50 Book Challenge for 2011

[Dora]

definitely curious to hear what you think of it...
i've heard good things about vonnegut

I've read "Slaughterhouse 5" and I absolutely loved it.

 

[1karina1]

I've read "Slaughterhouse 5" and I absolutely loved it.

I read Slaughterhouse 5 too but didn't enjoy it...I think I unfavourably compared it to Catch 22 as a satire on the futility of war.

 

[kate_is_goddess]

I just finished Cat's Cradle and I have to say, I loved it!
Review to follow in the other thread, still need to ponder a little bit

 

[IAmLordZen]

1. A Gown of Spanish Lace by Janette Oke
2. Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
3. The Old House at Railes by Mary Pearce
4. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
5. The Library Policeman by Stephen King (on-going)

 

[cloudyshambles]

I read Slaughterhouse 5 too but didn't enjoy it...I think I unfavourably compared it to Catch 22 as a satire on the futility of war.

I didn't enjoy Slaughterhouse 5 either... I guess I just didn't get the humour

 

[ChrissyM]

I just finished Cat's Cradle and I have to say, I loved it!
Review to follow in the other thread, still need to ponder a little bit

that was fast!

 

[Jenna-maria]

I have secretly been part of this challenge.
Altough it will not be very difficult to me since I read a lot.
So far I have read 9 books only this year.
HAHAH sounds like I have no life...

Right now I am reading a book from Jo Nesbo.

 

[kate_is_goddess]

that was fast!

well, I started a few days earlier, while I was still reading Gatsby... But it is a very quick read! I wasn't so into it in the beginning, but it got better towards the middle and then I just couldn't put it down. Also, the 'chapters', if you can even call them that, are only 1 or 2 pages long. So you just have to read another one... and another one... and...

 

[kate_is_goddess]

1 // Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
2 // Limit by Frank Schätzing
3 // Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
4 // The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5 // Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
6 // Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

 

[rayoflight]

Just finished my first book. Yea, only now.

 

[papa_levante]

^ kate_is_goddess! I just finished Breakfast at Tiffany's! (I'll have to post my list in a bit..)

I gotta say that Audrey did practically nothing for the character in the film. Holly is somebody else, not what Audrey did for her. But that's not for this thread.

 

[Alvedansen]

finished my next book

01. John Steinbeck - The grapes of wrath
02. Richard Matheson - I am legend
03. Joyce Carol Oates - Big mouth & Ugly girl
04. Ken Follett - The pillars of the earth

don't know which one i'll finish next, still reading too many books at the same time

 

[kate_is_goddess]

^ kate_is_goddess! I just finished Breakfast at Tiffany's! (I'll have to post my list in a bit..)

I gotta say that Audrey did practically nothing for the character in the film. Holly is somebody else, not what Audrey did for her. But that's not for this thread.

yeah I noticed that already on the first couple of pages, the film seems to be very different than the book in some aspects but also very similar in others...

 

[wild roses]

o3. High Spirited Women of the West by Anne Seagraves

A quick read. A bad read! I like the concept of the book, but the author is a terrible writer! She makes the women she covers sound pathethic and sad, rather than high spirited and independent.

o4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

A reread. I realized just how many times I'd seen the 95 miniseries and 05 movie because I could either hear or see one or the other in my head the whole time I was reading it.

I'm now starting Jackie: the Clothes of Camelot by Jay Mulvaney and Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell. Also, attempting to finish a biography on JFK and a book of short fiction on Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman. I have about 6 books going though (3 that I'm close to finishing) (It's amazing how staying offline for a day or two will do for one's reading!)

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ I'm certainly glad I haven't seen the miniseries and movie that often!!

Finished #6, Rosamunde Pilcher's Winter Solstice, in which the characters are snowed in like me

 

[Belowen]

I am stuck on book #5, I'm going to spend some time today trying to push through The Forgotten Garden. It's not that it's a bad or hard read in any way, I just can't seem to get into the story.

 

[kito09]

Finally finished my fourth book, The Seamstress. I don't think I've ever been more compelled by a book.

1. The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
2. What Happened to Anna. K by Irina Reyn
3. Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
4. The Seamstress by Frances De Pontes Peebles
5. The Lovers Room by Steven Carrol

how was the postmistress? i feel like amazon may have recommended that one to me...

In all honestly, I didn't enjoy it. That could partly be because I built such great expectations for it, and like with all expectations, it failed to meet the end material. I didn't feel drawn to the three main characters- it was a case of disconnection with the character and the reader, which really gave me zero motivation to continue reading it. However, there were elements of the book I did like - the backdrop, the plot of three women and their lives suddenly being connected through a letter that was not sent. And I ultimately love books that are set in the 40's with all the different stories that ww2 offers us. But that's about it.

 

[Ellin]

I highly doubt that I will make 50 books this year, because I am very busy with studying. So far I only read one book... And I had to for my literature course, and the next two will be also for the course

Well, I'll count them anyway:

1. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
2. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Howard's end - E.M. Forster

 

[tigerrouge]

While I might be able to read, I certainly can't count, as looking back, I see I've managed to list two different books as the sixth, which makes this one the eighth.

08: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

I was going to watch the film afterwards but I don't think it's going to compare to the book, it would be impossible to capture all the minute observations that pass through the minds of the characters.

 

[ChrissyM]

In all honestly, I didn't enjoy it. That could partly be because I built such great expectations for it, and like with all expectations, it failed to meet the end material. I didn't feel drawn to the three main characters- it was a case of disconnection with the character and the reader, which really gave me zero motivation to continue reading it. However, there were elements of the book I did like - the backdrop, the plot of three women and their lives suddenly being connected through a letter that was not sent. And I ultimately love books that are set in the 40's with all the different stories that ww2 offers us. But that's about it.

thanks for the quick review! i'll probably be skipping it then...