Which LIST book did you just start? Showing 751-800 of 6,816

[Emma]

Just started One Hundred Years of Solitude. I read Love in the Time of Cholera first...

[Aly]

Hey Stephanie -

So far the book is getting better - I know some people have said they've had problems with the timeline jumping around, but I've not found that to be an issue. I'm finding the characters more endearing the further I read....glad to hear you loved it! Gives me hope! LOL :)

Aly

[Coalbanks]

I'm considering: Moonstone by Colin Wilkie or The Brothers Karamazov by Dosoyevsky or Bill mOyer's essays on Democracy. Any advice? Currently reading Solzhenitsyn's Letter to the Soviet Leaders/ Letter to the West.

[Denise]

Coalbanks, Start them all and leave it to natural selection. (I've been reading the other threads).

I just started The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Might not be on the list, but it did win the Pulitzer. So far I like it.

[Coalbanks]

Thanks. That does tend to be my "method" of selection. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao... again someone has mentioned it to me. Time to look it up, I guess. Thanks.

[Christina Stind]

I loved 'The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao' - such a different book, at least for me. Really found it amazing!

And Aly, 'A Prayer for Owen Meany' is one of my favourites as well. I love John Irving's writing and Garp, Owen Meany and Ciderhouse Rules are three books that I can just read over and over :-)

[Kevin]

I don't think this is on the list, but I'm starting the Story of Edgar Sawtelle today. Anybody have an opinion on this book?

[Christina Stind]

I've been wanting to read this one as well - looking forward to hear what you think :-)

[Lindsey]

Started Jane Eyre and loving it so for. Even better it's not at all what I was expecting. Thought I really don't know what I was expecting, but whatever it was it's not as good as this.

[Melissa]

I'm about to start Mother's Milk. I only have about 8 books on the list right now, so it's frustrating to choose because I don't seem to be in the mood for any of them! But I'm trying to hold off bringing new books into the house till I put a dent in my TBR pile (both list and non-list books).

[Tina]

I just started Oliver Twist and I'm really enjoying it. I hate to admit this, but the only Dickens I've read before now was Great Expectations because it was required in ninth grade. I wonder if it was my teacher's presentation that turned me off to Dickens for all those years? Needless to say, I feel like I've discovered an untapped treasure of literary gold! I can't wait to read the rest of his works :)

[Deb]

Well, Tina, I LOVE Dickens, but cannnot, CANNOT get into Jane Austen! I know there are whole reading groups who read nothing BUT Austen, and I must confess to a bit of disappointment in myself that I don't like her, but there it is.... so don't worry about you and Charles!

[akaellen]

It took me a while to get into this one (100 years of solitude). I always joke that it took 100 years to read it. However, by the end I found myself really enjoying it.

[akaellen]

I just started The Namesake. I purposefully did not see the movie before I started this one.

[Christina Stind]

Just picked up Wide Sargasso Sea - very excited to be reading this one so shortly after reading Jane Eyre.

[Jocelyn]

I started Frankenstein on Saturday and should be done with it tonight. I am in awe of Mary Shelley's prose.

[Laura]

I fell madly in love with Frankenstein when I first read it years ago. It really is so much greater than the Hollywood evolution of the story would have you believe.

[Deanne]

Just started Fortunata and Jacinta, only about 80 pages in and just starting to get the family relationships sorted out.

[Denise]

Deanne, I was curious enough to check out a review of the book. I would like to learn a little about Madrid, and it sounds good, but the 829 pages seems daunting.

[Kristi]

Began Little Women tonight

[Emma]

Coalbanks, I loved The Moonstone! I'm a detective fiction fan.

akaellen, re 100 Years of Solitude, I'm having to go back and remember, who's Prudencio Aguilar or which Arcadio are we dealing with here? I read a review elsewhere where someone had difficulty keeping García Márquez names straight and I pooh-poohed it. Little did I know...

[Christina Stind]

When I read 'Love in the Time of Cholera', I had trouble keeping the names straight. I think it's because the names are not familiar to me - I had the same problem with 'Kafka on the Shore' and to some extent with 'Shadow of the Wind' ...

