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[Cynthia]

"Brave New World."

[Denise]

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

Tara wrote: "Just started The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga yesterday. It's going pretty quickly, but so far I haven't been 'captured' by it. To be honest, it's rare that I really enjoy a book set in India - m..."

It was a very strange book in my opinion.

[Danyellemastro]

Mikela wrote: "Just about to begin A Clockwork Orange. Am really dubious about this choice as its not the type of book I'm drawn to."


It's brill!

[Shovelmonkey1]

Starting Flaubert's Parrot on the way home on the train tonight... if the journey is even remotely like the one i had this morning, the chances are I might have finished it before I get home!

[Corina]

That`s not really a book to be read on the train. It`s kind of a `brain pain` in my humble opinion :P

[Shovelmonkey1]

Well i've got a back up - the most recent copy of the Times Literary Supplement - should the going get too tough! Thanks for the warning!

[Shovelmonkey1]

Also I've just spotted that you're reading Oscar and Lucinda... not one of my top 1001 reads by a long shot. I'm yet to read a Peter Carey book which makes me love him as much as all my friends seem to.

[Corina]

To be honest...I can hardly wait to finish this book. While it`s well written...I`m struggling big time to find something interesting about it. Just not my thing either... :)

[Mikela]

Dbolden wrote: "Mikela wrote: "Just about to begin A Clockwork Orange. Am really dubious about this choice as its not the type of book I'm drawn to."


It's brill!"

If I continue on with it the sole reason will be to say I read it. It may be brilliant but I'm having a hard time getting past the wanton brutality of it.

[~Calyre~]

Just started Der Richter und sein Henker (The judge and his hangman) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

[Chel]

I started Walden's Pond and am still working on Kristen Lavrensdatter, both of which are great.

[Lisa]

I am reading these 3:

1. Sexing the Cherry
2. The Robber Bride
3. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

I'm 30 pages into the first one, whizzing through the second at 263, & at page 29 on the 3rd one :)

[Gerrie]

Never heard of Sexing the Cherry. Have to look it up. Gerrie

[Bucket]

I just started Swann's Way by Marcel Proust - the first of 7 books in the mega-novel "In Search of Lost Time" that is included on the 1001 books list.

I'm really enjoying this first book so far - I'm thrilled that I'm reading the Viking Penguin translation. I researched this and Scott Moncrieff's original English translation and chose this one because it is supposed to stick more closely to Proust's words (apparently Moncrieff's language is more flowery and long-winded than the original French, which would make an already long book with extremely lengthy sentences even longer!).

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

Lisa wrote: "I am reading these 3:

1. Sexing the Cherry
2. The Robber Bride
3. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

I'm 30 pages into the first one, whizzing through the secon..."

I've read the first one, and the other two sound very interesting.

[Tara]

Just about to start On Beauty by Zadie Smith. This is a new author for me, so I have no idea what to expect from it. I think I prefer to go into a book with no expectations and only a bit of an idea of what it will be about.

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Just started Candide by Voltaire. I don't know what it is going to be like. I read that Voltaire was his centuries defender of civil liberties. :D

[Lisa]

Started Sexing the Cherry last night, on page 107 of 167, so I'll finish that tonight, return it to the library tomorrow, & pick up Driver's Seat, which just came in for me :)

[Marialyce]

Started The Death of Ivan Ilych.

[Deanne]

Started A dream of red mansions a few days ago, 21% of the way through but slow going as it appears to be a big book.
Bucket
Picked up 1 and 3 of In search of lost time from the library.

[Christopher]

I just started reading by Harriet Beecher Stowe. I'm already 66 pages into it and I've run into my biggest pet peeve in all of literature: an author's attempt to imitate accents in dialogue. It's infuriating! I can't understand half of what anyone is saying.

[~Calyre~]

I just started Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler

[Gretchen]

Christopher wrote: "I just started reading by Harriet Beecher Stowe. I'm already 66 pages into it and I've run into my bigge..."
Keep with it! This is one of my favorite all time books. Even though some of the dialogue is challenging, the vocabulary is amazing and the story is unforgettable.

