What's on your "to read" list?

[AriArmstrong]

There are many books that are popular that I've not yet read.

I'm currently reading Anna Karenina (more than halfway through), and next on my list are

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
War And Peace - Tolstoy
Don Quixote - Cervantes
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky.

These are all long long epic novels, and I so much can't wait to dig into them. The copy of Les Mis I have is the Penguin Classic unabridged, translated by Norman Denny and looks like a good read.

[mono]

My to-read list nearly extends to infinity, as Goethe once wrote, "Art is long, time short." Books that first come to mind, however:
The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevksy (same as you)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Middlemarch by George Eliot (a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans).

[bjortan]

Currently in my to-read pile:
Italo Calvino - Cosmicomics (Loved "If on a winter's night a traveller" and "The invisible cities")
Isabel Allende - Portrait In Sepia (Saw her give a speech a few weeks ago. Feisty lady indeed. Had to read something of hers.)
Karen Armstrong - Islam: A Short History (Was utterly transfixed by "The Battle For God". Really looking forward to this one.)

Plus a bunch of other stuff.

I know that's not quite an answer to the original question, but there are SO many "classics" that I've never read and will probably never find the time to read. Off the top of my head, one book I've never read and would love to read is Nabokov's "Lolita".

Oh, and do read "Brothers Karamazov" soon. Amazing book.

[Monica]

Italo Calvino - Cosmicomics (Loved "If on a winter's night a traveller" and "The invisible cities")



we had italo calvino on our interpretation classes. we read 'a sign in space'. i loved it. pretty confusing, especially the end.
i'd like to read something by coetzee maybe. and a new novel by umberto eco, but it's only in italian (la misteriosa fiamma della regina loana). and dr jekyll and mr hyde by stevenson. and sue's mysteries of paris. and cortazar's the winners. and queneau's exercises in style. and a looooooooooot of other things. too many books, too little time... :bawling:

[bjortan]

I've read the first few chapters of Eco's new novel - very promising. It's about a guy who suffers from amnesia, and remembers nothing he's ever experienced - but remembers everything he's read.

"Do you know what your name is?"
"Call me... Ishmael?"

[crisaor]

My to read list tends to infinite, but perhaps the most notable book in it is Joyce's Ulysses. I tried to make it book of the month a couple of times, but had no luck. Maybe I'll give it a shot in my summer vacations.

[Icarus]

Everything. But what I have on my reading table: Girl Interrupted, Bel Canto, Timequake, Jacob's Room, Jude the Obscure, The Red and the Black, Ezra Pound's Selected Poems, The Handmaids Tale, The Making of Americans, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Last book read was Ulysses and after I needed about a week break.

[Eric, son of Chuck]

Icarus, I'll tip my hat for even getting through that monster. It was totally beyond me when I tried it at 16 and it still terrifies me at 20.

[EAP]

'The Day of the Triffids' by John Wyndham

'Iron Council' by China Mieville

[subterranean]

Oh my i have lots of books in my list.
At the moment i currently reading Jude the Obscure, then next on the list are:

The oddysey: Homer..(6th chapter now..Cris i'm making a slow progress am i :( )
The Idiots: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gulliver Travel: Jonathan Swift
A Potrait of An Artist: James Joyce
Travel in Hyperialism (i kinda forgot the excat title since the book is at my house: Umberto Eco
Dubliners: James Joyce
Silas Marner: George Elliot
then etc

[mono]

Oh my i have lots of books in my list.
At the moment i currently reading Jude the Obscure, then next on the list are:

The oddysey: Homer..(6th chapter now..Cris i'm making a slow progress am i :( )
The Idiots: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gulliver Travel: Jonathan Swift
A Potrait of An Artist: James Joyce
Travel in Hyperialism (i kinda forgot the excat title since the book is at my house: Umberto Eco
Dubliners: James Joyce
Silas Marner: George Elliot
then etc

Very nice, subterranean; I am presently reading Silas Marner by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), and find it very worth the read. Enjoy!

[subterranean]

Mono, can u give me a review after u finish? really want to know what's the story all about .. thru pm is ok :)

thanks in advance

[essentience]

To Read: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Voltaire's Bastards by John Ralston Saul
A Son of the Circus by John Irving

Those are on my current list, along with: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, and
Joseph Campbell's the Power of Myth

[crisaor]

Oh my i have lots of books in my list.
At the moment i currently reading Jude the Obscure, then next on the list are:
The oddysey: Homer..(6th chapter now..Cris i'm making a slow progress am i :( )
The Idiots: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gulliver Travel: Jonathan Swift
A Potrait of An Artist: James Joyce
Travel in Hyperialism (i kinda forgot the excat title since the book is at my house: Umberto Eco
Dubliners: James Joyce
Silas Marner: George Elliot
then etc
Not at all, with all that reading, It's not strange. Keep going. :)

[Mike_Brainy]

I have a long list, including Great Expectations by Dickens, Great Gatsby, animal farm by Orwell, and Homer's Oddysey or Illiad

[ajoe]

Right now I'm trying to find time to read what everyone seems to be reading:
- Life of Pi
- Wicked Witch of the West (don't know the exact title)
- Empire Falls
- My Life by Bill Clinton :D

[Jester]

life of pi is one of my favorite novels, stole the book from my mom before she took it back to me, only book she ever took back from me... anyway my favorite scene is when the three religious leaders convene and talk about.

[Monica]

I've read the first few chapters of Eco's new novel - very promising. It's about a guy who suffers from amnesia, and remembers nothing he's ever experienced - but remembers everything he's read.





you read it in italian or has it already been translated into some other language? i can't wait to read it. just waiting for some comprehensible language :nod:

[Pegadaz]

Hello all,
I'm currently reading "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. It has proven to be (so far) a dense read; I recommend it to anyone who would like to be absorbed into the mind of a brilliant writer. I also hope to read "Against the Grain (A rebours)" by Joris-Karl Huysmans. I have been told by trusted sources that this is the book Wilde alludes to having a great impact on Dorian Gray.

[BSturdy]

Hello ajoe and jester - I loved that book too, couldn't put it down

If Yann Martell has read 'The Da Vinci Code' maybe he will write a sequel called 'The Life of Phi' or similar.

I am currently trying to read Catch-22 but I bought a v.cheap copy from a book sale, in accordance with being environmental - I am having to struggle to hold this scruffy old book together and also it is very discoloured (beyond yellowed pages - they are brown!). Maybe I should find another less popular copy

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Bjortan - if I was the guy in Eco's book I would constantly keep a very detailed diary - I suppose that wouldn't really be practical though

Edit:_Heart of Darkness is great - didn't realise that Apocalypse Now was based on it until I had read it and then watched the film again - The horror, the horror

You'll be glad to know that I must go and get some sleep now

[seeker]

every classic and poetic, the entire Bible, all of steinback and bradbury... hmm...

and whatever else is out there. haha.

[Jester]

well i've narrowed down my stack of books by one, now im on bryson's a short history of nearly everything, moby dick, Dante's inferno, A sentimental education which i have yet to start and the memoirs of cleopatra which i am loving and the pope's rhinocerous (i like the title so picked it up)

[Scheherazade]

I am currently trying to read Catch-22 but I bought a v.cheap copy from a book sale, in accordance with being environmental - I am having to struggle to hold this scruffy old book together and also it is very discoloured (beyond yellowed pages - they are brown!). Maybe I should find another less popular copy



I read 'Catch 22' last year adn loved every sentence of it. It would be well worth the effort.

I try not to buy books at all and a very devoted member of my local library. Although it is not a particularly big one, they are good in that they will order the books they don't have for you.

[subterranean]

I love Catch 22 as well.. :thumbs_up: and I dont know who Heller was before i read this book...awesome characters indeed

[Scheherazade]

Has anyone read anything else by Heller?

[EAP]

Currently reading 'The Drawing of the Three', Book 2 of the Dark Tower sequence.

[Bongitybongbong]

My list is more for reference or self-educating, but I'd like to read the Divinchi Code. :wave:

[earth]

The Idiot: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Excellent book, my favourite Dostoevsky. I'm currently half way through my second reading.

