Which LIST book did you just start? Showing 151-200 of 6,816

[Ladyfunk25]

Life of Pi by Yann Martel. This one seems to get a lot of love it/hate it reactions, so hopefully I'll fall in the love it camp.

[Jen]

I started Jazz by Toni Morrison.

[Kieffala]

I started Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro. I am really enjoying it. I'm already almost halfway through, and not just because it's short! I'm very intrigued to find out what the deal is with these people.

[Judith]

I started "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis.
It's not on "the list"; but I think Lewis is a better writer than many of the authors there with multiple books! (His "Babbitt" is there, however.)

Anyway, I think I'm going to love it. Got me on the first page! That hasn't happened in a while, let me tell you!

[*Nan*]

I just started David BAldacci's new book the Whole Truth and I am already hooked. Can't wait until my husband and daughter got the the hockey game tonight and my other duaghter goes to the movies so I have time to read more tonight.

[Stacie]

I just started Roth's "American Pastoral" and am already really enjoying it. I have to say that after reading Sebald's "Austerlitz" (also a good book) it is a breath of fresh air to have paragraphs and breaks!

[Jessica]

I just started Midnight's Children by Rushdie. Its been sitting on my shelf unread for years. so far, so good1

[Anna]

I'm rereading "Młot na czarownice" by Jacek Piekara

[Dordaneh]

I,VE STARTED "KITE RUNNER"بادبادك باز از خالد حسيني ."KHALED HOSEINY'.I LIKE IT VERY MUCH.

[Phyllis]

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre. Read the first couple of chapters last night. Warning for anyone bothered by the word f***, as it permeates the book.

[Alli]

Just started Child 44. It's not bad, not great, but not bad.

[Aaron]

House of Leaves by Danielewski. Don't know what to make of it yet, but I haven't got that far into it.

[Kara]

Get Shorty, by Elmore Leonard.

[Juliane]

i just started "heart of darkness" by joseph conrad.

[Chloe]

Aaron, you're in for a wild ride. I can't think of a book that has so thoroughly messed with my head. Let me know if you start thinking your house is haunted.

[Judith]

Anxious to hear if "Get Shorty" turns out to be the page turner you were seeking, Kara. I think you might like it!

[Judith]

I just started "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"

Pretty good, so far....

[Jay]

Reading Middlesex right now...I like the author's writing style so far

[Deanne]

A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens. Like his books and my favourite so far is Bleak House.

[Anna]

I keep my nose in a book on administrative court procedure (in Poland there are seperate courts that are responsible for dealing with things like sueing the administration decisions).

[Coqueline]

Hi, a newbie to the group here...

I'm on the mood of light reading now, so I just started Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud. Oooh, it makes me wanna go and see Morocco too...

[Denise]

Deanne, A Tale of Two Cities is one of those books that I was really glad I had to read in shcool, because I may never have picked it up otherwise. I loved it. That was 30 years ago; hard to say what I'd think now.

[Phyllis]

Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn. Exceedingly cute so far.

[Denise]

I just ordered Choke so that I could join the discussion coming up. My friend told me it was a "stupid book." Anybody out there like it?

[Kecia]

I took a break from the list and read Barbara Kingslover's, Prodigal Summer. It was a candy read...fun and easy. Now I'm back to the list with Mrs. Dalloway. So far so good...

[Stacie]

Hitting toward the end of the list and am going to read "Vanity Fair."

[Hannah]

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. At first I found it refreshingly vulgar, but at this point I'm getting a bit tired of all the women in Paris prostituting themselves. Still, it's nicely done and is very quotable. For example: "I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans."

[Chloe]

Denise, I've read Choke and loved it. But then I've loved nearly everything of Palahniuk's that he's written so I'm not exactly an unbiased critic.

[Deanne]

Billy Bathgate by E.L.Doctorow, supposed to be revising for an exam on wednesday but prefer to read.
It's my first one of his books and I've also got The Book of Daniel on my bedside table so I think that will be next.

[Amber]

Just started Life of Pi. I just finished Chapter 16. Good so far!

[Judith]

I'm taking a break from the list as well and started
"World Enough and Time" by Robert Pen Warren.

I have loved everything I've read by this author, and he wrote one of my old time favs, "All The King's Men". This one is a long one, so I'll be working on it for while....

[Nikki]

I just started A Void by Georges Perec. I would love to know if anyone else has read this and what you think. I am having a hard time getting into it but it was a gift from my son so I need to!

[Stacie]

Just realized that my "Vanity Fair" is abridged, so I am abandoning that and starting "The Quiet American." I will get the full version of VF and try it again...I was liking it so far.

[Coqueline]

Nikki, I've started Avoid a couple of weeks ago, but found it hard going since most of the sentences are in passive voice, so it's quite difficult to get into the flow of the story. I will pick it up again one day and finish it, though, just because it's such a unique book.

[Juliane]

I've just started Dürrenmatt's "The judge and his hangman". Seems to be great!

[Ana]

Just started " A Prayer for Owen Meany" and I am enjoying it quite a bit. John Irving is fast becoming a favorite :-)

[Deanne]

Just started The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Fifty pages in and enjoying the experience, much easier to read than the Scarlet Letter.

[Derrick]

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. Interesting read, already just past 100 pages into it. I like it a lot but I think I'm going to end up only rating it 2 stars. Much better than Robinson Crusoe.

[Denise]

What did you give Robinson Crusoe? Negative stars? You're kind of a tough grader if you give 2 stars to a book you like a lot.

I keep hearing about people starting Choke, and I'm still waiting for my copy to arrive in the mail. Maybe tomorrow.

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I just started two of the books:
Enduring Love and On Chiesel Beach. So far very captivating books! I don't want to put them down.

[Juliane]

I just started "Transit" by Anna Seghers. I already have read her "The Seventh Cross", which I already liked, but "Transit" shall be her best book.

[Andrea]

Red Moon Rising by William Wallace Green

[Derrick]

Denise, I'm nto a hard judger. I base books on a slightly different scale than the typical goodreads scale. 5 I would highly recommend, 4 I would recommend, 3 I could advocate one way or the other, 2 I enjoyed read it but wouldn't recommend it, and 1 I hated the book and felt it was a waste of time.

I gave Robinsone Crusoe 2 stars. It would've been 1, but it was a classic and still somehow has that look of one of the old books on my parents shelf I never read as a child.

I might end up giving Choke 3 or maybe 4 stars, it's getting better.

[Denise]

Thanks for clearing that up for me, Derrick.

I'm glad Choke is getting better. My copy just arrived today.

I really liked the movie, Fight Club, and feel I should try at least one of his books. I'm a bit skittish, though. I think I'm acting like a guy who doesn't want to read something because it looks like "chick lit." Only different.

[Amy]

I started Atomised by Michel Houellebecq and am really enjoying it, got sucked right in, great characters so far, troubled, but great!

I'm also stuck on Cloud Atlas and The Shipping News and have set them aside for a bit.

[Derrick]

Denise, I definitely wouldn't classify it as chicklit. It's an easier read from some of the things, but I will be even more interested in watching this movie, I just don't see how they could make it into a movie.

Good book, it's just not my style I guess.

[Kieffala]

I just started The Shining on Monday. I think I mentioned this in another thread. I'm loving it. I've been wanting to read it for years, but for whatever reason it's never been available to me when I've gone looking for it. Anyway, it presented itself to me on Monday, and I'm a quarter of the way through. Pretty good considering I haven't been reading it at night (yes, my pal Stephen is VERY good at giving me nightmares, and my husband and dogs don't appreciate me waking up screaming).

[Stacie]

I am going to start "Call of the Wild" today. I was writing on another discussion board that JL is one of those authors that I just have never read. I am looking forward to this book. I think about London all the time, especially since we have a Jack London room in the library at my school!

[Derrick]

Kieffala, I'm not a fan of scary movies. I typically sleep with the lights on and do more laying there awake instead of actually sleeping. Are reading Stephen King's books as scarey as watching his movies? I'm interesting in reading scarey books but am worried that I will find them as frightening (or even more so) than the movies.

[Denise]

Kieffala, be careful. If you haven't already seen the Shining, reading the book may ruin a perfectly good movie for you. My sister loved the book so much she was appalled at how far the movie strayed from the text. I think, though, it was her favorite King novel and she used to be a huge fan. So good choice.

Stacie,

I read a biography of Jack London a couple of years ago and found him fascinating. I liked Call of the Wild. Curious what you think of it.