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| 50 Book Challenge : lycomayflower's 2008 books | | 75 | lycomayflower, July 17 | |
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| Top 100 Novels of All time : Which books on the list have you already read, and are you reading one now? | | 16 | Dilsey, July 16 | |
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| 50 Book Challenge : 3m3m's 80 books in '08 | | 23 | AMQS, July 3 | |
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| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : BOOK CHALLENGE! RERE'S. | | 27 | alcottacre, June 28 | |
| Folio Society devotees : OUR Castaways' Choice | | 25 | Django6924, June 19 | |
| Happy Heathens : God in Dinosaur Comics | | 12 | bardsfingertips, June 18 | |
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| 1001 Books to read before you die : The 1001 "I've Read That" chain game | | 300 | BKieras, June 16 | |
| Iris Murdoch readers : My favourite Iris Murdoch book | | 15 | yooperprof, June 15 | |
| Book talk : Cry like a baby | | 183 | Medellia12, June 14 | |
| The Green Dragon : Books that make you buy more books | | 30 | SpicyCat, June 12 | |
| Banned Books : Child-torture stories: protected by 1st amendment? | | 15 | JackFrost, June 12 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : Mistress 'rissa's challenge | | 25 | prophetandmistress, June 11 | |
| 888 Challenge : Morphidae's 888 | | 36 | Morphidae, June 9 | |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 17 May 2008 | | 187 | Cariola, May 24 | |
| Reading Great Books : Great Books I have read | | 8 | Sandydog1, May 24 | |
| Awful Lit. : Jump ship or go down with it? | | 86 | JoleneConnelly, May 23 | |
| CLASSICS: Books For Life (Let's Read The Books) : Lolita | | 9 | SilverTome, May 19 | |
| 20-Something LibraryThingers : What's your favorite book in your library? | | 84 | dancingstarfish, May 16 | |
| BookCrossers : What would you do with a book of erotica? | | 14 | cathepsut, May 12 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : teelgee goes for another 100 in 2008 | | 211 | teelgee, May 11 | |
| Book talk : The books I want to read this year... | | 25 | vpfluke, May 8 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : First Line Game Chapter 6 | | 199 | thekoolaidmom, May 8 | |
| Memoirs and autobiographies : Message Board | | 26 | GreySkyEyes, May 6 | |
| Nabokov! : The Original of Laura | | 40 | timspalding, May 2 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - April. 2008 | | 388 | milbaby, May 2 | |
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| 50 Book Challenge : punkypower's 2008 list | | 30 | punkypower, April 25 | |
| Bestsellers over the Years : 1958 | | 9 | geneg, April 24 | |
| Bestsellers over the Years : 1959 | | 20 | keren7, April 23 | |
| Banned Books : what should be banned,censored,frowned upon by society,ect.? | | 17 | walden_girl, April 23 | |
| Book talk : Gaps in Your Reading | | 25 | SaraHope, April 10 | |
| Book talk : First Sentence of A Novel: Does the sentence have any impact on a reader? | | 25 | rocketjk, April 10 | |
| The Green Dragon : Have you been bad recently (bought any books), Part 4 | | 431 | clamairy, April 8 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Top 3 Reads March 2008 | | 38 | sandragon, April 5 | |
| The Prizes : The PEN/Faulkner Award | | 14 | kiwidoc, April 5 | |
| Outlander: Gabaldon's series about Jamie and Claire : Recommendations for Outlander Fans | | 17 | Mdchn, April 3 | |
| Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now? March 2008 | | 124 | teelgee, April 2 | |
| Folio Society devotees : Castaway Choices | | 30 | chase.donaldson, March 31 | |
| Book talk : List ten books that... | | 73 | bookladykm, March 28 | |
| Recommend Site Improvements : Love the site but... | | 97 | rarewren, March 23 | |
| Nabokov! : Pale Fire | | 19 | krolik, March 17 | |
| American Postmodernism : Message Board | | 10 | bardsfingertips, March 14 | |
| Someone explain it to me... : House of Leaves | | 18 | paghababian, March 13 | |
| Myers-Briggs: All Types : Do you like to reread books? | | 29 | karenmarie, March 12 | |
| The Green Dragon : Something is rotten in Denmark | | 7 | MrAndrew, March 9 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading for February 2008 | | 123 | Vonini, March 5 | |