My current list:

1. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Prince - Machievelli
3. Discourses - Machievelli
4. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
5. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
6. No Logo - Naomi Klien
7. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
8. Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

I need more filler books to smatter between all the brain crunching Russian novels if anyone can give me some recommendations.

[Scheherazade]

Just looking at the lists on here, I couldnt help wondering if anyone reads less highbrow books... As soon as I finish with the Artist, I will read 'Cause Celeb' by Helen Fielding (author of Bridget Jones's Diary)... I liked her other books as they were funny and witty. Hoping this one might be the same. :nod:

[mono]

1. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Prince - Machievelli
3. Discourses - Machievelli
4. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
5. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
6. No Logo - Naomi Klien
7. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
8. Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky


Very nice list, earth. I read Naomi Klein's No Logo about a year ago for an english-sociology combination course, and loved it for its amount of chaotic controversy of topics; in retrospect, the book heated many debates during discussions in my class.

[Aimee]

Books on my to read list (there are many, so I'll only put a few)

Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
One Flew over the cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesy
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Euganides

Just a few from a list of thousands (well...25 maybe).

[Calex]

I'm planning on finishing

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

I keep getting distracted by so many potential good quotes. I love his writing style, he's got an amazingly persuasive style of writing that makes me think about the most ridiculous of ideas. Or, maybe not so ridiculous as it may be.

But I'm on an easy reading mood, these days. I've recently finished The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, and found the book to be quite clever. Hoping to read the second one, sometime soon. I might crack open Dante's Inferno, to get ahead of my Italian class.

Nabokov's Lolita was recommended by a friend of mine, so I might have to find a copy I could borrow... or just buy it, as the case may be.

[Calex]

How strange, both The Virgin Suicides and Lolita was recommended for reading by a friend of mine, today. The Virgin Suicides is apparently, as she puts it, "un-put-downable".

[BSturdy]

The manual for my new camera

[subterranean]

I'm planning on finishing

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

I keep getting distracted by so many potential good quotes. I love his writing style, he's got an amazingly persuasive style of writing that makes me think about the most ridiculous of ideas. Or, maybe not so ridiculous as it may be.

Hi, I have read the book my self :)
This book was once discussed in our forum book club. Here (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2086&highlight=dorian) to find out

And i haven't read the virgin suicide, but i watched the movie long time ago (dunno whether it's the same story or not). Sophia Coppola did a good job as a director :)
Welcome by the way

[Scheherazade]

'Dorian Gray' is an excellent book... *adores Oscara Wilde* One of the few books I acatually own is a collection of his works.

And Calex, I know how you feel about good quotes... While I was reading 'Dorian Gray', I kept taking notes and wanting to share it with others around me :)

[Calex]

I have a list of quotes that I took from Picture of Dorian Gray. The man has a way with words that is truly amazing.

[Shea]

I have a rather big problem here. I don't have just a to-read list, but a re-read list as well. Dorian Gray's on it too, that was such a good book.

Re-read:
Henry IV part one (never really got it the first time)
Les Miserables - Hugo
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Emma - Jane Austin
Pride and Prejudice- Austin
LOTR - Tolkien (got interupted by school during that re-read. grr.)
Night - Eli Weisel
The Secret Garden - Burnett (I love reading that from time to time because it's so pleasant)

to read: (among many others)
couple of Tolstoy
several Dickens
more Austen
the rest of Hawthorne and Poe
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (after all, I'm a Florida native!)
The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
Paradise Lost - Milton (only read part for a survey course)
on, and on, and on,...

I'm tired of listing...

[subterranean]

Wow....i think the list is ok...except Jane Eyre..pheww..good luck Shea :)

[Shea]

Hey! What's wrong with Jane Eyre? :confused: That one is second only to Les Mis.

[mono]

I liked Jane Eyre quite a bit too, but we all have different tastes; especially since I discovered that I have a taste for commonly boring books on another thread (ha ha). I think the title of my favorite of Charlotte Brontë's belongs to a lesser-known novel, Villette.

[zheng89120]

Here's what I will try to finish until the end of the holidays.

