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[[deleted user]]

I am reading too many at once. And Wish I had more time to read!

Treasure Island
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night (really good so far)
Plus a few not on the list:
Twilight
Marie Antoinette

[Stacie]

I am taking a break from the list and started "Raw Shark Texts." I really like it so far. It is a really quick read and and I am really interested in the story.

[Karen]

Alan, thanks for the info, I have bookmarked both. I would really like to get a portable device to use that I could keep on me at all times. While I'm saving up for the purchase I'm going to do some research and see what has the best reviews, so if anyone has any recommendations....I see that the Kindle has come down in price by $50, maybe by the time I am ready to buy something it will have dropped even more. (I can dream, right?)

[Karen]

I'm glad to hear you like the Kindle, Pamela, and I personally don't find it OT, anything that helps us get more reading done is relevant to me!

[Karen]

I usually have several books going at once, one audio in the car, another on my mp3 player (for gardening, walking, etc) and then one or two (or three) print books that I am reading at any given time. A little schizo but they all get read eventually.

[Chloe]

My Kindle has become priceless to me. I was uncertain of it at first, but it makes traveling for work so much easier. Now I don't have to lug around a separate suitcase of books. It gets to be really intuitive after a while and the various functions are so very very useful. It will never replace my love of hardcopy books, but it is a good supplement.

[Melissa]

Just started Portrait of a Lady. I wonder if the return key on Henry James' typewriter was stuck or he really means to lull me to sleep with his incredibly...long...paragraphs. I'm about 100 pages in, and I think I'm going to like it, but honestly I find my mind wandering when the long character descriptions start.

[Christophe0808]

Started A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell two months earlier. Finished reading 25% of it. Quite a difficult read but rewarding.

[Allyson]

The Last of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.

[Kieffala]

I may have already said this, but I started Aesop's Fables. I'm thinking of trying to get it in Latin for practice. I'm not crazy about most of the editor's takes on the "morals", but that's just the particular edition I'm reading.

I also read several at once. Some that I haven't picked up in awhile, others I just read here and there.

[Denise]

I just started a non-list book, The Waiting by Ha Jin.

[[deleted user]]

I read that book, a long long time ago. Weird, I only had to see the title to remember a book I read five or six years ago, when I was sixteen.

[Deanne]

The Absentee- Maria Edgeworth

[Kim]

Three Cups of Tea. So far so good... seems like it's going to take me a while to get through it though...

[[deleted user]]

Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann

If this is anywhere near as good as The Magic Mountain or Goethe's Faust, then its going to be damn good.

[Judith]

"Of Mice and Men" - John Stienbeck

Been meaning to read this one for years and years.

[Kieffala]

Mike, let me know how Dr. Faustus goes. I've read Mann before and he's, well, interesting. Of course, it was years ago, so maybe I'd like him better now.

[Sue]

I just started "Inheritance of Loss" by Kiran Desai. It's my second attempt at starting it, I think I'll make it through this time!

[Ladyfunk25]

"We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Really looking forward to this one since I like me some dystopian future literature.

[Emily]

Kim,
I just finished Three Cups of Tea, and you are right, it took me forever to finish that book! But, keep with it, it is an amazing story. By the way, is it on the list? I may have to update my "read percentage!"

[Alan]

Stephanie, I'll probably start Saturday tomorrow (Saturday) got it from the library along with Cancer Ward and Cotzee's Elizabeth Costello.

New iPhone app is a free ebook reader. attached to a place that sells them at about the going rate. like a teeny tiny Kindle with better design.

[Courtney]

I'm a huge McEwan fan and SATURDAY was good, but I prefer some of his older books like BLACK DOGS and weirder books like THE CEMENT GARDEN. Enjoy!

[Pamela]

I loved Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. Lately, I've been reading a lot of books which pokes fun at the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment bourgeoisie. This novella is a satire of this culture, like Proust's Swann's Way and Flaubert's Madame Bovary.

[Jessica]

I'm listening to E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News on my iPod, which is quite good so far (I love her Onion-esque headlines interspersed throughout) and I have Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep in the latest batch I picked up at the library.

[Stacie]

Pamela, I have had Death in Venice on my bookshelf forever, often looking at it as a possibilty, but never pick it up. You have convinced me! It just might be my next read.

[Chloe]

Stacie, let me know what you think when you pick it up. I've had a copy sitting on my shelf forever now, but haven't been brave enough to crack it open.

[Stacie]

Will definitely let you know...I am actually out of town and just finished Witch of Portobello and brought Things Fall Apart with me, so I just started that and will pick up Death in Venice when I get home.

[Vicky]

SOn Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. I've finished one-half this morning, and I'm enjoying it. A quick read, a little treasure.

[Ann from S.C.]

MIDDLESEX and I am loving it!!

[Paul]

I just started Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson and Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee.

[for-much-deliberation]

Right now I'm starting "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce

[Stacie]

Going with Pamela's review and am starting Death in Venice.

[Nadia]

The Picture of Dorian Gray. I expect to really enjoy this book, hopefully my high hopes won't dissapoint me.

I have a slight fascination with the life of Oscar Wilde, who I first heard of from my boyfriend, and hope through this book I'll understand why he is ao revered in literature and life.

[Nina]

Siri Hustvedt: The Sorrows of an American
FANTASTIC

[Kevin]

I'm just starting White Noise by DeLillo.

[Judith]

Started "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth yesterday.

I hope I can stick with this one as it is off to a slow start so far. I read and really liked "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis recently, and a friend recommended this one because she liked it and it has the same premise and theme.

[melita]

Nadia...

I think you won't be disappointed... i just finished Dorian and was quite pleased... i love the way wilde uses floral imagery to describe colors and movement...

[Denise]

I just started another non-list book: Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. It was recommended to me through this group, though. So far I'm enjoying it. Science fiction written before men walked on the moon.

[Ana]

Just started Les Miserables - I am really enjoying it. I thought it would be difficult to get through but I am very pleasantly surprised :-)

[Darcy]

Right now I'm reading A Prayer for Owen Meany! :)

[Inder]

Denise, I thought Solaris was on the list? Number 448 on Arukiyomi's list.

Anyway, I'm listening to Never Let Me Go on audio, while blowing through a couple of non-list books on the side. Next: something Victorian.

[Deanne]

Solaris is on the list at 449.

[Nadia]

melita,

so far so good! am just within the first few chapters and must say he definitely has a charm with his choice of words.

i am finding it hard to put down and I agree, floral imagery is effective in this case.

love his wittiness.

[Ann from S.C.]

I am starting ATONEMENT by Ian McEwan.
I also started a non-list book, EYE CONTACT by Cammie McGovern.

[Paul]

I just started Light of Day. It's quite good so far.

[Ram]

Hi Nadia, I read "Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde and would like to say I am flabbergasted. It is an absolutey amazing story, unrivalled so far.

[Stacy]

kevin~

I loved White Noise..It is a great story, enjoy!

[Judith]

Denise, "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem is on the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list. I assume that is the list you were referring to?

[Judith]

I have a real fascination for Oscar Wilde, Nadia. He had such a range! He wrote tragedies and comedies, poetry and prose and all of it insightful and beautifully written. I've also read a book about his life, which was just as interesting as his literature! I hope you enjoy "Dorian". I certainly did!

[Judith]

Second day of reading "The Plot Against America" and getting into it now....for all of you who were holding your breath to see if I would stick with it or move on to something else!:)