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[Aloha]

Larry, you're probably thinking more of Russian writers like Tolstoy. He does have a lot of social dialogue, too, and political and social intrigues. It does get difficult tracking down which complex Russian name did what, and thought of what, and is involved with whom or what. Dostoevsky and Nabakov, on the other hand, are less convoluted in their political schemes. They write more about the intense psychology of existence.

[Gary F]

I am reading A Case for Faith in which the former atheist author Lee Soebel interviews a number of experts to get answers to very tough questions regarding God and faith. A wonderful book I will refer back to many times I have to believe.

[Marialyce]

I am going to start Orley Farm and Gone With the Wind. I should be at those two for awhile! :)

[Curt]

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. George Smiley, the least glamorous fictional intelligence agent in the business. James Mason and Sir Alec Guiness brought him to life off the pages, Mason in the '60's movie 'The Deadly Game' and Guiness in the televised version of this novel.

[Flora]

Finially finished The Blind Assassin, I thought it would never end, and I found it very sad.

I'm moving on to The Black Cat

[Lennie]

I'm reading The War of the Worlds right now. SF is not a genre that I normally read from but it seems like so many members from this group are SF fans that I thought I would give it a try, starting with this book.

[Aloha]

Have you tried Dune? I love that book.

[Domino (aka Meme)]

Gini wrote: "Meme wrote: "PNR stands for Paranormal Romance. i was a bit confused when i joined my first PNR group cause they all used acronyms i didn't know. like UF for Urban Fantasy and HEA for Happily Ever ..."

totally agree! i have several books at home i need to read, and keep adding more when once i see something else that seems interesting. i'm such an addict =)
i also love the Sookie Stackhouse series. i'm on book 4 now. there never seems to be enough time =(

[Aloha]

I'm totally out of my PNR phase. It got to where they were all repeating themselves to me. I can't touch another PNR book, and I'm still moderating a PNR forum because I have friends there.

[Shay]

Marialyce wrote: "I am going to start Orley Farm and Gone With the Wind. I should be at those two for awhile! :)"

I just finished Lonesome Dove last night. So, I should be able to do the Gone With the Wind read with you. GWTW was one of my mother's favorite books/movies. I've never read it.

[🥀 Rose 🥀]

Lonesome Dove was the best book EVER!

[Gwennie]

I liked Lonesome Dove too! I wasn't able to get into the rest of the series though.

[Maicie]

Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon for a group read.

[Marialyce]

Shay wrote: "Marialyce wrote: "I am going to start Orley Farm and Gone With the Wind. I should be at those two for awhile! :)"

I just finished Lonesome Dove last night. So, I should ..."

Only up to page 85, Shay and it is wonderful.

[Shay]

I have an ebook version for GWTW. Sick of lugging around a bunch of heavy books. I'm going to be starting Fall of Giants this week too.

[Michelle]

I'm starting Beneath a Marble Sky and I've already started The Handmaid's Tale.

[Karen]

Die for You
Lisa Unger

It's an intriguing novel about a womans disappeared husband who isn't what he appeared to be. She goes on a dangerous search to find out who is he really. Very well told story with a similar theme. Most of Ms Ungers books have a similar plot. I think the main lesson in her books is to NOT take things at face value as things aren't what they seem.

[Flora]

Michelle wrote: "I'm starting Beneath a Marble Sky and I've already started The Handmaid's Tale."

I loved the Handmaid's Tale, it was certianly better than The Blind Assassin

[Leslie]

Rose wrote: "I just finished Room and it was wonderful! Highly recommend to anyone."

I can't wait to read Room. I was at the Toronto launch a couple weeks ago and Emma Donoghue gave a wonderful reading (I dare say she has some theatrical talent, too!) She was my mentor in a writing program I did and her advice about writing continues to tease my mind....

Ex Lit Prof
www.the-reading-list.com

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Finished Kisscut the second book in Karin Slaughter's Grant County series, and it was a first rate thriller. I could have used a few more twists and turns though.

