What are you reading?

[Ashu]

Just finished Notes from underground by Dostoevsky.

One of my favorites books, I read it some years ago and I really enjoied it, probably because I felt exactly as the main character, especially in the first part.
Crime and Punishment is also one of my favorites, so if you like Dostoevsky I suggest you to read it
I have not read The Idiot yet, but I will

EDIT: Sorry, I read you have read Crime and Punishment yet lol Have you read Under Western Eyes by Conrad? It is ispired by Crime and Punishment, it speaks about guilty too, but in a different way.

I loved crime and punishment I don't know what it is about him but i can definitely relate to his work. As for Under Western Eyes, i haven't read it yet but it's definitely going on my list

 

[R.Data]

Tolstoy is great too, even if I prefer Dostoevsky. The rusian literature is so good, I think that is my favorite literature, I guess.

 

[Ashu]

I haven't read anything by Tolstoy. I have Anna Karenina on my shelf but i wanted to start with War and Peace

 

[Skellington]

I have War And Peace on my Kindle, provisionally pencilled in for January and February 2015.

And "February" might well turn out to mean "most of the rest of".

 

[R.Data]

I haven't read anything by Tolstoy. I have Anna Karenina on my shelf but i wanted to start with War and Peace

War and Peace is very good, it's one of these book where you deleve into (I'm not sure it's correct) completely, you really can see the characters.

 

[trekkiedane]

I am listening to The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, narrated by Peter Kenny. A rather disturbing tale.

Indeed, and the reader (listener, I should write) gets their morals and sympathies all twisted up along the way... I loved reading it while not knowing what it was all about... till the very end.

 

[Skellington]

Speaking of War And Peace, apparently Alan Moore has finished writing his second novel - and it's far longer than Tolstoy's opus.

 

[Ashu]

Speaking of War And Peace, apparently Alan Moore has finished writing his second novel - and it's far longer than Tolstoy's opus.

Fascinating. There's a part of me that's up for the challenge.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Speaking of War And Peace, apparently Alan Moore has finished writing his second novel - and it's far longer than Tolstoy's opus.

Who does he think he is, Neal Stephenson?

That actually sounds amazing. One of the things I love about Alan Moore (because it's something I try to do in my own writing) is his tendency to write in multiple genres and styles, from superheroes to horror to erotica. He truly loves literature and the arts and you can really feel the joy he gets from playing in all the different sandboxes.

 

[Starkers]

Speaking of War And Peace, apparently Alan Moore has finished writing his second novel - and it's far longer than Tolstoy's opus.

Oh dear lord...a millions words, about Northampton!

Well I bought The Martian yesterday but won't be reading it just yet as I've just started The Long War by Pratchett/Baxter, The Martian will def be next on my list though.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I just finished listening to To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, narrated by Sissy Spacek.

My current paperback read is The Stones Cry Out by Hikaru Okuizumi. It is a novel about an Japanese amateur rock collector. So far, very good.

 

[Velocity]

Unshapely Things by Mark del Franco

 

[RandyS]

When HARLIE Was One by David Gerrold
Star Trek DS9: Warpath.

 

[Velocity]

Unquiet Dreams by Mark del Franco

 

[rhubarbodendron]

LOL I am so tempted to say"this thread"

book I'm reading: Large In Time by a certain poster from this board

 

[Smellincoffee]

The Age of Voltaire, Will Durant. I'm almost finished with it, just a chapter on the rise of atheism and the Encylopedie remaining. My 'leisure' read is An Honorable Defeat, concerning German resistance against Hitler.

 

[Saga]

The Magic Goes Away by Larry Niven

 

[Miss Chicken]

I have just finished listening to Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indridason, narrated by Saul Reichlin which I read as an e-book last year. It is my favourite Arnaldur book so far.

I am about start reading Reykjavik Nights also by Arnaldur Indridason. It is the latest book in the Inspector Erlendur series but is a prequel to the rest of the books and takes place before Erlendur was an inspector and is still a young uniformed policeman in the Icelandic police force.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

My 'leisure' read is An Honorable Defeat, concerning German resistance against Hitler.

Let me know if the books doesn't answer all your questions. All my grandparents and their families were in the resistance. Some even survived.

 

[R.Data]

LOL I am so tempted to say"this thread"

I thought the same.

I'm reading Courtly Romances by Chrétien de Troyes, it's a collection of his romances.