Still loved all three though ...

[Deanne]

Denise
I set myself the task of reading so many pages a day unless I really get into the book and can't stop.
I'd also just finished Genji which was 1150 pages so 820 doesn't seem so bad.
As for Spain I've not been there yet, but I'm going back home to the UK so I hope to spend more time travelling in Europe. Barcelona and Madrid are on my list, not interested in the Costa del sol.

[Christina Stind]

Just started 'Interview with the Vampire' - saw and liked the movie, never read the book, now's the time...

[Tameka]

I've just started the Old Man and the Sea and it has a lot to live up to. It was recommended to me by a friend and yesterday when i bought it, the sales assistant told me that it was the "best book ever written" in his opinion.

So, needless to say, I have pretty big expectations of this one.

[Galen]

Christina, I just read Wide Sargasso Sea after Jane Eyre, and I loved them both...but it did raise a lot of questions for me about whether I would have liked WSS without having read Jane Eyre. It was interesting to read some of the literary criticism of WSS before and after reading the book. They are such different books, even though they do have the same characters. Happy reading!

[Christina Stind]

I agree Galen, very different books. I actually thought the book got better after reading comments here on goodreads. In some ways, I'm not sure that the book would have worked if you didn't know Jane Eyre...

[Ravenskya]

Just started "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" and am almost done with "Great Expectations"

[Shary]

Saturday by Ian McEwan

[Kristi]

Go Tell It on the Mountain

[Stephanie]

Just finished Middlesex and am starting on Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood.

[Deanne]

Just started The dictionary of the Khazars, I'm reading the male version of the book.

[Kelly]

I just started Saturday. I am new to book clubs but have always wanted to join one. I have not read anything by the author, so I hope I enjoy him.

[Laura]

Deanne, I'm terribly curious about Dictionary of the Khazars. I've only read the parts in both books where they differ and am terribly intrigued by the differences.

I just started Europe Central by Vollman and Justine, the first of the Alexandria Quartet, by Lawrence Durrell.

[Deanne]

Laura
The difference between the male and female versions is apparantly about 17 sentences in the yellow or jewish book.
It was an interesting how the history of the Khazars is portrayed depending on the religion of the various writers ,( christian, islamic and jewish) It's a reminder of how different people see things.

[Susan]

I am working on some of the shorter stories on the list, so I just started Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and still working on Remains of the Day

[Doug]

Just started Anthony Powell's a Dance to the music of time series. (12 short novels). Finished the first and look forward to rest. He is a master of characterization.

[Kristi]

I am about to begin The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: A Novel. I feel guilty reading something that is not on the list...

[Katharine]

I have started Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy. Read about 30 pages so far and really liking it

[Kris]

Sense and Sensibility - I am really enjoying it! I have put off reading Austin for some reason...

[Niche]

Kristi inspired me to start Gone with the Wind. I was planning on reading it over the Thanksgiving break but I keep getting distracted by those damn vampire books.

[Jon]

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells as an ebook on my BlackBerry.

[Linda]

Just started A Separate Peace, which I understand is not on the list, but should be! I read it in high school but wanted to refresh my memory of it.

[Stephanie]

A Separate Peace is a wonderful book! One of my faves :) And I fully agree it should have made the list.

[[deleted user]]

War the Worlds. I'm reading it to my son.

[Terrea]

Just started Catch 22. I didn't even know there was a film until I read the preface... so now I'm excited to find that after I read.

... and a big LOL @ Niche for, "but I keep getting distracted by those damn vampire books." I know how you feel! =)

[Jane]

On a recommendation of a good friend I'm reading....
The Crown Conspiracy by Michael J. Sullivan (GR Author)

I'm really enjoying it so far. Reminds me of Brandon Sanderson who I enjoyed quite a bit.

[[deleted user]]

Metamorphoses by Ovidius

[Vicky]

Tonight I am finally starting "The Kite Flyer". It's one of those books that EVERYONE has read, and I want to find out what all the fuss is about.

[Ravenskya]

Just started War and Peace... still working on Ulysses and hating every second of it