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[Karina]

re-reading Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen. I love her novels!

[jb]

I just started reading To Kill a Mockingbird....so far I like it.

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I just started Jane Eyre and it is...ok. I have issues with the writing - there were mistakes on the first page (one very poorly worded sentence with incorrect pronouns that was very confusing)! I have heard the story is good, so I will continue, it just bugs me when that happens!

[Mike]

I started Dr. Zhivago a few days ago. It is starting out great. I'm reading it slowly because I love the prose.

[Allie]

Saturday by Ian McEwan

[Anthony]

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

[Leslie]

I began rereading The English Patient. Recently I seem to be on a World War Two novel reading binge.... I find myself thinking a lot about my own family's fate during the war, on both sides of the Pacific, in BC and Japan....

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[Janet]

Just started The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells. So far, so good.

[Yassemin]

I'm going to be starting The Plot Against America

[K.D.]

This morning, I started reading Measuring The World by the German author, Daniel Kehlmann. I do not know what to expect. Very few reviews yet here in GR and most of those people read the German and Polish versions.

[[deleted user]]

Just started on Bel-Ami. Very quick read so far.

[Judith]

Kim - Rudyard Kipling

Another one I somehow missed in younger years. I understand it is considered the "Huckleberry Finn" of the British Isles!

[[deleted user]]

Started on The Garden Party last night.

[Yassemin]

The curious incident of the dog at night time....

[Stuart]

Yas wrote: "The curious incident of the dog at night time...."

I thought this gave a good insight into autism. I would be curious as to what you think after reading this book.

[Kristel]

I am reading Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata.

[Regine]

I'm reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. I'm only 20 pages into the book, but I'm liking it so far. I really do enjoy Austen's work though.

[Yassemin]

Stuart wrote: "Yas wrote: "The curious incident of the dog at night time...."

I thought this gave a good insight into autism. I would be curious as to what you think after reading this book."

Well to be honest, I went into it not expecting to like it at all. I'm half way through almost, and I can't believe how much I'm enjoying it. No doubt will review this one when I'm done. :) First good book in a while so long overdue..

[Yassemin]

Regine wrote: "I'm reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. I'm only 20 pages into the book, but I'm liking it so far. I really do enjoy Austen's work though."

Austen's great. Have Mansfield park on my shelf but still haven't managed to get around to it. Loved Emma though.

[Sissy]

Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut.

[Leslie T.]

I've been reading American Psycho. I'm almost halfway done and I've already tried to put it down like six times. And all but one of those times were before the first murder was even described. I'm sure I'll put it down many more times before it's done. If I ever finish.

[Deanne]

Started Clarissa, find the size of the book a bit intimidating but even if I only read a few letters a day I'll get there in the end.

[Judith]

Re-reading "Dr. Zhivago" - Boris Pasternak

It's been years since I reviewed this story.

Hoping to contribute to the group discussion before it is over this month!

[Drew]

Just started Gormenghast. I am a literary fantasy fan, but found Titus Groan to be a bit of a tough slog. Gormenghast appears to be more of the same so far.

I also started the Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson. I am thinking it is on at least one version of the list, but could be wrong.

[Yrinsyde]

The Portrait of Dorian Grey. I am snorting with laughter already ...

[Sissy]

Never Let me Go. Entranced so far!

[Judith]

Though I am not finished with "Dr. Zhivago", I started Kerouac's "On the Road" yesterday.

I'm amazed at how much I like the first few chapters!
I've put this one off for years thinking it was so over-rated. Now that I have read more of the modern and post modern novels on the Lists, I may find I have a higher opinion of this author than I'd expected.

[mark]

Drew wrote: "Just started Gormenghast. I am a literary fantasy fan, but found Titus Groan to be a bit of a tough slog. Gormenghast appears to be more of the same so far...."

two of my favorite novels! the third one, Titus Alone, is quite different and the writing is pretty terrible. from what i've read, the lessened quality was due to peake's challenges with his mental health. he also wrote an excellent novella "Boy in Darkness" that takes place between the 2nd & 3rd books.

the series has always been lumped under 'canonical British fantasy' but i'm not sure why. there is very little that could be considered 'pure fantasy' in any of the novels (excluding Boy in Darkness). if anything, i've found peake's style & thematic concerns to be more similar to dickens than any english fabulist.

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Started Torrents of Spring yesterday.

[Gemma]

Half a dozen pages into Slaughterhouse-Five...

[P.]

Just started Madame Bovary. page 8. I'm not too sure about it. :/

[Katherine]

Zee wrote: "Just started Madame Bovary. page 8. I'm not too sure about it. :/"

I just finished it yesterday. It does begin slowly, but once I got the background of all the characters I really enjoyed it. Flaubert doesn't give anybody a break, and I found that incredibly amusing. Good luck!

