WHAT are you reading right now?

[Zhukov]

We read 'Royal Hunt for the Sun', 'Remembering Babylon' and 'The Giver'. I think I enjoyed them all.

[Fathom Zero]

Originally Posted by Zhukov

'The Giver'.

ugh

[King Hadas]

Animal Farm is the only book besides Shakespeare I remember being assigned to read. We read that instead of 1984, probably because 1984 is so fucked up and hopeless.

[Zhukov]

Originally Posted by Fathom Zero

ugh

It's not that great, no, but I liked it when I was 13, and I am pretty sure it sparked my interest in a lot of interesting things.

[kahljorn]

I'm about 3/4 way thought it. But I've been reading that and War and Peace for the past few years. Russian authors always interest me and drag me in, then take too long to get to the end,

Dostoevsky novels usually have shitty ant-climatic endings

i read about 100 pages of war and peace but its kinda boring except when they tie that dude to the bear. thats funny.

but yea i really like russian writers too

[Zhukov]

War and Peace does have a little bit of interesting in it, but it is just swamped with so much boring that it makes it a real chore to wade through.

I'm moving house at the moment and I left the book that I am reading --The Wasp Factory - at the wrong abode, so I went on wikipedia and read up on it. Like an idiot I spoiled it for myself and ruined the ending.


I like dystopian futures, and I think I might write a short story about one.

[King Hadas]

I only read the first chapter of War & Peace. A lot of it was in french with no translation, don't know if this was artistic or if the translators expected me to know french but I couldn't find the energy to go on. Never had that problem with Doestoyevsy, I burn through Dostoyevsky's stuff without ever breaking pace. I've only read his three most famous works though (Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov), not sure about his other books like The Gambler or Demons.

@Zhukov - I had the same problem with The Wasp Factory, the ending was spoiled for me before I even started reading it. It's still pretty good even if you know how it ends.

[Zhukov]

I really enjoyed Crime and Punishment despite me thinking that it suffers from the same boring ending syndrome as other Russian literary classics. I've got The Idiot floating around here somewhere so I will get to that soonish.

My copy of War and Peace also has quite a lot of untranslated French in it. He doesn't make it easy.