September '10 Reading Poll

oooo Red and Black has suddenly taken a giant leap.

There is still plenty of time left come on R&B

Oh wow there is a tie now!

what is R&B about... and are there any other books, thematically you would liken it too etc...?

I haven't read it before, and don't know much about it, so I can't really give you something else to compare it too, it was just by chance that after it was nominated here I happened upon it in a book store, and reading the summary on the back sparked my interest.

So here is what it said on the back of my book which is what made me want to read it:

The origin of the story that provides the framework for The and The Black was, as it has been in many great novels, a newspaper report. Stendhal read of a young seminarist named Antoine Berthet who used his position as a tutor to seduce two women, was subsequently barred from the seminary and sought revenge for his dismissal by shooting one of the women. Though the woman did not die Berthet was executed for his crime. While all great novelists are admitted good psychologists Stendhal is generally conceded to have written The Red and The Black as the first "psychological novel" the first novel with a systematic scrutiny of the minds of its characters.

Well I nominated Mr. Hijuelos a couple months ago, so I won't mind reading. But I already started Stendhal, so I'll read that first, and the Mambo Kings as my fluff. (Which isn't a put down--it's just less demanding of me as a reader.)

OK, so I put this book on hold at the library and found that no I didn't I put a different novel by this auther on hold....sheesh!

I hope I get it soon.

Meanwhile I'm about 1/2 through The Red and the Black; different discussion.....