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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | 50 Book Challenge : Judylou's at it again in 2008 | | 148 | judylou, Today 5:55am |  |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Political fiction | | 8 | readeron, Yesterday 5:02pm | |
| Audiobooks : What Are You Listening to Now? Part 4 | | 49 | firecat, Wednesday 12:49pm | |
| Gay Men : just wanting to connect with other gay guys in this place. | | 11 | aedinallil, August 20 | |
| Queer and Trans Lit : What are y'all reading? | | 40 | chrisjones, August 10 | |
| BookMooching : Treasures and Triumphs! | | 29 | mint910, July 30 | |
| Book Listers UNITE! : The EW 100 New Classics List | | 15 | njd908, July 16 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Books added to the 2008 edition | | 15 | streamsong, July 15 | |
| The Prizes : The Best of the Booker | | 36 | Cariola, July 10 | |
| Someone explain it to me... : Bonfire of the Vanities: Tom Wolfe | | 28 | kambrogi, June 22 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : International edition? | | 33 | SanctiSpiritus, May 5 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - April. 2008 | | 388 | milbaby, May 2 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 22 March 2008 | | 145 | thekoolaidmom, March 28 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading for February 2008 | | 123 | Vonini, March 5 | |
| Reading Globally : Where in the World are You Now? February 2008 | | 134 | CEP, March 1 | |
| Book talk : Life of Pi and other similar books | | 8 | vpfluke, February 23 | |
| Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : Geometry | | 13 | ostrom, February 4 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 19 January 2008 | | 209 | Cariola, January 26 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 12 January 2008 | | 172 | Cariola, January 18 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? - September 2007 | | 147 | thioviolight, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Contemporary Fiction : for Old Grumps? | | 10 | andyray, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Gay Men : nothing posted yet?? | | 11 | Kaysbooks, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Reading Globally : Sexuality and World Literature | | 10 | NativeRoses, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Prizes : The idea of the prize/award | | 25 | piefuchs, August 2007 | |
| It's a LondonThing : Books about, or set in, London? | | 77 | Cariola, August 6 |
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| What did YOU buy today? : Message Board #2 | | 188 | karen5l, June 29 |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - #2: May. 2008 | | 147 | annatapl, June 15 |
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| Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now? January 2008 | | 114 | teelgee, March 27 |
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| Dormant: BookMooching : Books You've Mooched | | 120 | bostonbibliophile, January 24 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : Another Silly Game To Play (new thread - the last one was getting entirely too long) | | 443 | rdurick, December 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? - August 2007 | | 176 | Cariola, September 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 24 Feb 2007 | | 137 | Storeetllr, March 2007 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : Do spoilers spoil? | | 19 | Thakhek, March 2007 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : Brushes w/authorial greatness | | 48 | xicanti, January 2007 |
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Dolley, by Rita Mae Brown
The Bomb, by Frank Harris
The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst
Funeral Games, by Mary Renault
Election Results, by Louise Neaderland ... i'm in my workshop but this one really demanded my complete attention. highly recommended though.
yesterday i began the line of beauty by alan hollinghurst. ... books like Barrabas, The Birds and Snow are on the new list. I've been planning to read them anyway. And I liked both The Line of Beauty and A Dry White Season very much and had wondered why they weren't there in the first edition. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a good additon too.
... ... Branch (1988)
33. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005)
34. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (2002)
35. The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
36. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt (1996)
37. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003)
38. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (199 ... ... persevered through. I am always afraid I will miss the point the author intended if I quit too soon. I got the point of Line of Beauty in the last few pages, and it was a long slog to get there.
I agree, varielle, although part of my goal in reading is to learn and grow, I wonder how much ... From Bookmooch, Saturday by Ian McEwan, The Line of Beauty by Allan HOllinghurst, and Like water for elephants from ealandaroi here on LT. A great week!
#2, scaifea - you've got some nice friends throwing you a baby book shower!! I'd forgotten Ferdinand, but loved it as a kid. Will hunt ... I just got my first mooch from Japan - The Line of Beauty and Saturday in one parcel, and they came in four days to New Zealand!!
I love book mooch. ... Tempest Williams
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
The Interpreter: A Story of Two Worlds by Robert Moss (which ... ... Olov Enquist Boken om Blanche och Marie
8 "2666" Roberto Bolaño 2666
9 Den skjønne linje Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty
10 Skyatlas David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
11 Berlinerpopplene Anne B. Ragde
12 "Ansiktet ditt i morgen" Javier Marías Tu rostro mañana
13 Hvi ... From BookMooch:
Stealing Jesus by Bruce Bawer
Stopped at the Goodwill yesterday and got:
The Line of Beauty by Allan Hollinghurst
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Blood Memory by Greg Iles
The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver
Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoul ... ... Monica Ali which I am loving and almost at the end of Chaos by James Gleick. After that, the only book left is The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst, another Booker winner - finished The Sea by John Banville last week. Then it's a trip to the second hand English ... ...
I haven't read all of the winners - although that is one of my goals - but the only one I have not liked so far is The Line of Beauty. ... sea by John Banville
3. The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
4. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
5. The line of beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Special sauce recommendations!
1. Self by Yann Martel
2. The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios by Yann Martel
... ... Gang
2002: Yann Martel - Life of Pi
2003: DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
2004: Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty
2005: John Banville - The Sea
2006: Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
2007: Anne Enright - The Gathering
Any thoughts?
