What are you currently reading?

[steve ridgway]

That reminds me of the scene with the strap on dildo in Victor/Victoria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor/Victoria

Really? It must have taken a long time to write a novel using one of those!

[JBS]

In what ways is Victor Hugo a Victorian writer, other than his name being Victor?   

He spent roughly 15 years--most of the Second Empire period--in the Crown Dependencies of Jersey and Guernsey--and lived until 1885. We may think of him as high Romantic, but he was merely 19th century.

[Florestan]

He spent roughly 15 years--most of the Second Empire period--in the Crown Dependencies of Jersey and Guernsey--and lived until 1885. We may think of him as high Romantic, but he was merely 19th century.

If being contemporary with Queen Victoria's reign makes one Victorian, then Tolstoy, Zola and Ibsen qualify as well.

[Philo]

Cha's Dictee

[Karl Henning]

Finished Wrinkle last night. Hit me as thoroughly fresh. And now I've just started Wind in the Door. Back when I first read it (last century sometime) I think I just wasn't ready for its differences from Wrinkle. Enjoying it entirely now.

It's not fair as "judgment," but I don't feel the affection for the second book that I do for Wrinkle. Just wanted to air that. I do both enjoy A Wind in the Door and admire the author's achievement. I feel that one has to applaud the "redemption" of Mr Jenkins. On one hand, Charles Wallace is the central character, in that the plot revolves around his ailment and healing, but his character is actually in the background. And the fact is, I applaud the author for breaking fresh ground in the second book. A lesser author would have written a Wrinkle retread.

[Bachthoven]

[Ganondorf]

Started Bram Stoker's Dracula today, I think for the first time. I've heard this is one of those works which is more appreciated through its great influence rather than any intrinsic literary worth. Time will tell whether I shall share that view or not.

[Justice Roberts]

Zen and the Art of Poker.  Larry Phillips.

[JBS]

Started Bram Stoker's Dracula today, I think for the first time. I've heard this is one of those works which is more appreciated through its great influence rather than any intrinsic literary worth. Time will tell whether I shall share that view or not.

It has more than a few scenes that are well done, and a number of elements that movie versions tend to heavily adapt or omit. The incident at Lucy's tomb manages to combine first rate horror and deep emotion (I'm being vague to avoid a spoiler).

[Karl Henning]

It has more than a few scenes that are well done, and a number of elements that movie versions tend to heavily adapt or omit. The incident at Lucy's tomb manages to combine first rate horror and deep emotion (I'm being vague to avoid a spoiler).

Thank you. I read it long ago, at a stage when I was almost certainly unfair to the book, and it looks like I owe it a revisit.

[LKB]

Really? It must have taken a long time to write a novel using one of those!

It's all in the timing.

[LKB]

Oh, and I'm currently re-re-re-reading Steinbeck's The Log from the Sea of Cortez.

[Philo]

Iain Sheridan's Semiconductors



I got this book for an insane steal (I believe, if my math is correct, I saved over 90 percent on it!)

[Mookalafalas]

Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8: Parade of Horribles.   

[arpeggio]

I realize that this second novel in the series and that I read third novel, Robots of Dawn, first.

[San Antone]

From Doon with Death
The First Inspector Wexford Mystery
by Ruth Rendell

[Bachthoven]

[arpeggio]

[Florestan]

Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

Timeless and priceless, as all classics are.

[Fëanor]

Colin Woodward ~ American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America