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[Clever Pun]

Oh man, I could only make it through 40% of the book before the end of the month.

Will keep reading it since I'm enjoying it. The book feels like it's a series of vignettes to me, which is why I don't feel like marathoning through like I do most books.

There was a point for me (maybe 60% or so of the way through) that I simply couldn't put it down. While there is a vignette quality to the structure, I found that the more I read, the better I understood it as it jumped around. For example, there might be a certain conversation between characters, and then 50 pages later you get another piece of that conversation. Encountering the same conversation like that in one reading session was really satisfying.

 

[Tim the Wiz]

New thread will go up on Friday. Votes are welcome, but if there's no appreciable number, my reign of terror shall continue.

 

[Ashes]

February is short, so my nominations are for 4 short novels (1 per week) + Catch 22 for those who have not finished it.

The short novels are as follows:

1, The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway
2, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
3, Candide by Voltaire
4, The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

I expect absolutely no one to vote for this, so your reign should theoretically continue, Tim.
So this is just a more challenging alternative for those that want to take up a better reading habit.

 

[Monocle]

February is short, so my nominations are for 4 short novels (1 per week) + Catch 22 for those who have not finished it.

The short novels are as follows:

1, The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway
2, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
3, Candide by Voltaire
4, The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

I expect absolutely no one to vote for this, so your reign should theoretically continue, Tim.
So this is just a more challenging alternative for those that want to take up a better reading habit.

Candide is a great choice. The others are good, but go with Candide.

 

[hamchan]

The Great Gatsby sounds good to me, always wanted to read it.

 

[Ashes]

The point is to read all 4! do you dare enter my madness?

I was gonna suggest an alternative super hard, read-a-novel-a-week+one+at+the+weekend. But that would be pushing it.

But in case you are that hard:

Bonus points:

1, Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2, The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
3, Daisy Miller by Henry James
4, Animal Farm by George Orwell.

Now that absolutely no-one is on board, you can carry on Tim.

 

[Ashes]

This is the tentative reading book club list:

Future Book Club Possibilities (In Tentative Order):
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Help! A Bear Is Eating Me! by Mykle Hansen
If on a winter's night, a traveler by Italo Calvino
The Long Ships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Devil In the White City by Erik Larson

 

[hamchan]

The point is to read all 4! do you dare enter my madness?

I was gonna suggest an alternative super hard, read-a-novel-a-week+one+at+the+weekend. But that would be pushing it.

But in case you are that hard:

Bonus points:

1, Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2, The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
3, Daisy Miller by Henry James
4, Animal Farm by George Orwell.

Now that absolutely no-one is on board, you can carry on Tim.

Lol, i'll read all those books eventually, don't worry.

 

[Ashes]

Resurrect this thread on March 1st, to say that you have! And you shall be crowned the greatest reader of them all!*












*Along with other greatest reader of them all winners.

 

[The Culture Vulture]

The 1970 film was just added to Netflix Instant if anyone is interested in checking it out.

 

[Clever Pun]

February is short, so my nominations are for 4 short novels (1 per week) + Catch 22 for those who have not finished it.

The short novels are as follows:

1, The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway
2, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
3, Candide by Voltaire
4, The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

I expect absolutely no one to vote for this, so your reign should theoretically continue, Tim.
So this is just a more challenging alternative for those that want to take up a better reading habit.

I'd actually be up for this, though Breakfast at Tiffany's is the only one I would be reading for the first time.

The 1970 film was just added to Netflix Instant if anyone is interested in checking it out.

Thanks, I might check this out. How is it? I have a hard time imaging how the structure of the book could translate to a movie, though...

 

[Ashes]

Then you get to pick from the second list.

 

[nakedsushi]

February is short, so my nominations are for 4 short novels (1 per week) + Catch 22 for those who have not finished it.

The short novels are as follows:

1, The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway
2, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
3, Candide by Voltaire
4, The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

I expect absolutely no one to vote for this, so your reign should theoretically continue, Tim.
So this is just a more challenging alternative for those that want to take up a better reading habit.

Great list. I *just* finished Breakfast at Tiffany's and loved it. The only thing left on the list I haven't read is Candide, so I guess I'll be reading that.

 

[Ashes]

Putting up a list on here is like teaching at Harvard or Oxford. Everyone's bloody well read everything!

There must be 4 books that you guys have not read in those eight books, plus this huge ass list, here.

~It's the fifth day already. It's snowing outside, so get a cup of tea/cofffee in ya, settle in and start your reading engines.

 

[Yen]

I had brought this book to my flight last month to China...never got too far into it but I have another 15+ hour flight back in a couple days. Might as well try again

You've stolen my avatar!!

 

[Ashes]

You've stolen my avatar!!

http://www.dramabutton.com/

 

[Yen]

http://www.dramabutton.com/

Haha
I wish I had seen this thread earlier. I've been meaning to grab a copy of Catch-22 but alas.

 

[szaromir]

No February thread?

 

[Ashes]

No February thread?

PM Tim the wiz. The next book is "2666" by Roberto Bolaño.

Haha
I wish I had seen this thread earlier. I've been meaning to grab a copy of Catch-22 but alas.

See post #53

 

[bengraven]

Um...I have the OT on F5 for most of the day.

How the fuck did I not ever see this thread? :/

 

[hamchan]

So I finished Catch-22. 5/5, amazing book, tonal shift near the end totally got me. I've lost sleep reading it so I'm gonna go collapse on my bed now.

 

[Ashes]

Blame tim. Though he ought to be up in a bit, if not now, cause there's a super massive UTD game in a bit.

 

[Yen]

PM Tim the wiz. The next book is "2666" by Roberto Bolaño.



See post #53

Afraid i wont be joining this month. I'm reading Mayor of Casterbridge for school, lots of essays etc do I'll be focusing on it for a while.

 

[hamchan]

I don't think I have it in me to read a 900 page book this month while also reading 5 other books I have lined up so no 2666 for me I'm afraid. I'll add it to my to-read list on Goodreads though.

Though I will try Ashes1396's suggestion and read some nice digestible short novels, starting with Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Great Gatsby.

 

[szaromir]

PM Tim the wiz. The next book is "2666" by Roberto Bolaño.

With already 5 days gone by and February having 29 days, I wouldn't finish it anyway. Ah well, I'll read Daisy Miller, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and The Great Gatsby and post some impressions here (if it's OK).

 

[Tim the Wiz]

New thread is up.

 

[Ashes]

February is short, so my nominations are for 4 short novels (1 per week) + Catch 22 for those who have not finished it.

The short novels are as follows:

1, The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway
2, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
3, Candide by Voltaire
4, The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

I expect absolutely no one to vote for this, so your reign should theoretically continue, Tim.
So this is just a more challenging alternative for those that want to take up a better reading habit.

The point is to read all 4! do you dare enter my madness?

I was gonna suggest an alternative super hard, read-a-novel-a-week+one+at+the+weekend. But that would be pushing it.

But in case you are that hard:

Bonus points:

1, Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2, The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
3, Daisy Miller by Henry James
4, Animal Farm by George Orwell.

Now that absolutely no-one is on board, you can carry on Tim.

The latest book club thread has died, but I wondered whether anybody had read the eight books above?

I just finished daisy miller - the last one I had to read of the eight above. 8 novels in 12 weeks ain't so bad.