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

Due to high volume traffic causing the previous thread (of the same name) to act a bit quirky, I have opted to redirect the flow to this shiny, new thread!

Soooo, tell us which book from the 1001 Books LIST you just started...

I've been reading some non-list 19th Century stuff. So I'm nudging myself (sort of) into the 20th Century and will pick up Her Privates We next.

Casino Royale is next up for me. Looking forward to it.

I'm working on The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides. Everyone that's read my copy from my library has not liked it and called it depressing. But I'm really liking it so far.

The White Tiger

Mother's Milk (along with the other Patrick Melrose novels) by St. Aubyn. pretty good stuff.....

The Heat of the Day - Bowen

The Heat of the Day

I'm really enjoying this one. Already half-way finished and finding it hard to put down.

Still working my way through The Tale of Genji

Started Malone Meurt (Malone Dies) by Samuel Beckett yesterday. Don't think this will take me as long to read as Molloy

Lily wrote: "Julie - let me know how you get on with it, I can't wait to get to Fleming!"

It was a quick, fun read. It reads like a movie, so I can see how the movies became so popular.

I'm starting Lolita

I'm halfway through Beloved.

I'm halfway through The Sorrows of Young Werther. I had to read it at school but quit after two or three pages. Now I'm loving it.

I'm starting the Art of Fielding. Interested to see if I like it since it seems the consensus is if you're not a baseball fan it's boring and I know nothing about baseball.

Andrea wrote: "I'm starting the Art of Fielding. Interested to see if I like it since it seems the consensus is if you're not a baseball fan it's boring and I know nothing about baseball."

I thought the baseball was interesting. Abandoned because I thought the rest was pretty awful.

Just started Cider With Rosie. Am looking forward to it.

Just started Memoirs of a Geisha.

quickly tossed off A Modest Proposal...now starting at the bottom of the list with Metamorphoses by Ovid (having already finished Aesop's Fables).

Starting Chess Story

Starting Effi Briest

Currently reading The Remains of the Day which is coming along fine - not much in the way of action, but I do like the narration and it reminds me a lot of Downtown Abbey :). I'm also about halfway through Walden on audio, but I honestly don't know if I will finish it because it is so boring.

On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Finally.

I just started To the Lighthouse.

Reading "If on a winter's night a traveler" by Italo Calvino. Experiencing dyslexia and thinking that the writer has a sinister and sadistic attitude towards the reader so far (and a fascination with female readers at that). Can't wait for it to e.n.d.

Slowly making my way through House of Leaves. Overall, I like it. It's very much a love/hate relationship, though. After reading a while, I start to hate it and have to put it down. It's all those footnotes.

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood :)

Started The Virgin Suicides. I'm really enjoying it so far and I'm very curious where this is leading.

Wuthering Heights! It's my third attempt to read it so let's hope I make it through!

Maeve wrote: "Wuthering Heights! It's my third attempt to read it so let's hope I make it through!"

I started that book several times from age 15 to, I don't remember for sure, 25 or 30? But one time I started it A-GAIN, and for some reason it worked for me, and then I really enjoyed it. I think if you like other stuff from that period/genre, you should keep trying, and one day it might click. [Or of course, maybe not....]

Now that I've gotten London Fields out of my life, I'm going back and RE-starting The Crow Road. (I was about halfway through it.) It's much better by itself, and I'm flying back through this re-read section, even though I'm trying purposefully to carefully digest.

Started Forever A Stranger and other stories by Haase, not what I was expecting, and once again my little library in Derbyshire has got a book from the USA for me.

Starting an off-list title on audio.

I will be starting Finnegan's Wake in 5 days.
The Literary Disco group [associated with podcast of the same name] is starting a group read on Aug 1. (5 pages per day). This book is reputed to be so different, I think I might not do well w/o a group, so I'm happy for the opportunity to read along with them, and thx to my sis for bringing it up to me. If anyone's interested, see the thread on the LD group. They recommend the Viking and Penguin editions as having the same page alignments.

Deanne wrote: "Started Forever A Stranger and other stories by Haase, not what I was expecting, and once again my little library in Derbyshire has got a book from the USA for me."

Inter-library loan is so fabulous! We have a fairly decent library in spite of the fact that I live in a small, remote town of 10k. But for a tiny fee ($2), they will find a book that is shelved at any library in the US or Canada. Pretty nifty!

Getting ready to sit down & start The Prince again. DESPITE this being a THIN volume, it's not "light reading", by any stretch. Also going to intersperse that one with The Good Earth

About to start Phineas Finn, the second in the Palliser series. Having finished the first in the series earlier this month, I'm looking forward to it.

I've just started Cain by José Saramago. Looks like it will be a quick read.

White Tiger by Arvindra

Summer - - Edith Wharton

"What A Carve Up!" - Jonathan Coe

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe. :)

Currently reading Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

Finnegan's Wake starts tomorrow. Should be.... interesting.

I'm desperately concerned about not getting diverted from finishing The Crow Road, where I'm about 2/3 the way through.

No contest for me Stephanie, loved The Crow Road and hated Finnegan's wake.

Starting Death in Venice

Starting David Copperfield. This one might take a while.

City Sister Silver up next.

Started Brave New World.

The Tin Drum - Grass

Truly STRANGE main character!

The Tin Drum

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