This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

SarahBM · 23-01-2013 08:59PM

Belle E. Flops wrote: »

I am absolutely loving the Count of Monte Cristo so far.

I wish I had more time to dedicate to reading it but I'm so busy at the moment.
Every day I really look forward to when I get to read my few chapters before bed.

Such a great story.

Its on my list, as is the Man in the Iron Mask. I loved the Three Musketeers, but the sheer size of the Count of Monte Cristo puts me off a bit.

Callan57 · 23-01-2013 09:36PM

Started Any Human Heart by William Boyd

eire4 · 25-01-2013 09:30PM

Belle E. Flops wrote: »

I am absolutely loving the Count of Monte Cristo so far.

I wish I had more time to dedicate to reading it but I'm so busy at the moment.
Every day I really look forward to when I get to read my few chapters before bed.

Such a great story.

It is a great read. I have read it a couple of times myself and loved it.

eire4 · 25-01-2013 09:32PM

Finished a re read of John Connolly's The Reapers. Very enjoyable.

lsrec · 26-01-2013 01:56AM

Just finished Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler , a truly lovely book , really enjoyed it .

a0ifee · 26-01-2013 01:55PM

Reading How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston for school. So glad our teacher picked it - what a great book!

machiavelli99 · 26-01-2013 04:28PM

I've been reading "A supposedly fun thing i'll never do again" by David Foster Wallace. It's his non-fiction stuff, a collection of articles and essays. Really Brilliant. Here's an article about tennis which he wrote for Esquire that's featured in the book http://www.esquire.com/features/sports/the-string-theory-0796

johnayo · 26-01-2013 05:10PM

Just finished John Giles. A football Man.
Great insight of what went on in earlier days at big English Football Clubs. A must read for those of us of a certain age, and with an interest in football or just sport in general. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

emeraldstar · 26-01-2013 08:53PM

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 26-01-2013 09:18PM

I've started reading "The Fault in our Stars" by John Green. I'd seen/heard a lot of buzz about it without ever looking into it properly. I bought it last week because it was on offer, and the next day I saw it reviewed in the kids section of a magazine!!

I'm going to read it anyway. First few chapters are alright. The way it's written is a bit like reading a funny blog. It just has that kind of style about it. We'll see.

baconsarnie · 28-01-2013 11:45AM

Just started EL Doctorw's "Ragtime"

IvyTheTerrible · 28-01-2013 01:01PM

Stasiland by Anna Funder. Funder descibes the lives of people who lived behind the Wall. Fascinating and chilling.

RoutineBites · 28-01-2013 04:25PM

Mikhail Bulgakov's, "The Master and Margarita." Brilliant book, I cannot recommend it highly enough. The frame narrative concerning The Passion is exceptional, you'd swear he came up with the basis of that story himself. Great satire too.

emeraldstar · 28-01-2013 05:11PM

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

baconsarnie · 28-01-2013 06:00PM

RoutineBites wrote: »

Mikhail Bulgakov's, "The Master and Margarita." Brilliant book, I cannot recommend it highly enough. The frame narrative concerning The Passion is exceptional, you'd swear he came up with the basis of that story himself. Great satire too.

Love this book!

SarahBM · 28-01-2013 11:07PM

RoutineBites wrote: »

Mikhail Bulgakov's, "The Master and Margarita." Brilliant book, I cannot recommend it highly enough. The frame narrative concerning The Passion is exceptional, you'd swear he came up with the basis of that story himself. Great satire too.

I liked the Passion bit too, but my god I, I thought it was awful.

Opinions differ, eh? :rolleyes:

Adr. · 29-01-2013 01:56PM

The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke. First in the Dave Robicheaux series. Good writing, but the plot was all over the place and the central relationship didn't convince. Also, there were times when I wanted to slap some sense into the central character.

Next up: either 2666 by Roberto Bolano or Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

Callan57 · 29-01-2013 04:08PM

Just picked up A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks

emeraldstar · 30-01-2013 04:02PM

Just finished Summer by Edith Wharton

emeraldstar · 31-01-2013 10:54AM

Daisy Miller by Henry James – only okay.

Now onto James' Washington Square – not very far into it but really enjoying this one already.

Meathlass · 31-01-2013 03:29PM

emeraldstar wrote: »

Daisy Miller by Henry James – only okay.

Now onto James' Washington Square – not very far into it but really enjoying this one already.

Loved Washington Square - studied it in college.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 31-01-2013 04:14PM

Trying to read Madame Bovary, but it's hard going. There's an entire chapter dedicated to describing the new town they've moved to, and not in a good Steinbeck kind of way, but in a "I might skip this chapter if it doesn't end soon" kind of way.

emeraldstar · 31-01-2013 11:52PM

A House and Its Head by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Very dry, black humour and not at all what I was expecting. I liked it.

Meathlass · 01-02-2013 12:09PM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Trying to read Madame Bovary, but it's hard going. There's an entire chapter dedicated to describing the new town they've moved to, and not in a good Steinbeck kind of way, but in a "I might skip this chapter if it doesn't end soon" kind of way.

It's about 10 years since I read it but it still kinda haunts me for some reason. On the one hand I wanted to give her a slap for not being satisfied with her life but on the other I almost agreed with her. Well worth sticking with it. The sense of a frustrated life, in her mind wasted in this small provincial town is throughly depressing.

eire4 · 01-02-2013 11:03PM

Finished an emjoyable re read of John Connolly's The Lovers.

Daisy78 · 02-02-2013 01:58AM

RoutineBites wrote: »

Mikhail Bulgakov's, "The Master and Margarita." Brilliant book, I cannot recommend it highly enough. The frame narrative concerning The Passion is exceptional, you'd swear he came up with the basis of that story himself. Great satire too.

Reading it at the moment, on foot of many recommendations......... A hundred pages in and it's shaping up to be a great read.;)

Censorsh!t · 02-02-2013 09:27PM

Loved The Master and Margarita, one of the best books I've read.

I'm currently reading the first in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, The Gunslinger. So far, it's good enough, although I hop it will pick up a bit, if not now, then further into the series.

emeraldstar · 04-02-2013 11:24AM

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Finding it enjoyable so far, but I've heard it loses momentum towards the latter half.

Callan57 · 04-02-2013 12:07PM

A Whispered Name by William Brodrick

baconsarnie · 05-02-2013 10:52AM

Goodbye, Colombus by Philip Roth.

This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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