Suggestions for our next FICTION book discussion

lorifog · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:54 am Post subject:

Hi1 I'm new here but figured I'd throw out my two cents. Those Who Saved Us" looks like a really good choice to me. Then again, if The Secret Garden is chosen~I would read that one, too!

Lori Smile

Pennery · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject:

I'm reading this book and have gotten up to the four hundredth and eighty eigth page. So far it's amazing, insightful, philosophical, wonderfully written and has the most amazinfg cast of characters I've seen. It's a great read.

Also, hi. I'm also new here.

Ophelia · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject:

Hello Pennery, welcome to Booktalk! Smile

President Camacho

I've read Dead Souls. In fact, it's the book I was reading when I first joined this community. I wish I would have written something about it so that I could go back and review what I thought of it. The book, as I remember, was very amusing, read easily, and kept moving - unlike some other Russian authors that make certain chapters incredibly painful. Gogol was a funny guy. Here is one of my favorite excerpts from Dead Souls

"His complexion was a deep, burnished red, the colour of a copper coin. As we all know, there are many such faces in this world, faces on whose finishing touches Mother Nature has wasted little time or effort, disdaining the use of fine instruments such as files, gimlets, and so forth, but preferring instead to hack away: one swipe of the axe - and there's the nose; another swipe and there's the mouth; sockets for the eyes she gouges out with a massive awl, and without any smoothing or polishing she pushes the product out into the world, saying: "There - it lives!"

This book is filled with humorous paragraphs like the one above and it makes the book a pleasure to read; especially considering that Dead Souls was written in the 1800's.

Ash, I noticed you like Russian Authors. I haven't read too much Tolstoy at all. My memory is incredibly bad. I know I read a short story by him for my English class. I have read Bulgakov and Solzhenitsyn. I also have Turgenev on my to do list.

- El Presidenteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee'! King

President Camacho · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 5:02 pm Post subject:

You know what, I'm going to put my two cents in here for what IIIII want to read. I doubt I've made a fiction pick before.

I want to read - (looking at book case) - lol, there is like no nonfiction in my book case at all. I have one row of fiction books and I've read almost all of them. The ones I haven't read aren't really BT material.

So, instead, I heard someone say that a thread about Montaigne's essays was to start. I think I'll start that thread and do like a daily thing with it. Maybe someone else will read along and comment with me Smile

realiz · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:17 pm Post subject:

I'll suggest another Russian one..mainly because I just purchased it and am going to read it soon and it would be great to have it discussed on here.

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Ashleigh · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject:

I'd love to but I lent my copy to somebody and they're still reading it!!

lorifog · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:03 pm Post subject:

Being new here, I'm just wondering what happens after we all throw out some suggestions. Do we vote? Do the moderators pick? Just curious..

Lori

Ophelia · Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:57 am Post subject:

Yes, Lori, we vote.

Here is an example of how polls are organized .

lorifog · Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:00 am Post subject:

Thanks Ophelia

That's explains it pretty well and makes perfect sense. I figure I tend to talk a lot so I'll have my 25 posts in no time! LOL

Lori Smile

onasunnyday · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject:

To MRK who mentions Those Who Save Us. I thought this was an excellent book. I would love to disuss it with anyone. I may be posting in the wrong place so if someone could set me straight it would be helpful.

Ophelia · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:36 pm Post subject:

Not to worry, your suggestion is in the right thread.

Interbane · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject:

The christian bible.

Ophelia · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject:

And give up my cherished hope that the religious / atheist debates would be restricted to the non-fiction section? Angry

Saffron · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject:


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