What did we read in November?

[thelastmelon]

It's that time again. What did you read in November?

I read:
The Number Devil - Hans Magnus Enzensberger
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
Runemarks - Joanne Harris

[mortalterror]

1.Thebaid- Racine
2.Alexander the Great- Racine
3.Iphigenia at Tauris- Euripides
4.Rhesus- Euripides
5.Iphigenia in Aulis- Euripides
6.Cyclops- Euripides
7.Life of Demosthenes and Comparison of Demosthenes with Cicero- Plutarch
8.Heracles- Euripides
9.The Seventh Letter- Plato
10.Ion- Euripides
11.Andromache- Euripides
12.Helen- Euripides
13.Book of Job- God
14.Early History of Rome (first 100 pages)- Livy
15.To Demonicus, To Nicocles- Isocrates

[Tallon]

Jude The Obscure - Thomas Hardy
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Washington Square - Henry James
Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth

All in all a great month, i'll definitely be reading more Hardy, James and London.

[oblivion252]

1. 1984 - George Orwell
2. The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy

[cnsbyrm]

chicken soup with barkley.roots.ım talking about jerusalem by arnold wesker
lyrical ballads by w.wordsworth and coleridge
antonius and cleopatra by w.shakespeare
timaios by platon

[manolia]

“The murderess” – Alexandros Papadiamantis (re-read)
“The moonstone” – Wilkie Collins
“The unbearable lightness of being” – Milan Kundera

[irenthebest]

Oh, you all have so much time to read all these books! i am working hard to earn fro living, so reading for me is a relax, a pleasure and a luxury. Now I got interested in psychological books.
I study the books of relationship between woman and man. it is actual for me now.

[Gretchen]

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
Faust by Goethe

[promtbr]

Crime & Punishment-- Dostoevsky
Approximately 1/2 of Moon Palace -- Paul Auster until after the 5th totally unfathomnable plot turn and or character action in the space of 20 pages I puked on my shoes and put the book in the "to be recycled box"..
Dubliners-- Joyce (a re-read)
Hamlet-- Shakespeare

Eventful reading, three of the best works of Literature I have ever read and one of the worst all in the same month...

[Cailin]

Of Mice and Men reread
Macbeth reread
Shantaram

[Dr. Hill]

The Return of the Native
Macbeth
Beowulf
(The last two were for Literature class, the first on my own fancy.)

[Jozanny]

I reread An International Episode in my rapidly aging collection of James's shorter novellas, and the poor paperback lost its cover, and may have fallen under the bed. It treats one of James's favorite themes, of English lords losing their heads over fiesty and independent American women. Lambeth wanted Bessie precisely because she didn't fall all over herself to snag a royal--but she could not accept that his position could not guarantee his character. I don't know how fair it was on her part to expect that his title informed upon his ability to have a noble mein.

[Virgil]

I reread An International Episode in my rapidly aging collection of James's shorter novellas, and the poor paperback lost its cover, and may have fallen under the bed. It treats one of James's favorite themes, of English lords losing their heads over fiesty and independent American women. Lambeth wanted Bessie precisely because she didn't fall all over herself to snag a royal--but she could not accept that his position could not guarantee his character. I don't know how fair it was on her part to expect that his title informed upon his ability to have a noble mein.

Hey I read that a long time ago. Unfortunately I don't recall it now, but I remember enjoying it.

[Jeremiah Jazzz]

Finnegans Wake-James Joyce
Candide-Voltaire
Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde-Robert Louis Stevenson
Beyond Good and Evil-Friedrich Nietzsche
Siddhartha-Herman Hesse
Essays and Aphorisms-Arthur Schopenhauer

good haul!

[Joreads]

1. Fahrenheit 451
2. Twilight
3. Northhanger Abbey
4. 1000 Splendid suns

[andave_ya]

*blink* I'm embarrassed. I've been reading Les Miserables for the last two months and I'm not even halfway through.

[Hank Stamper]

Robinson Crusoe
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Northanger Abbey
The Awakening
Some of Oscar Wilde's short stories

all for uni

[Snowqueen]

I am trying to read "Peak of Eloquence" these days, its a kind of Philosophical book.

[TheFifthElement]

Approximately 1/2 of Moon Palace -- Paul Auster until after the 5th totally unfathomnable plot turn and or character action in the space of 20 pages I puked on my shoes and put the book in the "to be recycled box"..


Yes, I attempted Moon Palace this month and, much as I love Paul Auster, it just really didn't do it for me either. It felt a bit like wading through treacle and in the end I gave up.

Fortunately I didn't give up on the following (including some of Auster's!):
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Abortion: an historical romance by Richard Brautigan
Trout Fishing in America also by Richard Brautigan
A Very Short Introduction: Existentialism by someone, I don't know.

and I re-read City of Glass which is the first book of The New York Trilogy also by Paul Auster, and a very excellent book.

And with my son I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis and we're now working our way through The Horse and His Boy. He fully intends to make me read the entire Chronicles of Narnia.

[Guinivere]

I read a lot of Jasper Fforde. I think it was the second, third and forth book in the Thursday Next series. All three of them brilliant.

The I read W.H.Auden's kind of, sort of, maybe autobiography A certain world, which is really a collection of essays, poems and quotations on various subjects like (death, marriage, flowers, ...). Anyway he said in his foreword that he considers it to be like an autobiographical summary of his life as it contains themes that concern him and those around him.

I also read Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut. Brilliant is all I have to say.

