Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die discussion

"The Sea" John Banville - about two thirds through and resenting every SLOW page! It is truly awful! X

Smilla's Sense of Snow - so far I'm loving it!

Just started Gone Girl on audiobook

just started london fields by amis.

You're in for a treat! I loved London Fields x

Started Bleak House. Read the first instalment of the original publication schedule, which I'd read before, but not sure how far I actually got into the book.

I've started One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.

David wrote: "Started Bleak House. Read the first instalment of the original publication schedule, which I'd read before, but not sure how far I actually got into the book."


Wonderful story..Hope you liked it!!

Fiona wrote: "You're in for a treat! I loved London Fields x"

You are right, I already think its great, I was pretty sure I would since I loved Money, and when I saw this for sale at the local used book shop for $1.50 I snatched it up.

The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson - the original Dexter. It's o.k. so far. I've started it several times and it just didn't take.

I just started Empire of the Sun.

Gena wrote: "Just started Gone Girl on audiobook"

Gone Girl isn't on the list, fyi.

Just started Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, which so far is even more surreal and bizarre than I imagined it would be.

Cracking the (heh, digital) cover of Under the Volcano. Not sure I'm in the mood for it, but it's due back soon at the library so I hope I'm wrong.

La Bas or Down There by Huysmans

La-Bas

This one is going to be strange.

David wrote: "Just started Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, which so far is even more surreal and bizarre than I imagined it would be."

Love that book nearly as much as hitchhikers!

The End of the Story by Lydia Davis

Started Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe today because the 100 pages or so of The Woman in White I have left will not get me through 2 hours worth of commuting.

I'm just over halfway through Around the World in Eighty Days. It's not as captivating as I was hoping it would be but I'm still interested to see how it pans out.

Naked Lunch by William Burroughs. The Wild Boys is the next 1001 book and I haven't been able to locate a copy of that easily but there are plenty of option for his other books. As I've never read any of his works and Junkie and Naked Lunch are more well known anyway (hence their much greater availability) I've just substituted.

I'm only a little way in but I'm enjoying it so far.

I just started Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz. I'm really liking it so far!

I'm reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and I bought Atonement at Goodwill this morning.

Starting Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. A quick read apparently.

Started The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

I started on audiobook Great Expectations and loving it.

Just started

Just started A Clockwork Orange... I have seen about 10 minutes of the movie. I am apprehensive.

Karina wrote: "Just started A Clockwork Orange... I have seen about 10 minutes of the movie. I am apprehensive."

I remember being apprehensive too about that one, but it turned out to be one of my favorite list books. The movie...eh, the book is so much better.

All Souls Day - Nooteboom

All Souls' Day

A Prayer for Owen Meany.

Reading In The Heart of the Country, so depressing and confusing. I enjoy Coetzees' writing but this book is very hard to follow. Any help out there to understand the sequencing better?

Started yesterday two books of the list:
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

I started The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro yesterday. And I realized that I have started this book before but didn't finish it. Hopefully this time I will.

About a quarter of the way through Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind. So far I'm enjoying it, and now I know how to describe what a baby smells like. :)

Linda wrote: "About a quarter of the way through Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind. So far I'm enjoying it, and now I know how to describe what a baby smells like. :)"

Have you seen the film? I really enjoyed that.

Kirsten wrote: "Have you seen the film? I really enjoyed that."

No, I will have to watch it after I finish the book.

Linda wrote: "Kirsten wrote: "Have you seen the film? I really enjoyed that."

No, I will have to watch it after I finish the book."


I've watched the movie and it was a bit confusing.But I have to read the book to have a better notion and a Perfect knowledge.

Started Giovanni's Room. It'll be, in the least, short.

The Master by Colm Toibin. I didn't realized before I got the book in my hands that it was about Henri James. So maybe I should read Henry James next.

Death in Venice

Nadine wrote: "The Master by Colm Toibin. I didn't realized before I got the book in my hands that it was about Henri James. So maybe I should read Henry James next."

Hmmm...I picked up The Master the other day while grabbing 1001 Books I recognized from the list at the second-hand store. I also have not read any Henry James, so maybe I should also read him first. I have no idea what types of books he has written.

The Vicar of Wakefield. First time reading Oliver Goldsmith...

Atonement

Reading Le Petit Prince before bed. I love Saint-Exupéry's writings, but have never read this, his only list book.

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

The Heretic: A Novel of the Inquisition - none of my friends have read this one, but it sure piqued my interest.

Started The Secret Agent. Conrad really does not like anarchists.

Linda wrote: mmm...I picked up The Master the other day while grabbing 1001 Books I recognized from the list at the second-hand store. I also have not read any Henry James, so maybe I should also read him first. I have no idea what types of books he has written. "


Well, I am just at the beginning, but I don't think you need to have read his books to enjoy "the master". However, the only book of his I had read was "What Maisie knew" and there is a little girl in The Master that is clearly an inspiration for "What Maisie knew", and that was interesting. The Master starts just two years before the publication of that book.

Nadine wrote: "Well, I am just at the beginning, but I don't think you need to have read his books to enjoy "the master"."

Thanks! It'll be awhile before I get to that one, though, so I'll probably try to read at least one Henry James before that.

The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet.