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[Elizabeth]

Mansfield Park.

[Emma]

While I still haven't finished City of God, I've begun New York Trilogy and I've been reading the Count of Monte Cristo online at DailyLit.com.

[Eva]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. So far it reminds me a lot of Bram Stoker's Dracula,

[Mike]

Has anyone here read The Melancholy of Resistance by Lazlo Krasznhorkai? I'm about 100 pgs in just trudging through it. It's not bad, but at the same time it's not great. Is it worth finishing?

[Lianne]

I started reading Bram Stoker's Dracula earlier this week and it's pretty interesting so far =)

[Kat (A Journey In Reading)]

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[FromAna]

Number the Stars

[Kat (A Journey In Reading)]

Finished In Cold Blood....... moving on to The Awakening

[Helena]

I just started reading Sense and Sensibility via DailyReader.

[Kristin]

Just finished Practical Demonkeeping yesterday and started House of Leaves right after. Im past the Introduction and only 13 pages in, so far so good, i dont hate it but im not in love with it yet.. its just good enough to keep me reading for now. I think the best pages will be the one word pages and the ones i have to read backwards.

[Judith]

Started
Native Son by Richard Wright yesterday. Just reading the introductory essay "How Bigger Was Born" makes me anxious to get on to the story. Wright is brilliant.

[Judith]

Emma wrote: "While I still haven't finished City of God, I've begun New York Trilogy and I've been reading the Count of Monte Cristo online at DailyLit.com."

I just ordered "The New York Trilogy". Tell us how you reacted to it when you get a chance, please. I've never read Auster.

[Gaston]

Moby Dick

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Middlemarch

[Eliza]

Emma

[Jasmin]

City of God

[Kristin]

I couldn't get into House of leaves, so I started The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. And finished it in 6 hours. The book was just amazing.

[Anna]

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[FromAna]

Kristin wrote: "I couldn't get into House of leaves, so I started The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. And finished it in 6 hours. The book was just amazing."

I loved that on too!

[Kristi]

Just started Tropic of Cancer for a book club. I suspect that I will hate it.

[Paula]

Reading "Vathek" via DailyLit and trying to figure out which book to "read" read next.

[Deanna]

We are reading Aesop's Fables as a family! It will take quite sometime to get through it, however, I truly cherish the family conversations/discussions that are developed from these pre-1700 writings...

[Dan]

Going to start To the Lighhouse but I'm also going off-list for a couple of books.

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I am about half way through Life of Pi. I am really enjoying it.

[Chel]

I started A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. I have been looking forward to reading it for a long time.

[Deanne]

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding only 30 pages in so far.

[Yrinsyde]

I finished reading Mansfield Park last week. My husband suggested I try something different from Austen and he picked The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs. I started this a few days ago and I am half way through. I'm reading it on public transport to and from work and I wonder if that is appropriate! It is very 'in your face' but very blunt and honest.

[Dave]

Started Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee.

[Suzanne]

I am about to start on Lolita. Just joined the club!

[Carly]

I just started Lolita. Only about 30 pages in, but I'm hooked and simultaneously shocked....can't wait to read more!

[Kristi]

I just picked up Vanity Fair. I like it, so far. This is going to be a long one.

[Charity]

Starting Life of Pi today...

[Carly]

Suzanne wrote: "I am about to start on Lolita. Just joined the club!"

I'd be interested in what you think--I started a few days ago...and it's intense! I'm about 100 pages in now, and all I want to do is read!

[Sam]

I just started treasure island. The one I'm reading was a gift to someone named "richard" in 1952!! I'm only on about the third page right now though.

[Suzanne]

Carly wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "I am about to start on Lolita. Just joined the club!"

I'd be interested in what you think--I started a few days ago...and it's intense! I'm about 100 pages in now, and all I wa..."

I just started it as an audio book yesterday. The guy's obsession reminds me of the latest news about the child porn bust in Florida. He seems to think that his attraction to “nymphets” is something he needs to control when he decides to marry. I'm at the part when his wife tells him there is another man. Is it the taxi- driver? If I had the actual book, it would be easier to go back and reread, but with audio, some things fly by me.

I wonder if the young prostitute has an attraction to older men, or if she is merely trying to survive. What did you think about the change in his view of her the day after their first liaison? Maybe he caused the change by stealing her innocence … if she was innocent that is.

[Carly]

Suzanne wrote: "Carly wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "I am about to start on Lolita. Just joined the club!"

I'd be interested in what you think--I started a few days ago...and it's intense! I'm about 100 pages in now..."

That part confused me a bit too, and I was unable to really understand who the man was--only that he appears very quickly after she tells him this.

I agree with you about the 'innocence' factor. I think that she is merely out for money, and once she saw how much he was willing to pay, tried to give him what she thought he wanted, but which really made him uninterested in her.

What is striking me as interesting about the novel is how it is being told: a man's confession.

Also, I find him to be very full of himself, always speaking of how handsome he is, and how much all of these girls throw themselves at him. When he is with Lolita, from his point of view, she does the same. I really wonder how much of this account is truthful, or self-delusional.

[Melissa]

I just started reading The curious incident of the dog in the night-time. I'd actually planned to start reading something else first but I picked this up and had a look at the first couple of pages and got completely sucked in.

[Suzanne]

Carly wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "Carly wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "I am about to start on Lolita. Just joined the club!"

I'd be interested in what you think--I started a few days ago...and it's intense! I'm about ..."

He is a most conceited character. I thought how appropriate it was that he compared himself to a spider. Clever analogy ... lying await for the right moment to take his prey... tugging the threads of his web, to see if Lo was near. His mind is consumed with carnal pleasures in a sick way. Maybe the fact that he is telling this as a confession means he wants help dealing with his perversion.

[Yrinsyde]

I've just started Cranford and I am loving it so far. Have any of you read that yet?

[Carly]

The Watchmen.

So far so good!

[Chel]

I started The Dictionary of the Khazars. It is unusual and not for everyone but I like it so far.

[Gerald]

I really enjoyed The Watchmen. I've heard that the movie stinks, however. Anybody seen it?
GerryC

[Gerald]

Chel,
I have "Dictionary of the Khazars" but have put off reading it because I'm not sure how to read it. How are you reading it? What are you finding enjoyable about it?
GerryC

[Katie ATX]

I just started Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky. Its pretty short, but I'm enjoying it.

[Christina Stind]

I loved the Watchmen as well. Crossing my fingers that the movie is good!

[Charity]

Chel,

I'm intrigued by Dictionary of Khazars. Which version are you reading, male or female?

[Everyman]

Just started Gaskell's North and South. A lesser known author than Austen, Dickens, et. al., but I'm enjoying her considerably.

[Lianne]

Everyman wrote: "Just started Gaskell's North and South. A lesser known author than Austen, Dickens, et. al., but I'm enjoying her considerably. "

Gaskell is great; I read North and South a year ago and absolutely enjoyed it. I'm going to read her other books sometime soon =)

I put Stoker's Dracula aside for now and started reading Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar instead. It's pretty interesting so far, I like Plath's prose =)

[Stacie]

I am currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo. I am a little over 400 pages in and am loving it.

[Emma]

I've also just begun The Bell Jar.