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[Stacie]

I am starting Underworld by Don Delillo.

[Susanna]

I'm about to start The Princesse de Clèves by Marie-Madeleine de LaFayette.

[Esperanza]

I've just started today Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go. This book was on the 2006 list.

[Stacie]

Esperanza wrote: "I've just started today Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go. This book was on the 2006 list."

I think this is a wonderful book. I hope you enjoy it.

[mark]

Shovelmonkey1 wrote: "I've read Oscar and Lucinda...just started the Blind Assassin...

what did you think of Oscar and Lucinda?

i loved Blind Assassin.

[Shovelmonkey1]

mark wrote: "Shovelmonkey1 wrote: "I've read Oscar and Lucinda...just started the Blind Assassin...

what did you think of Oscar and Lucinda?

I felt like I should have been more enthralled by Oscar and Lucinda than I actually was. It was a well written story with a good twist at the end but it's not up there in the top 20 for me. Nearly finished the blind assassin and have loved every minute!
i loved Blind Assassin."

[Shovelmonkey1]

Stacie wrote: "Esperanza wrote: "I've just started today Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go. This book was on the 2006 list."

I think this is a wonderful book. I hope you enjoy it."
I thought this was great too. Am not sure about going to see the film version though.

[Judith]

The Ghost Road - Pat Barker

3rd in the Regeneration Trilogy about WWI soldiers and the English pacifists of the period.

[Stephen]

Sort of a New Years resolution project. I've always failed to see why people appreciate Wuthering Heights as much as they do.

I read it for the first time years ago and was not especially impressed. So this time I'm listening to the unabridged audio version.

I'm also watching the movies (I've found obtained three) The 1939 version with Merle Oberon & Laurence Olivier, the 1992 version with Juliette Binoche & Ralph Fiennes and the 1970 version with Anna Calder-Marshall and Timothy Dalton.

So far I've viewed the 1970 film version and was disappointed in that. They changed the story a lot. Heathcliff is shot & killed? They did make one interesting change that may be the key to the story for me. They suggested that Heathcliff may have been illegitimate son of Earnshaw Senior.

That made several aspects of the original novel more understandable to me. And it's just the kind of thing Ms. Bronte may have wanted to write but feared would not be accepted at the time. The father's reason for bringing the child home. His seeming preference for Heathcliff over Hindley. Also, Hindley's initial antipathy was better motivated this way. The similarities in temperment between Catherine and Heathcliff could also be better explained. They were both their father's kids while Hindley may have favored the mother.

This speculation also made the relationship between Heathcliff and Cathy even more doomed.

I'm wondering if anyone else inferred that from the writing and I just missed it.

[K.D.]

Currently reading: "Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

[Shovelmonkey1]

K.D. wrote: "Currently reading: "Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver"

I loved this book - one of my top 20 on the 1001 list so far. Hope you're enjoying it too

[Stacie]

Shovelmonkey1 wrote: "Am not sure about going to see the film version though...."

I am the same way. I just don't know how it will translate to the screen - or if I will like the translation.

[Beth]

One Hundred Years of Solitude and also Nervous Conditions. I keep one going at work for time when I don't have an appointment and one at home.

[Shay]

Stephen wrote: "Sort of a New Years resolution project. I've always failed to see why people appreciate Wuthering Heights as much as they do.

I read it for the fir..."

I read this about 3 months ago and something in the book did make me think that Heathcliff was his illegitimate son.

Also, around the time the father was dying he said about Hinley, "I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!" Made me think that he doubted whether he was Hinley's father.

[Shovelmonkey1]

Started The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst on the way to work this morning. This text should be described as "pert" much like the buttocks which make so many appearances in the first 50 pages!

[Audrey]

I'm finally reading Mocking Jay, which is excellent so far.

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

Just started Wuthering Heights, I hope I enjoy it!

[Beth]

Rachel wrote: "Just started Wuthering Heights, I hope I enjoy it!"

Looks like there are several of us who are reading this right now. Will be interested to see what we all think!

[Cindy]

I started War & Peace a few days ago.

[Charity]

Audrey wrote: "I'm finally reading Mocking Jay, which is excellent so far."

Not a 1001 list book.

[Charity]

Cindy wrote: "I started War & Peace a few days ago."

Getting ready to start this as well. Yay!

[Judith]

Beth wrote: "One Hundred Years of Solitude and also Nervous Conditions. I keep one going at work for time when I don't have an appointment and one at home."

Interest of what you think of "Nervous Conditions". Let us know, please.

