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
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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
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.
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Originally Posted by bjortan
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:
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.
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
every classic and poetic, the entire Bible, all of steinback and bradbury... hmm...
and whatever else is out there. haha.
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)
I read 'Catch 22' last year adn loved every sentence of it. It would be well worth the effort.Quote:
Originally Posted by BSturdy
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.
I love Catch 22 as well.. :thumbs_up: and I dont know who Heller was before i read this book...awesome characters indeed
Has anyone read anything else by Heller?
Currently reading 'The Drawing of the Three', Book 2 of the Dark Tower sequence.
My list is more for reference or self-educating, but I'd like to read the Divinchi Code. :wave:
Excellent book, my favourite Dostoevsky. I'm currently half way through my second reading.Quote:
Originally Posted by subterranean
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.
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:
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by earth