Yeah, I'm up for it! I think I still have my notes on it from my essay that I might be able to inject into the discussion! I read some really interesting articles on it and aspects of it.

I added "Lolita" to the fiction selections because we had gotten behind on fiction books and the top book section looked barren. Several people were already discussing Lolita in the Additional Book Discussion forums so all I did is make that additional discussion a main discussion. If anyone would like to join in on that conversation please do so. There is a new forum for that book and the discussion period is October and November 2008.

This thread still remains as the place for making suggestions about our next fiction book or books. So speak your mind!

Awesome

I have Lolita here but hadn't yet started it. I'm going to get started on it tonight and head over to the discussion board. It's nice to have other people to talk to about books when so many people don't read!

As for the secret garden, great book. One of the most magical things I have ever read

Welcome back Bohemian girl,


I look forward to seeing you on the Lolita forum.

Hiya bohemian girl! Lolita might be good too - I've never read it before!

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

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.

Hello Pennery, welcome to Booktalk!

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:

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