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Which LIST book did you just start?
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Mar 09, 2016 03:18AM
I'm just about to start The Black Dahlia. A couple of months behind schedule but never mind!
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Just started Daniel Deronda. I love George Eliot so I am excited.
Amanda wrote: "Just started Daniel Deronda. I love George Eliot so I am excited."I enjoyed that one.
Journey to the Center of the Earth - I've just started and I'm finding the narration by the nephew to be extremely amusing.
Currently on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I started in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I love it so far.
I'm still here.. :) I started reading Candide today. I'm finishing up 1984 and finished Genji a few days ago (the first part of 6 though, published as a Dover Thrift book).
Kirin wrote: "Reading my first Roth: The Plot Against America. I noticed there are a number of his books on the original list but I really only want to read this one and Portnoy's Complaint."I really liked Plot, but I hear it's completely different from most of his books.
George wrote: "Starting The Sea, the Sea. This one I double-checked is on the list, and still on the 2012 edition. This is my first Iris Murdoch novel. I recently read Orlando by V Woolf..."I liked Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince. Shall have to read one of her other books one of these days
I just started the Master and Marguerite and the first few pages into it, I'm hooked and finding it delightful.
I just started the audio book version of Cry, the Beloved Country, narrated by Michael York. Very good.
Started The Remains of the Day this afternoon. I loved An Artist of the Floating World, so looking forward to this.
Onto chapter 10 of The War of the Worlds, only started it a couple of days ago but it's such quick and easy reading with small chapters. Only 180 pages long so I expect I'll finish it soon, it's my first sci fi novel
Laura wrote: "Onto chapter 10 of The War of the Worlds, only started it a couple of days ago but it's such quick and easy reading with small chapters. Only 180 pages long so I expect I'll finish it soon, it's my..."Great first sci-fi novel!
About midway through (only 89 pages long so a quick read) The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy. Am enjoying it thus far.
I just read Call of the Wild by Jack London and will be starting American Psycho on Saturday (NBRC is doing it as a Book of the Month)
I just started Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard. I still have Glamorama on the back burner that I read a chapter here or there because I can't get into it but I refuse to walk away from it!
Karina wrote: "I just started Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard. I still have Glamorama on the back burner that I read a chapter here or there because I can't get into it but I refuse to walk away from it!"I am exactly the same with The Bonfire of the Vanities, not a easy book to get into, but refuse to give it up. Been reading it in and out over the last 6 months!!! Only 120 pages to go :-)
Rich wrote: "Karina wrote: "I just started Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard. I still have Glamorama on the back burner that I read a chapter here or there because I can't get into it but I refuse to walk away fro..."Me too!
Black Dogs. There are so many Ian McEwan novels on the List.
Started American Psycho on Saturday. Have The Devil and Miss Prym and Brideshead Revisited in the to read pile. I have knocked out a few of the shorter ones so far this year, makes me feel like I am making some progress finally.
Finished 'Les Miserables' late last night. A real beastie at 1,200 pages, but well worth the time!
Anna wrote: "I startedThe MartianFinally I stared this book! I'd like to read it for a long time"
That's not on the list... is it?
Kirsten *Dogs Welcome - People Tolerated" wrote: "Anna wrote: "I startedThe MartianFinally I stared this book! I'd like to read it for a long time"
That's not on the list... is it?"
Nope.
The Man With the Golden Arm It's taken me about 60-75pp. to warm to this, and the evocative prose reads best taking it slowly. BTW the back matter in the critical edition has massive spoilers (when will I learn?)
Just started The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Erica Jong 'Fear of Flying', not my cup of tea so far....
Started The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories. I need something super short after finally finishing A Suitable Boy!!
I just started Eugene Onegin by Pushkin. The book is written in verse which I did not think I would like since I'm not a poetry fan. Surprisingly, I'm really enjoying it!
Vicky wrote: "I just started Eugene Onegin by Pushkin. The book is written in verse which I did not think I would like since I'm not a poetry fan. Surprisingly, I'm really enjoying it!"Great poem, I agree
Luís wrote: "I've started some days ago The Brothers Karamazov... I'm liking it... I'm a true fan of Dostoyevsky!"Try to read The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol I'm sure you'll like)))
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