Now I am on to The Other Boleyn Girl for a group read.

[Marialyce]

Going to the library to pick up Fall of Giants. I can't believe it is in so soon! (I was #184)

[Jill H.]

Just picked up Next of Kin: A Novel by John Boyne. It has gotten very mixed reviews here on GR but I read his book Crippen and really liked it. We'll see. Has anyone read it?

[Shay]

Marialyce wrote: "Going to the library to pick up Fall of Giants. I can't believe it is in so soon! (I was #184)"

I was number 144, so it would have been a while. But, I was #1 for the ebook, so I can download it anytime. For some reason, my library has made it really complicated to find unreleased ebooks and reserve them, so I lucked out. I'm glad I got the ebooks because I couldn't carry this one, Gone With the Wind, and Pillars all at once.

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

I just finished Havoc- started out slow- but really took off- also for a thriller- has some excellant info on ancient Egypt

[Lindz]

I am reading 'Lonesome Dove'. It's big and sweeping. Absolutely loving it.

[Lindz]

And surprisingly it I am enjoying a Western!

[Marialyce]

Sounds perfect to me, Shay. I am reading both Gone With the Wind and now Fall of Giants as a "regular" book, but I do have Pillars on my Kindle.

My wrists hurts from holding GWTW though! :)

[Petra]

Lindz wrote: "And surprisingly it I am enjoying a Western!"

Lindz, I surprised myself, too, when enjoying Lonesome Dove, the most western of Westerns. It's a really interesting story. Enjoy!

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

I had heard of Fall of Giants but know very little about it
The first novel in The Century Trilogy, this book follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.

sounds facinating

[Jan C]

I saw him on TV this morning talking about it - Morning Joe.

I was interested until I found out it is +1000 pages.

He was talking about how he writes. One of the people asked him if he was one of those who required complete silence from everyone. He said "no, I started out in newspapers. I'm used to plenty of noise."

He was real interesting. He was only on for a few minutes. Either that or I had to go to the kitchen or something.

[Kristine]

Lindz wrote: "I am reading 'Lonesome Dove'. It's big and sweeping. Absolutely loving it."

Loved that book...cried every time, and after watching the mini series..bawled like a baby..lol

[Shay]

Jan, if Fall of the Giants is anything like Pillars of the Earth, it will seem short. I've read 300 page book that you just had to slog through and seemed endless. Pillars reads like a short book and one that ends too soon. I've found myself reading 80 pages and completely forgetting about time and then reading 80 more.

[Jan C]

The last time I read a +800 page book I made it to within the last 150 or so pages and I just lost the interest. I think that was "And Ladies of the Club. "

I have read Follett before and enjoyed his writing. I'm just daunted by the length.

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

Jan C wrote: "The last time I read a +800 page book I made it to within the last 150 or so pages and I just lost the interest. I think that was "And Ladies of the Club. "

I have read Follett before and enjoyed..."

I loved And Ladies of the Club. The fact that the author spend so many decades writing it- and acheived family in her 80's was heartwarming

[Jan C]

Rick wrote: "Jan C wrote: "The last time I read a +800 page book I made it to within the last 150 or so pages and I just lost the interest. I think that was "And Ladies of the Club. "

I have read Follett be..."

40 years.and I just felt like the ending fell apart or that I didn't like the direction it was heading. All those pages read and I just had no desire to finish it.

[Shay]

Rick wrote: "Jan C wrote: "The last time I read a +800 page book I made it to within the last 150 or so pages and I just lost the interest. I think that was "And Ladies of the Club. "

I have read Follett be..."

I'll have to add And Ladies of the Club to my TBR list. I just finished Pillars and I can honestly say it remains exciting, suspenseful, and wonderful up until the end. It doesn't lose momentum at all. Actually, the further you read the more you care about the characters so you want to read it more and more to find out how it ends so you can know their fate.

