Pilgram's Progress again, not sure why just picked it up and started in on it.
Tartarin--I've yet to read the Morrison profile in the recent New Yorker, but now I plan to. Re her feelings about Huck Finn: Of course, I have to respect her discomfort with the book. I can only relate this to how I felt when reading Dostoevsky, who tends to have at least one anti-semitic snipe in each of the novels that I read. These seemed gratuitous and a bit bothersome, but I just wrote it off to his attitude being not unusual for that time and place. Jim is who he is--and Huck clearly cares about him as a friend and an equal, even if he can't express that in words. But he does express that in his actions. The nomenclature is problematic, of course, but I wish it didn't obscure what Twain was doing to the extent that the book is banned in public schools.
I just finished To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee for my English class.
To Kill A Mocking Bird - great book great movie.
Am re-reading young Zadie Smith's White Teeth in order to present it to my book group.
Neat book, good read, POM!
I think for our English class we will be starting Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan.
I just started reading "Winner of the National Book Award" by Jincy Willett. The author is new to me, but the reviews were so ecstatic that I decided to give it a try. So far I'm loving it. Funny and subversive, with a playful narrative...
I love reading Stephen King books.
I also like Michael Crichton.
Re reading Winston Churchills collection and also in the middle of some poems by Frost
I'm reading the discworld series through, by Terry Pratchett. I have read lots of them but never in order, so I just decided to go through in the correct order! I just started so I'm on no.2... The Light Fantastic.
Is Terry Pratchett a fantasy writer?
The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
just started The Professor and The Madman
apparently there is a sequel out our some such???--I'm just reading the first one now.
Warning to Jim: I tried his very first book, put it back down. He doesn't like it either, I don't think. Try Snow Crash... wow.
The friend who recommended Cryptonomicon got Quicksilver as soon as he could. It took a long time for him to get into it -- apparently the beginning gives you a lot of background which isn't as much fun to read as Crypto or Snow Crash, but you'll need it later... finally Quicksilver sped up, and now he's having a ball with it.
I wish he loaned books, but this one is a signed first edition, so it'll never leave his hands... Meanwhile, I'm down to #250 on the library waiting list...
Winston Churchill's collection, that was one fat series. My father read it, or most of it. I read one of them, a long time ago now.
Let us know what you think, eh?
I read that too, Osso. Well, I read the 5 book collection. I think I've heard reference to a 7 book collection as well. It was interesting, and from a unique perspective, but I'm not sure I would reread it.
I just started reading John Sandford's latest thriller "Naked Prey" today. Sandford is always a good read.
