What are u reading right now?
Hey! What are u reading right now? Answer the following:
1. author + title
2. why u desided to read the book
3. first sentence in the book
4. page u are on
5. what u think of the book till now
It would be really nice to know what people are reading and their opinions on the books...!
Guess I will start myself.
1. Joanne Harris: Coastliners
2. I loved Harris book Chocolate and so think I will love all her others too...
3. Islands are differnt.
4. 200/396
5. Its quite boring at times actually. Chocolate was much better. Im disapointed...
Last edited by faith; 10-11-2006 at 06:12 AM.
Well, I'm going along with the forum book club, so next I'm going to read the June book, Pride and Prejudice. At the moment I'm still trudging through the Hunchback of Notre Dame, the April/May book. I just finished Book VII, Chapter II (page 250 or so). I think the book is rather disjointed; instead of working scenic descriptions into the story, Hugo breaks from the plot entirely to spend pages describing every detail and historical fact about a building. It was tiresome the first time, and even moreso a dozen times later. So I'd say that's Hugo's major stylistic flaw: way way way too much time spent on exposition, and long breaks in the plot so that you almost forget what was happening. But, for what it's worth, he is good with language and there are some very funny scenes in the story.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
1) Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex
2) It won the Pulitzer Prize and Eugenides is considered by Granta to be one of the best young writers of American descent.
3) I was born twice: first as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
4) 126 of 529
5) slightly whacky, refugee odyssey highlighting the rise of industrialism in the US and the history of modern conflict between the Greeks and the Turks, focusing on the destruction of Smyrna. It is slightly magic realism, and talks about relationships and sex, particularly regarding village communities and within families. I quite like it at the moment. It is at times funny, sad, cruel and hopeful.
AP
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
The preachers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves - Henry David Thoreau
The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery - Leo Tolstoy
1. Modris Eksteins, Walking since Daybreak
2. It's a story of eastern europe, WWII, and especially Latvia.
The author is Latvian and artfully crafts a parallel narrative to include biographical and historical information. I have Latvian ancestors, and the author is a history professor in the city I live and I've met him.
3. "Beautiful she was, everyone said."
4. 220
5. Well, to sum up, it's been fascinating to read of possible similar experiences my great grandfather and grandfather and others would have gone through during the wars and being displaced. I've found out more about the culture and spirituality of Latvia. I've gotten a better understanding of what it's like to emigrate to a wholly unknown country when you have no other option.
1. Richard Wright, "Native Son"
2. Heard mostly good things about it, hadn't yet read anything by him.
3. Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng!
4. 18 or 19, just started it before I fell asleep last night.
5. Interesting, not really far enough into it for too much but it looks like it'll hold my attention.
I have to read Tom Jones for an exam, and I really can't force myself to. I've spent the last week diving into the wonderful poetry of Anna Achmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva, and now that that exam is done I have to bore myself for more than 800 pages... I can't make it.
*sad*
dead on the inside, i've got nothing to prove
keep me alive and give me something to lose
1. Arthur C. Clarke, 2001 : A Space Odyssey
2. My girlfriend is making me read all her sci-fi stuff.
3. "The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended."
4. pg. 101
5. Its ok, but the story hasn't really picked up speed yet. Its pretty short, so the rising action should come in soon. Overall I like it. It is sci-fi, but his writing style is still flowing and fairly poetic.
I really can't wait to get through this space odyssey series (yes, she is making me read all of them. Its ok, I made her read all of my fantasy and philosophy books). I just bought Tales from Watership Down for a dollar at the local used book store, and I'm just itching to tear into it.
Strangers passing in the street, by chance to separate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me.
1. "Thou Art That" - Joseph Campbell
2. Campbell was brilliant and I'm fairly fanatical about his writing
3. "Let me begin by explaining the history of my impulse to place metaphor at the center of our exploration of Western spirituality." (Yes, Dickens it ain't.)
4. Page 11 (Chapter 2)
5. Not so good if you've already read a fair amount of Campbell's work. He lays a foundation in the first chapter, but it consists of his ideas concerning the meaning and functions of myth. It's in just about every book he's written, and every interviewer has covered the same ground with him.
But it'll get better as he moves on to other stuff.
1. The Shining by Stephen King
2. My friend loves his books so I decided to read this one.
3. "Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick." (How lovely.)
4. I'm on Page 233 (Chapter 30-- the chapters are short but the the pages are long-like, lengthwise)
5. I like this book a lot. It hasn't been that scary yet but it keeps you reading.
1. Priestess of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
2. She's a great author, I really enjoyed "Mists of Avalon"
3. "With sunset, a brisk wind had blown in from the sea."
4. 344
5. I think it is a really good book, almost better than "Mists of Avalon" in the sense that it took me a while to get into that one, this one happened quite well. It could be the fact that I have read other books by her, though. The story covers three sections of her life, and each chapter is different years during those sections. She goes through a lot, and is an amazing woman for the time period (ancient rome) it was written during.
I just started the book yesterday, myself. I find it quite compelling reading; so despite the length of the book, I don't think it will take very long to read.Originally Posted by atiguhya padma
Question for you: American descent? He's American. Did you mean Greek descent?
No I meant that he resides in Berlin but was born in America (I presume).
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
The preachers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves - Henry David Thoreau
The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery - Leo Tolstoy
1. Jennifer Government by Max Barry
2. My fiance recommended it.
3. "hack first heard about Jennifer Government at the watercooler"
4. 182
5. Still unsure. The book is a satire- set in the future where most of the world is run by giant American corporations. People take there last name from the company they work in. Somtimes the book is absolutly hilarious, when discribing the extreme capitalism, and also abit provoking. I like those parts.
"Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go" Blake
I am reading four books right now, but i am only going to give info on two, because they are the most interesting....
1. The alchemy of love and lust, by Theresa L. Chrenshaw. M.D.
2. totally fascinating subject (and it had a really cool cover)
3. It's appalling, but a seemingly trivial lack of information about hormones can destroy a marriage: (lead into example...)
4. 124 of 337 (big hardcover)
5. im totally enthralled. very interesting book with a touch of humor to make the chemistry less boring.
of course, i am also reading:
1. Lady Chatterly's Lover, by DH Lawrence
2. all the hype of course (and it was $2.00)
3. "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes."
4. 218 of 299
5. i find it an interesting and quick read. there are alot of places that i wish to skim as the idea seems to be sort of overpresented, but i am consistenly surprised by the insight into the womans psyche that the author seems to have, considering that he is a man. and i love the representation of the relationship between Connie and the keeper. it seems free and happy, but there is a foreshadowing of tragedy, methinks.
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
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