The 5th Month of 2005? How many books have your read thus far?

[Razeus]

So how many? I'll do another one of these towards the end of summer. This doesn't include school textbooks.

Here's what I have finished so far:

Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas
Up From Slavery
The Da Vinci Code
Catcher in The Rye
The War of The Worlds
The Communist Manfesto

I'm so far behind as I have about 20 other books on my shelf dying to be read. College wasn't very good to me this semester, but I hope to read the same number of books over the summer break (I'm only taking 2 summer classes this year).

Currently reading:
The Iliad
Don Quixote
Catch 22

[amuse]

what will you study this summer? thx for the catcher in the rye tip.

[Razeus]

what will you study this summer? thx for the catcher in the rye tip.

Simple stuff for a nice break from all the accounting: Earth Science & Business Writing

[mono]

Books I have read thus far (the ones I can remember):
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
All Of Us by Raymond Carver
Art and Physics by Leonard Shlain
The Black Sheep by Honoré de Balzac
Howards End by E.M. Forster
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Lord of the Flies (for the second time) by William Golding
A Christmas Carol (for the second or third time) by Charles Dickens.

[Koa]

Curious mono, One day of Ivan Denisovich is the last book I read :)

Before that...I finished Doctor Zhivago which I had started like 6 months before, then I read Le silence de la Mer by Vercours, The picture of Dorian Gray, Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter... i dont remember anything more but I think there were another one or two... I don't read really much lately I admit, a lot of my free time is swallowed in the internet addiction and I often forbid myself to read anything entertaining in 'school' times to avoid distraction cos I'm distracted enough by myself...

[Koa]

Oh yes I also read a short novel by Tolstoy called Cadzhi Murat, and other 2 very short stories by the same Tolstoy.

[amuse]

not read much...

Tales From the Tower of London
The Bread Givers
Coming of Age in Mississippi
Flood Stage and Rising
David Walker's Appeal
The Life Story of the Mexican Immigrant
the majority of 3 of Nancy Friday's works

also tackled half of Souls of Black Folk (though it bested me, and i slunk away, defeated by its glorious prose as i oft am by Shakespeare), more of W&P, most of Youth Ask a Modern Prophet About Life, Love, and God, and reread parts of the ever wonderful The Killer Angels.

[Lector]

Enders Game
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Testament
The Once and Future King
Martian Chronicle
Mere Christianity
1984
Gates of Fire
Watership Down
War of the Worlds
Frankenstein
And I just started Clancy's Without Remorse

[Lector]

Oh yeah, and lets not forget Fight Club, which I just read again

[faith]

I have already read 37 books this year! And I'll spare u from reading the list!

[amuse]

lucky you!
any really fantastic stuff you want to share?

[mono]

Oh, I forgot to include a few more:
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
And a book of collected short stories by numerous authors, like D.H. Lawrence, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Ursula le Guin, Isaac Bashevis, Zora Neale Hurston, Mary Oliver, and Shirley Jackson, among many others.

[Helga]

Ok, this is what I remember

Hamlet - by Shakespeare (the second time)
Dr.Zhivago- Pushkin
Death can be Beautiful- short stories by many authors collected by Alfred Hitchcock
Veronica decides to die- Paulo Coelho
The Virgin Suicides- Jeffrey Eugenides
The Old man and the ocean- Ernest Hemingway
Ulyssus- Homer
Mr. Universe-Icelandic author
A few Star Trek Books
something more I can't remember

[Capnplank]

I can't think of much...

E.M. Forster's "A Passage to India"
Robert Graves' "The Siege and Fall of Troy" (currently reading a collection of his short stories)
Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
MacKinlay Kantor's "Andersonville"
John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" and "The Pearl", Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier", James Baldwin's "Go Tell it on the Mountain" might have been this year, same with Hermann Hesse's "Siddhartha" but that was probably still last year... Poopers.

Me and dates, we no go so good together.

[Snukes]

Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas - Tom Robbins
Subterranean - James Rollins
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
The Sensuous Woman - "J" (hehe)
Brave New World - Huxley
Peplum - Nathalie Athomb
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlin
Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde

Currently reading Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo, which is about the most ambitious thing I've read all year. The more ridiculous my academic reading list, the fluffier my personal reading list tends to get...