And for some very light, almost weightless entertainment I read a book called Bitten by one Kelley Armstrong. I don't exactly consider it a waste of time. But I could maybe have done something slightly more productive with my time. Like say staring at my walls. Or counting clouds.

[Dr. Hill]

Everything Vonnegut touched was brilliant. RIP.

[Mark F.]

To The Lighthouse - Virignia Woolf
The Death of Ivan Ilych - Tolstoy
Master and Man - Tolstoy
South of No North - Bukowski
Love is a Dog From Hell - Bukowski
The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett

[Ignatz]

Finnegans Wake-James Joyce
Candide-Voltaire
Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde-Robert Louis Stevenson
Beyond Good and Evil-Friedrich Nietzsche
Siddhartha-Herman Hesse
Essays and Aphorisms-Arthur Schopenhauer

good haul!

This list made me giggle. Thanks! Look, I love Dubliners and The Dead is my favoritest story of all, but you seriously read Finnegan's Wake and had time for a little lite peachy Nietzsche? Has anyone else here read Finnegan's Wake? I tried a couple of times and then decided there were other books to read.

[promtbr]

To The Lighthouse - Virignia Woolf
The Death of Ivan Ilych - Tolstoy
Master and Man - Tolstoy
South of No North - Bukowski
Love is a Dog From Hell - Bukowski
The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett

Wow. I seriously bow down and pay homage to that list...Tho Beckett and Bukowski in the same month, hope you have access to some decent psychotropics...

[Scheherazade]

A Suitable Boy!!! :banana:

[Emil Miller]

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford and masses of stuff on the Lit Net Forums.

[Virgil]

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford and masses of stuff on the Lit Net Forums.

That is a great novel Brian. Well worth the read. I've been meaning to re-read that for the longest time.

[ntropyincarnate]

Absolutely nothing that wasn't for school. Blech.

[Emil Miller]

That is a great novel Brian. Well worth the read. I've been meaning to re-read that for the longest time.

Thanks Virgil, I read it many years ago and I guess at that stage I wasn't ready for it because the structure of the book was unlike any novel I had read previously.It still is, but all these years down the line, I can understand it as it's meant to be understood. It is very cleverly put together through the narration of the American Dowell and touches on a number of themes, such as adutery, betrayal, catholisism, protestantism and secularism.
The psychological elements in the story are vividly portrayed by the author but, despite the problems in Ashburton's marriage, I found it difficult empathise with his all to frequent adulterous affairs.

[Mark F.]

Wow. I seriously bow down and pay homage to that list...Tho Beckett and Bukowski in the same month, hope you have access to some decent psychotropics...

Don't need any, I'm already mad.

[Thespian1975]

Bleak House - Dickens
The Shining - Stephen King
Summer Lightning - PG Wodehouse

[Drkshadow03]

Bleak House - Dickens
The Shining - Stephen King
Summer Lightning - PG Wodehouse


How'd you like The Shining?

[LitNetIsGreat]

Essay time so not much time for my own choosing reading criticism around the essays and set texts, I think the only thing I read not related to uni was/is The Dhammapada a Buddhist text and Buddhist stuff online. I tried to read a few other things but I had to bail out due to the pressures of essay/presentations/work/job interviews/Christmas shopping/being ill, etc. How I long to sit down with nothing to do but to read a novel! :sick:

[lyni]

I read a trilogy by Jan Siegel - Prosperos Children, Dragon Charmer and Witch's Honour. I've read it several times and it is still is a great read.
I also read Faust by Goethe. I was impressed at first with the powerful language but then it seemed to peter out somehow and ended with a whimper.

[Thespian1975]

How'd you like The Shining?

Scared the @@@ out of me. When taken with the fact that King was fighting his own addictions at that time it becomes a very interesting read.
With a small cast of characters and locations it held the tensions very well indeed.

Recommended, if you like horror.

[Drkshadow03]

Scared the @@@ out of me. When taken with the fact that King was fighting his own addictions at that time it becomes a very interesting read.
With a small cast of characters and locations it held the tensions very well indeed.

Recommended, if you like horror.

I've read it before. I agree that it's a creepy little read.

[Genejo]

Martin Eden by Jack London and The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne and reread Mice and Men.

[bouquin]

The God of Small Things -- Arundhati Roy

Murder in the Cathedral -- T.S. Eliot

The Hours -- Michael Cunningham

Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring -- Kenzaburo Oe

[ryan.778]

Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
The Idot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Shane, Jack Schaffer

The Idiot has become a favorite and as far as westerns go Shane was by far the best i've ever read.

[Emil Miller]

Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
The Idot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Shane, Jack Schaffer

The Idiot has become a favorite and as far as westerns go Shane was by far the best i've ever read.

Did you see the film adaptation of Shane with Alan Ladd? It's unique among westerns in that there is hardly any gun play until the end. From the arrival of the hired gunslinger Wilson, brilliantly acted by Jack Palance in a performance of frighteningly restrained malevolence, you just know there are going to be fireworks but when the showdown does come the effect is absolutely stunning. George Stevens was one of hollywood's most famous directors, so it is far from being your usual western fare.

[Skooter]

I had a Dutch literature mandatory reading list to get through, so aside from the last one, they are all Dutch.

1 Marcellus Emants - Een Nagelaten Bekentenis
2 Louis Couperus - Noodlot
3 Ferdinand Bordewijk - Bint
4 A.F.Th. Van der Heijden - Het leven uit een dag
5 Simon Vestdijk - De Koperen Tuin
6 Willem Elsschot - Dwaallicht
7 Virginia Woolf - Orlando