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[Dina]

I've just started Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Good so far but I expect more.

[Donna]

Starting On the Road by Jack Kerouac.

[Mikela]

Just started Brideshead Revisited. It was a slow start but am enjoying it more the further I read.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Mikela wrote: "Just started Brideshead Revisited. It was a slow start but am enjoying it more the further I read."

This is one of my favorites - enjoy!

[Ellen]

Just started Fugitive Pieces. Beautiful writing!

[Dana]

Just started The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford...when I finish, I'll have knocked two more off my list!

[~Calyre~]

Currently reading The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler.

[[deleted user]]

I have always wanted to read Austen, but for some reason have been intimidated. To try to read one, I am currently watching the movie of Sense and Sensibility over the next couple days and will be starting the book this week!

[Judith]

In a Glass Darkly - Le Fanu


Good stuff if you love the Gothic genre as I do!

[Karina]

Just started Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. I read some excerpts in high school but finally will read the whole thing. I don't remember being a fan 10 years ago but we'll see!

[Craig]

Against the Grain (or Against Nature) -Huysmans
and
A Woman's Life -De Maupassant

Against the Grain already showing to be a decadent work dripping with style.

[Lauren]

I just started Dracula and I LOVE it so far! Totally creepy and VERY well written.

[Jennifer W]

I've just started both Moll Flanders and Alias Grace. So far I'm enjoying them both.

[~Calyre~]

Started In the Forest by Edna O'Brien.

[Deanne]

Judith
Love Le Fanu, In a glass darkly is one of my favourites, have you got a favourite story from the collection?
Reading The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary, just getting into it and placing the characters.

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

Started The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery(now finished. I loved it :-D)

and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

[Viviana]

The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa

[Donna]

Starting The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

[Arukiyomi]

wow Rachel, you picked two great ones back to back!

[~Calyre~]

Reading All Quiet on the Western Front

[Bucket]

Last night I started Time Regained - the final volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. I've been working on the novel for months (read Vol. 1 last December), as well as reading some lit-crit, so it's definitely bittersweet to be nearing the end of my Proust journey. And, I must say, a little lackluster that all this work only checks one box on the 1001 list. :)

[Arukiyomi]

ah but what a box Bucket, what a box!

[Dina]

I've just started One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn.

[Lauren]

I just started The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

[Mikela]

Lauren wrote: "I just started The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky."

I loved this book - enjoy.

[Inder]

Bucket wrote: "And, I must say, a little lackluster that all this work only checks one box on the 1001 list. :)"

I can imagine! (But it is quite a box, indeed.)

I have been reading Les Miserables off and on since December, and I was feeling that way, and that's only one book, and not three! The writing seems to go in fits and starts. There will be a long discussion of Napoleonic politics, a rant about poverty in general, some slow moving dialogue, then there will a moment of absolute transcendence that sends shivers down my spine, followed by another long historical interlude, rinse, repeat. :-)

[Bucket]

Inder wrote: I can imagine! (But it is quite a box, indeed.)

I have been reading Les Miserables..."

I haven't read Les Miserables yet, but I'm looking forward to it. I definitely enjoy the doorstoppers. Luckily we aren't reading just to check off the boxes - if we were, we'd never read anything over 300 pages. :)

[Amanda]

I just started Les Miserables this week. I've only read about 100 pages but I'm really enjoying it so far. I do plan to read other things so it will take me awhile.

[Cam]

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and
The Little Prince (in Portugeuse, but The Little Prince nevertheless.)

Both very good so far.
Loving the Little Prince. So cute. :)

[Inder]

Bucket wrote: "I haven't read Les Miserables yet, but I'm looking forward to it. I definitely enjoy the doorst..."

Indeed! True, true. And did I mention the moments of beauty and transcendence? Well worth the 200 page (at times quite interesting, don't get me wrong) description of the Battle of Waterloo.

[Craig]

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -Doyle

[[deleted user]]

I am still reading Sense and Sensibility, but I have also started

[Lauren]

Caitie wrote: "I am still reading Sense and Sensibility, but I have also started "

I LOVED Dracula. Have fun!

[Amanda]

Ulysses. Oh dear god, someone help me.

[Melissa]

Middlesex It's good so far.

[Mikela]

I loved Middlesex. Enjoy!

[Denise]

Amanda wrote: "Ulysses. Oh dear god, someone help me."

Try the audiobook.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Next on my plate is The Master and Margarita. Have heard good things and am looking forward to it.

[Kellyanne]

The Master and Margarita was wonderful. I am sure you will have some late nights of reading ahead! I started Kitchenlast night and had to force myself not to pick it back up when I reached my bed time hour.

[Genia]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Next on my plate is The Master and Margarita. Have heard good things and am looking forward to it."

I love that book. It's one of the best books ever.

[~Calyre~]

Currently reading Pride and Prejudice

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Genia wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Next on my plate is The Master and Margarita. Have heard good things and am looking forward to it."

I love that book. It's one of the best books ever."

Well, I've abandoned it. I think it's just not for me. Satire, fantasy, religion. I wish the description had been better (or that I had read it better?) so that I would have known ahead of time.

[Darcy]

I just started The Elegance of a Hedgehog!

[Mikela]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Genia wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Next on my plate is The Master and Margarita. Have heard good things and am looking forward to it."

I love that book. It's one of the best books ever."

We..."

I didn't particularly care for it either but might have appreciated it more if my knowledge of Russian history was better. Certain sections were interesting, such as satan's ball, but for the most part I liked but didn't love. Based on your reading preferences, I didn't think you would enjoy.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Mikela wrote: "I didn't particularly care for it either but might have appreciated it more if my knowledge of Russian history was better. Certain sections were interesting, such as satan's ball, but for the most part I liked but didn't love. Based on your reading preferences, I didn't think you would enjoy. "

LOL - thank you for helping me not to feel guilty. I'm going to go read some more Trollope so I can get to The Last Chronicles of Barset.

[Mekki]

I just started The Blind Owl.

[Deanne]

Amanda
If you think Ulysses is awful, just try Finnegan's Wake, hated them both.
About to start Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary.

[Denise]

Considering, Life & Times of Michael K vs To the Lighthouse

[Mandy]

Moll Flanders!

[Arukiyomi]

Here are my reviews (no spoilers) to help you Denise:

my To the Lighthouse review

my Michael K review

I loved them both.