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[Angela]

Les Liaisons dangereuses - I enjoy the epistolary form every now and again (Daddy Long Legs is one of my favourite children's books). It definitely works here too; am enjoying it so far.

[George P.]

Sarah wrote: "George wrote: "I'm in the Moby Dick group as well. Still working on a couple other list books too."

What are you reading in tandem?"

I finished Nights at the Circus a couple days ago and am working on At Swim-Two-Birds. Like them both. Next up for me is Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Trying to finish up a crazy obscure nonlist book by a Cuban writer also Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba.

[Diane]

Starting In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul.

[Sarah]

George wrote: "Next up for me is Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Trying to finish up a crazy obscure nonlist book by a Cuban writer also Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba."

Oh you've had your hands full! Pleasantly so I hope. I've been working my way towards The Last Chronicle of Barset. I finished Dr. Thorne and Framley Parsonage this week and I'm currently reading The Small House at Allington.

Trollope has written them all in such a way where it's possible to jump in without confusion. But the reader is better informed if they've covered the previous books before reading the last. Oftentimes a series may provide a continuation of earlier characters and scenarios but he offers a fresh perspective and plot with references to subjects formerly mentioned. In terms of the pastoral setting and story line I believe he's the best of the lot.

[Kirsten]

I really need to dip my toes into some Trollope one of these days.

[Dee]

Started The Sense of an Ending this evening. Although Julian Barnes is one of my favourite essayists, I haven't yet read any of his novels, for some reason. But having heard a piece from the soundtrack to the new movie on the radio this afternoon, I thought I would pick up the book.

[Diane]

Starting At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien.

[Tim]

Started, Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley

[Sarah]

Kirsten *Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again!" wrote: "I really need to dip my toes into some Trollope one of these days."

Yes you should! Boxall holds pleasant surprises. What are you working on now?

[Sarah]

Started The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope.

[Peter]

Just started The Collector by John Fowles.

[Diane]

Starting The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette.

[Nicola]

Mercedes wrote: "Peter wrote: "Just started The Collector by John Fowles."

A favorite"

That one gave me the creeps!

[Diane]

Starting Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. You may not hear from me for a while...

[Sarah]

Starting Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens. This is my last one for him. Progress is sweet!

[George P.]

Mercedes wrote: hope you've already covered Arenas' Before Night Falls...and do not mention the movie!
I was looking on the shelf at the huge Powell's bookstore in Portland for Before Night Falls and they didn't have it, but did have Arenas' Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba, so I bought it because it also had good ratings. So, no, I haven't yet read Before Night Falls. [For some reason the italics are displaying on the wrong part here]

[Linda]

Diane wrote: "Starting Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. You may not hear from me for a while..."

Good luck! :)

[George P.]

Sarah wrote: "Starting Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens. This is my last one for him. Progress is sweet!"

Impressive Sarah. Perhaps I can also read the rest of Dickens' books before I die!

[George P.]

Diane wrote: "Starting Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. You may not hear from me for a while..."

Understood. I'm planning to try his A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments first and see how I like his style. Have your read it?

[Linda]

Sarah wrote: "Starting Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens. This is my last one for him. Progress is sweet!"

I'm in the middle of reading all of Dickens' novels, whether they are on the list or not. So that should cover them all. :) I started in the middle chronologically, so I'll have to loop back to get Martin Chuzzlewit. Currently on Great Expectations.

[Linda]

George wrote: "I'm planning to try his A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments first and see how I like his style."

I should read another DFW soon. I read Infinite Jest as my first exposure to his work - I just went ahead and took the plunge. lol. It was puzzling, funny, heart wrenching, weird, emotional, wacky and I loved it. Since then I've read The Broom of the System (listened to the audiobook), and enjoyed that one too.

[Diane]

George wrote: "Understood. I'm planning to try his A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments first and see how I like his style. Have your read it? "

No, I have not. Infinite Jest is my first novel to read by him.

[Sarah]

George wrote: "Impressive Sarah. Perhaps I can also read the rest of Dickens' books before I die! "

LOL Thanks George! I'm sure you'll do it. Who's consuming your attention right now?

[Sarah]

Linda wrote: "I'm in the middle of reading all of Dickens' novels, whether they are on the list or not."

How wonderful! That is my plan as well. I hope you enjoy Great Expectations. It's very good. Once I've finished Martin Chuzzlewit I'll circle back to the beginning and read The Pickwick Papers.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Started Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. This book is on every list I look at--Boxall, Guardian, Time, Modern Library, Radcliffe--everything but the Feministas, I guess.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Mercedes wrote: "Have you read Freedom at Midnight?"

Hi Mercedes--No, not yet, though I have it on my shelves. We'll see how it goes--I did read Shalimar the Clown by Rushdie a few years ago, and I didn't have too much trouble. I still want to get to Freedom, but I keep getting put off by its size. This might be a good excuse to quit procrastinating. (Nah, nothing's a good excuse to quit procrastinating :p)

[Mia]

I started The Lusiads by Luís de Camões.

[Dee]

I've just started Persuasion; my 4th Austen.

[George P.]

CC wrote: "Started American Pastoral by Philip Roth. I read some Roth books a while ago, so I know I will like it... We'll see if I am wrong soon."

