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Which LIST book did you just start?
Chie de Dios wrote: "Olivia wrote: "Chie de Dios wrote: "Hello to all! I just joined this group and I have question or two. 1. Is it okay if I start on the year 2008?
2. Can I skip a book? For the reasons that it's ..."
I have the 2012 version and sometimes open a page randomly and choose a book, but I also in the past thought, "oh, I'm sure this one must be in" and then it wasn't hehe :)
Happy reading!
I just started The Hours by Michael Cunningham - a logical next step after finishing Mrs. Dalloway last month. :-)So far I'm enjoying it, and I luckily don't remember too much from seeing the movie years ago.
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1. Is it okay if I start on the year 2008?
2. Can I ski..."
If you like mysteries, check out Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man), James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice) and Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye). All classic mysteries.
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If you're interested in reading it, all group members are welcome to join in the discussion. It's a shorter one.
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Some of my GR friends have loved it too; I just added it to my to-read list.
I'm four chapters into If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. I'm really enjoying this one so far! I had a rough start with Calvino's Invisible Cities, which I didn't care for at all (but maybe it was the wrong book at the wrong time sort of thing? Plus I listened to the audio, so maybe I should try it in print.) I also read Cosmicomics (not a list book), which I enjoyed but didn't love. So, so far for me Calvino's books are all over the place for me in terms of enjoyment.
Just started Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. This is my second book by him and I hope it's better than The Marriage Plot
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Starting The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Camus, which seems like an odd choice for this list. Read through the introduction last night--whew! I think this is going to be tough sledding.
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I suppose you've already read his novels The Plague and The Stranger? They are probably easier going.
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That has to be one of the least popular books to read on the list, with only 180 ratings on Goodreads. Gorky is one of the least popular of the classic Russian novelists. I read his novel Mother- interesting but not very lively.
George wrote: "I suppose you've already read his novels The Plague and The Stranger? They are probably easier going..."Yes--I think so, but a few chapters into The Rebel and I'm finding it a tad less daunting than I thought it would be. Still kind of a slippery fish though.
I think The Stranger is to The Plague as The Myth of Sisyphus is to The Rebel, in that Camus seems to move from the problem of the individual, to the problem of man in his society. I have not read Sisyphus in order to be able to verify that, but from what I've read of it, it seems to conform to that structure.
Still not sure why this particular book was included in Boxall, if so many other quality non-fiction books were not.
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That has to be one of the least popular books to read on the list, with only 180 ratings on Goodreads...."
It wasn't an easy book to locate, either. Another member gave me a link to an ebook of it on Archive.com. It's a rather slow-going read, too.
Tyler wrote: "Starting Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier today."You're in for a treat, I loved that book!
Northanger Abbey by Austen. Second-to-last on the Austen project, only P&P left after this one. Whew!
Starting Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick. A re-read for me.
Moonstone is one of my all time favorites.
Treasure Island by RLS. Loving it so far!
Starting After the Quake this evening.
Gemma wrote: "Starting After the Quake this evening."A nice read. I think you'll enjoy it. 😊
Sarah wrote: "Gemma wrote: "Starting After the Quake this evening."A nice read. I think you'll enjoy it. 😊"
I read the first three stories last night, not enjoying them that much but I think I might be getting attached to the story just as it moves on!
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.
Gemma wrote: "I read the first three stories last night, not enjoying them that much..."It’s slower paced. Reading in bites might help if you prefer something quicker.
Started The Professor's House today. It's the only Cather on the list, surprisingly.
Tyler wrote: "Started The Professor's House today. It's the only Cather on the list, surprisingly."Yet, it seems everything Coetzee and McEwan wrote are on there. If you like The Professor's House, I highly recommend Death comes for the Archbishop. Maybe not everyone's cup of tea, but I thought it was a great book that definitely belongs on any list of 1000
Kafka on the Shore, I'm on a Murakami kick at the moment!
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George wrote: "Have started Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti, originally from Bulgaria - his only novel. Three of the four books I'm reading now are list books, but only one of my last four..."That's been on my 'gosh-I-got-to-get-to-that-soon' list for a long time. I'll be interested to know what you thought of it
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1. Is it okay if I start on the year 2008?
2. Can I skip a book? For the reasons that it's not my usually genre and/or it doesn..."
I don't think anyone is reading the books in order. I just dip in and out of it and try and read at least 5-10 a year :)
I just started Middlemarch :)