what is on your 2008 reading list?

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I have the complete works of Jane Austen which I want to read this year. I am a member of a book club so I will have to fit them in between those books.

I really want to get around to reading The da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. I absolutely LOVED Angels and Demons but for some reason I haven't found the time to read the follow up.

Skip it.

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Originally Posted by Quinn_

I've read The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment and The Idiot and I strongly advise reading TBK first. I was disappointed with The Idiot and I do not think this was one of his best. I shall never read it again. Personally, I find TBK to be his masterpiece over CAP. I've read it twice and cannot be more enthused each time.

Anna Karenina was fantastic, but such is blasphemy to compare Tolstoy to Dostoyevsky. Usually after reading the latter I feel wretched and misanthropic while from Tolstoy such emotions rarely emanate. The sheer brilliance that is Dostoyevsky, I cannot even begin to describe.

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Crime and Punishment and The Idiot are both good, I thought The Demons was also a great effort. Must read The Brothers now.

i thought artemis was good then there is wolf brother by michelle paver i love it

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Originally Posted by motherhubbard

A lot of people have posted what they read in 2007. I wish I had kept up, but I will for 2008. I wondered if anyone had a list of books they would like to read in 2008?


I plan to take three literature classes this year so I may not have a lot of time for reading for my own pleasure, but I have formed a little list of books that I would really like to read this year. I’m currently about 1/3 of the way through Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and I’m loving it. I hope to read the Buck books next.


Pearl S. Buck- Sons, A House Divided
Flannery O'Connor- selected short stories
Eugene O’Neill- Beyond the Horizon
Shakespeare- As You Like It, Anthony and Cleopatra
Miguel de Cervantes- Don Quixote (summer read, it sounds a little daunting, but virgil has me interested)

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I'm new to this site and have just finished "The Idiot."

What did you think? I was dubious about the "Christ-like" nature of Fyodor's hero in the novel... he is supposedly virtuous and meek and has his innocence ripped asunder by the squabbling society types... however I had doubts about his naivety in the beginning.

What do you think? Are you even around on this site anymore? I'm Harold by the way, a former English Lit student from Edinburgh. Nice to meet you (possibly).

Harold