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[Colleen]

Just started Candide by Voltaire - bonkers :)

[Mikela]

Colleen wrote: "Just started Candide by Voltaire - bonkers :)"

But very enjoyable bonkers :)

[Colleen]

Absolutely! I love bonkers :)

[Kelsi]

Just started The Count of Monte Cristo. Easy read so far and really good!

[Mikela]

Kelsi wrote: "Just started The Count of Monte Cristo. Easy read so far and really good!"

This is a book that I really want to read...just as soon as I can clear up some of the books ahead of it.

[Dimity]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn :) liking it so far!! Just started the adventure of reading these 1001 books before I die. Lets see how I go...wish me luck!!!

[Grada (BoekenTrol)]

I've just started Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré

[Sam]

Make sure that you see the movie. Very enjoyable. I love Le Carre. I read all his books. Many are made into good movies.

[Sofia]

I'm sure you'll like this Mikela!

Mikela wrote: "Kelsi wrote: "Just started The Count of Monte Cristo. Easy read so far and really good!"

This is a book that I really want to read...just as soon as I can clear up some of the books ahead of it."

[Sofia]

I began The Hound of the Baskervilles yesterday. Hoping to finish it today or tomorrow, and then I'll start The Third Man by Graham Greene.

[Shelley]

Just started the Poisonwood Bible late last night. So far I like it but had to get into the cadence of the writing.

[Annina]

I started yesterday Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

[Stephanie "Jedigal"]

Suddenly got on a weird tangent. By my calculation there are are 42 authors with 5 or more books (combined lists). So they must be important, right?


Just started:
Northanger Abbey on Kindle. That will complete Austen on the list for me!

Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory in paperback. He has 8 titles - this is my 1st!

Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles in audio. He only has 5 on the list, but I enjoyed 1Q84 so much, I thought I'd keep going with him.

[Krystle]

Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Krystle wrote: "Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon"

I don't believe that's a list book.

[Cynthia]

"The Brothers Karamazov."

[M]

Dimity wrote: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn :) liking it so far!! Just started the adventure of reading these 1001 books before I die. Lets see how I go...wish me luck!!!"

Welcome aboard! There are lots of great novels in the list, and there's also hope we can finish it - see Deanne, I think she's read 950+.

[Judith]

503. Home - Marilynne Robinson

Home

[Dimity]

The Hobbit :) don't know why I haven't read it before!

[Mikela]

Although I'm only 26 page into Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, I've read enough to know that I'll love it. It is so absolutely old-fashioned, charming and just like the golden era movies (I can picture Katherine Hepburn playing a role in this) that it's hard to resist.

[Liz M]

Mikela wrote: "Although I'm only 26 page into Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, I've read enough to know that I'll love it.... (I can picture Katherine Hepburn playing a role in this)..."

Actually, it was (view spoiler)[
Frances McDormand & Amy Adams (hide spoiler)]

[Mikela]

Liz M wrote: Actually, it was (view spoiler)

Hey, that is so cool! I hadn't realized there actually was a movie by that title but simply allowing my imagination to take over. Thanks, will have to look out for it.

[Deanne]

Reading Berlin Alexanderplatz by Doblin, think this is 948.

[Ian]

The Midnight Examiner by William Kotzwinkle. I think "zany" is the word.

[Sofia]

Of Mice and Men :)

[Denise]

Continuing In Search of Lost Time. I have committed to reading Proust with another group. It may slow down my reading of some of the other 1001. But I also started Ragtimelast evening which looks to be a quick read

[Charity]

Stephanie "Just started:
Northanger Abbey on Kindle. That will complete Austen on the list for me!"

Oooh! That's my favorite Austen! Such a fantastic Gothic parody! I love quixotic Catherine, always reading and letting her imagination run free. And Henry Tilney is completely swoonable -- one of my literary crushes! BBC did a pretty great film adaptation in 2007 that I highly recommend!!

[Peter]

Just starting Charles Dickens' Hard Times and am looking forward to reading it.

[Karena]

Reading The Catcher in the Rye. I feel late to the party on this book.

[Grant]

Currently halfway through War and Peace. I figured I'd tackle one of the biggest books first. I'm enjoying the heck out of it, but I must admit that yesterday I started thumbing ahead, looking at page numbers, and thinking, "Okay...I gotta finish this thing." It is good....but definitely starting to feel a little long. Characters though, the characters! I've never read such characterization before.

I love the quote on the book - "If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy." - Issak Babel.

Also another from Virginia Woolf - "There remains the greatest of all novelists--for what else can we call the author of War and Peace?"


War, What is it good for?

[Craig]

Deanne wrote: "Reading Berlin Alexanderplatz by Doblin, think this is 948."

So curious as to how this is in novel form. I have seen the film version (all 15.5 hrs of it!) and quite enjoyed it--despite the epic length, it stayed with me for weeks after finishing it, and still haunts me.

[Rebeca]

Sofia wrote: "Of Mice and Men :)"

Thats a great book,,,so compasionate.

[Rebeca]

Cynthia wrote: ""The Brothers Karamazov.""

This is a masterpiece, one of my 5 favorites,,,enjoy it!

[Karina]

Just picked up Wise Blood from the library.

[Colleen]

Just started After The Quake by Haruki Murukami

[Genia]

Started The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. So far so good.

[Ian]

Genia wrote: "Started The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. So far so good."

Genia, I can't quite put my finger on why, but I adored that book. It cast some sort of a spell on me I think.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Genia wrote: "Started The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. So far so good."

I have had this on my shelf for months now. I need to find a time to read it.

[Zara's Retreat]

I have just started We Need to Talk About Kevin

This is my second attempt after a false start I had with it when I attempted to read it last year.

[Lauren]

Zara wrote: "I have just started We Need to Talk About Kevin

This is my second attempt after a false start I had with it when I attempted to read it last year."

This is not a list book.

[Craig]

Oblomov -Goncharov
and
The Mill On the Floss -Eliot

[Dimity]

Life of Pi :) reading it before I watch the movie!

[Diane]

I just started Life of Pi too, but I saw the movie over US Thanksgiving.

[Jecca]

just starting the list and my first pick is Dracula...although i have read some of the books before i knew the list existed.

[Deanne]

Just started The Garden Where The Brass Band Played by Vestdijk.

[Ellinor]

I just started The Old Man and the Sea and I'm in the middle of Dracula.

[Denise]

There but for the from the new list. Really enjoying it.

[Judith]

The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead

The Man Who Loved Children

[Mikela]

Have just begun The Riddle of the Sands and The Kindly Ones book #6 of A Dance to The Music of Time.

[Colleen]

Right, I'm doing it... Anna Karenina just started