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

I just started Shame by Salman Rushdie.

I've just started Snow by Orhan Pamuk. I really liked Pamuk's My Name is Red (which is not on the list), so let's see if this one is up to that novel.

Just started Glamorama. My first by this author. I know, I still need to read American Psycho.

Kirsten *Dogs Welcome - People Tolerated" wrote: "I just started Shame by Salman Rushdie."

Me too. The first two chapters have been extremely entertaining.

I've also started The Luminaries as a slow group read.

Oh, also Troubles which has an interesting start.

Quite a good range there I think! Something to suit whatever mood I'm in.

Karina wrote: "Just started Glamorama. My first by this author. I know, I still need to read American Psycho."

I first heard of this author today. I knew his books (well, two of them) but not his name.

I'm rather off put by the covers of so many his works having his name in huge type and the name of the novel being far less prominent. That to me is a good indication of a complete t****r! But maybe that's just his publishers and he's actually a humble, self effacing man.

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

And I started Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. This is my first book from her.

I just started Persuasion by Jane Austen.

Wendy wrote: "Starting Breakfast at Tiffany's. Hopefully it's lighter than Disgrace was."

Loved breakfast at tiffany's! Haven't read Disgrace, but it's certainly light and quick reading :)

Amy wrote: "Started The 39 Steps this morning. Looks like a fairly short read."

Loved the 29 steps! I'm definitely tempted to read more books made into Hitchcock films

Nicola wrote: "One Hundred Years of Solitude - I am not enjoying this nearly as much as Love in the Time of Cholera"

I wasn't a fan of this book either

I've just started reading Casino Royale by Ian Fleming. This is my second time reading it and I'm sailing through and appreciating it all again, I've decided to read all of the Fleming Bond books in order hence the re-reading.

I just started Emile or Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Not liking this book that much...

Just started Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.More accurately re-reading as first read it some years ago. Hoping that experience will give me a different view of it.

And I started Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol today.

Just started 2666 by Roberto Bolaño. Only 35 pages in, but I'm hooked already.

Linda wrote: "Just started 2666 by Roberto Bolaño. Only 35 pages in, but I'm hooked already."

One that I'm looking really forward to

I stared Time's Arrow by Martin Amis a few days ago. I loved Dead Babies and The Information by him and I am loving Time's Arrow so far.

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck.

Started a few days ago by Scarlett Thomas :)

Laura wrote: "Amy wrote: "Started The 39 Steps this morning. Looks like a fairly short read."

Loved the 29 steps! I'm definitely tempted to read more books made into Hitchcock films"

The book and movie were so vastly different it was almost as if the movie wasn't really based on the book. About the only thing the stayed the same was the main character's name and he went to Scotland.

Just started Far from the Madding Crowd My edition only has 318 pages but teeny tiny writing so I'm a little intimidated! But we'll see how it goes. I remember Under the Greenwood Tree being quite a slow read.

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. I'm excited about this one!

And I started The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain today.

The Devil And Miss Prym - this is a lot shorter and far more readable than I was expecting. A couple of hours and I've nearly finished it.

The Military Philosophers - this should have been read last month but never mind. I found the opening rather difficult to follow as Nick (the protagonist) has shifted yet again and I was caught in a fair blizzard of new names.

It settled down a bit and I've just finished the first section.

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Starting The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.

Brideshead Revisited

Starting Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Just starting "The Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov. Very much looking forward to reading it and also looking forward to finishing it as it will be my 400th from the list. I might have a little celebratory party!

Just started the audio book version of The White Tiger. Great stuff.

The Devils by Dostoevsky. It is the last Dostoevsky that I haven't read on the List. Our critics are really obsessed with him.

I am starting We by Yevgeny Zamyatin today

Just started Northanger Abbey and also reading Aesops Fables.

Tyler wrote: "I am starting We by Yevgeny Zamyatin today"

Exited to see what you think! I have it, but not read yet.

I just started The Golden Ass

I've just finished The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a re-read and now I've started Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

I'm also listening to Hunger: A Novel which is probably why I need lots of light relief.

Just started Ovid 'Metamorphoses'. Loved Greek and Roman mythology as a kid, so looking forward to this!

Moll Flanders, narrated by Davina Porter who is one of my favourites.

The Return of the King. Looking forward to being able to finally tick LotR off the list!

About to start The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle on a flight to Tokyo. I also thought about taking The Tale of Genji but I think it would be too ambitious, I can't spend my entire trip reading!

Jamie wrote: "About to start The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle on a flight to Tokyo."

That's awesome! Enjoy the book (I loved this one) and your trip! :)

The Art of Fielding and The Last of the Mohicans. I must be having an American kick or something.

At least they are very different books.

Candide - This is both sickening and funny. I'm enjoying it but I know that the horrors of humanity that it parodies actually happened so the constant slaughter and rapes are stomach churning even if portrayed as extremely ott.

Started Gone with the Wind yesterday. It is highly placed on the best of 1001-list, but I have been avoiding it, thinking that it was just a stupid love story. That is definitely not the case. Wonderful persons.

J_BlueFlower wrote: "Started Gone with the Wind yesterday."

Oh my goodness, I read this book for the first time this year and it immediately went into my favorites pile. I absolutely loved it! I hope you enjoy it as well. :)