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[Elizabeth A.G.]

Just downloaded the unabridged edition of Les Misérables to my Kindle and starting to read it with another group. WISH ME LUCK!!

[MK]

Luck! :)

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

I admit one of my copies of Les Mis is abridged. It gives summaries of the socio-economic portions I guess you could say. But all of the motion is left in. I cry, cry, cry when I read this book

[Michele]

BAM wrote: "I admit one of my copies of Les Mis is abridged. It gives summaries of the socio-economic portions I guess you could say. But all of the motion is left in. I cry, cry, cry when I read this book"

I tried to read the unabridged version but the giant middle section on the Napoleonic War nearly killed me.

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

Yeah that part was a summary

[Jim]

Good evening/morning,

Got three books for my vacation beginning in six days and six hours:

What Is It All But Luminous: Notes From an Underground Man by Art Garfunkel
Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton (1940-2017)
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

[Laurie]

Jim wrote: "Good evening/morning,

Got three books for my vacation beginning in six days and six hours:

What Is It All But Luminous: Notes From an Underground Man by [author:Art Garfunkel|7831..."

Those sound like good choices. I need to read the last two books in the Kinsey Milhone series. I wish Grafton had been able to finish it, but I respect her family's wish to leave it as is.

I am fascinated by da Vinci so I will be interested in your opinion of this bio.

[MK]

Jim wrote: "Good evening/morning,

Got three books for my vacation beginning in six days and six hours:

What Is It All But Luminous: Notes From an Underground Man by [author:Art Garfunkel|7831..."

Happy Vacation!
I think I left off the alphabet series some years ago, somewhere around 'S'. Sad they'll never be a 'Z' ....

[Luke]

This month's haul:

Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes - Luo Guanzhong
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives - David Eagleman
The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
Speedboat - Renata Adler

While only one of these was previously on my to be read list, either the books fulfill a particular purpose or I love author's other works.

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

Ok Aubrey you've thrown me on that haul. I'll wait for next months. I've made my list for B&N. Some books I just have to have new

[Michele]

I used up my B&N Christmas gift card yesterday on these:

The Library at Mount Char - yay libraries! been on my TBR list and is a January group read for one of my GR groups

84K - an interesting dystopia, had never heard of it but read the first five pages and couldn't put it down

Outside the Gates - another dystopia, first published in 1986; the cover has quote from Ursula Le Guin describing it as "The best first novel I've read in years," so, y'know, woah!

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Michele wrote: "The Library at Mount Char - yay libraries! been on my TBR list and is a January group read for one of my GR groups..."

That's one of my favorite reads in the last couple years. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

[ALLEN]

Did I read somewhere around here that some group is activating (or re-activating) a read of THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING?

[Luke]

BAM wrote: "Ok Aubrey you've thrown me on that haul. I'll wait for next months. I've made my list for B&N. Some books I just have to have new"

Ha ha, have fun with whatever you're choosing, Bam.

[Franky]

Just bought The Caine Mutiny and When Worlds Collide. Looking forward to reading these when I have more free time.

[Carol]

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday arrived today. I don’t even recall which friend’s review made me pull the trigger, and it’s not really in my wheelhouse.. but I’m delighted nonetheless!

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

A good friend of mine took me book shopping this morning.
I bought the following:
Torch Song Trilogy: Plays
The Rose & the Dagger
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Only Woman in the Room
Verses for the Dead
A Gathering of Shadows
A Conjuring of Light
My Name Is Lucy Barton

I consider Torch Song a classic, but the rest are either recent releases I wanted or YA I needed to continue my series focus.

[ALLEN]

I saw TORCH SONG TRILOGY on Broadway over 30 years ago, with Harvey Firestein in the lead.

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

I used to watch the movie almost every day in high school.

[Pillsonista]

My first major purchase of the new year and an auspicious one:



The Poems of T.S. Eliot, Vol. 1: Collected and Uncollected Poems & Vol. 2: Further Verses

I have so many of his assorted writings, it's nice to finally have all the poems in one place, if you will.

It's still crazy to me that Prufrock was the first "professional" poem he ever published. Talk about coming out of the gate strong...

[MK]

Pillsonista wrote: "My first major purchase of the new year and an auspicious one:



The Poems of T.S. Eliot ..."

