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Kevin · Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:00 am

Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky. This guy could write!

Andrez · Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:51 pm


	Kevin wrote: Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky. This guy could write!

Heh-heh... he does have a bit of talent there!

kyjake23 · Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:28 pm

Barnes & Noble here in town recently had a buy two get one free on all their self-published classics; I bought the rough equivalent of my body weight in Dostoyevsky. Currently reading "How to Read Literature Like a Professor," by Thomas C. Foster.

charlie delambert · Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:26 pm

Okay, this is my first attempt at forum participation so I hope I'm doing it right (fingers crossed, while I'm typing no less, I'm already amazed). Anyhoo, I'm currently reading Witch and Wizard: The Gift. It's the second book in a series, or I guess you could call it the third. There was a graphic novel in between this and the first. The first book was acrually a pleasant surprise because I typically hate the author, James Patterson. It's not that he is a bad author, he just generally isn't my cup of cocoa. I was never able to get through one of his crime novels, still can't, so I was reluctant when a friend of my mine practically forced Witch and Wizard on me last year. Turns out the man knows his way around the world of the fantastic. Witch and Wizard is about a very 1984 society governed by a group called the New Order, they have abolished everything that makes life worth living and they are out to get all who oppose them. Also there is magic, and adventure, and a dog named Feffer. It's worth a peek. So, I hope I did this right. Um...That's all folks!

charlie delambert · Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:02 pm

I just finished the book I was currently reading yesterday. Now I am currently re-reading Good Omens by Niel Gaiman and Terry Pratchet. I just love thier apocalypse.

froglipz · Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:37 pm


	EndlessLaymon wrote: Road Work by Stephen King.

That story was interesting. As much as I felt like I wouldn't like it as much as "The Long Walk" and "Thinner" by "Bachman" I was eerily compelled along. I found myself mulling it over at odd moments through the day, and right back at it at every opportunity. I may have been the only surprised person in America to find out that King and Bachman were the same author.

Suzanne · Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:51 pm


	charlie delambert wrote: I hope I did this right. Um...That's all folks!

I think you did it perfect! Welcome to BookTalk Charlie.

kyjake23 · Fri Jan 14, 2011 9:48 pm

froglipz wrote:


	EndlessLaymon wrote: Road Work by Stephen King.

That story was interesting. As much as I felt like I wouldn't like it as much as "The Long Walk" and "Thinner" by "Bachman" I was eerily compelled along. I found myself mulling it over at odd moments through the day, and right back at it at every opportunity. I may have been the only surprised person in America to find out that King and Bachman were the same author.

That was a few years before my time, but I can see how to reading public was fooled for so long. The subject matter between the two (yes, I still refer to them as two seperate writers) differed greatly; early King had a very supernatural slant to it, while Bachman tends to examine the horrors that can take place if society is allowed to run amok (The Long Walk, Running Man). If you haven't read Blaze, which was an early Bachman that was released a few years ago, I would definitely suggest giving it a shot. Feels a lot like Of Mice and Men, but with the traditional King/Bachman twist.

Kevin · Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:38 am

I started The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories. This is a rather slim collection of short stories by Leo Tolstoy. The first story, Family Happiness, is thus far about a lecherous gentleman approaching his middle years who finds love in the form of his recently departed best friend's young daughter. The Russians can flat-out write!

Kevin · Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:50 am

Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer. This is the first novel-length work I've read from Singer, who is my favorite short story author. I'm about half way through and it's holding up well. The story features themes familiar to any Singer reader: the holocaust, God, Spinoza, and... chickens?! Absolutely. The last shall be first... in other stories it may be pigeons. Praise be to find faith put into effect even if it's from someone who has no faith. Highly recommended.

Kevin · Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:09 pm

Thanks, DWill, for whatever you liked about that. ;-D
I've finished Shosha and am now preparing to start Kafka's The Trial. This will be the first novel-length work of his I've read.

ValsBooks · Wed Feb 09, 2011 8:06 pm

I just started reading 'The Store' by Bentley Little. I read one other by him called 'The Walking'...one of the most bizarre books ever. I was looking for a little horror/thriller to get in the groove for my next novel, The Ghost of Retirement. My first novel, Wiretap, is a mystery. The second, due out in July, is a mystery/thriller. So I'm branching out a bit and looking forward to it!

Esoldra · Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:37 pm

The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart - it is interesting so far

Rigid Bones · Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:29 pm

Currently reading Bram Stoker's Dracula. Loving it. It has an old world charm. For instance, I smiled to myself last night as I read, in Jonathan Harker's journal, just before he was heading out with Van Helsing to do a bit of vampire slaying..."We were prepared for some unpleasantness".

lindad_amato · Sun Apr 24, 2011 5:06 pm

Going Home to Glory...a memoir of life with Dwight D. Eisenhower by his grandson David Eisenhower. A well written and surprisingly objective memoir by a loving grandson whose grandfather happened to be the President of the US.

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