[Drew]

Mark wrote: "Drew wrote: "Just started Gormenghast. I am a literary fantasy fan, but found Titus Groan to be a bit of a tough slog. Gormenghast appears to be more of the same so far...."

two of my favorite n..."

Thanks for the words of encouragement. I am about halfway through Gormenghast now, and I am enjoying it. I agree with the Dickens comparison (especially the wonderful character names), but I also think there is a lot of Tristram Shandy in Peake's approach to plotting.

[Janet]

Just starting American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. It was also a Banned Books selection. My countywide lbrary system is excellent. Ordinarily, I can find anything I want at multiple branches...but they had only 1 copy of this book.

[mark]

Drew wrote: "I also think there is a lot of Tristram Shandy in Peake's approach to plotting..."

an excellent comparison. interesting food for thought the next time i read it.

[April]

Zee wrote: "Just started Madame Bovary. page 8. I'm not too sure about it. :/"

Stick with it. I recently finished this one and I had a hard time sticking to it at the beginning but I was glad I kept reading it.

[Christina Stind]

Just started Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time in the new Danish translation in 13 volumes that are being published over the next years, one volume every 6 months is the plan.
So far I'm intrigued, I find it interesting but am not completely into it yet.

[Becky]

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice - I've started this book several times but lost interest. So here I go again, only because it's on "the list!"

[Regine]

Becky wrote: "Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice - I've started this book several times but lost interest. So here I go again, only because it's on "the list!""

meh. I didn't find it that great either. The movie is way better.

[El]

I loved the Rice books when I first read them at 13. I have not re-read them though so it's hard to say how I would feel. The vampire books definitely was a better impact on me than, say, the Twilight books. Different audience, different marketing.

[Charity]

Ha! Love it!

[Mike]

Just started "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe.

[Hugh]

I just started "Another Roadside Attraction" by Tom Robbins. About half way through. Nice change of pace from the stuff that I've been reading.

[Becky]

Mike wrote: "Just started "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe."

I'm listening to Robinson Crusoe and finding it really boring, probably because I know the plot through pop culture.

[Vanessa]

Just started War and Peace. Luckily, a friend of mine is reading it the same time as me so we're going to talk about it as we read.

[Deborah]

Amanda wrote: "I actually find that's a great way to date yourself- get into a conversation with a Twi-hard and tell them "Interview was better!" Wait until they walk away, muttering something about "grandpa.""
You've actually hit upon the issue, Amanda. Today's readers in such genre; especially those under 30, have no concept of where their "Twilight..," and other vampirish JA genre originated. They are all actually off-shoots of Anne Rice novels about Lestat, Louis, Armand, and the Others. While AR didn't invent the whole concept of vampires, she did bring them into the 20th century and her novels paved the way..."grandmothered" the way for the great vampirish books we read today.
I suppose I'm really saying that I think she and her novels deserve serious attention and respect. At Harvard this year one of the professors will be teaching an English course on vampire literature. Guess whose book is at the top of the list?? :]
"Interview with a Vampire," may seem dry and a bit uninteresting in light of the quick/flash -and-dash-with-movie-and-media that we see from the "Twilight" series now. Just imagine when all we had were books we had to hold, newspapers where we read reviews, and not any interest at all in vampires per se---the Anne Rice timeframe of her early vampire novels.
Yes, they are older and different but seriously consider the depth and difference in the writing, language, ambiance, historical background, art and music descriptions, sense of place and their descriptions, and even in the depth of the characters.
Lestat and Claudia and Louis, alone, have more depth than some of the more recent books I've been reading.

"Interview with a Vampire," is modern, classic American fiction. It is just as unfair for some to call it out-dated and unworthy of intelligent reading as it would be to say that "Anna Karinina," is old fashioned and unworthy, and that anyone who reads such stuff is just "dating themselves!"

[Christina Stind]

Deborah wrote: " At Harvard this year one of the professors will be teaching an English course on vampire literature. Guess whose book is at the top of the list?? :] ..."

Deborah, do you have the full list of books that will be taught in this course? I'd love to see it!

[Christina Stind]

About halfway through A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka which apparently only made a brief appearance on the 2008 list.

[Deborah]

Christina Stind wrote: "Deborah wrote: " At Harvard this year one of the professors will be teaching an English course on vampire literature. Guess whose book is at the top of the list?? :] ..."

Deborah, do you have the ..."

I do have the list, Christina! I can send you a copy if you email me...or if others are interested, I can just list the books here on our Group discussion. Please advise. :] interiorsbydeb2@aol.com Deb

[Christina Stind]

Just emailed you, Deb!