I didn't like it as much as most readers, found it rather uninteresting. I liked Portnoy's Complaint better.

[George P.]

Sarah wrote: "George wrote: "Impressive Sarah. Perhaps I can also read the rest of Dickens' books before I die! "
LOL Thanks George! I'm sure you'll do it. Who's consuming your attention right now?"

Reading a variety- Irish, Italian, Ukrainian, Somali authors plus Moby Dick and a Douglas Adams. I've read 6 of the 10 Dickens works in the 2006 Boxall edition and plan to read Nicholas Nickleby - by this time next year probably.

[George P.]

Kirsten *Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again!" wrote: "My interlibrary loan for At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien. I'm not too sure about it. You may have to be drunk or Irish (or maybe even both) to get into it."

Definitely out-there, but I've enjoyed it, nearly finished. Could have been improved by cutting crazy King Sweeny and his poetry.

[Sarah]

George wrote: "Reading a variety- Irish, Italian, Ukrainian, Somali authors plus Moby Dick and a Douglas Adams."

That's a nice mixture. I recently finished Moby Dick. It wasn't bad but I felt that the characters deserved more attention. He had extensive soliloquies regarding whales and I think the characters suffered as a result.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Picked up The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. This is another one that hits a lot of lists--I went in this direction since it's on the Feminista list as well, which I'm woefully behind on.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Bryan, because of your referencing the Feminista list, I was turned onto that compilation. Thank you...."


You're welcome, though we should both thank George--he referenced it in one of the threads here not too long ago, which sent me looking for it. I was embarrassed to have read so few, I've made it a goal to improve. So many of the books on the Feminista list are also on Boxall and other lists, it's still pretty easy to gain in both directions.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Started reading Emma by Austen. Austen's not really my bag, but I'm accompanying a friend in her effort to read all of Austen this year, and I've enjoyed the online discussion with her and some other friends almost as much as the books we've read. So far, we've done Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park, at a chapter or two a day, every other month. So it's not been too onerous--Austen's a sharp author; I can admire her talents, but I probably could have stopped after these first two books and absorbed all I needed.

[Mia]

I started I, Robot by Isaac Asimov.

[George P.]

Bryan wrote: "Bryan, because of your referencing the Feminista list, I was turned onto that compilation. Thank you...."
You're welcome, though we should both thank George--he referenced it in one of the thread..."

You're both welcome. I can't actually recall how I came on it. Probably a mention of a novel I was reading as being on that list. I just read Nights at the Circus which was my 18th book on it (and also a 1001 book), and I plan to read a couple more on it this year, one of which (Possession) was on the 2006 "1001 Books" list.

[George P.]

Mercedes wrote: "In the original language, I started La vida del Lazarillo de Tormes"

Deseo tendre sufficiente fluencia en espanol leer libros como esto.

[Patrick]

Starting Adam Bede.

[Diane]

Starting Story of O by Pauline Réage (blushes).

[Mia]

Junky by William S. Burroughs.

[George P.]

Mia wrote: "Junky by William S. Burroughs."

Oooohh.

[Mia]

George wrote: "Mia wrote: "Junky by William S. Burroughs."

Oooohh."

I've read Naked lunch from him before, which I hated in the beginning but started to really like in the end. But Junky is easier to read, it's not that messy, so I think I'll like it more than Naked lunch.

[Diane]

Mia wrote: "George wrote: "Mia wrote: "Junky by William S. Burroughs."

Oooohh."

I've read Naked lunch from him before, which I hated in the beginning but started to really like ..."

Sounds like you will really hate The Wild Boys.

[Mia]

Diane wrote: "Mia wrote: "George wrote: "Mia wrote: "Junky by William S. Burroughs."

Oooohh."

I've read Naked lunch from him before, which I hated in the beginning but started to ..."

The Wild boys sounds more interesting than Naked lunch. But if the storytelling is the same, then I might not be the biggest fan :D

[Diane]

Mia wrote: "Diane wrote: "Mia wrote: "George wrote: "Mia wrote: "Junky by William S. Burroughs."

Oooohh."

The Wild boys sounds more interesting than Naked lunch. But if the storytelling is the same, then I might not be the biggest fan :D "

I haven't read Naked Lunch yet, but I have 3 others by him. Of the three, this was the most graphic. Lots of, um, body fluid and focus on certain body parts. Not a whole lot of plot. I gave it 1 star.

[Diane]

Starting Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee.

[Mia]

Diane wrote: "Mia wrote: "Diane wrote: "Mia wrote: "George wrote: "Mia wrote: "Junky by William S. Burroughs."

Oooohh."

The Wild boys sounds more interesting than Naked lunch. But..."

Which one have you read? And that sounds exactly what Naked lunch was, no plot, lot of weird and quite of disgusting "fantasies".

[Mia]

Diane wrote: "Starting Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee."

That's one of my favorites from Coetzee! I hope you like it :)

[George P.]

Started The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin of the U.S. Not in the '06 edition but added to the '12 edition of 1001 Books... It's the 5/15-6/15 group-read for the "1001 books..." group. I seem to be in a scifi resurgence the last couple years after avoiding the genre for a long time- just finished Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Do you ever have a book genre you read a lot of, tire of & avoid for a long time then go back to?