What are you reading right now? - Page 4

GateandGarden · #46 11-21-2004, 01:58 AM

I'm reading Elie Wiesel's Night, but I had to put it down today because it's just beyond devastating. And I get so angry when I remember that my Political science professor said that a small percentage of a American's still deny that the Holocaust happened.

Hillary

Moony · #47 03-05-2005, 06:15 PM

Thought I'd revive this for a bit...

I just finished A Home At The End of The World by Michael Cunningham. Having mixed feelings about it. I'll have to reread, I guess.

Starting on Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides now. It seems promising

amber · #48 03-05-2005, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Moony

Thought I'd revive this for a bit...

I just finished A Home At The End of The World by Michael Cunningham. Having mixed feelings about it. I'll have to reread, I guess.

Starting on Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides now. It seems promising

I love this thread, I was just thinking about it. Last night I just got the third installment of the Anasazi mystery series I've been reading. This one is called "Bone Walker" ooo, *shiver*

I love these authors. Apparently I like to read Archaeological Native American fiction....

*dork*. But at least the authors are archeologists, so the info is correct and all that. It's weird, they have this huuuuuuuge bibliography of research materials for a fiction work....

dissention · #49 03-05-2005, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Moony

Thought I'd revive this for a bit...

I just finished A Home At The End of The World by Michael Cunningham. Having mixed feelings about it. I'll have to reread, I guess.

Starting on Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides now. It seems promising

I LOVE Michael Cunningham.

And that book was fabulous. Movie sucked major ass, though, because of the atrocity that is Colin Farrell.

Moony · #50 03-05-2005, 06:32 PM

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I LOVE Michael Cunningham.

And that book was fabulous. Movie sucked major ass, though, because of the atrocity that is Colin Farrell.

...I hated Clare. Such a bitch.

I've yet to see the movie. I know you detest Farrell, but I kinda like him so

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I love this thread, I was just thinking about it. Last night I just got the third installment of the Anasazi mystery series I've been reading. This one is called "Bone Walker" ooo, *shiver* I love these authors. Apparently I like to read Archaeological Native American fiction.... *dork*. But at least the authors are archeologists, so the info is correct and all that. It's weird, they have this huuuuuuuge bibliography of research materials for a fiction work....

Those books sound interesting, Amber. I kind of like historical fiction myself

amber · #51 03-05-2005, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Moony

...I hated Clare. Such a bitch.

I've yet to see the movie. I know you detest Farrell, but I kinda like him so

Those books sound interesting, Amber. I kind of like historical fiction myself

yeah, I like it a lot. I'm always watching shows like that, too. If you do happen to pick one up (

) I recommend one of the "People of the" books. (People of the Earth, People of the Fire, etc) they're better than the mysteries.
Sounds like I should check out this Michael Cunningham guy. I dunno, though, People of the Raven is coming out in paperback soon...

Amber "Ancient Mysteries" g.

dissention · #52 03-05-2005, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Moony

...I hated Clare. Such a bitch.

I've yet to see the movie. I know you detest Farrell, but I kinda like him so

It's one of very few novels where I liked all of the characters; they were so well-written and fleshed out. The movie is worth seeing for Sissy Spacek and Robin Wright, but that's it. He was at his skanky worst. Couldn't act out of a paper bag. That blasted unibrow drives me to drink.

dissention · #53 03-05-2005, 06:41 PM

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Sounds like I should check out this Michael Cunningham guy.

He wrote The Hours, which is a masterpiece. The movie butchered it like you wouldn't believe.

Serrart · #54 03-05-2005, 06:53 PM

I've just finished Daughter Of The South by Eudora Welty, which was really beautiful.

Romy

amber · #55 03-05-2005, 06:58 PM

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I've just finished Daughter Of The South by Eudora Welty, which was really beautiful.

Romy

Niiiice. I'll have to read that one.I love this thread, I can refer to it for recommendations!

Serrart · #56 03-05-2005, 08:03 PM

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Niiiice. I'll have to read that one.I love this thread, I can refer to it for recommendations!

It's a great book, but the friend who gave it to me, just made me notice I told the wrong title, the right one in English is The Optimist's daughter

. I read it in Italian and thought for some reason the original title was different. Anyway, the leading characters, two very different women are really intriguing, and the description of the small city in the South evokes Capote's best stories. Ms. Welty deserved that Pulitzer.

Romy

seeker007nmss · #57 03-05-2005, 08:08 PM

I am reading this post. Does that count?

dissention · #58 03-05-2005, 09:34 PM

Anyway, I'm reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. I think it might just be a perfect book.

hayley · #59 03-05-2005, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Moony

Thought I'd revive this for a bit...

I just finished A Home At The End of The World by Michael Cunningham. Having mixed feelings about it. I'll have to reread, I guess.

Starting on Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides now. It seems promising

Middlesex is FANTASTIC. I loved it. I really like Eugenides.

I'm reading Lyndall Gordon's bio of T.S. Eliot, and re-reading "The End of the Affair" by Graham Greene for about the millionth time.

ETA: The Handmaid's Tale is fantastic. Chilling. I think I've read it a million and a half times.

David · #60 03-05-2005, 09:41 PM

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I'm reading Lyndall Gordon's bio of T.S. Eliot, and re-reading "The End of the Affair" by Graham Greene for about the millionth time.

I'm reading a book titled "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler & Charles Van Doren, & another book titled "Ancient Israel" by Professor Orlinsky.

Soon, I will start on "Steamboat Gothic" by Frances Parkinson Keyes.