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from the I Read Therefore I Am group.
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Updated List:The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle currently reading
The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery
In Cold Blood
The Bloody Red Baron
Mason and Dixon
The House on the Strand
Daphne
So I'm about halfway through (ish) and I've stuck to it pretty well!
I haven't cast my vote yet - I'm waffling cos I can't decide!
116. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
So I've crossed out Vanity Fair as read but need to add:87. Jonathan Stroud - The Amulet of Samarkand
88.
89.
90. Bill Hussey - Through A Glass Darkly
I totally agree Hilary, it's gone a bit mad! (although of course it is a good thing in the case of keeping off railway tracks)
I really struggled with the Stephen Hawking book so while I have read it maybe I should lie and say I haven't! Then at least I can always say 'I am getting round to it..' rather than 'I was too thick to understand it' ha ha!
I'm surprised the railways were a success if one of the first things that happens was someone gets killed! Health and safety in those days was not what it is now...
I kind of get the feeling I've heard that before somewhere about Hugo Boss and Henry Ford. This country had a sort-of British version of the Nazi party but I can't remember what they were called.
Don't get me wrong I felt sorry for Georgie but really wanted her to start kicking off with the rest of them (cos it would have been justified) but she just...didn't.
I'm 70% of the way through Vanity Fair - yay!
Oops!
It's a bit of a rubbish thing to be famous for.
'Don't Look Now' sounds good, will have to try it sometime. I've got The House on the Strand to read as well once I get a minute.
This is good - it helps with making comments for the group reads. I don't think about stuff like this while I'm reading - I just enjoy it or not - but after I've finished it helps me to frame my ideas about what I've just read.
Welcome to the group Diego!
Who's the likeable character?
Nice one Hilary! (you child genius) Which leads me to ask... What was everyone's first really big difficult book that they read?
I don't think I learned anything new from the book or that it changed my opinion on anything but I really did enjoy Murdoch's writing and the way she tells a story - very clever. The main character was SO selfish and needy (and self-righteous) - I kind of wanted to punch him and it probably would have done him the world of good - so that's my answer to Q.5 as well.
I liked it straightaway, not because of any merit of the characters because none of them really had any redeeming qualities for me, but just cos the way the story was told was so very clever that I was intrigued despite myself into being interested.
The ending was a bit ambiguous for me (view spoiler)
I caught a bit of Young Montalbano yesterday by chance - I had no idea what was going on as haven't watched it before but it had the world's most sarcastic coroner ('This is a dead body!') and some crazy dude who nearly had apoplexy because he dropped some biscuits ('What a tragedy!') - quite funny.Oh and I also learned how to say "obnoxious git" in Italian hee hee!
Did you enjoy Pride and Prejudice Ellie? I had to do it for GCSE and wasn't that stuck but am not sure if that's because I HAD to read it. Might give it another try someday.Lee it was Where Angels Fear to Tread that I read so I might give some of his other's a try. His writing was ok but I didn't really care for the story or the characters but Howards End does look better.