- Lord Jim
- Gulliver's Travels
- Absalom, absalom!
- Catch-22
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

[Scheherazade]

Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Katherine by Anya Seton
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

[subterranean]

Far From The Madding Crowd - Hardy

[Razeus]

I have so much to read! (see my first post). I think I'm going to do:

1984
Catch 22
The Iliad

after I finish Don Quixote.

[Monica]

Don Quixote is great. I had a lot of fun reading it. I'd like to read Gargantua and Pantagruel but first I have to delve into Shakespeare because exams are closer and closer :goof:

[Helga]

Evgeny Onegyn by Pushkin
I really want to read that one

[subterranean]

Leave Don, read Catch ;)


I have so much to read! (see my first post). I think I'm going to do:

1984
Catch 22
The Iliad

after I finish Don Quixote.

[blp]

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Don Juan by Byron
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Oresteia by Aeschylus

Also Kant, Locke, Hume and Aristotle.

Should have it all taken care of in about a week.

[mono]

Also Kant, Locke, Hume and Aristotle.
I cannot recommend these more, especially Immanuel Kant and David Hume (both who also have interesting biographies). Kant I can easily call one of my favorite philosophers of all time (especially his Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Judgment, and Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals); and Hume seems the labeled-king of skepticism.
Aristotle seems always a classic; I think about his Nicomachean Ethics all of the time.
As for John Locke, I found his material very enlightening, but if you intend on reading his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, I would also strongly recommend works by George Berkeley, who commented on his theories, particularly in A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonus.

[Razeus]

Well I left Don For a bit and read "Catcher in the Rye" DANG! that was good. So vivid..I could picture every scene perfectly. Quite a moving story. I think I'm gonna save Don for next month when the college semester is out and before the summer term begins. I'll read Catch-22 and 1984 in the mean time.

[Snic19]

Not sure what I am going to read next yet. Just started Inferno last night. Thinking maybe Paradise Lost

[Pensive]

I have a very long list but the novels I think I can't wait to read are: Farewell to Arms by Hemmingway and Old man and the sea by Hemmingway, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Peril at the End House by Agatha Christe and The Silmarilion by Tolikien...

[Darlin]

I have a very long list but the novels I think I can't wait to read are: Farewell to Arms by Hemmingway and Old man and the sea by Hemmingway, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Peril at the End House by Agatha Christe and The Silmarilion by Tolikien...

You're in for a treat with the Silmarillion! It helped me having a list of all the participants but after figuring them all out it was so wonderful I went out and bought half the Lost Tales set.

Books on my to read list are:

War and Peace
Don Quixote
Moby Dick


They seem soooo long I just haven't picked them up which is odd as I don't usually mind long books.

[lavendar1]

Solitude by Anthony Storr - just bought a used copy. The back cover says it's an "articulate meditation on solitude, creativity, and the sources of man's inner happiness and psychic wholeness." I read his The Essential Jung.

The Courage to Create by Rollo May - another recent 'cheap' buy. His Freedom and Destiny and Psychology and the Human Dilemma were worth reading...to me, at least.

[Pendragon]

With me, it's almost, what isn't on my list to read! But I have strange tastes and just now I'm on a Robert E. Howard kick. I know, not "classical lit" but dang good stories anyway! I'm finishing up Skull-Face and Other Stories, Howard's spin on the Fu Manchu type character. Then its on to Bran Mak Morn, Corman Mac Art, and The Bloody Crown of Conan. I'm not at all certain I'll like Conan, but I liked all of Howard's other characters so far (Solomon Kane, for example), so maybe Conan just gets a bad rep due to the pastiches written by other hands than Howards. :idea:

[Darlin]

Pendragon, his Conan stories are very good and if you're keen on comics Dark Horse has a wonderful rendition of Howard's Conan stories, very true to his stories.

[yellowfeverlime]

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Andetrson, for the 70th time!

[Mark F.]

Pendragon, the Conan stories are well worth reading, I have half of them (there's a two volume omnibus) and enjoyed them. The comics, Frank Frazetta's art and the John Millius movie are equally great.

I have some books lying around that I'd like to get round to reading :

White Jazz by James Ellroy; I've read the other three novels of the L.A. quartet, some of the best contemporary crime fiction.

