Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[mahou]

Originally Posted by orange!

In the meantime, I'm happy to report that I'm getting into the flow of From Here to Eternity and expect I'll see it through to the end. Probably won't end up on my list of favorites, but an interesting look at a slice of life in the pre-World War II U. S. infantry.

Oooh I loved it. I read it 6 or 7 years ago and I keep a good memory of it.

Now I'm reading Generations of winter, but the Spanish translation that includes the whole Moscow Saga, by Aksyonov (in a heavy hardcover). In my Kindle on my way to the office I'm reading Pax romana, from a Spanish author, Yeyo Balbás, not bad, but I prefer Posteguillo novels about Rome, I hope he's published in English someday so you can enjoy it

[LovesMacs]

Originally Posted by orange!

Speaking of one that's been hard for me to get into, I've probably started this book a half dozen times and never gotten very far. Maybe it's time for me to try again.

I don't know how to quote both you and me in the same reply.

This is the first time that I'm making progress in The Brothers Karamazov without struggling. I think it's one of those books that I had to grow into.

Based on the first 100 pages or so that I've read, you have to enjoy discussions about religion and philosophy to like this book. If you're not interested in those subjects, you'll probably find The Brothers Karamazov difficult to wade through.

The choice of translation might make a difference too, if you're not reading it in Russian. I'm reading this book in both paper and e-book versions, in different translations. I have the Pevear/Volokhonsky in paperback and the Ignat Avsey in e-book (Oxford World Classics). I read a chapter in one and then reread it in another. I'm putting more effort into reading The Brothers Karamazov than normal, but I'm enjoying it.

I think I like the Avsey translation a little better as it seems to read a little more smoothly but it also leaves certain difficult-to-translate expressions in Russian. For example, the author brings up people with nervous temperaments who frequently wail or scream. The P/V translation calls them "shriekers", but the Avsey translation uses the Russian term, transliterated and defined in a footnote: "klikusha". I find the Russian term less distracting than the English attempt at translation.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by LovesMacs

I don't know how to quote both you and me in the same reply.

Use multi-quote... the little icon to the right of the one that says "quote"... it will change color, then when you reply/quote in that thread, every message you marked to quote comes into the editor as a quote.

BOb

[orange!]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Try an unabridged audio version. You might even be able to find a free one read by volunteers on Librivox.org.

Thanks for the suggestion. For some reason, I have a really hard time listening to books. I get so distracted. Guess it's the way my brain works....

Originally Posted by mahou

Oooh I loved it. I read it 6 or 7 years ago and I keep a good memory of it.

Now I'm reading Generations of winter, but the Spanish translation that includes the whole Moscow Saga, by Aksyonov (in a heavy hardcover). In my Kindle on my way to the office I'm reading Pax romana, from a Spanish author, Yeyo Balbás, not bad, but I prefer Posteguillo novels about Rome, I hope he's published in English someday so you can enjoy it

Thanks, mahou. Wow, your reading list is impressively diverse!

Still plugging along in From Here to Eternity.

[mewmartigan]

I just started reading "The Blade Itself" by Joe Abercrombie thanks to Amazon's great deal on the trilogy.

[mr_nihilism]

I just purchased "Twittering from the Circus of the Dead" by Joe Hill. I'll get to it within a few days.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Finished, and enjoyed it thoroughly. Also reading Ashes of Victory, #9 in the Honor Harrington series by David Weber. This is primarily an audio read, but I'm jumping back and forth depending on where I am and what else I'm doing.

Next up? Hmmm. Possibly Treecat Wars by Weber and Lindskold, if I don't finish the current Harrington book today (since Treecat Wars won't be out until tomorrow.) If I do finish today, then I'll start something else. Maybe another Phryne Fisher? That would be fun, for sure.

Finished Ashes of Victory, and moved on to Treecat Wars.

[Geralt]

Reading Retribution Falls (Tales of the Ketty Jay, #1). So far really good, a bit of light fantasy reading. Story of pirates and smugglers basically, with a twist of mysterious woman and a golem for more of fantastic elements.

Part of my fantasy decade reading challenge.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: This month's book club book, Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.

Hmm... I'm about a third of the way through, and I can't say I'm enjoying the experience. Does it get better, or is the rest of the book similar to the first third?

So I'm taking a break and reading Treecat Wars by David Weber and Jane Lindskold.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Christopher Buecheler's The Broken God Machine gave me a fantastic ride through a very distant Post-Apocalyptic Earth. It made several turns that I just wasn't expecting and it was also quite a divergence from Buecheler's previous work, The II AM Trilogy which was a highly complex vampire story.

Next I'm giving Darcy Chan's The Mill River Recluse a read. I decided on this book when Darcy Chan appeared in a panel discussion along with Hugh Howey and some others about independent publishing titled, How Authors Are Becoming Entrepreneurs which I posted in the Wool 1,2,3,4,5 forum.

Darcy Chan's The Mill River Recluse was a blast from my past to read. It was a lot like the stuff I was reading in the 1960's. It was engaging, personal and held my interest throughout this story about a little town in Vermont and some of the residents of that town.

Now on to an older (1955) one by Andre Norton, Sargasso of Space (Solar Queen, #1). It was a freebie from Amazon a short while ago and when I was on Amazon getting it I found the next two in the series also available as freebies. It's turning out to be an interesting enough read at 25% but it also has quite a few atrocious unrepaired scanning errors which makes me wonder if I'll bother with the other two freebies.

[jersysman]

Reading Fatal Justice by Marie Force. It's the second book of the Fatal series. The first book Fatal Affair was an Amazon freebie and I liked it enough to buy the next one.

[Yapyap]

Finished Locked Rooms - possibly my least favourite Mary Russell book so far, but still not bad at all.

Started The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater yesterday; this was another highly anticipated new release of the year for me (I loved The Raven Boys, the first book in this series, last year, even though I hadn't expected to), but .. a fifth in and I'm still struggling. Not enough to want to give up yet as I expect it'll get more interesting at some point, but not really enjoying it.

All five books I've read so far in September have let me down so far, even if some have been more readable than others, and these were all books I picked with an expectation to enjoy them. I wonder if it's the books or me; August was full of books I enjoyed tremendously but now I'm struggling with most everything.

[cortman]

Just finished Napoleon, the biography of the same by Emil Ludwig. Very interesting and enlightening!
I am now wholly devoting my time to finishing Dante's Divine Comedy. I only have the last two cantos of Purgatorio and Pardiso to go.

[HomeInMyShoes]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Hmm... I'm about a third of the way through, and I can't say I'm enjoying the experience. Does it get better, or is the rest of the book similar to the first third?

So I'm taking a break and reading Treecat Wars by David Weber and Jane Lindskold.

Based on reviews I read, even though it has been on my potential read list, I don't think I'm in the mood for it. It very much sounds like a book that I could enjoy one month and hate another. So I'm finishing up Going Out by Scarlett Thomas and then I'm going to enjoy soaking in a bathtub full of Discworld. Next on that list is Witches Abroad.

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Darcy Chan's The Mill River Recluse was a blast from my past to read. It was a lot like the stuff I was reading in the 1960's. It was engaging, personal and held my interest throughout this story about a little town in Vermont and some of the residents of that town.

Thanks for that. I've had this one in Calibre for ages.