| 888 Challenge : Piefuchs' 888 | | 3 | piefuchs, March 2 | |
| Read YA Lit : February 2008 -- What are you reading? | | 51 | araKnid, March 1 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - FEBRUARY 2008 | | 261 | Jodyreadseverything, March 1 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 February 2008 | | 148 | kmbooklover, February 25 | |
| Early Reviewers : January Book Watch (2008) | | 98 | clamairy, February 13 | |
| Dormant: Nabokov! : So, Who's The Girl, Mister? | | 19 | Cateline, February 11 | |
| Dormant: 1001 Books to read before you die : Top 5 from the list read in 2007 | | 34 | Nickelini, February 7 | |
| Dormant: 1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading on the list for January 2008 | | 106 | notenoughbookshelves, February 3 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : skybluejay's 2008 challenge (yay!) | | 5 | skybluejay, January 31 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Zero to 120 | | 1 | zanix, January 22 | |
| Dormant: Librarians who LibraryThing : Display ideas | | 38 | TeenAuthor, January 10 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Titterington's 50 book challenge | | 7 | titterington, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 15 December 2007 | | 142 | alcottacre, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Philosophy and Theory : The Egoist Defeated? | | 7 | jahn, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Ever get the feeling you don't get it (regarding highly praised books): Lolita & Harry Potter | | 22 | charisme, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Literati : So, what are you currently reading? | | 141 | -Mr-Dustin-, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Awful Lit. : lolita | | 43 | hyacinthine, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Amazon's Kindle : Tens of thousands of titles | | 22 | kambrogi, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : TBR Database (aka She Done Gone Crazy) | | 9 | Morphidae, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Books Compared : Lolita/Silence of the Lambs | | 38 | margad, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Prizes : The PEN/Nabokov Award | | 9 | almigwin, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Taggers! : Other people's weirdness | | 44 | Klingsor, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: To reread or not to reread : First conversation. | | 9 | hinsdaledog, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Vaillantes : Bonjour! | | 19 | lenasouslefiguier, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Hogwarts Express : New (serious) topic - Possible Spoilers! Thoughts on HP books banned | | 41 | ellenmarine, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Proust : Handling rejection, gracefully | | 1 | enevada, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Which book are you? Take this quiz! | | 83 | mrgrooism, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : How many books do you read at a time? | | 91 | sandragon, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Lusty Ladies Who LibraryThing : Message Board | | 10 | ifjuly, September 2007 | |
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... Austen - after Pride and Prejudice
P.G. Wodehouse - after The Inimitable Jeeves
Vladimir Nabokov - after Lolita
Kazuo Ishiguro - after Never Let Me Go
Jasper Fforde - after The Eyre Affair
William Faulkner - after The Sound and the Fury
Graham Greene - ... Outside of books that I absolutely love, Anna Karenina, Lolita, Clockwork Orange, and perhaps a few others, the only books I have reread are those that I teach. Sometimes I'm rereading it because I'm teaching it for the first time. I always read along with my students because I don't want ... I agree completely with mckait, both about the books and about ice cream. I'm a big re-reader, and there are certain books (Lolita, Jane Eyre, and Pride and Prejudice are the ones that come to mind) that I've lost track of how many times I've read them. beatles1964 is right, too. They are Still in the middle of Anna Karenina. Also in the middle of Lolita. Also have The Wind-up Bird Chronicle checked out from the library. But I haven't been reading much lately. Need to remedy that.... ... )
59. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (2005, 198 pp.)
60. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (1974, 263 pp.)
61. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955, 327 pp.) ... decorating the case for my mom's birthday (Go, Go, Inexpensive Gifts for Those on a Budget)
Reading A Chosen Faith, Lolita, Dragonholder, and/or Stolen. (Go, Go, Hennepin Country Library)
Watching 2001 (for first time), The Constant Gardner (first time) and/or Sweet Charity (haven' ... ... the reinterpretation and visual thoughts of books and try not to compare the two so closely.
Book #27, I recently read Lolita also and loved it, probably more than you did. The one thing I am curious about here though is you stated sympathy for Humbert. One of the reason I so enjoyed the ... I just finished Poetry as Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and I'm reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov right now. I plan to pop open Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon next as well as another collection of poetry, but I haven't decided. ... A good 'between books' book to get one out of a reading slump. Why is it that memoirs are rarely this short anymore?
27. Lolita - too long by half! I loved the entire first bit of it, but even before Lolita's disappearance, the book is already draggin'. Nabokov's prose is beautiful - I wish I ... Carrie by Stephen King
Christine by Stephen King
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lori by Robert Bloch
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter #11
The original film based on Lolita is the best for watching him and catching his humorous mannerism when pantomimed by Eddie Izzard. My favorite is The Black Prince which I love for its allusions to Hamlet and Lolita and for its open-ending as well. It's also got a lot of my favorite Murdochian quotes! ... France. The masterpiece of this book lies in its duality as being "one of those books you read with one hand" and like Lolita forcing you to look past the gratuitous (and boy are they ever) sex scenes into Sade’s philosophy on surviving in a hard, rough, immoral world. I now understand ... ... by Scott Westerfeld (the 2nd book in the Uglies series) and The Princess Bride.
And I have to add that I LOVE Lolita, too! ... Cornwell
3. The Archer's Tale, (The Grail Quest, Book 1), Bernard Cornwell
2. Stone Kiss, Faye Kellerman
1. Lolita, Vladimir Nabakov
A lot of mystery and a LOT of Cornwell so far this year, but I have a tendency to get stuck in ruts. I'm presently reading The Pale Horseman< ... #133 Oh, I absolutely LOVE Lolita! The writing is exquisite. I absolutely despised Lolita. It took me probably 6 months to read that book when it should have taken less than a week. I realize that the tangents contribute an important aspect of the main character, but holy COW are they long and pointless. The story itself is incredible and even ... ... novel, Rob Gordon of High Fidelity, and Mardou of The Subterraneans. In high school, I was oh-so-demurely nicknamed Lolita, which is probably truer than I'd like to admit.
There's some books that just change your life, the best in my opinion being those in which you can't help but ... ... ended up buying a lot of other books because of the essay's in this one. Two that spring to mind are American Psycho and Lolita.
I went the other way around with Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre in that order and enjoyed both.
And if I read a book or author I particularly enjoy but ... ...
18.Breakfast at tiffany's - Truman Capote
19. A town like Alice - Nevil Shute
20. Lord of the rings - Tolkien
21. Lolita - Nabakov
22. Bonjour tristesse - Francoise Sagan
23. The go-between - L. P. Hartley
24. The catcher in the rye - J. D. Salinger
25. 1984 - George Orwell
... ...
16. To Kill a Mockingbird (456)
17. Breakfast at Tiffany's (467)
18. Doctor Zhivago (486)
19. Justine (488)
20. Lolita (496)
21. The Story of O (506)
22. Lord of the Flies (508)
23. For Whom the Bell Tolls (587)
24. The Power and the Glory (589)
25. Rebecca (603)
26. ... ... is it be familiar with the books within the book to enjoy/understand it? And what books do they cover? Obviously, Lolita and The Great Gatsby, judging by the chapter titles. Which Henry James and Jane Austen titles are discussed? I'm sort of on a classics streak, so I'll probably ... ... finish it.
