Andrew✌️’s Comments (group member since Jan 13, 2013)

Andrew✌️’s comments from the Classics Without All the Class group.

This week I'm reading As The Crow Flies and today I started Anansi Boys.

After Inferno, I'm at the beginning of Swan Song, a post apocalyptic novel.

Now I'm at the halfway of Inferno. I read the previous books of this series, but I'm not very satisfied. It's like a tourist guide.

Colleen wrote: "I liked Middlesex and The Cuckoo's Calling in on my list, looks good. Just finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and almost done with A Thousand Splendid Suns. ..."

I liked the The Cuckoo's Calling, well written, but a little disappointing if what you are looking for are suspense and action.

I agree with you Karena and this book is wonderful, also if a litte sad. I discovered Gaiman a few years ago, but it's only last year that I started to read his books regularly, more or less one for month, for a challenge. He is able to pass from stories for teenagers to novels more for adults.

I've finished The Cuckoo's Calling, a good, but not excellent mistery and now I'm reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane, a wonderful story by Neil Gaiman, full of magic and a little sadness.

I finished American Gods. I Liked the story and the author's imagination. Now I'm reading Dracula. This is the first time I read the novel.

Now I'm reading American Gods. I have only one word about this book: wonderful!

I chose to continue with books by Stephen King and today I started The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

I read it last year and I liked it a lot. The characters are well defined, sometimes funny, other grotesque. The same can be said for some of the situations presented. I don't know enough about Russian history, so many of the criticisms of the society or the government are lost. Excellent the parallel story of Pontius Pilate.

No doubt that the most difficult for me has been Moby Dick, and I am happy to see that I'm not alone. It was so boring and I read it rarely. I think that I will never read it in the future.

After finished Aristotle Detective, today I started Joyland, taken into library.

I'm reading American Psycho and I started also Aristotle Detective, a mystery novel set in the ancient greece.

I ended the year with the book The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales, a last minute rush. I must say that the stories are a bit different from the time I was a child, a little more raw.
But the charm is always the same.

I've reached and exceeded my goal of 60 books for this year and I should close with 67 books (I'm reading the last). For the next year, I would raise the goal to 80. I've also completed the Classic Author Challenge.

I've finished too and I hope I haven't made ​​any mistakes. It's been very interesting compete and it give me the opportunity to discover so many classics.

A Agatha Christie - Ten Little Niggers
B Bradbury Ray - Fahrenheit 451
C Chesterton G.K. - The Innocence of Father Brown
D Dickens Charles - The Tale of Two Cities
E Ende Michael - The Neverending Story
F Fitzgerald F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
G Goldman William - The Princess Bride
H Huxley Aldous - Brave new World
I Italo Calvino - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
J Joyce James - Dubliners
K Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five
L Leroux Gaston - The Phantom of the Opera
M Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
N Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
O Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
P Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Q Marques de Sade - Justine
R Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
S Steinbeck John - The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
T Tolstoy Leo - Anna Karenina
U Updike John - Rabbit, Run
V Verne Jules - From the Earth to the Moon
W Wilde Oscar - The Canterville Ghost
X Dumas Alexandre - The Count of Monte Cristo
Y Yann Martel - Life Of Pi
Z Zafon, Carlos Ruiz - The Shadow of the Wind

I' ve finished yesterday The Graveyard Book, a good book, with funny characters. I started Rabbit, Run, a more complex novel, written in a way a little bit heavy, not so easy to understand or to read.

I'm reading for a group The Graveyard Book, till now a wonderful book, in part for younger, but written with a style not always for younger.

I finished yesterday And Then There Were None,and now I'm reading The Shadow of the Wind, a wonderful book, full of mystery and drama with a bit of suspance

After finished The Princess Bride, now I'm reading And Then There Were None, a good Mystery, easy to read and never boring. In a word, a classical!