The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky; one of the greatest authors ever.

Amerika by Franz Kafka; I enjoyed reading The Metamorphosis last year and thought I'd endulge into some of his other stuff.

A few Terry Pratchett Discworld novels.

But as University lessons start tomorrow I'll be getting a few more reading lists so these will have to wait.

[YellowCrayola]

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje (author of The English Patient) and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. I don't have a lot of time as of now, but I'm trying to at least get through 8 books by the end of this year. :)

[samercury]

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Sidney Lainer

The Pendragon Chronicles

Parsival, or a Knight's Tale by Richard Monaco

Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Le morte D'Arhtur, by Thomas Mallory

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Andetrson

-That's all for now

[brooklyn]

Recently, this semester's to-read-list:

Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Has anyone finished?

[rodanho]

the da vinci code by dan brown(though not very confident about it)
one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez(heard most excellent things of it!)
the catcher in the rye by salinger(one of my best friends' favorite, so i am a bit curious to have a try)

[subterranean]

Now my long list expands even more with the inclusion of:

Tropic of Cancer-Henry Miller
The Adventure of Augie March -Saul Bellow
Song of Solomon-Toni Morrison

Phew....

[melee82]

Catch-22
Don Quixote
Girl With a Pearl Earring

[RococoLocket]

Well if you insist ...

The Lords of White Castle
Holy Fools
The Innocent
The Exiled
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Borgia Bride
The Greatest Knight
A Likeness
The Kindly Ones
The Girl with the Pearl Earring
Tipping the Velvet
Fingersmith
The Bloody Countess
The Master and The Margherita
Wideacre
Favoured Child
Meridon

[HandBag]

Middlemarch- Eliot
-The number i have picked up this book and put it down again

Walking on Glass- Iain Banks
- i just bought it, therefore i hope to read it

general Steinbeck
- I have only read tortilla flat, and hope to rea dmore

theres so many, but they are the ones i can think of right now.

[Wendigo_49]

Joseph and his Brothers by Thomas Mann

Doctor Faustus : The Life of The German Composer Adrian Leverkhun As Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann

Valis by Phillip K. Dick

A Brief History of the Paradox by Roy Sorensen

A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne

[Erna]

Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - A hundred years of solitude
David Baldacci - Hour game

[strategos]

If Chins Could Kill by Bruce Campbell
A Feast For Crows by George R.R. Martin
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Empire Falls by Richard Russo

[Deus]

Life of Pi by Yann Martel - simply put, unique and entertaining. One of the very few modern books of fiction I feel deserves to sit atop a shelf alongside the classics.

[Deus]

Had to get that out there, beyond that, on the to do list:

Paradise Lost - John Milton
and
Essay on Human Understanding - John Locke

[Sarah's_Chanson]

On my 'to read' and 'to buy' list is a completely different book to what I usually read.

Maharanis: The Lives and Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses by Lucy Moore.

I haven't really read many Indian books before but it looks good and I'm really interested in the country so it should be a good read.

I'm also interested in reading '1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World' by Frank McLynn, despite not usually being interested in historical books.

[Themis]

Lots and lots of books about the law ...
Otherwise:

The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
Facing the Flag -Jules Verne (I guess that's what it's called in English, at least that's what google.com has to say about it..)
The Valiant Sailors - V. A. Stuart
The Storm of Steel. ("In Stahlgewittern") - Ernst Jünger

[mono]

These past few days, I have oddly felt especially motivated to reflect on what I should read - *sigh, so much to read, so little time to live! I realized how many authors and how many of various others' works I have neglected, but fairly soon, I really want to read what I have heard as a real challenge: Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce. :nod:

[rachel]

i personally think Joyce's own life and appearance were more fantastic than all his books combined.
I rather think when you dive into his strange world of fw you need a binder,twenty pens, six months of solitude and to bed at eight every night!
and that is just to get into the first chapter!