Clockwork Orange was impossible to get through for me. it was just, so, well, disturbing *laughs*
Lolita was disturbing to me in the extreme, as well. Mainly after they started their physical relationship and she kept telling him how much her hurt her. gah! Thanks for the encouragement, jfetting. I think you may be right in regards to Lolita. As more time has passed since reading it, I have realized more how good of a book it was. Sometimes it takes a while to sink in. As for Nostromo, I'm afraid I haven't picked it up in a while.
29. The ... ... Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, and To have and Have Not
Beuty and Sadness
Lolita
Animal Farm and Burmese Days and Animal Farm
The Vendor of Sweets
Waiting for Godot
The Plague and The Stranger
The Gulag Archipeligo
Confessio ... # 93 There is just no comparison. I liked the movie (I'm a big Kubrick fan, too), but the book blows it out of the water. Lolita is the masterpiece it is because of Nabokov's prose. He's a brilliant writer, an unequaled genius, IMHO. There is no one better.
The movie picks up the plot, more ... 90 and 92: i have seen the film adaptation of Lolita by one of my favorite directors, Kubrick. Haven't read the book yet.
Have either of you seen the movie version?
What do you both think of the film versus the book?
-- M1001 Lolita! Lolita, Lolita, Lolita
Quite possibly the greatest book ever written. Hands down. Great list so far, Whicker. You've read two of my all-time favorite books in the past couple months - Lolita and The Sound and the Fury. I know you said the subject matter was a bit much, but you should really at some point re-read Lolita. It's amazing how many hints Nabokov scatters through ... # 12. I totally understand. I have the same problem with Lolita.
I'm really loving An Artist of the Floating World, and it may bypass Remains of the Day as my favorite. His writing is so beautiful, and it leaves me with this haunting kind of sadness - but a bittersweet sadness, you know? I ... 29. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov very disturbing ... around the books their book club read. I also enjoy the way classics of the English canon like The Great Gatsby and Lolita are interpreted differently in a non-Western context. It's my favorite memoir, hands down. 1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (because I should get around to reading him)
2. Beloved by Toni Morrison (ditto)
3. The Magus by John Fowles (because I read my first Fowles and fell in love two months ago)
4. The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson (because I'm feeling adventurous)
5. Finge ... ... in Tehran without finishing it. That one I may go back to, but it was just a bit too heavy after pushing myself through Lolita. I was glad I finished Lolita, but have to say it was heavy going. I have to add The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek to my short list, which previously consisted of only Lolita. it was disturbing for the same reason. It was so well written that I could not tolerate the pain. Exquisite writing, but just too much for me. ... the book, but it just took me forever to get trough, around two weeks. (which is a long time for me.)
Hmm, I've heard of Lolita, but I've never personally read it. But all I've heard about it has been good. So I guess I encourage you to keep going? ... quite a few of these; Inside Russia Today, Doctor Zhivago, Anatomy of a Murder, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and Lolita. I remember only the first and last. I may have read Kids Say the Darnedest Things, as that was another one that was kicking around the house, but I really ... I've only read Lolita. Certainly a good book, but not the most sympathetic protagonist. ... headline and thought the name sounded familiar, then looked over at the stack of books from today's mail and seen it was on Lolita's spine.
TY, whymaggiemay and jfetting for the encouragement on Lo-Lo. The mom in me cringes about it, but the reviews assure me that it's not a pervert's ... #261 - Lolita is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. It's on my list of top 5 books ever. Give it a chance - the subject matter can definitely be off-putting, but the book is well worth it. Such a great read. Nabokov is a fantastic writer. I can't say enough good things about this book - my ... Lolita is the only one of this bunch I've read. Nabokov's use of the English language is beautiful, but it seems every character in everything I've read of his is just loathesome. #261 I re-read Lolita in February and really loved it. It was, in places, a tough read, but beautifully written and great execution. Also, when I read it the first time at age 13, I totally missed the humor in it. Give it a try. ... Hundred Years of Solitude, which is a 1001 book and the excerpt that I read sounded really magical.
