What Are You Reading?

[Doc Creed]

I've been wondering about this series for a while, and I lucked up in the thrift shop and found 3 - so I started the first right away. I'm liking it so far. Not "un-put-downable", but a book I look forward to at the end of my day. Anyone have an opinion on them? I really like child narrators and Flavia is a sassy smart gal. So far, so good.

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I remember all three of them, our book club read them. My intention was to read the first one but it just didn't call out to me.

 

[HollyGolightly]

The 'Readers' List' is godawful.

Yeah - who picks those titles? There were a few that I enjoyed, many I haven't read and quite a few I was shocked to see there. Rubbish!

 

[HollyGolightly]

I remember all three of them, our book club read them. My intention was to read the first one but it just didn't call out to me.

That's was my cousin's review too - she just didn't enjoy it - read the first for her book club and never bothered with the others. Sometimes I like a book that I can come and go with - Anne Tyler novels are like that for me. They're just kind of "day in the life" of some mundane folks.

 

[not_nadine]

It invented those.

Lookie:

'1984' sales soar after Trump claims, 'alternative facts'

 

[Kingunlucky]

The 'Readers' List' is godawful.

Hey now, hey now...

There were plenty of great books on the readers list. Just some bizzare choices for the top spots, but it did have The Stand, IT, Fahrenheit 451, Dune, Shane etc

 

[FlakeNoir]

Sorry - I have a tendency to laugh way too loud (in real life, too)

It's okay... sometimes if we don't laugh, we cry.

 

[Blake]

The Dramaturges of Yan by John Brunner.
Another one edited by Harry Harrison I can't remember the title.

 

[do1you9love?]

I'm juggling The Bazaar of Bad Dreams now with a re-read of Kinky Friedman's Armadillos & Old Lace ... funny, in some ways Muskrat reminds me of him .. but when I got into it again after all this time, Musky, you're way, way better. The Kinksah kicks, but you leave him in the dry gulch Texas dust ....

I love Kinky Friedman! Haven't read anything of his in a while, but now I may have to do so. A Case of Lonestar was my first by him. And now that you've said it, I can seem the Muskrat tendencies!!!

Just finished a re-read of Eyes of the Dragon. Now I'm supposed to start our book club's February selection, My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. Wish me luck!

 

[Kurben]

Ayn Rands and L.Ron Hubbards presence at a 100 best novels list is ludicrous. Also very centered on englishwriting authors which is unfair but, i guess, unavoidable.

 

[AchtungBaby]

The Passenger by Lisa Lutz. Sooo good!!!

 

[Saragirl]

No judgy....I'm reading Bag of Bones... for the first time!

 

[danie]

No judgy....I'm reading Bag of Bones... for the first time!

 

[GNTLGNT]

No judgy....I'm reading Bag of Bones... for the first time!

 

[Kingunlucky]

Ayn Rands and L.Ron Hubbards presence at a 100 best novels list is ludicrous. Also very centered on englishwriting authors which is unfair but, i guess, unavoidable.

I don't see any other authors on that list who got people to believe in a religion. If that's not a sign of literary dominance, I don't know what is.

jk

 

[Kingunlucky]

BEHOLD ANOTHER LIST OF 100 NOVELS! In alphabetical order and only from 1923-2005

Full List | All-TIME 100 Novels | TIME.com

 

[kingricefan]

BEHOLD ANOTHER LIST OF 100 NOVELS! In alphabetical order and only from 1923-2005

Full List | All-TIME 100 Novels | TIME.com

I don't like it- not one King book in there.

 

[Doc Creed]

 

[Kurben]

Neither did I. If you can take in Neuromancer by Gibson and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by Lewis it is ridicolus not to include The Stand (or IT for that matter).

 

[Kingunlucky]

WELP!

Modern Library's Two lists were met with mixed results AND TIMES's was as well. WHAT DO THE PEOPLE THINK OF THE GUARDIAN'S LIST

The 100 best novels written in English: the full list | Books | The Guardian

 

[skimom2]

WELP!

Modern Library's Two lists were met with mixed results AND TIMES's was as well. WHAT DO THE PEOPLE THINK OF THE GUARDIAN'S LIST

The 100 best novels written in English: the full list | Books | The Guardian

Better.