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

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
audiobook

Reading Lucky Jim now. It's quite amusing so far.

Started City Sister Silver by Topol.

Started Invisible by Paul Auster. Disturbingly immoral but I can't put it down.

Struggling to work my way through The Blindness of the Heart by Julia Franck. 160 pages in and I just want to be done with this one.

I just started the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, next up will be Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and then The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

Started The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood.

Kayla - I loved ...Kavalier and Clay! Enjoy!
Aubrey - Ditto The Robber Bride.

Always have one audio book going. Just started:
War and Peace.

Reading the Golden Bowl by Henry James. Really not liking this book.

Stephanie "Jedigal" wrote: "Kayla - I loved ...Kavalier and Clay! Enjoy!
Aubrey - Ditto The Robber Bride.

Always have one audio book going. Just started:
War and Peace."

I've heard great things about Kavalier. I think I'm looking forward to that one the most out the three I have right now. :-)

Just started Mary Barton on Kindle.

Also reading Finnegan's Wake ppb, and War and Peace audio. I'm guessing I finish MB first....

Just started reading The Last of the Mohicans. What is everyone's thoughts about it? Not sure how I like it so far.

Steve wrote: "Ellinor wrote: "Starting David Copperfield. This one might take a while."
Its my favorite book let me know what you think."

I'm loving it so far. It will probably become my new favourite Dickens!

Karina wrote: "Just started reading The Last of the Mohicans. What is everyone's thoughts about it? Not sure how I like it so far."

Sorry to say, I didn't care for it. I think I liked the characters and the basic story-line, but I just found the presentation incredibly tedious. I only gave 2*.

Starting "Home" by Marilynne Robinson. I'm wondering if I should read "Gilead" first but it says this ones a stand alone and Gilead is not on our list. Regardless I'm getting the feeling this ones going to take a while.

Andrea wrote: "Starting "Home" by Marilynne Robinson. I'm wondering if I should read "Gilead" first but it says this ones a stand alone and Gilead is not on our list. Regardless I'm getting the feeling this one..."

I really love both Gilead and Home. They dovetail together so beautifully... But I don't think it is necessary to read both.

Starting The Bell Jar. I've been side-eyeing this one for a very long time.

Currently on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Not used to reading Scifi but really digging it so far

IQ84 Its massive.

Camille wrote: "IQ84 Its massive."

That's the next one on my list. Is it really? Like how massive? lol

Camille wrote: "IQ84 Its massive."

It is massive! I loved it.


I just started Mansfield Park

Kayla wrote:

That's the next one on my list. Is it really? Like how massive? lol"

Well, our library loans it for three weeks and it is so big that I don't think I can finish it in that time frame. And it always has a wait list, so I would have to buy it not just borrow it.

Yikes! Lol damn alphabetical order super insanity list lol

Choke - Chuck Palahniuk

Kayla wrote: "Yikes! Lol damn alphabetical order super insanity list lol"

Kayla: I think it took me two weeks to read it, maybe three....It is about 850 pages as I remember. There are much longer ones on your new super insanity list than 1Q84!

lol yes, I know there are, I just wasn't expecting a huge one to be at the very beginning of my list ahaha. No worries though, I can finish 850 pages in about a week if it's the only book I'm reading so that's not as bad as I thought.

Starting 'The Dispossessed', my first Le Guin.

Kayla wrote: "Yikes! Lol damn alphabetical order super insanity list lol"

thats a interesting way of going through the list...

Some libraries have ebook copies of 1q84 now. If you're in to library books, you might want to try that

Mekki wrote: "Kayla wrote: "Yikes! Lol damn alphabetical order super insanity list lol"

thats a interesting way of going through the list...

Some libraries have ebook copies of 1q84 now. If you're in to librar..."

It was the easiest way I could figure to do it and excel sorted it out for me so I figure, start at the top and work my way down. :-)

Great! Thanks for the tip. There's so many libraries out here in Vegas that I'm bound to find it that way, though I did see that amazon has it for kindle for only like $12, not bad for a book that big...

Just started The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Kayla wrote: "Mekki wrote: "Kayla wrote: "Yikes! Lol damn alphabetical order super insanity list lol"

thats a interesting way of going through the list...

Some libraries have ebook copies of 1q84 now. If you'r..."

I actually borrowed it from my library and renewed it over and over and over again for like two months. NOBODY put holds on it! LOL!

I just started Cannery Row. I'm enjoying it - think I may have developed a new appreciation for Steinbeck!

Andrea wrote: "Starting "Home" by Marilynne Robinson. I'm wondering if I should read "Gilead" first but it says this ones a stand alone and Gilead is not on our list. Regardless I'm getting the feeling this one..."

I really liked Gilead as well, but haven't read Home. Sounds like one I need to put on my TBR list.

Currently reading The Three Musketeers on audio. It's going along pretty well, but is annoying when there is a reader that has no knowledge of French and can't even pronounce the oft-used term "Monsieur" correctly. Irritating.

Aubrey wrote: "Starting 'The Dispossessed', my first Le Guin."

I hope you love Le Guin as much as I do.

I loved 1Q84, I think I knocked out 14 hours of reading in 3-4 days. I wasn't excited going in, I thought its weirdness would resemble London Fields which I abhorred but it was amazing.

I'm working my way through Vanity Fair, which I'm also enjoying. However, progress is stymied because I read most of books electronically, but VF is a real live book that I read in the tub...so I'm only making a chapter or two a day lol. I'm trying to resist the urge to polish it off because it's have to replace it with another, but it's difficult.

Just started Choke: A Novel - Chuck Palaniuk. will finish it during this weekend

Reading Lolita

Reading Life A User's Manual and Pnin for my other group's discussions.

I started reading Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo the other day. I'm really enjoying it so far! :)

Just started One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. It seems like an interesting one so far.

I've just started Flaubert's Parrot.

I'm halfway through Things Fall Apart. It's quite different from the books I've read from the list so far.

I have just started Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

Ellinor wrote: "I'm halfway through Things Fall Apart. It's quite different from the books I've read from the list so far."

That the book i'm starting next

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Really, really enjoying it.

Danyellemastro wrote: "The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Really, really enjoying it."

The Moonstone is amazing!

Seems like there are a few us tackling some Nabokov these days! I'm about 80 pages into Ada (also started reading the list alphabetically!), and boy is it tough. The first four chapters were brutal and pretty much incomprehensible, but it's getting better as I go along.

Absalom! Absalom!

Has anyone else wondered why there's 3 books on here by Lorrie Moore and only 1 by Faulkner? And none by William Kennedy? (not that that's an equivalent relationship)

Bill wrote: "Absalom! Absalom!

Has anyone else wondered why there's 3 books on here by Lorrie Moore and only 1 by Faulkner? And none by William Kennedy? (not that that's an equivalent relationship)"

I find 4 by Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom; Go Down Moses; The Hamlet; The Sound and the Fury.

Thanks! I downloaded one of the list and only found Absalom! Absalom!

I'll look again.