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Bucket | 248 comments Started The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton


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Lisa James (sthwnd) | 352 comments Silas Marner, a bit slow going, but interesting!


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Peter | 443 comments Am about a third of the way through Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and thus far am enjoying it.


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Mikela | 378 comments About a third of the way through Watchmen. I detested the book at first but as I get further into it I'm starting to appreciate it more. It will be interesting to see how I feel about it tonight after I finish it.


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Laura | 149 comments Peter wrote: "Am about a third of the way through Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and thus far am enjoying it."

LOVED The English Patient- it got 5 out of 5 from me! :)


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Deborah Wells | 39 comments I just started reading Infinite Jest. I'm already hooked. I know others have said it's going to be a long, slow, sometimes painful read, but I'm enjoying it so far. :)

I'm also about 1/3 of the way finished with The Invisible Man. Kind of a funny old-timey sci-fi book.


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Mandy | 154 comments Have started Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.. just a few pages in and so far pretty entertaining!


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Craig | 241 comments The Good Soldier -Ford


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Deanne | 681 comments Started The Real Charlotte by Ross and Somerville, a fun read.


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Tara A (quartinsession) | 59 comments I'm about a third of the way through Gulliver's Travels. I was really dreading it, after making a feeble 20-page attempt several years ago, but it has been surprisingly engaging so far.


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Maryann (amaryann21) | 49 comments Just started Naked Lunch- the drug slang is going to take some getting used to. Feeling a little lost at present, but it's easy reading.


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David (boototter) | 12 comments Hunger by Knut Hamsun


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~Calyre~ | 103 comments I'm reading Sentimental Education


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Deanne | 681 comments Started The Time of Indifferance by Moravia, picked up a few books from my local library.


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Grada (BoekenTrol) (boekentrol) | 60 comments I just started Enduring Love by Ian McEwan


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Slow Man | 0 comments The Pursuit of Love - Mitford


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Chuck | 24 comments Last week I got a leg up on Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor . Interesting so far, more stylized than I anticipated. Only prior experience was with short stories in college.


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Peter | 443 comments Having just finished The English Patient have moved onto On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin.


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Craig | 241 comments Midnight's Children -Rushdie


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Mikela | 378 comments Craig wrote: "Midnight's Children -Rushdie"

I really loved that book despite my largely cultural ignorance.


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Craig | 241 comments Mikela wrote: "Craig wrote: "Midnight's Children -Rushdie"

I really loved that book despite my largely cultural ignorance."


About 80 pages in and getting used to the style and pace. I like it so far.


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Amie (amie-b) | 25 comments The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. Interesting sci-fi.


message 6223: by Laura (new)

Laura | 149 comments I've just started John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men- it's pretty good so far!


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Mikela | 378 comments Just starting Cat’s Cradle, my first experience with Kurt Vonnegut.


message 6225: by Lisa (last edited Dec 19, 2012 11:32AM) (new)

Lisa | 3 comments Getting ready to start The Wide Sargasso Sea. Jane Eyre is one of my all-time favorites and I have wanted to read this book for quite some time.


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Krystle (kparkbsnrn) | 3 comments Just finished You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore and am about to start Cloaked in Malice by Annette Blair


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Hima (himazima) | 36 comments The Picture of Dorian Gray. I also just ordered the uncensored version. Wondering if anyone had read/heard about it? I want to see how the two versions differ.


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Elizabeth (Alaska) Just starting Nana.


message 6230: by Deanne (new)

Deanne | 681 comments Started Revolving Lights, the seventh book in Richardson's pilgrimage, and the library managed to get hold of the last volume for me, so plan to finish this before the new year.


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Ellinor (1001andmore) | 912 comments Mod
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.


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message 6233: by Mandy (new)

Mandy | 154 comments Just started Alias Grace..so far very good.


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Grada (BoekenTrol) (boekentrol) | 60 comments I just started Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.


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Juliana (jaldous) | 21 comments I also just downloaded the Count of Monte Cristo to test out Goodreads ebooks.


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Brooke | 2 comments I am a really big fan of Alexander Dumas. I started reading his books in junior high and have been reading them every since.


message 6238: by Kristel (new)

Kristel (kristelh) I am reading The Arabian Nights on Goodreads e-book. The pages move a little too easy. It's the second book I've read on Goodreads. Otherwise, I am reading The Magus by John Fowles. Really engaging!


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Ed Lehman | 122 comments I just started Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence...Can't believe I'm only discovering her now. I can already tell I'm going to like this one.


message 6240: by Mekki (new)

Mekki | 171 comments I'm starting Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates


message 6241: by Craig (new)

Craig | 241 comments La Bete Humaine -Zola

After Germinal, I have high hopes for another disturbingly great work.


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Deborah Wells | 39 comments Around the World in Eighty Days, a pick that is on both the 1001 list and the 1001 children's list.


message 6244: by Deanne (new)

Deanne | 681 comments Started U.S.A by Dos Passos, written in a way that is intriguing and easy to pick up.


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Melissa Blessington | 19 comments Mekki wrote: "I'm starting Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates"

oooo this is such a good book. The JFK part was quite intriguing.


message 6246: by Mikela (new)

Mikela | 378 comments So far I'm really enjoying A Question of Upbringing, book one of the set Dance to the Music of Time.


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Judith (jloucks) | 1202 comments Wittgenstein's Mistress - David Markson

Wittgenstein’s Mistress


message 6249: by Genia (new)

Genia Lukin | 205 comments Just started Anna Karenina, Villette, and 1Q84. Because what goes better together than three long books?


message 6250: by Mandy (new)

Mandy | 154 comments just started The Blind Assassin


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