[Judith]

"Birdsong" - Sebastian Faulks

[Bikki]

I just started Anna Karenina.

[Craig]

oh man I think I may be taking on a few big ones:

Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol 1 -Lo Kuan-chung
Tirant Lo Blanc -Joanot Martorell
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy -Laurence Sterne

[Christa]

Started War and Peace and the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

[Susanna]

I'm about to start Upton Sinclair's The Jungle .

[Linda]

Just started The Handmaid's Tale, as well as Adam Bede on audio.

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I just started Gone With the Wind. I'm only one chapter 2 but so far so good. I love her descriptive writing style.

[Gini]

I'm about 2/3 of the way through Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and I've started Crime and Punishment (unabridged audio for anticipated long drives). I am warming to Hardy - Return of the Native was not the best start on him, but Mayor of Casterbridge was better, and Tess is quite good. Dostoevsky is one of those writers who has intimidated me for years, so I'm glad to finally be getting to him.

[Steve]

Just starting to reread Lord Of the Flies by William Golding. A fantastic book that I've not read for ages, but now I've got a beautiful illustrated Folio Society edition (very posh!) that I've been looking forward to reading.

[Beth]

Judith wrote: "Beth wrote: "One Hundred Years of Solitude and also Nervous Conditions. I keep one going at work for time when I don't have an appointment and one at home."

Interest of what you think of "Nervous..."

Liking it so far, but haven't gotten too far into it. Kid home sick which inhibits reading some. As does cooking.

[K.D.]

Antonio Tabucchi's Pereira Declares

[Foxontherun]

Shroud, by John Banville

it's ASTONISHING--some of the best prose I've ever read--literally stayed up all night reading-it's 5AM and this is the first time I've put it down since I started.

[Jason "Book Sniper"]

just started Ender's Game

[Shovelmonkey1]

Started the House of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd. I've already read Hawksmoor which is also on the list and I loved it. I have high hopes for this one. If you like well researched historical mysteries then I recommend Ackroyd's stuff.

[Shay]

Suite Française and The Catcher in the Rye. I didn't read Catcher in high school so I hope I'm not too old to enjoy it. Has anyone read any of the comments from insane people about this book? I'm too afraid to post a review of this, I think.

[Cindy]

Shay wrote: "Has anyone read any of the comments from insane people about this book? I'm too afraid to post a review of this, I think."

No, I haven't. You mean comments here on Goodreads?

[Toni]

Shay wrote: "Suite Française and The Catcher in the Rye. I didn't read Catcher in high school so I hope I'm not too old to enjoy it. Has anyone read any of the comments from insane peop..."

Just post your review, Shay. We are all a little insane...

[April]

Linda wrote: "Just started The Handmaid's Tale, as well as Adam Bede on audio."

I read The Handmaid's Tale for the first time a year ago. I thought about it for weeks after I finished it. It's a fantastic book and I plan on re-reading it this year.

[Shay]

Cindy wrote: "Shay wrote: "Has anyone read any of the comments from insane people about this book? I'm too afraid to post a review of this, I think."

No, I haven't. You mean comments here on Goodreads?"

Not on this group and thread, but on the GR page for the book:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51...

If someone posts a negative review of this book, here are some of the comments:
Don't hate what you don't understand.

dense review. Obviously Holden is hypocritical. That's the whole point.

Obviously got an F. Never open with a quote. Learn how to write

I've noticed that many people--men or women--who "hate" Catcher have had a narrow band of life experience.

[[deleted user]]

I will start The Picture of Dorian Gray tonight.

[Sissy]

Starting The Tin Flute.

[Charity]

Starting The Monk today. Been wanting to read it since I read Northanger Abbey, so I'm very excited it was elected as a group read. :)

[Ryan]

Crime and Punishment

[Beth]

Mansfield Park (needed an Austen fix for my nighttime Ebook!)

[Jennifer]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. But hearing Mansfield Park from Beth above makes me want to crack open Northanger Abbey next.

[[deleted user]]

I'm a little late in posting, but I'm 367 pages into Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I love it so far.

[Charity]

Jennifer wrote: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. But hearing Mansfield Park from Beth above makes me want to crack open Northanger Abbey next."

Tom Sawyer didn't make the list, but Huck Finn did, if you're interested.

I really loved Northanger Abbey...one of my favorites on the list, actually.

[Deanne]

Started Islands by Sleigh, slow moving to start with but I'm hoping it will pick up.
Finally reached the half way point on Clarissa.