I have my first T.S. Eliot on hold at the library right now :). Actually, I requested it earlier in the week, and it got stuck in limbo, no action on it, just 'Not Ready'. Last week I had an odd thing happen, where the book I wanted from the library 'met an unfortunate end', as I was waiting for it to be returned by the last borrower. When the T.S. Eliot book was left pending with no action for several days, I was afraid this one would turn up as lost or missing and unavailable to borrow, too! I called the Main Branch this morning, where it was supposed to be shelved. One librarian passed me to another, who went and physically checked the stacks to see if she could find it. She came back and explained, it's sort of a slim book, I guess we just couldn't find it at first. LOL

Anyway, that one is on the way, it's Murder in the Cathedral. It will be my first T.S. Eliot read.

[ALLEN]

Poetry has been described as residing in "slim volumes" going back to at least Gilbert & Sullivan. Alert, modern librarians!

[Christopher]

Well, MK, if you want to buddy read M in the C, I'm up for it.

[MK]

ALLEN wrote: "Poetry has been described as residing in "slim volumes" going back to at least Gilbert & Sullivan. Alert, modern librarians!"

I know, funny, right! :D


Christopher wrote: "Well, MK, if you want to buddy read M in the C, I'm up for it."

Deal! Mine is finally on the way, however, we are about to buried in a couple feet of snow, and then the library is closed Mon for MLK day, and then my local branch is closed Tuesday, bc that's the day they're usually closed ... so it'll be awhile before I can pick it up!

Thx, Christopher!

[Wreade1872]

ohhhhh... god that took so long... :# So i've been raiding the Merril Collection in Canada
"The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy is a non-circulating research collection of over 80,000 items of science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction, as well as magic realism, experimental writing and some materials in 'fringe' areas such as parapsychology, UFOs, Atlantean legends etc."

They have about 130 or so pdf ebooks free online and i wanted to put them all on my shelf or a list or something, i finally did but it was so annoying. I had to add about 20 or something goodreads had never heard of i lost count.
Anyway i'll probably throw them into a list at some point. For now here's my shelf with them all Merril Collection Shelf and this link is the easiest way to access the actual pdfs Merril Collection i plan on munching through several of them over the next few years.


Edit: If i counted right 36 of these books have never been rated on goodreads :D .

[Darren]

my first two purchases of 2019 arrived today! :oD

reserve for my "Mega Classic" personal challenge category - Fagles translation of The Iliad

and cos I got a discount if I bought two books at same time, snapped up another in my quest to catch up with more recent sci-fi - John Scalzi's Old Man's War

[ALLEN]

Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 arrived today, along with The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience. The latter was recommended to me by a new GR Friend.

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

Can’t wait to see your review about the New Deal one. That sounds interesting

[ALLEN]

I may take a while, but I intend to get a round tuit.

[Maria Adaway]

The Cruel Prince because I am meeting Holly Black next month!!

[Aprilleigh]

Darren wrote: "my first two purchases of 2019 arrived today! :oD

reserve for my "Mega Classic" personal challenge category - Fagles translation of The Iliad"

I bought this several years back, as well as his Odyssey and Aeneid. His translations are beautiful.

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

I’m currently reading the Mammoth Book of Women Who Kill. Vignettes of women various centuries and countries who they killed what they used, etc

[Lynn, New School Classics]

I spent some time yesterday reading threads and finding book ideas from other members. There are still many classics for me to read from the 1800 - 2000 period, but I realized how little I had read pre-1800. To try to remedy that I turned to Kindle:

The Complete Harvard Classics Collection and Daphnis and Chloe. I already had The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, but then I added Plutarch's Lives: Volume I

The TBR list is growing again. The tricky thing is to not get too sidetracked from the basic classic list I started with on the Old and New Classics Challenge.

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

I do that in IBooks-go hunting for public domain. It’s amazing what’s out there for grabs.

[Darren]

I'm working from the "Guardian 1000" list, which has 37 pre-1800 suggestions:

Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais 1534
Monkey Wu Cheng’en 1590
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605
Princess of Cleves, The Madame de Lafayette 1678
Oroonoko or The Royal Slave Aphra Behn 1688
Tale of a Tub, A Jonathan Swift 1704
Gil Blas (L’Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane) Alain-Rene Lesage 1715
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1719
Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 1722
Roxana Daniel Defoe 1724
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726
Manon Lescaut Abbe Prevost 1731
Pamela Samuel Richardson 1740
Joseph Andrews Henry Fielding 1742
Adventures of Roderick Random, The Tobias Smollett 1748
Clarissa Samuel Richardson 1748
Tom Jones Henry Fielding 1749
History of Pompey the Little, The Francis Coventry 1751
Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, The Tobias Smollett 1751
Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, The Tobias Smollett 1753
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The Laurence Sterne 1759
Rasselas Samuel Johnson 1759
Candide Voltaire 1759
Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloïse Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1761
Castle of Otranto, The Horace Walpole 1764
Vicar of Wakefield, The Oliver Goldsmith 1766
Sentimental Journey, A Laurence Sterne 1768
Expedition of Humphry Clinker, The Tobias Smollett 1771
Sorrows of Young Werther, The Johann Wolfgang Goethe 1774
Evelina Fanny Burney 1778
Les Liaisons Dangereuses Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos 1782
Surprising Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, The Rudolf Erich Raspe 1785
Vathek William Beckford 1786
Mysteries of Udolpho, The Ann Radcliffe 1794
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master Denis Diderot 1796
Monk, The Matthew Lewis 1796
Wieland Charles Brockden Brown 1798

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

I’ve been looking for a cheap copy of the New Heloise for ages! Let me know where you find yours!

[ALLEN]

Received from Thriftbooks;

Parliament of Whores - P.J. O'Rourke
Remains of the Day - Kazuro Ishiguro
Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith.

I read the Highsmith some years ago, but not the first two.

[Darren]

BAM wrote: "I’ve been looking for a cheap copy of the New Heloise for ages! Let me know where you find yours!"

that does seem to be a bit of a weird exception doesn't it!
may be easier to just learn French!!

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Darren wrote: "I'm working from the "Guardian 1000" list, which has 37 pre-1800 suggestions:

Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais 1534
Monkey Wu Cheng’en 1590
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605
Princess ..."


That is a good list. I have had an unread copy of Tom Jones on my physical bookshelf for probably twenty years. Where does the time go?

[Darren]

Lynn wrote: "...I have had an unread copy of Tom Jones on my physical bookshelf for probably twenty years. Where does the time go? "

Tom Jones is my single favourite Old School classic - you need to reach that copy down, blow the dust off it and open it at page 1... ;o)

[Luke]

Darren wrote: "I'm working from the "Guardian 1000" list, which has 37 pre-1800 suggestions:

Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais 1534
Monkey Wu Cheng’en 1590
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605
Princess ..."

I have Evelina and a few others down to read. The vast majority of the pre-1800s works I have aren't contained in this list, so I'll largely be going my own way.

[ALLEN]

Just don't read WIELAND by Charles Brockden Brown (1798). Amazingly flat for a "horror novel." But since it's an American horror novel, I wouldn't expect it to be on the Guardian's list.

[Wreade1872]

ALLEN wrote: "Just don't read WIELAND by Charles Brockden Brown (1798). Amazingly flat for a "horror novel." But since it's an American horror novel, I wouldn't expect it to be on the Guardian's list."
I thought that one was ok, i didn't read it as horror though more a psychological crime story:) .

[Christopher]

WIELAND was a dog. I regret the time wasted reading it.

[ALLEN]

I couldn't finish it, Wreade1872 (WIELAND), so I must bow to your superior judgment. However, my heart is with what Chris said.

[ALLEN]

However, I am going to read PARLIAMENT OF WHORES, which after this much passage of time may count as classic, though NF.

[Pink]

Speaking of pre 1800 books, I decided to go ahead and read Les Liaisons dangereuses which is on the serial reader app. I’m enjoying it immensely so far and have high hopes for the rest of the book.

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

Pink, I loved that book! Five stars

[Pillsonista]

Darren wrote: "I'm working from the "Guardian 1000" list, which has 37 pre-1800 suggestions:

Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais 1534
Monkey Wu Cheng’en 1590
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605
Princess ..."

I would slit my own throat with a rusted box-cutter before I ever subjected myself to the garbage that is Oroonoko or the so-called "writing" of the awful Aphra Behn.

When I was assigned the "book" I told my professor that I wouldn't read one more word (iirc, I'd only been able to read the first three pages) of it because it was an insult to my intelligence and, far more unforgivable, it is the most boring thing I'd ever tried to read in my life.

It's one thing to be awful (in my opinion, of course). It's quite another thing to be both awful and boring.

I've loathed Aphra Behn ever since and any supposedly "educated" list that mentions her name earns nothing but my contempt and denigration.

She is the epitome of an author who is only included into the curriculum read for no other reason than she was a woman. I genuinely feel that it is not only an insult to my ability to read, but to my dignity as a reader.

EDIT: Oh God, and Evelina, too? Talk about the literary list from hell...

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

Yeah I was sadly disappointed with Evalina, but still glad I read it considering the effect it had on society at the time.