Printable View
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).
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.
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".
The manual for my new camera
Hi, I have read the book my self :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Calex
This book was once discussed in our forum book club. Here 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
'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 :)
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.
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...
Wow....i think the list is ok...except Jane Eyre..pheww..good luck Shea :)
Hey! What's wrong with Jane Eyre? :confused: That one is second only to Les Mis.
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.
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
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
Far From The Madding Crowd - Hardy
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.