What are you currently reading?

[Karl Henning]

Even those possible quarrels aside, you're right, it is wonderful.  Carry on!

[milk]

Just started this. Lately I've been interested in the 70s and why they seem to have been a decade of surpassing musical and cinematic creativity.  [asin]0684857081[/asin]

[Karl Henning]

Re-reading Hex High School. And I know what I'm getting my sister for her birthday . . . .

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[mn dave]

Along with The Martian Chronicles I'm reading the first volume of Marvel's Tomb of Dracula comic.

[Bogey]

Along with The Martian Chronicles I'm reading the first volume of Marvel's Tomb of Dracula comic.

Coolness!

[North Star]

Atget's photographs and some related texts next to each by Szarkowski
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[Karl Henning]

Whoa, isn't that, like, The Most Important Book You'll Ever Read?!

[North Star]

Whoa, isn't that, like, The Most Important Book You'll Ever Read?!

Oh, absolutely! 

[Fëanor]

I am reading The Martian Chronicles. It is wonderful.

Geez, I read The Martian Chronicles almost 50 years ago.  I can't remember much of it specifically, but it couldn't have been too bad:  I've kept on reading sci-fi on and off since then.

[mn dave]

Geez, I read The Martian Chronicles almost 50 years ago.  I can't remember much of it specifically, but it couldn't have been too bad:  I've kept on reading sci-fi on and off since then.

[Bogey]

Dickens' posting!  Ring that bell!

[Brian]

Dickens' posting!  Ring that bell!

The first book I read in 2013 was Bleak House. I think I want to make my first book of 2014 a Dickens, too. I've read only BH and Two Cities. What should I take up next?

[Karl Henning]

Dadfrazzanabbit, I need to get back to The Pickwick Papers . . . .

[kishnevi]

Dickens' posting!  Ring that bell!

Yes!  Those "other" Christmas stories are in some ways better than A Christmas Carol.  Although it's actually been a while since I read any of them.

The first book I read in 2013 was Bleak House. I think I want to make my first book of 2014 a Dickens, too. I've read only BH and Two Cities. What should I take up next?

Do you want dark Dickens or lighter Dickens.  If you want more of the good humor,  Pickwick Papers or Martin Chuzzlewit.  If you want dark,  Hard Times (which is the shortest of the "big" novels, in contrast to Bleak House, which is the longest) or Our Mutual Friend.    Or if you want to clean up your "I should have read this classic book years ago" list,  David Copperfield and Great Expectations.

ETA: And if you want to step up your BritLit game,  try Trollope and Eliot: I'd suggest Barchester Towers and Daniel Deronda for first dates with them.

[Bogey]

David Copperfield is my favorite to date.  Have not read everything, though.  You ay want to take in A Christmas Carol right now.  The description of the dinner prep at the Cratchit's will be read each year by me prior to Christmas.

[Cato]

For a slightly different taste of British literature, check out Lord of the World by Anglican AND Catholic priest Robert Benson!

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-World-Robert-Hugh-Benson/dp/1484127064/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1386119359&sr=8-2&keywords=lord+of+the+world

[Karl Henning]

. . .  The description of the dinner prep at the Cratchit's will be read each year by me prior to Christmas.

"Why, where's our Martha?"

[Pessoa]

For a slightly different taste of British literature, check out Lord of the World by Anglican AND Catholic priest Robert Benson!

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-World-Robert-Hugh-Benson/dp/1484127064/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1386119359&sr=8-2&keywords=lord+of+the+world

Amazing summary.

[Cato]

Amazing summary.

The book was ahead of its time in many disturbing ways.

[Bogey]

"Why, where's our Martha?"