Now that's a pretty impressive list.Originally Posted by Residentvampire
My list so far is
1. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
2. The Catcher In The Rye - J.D Salinger
The next one will probably be Les Miserables but I've got a few other things from authors I have already read to get through first.
Decided to switch The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer with Lilith by George McDonald, so when i finish a book I'll change the list.
My list in no particular order
1.War & Peace by Tolstoy...made a vow to read it last year and didn't
2.Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
3. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
4. Anything by Saul Bellow...recommendations welcome
5. Madame Bovary by Flaubert
6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte ( I am ashamed not to have read this)
7. Anything by Edna O' Brien...recommendations welcome
8. Anything by Jeffrey Archer ditto ditto
9. Anything by Martin Amis ditto ditto
10. Anything by Edith Wharton ditto ditto
Augie March is one of the books in February books. You are welcome to vote for it!
http://www.online-literature.com/for...97#post1000797
If you start a group readings for White Teeth by Zadie Smith and Edna O'brien, I will be happy to join you.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Hmmm...That's an interesting idea. I'd like to participate, but I'm not sure if I'll have time. My big reading goals for the year are War and Peace and Ulysses, neither of which qualify for the challenge because I read Anna Karenina and Portrait last year.
I know for sure that in between those two mountains, I would like to read the following authors this year, none of whom I have read before:
- Andre Breton (Nadja)
- Italo Svevo (Zeno's Conscience)
- Jorge Luis Borges (Labyrinths)
- Thomas Pynchon (V.)
- Kenneth Patchen (Journal of Albion Moonlight)
- Lautremont (Maldoror)
- Mikhail Bulgakov (Master and the Margarita)
- Sigmund Freud (The Psychopathology of Everyday Life)
- Leonard Cohen (Beautiful Losers)
- Nikolai Gogol (Dead Souls)
- JD Salinger (Franny and Zooey)
Hey, that perfectly worked out to 11...imagine that. I read so slowly these days that I lack confidence in my ability to read all of them along with War and Peace and Ulysses, though.
"Age of innocence" and "Ethan Frome" are both great books. Especially the first.
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
Bellow - Herzog
Amis - The Information
'Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.' - Groucho Marx
Elinor Glyn?Oh, my goodness - how did I miss this one? Do, please, let us know what you make of it.
4) The Truth about the Drugs Comapnies - Marcia Angell 4/5
5) The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison - 4.2/5
I think I will try to read 11 fiction and 11 non-fiction by new authors
I'm clearing my plate for the challenge by finishing a couple of reads from last year.
For the challenge I am starting off with the following three new authors:
1. Dante Alighieri - "The Inferno" (I'll at least give it the first run through, I'm sure it will require a few more passes in time)
2. Ian Fleming - "Goldfinger" (a 1964 Signet paperback from parents library)
3. Anton Chekov - "Ward No. 6" and perhaps one or two other of his short stories.
Gilliatt
I will give you candy and cookies if you can make it through "Mason & Dixon" (Thomas Pynchon). Every time I see that book at a bookstore or a library... I cringe with fear... which results to the nightmares I have of seeing that work. The moment the world ends is the moment when teachers assign "Mason & Dixon" as part of a required reading seminar in a Literature class. -_-
(All because you mentioned "V".)
"We look at the world, at governments, across the spectrum, some with more freedom, some with less. And we observe that the more repressive the State is, the closer life under it resembles Death. If dying is deliverance into a condition of total non-freedom, then the State tends, in the limit, to Death. The only way to address the problem of the State is with counter-Death, also known as Chemistry." -- Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day
Great idea, Scher! 11 new authors seems comfortably acheivable.
I've already read my first one -
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh - 10/10 . It took me only a few pages to get the dialect, and I really loved it! Saw the movie after I'd finished and feel it (the movie) was rather overated. It lacks the sincerity of the book.
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Exit, pursued by a bear.
Have just finished The Snowman by Jo Nesbo - I like the Crime/Detective genre and have been looking for a Nesbo book as he is highly rated as one of the top Scandinavian writers in the genre. I quite enjoyed it but don't think I will be hurrying out to look for more - not as good as Mankell, imo.
Count me in!
I have read my first Proust book, "Swann's way" which gets a 10/10
and i am currently reading "The red and the black" by Stendhal. I'll update as soon as i finish it.
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
1.) The City and The City - China Miéville
2.) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
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