'to sleep, perchance to dream" shakespeare

[NNoah3]

*sigh, so much to read, so little time to live! I realized how many authors and how many of various others' works I have neglected

Hey Mono!
I have been thinking the same....There are a lot of books that I want to read.
These are a few of them:
Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion - Jane Austen
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Memoirs Of A Geisha - Artur Golden
The Rainmaker - John Grisham
The House Of The Spirits, Daughter Of Fortune - Isabel Allende
Of Love and Other Demons, Love In Time Of Cholera, News Of A Kidnapping - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Well the list is becoming large every day.... :nod:

[byucougs]

There are many books that are popular that I've not yet read.

I'm currently reading Anna Karenina (more than halfway through), and next on my list are

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
War And Peace - Tolstoy
Don Quixote - Cervantes
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky.

These are all long long epic novels, and I so much can't wait to dig into them. The copy of Les Mis I have is the Penguin Classic unabridged, translated by Norman Denny and looks like a good read.
When I read Les Mis, I had the musical playing in my mind, so it was a very enjoyable read. I hope you have some interest in French history. (SMILE!)

[byucougs]

I can't believe 6 pages and no one picked Faulkner. If someone did, then I must have missed it. I would highly reccomend Light in August or As I Lay Dying. Sometimes these novels are overlooked or overshadowed by Sound and the Fury. They deserve a read though.

My next book to read is either Catch 22 or Catcher in the Rye. Anyone suggest one over the other?

[byucougs]

I made a comment about no Faulkner, but I missed Absolam, Absolam! I haven't read that one yet. You will have to post how it was.

[subterranean]

I mentioned his name on the other thread called "the best book you've ever read this year"..I was asking whether someone have read any of his works.

When I went to bookstore few days ago, I grabbed one of his books and read the excerpt. Yet, I putted it back and chose Saul Below's The Adventures of Augie March instead :)


I can't believe 6 pages and no one picked Faulkner. If someone did, then I must have missed it. I would highly reccomend Light in August or As I Lay Dying. Sometimes these novels are overlooked or overshadowed by Sound and the Fury. They deserve a read though.


My next book to read is either Catch 22 or Catcher in the Rye. Anyone suggest one over the other?

I have said it many times and I'll say it again: Catch 22 :thumbs_up

[Scheherazade]

I can't believe 6 pages and no one picked Faulkner. If someone did, then I must have missed it. I would highly reccomend Light in August or As I Lay Dying. Sometimes these novels are overlooked or overshadowed by Sound and the Fury. They deserve a read though.
Sorry, on this Forum we have an anti-Faulkner policy and we try to discourage our members from reading his works as much as possible!

;)

[Wendigo_49]

I can't believe 6 pages and no one picked Faulkner. If someone did, then I must have missed it. I would highly reccomend Light in August or As I Lay Dying. Sometimes these novels are overlooked or overshadowed by Sound and the Fury. They deserve a read though.

My next book to read is either Catch 22 or Catcher in the Rye. Anyone suggest one over the other?


I read all three books in that Oprah summer collection. I liked Light in August most out of all three. I've never read Catcher in the Rye but you can't go wrong with Catch-22.

[mickeymack]

I am currently reading The Book of Evidence by Irish author John Banville.It reminds me a lot of Camus and Dosteyevsky, L'Etranger and Crime and Punishment respectively. First published in 1989 and shortlisted for the (then) Booker Prize. However it lost out to Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day.This year Banville's novel The Sea beat Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go to win the Man Booker Prize on Monday night. So the next book on my list is The Sea!

[MiSaNtHrOpE]

I'm reading HG Wells' Time Machine and afterwards is Aldous Huxley's Island and Anton Chekov's short stories

[subterranean]

War of The Worlds..

[rachel]

I read Anna Karenina a long time ago and only remember that she had a sort of mustache. But I think I shall give it a try once more as I sit by the samovar and drink extremely strong Russian tea, or at least hot chocolate in the computer room.
And of course I am looking forward to reading legend of sleepy hollow on whatever day we are supposed to.

"You scintillate today Watson" Holmes

[mingdamerciless]

War of The Worlds..


OOO great book but i warn u dont EVER go to see the film it is appaling and nothing like the book. they have basically taken the idea of the big scary alien/monster things and then added tom cruise. AAAAHHHH!!! H.G Wells will be turning in his grave! lol