What are you reading???

[Wesley_Willis]

Originally Posted by Maine-iac

Just about finished with Trollope's "The Eustace Diamonds". I do admire his portrait of Lizzie Eustace. You can't really like her, but she is very true-to-life and very amusing.

Lizzie, when contemplating whether or not to marry Lord Fawn . . .

"There was not a grain of poetry in the whole composition of Lord Fawn, and poetry was what her very soul craved; --- poetry, together with houses, champagne, jewels and admiration."

Eustace Diamonds is top-notch. Good to see at least one person isn't reading total crap.

Best Trollope novel I've read is definitely The Way We Live Now.

[ana]

"What is the What" by Dave Eggers. I started reading it yesterday on my flight home and couldn't put it down. It is about one man's journey through Sudan and Ethiopia into the states (he was part of the Lost Boys). I am so far very impressed.

[Alto Reed on a Tenor Sax]

Originally Posted by ana

"What is the What" by Dave Eggers. I started reading it yesterday on my flight home and couldn't put it down. It is about one man's journey through Sudan and Ethiopia into the states (he was part of the Lost Boys). I am so far very impressed.

My wife just bought me that, I can't wait to start reading it.

[bokiz333]

I am Legend.

Just read it yesterday so I'm not sure if it qualifies since I am not reading it but I want to see the movie so i picked up the book. I am Legend is just one of 3 stories in the book (and I didn't know this) so the ending caught me by surprise since I was half way through the book and I thought there was a lot more plot to go and then BAM, the book was over. I still don’t know if that made the reading experience better or worse for me.

[QMO]

Finished the Zelazny short stories.
Read a silly book called Shantewa: Always to Remember, Never to Forget.
Another Loius L'Amour (Guns of the Timberlands)
Some Dilbert and some Foxtrot.

[Maine-iac]

Just finished "Dead Heat" by Dick and Felix Francis

Quite good, really, though surprisingly sentimental in places. Hard to notice much change in style, so I suspect the rumors that Dick Francis collaborated pretty heavily with his family in the writing of his books all along were probably true.

[ajstudies]

Listening to Dickens' Tale of Two Cities. I really don't get it. He seems to go on and on about certain characters, and then those characters disappear. And there are so many characters that I lose track of who is who. But the reading is very good; they have different people doing the voices. It's fun to listen to.

Then I am reading The Cat Who Sniffed Glue. I heard something about a shooting on the news the other day and I found myself thinking, "Another one?" and then I realized the others I'd been remembering were from the book I was reading.

[Maine-iac]

Dickens is known for having hordes of characters in his novels. "A Tale of Two Cities" has far less than his usual, with perhaps only "A Christmas Carol" being leaner.

I just listened to it a few months ago (I've also read it several times) and I can't think of anyone who disappears who does not pop back up again later on somewhat significantly. Who did you have in mind?

[yankeetripper]

Originally Posted by ajstudies

Listening to Dickens' Tale of Two Cities. I really don't get it. He seems to go on and on about certain characters, and then those characters disappear. And there are so many characters that I lose track of who is who. But the reading is very good; they have different people doing the voices. It's fun to listen to.

That's what happens when you are paid by the word.

[Klingsor]

My latest Half Price Books haul:

AS Byatt, The Biographer's Tale and The Matisse Stories
Rosamond Lehmann, The Echoing Grove
Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April
Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel (thanks Maine-iac!)
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

and, of course,

Hull, Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives