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[Stacy]

I just started it last night and so far it seems interesting, I do love the language and writing and I am feeling sorry for the little boy.

[[deleted user]]

Just starting Candide. I haven't read this in about 17 years, College Lit class. I am excited to read it again!

[Sophie]

The Master by Colm Toibin, and it is very dull so far. I think it doesn't help that it's about Henry James, and I have never read anything written by him. I shall persevere!

[Anna]

I'm making up the time I had to spent on learning during exam session. I just started to two parts of Ivan Putilin's adventures. Maybe someone beside me knows it.

[Maria]

It is a fantastic book, one of my favourites. It's playful and witty and deep and real. A wonderful translation as well, it carries the authors unique voice through successfully.

[Meredith]

I'm about half way through Slaughterhouse 5. For years, I've heard this classic mentioned. What am I missing? I dont get it.

[Chloe]

I am about to crack open The Bell Jar. I'm not sure how I've gone this long without reading it, but it's definitely time to rectify that problem.

[Nicole]

I just started The Omnivore's Dilemma...
Any thoughts?

[Judith]

Stacy, I remember liking "On Human Bondage" quite bit when I read it years ago. Like I believe someone else has already said about it though, I don't remember particularly liking the main characters, just Maugham's insights, language and character development. I should read it again!

[Judith]

I think I've decided to read Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" next. I'm dragging through the remainder of "Let's Don't Go To The Dogs Tonight" and more than ready for something by a really excellent writer!

[Chloe]

Nicole, Omnivore's Dilemma is one of my favorite books of the past year or so. I started a discussion thread further down that has a lot of interesting posts in it.

[Judith]

I'm a great fan of Henry James, Piroska, and will be interested in how you end up rating the book. I've read another novel that overlaps the story of James' life "Henry James' Midnight Song" and enjoyed that as well of several of James' novels. He spins a good tale with tons of historical detail and character development!

[Tani]

I just started Dracula a few days ago. I'm really enjoying it a lot. I'm surprised by how little of the story I actually know, considering what a famous figure Dracula is.

[Tracey]

I started "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf. Then I will read "The Hours" by Michael Cunningham.

[Kieffala]

I am at the beginning of The Omnivore's Dilemna. I like it so far. Of course, it's been sitting on a shelf since I made my initial foray into it. Otherwise, it's pretty good.

[Kristen]

I was really disappointed with the Omnivores Dilemma. I was just expecting some more from it. I liked the middle section a lot, but thought the subject matter had so much more potential!

[Dianna]

I just started Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. It is weird and hard to follow.

[Vicky]

I think The Omnivore's Dilemma" is a wonderful and important book, but Barbara Kinsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, and Miracle" covers much of the same material, and Kinsolver is a better writer.

[Deanne]

Just started Melmoth the Wanderer by Maturin, and The razor's edge by Maugham. On a series of 5 night shifts, and provided no one needs an operation or babies decide they want to be born at 3am I might get to read a bit.

[Jen]

I am starting Atonement by Ian McEwan today.

[Chloe]

I started The Bell Jar over the weekend and am absolutely loving it. I can't believe that I waited so long to read this!

[Stephanie]

I am in the middle of White Oleander and loving it!

[Kellie]

Just started Never Let Me Go. I'm liking it so far!

[Carrie]

Oh, man...hold on to your hat ~ That book is intense. Did you see the movie? Of course, as always, the book is much better...disturbing... addictive

[melita]

Logan,

I loved The Bell Jar... at times while reading it I felt like I was living along side the main character, going through what she was going through... it was wild!!! I read a library copy and I know I need to purchase one for my personal library to read over and over...

I just started The Picture of Dorian Gray... I'm not very far in yet and it's just ok...

[[deleted user]]

Dorian Gray is one of my favorite books, give it some time, it has a slow start

[Macy]

I thought Dorian Gray was a good book, but he was just such a foul character it didn't sit well with me. (I know that was the point, but I was still turned off by it.)

[[deleted user]]

Finishing Candide but also started Aesop's Fables (which I have read many parts of in the past) and Treasure Island. There are so many books that I want to read! Even a ton not on the list! I will need to live to be 100.

[Juliane]

Just started "Berlin Alexanderplatz" by Döblin... Has anyone here already read it?