Until yesterday I was in Thatcher's England with The Line of Beauty and then last night I jumped feet first into 1950s French colonial Vietnam with Pyle and Fowler in The Quiet American by Graham Greene. >buckifire
I've found a couple of Booker (and other) Prize winners to be like that also, but I think The Line of Beauty was more balanced in that respect than some.
I'm not sure what I'll be reading next on the list but I suspect Graham Greene might have something to do with it. Brighto ... Looks like I may have made a slight error. Turns out The Line of Beauty is not in fact on the 1001 list. Which means I'm still only at 100. On the plus side it was well worth the read, and it knocks one off my Booker Prize list anyway.
>buckifire
I enjoyed The Line of Beauty quite a bit. It ... ... dreamlikecheese, you reminded me that I'm reading a "double-lister" as well: Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea which, like Line of Beauty, is on the 1001 list and won the Booker. And it's pretty good so far ... ... 1000 pagers in a row was a bit extreme!
dreamlikecheese (and others if you've read it) - let me know how you get on with The Line of Beauty - I wasn't sure how I felt about it! ... So much of Western culture and novel development came from these early oral "books".
Meanwhile, I started reading The Line Of Beauty last night. It's both a 1001 book and a Booker Prize winner so I can knock it off two lists. They were showing the mini series on TV a couple of weeks ... Judy, I didn't like The Line of Beauty either. The writing was good but towards the end I just couldn't see any point in the novel at all. ... Lee's very long yet comprehensive and interesting biography of Virginia Woolf. Fiction-wise, I'm powering through The Line Of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst as the mini-series is currently screening on the ABC. sussabmax: I really highly recommend it. It has just enough cleverness to keep a "smirk" on your face throughout!
8. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
This was a Booker Prize winner, but if I was on the committee . . . it wouldn't have had a chance! I was bored from the start. I ... Just finished The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett, a very clever little book. Still trying to finish The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst as part of my plan to read all the Booker Prize winners. It is extremely tedious! Next up is The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman. ... same time I am reading with the Queen of England in An Uncommon Reader and visiting with some upper class London toffs in The Line of Beauty. ... at lunchtimes (a great read) and just finished The Restaurant at the end of the Universe. Now I am about to pick up The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst as part of my attempt to read all the Booker Prize winners. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst ... go far beyond the specifically gay experience. I recommend his The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, and The Line of Beauty, which won the Man Booker Prize a couple of years ago. ... for a new thread!
I now have a couple of Booker Prize winners:
- Hotel du Lac (1984), from a local used bookshop
- The Line of Beauty (2004), from Paperbackswap Could I clarify first if you want to discount contemporary UK fiction like The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst: or novels by Sarah Waters with their strong lesbian themes running through them.
If you do exclude the UK, then I can think of the poet Constantine Cavafy, born in Alexandria ... ... by Khaled Hosseini
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
These High, Green Hills by Jan Karon
Yesterday I received Gap Creek by Robert Morgan thru Mooch.com Will the circle be unbroken?, by Studs Terkel
Tales of Times Square, by Josh Alan Friedman
The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst
Octagon : Being an account of a famous Washington residence, by George McCue
lizzier in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 24 Feb 2007 (Mar 1, 2007, 12:26pm) Finished re-reading The Night Watch by Sarah Waters and also Crack in the line. The first re-read very well and who knows, I may yet return to it.
Have now started, during the insomniac hours, My name is red by Orhan Pamuk and am already speculating and feeling I should have a ... ... me who the killer is!
But with a literary novel, I don't think the same considerations hold. It would not have spoiled The Line of Beauty for me, for instance, to know the ending.
I do think that some people go completely overboard in trying to avoid spoilers. I'm truly annoyed by those ... ... a New Year's Day factory outlet book sale this afternoon... what a great way to start 2007!
This is what I picked up:
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
Father Lands ... ... indeed!
I went to a reading by Mr. Hollinghurst at the University of Chicago, after he had won the Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty. In a bit of bad timing on the part of the organizers, it was held the night of the deciding game of the World Series, in which the south side baseball ... ... acclaimed work that I have forgotten.
I don't believe, however, that winning a prize guarantees longevity. For example, The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst won the Booker two years ago. I didn't think it was a superior novel and won't read Hollinghurst again. Most people I know have ... ... the Volcano (above), I've now received Arcadia by Jim Crace, and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Still waiting for The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst) and Under the Skin (Michel Faber).
So far, I've sent out Tender at the Bone (Ruth Reichl), Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (ZZ Pac ... ... I've read in the recent past so shy away from queer titles of late. The last fantastic queer-themed book I read was The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst, and wow I thoroughly enjoyed it. (The 3-hour British film adaptation is playing at our local film festival next Friday, and I'm ... ... two books mentioned about James, there is also Emma Tennant's Felony in which he appears, and Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty, where the lead character is writing a thesis on him. Bizarrely, all four of these books were published within 18 months of each other, which led to ... ... good.
As for contemporary novels to convince the unfaithful, I'd go with Atonement, What a carve up!, Cloud atlas, The line of beauty Everything is Illuminated, White Teeth, La classe de neige (any francophiles around?), The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and I'm leaving ... ... there's so little good gay SF (Samuel R Delany is the only other author that comes to mind).
I found the characters in Line of Beauty so unsympathetic that by the end I really didn't care what happened to them; The Folding Star is still my favourite Alan Hollinghurst novel ... outside my window . . . There's a lot of Wartime London in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and of course 80's London in The Line of Beauty
I almost forgot, Diary of a Nobody, the funniest introduction to Victorian London middle-class mores
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