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Bill USA

(6,436 posts) Tue Feb 21, 2017, 09:45 PM Feb 2017

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has anybody read The Sheltering Sky by Paul Boyles? Interested in your reactions..Tenessee Williams

thought it was great. Others were not so impressed.

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has anybody read The Sheltering Sky by Paul Boyles? Interested in your reactions..Tenessee Williams (Original Post) Bill USA Feb 2017 OP

on my IPad, but haven't read it yet.... dhill926 Feb 2017 #1

No, but I might hermetic Feb 2017 #2

I just finished Nausea pscot Feb 2017 #3

I read it back when I was in high school bif Mar 2017 #4

dhill926

(16,333 posts)

1. on my IPad, but haven't read it yet....

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Tue Feb 21, 2017, 10:26 PM

Feb 2017

looking forward to it...

hermetic

(8,308 posts)

2. No, but I might

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Wed Feb 22, 2017, 05:00 PM

Feb 2017

A novel of existential despair that examines the limits of humanity when it touches the unfathomable emptiness of the desert in North Africa.

Sounds intriguing but not sure how much more despair I can handle right now.

pscot

(21,024 posts)

3. I just finished Nausea

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Thu Feb 23, 2017, 02:04 PM

Feb 2017

so I feel like I've filled my quota of existential bleakness for this quarter.

bif

(22,693 posts)

4. I read it back when I was in high school

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Thu Mar 2, 2017, 04:23 PM

Mar 2017

I really enjoyed it. May have to reread it. That was many moons ago.

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