[Kieffala]

Carrie, what book/movie are you talking about?

[Derrick]

A Tale of Two Cities... somehow I skipped this one in highschool :) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, that's how it starts, right?

[Renee]

I just started "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time". It is by far one of the best books I have ever read. This is my first book on the list, by the way! I'm a newbie! =) Good luck to everyone and I look forward to reading and sharing with all of you!

[Deanne]

She by H Rider Haggard, really enjoying though it feels a bit like a boy's own story. Still plot moves quickly, seem to remember the film had Ursula Andres in it???

[Chloe]

Just starting on The Brothers Karamazov now. I have a feeling it will completely live up to my expectations, as I have never been disappointed by anything of Dostoevsky that I've read.

[Deanna]

Hi Renee,

I just finished "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", which was also my first book, and I absoultely loved it. I loved that it was quirky and funny and written totally from his unstable perspective rather than about him.
Good luck with reaching 50!!!

[Ladyfunk25]

The Piano Teacher.

I watched the movie based on it several years ago and it left me deeply disturbed and weirded out for days. Not exactly a good feeling, but I think it was a good movie if it affected me that deeply.

Still just starting the book, but so far, I really enjoy the style of the writing. I just hope this doesn't leave me even more traumatized that the film!

[Kris]

Began Enduring Love by Ian McEwan last night and already half way through. Interesting so far, so I'm pretty sure I'll be finished it by the end of the day.

[Alan]

Hi Friends,

I started Mrs. Dalloway yesterday. As I wrote to Judity just now, I'd forgotten that Woolf is a poet in novelist's clothing.

Nearly all of Woolf's books and many others are free downloads as ebooks and I'm reading her on Stanza for the Mac. At least as good as the Kindle is purported to be, I'll wager.

As an aside, just finished Cory Doctrow's Little Brother which I was reading to my son so I could clear my plate a little for this adventure.

[Alan]

Tons of free ebooks here.
http://www.feedbooks.com/

Stanza for the Mac is a GREAT ebook reader. In beta now. I was thinking of getting a Kindle but like this instead I think:
http://www.lexcycle.com/

I wish there was a version for PC, too.

[Alan]

Okay the Mobipocket ebook reader for PC works well and uses the same format (mobipocket/kindle) that I'm using on the Mac so my downloads work both places.

http://www.mobipocket.com/en/download...


Sorry for the digression.

[Paige]

Just started Emma this week. Have a stack of books coming via Amazon and paperbackswap.com that I will probably start reading 3 or 4 at a time when they get here! Always multi-tasking!

[[deleted user]]

Just about done with Yevgeny Zamyatin's 'We.'

[Deanne]

Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais, written in the 1400's so have to settle into the language.
Also reading Women in love by Lawrence which is a much easier read. Iv'e read 4 of his books now and have enjoyed them all, if I hadn't looked at the list I probably would never had read one.

[Pamela]

I'm a big fan of the Kindle, where I can download many of the early and pre-20th Century material. Plus, it makes reading the more intimidating books less scary, with the dictionarly, epaper, etc.

(Sorry if the kindle thing seems to stray a bit, but I think it's relevant, as it's a tool to access many books on the list).

[Pamela]

I just started Gogol's Dead Souls. What an observer of everyday behavior! A must.

[Alan]

Paige brings up a point. Do most of you have more than one book going at a time? I normally have 3 or 4 in progress. Short attention span theater here.

[Judith]

I usually have at least two books going at a time, one nonfiction and one fiction. Sometimes more.
I read more fiction than nonfiction, so there are times I have nothing but fiction marked as "currently reading". My mind wanders....

One thing though, I don't recommend one leave Virginia Woolfe for too long without picking her back up! I tried that with "A Room of One's Own" and ended up having to back up quite a bit to be reminded what on earth she was talking about. That stream of consciousness writing is best indulged in as few and frequent sessions as possible!

[Judith]

I just started "Return of the Soldier" by West.
It's a WWI story of shell shock and the impact the mental condition of the soldier has on the women in his life. Interesting...

[*Nan*]

Alan - I usually have at least two books going if not more. My mood determines what I read. I have at least one more serious book going and then a lighter read plus at least 2 BOCD.

[Jessica]

I just started Atonement by Ian McEwan. The prose is quite rich, I'm enjoying it so far!