2011 11-Authors Challenge

1.) The City and The City - China Miéville

Cool idea Scher! I'll not be posting the whole list but one or two at a time.

1. Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco. Enjoyed it a lot. Just four pages left. Going to finish it right now.

2. Man and Superman by Shaw. Will start it soon. I've read and liked a few plays by Shaw. Looking forward to it.

So far:

1. Homer The Odyssey
2. Gabriel Josipovici Heart's Wings and other stories

I'm still digesting the Josipovici book. I enjoyed it so much I went out and ordered another 3 of his books. I'm particularly interested in The Goldberg Variations which is described as 30 short stories which, if read collectively, turn into a mysterious and intriguing novel. Not a well known writer, but good.

Next on the list: Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird. Someone recommended it to me a couple of years ago, but I've never quite been in the mood for such a torturous and upsetting story. But as it's January, and I'm miserable anyway, now's as good a time as any.

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Originally Posted by aliengirl

I've read and liked a few plays by Shaw. Looking forward to it.

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That's great, aliengirl, but the aim of the challenge is to read the works of those authors we have not read till now. So, Shaw would not count (for this challenge).

I am still working on The White Tiger.

Does it count if we read one of the authors work in class?

I've already decided on something close to this...

[[These, I will definitely read, in order]]
1. The Inferno - Dante Alighieri (which I'm reading right now)
2. The Iliad & The Odyssey - Homer
3. The Aeneid - Vergil

[[The rest are maybes, not in any order]]
4. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
5. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
6. Dracula - Bram Stoker
7. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
8. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
9. Republic - Plato
10. The Metamorphesis - Ovid
11. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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Originally Posted by OfHighInterest

Does it count if we read one of the authors work in class?

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Yes, I think the only rule is that you have not read the author before.



Hey! Does it could if you started a book by an author but didn't finish it? Is that author still considered new?

I'll join in.

I've already finished two books of the sort, actually.

1) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
2) The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I'll make sure to finish up more of them after Academic Decathlon is over.

Just saw the question about non-fiction books; I did not have non-fiction in mind when I first suggested this and I will not include non-fiction authors into my list. Otherwise, my list would have been complete by now :coolgleamA:

However, if anyone feels like including them into their lists, that is fine, of course. And I don't want to risk this, either:

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Originally Posted by The Comedian

Non-fiction is certainly fine to use. (And if anyone says otherwise, I'll sock 'em in the mouth!) :lol:

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Finished The White Tiger so my list so far:

1. Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger) - 9/10 KitKats! Would have been 10 but I really wished the book was a little longer. Loved every single page of it.

I'm giving up on The Painted Bird; it is far too harrowing and brutal. It feels like an exercise in how to describe senseless torture, superstition and mindless violent. Too horrible for me :(

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

That's great, aliengirl, but the aim of the challenge is to read the works of those authors we have not read till now. So, Shaw would not count (for this challenge).

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:eek: I was in a hurry. Must have overlooked that fact. Thanks for correcting me Scher. :)
I've no plans to read any new author in the next few weeks. :frown5: So will have to wait.

And I've finished Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco. Would rate it as 10/10.

1) Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 3.7/5
2) Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman 3/5
3) Night - Elie Wiesel 3.9/5

3 down 8 to go

I just finished "The Virgin Suicides," by Jeffrey Eugenides. It is on a list of books that I have started but failed to finish. There are at least eleven books on this list, and I hope to make my way through most of them this year.

Excellent book, by the way. I was surprised. I mean, I knew it was good, but I didn't expect to like it, but I did.

Alright here's my list in no particular order

1. The Terror by Dan Simmons
2. Three Weeks by Elinor Glyn
3. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
4. Candide by Voltaire
5. Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
6. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
7. The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
8. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
9. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
10. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer
11. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandere Dumas

^that's alot of pages.