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Buddy read - The Age of Innocence
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I started reading this one but with so many 'where is my papa' interruptions, I think I read only the first para 10 times! :P
Hi Sri, checking in.We will start on 4th or later as you mentioned in the classics thread.
for the time being, do cater to the excited "where's my papa" demands :-D :-P
Thanks Smitha! :DYeah.. I have been doing that for the past 3 hours now! :( :P
Might join in after my current non-fiction reads.Probably a good chance for me to get to this famous author. It helps that it's in librivox :)
Smitha and Vimal - Do start it. it is quite funny. Am about 2 pages in at the moment (with the terror off to play with her Wii games) and I found a few laugh out loud statements. *feeling excited at finding something that tingles my interest*Vimal - Am sure the audio will be great, especially if they can get that sardonic tone right! :D
Yayy. I love satire, especially if it involves acerbic dames.
librivox is there. Am gonna download it ASAP.
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sorry Sri. Not yet started as I want to finish audio of Pigs in Heaven first , and then start this in audio.
No worries. I have also put this on hold as of now. Will start in a day or two. I am also planning the audio route, let's see how it works. :)
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Started finally.The librivox audio is excellent.
I am transported to the restrictive society of elite New York of two centuries past, which equals the then patriarchal Indian society in its supression of individualty and spontaneity.
At Chapter 5, am acquainted with the main characters, and am eagerly lapping up the gossips and frivolities.
Wharton is par excellence.
Sri, I am 60% through. Loving the audio book.All the quirks of the early 20th century New York society is exposed layer by layer.
I always had thought women enjoyed much better freedom in America. This book corrects me.
Have you been able to start it?
Sree......And others......................
Aren't anyone else starting this one? Am itching to discuss.
I have just finished chapter 7 and it is quite good. Newland Archer is musing about his forthcoming marriage. Actually I had no plans to start on this but when Syl mentioned listening on Librivox I checked amd lo! behold my fav reader Elizabeth Klett was reading it. So started on it straightaway.It surprises me that people and societies are all the same whether in an undeveloped country like ours or in one of the richest countries of the world. People tend to behave in the same pattern and the most outstanding feature is I think hypocrisy.
No wonder, she is your favourite. I was much impressed by the audio. Some stories are made better by audio, this one for example.Yes, hypocrisy and gender discrimination was always there, will always be (to some extent).
I am still in Chapter 2 or something. Have managed to read only 30 pages or something.. Not sure.Will read more today. :)
No pressure, Sri...read at your leisure :)And it is a slow paced book - you have to be in a certain mood to read it.
I am also going to do it the audio way for reading is not really going as fast as I want it too. Let me go and snatch my iPod back from my family! ;)
he he... I put it to good use yesterday night when I had insomnia, just listened to it, and lo in 10 min I was too sleepy that I just managed to stop it. Not saying that it is that boring, just that it soothes you, the even cadence of the melodious voice and the slowly moving story told in impeccable words.. it is a bliss to listen to, even in totally opposite circumstances - jogging vs. putting oneself to sleep :P
I totally agree. I have listened to just one audiobook till now but I quite enjoyed the experience. I love it when the narrator is good.
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”
This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life—or mercilessly destroy it.
Join Smitha and I as we tackle this wonderful piece of literature.