[Aloha]

I'm almost halfway through . I'm at the part that is ruining my enjoyment of the book. This is where the female captive is still enamored with the guy after he kidnapped and mutilated her. Right now, they're having a wonderful understanding and she's going to help him find a cure for his cannibalism. We need some back ground music here, like "Love is a Many Splendored Thing, " or something. *BARF*

I still have to finish , with all the pissing and masturbation over pissing in abundance, and a corpse, too.

I'm 15 mins. from being done with . Well-written in the creepiness factor but predictable. If this is his best work, then he has a way to go to catch up with his old man's (Stephen King) body of terrific work. He's young, so there's a lot of potential.

Anyway, I'm dying for some thought-provoking books that has sense and depth.

[Mary]

Shay wrote: "Rick wrote: "Jan C wrote: "The last time I read a +800 page book I made it to within the last 150 or so pages and I just lost the interest. I think that was "And Ladies of the Club. "

I have read..."

Jan C wrote: "The last time I read a +800 page book I made it to within the last 150 or so pages and I just lost the interest. I think that was "And Ladies of the Club. "

I have read Follett before and enjoyed..."

I also lost interest in "And Ladies of the Club" after around 200 pages. Actually, I never really took to it at all, but I've always felt like I missed something by not finishing it because so many people loved it.

[Jan C]

Mary, the last 150 pp was a real killer.

[🥀 Rose 🥀]

Maggie wrote: "I've just bought Room - may read it next. Thanks for recommendation."

You're welcome :)

[Joanne]

Am reading Rasputin's Daughter by Robert Alexander because it is a wishlisted book on a swap sight, so that means a credit for me when it is mailed and received. I am also reading Knight Family History for review for another site. I try to read two books at a time, usually one for review for the sites I review for and one because I have chosen it.

[Leslie]

I just finished Lisa Moore's February.... A beautiful, tragic story full of one-of-a-kind characters. I'm surprised that she did not make the Mann Booker shortlist for this novel (she was longlisted). My full review can be read at www.the-reading-list.com

[Ivan]

By Nightfall: A Novel by Michael Cunningham. I've only just opened the box from Amazon, but I've already read thirty pages. Cunningham is one of my favorite writers.

[Jan C]

Role Models by John Waters. I just got back from Borders where I went in for one thing - which they didn't have - and came out three other items.

I opened this book and just started reading - great first sentence - "I wish I were Johnny Mathis." He goes on and on about how he once saw Johnny Mathis in a parking lot. His photographer friend says - "don't look up but there is Johnny Mathis." Afterwards he thinks often of Johnny Mathis with the proverbial sweater thrown over his shoulders, so effotless. He'll think of him at odd times, waiting at the DMV, waking up, etc.

[Kyle]

I'm about 3/4 of the way through Helen of Troy by Margaret George. It's really good, not as good as Memoirs of Cleopatra but still very good and well researched.

Sorry I've been gone a while! :P

[Gwennie]

I love Margaret George. I haven't read Helen of Troy, but I own it. It's on my TBR list. I read The Memoirs of Cleopatra, and Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles. Both were excellent.

I also have The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers, and Mary, Called Magdalene but haven't read them yet.

[Marialyce]

Just starting .

[Kyle]

Wendy, I've only read Memoirs and now Helen of Troy. I'm hooked on George's writing. She writes in to such depth for so many characters it's amazing. I'm hoping to pick up Mary or Henry next, it all depends on my library.

Marialyce, let me know how Fall of Giants is!

[🥀 Rose 🥀]

I'm reading Juliet. Retelling of Romeo and Juliet modern day.

[Shay]

Kyle wrote: "Wendy, I've only read Memoirs and now Helen of Troy. I'm hooked on George's writing. She writes in to such depth for so many characters it's amazing. I'm hoping to pick up Mary or Henry next, it al..."

My favorite of hers was Mary, Queen of Scots. Amazing how it ends up, but Marialyce and I are reading (some) of the same books again. Fall of Giants is starting off great.