Found a pristine copy of Portnoy's Complaint at my favourite pre-loved bookshop & am re-reading it, after years & years ....
Blood Meridian--Cormac McCarthy
im in the middle of 'my sisters keeper' by Jodi Picoult.
I have just finished 'The Great Gatsby,' and I'm now reading 'To the Lighthouse,' by Virginia Woolf, again.
Interesting d_e_r I was just posting about Gatsby in the ED thread.
Of late I have been studying my antique trade books. There is some interesting information in these books but it is my work. So it is a task.
Starting tomorrow: Dale Brown's "Air Battle Force".
"Winter's Tale" (W. Shakespeare)
Working my way through the "Hornblower" novels.
zipped through the old Koontz "Dark Rivers of the Heart", simply swallowed Rollins "Excavation" and have now gotten into Dickens "Nicolas Nickleby" which should slow me down a bit.
quinn1~
Have you read Nicholas Nickleby before?
I've wanted to but never gotten started.
I hadn't planned to read it, but a neighbor has lent me The Da Vinci Code. Looks pretty interesting.
Blood Meridian?...is that set in the Old West Garg?
Phoenix32890 wrote:I hadn't planned to read it, but a neighbor has lent me The Da Vinci Code. Looks pretty interesting.
This is my book for June and maybe parts of July.
Just finished "Air Battle Force"...all I can say is AWESOME. Brown's writing is up to it's usual standards.
Not sure what I'll read next...probably the third volume of Harry Turtledove's "Worldwar" series.
Panzade:
Blood Meridian is indeed set in the Old West. Actually, it is for the most part set in the Texas-Mexico border in the mid 19th Century. However McCarthy renders it more like the pit of hell. He is constantly making connections between the landscape and darkness of human consciousness. That sounds like trite rhetoric, but I think he really is succesfull at it, as common a literary endeavor as it is.
I'm half way through "A Fine Balance" by
Rohinton Mistry....what a fine storyteller!
Listened to a tape from the library of "Crime and Punishment" on a long driving trip recently....Unfortunately, the tape was old and snapped just as Raskolnikov was about to do the nasty crime! Terrible disappointment!!!
Just borrowed a talking book of The Sirens of Titan from the library. I read it yesrs & years & years ago!
... & another talking book: A Suitable Boy. I loved the book & wanted to hear Vikram Seth reading it.
