Which LIST book did you just start? Showing 2,151-2,200 of 7,240

[Nicola]

Emy wrote: "I started in Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. So far so good."

Have you seen the movie? If you haven't then I recommend it - it's better than the book imo.

[Sarah]

Started Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Shirley by Charlotte Brontë.

[Mia]

I started Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf.

[Diane]

Mia wrote: "I started Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf."

I enjoyed that one.

[Emy]

Nicola wrote: "Emy wrote: "I started in Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. So far so good."

Have you seen the movie? If you haven't then I recommend it - it's better than the book imo."

I have, years ago, but I never saw the (I now realise crucial) end! I loved the book, and I really want to see the movie again.

I just realised the book isn't on the list by the way, oops.

[Sarah]

Luís wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Started Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Shirley by Charlotte Brontë."

Are you liking it? That's one of the few Dostoievsky's books that I ..."

Luis, I find his diatribes unnerving. He's morose, brooding, and strangely narcissistic. It's an endless cycle of hate, blame, manic expression, and want. It would be impossible to share company with this person for long stretches of time and short ones could be a challenge. Unless you're kindred spirits of course. And given the reviews he's not alone in his thinking. ;-)

If you want to be inspired read this instead: The Magic of Thinking Big. It's incredibly good.

[Tyler]

I am starting The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy tonight.

[Diane]

Started The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal.

[Alia]

Started it long ago, but still reading The Bell Jar.

[Laura]

Just started The Monk by Matthew Lewis- it isn't a book I would've chosen to read but as someone gave it to me & it's a list book I decided to read it. So far it seems like quite a strange book & im worried due to the antiquated style of writing that I'll zone out while reading this and not really understand what's going on

[George P.]

Laura wrote: "Just started The Monk by Matthew Lewis- it isn't a book I would've chosen to read but as someone gave it to me & it's a list book I decided to read it. So far it seems like quite a strange book & i..."

"...the most extreme and gruesome acts of human depravity and cruelty" according to the Boxall book. I think most of us will pass on that! But hope you like it, I guess.

[Kirsten]

Considering the book was written over 100 years ago, those acts of depravity and cruelty may be accepted today. I'd give it a try.

[Sandi]

It's really rather harmless compared to many modern books. Imagine a rape scene described as: He embraced her, and she was dishonoured.

[Kirsten]

I remember in high school we were reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles and we totally missed the rape scene!

[Tyler]

Starting The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks today.

[Diane]

Platero and I by Juan Ramón Jiménez

[Nicola]

Kirsten *Dogs Welcome - People Tolerated" wrote: "I remember in high school we were reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles and we totally missed the rape scene!"

The 'depravity' of The Monk isn't contained so much in the human scenes of violence and lust but in their dealings with witchcraft and the devil.

I liked it and I'm not usually a fan of Gothic books set around this time period. I didn't find it even remotely disturbing - in fact several times I laughed at the overblown melodrama.

[Nicola]

Ivanhoe - I've just started but I'm loving it already.

[Mia]

I started Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

[Amy the book-bat]

Started The Witches of Eastwick this morning... I hope it gets better... so far I'm not a fan of Updike (hated the first Rabbit novel and dreading reading the others for the list)

[Diane]

Starting Anna Karenina. This is a re-read for me.

[Peter]

Just started The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri.

[Nicola]

The Man in the High Castle

[Tasha]

Peter wrote: "Just started The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri."

I hope you liked it more than I did. I didn't think it was bad, just not list material.

[Tasha]

Nicola wrote: "Ivanhoe - I've just started but I'm loving it already."

I've read it twice, and I rarely reread. I love it!

[Viv]

I've started listening to the audiobook of Wuthering Heights, and I've started reading Les Misérables

[Peter]

Tasha wrote: "Peter wrote: "Just started The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri."

I hope you liked it more than I did. I didn't think it was bad, just not list material."

I have read a few of those from this list recently. Have just finished The Kite Runner a non-list book so has quite a bit to beat.

[Sarah]

Kirsten *Dogs Welcome - People Tolerated" wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Starting The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë."

I love that one! Deserves a better reputation than it has!"

I concur. I've wrapped up the Brontë books and I preferred this much more than Agnes Grey.

[Sarah]

Starting The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

[Sarah]

Started Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev and Howards End by E. M. Forster.

[Mia]

I started Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist and Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff.

[Sarah]

Started Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin.

[Kirsten]

I just started listening to the A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement by Anthony Powell

[Viv]

I just started Silence by Shūsaku Endō, ahead of Scorcese's movie adaptation.

[Diane]

Genesis, book 1 from the Memory of Fire Trilogy by Eduardo Galeano

[S.L.]

IQ84,#1 by Haruki Murakami - on audiobook - it's actually all three in one cd set

[Sarah]

Starting Summer by Edith Wharton and What Maisie Knew by Henry James.

And a Gilded Age side read: To Marry an English Lord by Gail MacColl.

[Sarah]

Just started The Awakening by Kate Chopin. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola will follow.

[Tyler]

I'm starting The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Bluest Eye today.

[Diane]

Started The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham.

[Mia]

I started The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole and Nana by Émile Zola.

[Diane]

Started The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells.

[Sarah]

Started A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.

[Linda]

100 pages into The Recognitions by William Gaddis.

[Sarah]

Reading The Trial by Franz Kafka.

[Diane]

Just started Rabbit, Run by John Updike.

[Emy]

Currently reading The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri.

[Mia]

Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille.

[Sarah]

I can't get into A Tale of Two Cities so I'm putting it aside. I'll pick it up a little later.

I'm reading The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan and will follow with The Castle by Franz Kafka.

[Laura]

Started John Banville's The Untouchable, it seems similar to his booker winner The Sea so far, quite relaxing to read.