The book you love(for the moment)

[Remarkable]

I was thinking: what kind of literature do you LitNetters mainly like?What is your favorite book for the moment?(I know that preferences for books usually change every month:D ...)If you feel like it,write a little review for your most loved book(in this way I can even get some advices about what to read next)or discuss about others.I would have started myself,but I have so little time right now:bawling: ...

[Dori]

I love classics (who doesn't?). More specifically, I love the French and Russian literature of the 19th century, namely Hugo, Dumas, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev.

My favorite reads of this month (so far; I still have the rest of vacation) were "The Kreutzer Sonata" and "Hadji Murad," both by Tolstoy. It's very hard though, because I've also read Fathers and Sons which is also a good book.

[ex ponto]

Every now and than I take this book into my hands. It's Milutin Milankovic's "Through Space and Centuries" and "Through the Realm of Science".
That's only partialy fiction - a book written by a scientist about scientists, their lives and their work, in popular manner. I think it has been translated into english.

[Etienne]

Id' say my favorite book for a little while has been Bely's Petersburg which I am re-reading at the moment.

[mayneverhave]

I just finished The Brothers Karamazov for the first time a couple days ago.

Absolutely fantastic

[johann cruyff]

I just finished The Brothers Karamazov for the first time a couple days ago.

Absolutely fantastic

Me too...One of the best,if not the best book I've read so far.

Anyway,I prefer 20th century literature,mostly because the line between philosophy and literature is the thinnest - Kafka,Hesse,Sartre,Camus,Eco,Selimovic,Proust...An d Dostoevsky(yes,I'm well aware he wasn't a 20th century writer);) because his writing was quite ahead of its time.

[AuntShecky]

The book I'm reading now is The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen. Though it contains fantastic and imaginative elements, the book really resonates because of his down-to-earth, authentic life of a beginning writer. As I read it, all I can think of is that this character is just like me --
that is, if I were male, Welsh, talented, and lived in the late 19th century!

[Annamariah]

My favourite changes very often, right now I guess it's Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.

[Rogers_68]

I just finished Pynchon's V. and I thought it was great. I think he's funny and the book is challenging but not exhausting. I can definitely see a lot of Pynchon in DeLillo's writing.

[AngelofPhantoms]

I seem to take to literature written before the 20th century (or just at the beginning). Example: Books I love are the Oz books, Phantom of the Opera, Les Mis, Notre-Dame de Paris (I refuse to use the Hunchback title, since Hugo despised it himself).

[Tersely]

I'm into the gothic literature now. Mysteries of Udolpho, The Italian, Uncle Silas. :thumbs_up

[ntropyincarnate]

Well, my one most favorite book has not changed since I first read it 4 years ago. Lord of the Rings. I really haven't been reading a lot lately (school...:mad: ), so for current favorite besides LotR, I couldn't really say...

[robert1325]

Well, last summer it was kerouac with "on the road".... Such a fantastically gripping book , it made me feel alive!

Now though, Murakami's "the wind-up bird chronicle" keeps on lingering through my mind, while it's been 3 months or so since I read it.

BTW. I'm new here, I am a 19 year old from The Netherlands...please correct my english if there's something not quite right!

Greetings

Robert

[knightss]

Well, last summer it was kerouac with "on the road".... Such a fantastically gripping book , it made me feel alive!


reading on the road led to me taking a road trip lol
unfortunately i didn't hitchhike it =(

[robert1325]

haha, cool... I've actually been reading on the digihitch forum, and am seriously considering some hitchhicking this coming summer. I guess I'm old enough now and it's a cheap way of seeing some places in Europe.

Could you tell me something about your roadtrip? you've kindled my curiosity

[aabbcc]

Recently I have been into Umberto Saba, Victor Hugo's poetry, Goldoni's comedies, Shakespeare and Pirandello (lately I really got into theatre :)), works by Bettiza, Apollinaire and Prévert.