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[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 3:40pm

MEF (or anyone)- how is ON BEAUTY? I loved WHITE TEETH but really disliked THE AUTOGRAPH MAN.

I'm almost through THE CORRECTIONS. Very mixed feelings about it.

I'm looking to read some Salman Rushdie next.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 3:58pm

I loved The Corrections more than life itself.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 4:01pm

I'm finding that people react very strongly one way or another about THE CORRECTIONS.

I definitely see the humour, and it's also astonishingly depressing (to me). I think I enjoy more "vibrant" prose.

I haven't fully committed to one side yet.

Posted: 9/26/05 at 4:03pm

Would you recommend THE CORRECTIONS?

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 4:04pm

did you just use the British spelling of humor?

I loved it so much that when I turned the page and saw it was blank and I was done, I almost cried.

Posted: 9/26/05 at 4:07pm

He does that a lot.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 4:11pm

LOL, I *do* do that a lot.

I have tonnes (!) of family in London, and I grew up spending summers there, so maybe that's the influence.

Captain- I do recommend THE CORRECTIONS, only so you can form your own opinion of it. I personally found it very difficult to get into initially, but eased into it later.

If anything, it's one of the most brutally honest and realistic novels I've ever read.

[midnghtdolphin]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 4:11pm

i just started The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 4:27pm

On Beauty is Ms. Smith's best and most accomplished work to date.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 4:35pm

I just started The Woman in White by William Wilkie Collins. I like it so far.

[yodamarie78]

Posted: 9/27/05 at 11:15am

I finished Fluke, which I highly recommend to anyone with an appreciation for Christopher Moore or whales or humor in general. I am now convinced that Moore is either a genius or the best researcher ever. First complex theology with Lamb and now marine biology.

Since then I have read Ever After: The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond by Barry Singer and I'm almost done rereading Memoirs of a Geisha so I'll be ready when the movie comes out.

Now I just have to have the time to find something new at the library before class tonight or who knows what I'll wind up reading next.

[Plum]

Posted: 9/27/05 at 11:33am

I'm reading Aristotle's Poetics for class and Anna Karenina for myself. And dammit, I can't buy books while I'm here. I could barely drag my suitcases around when I arrived.

*looks longingly at the bookstore*
Updated On: 9/27/05 at 11:33 AM

[DBillyP]

Posted: 9/28/05 at 10:35am

I just started CITY OF FALLING ANGELS, the new book by John Berendt, author of MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL.

It chronicles the people of Venice in the aftermath of the Fenice Opera House fire.

Another book in preparation for my trip to Italy ... three weeks from today!

[mirramar]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:17pm

I didn't care for The Corrections very much.

Right now I'm reading books that won the Newberry Award Medal, I just finished Maniac Magee.

I'm currently reading "I'll Go to Bed at Noon" by Gerard Woodward. (not a newberry medal book)

Anybody read The Time-Traveler's Wife? It was such an interesting book!

[Plum]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:52pm

I'm in the middle of the Edith Grossman translation of Don Quixote. Also, Martha Nussbaum's Upheaval of Thought, for my godawful essay on the nature of emotion from both physiological and cognitive perspectives. Hooray for neurology/psychology/philosophy papers! *weeps*

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 7:43pm

BLUE BLOOD by Edward Conlon

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 7:47pm

Margot Fonteyn, A Life by Meredith Daneman
&
Son of a Witch by You Know Who

[London Boy]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 8:20pm

Candide by Voltaire, lamentably. It's very depressing. Can't wait to get it finished and read something happier.

[Plum]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 8:40pm

But it's hilarious, London Boy! Doesn't all the woe and misfortune just get over-the-top after a while? I just know that by the 11th time Dr. Pangloss said we live in the best of all possible worlds I was in stitches.

[London Boy]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 8:46pm

I dunno Plum, mate. I understand the satire, but when i'm on the tube, on the way to work i want to be bouyant - not looking forward to Candide's next hurrendous calamity. Got any extremely happy reccomendations?

Updated On: 10/10/05 at 08:46 PM

[Plum]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 8:50pm

*thinks hard*

I'm not sure I read a lot of books that qualify as "very happy," but I have read some with happy endings. Try Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, or if you want something that has less resemblence to a brick, The Diamond Age.

Oh, did you read Acito's How I Paid For College? It's funny, lighthearted, happy ending, the whole deal.
Updated On: 10/10/05 at 08:50 PM

[London Boy]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 8:56pm

OK, 'how i paid for college' sounds like the boy. I don't read sad books as a rule, and 'happy endings' tend to signify sad middles.

[DramaDork925]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 8:57pm

Gossip Girls: Nothing Can Keep Us Together... its not deep, so sue me.

[Plum]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 8:57pm

Well, obviously the book has some strife, or there wouldn't be anything to resolve, but it's really not dark.

And man, you're missing out on a lot if you don't read any sad books.

[London Boy]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 9:01pm

Ahh well. I suppose i will miss out. I've had my fill of sad anything. I don't watch sad films, read sad books, or listen to sad music. I'm an official happy zone. Try it. You might like it