Currently reading?

[lottebeertje]

I've put aside The Count of Monte Cristo for now and I have started reading Slaughterhouse-Five (which I find enormously irritating) and Samuel Richardson's Pamela for English literature classes. Pamela is actually very good, although a little bit too religious for my taste.

[danny979]

Hi everyone,
This is interesting topic.
I read some novels: "to whom the bell rings"; "Let the day perish"- Gerald Gordon; "gone with the wind"... so on. They are so good novels.
Now, I'm reading "Wuthering Heights" of Emily Brontë. If you know another ones like that, please show here! Or you can list some novels for me.
Thanks a lot!
See ya!

[hludwig2010]

I am currently in love with Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier

[leah_girl]

I'm currently reading:

"Ulysses," by James Joyce
"The Foundations of Early Modern Europe," Rice and Grafton
"The Reformation," Patrick Collinson
"The Italian Renaissance," J.H. Plumb
and
"Worth the Risk," Nora Roberts

Ambitious? Not really, I'm a student and the top four are for school, and the last is for fun.

[Suzanne]

I'm currently reading:

"Ulysses," by James Joyce

Wow, I haven't tackled this one yet, are you enjoying it? It looks like you are studying history from your list of books, is Ulysses for a history class, or a lit class?

[hludwig2010]

I've put aside The Count of Monte Cristo for now and I have started reading Slaughterhouse-Five (which I find enormously irritating) and Samuel Richardson's Pamela for English literature classes. Pamela is actually very good, although a little bit too religious for my taste.

I am very surprised you do not like Slaughterhouse. What about it do you find irritating?

[leah_girl]

Suzanne-

"Ulysses" is honestly the most difficult book that I have ever read. I like it, but it is like dropping down right in the middle of someone's head and reading all of their thoughts. I was a history major, but actually swapped to Literature for some reason. "Ulysses" is for one of those classes. It definitely might make a good forum for discussion.

[Suzanne]

"Ulysses" is honestly the most difficult book that I have ever read. I like it, but it is like dropping down right in the middle of someone's head and reading all of their thoughts.

We recently read “The Sound and the Fury”, William Faulkner, here on BookTalk. Faulkner used the stream of consciousness technique , this sounds similar to what you are describing. I have to say I am a bit jealous, I would love to take a class where I was required to read "Ulysses" because this book has been sitting on my shelf for years now. I’m a little afraid of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_of_ ... ss_writing

It definitely might make a good forum for discussion.

I agree!

[leah_girl]

Suzanne-

Would you like to take the class for me? Actually, the teacher had us start the book on the fourth chapter, he said that it would be easier to read that way. I can send you some of my notes if you like?

[Schuyler84]

Just finished The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search of God by Carl Sagan. Currently reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn