Read a book lately?

[starshine]

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Also reading some of the things my husband leaves around.

[Kevin2]

I just finished All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott. This is a book about a rural vet in England that reads more like a novel than it does an autobiography. All in all a nice enjoyable forgettable book.

[Xanadu]

starshine said:

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Also reading some of the things my husband leaves around.

Hi starshine, I read that a few years ago and I love Du Maurier. Let me know if your copy has two possible endings when you get there... Enjoy it, I did. have you noticed that our protagonist is never referred to by a first name? Nice touch.

Currently reading Lost Horizon by James Hilton. My hardcover copy (I like to get old volumes that are affordable of classics I read) is from 1936, three years after it was initially published. Hilton writes a beautiful forward in this copy, anxiously anticipating Frank Capra's 1937 film starring Ronald Colman with the same title, hoping the story will now reach millions. He makes reference to the emotions building in Europe before WWII. It is an eerie forshadowing to the destruction and death to come, comsiidering many in his generation had thought they had seen the war to end all war.

It's the famous novel of a lost crew of refugees discovering a blissful secret society in a strange Tibetan land called Shangri-La.

I'm looking forward to the film when I finish... if it's anything like the book, I'm sure to love it.

I read another of Hilton's last year - Random Harvest.

[sniperforlife]

I've just recently started reading Halo: Ghosts of Onyx but I reckon no one here is into that kind of stuff.

[mizzshy]

Uh... I just read The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman... And I cried! T_T

[gentlemangaga]

I will next be reading Rousseau's The Social Contract and Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. If I feel up to it I'll use it as a springboard for Hobbes' Leviathan. I'm looking forward to Rousseau and somewhat dreading Hobbes. We shall see!

[Barry SR Gowing]

Sept 14, 2012 19:56:05 GMT gentlemangaga said:

I will next be reading Rousseau's The Social Contract and Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. If I feel up to it I'll use it as a springboard for Hobbes' Leviathan. I'm looking forward to Rousseau and somewhat dreading Hobbes. We shall see!

I've read them all. Good luck!

Currently reading "The Beginning of Infinity" by David Deutsch. It's a bit drier than I'd hoped for.

--Paul--

[gentlemangaga]

I haven't read either yet... but I did just finish Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. The most surprising aspect of this book for me since I expected to find postmodern paranoia, vaguely described intrigue and tortuous,interesting sentence structures, is that I realize now "Babushka" is more than a fictional person's name.

"Say hello to old Stanley," he called as she pattered down the steps into the street, flung a babushka over her license plate and screeched away down Telegraph.

Next up is another Pynchon book, V.