what is on your 2008 reading list?

[Napoleon]

Right now I have:
Animal farm
1984
And Then There Were None
Dante's Inferno
that is probably about all i will be able to read this year.Im pretty slow

[kandaurov]

Hehe, I think you're referring to Anna Karenina?

Yes I do, I'm such an idiot I check almost all book titles before I post on this forum exactly to avoid this kind of situation, heh

If you only read one Russian lit book go with The Brothers Karamazov, it's an absolutely amazing book and, depending on the edition something like 700-800 pages so not quite such a mammoth read as War and Peace.

Thanks for the suggestion! I also have "The Idiot" waiting in line. From the two by Dostoevsky which one do you think I should read first?

[Stephanne]

Ah! Feels good to post again!
now let's see... i never end up completing reading the books which i want to so i think i shall set shorter goals this time-
I plan to read a few dramas by the University Wits( but I haven't bought any yet!)
- Volpone by Jonson
-finally, maybe, finally I might just get out of my cave and read the King Henry series by Shakespeare..
-after this, all I might want to read for sometime would be Wodehouse...
- I plan also to take a look at early Horatian satires.
so, this year's going to be ancient for me..

I like The Brothers Karamazov better than The Idiot... but it really really doesn't matter which you read first!

[betzen]

originally posted by Niamh
and i want to reread the Merlin Trilogy and A Wicked Day by Mary Stewart

I almost never hear anyone talk about Mary Stewart! I love her. Not the merlin trilogy as much--I like The Ivy Tree and some of her other travel-mystery-romances. Not "great literature" by some standards, I'm sure, but definitely great reads. I'm sure I'll reread some of hers this year.

I also read Pride & Prejudice and Jane Eyre almost every year.

[superunknown]

Thanks for the suggestion! I also have "The Idiot" waiting in line. From the two by Dostoevsky which one do you think I should read first?

I couldn't tell you as I haven't read it, but Dostoevsky's most famous work and the one generally acknowledged to be his masterpiece is Crime and Punishment, and I found Karamazov to be a better book if that tells you anything (though Crime and Punishment is also very good). In terms of philosophy it is by far and away his best. The chapter of The Grand Inquisitor alone has been praised as a valuable philosophical work in and of itself, never mind the rest of the book. I've heard good things about The Idiot as well. You can't really go wrong with Dostoevsky in general. Make sure you get the Pevear & Volkhonsky translations though, they're unanimously acclaimed as the best Dostoevsky translators.

[Quinn_]

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[Joreads]

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.

[HeliX]

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.

[Mark F.]

Skip it.

[Mark F.]

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.

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

[ReynardKitsune]

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

[Harold_P]

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)

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