[Charity]

Curling up with Anna Karenina today. Nothing screams bleak, winter day to me like Russian lit. Lovely!

[Lisa]

Gretchen wrote: "Christopher wrote: "I just started reading by Harriet Beecher Stowe. I'm already 66 pages into it and I'..."

LOL, I'm perfectly able to understand it :) if you want real dialect that IS a little confusing, try Their Eyes Were Watching God. Took me about 5 pages before it clicked, & I LIVE in the South :)

[Lisa]

I just started The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Already I'm laughing AND shaking my head at the contradictions all at the same time, & being sad that we see hints of the fates in store for the girls as they age. The story that Sandy & Jenny jointly are writing about Jean & her lost love Hugh is pretty imaginative too :)

[Lisa]

Gretchen wrote: "Christopher wrote: "I just started reading by Harriet Beecher Stowe. I'm already 66 pages into it and I'..."

I started reading it via iBooks, & even though the phone update completely wiped OUT my bookshelf with all of my books, grr....I remembered I'd inherited a VERY old, small, purse sized edition from a friend of mine who passed away in 2006 & had a small collection of antique books, so you can bet I'm going to actually READ it! Have to flip through & see where the iBook one left off...I loved the story up to the point where I lost it :

[Mikela]

Enjoyed Life and Times of Micheal K so much that I wanted to read more of his work so have started Age of Iron and it is looking to be just as good.

[Gerrie]

Started The Handmaiden's Tale.

[Marialyce]

Reading The Death of Ivan Ilych.

[Bucket]

@Deanne

Awesome! Did you get the Viking translation or the older one?

[Asa]

I've started rereading Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White because I read it years ago and couldn't really remember anything about it except that I didn't like it. Since I've seen people here saying they enjoyed it I thought I should give it a second chance.

[Deanne]

Bucket
Mine is the Lydia Davis translation from 2002 , and just got an email to say book 2 is at the library.

[Gerrie]

Loving The Handmaiden's Tale.

[Ellen]

Lisa wrote: "I just started The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Already I'm laughing AND shaking my head at the contradictions all at the same time, & being sad that we see hints of the fates in store for the girls..."

Lisa, I just watched the movie the other day, and really enjoyed it. But I felt terrible for Jean when she was "betrayed" by one of her favorite girls. One wonders if she'll really leave the school or will, as before, talk her way back in? I would have killed to have a teacher like her, honestly. Thanks!

[Corina]

I started Miller`s Tropic of Cancer. It`s kind of...hmmm...over the top? To say the least. It makes me laugh though so I guess that`s a good thing.

[Karina]

Just started The Trial by Kafka. Trying to catch up with all of my reading!

[Denise]

Starting Fingersmith, I enjoyed several of her other works. Understand this may be one of her best.

[Maryellen]

Have been reading "Fingersmith" and at half done I find it a terrific novel.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Going to start Pnin today. I just finished Now in November, which is not a list book, but for those of you who might also be working the Pulitzer list, it's worth the time.

[Bucket]

@Deanne

Yup, that's the same translation I'm reading - I'm excited to have found it.

Unfortunately, due to screwy public domain law here in the US, only books 1-4 of this translation have been published here. I'm hoping I can do some fancy WorldCat finagling when I get to the last three volumes, as they were published on your side of the ocean.

[Craig]

La Reine Margot --Dumas

Excited to read this one, especially because Three Musketeers was so fun to read.

[Laura]

Recently started The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Enjoying it so far. It is one of those books I am surprised I have never read before now.

[Tara]

About 50 pages into 'How the Dead Live' by Will Self. Definitely an interesting premise...it feels a bit 'manic' so far and the British pop culture references make me feel like a ton of stuff is going over my head, but I'm intrigued.

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Started The Old Man and the Sea.

[Jenny]

Started The Name of the Rose and I am hooked already.

[Becky]

Just started the Stranger by Albert Camus (aka the Outsider)

[Lauli]

Rabbit, Run. So far so good.

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

I've just started Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner.
Not sure what to make of it so far.