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[Meg]

'Crime and Punishment' by Dostoevsky. I was putting it off, after a borrower at the library told me it was "horrible", but last week the same borrower said she exclusively reads Danielle Steele, so.....

[Benjamin]

Megharp wrote: "'Crime and Punishment' by Dostoevsky. I was putting it off, after a borrower at the library told me it was "horrible", but last week the same borrower said she exclusively reads Danielle Steele, so..."

Crime and Punishment is a masterfully told story. Do not let that person's ill-conceived opinions cloud your judgment.

[Meg]

@BenjaminHarrison - agreed! I'm about 100 pages in now and it's brilliant! I tend to take other people's opinions with a pinch of salt, we all have different tastes.

[Sean]

Luís wrote: "That's a soo .. depressing book. But that's a good book-on-the-list. "

It really was.

[Sean]

This weekend I decided to give Virginia Woolf a shot for the first time and started Mrs. Dalloway

[Benjamin]

Started Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann. My first Mann!

[Sean]

Luís wrote: "Sean wrote: "This weekend I decided to give Virginia Woolf a shot for the first time and started Mrs. Dalloway"

Another same genre-plot .."

Yes. I have noticed the trend. This comes from reading what the wife leaves laying around rather than going to pick up my own books. But if I spot a LIST book I will read that before getting another one.

[Kirsten]

I recently started Howards End by EM Forster. It has a very accessible style and I can see how well it would adapt to screen.

[Benjamin]

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut is an author I have left unexplored, so I look forward to whatever lay ahead.

[Mia]

Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood.

[Sean]

Benjamin wrote: "Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut is an author I have left unexplored, so I look forward to whatever lay ahead."

I had not read Vonnegut since high school. I also look forward to re-exploring his works. I remember enjoying them all.

[Sean]

Last night I made a commitment. I started Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford. Might be a while before I post on this particular thread again.

[Alice]

Started Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer

[George P.]

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (Russia, 1833), a novel in verse. It's on the short side and goes fairly quickly.

[Benjamin]

Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro.

It is nice to see some Canadian authors on the list, as I myself am from British Columbia. Regardless, this is my first time reading Munro and I am looking forward to whatever is in store.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

In the last couple weeks I've started:


The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett


The Reader by Bernhard Schlink


Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Starting A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell, first in the Dance to the Music of Time series.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

That's an excellent book, Luís

[Peter]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

[Diane]

Peter wrote: "The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera"

One of my favorites!

[Diane]

Started Grimus by Salman Rushdie.

[Hilde]

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

[Jewel]

I started The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy, and I'm listening to Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky on audiobook (which is going to take me forever).

[Diane]

Ormond by Maria Edgeworth.

[Pamela]

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

[Tyler]

Reading The Ground Beneath Her Feet, The Maltese Falcon, and The Good Soldier this month.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

[Sean]

Jewel wrote: "... and I'm listening to Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky on audiobook (which is going to take me forever)."

Well worth the commitment.

[Benjamin]

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.

[Diane]

The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie

[Nuno]

Histórias Extraordinárias by Edgar Allan Poe.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Mercedes wrote: "Faces in the Water by Frame.

I'm very much looking forward to this one."

Sounds a bit intense.

I think it was you who said in an earlier post that just about the time you think you have the list memorized, someone comes along with something that you don't ever remember seeing before. That's I felt with this one.

[Pamela]

The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore

Looking forward to this one

[George P.]

Pamela wrote: "The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore. Looking forward to this one"

I have it on my list to read at the end of the year. I already bought a copy.

[Pamela]

George wrote: "Pamela wrote: "The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore. Looking forward to this one"

I have it on my list to read at the end of the year. I already bought a copy."

Hope you enjoy it, George

[George P.]

Mercedes wrote: "Faces in the Water
Bryan, I believe there's a film, An Angel at my Table, which is based on Janet Frame's life. ..."

I've seen the film years ago (I was a good movie addict before I also became a good book addict). Directed by Jane Campion, 1990. I thought it was good but not great, but if you're interested in her (Frame) it's worth seeing.

[George P.]

Starting Foundation by Isaac Asimov. This is a re-read, I read it fifty years ago (literally) when I was a teenager. Maybe I should just keep reading it every fifty years.

[Sarah]

Started Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady, Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson.

[Benjamin]

Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnegut. My school's library has a few Vonnegut novels on the list, so I figured I would read them all, seeing as though they're relatively easy and fun reads.

[Alice]

I’m not sure I posted that I was reading The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev. Done with it and moving on to Fathers & Sons by Turgenev

[Peter]

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Amongst Women by John McGahern. Will be a quick read--should be done by tomorrow.

[Birthe]

Winter by Ali Smith

[Diane]

Simon and the Oaks by Marianne Fredriksson (AKA Simon's Family).

[Pamela]

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

[George P.]

Alice wrote: "I’m not sure I posted that I was reading The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev. Done with it and moving on to Fathers & Sons by Turgenev"

I read Fathers and Sons last year, my only Turgenev. I rated 3.5*. It's in the Novel 100 list http://www.adherents.com/people/100_n...

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I started reading


Lord of the Flies by William Golding

[Benjamin]

I have undertaken House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.

[Diane]

Starting The Castle by Franz Kafka.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

David Copperfield by Dickens. I listened to half of this on audio last year but didn't realize it was only part I (got it at a thrift store, so no chance to pick up part II.) Going to finish up the last half now by actually reading it