[Helga]

I just remembered that I also read the autobiography of a Icelandic polititian, man I was mad reading that!!! I also read a great play by a forum friend...

[amuse]

i read J's book too! ...many summers ago; i rank it highly. :)

[papayahed]

My list is on my computer at home, but from memory I've read:

The Crucible
Orlando
Seventh Son
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
The newest one by Michael Crighton - I can't remember the name, but it was good.


I know there's more.....

[SimilartoEmily]

my gosh list all the books i've read or just this year?

this year:All of Anne Rice's Vampire chronocles
All of Anne Rice's Mayfair witch series
Tolkien's Similarion, Lord of the Rings(all 3) and The Hobbit
Various Emily Dickinson Bios. and Poetry
Various Factbooks
And Salvatore's Dark Elf Trilogy.....(still re-reading) :banana:

[Molko]

Because of studies and other commitments, I havent been able to read very many books. But here is a list of the ones that I have:

1984
Brave New World
Anna Karenina
The Brothers Karamazov
Shallows
That Eye, The Sky
A clockwork orange

....and i think that's about it...

[Molko]

Btw mono, what version of Anna Karenina did you read? I mean, who were the translators?

[Fango]

The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Age of Miracles - Catherine MacCoun
The Catcher in the Rye

I feel inferior with this mini-list.

[Scheherazade]

Welcome to the Forum, Fango! :)

Don't worry about the number of the books you have read. There are so many different factors affecting how fast and often we read... Especially for some, not being native English speakers is a great disadvantage...

I still haven't read The Catcher in the Rye... One of the books I should read... soon!

[amuse]

ditto re: Catcher in the Rye, and welcome, Fango! :)

[Fango]

Thanks!

It is a great disadvantage not being an English native and all. But I'm only 18 and half years old, probably among the youngest members here, so that's my excuse.

[Helga]

The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Age of Miracles - Catherine MacCoun
The Catcher in the Rye

I feel inferior with this mini-list.


Welcome Fango!

Now I took about 6 month reading LOTR and The Hobbit and catcher in the rye is not that easy! so don't feel inferior at all.

Oh, and I'm 19 since April so we are both young but there are all ages here kids and up. So don't worry, you'll fit in nicely!

[mono]

Btw mono, what version of Anna Karenina did you read? I mean, who were the translators?
My copy David Magarshack translated from the original Russian, and it has a fascinating introduction by Priscilla Meyer. :)
To say the least, I loved this novel, and, after doing a little research, maybe I will start a thread about it.
What about yours - translator(s)?

[Molko]

My version is translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. I really enjoyed Anna Karenina, and would definately love to read it again. Unfortunately I just dont have the time now-a-days. But yes, it would be nice if you would start a thread about it :)

...oops, I noticed I left out a 'dont' in one of the sentences. Haha

[amuse]

mine was translated by Rosemary Edmonds. very highly recommend it.

[Erna]

This far I read the following books:
* Dorris Lessing - The fifth child
* Rood & Rood - Gerecht (a simple Dutch detective, easy reader)
* Jules Verne - Journey to the centre of the Earth
* A book about Greek mythology (in Dutch of course ;) )
* Heleen van Rooyen - Godin van de jacht (EN: Goddess of hunting, if translated. It seems to be literature, but is more a romance about a woman having a lot of affairs)
* Per Olov Enquist - Reis van de voorganger (EN: Journey of the preacher. In origin Norwegian, I thought. About a preacher building up a Christian community in Norwegian some centuries ago)
* Mark Haddon - The curious incident of the dog during night-time (should read that!)
* Agatha Christie - The secret adversary
* Jan Wolkers - Zomerhitte (EN: Summerheat :confused:, a gift in the 'week of books', Dutch literature, novel)
* Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason - The rule of four

And now busy with:
* Charles Darwin - The origin of species
* Hugo Claus - Het verlangen (EN: The desire, it's a Belgian writer)
* Yann Martel - The life of Pi (Dutch version, because I found that one somewhere cheap, otherwise would have read the English version)
* Truman Copote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
* Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach
(a lot at a time, not what I want, but a lot of traveling done the last week, so almost finished books not taken with me, but starting a new one :confused: )