisfaction.

Part of this feeling comes from that the story is about the re-living, but we only follow their relatives.
I felt that I cared most about Flora, Mahler and David but when the book ended it ended for Eva and Elias, characters I didn't care much about at all.
It is still very readable but unlike LtROI it doesn't linger.

I felt the same thing after reading it. Perhaps it also was the many parallel plots giving it somewhat lack of focus. Anyway the epilogue "The Final Handling" Helped a lot. It will be available in English (in Paper Walls) in some months.

[Raven Eyes]

Terry Moore's Strangers In Paradise Omnibus Edition.

[EEA]

I am reading Corazon Salvaje and El Zorro.

[venetis]

I'm reading at the time a Indian Novel "Three mistakes of my like"

Chetan Bhagat..

[metoo]

Lilla stjärna by JAL.

Listen to JAL reading the introduction of the book in Swedish. (I know you're sufficiently infected to do that even if you don't understand a word, right?)

[DavidZahir]

The Lovely Bones. Wonderful, touching novel about a 14-year-old girl who is murdered--and how she watches her family respond to the aftermath from Heaven.

[Aurora]

The Lovely Bones. Wonderful, touching novel about a 14-year-old girl who is murdered--and how she watches her family respond to the aftermath from Heaven.

I tried reading that last year after hearing lots of reccomendations for it, but I didn't finish it. I have to admit that was more because of the story (rape and murder never has any appeal to me) than the writing. Maybe I'll get on better with her next book, shrugs.

[the_value_of_x]

The Lovely Bones. Wonderful, touching novel about a 14-year-old girl who is murdered--and how she watches her family respond to the aftermath from Heaven.

I tried reading that last year after hearing lots of reccomendations for it, but I didn't finish it. I have to admit that was more because of the story (rape and murder never has any appeal to me) than the writing. Maybe I'll get on better with her next book, shrugs.

I'd advise against that. Her other books have not been as well-liked as The Lovely Bones.