The 50 Book Challenge (2012)

[GinAndTonic]

01. The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
02. Glue (Irvine Welsh)
03. The Demon (Hubert Selby Jr)

All three are amazing books! Starting with Brave New World.

 

[Karen0193]

01. The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
02. Glue (Irvine Welsh)
03. The Demon (Hubert Selby Jr)

All three are amazing books! Starting with Brave New World.

Oh! Brave New World is great, I loved that book!

 

[heelscatchfire]

^ I saw a play based on Brave New World once...I didn't enjoy it but maybe the book is better. I have thought about reading it.

Just finished Damned by Chuck Palahniuk...not his best. and I'm no The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho.

 

[Karen0193]

^ at first, I found Brave New World a bit tiring (perhaps because english is not my first language) but if you keep reading it gets much better. It was such an interesting concepts, and I guess I like how he used the figure of Henry Ford.

 

[HeatherAnne]

I'd like to get to 50 this year. Only made it to 30 last year.

01. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

 

[kate_is_goddess]

^Oh let me know what you think about that one, I'm planning on reading it this year too...

 

[ChrissyM]

I'd like to get to 50 this year. Only made it to 30 last year.

01. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

ohh, i'm curious about the marriage plot! definitely let us know how it is

 

[nicestthing]

01. When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
02. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

 

[MyNameIs]

Oh! Brave New World is great, I loved that book!

I have started that book like 3-4 times already. Once I even got as far as 150th page or something like that, but have not been able to finish it. Not because I didn't enjoy it, but because for some reason I always start reading it at Barnes and Noble.

01. The Angel Esmeralda Nine Stories by Don DeLillo (** out of ****)
(I didn't care for it. I also discovered that I don't like short stories as much as I thought I did. The reason, you have to start each story like a new book and just as you start to get into it, it ends and you need to move on to the next one. Kind of exhausting actually. But even worse, I wasn't satisfied by any one of the stories and I think it's because of his writing style. He zooms in on the situation and presents it in such an abstract form, giving no context, no motives, no closure. I don't think I was quite ready for it to be honest.)
02. Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks (in progress)

 

[Mistique]

1. Secret Vampire #1 in The Night World series by L.J. Smith

2. Timbuktu by Paul Auster
3. The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho

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[Karen0193]

Never Let Me Go-Kazuo Ishiguro
The Virgin Suicides-Jeffrey Eugenides
The Great Gastby-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Bed of Roses- Nora Roberts
Affaire Royale- Nora Roberts

I have a bunch of her books on my computer
too bad my vacations are almost over so I can't continue reading in the same pace as before

 

[mcflyandgemmafan]

I'm trying to get through The Night Circus but it's a bit boring .

 

[GinAndTonic]

^ at first, I found Brave New World a bit tiring (perhaps because english is not my first language) but if you keep reading it gets much better. It was such an interesting concepts, and I guess I like how he used the figure of Henry Ford.

Yeah, I agree. I started Bave New World a few time but always stopped after a few chapters. But this time I went further and I love it for the moment!

For those who have read The Virgin Suicides, what did you think about it? I don't know if I should read it or not (I'm a big fan of the film).

 

[funkystar]

So I just finished reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson a year after I first started reading it . It was a bit predictable and defiantly not as good as book 1 or 2 but it was still a good end to the trilogy. I had trouble pronouncing the names of characters and places in Swedish and often mixed them up but they sounded so alike but any ways I loved most of the characters especially Salander and Blomkvist and I'm sad that I have to say goodbye to them after such a thrilling journey because there are no more books . Had Steig Larrson lived I could defiantly see a 4th book with a plot that involved Salander's twin sister. I found it very odd that she was only mentioned briefly in the books and it ended up coming to nothing in the end.

Can anyone recommend any similar books to the Millennium Trilogy if they do exist?

 

[heelscatchfire]

^ I agree, it was really sad that there is no more books, I really wanted it to continue, I could definitely see it picking up into other plots.

I would love to read some books similar too.

 

[TanyaKiller]

01. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon - [**]
02. Wild Swans by Jung Chang - [*****]
03. The Black Book of Psychoanalysis by Catherine Meyer - [***]
04. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins​

Black Book was almost a waste, all they did was proselytism and the
demonization of Freud and the Psychoanalysis for most part of the book,
which was very tiresome despite some interesting details which I would
need to verify. Although, the book got better near the end, when I got
to know better the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy even though there was
a lot of propaganda going on. ​

 

[TanyaKiller]

^ I agree, it was really sad that there is no more books, I really wanted it to continue, I could definitely see it picking up into other plots.

I would love to read some books similar too.

Don't you guys know? There is a fourth book but it's incomplete.
Stieg Larsson wrote most part of it except the middle part,
which his wife is planning to write in his place since she said
she helped him write the previous books. Who knows....

 

[Mistique]

Don't you guys know? There is a fourth book but it's incomplete.
Stieg Larsson wrote most part of it except the middle part,
which his wife is planning to write in his place since she said
she helped him write the previous books. Who knows....

There has been a lot of disscusion about who has the rights to his book between Steig's family and his wife. I believe that's why the fourth book is yet to be publiced.

Also before his death he had written a contract on 10 books in the series, not just three.

 

[funkystar]

yeah I heard about the 4th book but sadly I don't think that it will ever be published because of the long legal battle between Larrson's family and his wife . Neither side will want to admit defeat and let go of that pot of gold .

 

[heelscatchfire]

Don't you guys know? There is a fourth book but it's incomplete.
Stieg Larsson wrote most part of it except the middle part,
which his wife is planning to write in his place since she said
she helped him write the previous books. Who knows....

I read there was more material but I had no idea his wife was actually going to write it. Thanks for the info