Ulysses gets good at about 3/4 of the way through. Currently on extended sabbatical from Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, a book that's as impenetrable as it is funny. Makes Ulysses look positively linear, so far (three chapters).
^^ Don't worry. Ulysses comes back to you. And I'm back to Fate Of Worlds, after being too busy to read for a few days. I suspect I should have read other "Fleet of Worlds" books first.
am I the only one who is tempeted to answer the topic question with "this thread"? Curent bedside read: Frankenstein. I'll host a discussion with a few medics and non-medics about the ethical and medical aspects of this story and though I've seen several movie adaptations I never quite got around to reading the book. So it's about time I started my preparations.
Yeah i think it's just because I'm attempting it immediately after reading Crime & Punishment by Dostoevsky and while i'm still reading Kafka.
I read maybe a third (at most) of Lisa Scottoline's Keep Quiet and gave up. Her old suspense novels were really good, but this was... well, I thought I was reading a Jodi Picoult book.
The Android's Dream by Jon Scalzi. I counted last night and I have 11 books that I have started and not finished. My goal is to get them all finished by the end of the summer.
The Shining... been reading it, but rl keeps on butting in . @ Destructor: I was trying to read that book by Joe Hill, but sadly I had to return it to my local library .
Heehee, great minds... current read: Sacred Trust, a Highlander (series) fanfiction. Too many too detailed torture and sex scenes imho but some really great funny moments and the characters are very plausible. With a few expurgations it'd propably be a bestseller and re-written to PG13 it might have made a pretty good episode in the series.
Have you ever tried the original unabridges version of Robinson Crusoe? Sentences that stretch over more than 1 page, extremely longwinded phrases. A beautiful language, but requires more concentration to read than your average human can muster. I surrendered after about 100 pages.
I haven't gotten to either of those books yet but when im done with Kafka (which should be by the end of the week) im thinking of adding in Tolstoy
I am listening to the novel Hamlet: Prince of Denmarkby A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, narrated by Richard Armitage. My Kindle read is The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff.
You're suicidal! I only skimmed the html file but I think this is pretty much the original text. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/521 I have the paperback version. Penguin, I believe.