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| Jul 17th 2012, 19:02 |
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Fifty Shades of Grey |
| Jul 18th 2012, 01:13 |
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Boidiva, you're not the only one who doesnt care to use E-Reader. The fewer EMP around me, the better. Although, some of the newer books have some toxic stuff in their pages. Gach. 1. I read every day. If I dont, I feel panicked. 2. I dont care what time of day it is to read. Right now, laying about in a bikini and on my deck soaking up the rays and reading is my fave, 3. When I'm outdoors I cant control the sounds. Indoors, there's almost always background sounds 4. Who can say? Since I'm reading all the time, it all kind of blurs together. 5.. My favorite genres are history and science-fiction/fantasy, but they have to be top end. Lol. I'm really glad I took the time to read all of the classics I could get my hands on when I was younger. They were a terrific foundation. And starting out as an English major, it was fairly easy to do. 6. I dont really have a least favorite genre. However, I barely give even a cursory look at the Best Seller lists. 7. O heck. Hard to say. I'll go with "The Sunne in Splendor" as being in my top 10. 8. "Aztec", by Gary Jennings. I ripped the book in half and threw it into the fireplace. It's the only book I've ever "burned". The Sunne in Splendour; I prefer my Roses White |
| Jul 20th 2012, 11:06 |
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1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, and A Thousand Days by Arthur Schlesinger. |
| Jul 22nd 2012, 00:58 |
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Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow A screaming comes across the sky... |
| Jul 22nd 2012, 13:45 |
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Howl's Moving Castle by Dianne Wynn Jones
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| Jul 22nd 2012, 17:25 |
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One of the most intricate novels around. Hope you enjoy it. The Sunne in Splendour; I prefer my Roses White |
| Jul 22nd 2012, 20:28 |
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Finished reading "Breathing Lessons" by Anne Tyler. It's a surprisingly moving account of a long-running marriage that seems to persist more than anything else. The main couple are polar opposites, and seeing their entire marriage though this day-in-the-life narrative was a clever way to approach the material. The beginning was slow-moving, and b/c of that, I considered letting it go to read something else. But by the end, the story comes together fittingly, and I liked how the author didn't opt for the easy "happily ever after"-type conclusion. Marriages. I'm glad I gave this one a try.
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| Jul 25th 2012, 19:39 |
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Does anybody around here use an online book rental service such as Booksfree.com or bookswim.com? I am curious if these sites are trust-worthy? I'm worried about entering my credit card information. Does anybody know anything about them? The positive is that if I signed up for a site like this I'd be more likely to read a book to completion as I wouldn't feel rushed to finish by the library due date and also wouldn't feel like I could just throw it on a shelf and forget about it. "Hearts are often broken When there are words unspoken In your soul there's answers to your prayers"- Whtiney Houston, Exhale |
| Jul 25th 2012, 22:52 |
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Oh, I'll answer the survey questions. 1. How often do you read --Daily-- 2. When is your favorite time of the day to read? - I don't have a favorite. I read all the time. 3. When you are reading, do you prefer the room to be slient or to have some background noise? - Doesn't matter. 4. How long does it typically take you to finish a book you are reading? - Depends on how long and/or interesting the book is. I am a very fast reader. But, I often read 3-4+ books at a time. 5. Favorite Genre to read? - I read just about anything. I tend to read a lot more fiction than non-fiction. But, now that I have my Kindle I am reading more non-fiction on it. I, too, tend to avoid the best-seller list. 6. Least Favorite Genre to read? - Can I count romance? Can't stand those. Fantasy books are often not my thing. A lot of Tolkien knock-offs there. But, I have definitely liked a fair amount of great fantasy novels. 7. Favorite Book You've Ever Read? - Oh, impossible to say. How about a few? "The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald "Lolita", by Vladimir Nabokov "One Hundred Years of Solitude", by Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Midnight's Children", by Salman Rushdie And I'll stop there because otherwise I would just keep listing. 8. Least Favorite Book You've Ever Read? - Um, "Twilight"? My brain is screaming at me that there is some classic book that I hated, but for the life of me I can't think of what it was right now. |
| Jul 25th 2012, 23:03 |
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Have you read a short story by Jorge Luis Borges called "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"? If not, you must go read that ASAP. I'm sure you will find it amusing. If you have read it, please tell me you found it greatly amusing. Edited to add: Finally, I just finished reading Anthony Trollope's novel, "The Way We Live Now". I may have mentioned way back that I was starting this. It is about 1000 pages long. And I was only reading about 2 chapters a day. So, it took me months to finish this. However, I quite liked it. It is a very good satire. As a warning, if you need to have likeable characters in order to enjoy a book, then this is not the book for you. Nearly all of the characters are insufferably awful people. I was rooting for most of them to fail for nearly the entire 1000 pages. Trollope obviously had something to say about the greed and materialism in his society. There is one subplot filled with 4 characters whom I particularly loathed. But, the main plot is great, and the main character is very interesting. |
| Jul 28th 2012, 10:59 |
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I've started reading "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" by Stieg Larsson and "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka. Excited about getting into both of these works.
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| Jul 29th 2012, 00:33 |
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I just finished "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" by John Le Carre. It's my first novel be Le Carre. I'm surprised to be disappointed, and more susprised about why I'm disappointed. My only experience of him is through the non-linear, complex film adaptations of "The Constant Gardener" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." I don't know how the films' narratives compared to the novels, but I didn't expect "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" to be so straightforward. That could be a good quality in a story, of course, but in this case I found it lacked tension and intrigue. Problem #1: The story, about an aging British spy on one last mission, involves a lot of exposition. The very nature of his mission requires him to explain, at length, a lot of things that happened in the past. That's the majority of the novel, really. He spins a yarn to one enemy agent, then another, then another. Eventually there's a trial where most of the same information is reiterated, and by the time there's a climactic turn in the story, it feels like an anti-climax. By then I've been waiting for so long for the story to pick up that the solution, which doesn't come as a great surprise, was too little too late. The implications of that story turn are interesting, however, but the novel takes precious little time to unpack it. From there it's a headlong rush towards a conclusion that, to be fair, it actually quite poetic, and would have better served a more involving story than this. Problem #2: I didn't buy the novel's core relationship. The spy meets a young British communist woman, and with very little prompting she falls in love with him, and he seems to love her back. That very premise didn't ring true -- it's rushed, and by their nature the characters should be more resistant to each other -- and so crucial later portions of the novel felt unconvincing. There are good moments where the woman, Liz, notices events happening around her, and though she struggles to connect the dots, she is perceptive enough to realize that there are dots to connect. This clever, intuitive woman doesn't jibe with the lovesick girl who, within a few pages of meeting him it seems, starts mooning over him and foresaking all others.  |
| Jul 29th 2012, 00:35 |
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I haven't read it, but now I'm intrigued. |
| Jul 30th 2012, 08:39 |
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I've been in a panic after finishing the wondrous "Lulu in Hollywood," not knowing what to read next .... then, presto, the idea hit me: I've never read the widely cheered "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay." Twenty minutes ago I downloaded it on my Kindle, then read the first 10 pages ---- OMG, THIS IS FANTASTIC. I'm off to the gym now to read more on the treadmill ....
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| Jul 30th 2012, 12:02 |
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Kavalier and Clay is one of my favorite books, and it is usually the first one I recommend to people. Glad you are loving it. |
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