What are you planing to read in October?

[My name is red]

It's frustrating that last month i read nothing on my September list and went free style:redface:What about you?

I'm determent to stick to my October list.I'll focus on french literature this month.

The Knot of Vipers by François Mauriac
The Ogre by Michel Tournier
Jealousy by Alain Robbe Grillet (if i can find it on book stores because it's out of print)
Nadja by André Breton
Michael and Hannah by Amos Oz
And maybe if i still have time,The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk

I would like to hear yours and your opinions on my list

[Dirtbag]

There's an anarchist book fair tomorrow so I'm hoping to find something interesting there. Aside from that, I think I'm going to start Great Expectations and continue reading The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene.

[Mariamosis]

I hope to finish Thomas Hardy's 'Tess of the D'ubervilles', read 'The Earth' by Emile Zola, 'The House of the Dead and Poor Folk' by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and begin reading Frank Baum's 'The Complete Book of Oz'.

[dfloyd]

a shelf in my library the other day. Not because I wanted to read it, but because I am inventoring my books prior to selling quite a few. Usually, when I come into close contact with a book I have read, I remember the parts which I have enjoyed. I read this book in 1984 when it was published some twenty years after Hemingway's death. But now I couldn't remember much about it other than I had enjoyed it in 1984. So I read the introduction written by Gearge Plimpton. I was surprised to find that Hemingway didn't come up with the title, but that A. E. Hotchner did after a conversation with Hemingway about his early days in Paris. Also, the Intro mentions that Hemingway is not very kind to his friends in the book: John Dos Passos, Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound etc. So now I want to read the book again .... before I sell it and have to buy another. It will be #1 on my list for October.

[grotto]

So far on tap for October I have;

Death and the Dervish - Mesa Selimovic
Billiards at Half-Past Nine - Heinrich Boll
Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
Total Fears – Bohumil Hrabal (Reading Now)
Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsun


But this could all change at a moments notice if I get dragged some where else in my mind.

[NickAdams]

It's frustrating that last month i read nothing on my September list and went free style:redface:What about you?

I'm determent to stick to my October list.I'll focus on french literature this month.

The Knot of Vipers by François Mauriac
The Ogre by Michel Tournier
Jealousy by Alain Robbe Grillet (if i can find it on book stores because it's out of print)
Nadja by André Breton
Michael and Hannah by Amos Oz
And maybe if i still have time,The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk

I would like to hear yours and your opinions on my list

I'm considering Nadja and Jealousy (I have a copy which includes In the Labyrinth, but I can't remember where I picked it up) myself, but I want to finish Crime and Punishment this month. I didn't really stick to my September list either.

The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme
Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre
Paradise Lost - John Milton

Maybe:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov
The Magician of Lublin - Isaac Bashevis Singer

I'm slowly reading Plato's Dialogues, The Darwin Compendium, the Bible, the collected poems of Keats, Po Chu-I and Longfellow.

[Idril]

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Royal Physician's Visit by Per Olov Enquist
The Elagin Affair and other stories by Ivan Bunin
The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Angency Douglas Adams

[Frankie Anne]

I am reading "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" as well. I am getting a chapter a day via email, so I am not certain if I will finish it this month unless I read ahead.

I am also hoping to finish "The Half Sisters" by Geraldine Jewsbury.

[Rogers_68]

I should finish Les Miserables before thinking about anything else. I'd like to read Post Office by Charles Bukowski, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, and All About Lulu by Jonathan Evison.

[Barbarous]

I'm looking forward to reading:
Sein und Zeit-Heidegger
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man-Joyce (reread)
+ continue reading poems by John Donne and Wallace Stevens as I have been doing for the past month.

Besides those two, I'd like to finish up some books I'm currently reading and possibly pick up a few more.

[Dimitra]

The Magus (I'm half way)
Dead Souls
The Myth of Sisyphus
and The Book of Disquiet.
These should be more than enough for one month.

[Chilly]

Brothers Karamazov for the first time!

[Desolation]

Since I started college, my brain's been to tired and sore to read much, but I'm really trying to stick to a steady 50 pages a day.

This month, I'll be happy if I can finish the following:
North by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse (I'm 100 hundred pages in to all three)
And maybe a few essays by Emerson and some short stories by Anton Chekhov, perhaps some pieces of Nietzsche.

[bohn]

Zuckerman Bound
Oliver Twist
1984
Of Mice and Men
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Catch-22

[Zee.]

extremely loud and incredibly close
sum

and i'm gonna dig up some of my Murakami books and read those

[eustacia6]

for now...
Among the Bohemians by Virginia Nicholson
White Heat by Dominic Sandbrook

[toni]

I hope to finally finish Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
On the list so far are:

Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
Leviathan - Hobbes
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton

[Three Sparrows]

The Master and Margerite by Bulgakov
Oblomov by Goncharov
Resurrection by Tolstoy
If I ever find them, that is. I usually just buy whatever I feel like buying, no stuffy lists, but those three I just need. Four, that is; I forgot Pushkin's Eugene Onegine. There are tons of books I feel I need to read, but I just don't get to the book store often enough.

[NickAdams]

Jealousy by Alain Robbe Grillet (if i can find it on book stores because it's out of print)

I was in Manhattan last night, going from bar to pub, and I walked passed a bookstore that had a copy of Jealousy laid atop the discount cart. It was two dollars so I thought, "Red was looking for a copy." Remember, I had been drinking. Now I have an extra copy.:lol:

[My name is red]

I was in Manhattan last night, going from bar to pub, and I walked passed a bookstore that had a copy of Jealousy laid atop the discount cart. It was two dollars so I thought, "Red was looking for a copy." Remember, I had been drinking. Now I have an extra copy.:lol:
hahha you are such a thoughtful person!Thank you and i hope i'll be as lucky as you cause i need it in my language:redface:

[wessexgirl]

The Master and Margerite by Bulgakov
Oblomov by Goncharov
Resurrection by Tolstoy
If I ever find them, that is. I usually just buy whatever I feel like buying, no stuffy lists, but those three I just need. Four, that is; I forgot Pushkin's Eugene Onegine. There are tons of books I feel I need to read, but I just don't get to the book store often enough.


I bought this recently and am planning to read it soon. I loved the film. However, I'm hoping to finish my current read, A Place of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel, (it's huge), and then to start on one of the Booker shortlist books which are winging their way towards me as we speak. I don't know which one I'll start with though, they all look so enticing.

[Dr Jekyll]

I'm planning to read Milton's "Paradise Lost" and Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". I'm looking forward to it :), still have some essays to wrap up :$.

[MTA]

Continuing Ulysses
Continuing All The King's Men
A collection of columns about post-9/11 society by NYT columnist Milton Friedman
And I might go ahead and start Slow Learner by Pynchon if time permits