What are u reading right now?

**bIGwIRE** · 07-16-2012, 07:12 PM

I have just finished The Sound and the Fury for the second time. I love everything about this book. The first time I read it I was just a kid, and this time around I have kids of my own. It was like reading a completely different book. Faulkner is amazing.

1-Anyway, tonight, at work, I will be starting The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
2-I wanted to read some historical fiction, something analytical, and with alot of symbolism.
3-"In the beginning was the Word..."
4-I'm on page 154
5-It is enjoyable and intense. I wish I knew Latin better, but I'm glad for smarphones and translation apps.

**peggynevers** · 07-18-2012, 06:35 AM

1- William Shakespeare, “The Tempest "
2- Heard mostly good things about it, hadn't yet read anything by him.
3- Bring.
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.

**Trask** · 07-18-2012, 06:18 PM

1. author + title: "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. why u desided to read the book: The movie is coming out later this year and I wanted to refresh my memory
3. first sentence in the book: "In my younger and more venerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
4. page u are on: 67
5. what u think of the book till now: I like it a lot more than I did when I read it the first time, of course the first time I read it was by force so that may have something to do with it.

**Gilliatt Gurgle** · 07-21-2012, 08:36 AM

Just completed Walter Scott's Guy Mannering
Still working on Anthony Cave Brown Bodyguard of Lies
Just started The Travels of Marco Polo (with 25 illustrations from 14th century manuscript)

**Idril** · 07-21-2012, 10:05 AM

Living Souls by Dmitry Bykov. I'm giving contemporary Russian literature another try. I have had a hard time connecting with the contemporary Russian books I've read, they are certainly interesting and mind bending but, yeah, I just can't get excited about them. I'm only about 60 pages in but at this point, it reads very much like a lot of the Soviet era stuff I've read so I'm hopeful I will be able to make sense of it.

**aliengirl** · 07-22-2012, 10:08 AM

The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Just finished Book VI. I love historical fiction and this one is definitely a very engrossing read.

**Buckthorn** · 07-22-2012, 02:41 PM

Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton

**Chris 73** · 07-22-2012, 03:11 PM

Sharps-KJ Parker
Winter King-Thomas Penn.

**BC22** · 07-22-2012, 09:06 PM

1. Animal Farm by George Orwell
2. It is on the Big Read list, and my goal is to read all 100 books.
3. Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes.
4. page 23
5. It is actually humorous. I especially liked the part when the animals were taking a vote on whether rats were comrades or not, and the only animals to vote no were the dogs and the cat, but it was dicovered that that cat had voted for both sides (

typical cat move). I am unsure as to how Orwell came to decide that pigs were the smartest animal. Also, I know there is a deeper meaning, so I am wondering if certain animals represent specific nations.

**tonywalt** · 07-23-2012, 12:36 PM

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

**crusoe** · 07-25-2012, 05:46 AM

1. Somerset Maugham - "The Magician"
2. Started it once long ago and didn't finish it.
3. "Arthur Burdon and Dr Porhoët walked in silence."
4. Audio-Book. I'm at the end of the second hour.
5. Most excellent.

**hvor_poetisk** · 07-25-2012, 06:06 PM

1. The Bible
2. I've got a general interest in religions, and as an atheist I want to know the basic principles of the gods I deny.
3. "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
4. 708 - that is the fist book of psalms
5. I am enyoing it more than I expected, however I think it's repeating itself way too much.

**Gilliatt Gurgle** · 07-25-2012, 11:42 PM

Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle

Just completed Walter Scott's Guy Mannering
Still working on Anthony Cave Brown Bodyguard of Lies
Just started The Travels of Marco Polo (with 25 illustrations from 14th century manuscript)

I'll add Alexander Solzhenitsyn August 1914 to the mix. The book has been in my library for many years only now am I cracking it open having been inspired by the Russian Authors thread. At 846 pages, I'll be camped out on this for a while.

**Mariatakis** · 07-30-2012, 08:08 AM

Just read "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides...

I'm really impressed. The first pages were too boring for me (but that maybe just the impression after the previous read book that had much more events...). But as a result I liked this book. I describe it as the tragedy of the one family, it's story since the beginning. I think you cannot read it anytime you decide to do it, you have to be in a special mood to understand the fillings of all characters.

But... Still strongly recommend to read it.
No surprise that this book was a bestseller in its time.

**Chrysostomos** · 07-30-2012, 08:28 AM

I'm reading only one book in English right now, The confessions of an English opium-eater by Thomas de Quincey, a short authobiographical account, quite interesting. I'm not really taken with it though...

I'll soon start a novel by Colin Thubbron, it is entitled In Siberia... Is there anyone liable to tell me more about the author, or even the book ?