What are you reading?

[Herzeleide]

Just started the fifth part of Proust's In Search of Lost Time - The Prisoner.

[Goldie]

Originally Posted by Chilperich

If you haven't read Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park, you should.

Hhhhhmmmmnnnnn.....well Jane Austen is only in my eyes on of the greatest literary masters, shure people argue that she was just a simple "novelist", but honestly her writing is poetry with a brittish accent (granted she's no Daniel redcliffe and she's missing a lightning shaped scar) Nevertheless I began reading Austen when I was in 5th grade. Such amazing works shouldn't be avoided!!!!

Also, I've def. read Dickens my father would most likely never forgive me if I avoided it. But I will confess I have long avoided Huckleberry Finn...ick

[rhythmandblues01]

Harry Potter!

[Goldie]

Originally Posted by rhythmandblues01

Harry Potter!

I LOVE Harry Potter

[Chilperich]

A mixed bag:

The Sixties by Jenny Diski

Super Consciousness by Colin Wilson (essentially yet another rewrite of all of his umpteen other books, but, as always, strangely readable despite his inattention to detail)

The Art of Fugue by Joseph Kerman (this got such a bad review on Amazon that I was determined to read it!)

[Chilperich]

Originally Posted by Goldie

But I will confess I have long avoided Huckleberry Finn...ick

Why? Have you read Tom Sawyer?

Maybe it's a generational thing, since I suspect you're still fairly young (unlike me - well advanced now into middle age at 49). You've probably avoided The Catcher In The Rye as well (which was an inevitable favourite of most of those born between about 1940 and 1970, myself included).

[Florestan]

I just read Paul O'Grady's autobiography of his early years - At My Mother's Knee (and other low joints).

I wasn't sure at first; I thought it was a bit clunkily written and cliched (I'm such a literary snob), but once it draws you in, there is no putting it down. I absolutely loved it.

Most loveable character in the whole book, aside from O'Grady himself, is his aunt Chrissie, the chain-smoking, razor tongued Marlene Dietrich of the Birkenhead bus service. She deserves a book all of her own.

I can't think of any other sleb whose memoir I would read, let alone pay good money for, but he is far more interesting than most TV personalities.

[birabiro]

The Art of Fugue by Joseph Kerman (this got such a bad review on Amazon that I was determined to read it!)[/QUOTE]

He taught where I went to school. I avoided him, such a cur.

[Balthazar]

I can imagine loving Harry Potter, but not liking Mark Twain is absolutely inconceivable.

[Herzeleide]

This arrived this morning: