... I'm going to be living out of boxes in February and probably won't be able to find a book if I have the selection so I'm going to nominate from the small...
I'm about sixty pages in. It's pretty slow-going , after the first 10 or so pages, but it seems like it's about to pick up. ... Has anyone started reading The...
Thedmo's back...after a long hiatus. I recently enjoyed Iris Murdoch's A Word Child and The Nice and the Good, both of which I found entertaining. I also have...
Her stuff is like that. A Word Child is quite disorienting in the beginning, and the start of The Nice and the Good is a big fat information dump that would be...
... Melville wrote all that sailing and whaling lore for a purpose and as a reader you owe it to the writer to read it all. I vote no on even suggesting that...
I was in no way suggesting the novel be skimmed! I hope no one misunderstood my post. I think that, as a reader, you owe it to YOURSELF, more than to Melville,...
... I'm always looking for a hedge so I'm okay with extending the time; I was just suggesting that it still works if only a month is available. Shoot, I...
I used to jam through books, too, but funnily enough it was Moby Dick that changed the pattern for me. By slowing down, I'm sure I picked up more than I did...
The drug 'scene' recalls very much the sixties and seventies in the way in which the mind altering properties of certain drugs are what it was all about....
Last year, Helen Garner published a study of a student/student murder by drugs at the Australian National University (Joe Cinque's Consolation) in 1998. The...
Frank, I'm about 3/4 finished and am enjoying it. Barbara In a message dated 1/7/05 11:23:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, xtontox@... writes: Has anyone...
I have read about a hundred pages and I find the reading to be quite smooth. I recently heard about Iris' Alzheimer' condition on NBR. The guest there pointed...
Hi all, since we're taking about long books that take 2 months to read, perhaps I'd also like to throw in the idea of reading "Don Quixote" over Feb/Mar. That...
I want to let you all know that I got an email today that looked like it came from a member of classicsreadinggroup. It had an attachment named "Joke" and my...
Although he may not be well known outside Australia, Patrick White is really very good and he did win a Nobel Prize for literature. I would suggest "The Aunt's...
I nominate The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. ANNOTATION A phenomenal bestseller since its publication in 1943, The Fountainhead brought Ayn Rand's philosophy of...
Since the book was written in the 80's, that's not very surprising about the drug scene. This stuff still goes on. Do you think that Edward is guilty of...
... The Australian case was quite different in that the student responsible, Anu Singh, had planned and carried out the murder of her fellow student as a...
... interests. I am fascinated by the socio–historical context of novels that we read but if the group is not, we can always return to good old "Lit. Crit....
As a new member of this group, I can't help but to second the nomination for Ayn Rand's Fountainhead. I have only read Anthem by her, and enjoyed it quite a...
I would just like to say that I have alot of free time, I'd say but some peopel just can read faster than others and 250 pages a week to me is not a moderate...
... I actually based this figure on 35 pages a day when I polled a few years ago and received a split vote that indicated 50 pages a day was fine. As it will...
Iris Murdoch has given an interesting structure to this novel: it begins at a fairly ordinary level, descending to the incredibly banal conversation at the...
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