One book from PBS: Lolita, a book on the 1001 list and I'm a bit unsure of whether I want to read or not.
and One GIFT book from a fellow LTer, The Teahouse Fire, which has been on my WL ... ...
1. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak 2,071 copies on LT
2. Anatomy of a Murder, Robert Traver 195 copies
3. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 8,212 copies
4. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis 132 copies
5. From the Terrace, John O'Hara 67 copies
6. ... Lolita is wonderfully layered. At its core, it's a devastating tragedy, but it's got all these layers over it. The reason Lolita is a tragedy is because we don't KNOW Lolita herself. We only know Humbert's mental version of Lolita, only what Humbert makes Lolita into. Your insinuation that Lolita ... ... Holy Bible: Supernatural violence, violence against women, gore, rape, graphic violence
The Hot Zone: Gore, viruses
Lolita: Pedophilia
Love you forever: just a guess, but I think it was nominated because the mother is overbearing and breaks into her kid's house just to cuddle with him ... Fine! I'll participate.
East of Eden
The Beautiful and the Damned by Fitzgerald
Lolita
Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
Beloved
A Room of One's Own
Anna Karenina
Romeo & Juliet
Gone with the Wind
Othello
Mating by Norman Rush
The Count of Monte Cri ... 38. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Read for school. Loved it, much more than some of the others I've had to read. I realize I love most of what I read, but that's because if I don't like it, I won't keep reading, so it never gets to count as one of my books for the year! ... nnies.
My only problem is the danger of the splurge. The day I got the card I bought Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and The Trial by Franz Kafka. In turn, yesterday I bought Philip Roth's Ghost Writer and Alexsander Solzenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Iva ... ... chapters will test your stamina.
Vonnegut's opening of Cat's Cradle is also very effective.
And, of course, Lolita.
... page, I use that tag more than anyone else, but I haven't a clue.
Maybe something I haven't read... Lolita? I've read and loved Lolita. How about Wild Swans by Jung Chang?
I think I owe Jagmuse an apology too - I've just realised that the date/time for messages is northern hemisphere time not down under time. Sorry but I've never been very good with working out what time it is in other ... ... Nights, so why don't we try an entirely different kind of woman?
Like the title character of my all-time favorite novel, Lolita. I've promised myself that this year I'll read Toni Morrison (Beloved) and Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita and/or Invitation to a Beheading). I read a lot of contemporary literature and modern classics, but I haven't done these two. ... asked you not to! :D
Pretty please?
And double pretty please, don't legislate your "advice". :D
I recommended Lolita to my book club, I'm the only non-retired one in the bunch. I loved the book, they didn't. We also read Reading Lolita in Tehran which they liked quite a bit ... This thread made me think of Lolita, which I recently read and enjoyed greatly (although it did make me feel uncomfortable).
It's a book about a pedophile who becomes infatuated with a 12-year-old girl and pretty much makes her his sex slave, from the pedophile's perspective. It's definitely ... ... only 3 requires some tough choices, but that's the fun of reading terrific books:
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Read:
*highly recommened
The Catcher in the Rye*
Catch-22*
Lolita
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Lord of the Rings*
Animal Farm
A Clockword Orange*
Lord of the Flies
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*
Rebecca*
The Count of Monte Cristo
On my shelf: ... ... ry
Bhagavad Gita
Hidden Amazon Dick Lutz
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
Darwin's Origin of Species by Janet Browne
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
...
Fiction:
The Road by McCarthy
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Hamid
Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie
Lolita by Nabakov
In the Country of Men by Matar
Nonfiction:
Wild Swans by Chung
Dreams From My Father by Obama
Three Cups of Tea by Mortenson and Relin
... Finished Lolita last night, which I loved. Started A Gift of Wings this morning. Also reading The Gathering, which I'm very torn about. On the one hand, I like the writing, on the other, I don't like the character of the narrator and this story has absolutely no action. I'm character ... ... with a theme. We are reading Frida for the April meeting and will be watching that movie then. Then in May we are reading Lolita and we wll be watching that movie as well. Finishing off Lolita and also reading The Gathering. Finding The Gathering to be verbally very raw. At first I wasn't sure I was going to like it, but it's grown on me a bit. In Vladimir Nabokov's afterword for Lolita, there is a great million-dollar quote. Including pedophilia, which is of course the topic of Lolita, there are three "themes which are utterly taboo as far as most American publishers are concerned. The other two are: a Negro-White marriage which ... Just finished Lolita, which brings my book count for 2008 up to 7 so far. ... Invitation to a Beheading, but since you read pretty complex stuff, I don't think you'd have any trouble with Nabokov. Lolita was my introduction and that went well.
rocketjk, how refreshing to find a man who reads "women's" stories, if you know what I mean. I checked out your profile ... 17. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Finished Mar 13) 317 pgs
I've heard it said that it is the best book you will never read again. I think that sums it up very well. Nabokov's prose is absolutely beautiful, though the intense subject matter will make it something I'm likely never to pick up ... ... Swans, which I'm only half through. Also, just moved to Paris with A Pound of Paper, and somewhere in New England with Lolita ... insulting/disturbing names from time to time (heck, recently there was a company here in the states that was selling a Lolita bed for young girls without realizing what "Lolita" meant until a parent complained). 13.) Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov ****
I first read Lolita as a sophomore in college, and when I picked it up this time (six years later), I realized that I remembered very little about it. My reading notebook tells me that I liked it okay but found the language play annoying. I liked it a ... 10. On the Beach by Nevil Shute
11. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Picked up yesterday:
At B&N with my discount card:
Lolita
At the Friends of the Library sale for $2 each:
The Moonstone
The Woman in White
The God of Small Things ... maybe I'll give Middlemarch another try at some point, despite saying "blech." Blech books are often worth rereading. Lolita infuriated and revulsed me the first time I read (I was 18, what can I say) and now I love it. As to Frankenstein, I think the scene where the newly created Monster ... Hi everybody!
Coming out of lurkdom!
So far for February:
Lolita
Choke
To Kill a Mockingbird
Just finished: A Clockwork Orange
Going back to a series I loved as a teen now tht the omnibus is out..The Vampire Diaries.
After that, trying to decide between American Psycho ... I am currently reading Lolita. I have decided this year that every other book that I read will be from the list. I am hoping this will not only help me tackle the list, but also my TBR pile! ... the truth really is better than fiction! Berendt is amazing. I truly feel as if I know a lot of his characters!
12. Lolita
Wow. Loved it. A lot of exciting, a lot of distubring. I just wish I hadn't been so lazy and had gotten a French-English dictionary!
13. Gossip of the Starling ... ... date (not the original date of publication), you can even catch things like, "wow, the 50th Anniversary Edition of Lolita was the 4th most entered newly published work of 2008 by LT users."
I am currently reading Lolita. It is my first selection of the year from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I don't plan to read the entire list, but it is helping me plow through my TBR pile. Have a great weekend! Here's what I've done for February, and what I plan to do..
JF: Lolita
JF: Gossip of the Starlings Early Reviewer
JF: The Halloween Tree YA
JF: Confessions of Closet Catholic YA
JF: The Chocolate War YA
CR: Beyond the Chocolate War YA
LF: Siddhartha
LF: Lost Horizon
LF: ... ... my home yet as I am still at the library, but
Sailor Song and
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
and
Strange Cargo by Jeffrey E. Barlough
Yee-haw! I'ma gonna have a readin' good time! I don't think Lolita was actually about Lolita, it was about HH. She was spoiled and petulant, but she was also a victim. However, I don't think that she was very dynamic. Humbert descent was way more interesting. |
