Disgrace
~ J. M. Coetzee
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UndergroundMan
~ 58-year-old man in Miami Beach, FL
Disgrace
“Cuts to the emotionality without a lot of dilly-dallying. Reminds me a bit of Fowles.”
Darkness at Noon
“As transformative a prison "diary" as any I have read - including Wiesel, Levi,Timerman, Borowski, Solzhenitsyn, and others.”
junkmansdaughter
~ 25-year-old woman in Santa Clara, CA
Disgrace
“First Coetzee novel. Powerful premise, problematic "protagonist"”
Cat's Cradle
“One of Vonnegut's best.”
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Nov 28, 2010, 11:31 PM
BookGurl, a 40-year-old woman in New York
“He's an amazing and "quiet" writer, eh? Such simplicity but really profound....”
Jan 11, 2011, 5:26 AM
watermelonsugar, a 38-year-old woman in Toronto
“Agree about the love/hate thing - I have friends who think it was a waste of time to read. I enjoyed it but can't articulate why I think it's worthwhile... or maybe it's just that I know it's so subjective; I mean, some people just don't like stories where the main character is hard to like!
I read it because it was given to me as a birthday gift, but before that I'd heard Robert Adams give a lecture on this book (after the Booker, maybe?) and was very intrigued. Haven't read any other Coetzee. But at least I can pronounce his name! ;)”
Nov 17, 2010, 10:09 PM
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backwoodsprite, a 41-year-old woman in Montpelier
“I haven't read "Disgrace," but I've read a lot of Coetzee. I think he has his finger on a pulse (have you read "Age of Iron?"; I'm not sure I admire him more than Breyten Breytenbach (another white South African writer). Have you ever read K. Sello Duiker? He's no longer alive; killed himself, but he blows my mind.”