What are you currently reading?

[Florestan]

Can I get some recommendations for Walter Scott? I am going through "THE CANON" after being surprised at how readable Wuthering Heights was.

I might get something wrong but... what's Wuthering !Heights got to do with Walter Scott? 

[Elgarian]

Speaking of Wuthering Heights ...

... many, many years ago, in my 'Bronte phase', I used to trek out across Haworth moor to Wuthering Heights at the weekends, and read the novel sitting by the ruins of the building that inspired it. Soppy old romantic.

[Lethevich]

I might get something wrong but... what's Wuthering !Heights got to do with Walter Scott? 

It's the "canon of great English-language literature" term that gets thrown around a lot over here - enough to elicit looks of sweaty panic from the average schoolchild: "Here, 20,000 pages of great art to read - now get to it, chop-chop!". Until now I haven't enjoyed much of the popular Romantic portion of this large pile, so I figure that as I have a foot in with Wuthering Heights, I may as well work on some of the other stuff

[Florestan]

It's the "canon of great English-language literature" term that gets thrown around a lot over here - enough to elicit looks of sweaty panic from the average schoolchild: "Here, 20,000 pages of great art to read - now get to it, chop-chop!". Until now I haven't enjoyed much of the popular Romantic portion of this large pile, so I figure that as I have a foot in with Wuthering Heights, I may as well work on some of the other stuff

I got it right this time, thanks. Good luck with Scott and please keep us updated.

[ChamberNut]

Houseboat Chronicles - by Jake Macdonald

*Great childhood memories!  Autobiographical story about growing up in a prairie city and summer life at the cottage in beautiful Northwest Ontario.

[Dr. Dread]

BU,

You know about HARD CASE CRIME?

I'm reading DUTCH UNCLE right now. Enjoying it too.

[Bogey]

[Bu]

BU,

You know about HARD CASE CRIME?

I'm reading DUTCH UNCLE right now. Enjoying it too.

Yessir; have bought some books published by them of Goodis and Parker.  Good stuff, Dave. 

Just started: The Drowning Pool by Ross MacDonald. 

[Dr. Dread]

'Salem's Lot by that King fellow. Second time reading (last time was nearly 30 years ago; we'll see how it holds up).

[CD]

It's the "canon of great English-language literature" term that gets thrown around a lot over here - enough to elicit looks of sweaty panic from the average schoolchild: "Here, 20,000 pages of great art to read - now get to it, chop-chop!". Until now I haven't enjoyed much of the popular Romantic portion of this large pile, so I figure that as I have a foot in with Wuthering Heights, I may as well work on some of the other stuff

You may want to try Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham. One of my favorite English novels.

[Brian]

Lolita

Pretty famous 

[DavidW]

'Salem's Lot by that King fellow. Second time reading (last time was nearly 30 years ago; we'll see how it holds up).

That's my favorite Stephen King novel!

[Dr. Dread]

That's my favorite Stephen King novel!

Cool. It's definitely up there. I always say mine is PET SEMATARY.

[ChamberNut]

'Salem's Lot by that King fellow. Second time reading (last time was nearly 30 years ago; we'll see how it holds up).

I remembered being scared to death by the made for TV movie series when I was really young, but I definitely thought the movie was hokey the second time around when I watched it again about 5 years ago.  Didn't have that same effect.

Now, I haven't read the book, so maybe I'd like the book better. 

[Bogey]

Cool. It's definitely up there. I always say mine is PET SEMATARY.

I received an autographed copy of this one inscribed to me for my high school graduation.  Great read.  I burnt out on his books though a few years later.  I read one after another without a break and have never returned to his work save an attempt to re-read The Stand (my favorite along with PS).  I got a few chapters in and abandoned it.  He definitely needs to be credited from my end to introducing me to the genre of horror novels, and for that matter, adult fiction.  He used to be very accessible in my hometown of Bangor.  In fact, my grandfather used to play cards with him at the Elks and it wasn't uncommon to see him at a local McDonalds.  Here is a shot of his home that you can drive by and see.  Even take a picture in front if you like.  The gates were installed because fans started approaching the house too often and even letting themselves in from time to time.  I guess he would just turn around and see a total stranger in his kitchen....probably creeped him out a bit.

[Air]

Finished Homer's Iliad... my friend suggested I get into Russian literature, so here's my plan for the upcoming months:

War and Peace by Tolstoy
Great Short Works of Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Great Short Works of Dostoevsky

On the hold for now: Great Short Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

I'm finished 50 pages of War and Peace so far, quite lackluster in my opinion, but then, everyone says that about the first half of Book I.

[Bu]

Lolita

Pretty famous 

Gave up after 160 pages or so.  Which disappointed me because I wanted to read as many Nabokov books as possible. 

[Dr. Dread]

Gave up after 160 pages or so.  Which disappointed me because I wanted to read as many Nabokov books as possible. 

I read the whole thing, no problem. Then I read something else by him and it scared me away for life.

[Henk]

Tolstoj - The Kreutzersonata

Milan Kundera - The Curtain

J.H. Donner - Hunt on the Octopus (about Harry Mulisch work)

Last two books are books on literature.

[Bu]

I read the whole thing, no problem. Then I read something else by him and it scared me away for life.

My next book by Vlad was going to be Invitation to a Beheading ............