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[Ram]

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

[Jen]

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

[Denise]

Jenny-
I just read Midnight's Children last year. I liked it a lot. I guess it was voted best of the Booker prize winners, too. Curious what you think.

[Judith]

"Brideshead Revisited" - Evelyn Waugh

[Juliane]

I just started "The Bridge Over The Drina" by Ivo Andric - I have read the first 100 pages now, and so far I can tell, the book is really great. Can't stop reading - but have to because I have to work :((!

[Pam]

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut. Just started it last night - I'm liking it so far.

[Anna]

Cold Flat Junction by Martha Grimes

[Erin]

I just started "The Once and Future King." I was excited to see it on the list, because I've planning on reading it for awhile.

[Silver]

Just started The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

[Ami]

Just started Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy last night.

[Suzanne]

I just started Fingersmith, which is on the 2006 list.

[C.]

"Underworld", Don DeLillo.

Suzanne - I found Fingersmith very unsatisfying, but most people seem to love it.

[Denise]

Silver-- I'm about a week into The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which isn't even half-way. We'll have to compare notes.

[Ravenskya]

Just started Moby Dick... so far I'd only read the children's version, and I feel bad about counting that.

[Tara]

Not really just starting, I'm about 2/3 through The Sound and the Fury and adoring it.

[Tara]

My Everest is Ulysses.

[Tara]

Pam, that is a great read.

[Silver]

Denise, yes it is a fairly thick book, I am currently just on the 3rd chapter of it.

[Judith]

Dracula - Bram Stoker

[Lori]

Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro from the 2006 lis

[H.J.]

Tara--

Help me! I really enjoyed Faulkner's other works, but I wanted to die while reading Sound and the Fury. What did I miss? What are you liking the most about it?

[Ravenskya]

Currently working on Moby Dick, and started The Three Musketeers - is that one on the list?

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rereading Perfume, one of my favorites.

[Pam]

Of Mice and Men - I've read it before, but it's been so long since I did that I thought I should reread it.

[Melissa]

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth. I'm not loving it so far.

[Silver]

I just started Three Lives by Gertude Stein, it is for a course I am taking. I have not yet gotten far into it, but it seems interesting. She was an abstract exprimental writer.

[Anna]

Impossible love by Roman Frister

[Jibreel]

I just started The Calder Game. Are we on a list or i can just read any book?

[April]

Melissa, I became a huge Roth fan after I read "Goodbye Columbus and Other Stories," but I didn't like "Portnoy's Complaint" either.

[Karen]

Pam, my library book group just did "Of Mice and Men" this week--we had a great discussion. Most of us had read it years ago, but were fuzzy on the details. It's such a powerful little story--Steinbeck sure packed a lot into one novella!
Our group always does a book that has been banned or challenged in the past in Sept to celebrate "Banned Book Week" and Of Mice and Men is one of the most historically challenged books, because of the profanity and language.

[Pam]

Hi Karen, I finished Of Mice and Men last night and really enjoyed it. I completely agree with you about the power of that story - I really loved it. I've decided to also reread 1984 because, like Of Mice and Men, I read it in high school and can't remember many of the details.

[[deleted user]]

Empire of the Sun. Love it so far. I really liked the movie but the book is just amazing puts the movie to shame.

[K.S.R.]

I just started The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I'm truly enjoying it.

[Jon]

I just started Frankenstein by Mary Shelley as an ebook on my BlackBerry downloaded from Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/84)

[Ann from S.C.]

Just starting LIFE OF PI.

[Catalina]

I just started Beloved by Toni Morrison. It's my first one by her. Heaviness right from the first page, but it's addicting.

[Miranda]

Hello everyone! I'm new! *waves*

I just started reading The Bell Jar. Somehow I've never read it, but I'm loving the prose. Hearing that it was the female version of The Catcher in the Rye had me worried.

[Melissa]

Technically, I started it a few days ago, but I didn't read at all yesterday or today, so it's kind of like I just started it. I'm currently reading The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. I don't know what I thought the book was going to be like, but it's nothing like what I expected. I can't help reading the whole thing with that voice that narrated the old-time, black and white PI shows. Very distracting!

But I just went to the bookstore today and bought several new books that I'm excited about, so I need to get through this one!

[Melissa]

Oh, and April, re: Philip Roth. I greatly enjoyed The Plot Against America, so I was actually looking forward to Portnoy's Complaint! And I though it got better by the end, but the first 2/3 of the book was hard to get through. I just felt so screamed at the whole time. So! Many! Exclamation! Points!!!

[Stacie]

I took a little break from the list and am gearing up to read Dracula.

[Karen]

I am reading "The Nun" by Denis Diderot, which is a short but scathing look at Catholic convents and their treatment of women in 18th century France. An easier read than I had expected, but also somewhat repetitious.

I am also reading, in daily installments, "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll.

Does anyone else use: www.dailyreader.net? for
daily installments? It has mostly older books available, but many are from the 1001 list. You sign up at the site and they will send you the book in a small portion daily--about 10 min worth of reading a day. I save them in a folder and read when I have a spare minute or two--I don't generally like reading books on a computer screen, but this is workign for me.

[Rob]

Miranda!

OMG - I LOVED The Bell Jar!! Found it absolutely addicting and powerful - I found it NOTHING like Catcher in the Rye - not even close - which was just OK for me. Hope you enjoy it!

[P]

Melissa: I thought The Big Sleep was great! Incredibly quick read, very humorous descriptions and dialogues, and Marlowe is the grandfather of all noir PI's. I'm surprised you're having a tough time working through it.

[April]

Karen, I use DailyLit.com - similar idea. I love it!!

[Jennifer]

Karen, Thanks for the info on www.dailyreader.net. I went to the website today and I'm going to give it a try. I like the concept and hope I can keep up with the reading.

[Melissa]

Karen, thanks for pointing us to dailyreader.net! I just signed up. I'm going to try to use that for my classics. I'm starting with Oliver Twist.

[Melissa]

Pascal, I think it might be that maybe I'm not a fan of the noir PI genre! So even though Chandler did a great job of that style of book, it just wasn't for me. The dialogue was pretty witty, but I just didn't care that much about the story overall. I feel bad saying that, but it's a personal taste thing. Nothing against Chandler!

[Kristi]

Halfway through "The Shipping News." I'm really into it now, but the first few chapters were difficult for me. I remember my friend recommending it to me, and we generally like the same books. I haven't seen the movie yet.

[Liz]

Half way through "Sula" by Toni Morrison.

[Claudine]

I totally agree. I wonder why that is? I feel like it has something to do with the sentence structure/amount of (use of) description? I've only read the english translation of Love in the Time of Cholera, I wonder if the resemblance would still be there in the original.