What are You Reading Now?

[warren99]

Martin Amis, Money.

 

[brian64]

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[makhorkasmoker]

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so far this my favorite cs Lewis novel

 

[aspiring_sage]

Just a tip/suggestion for my fellow BAD afflictees:

It isn’t BAD to build a library

 

[simong]

Chilly evenings, a ripping yarn & orientals in my pipe.

 

[Sandy67]

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

 

[warren99]

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.

 

[ssjones]

"The Prospectors" - excellent read.

This one is is very good so far

 

[huntertrw]

Re-reading (for the umpteenth time) Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

 

[solideogloria86]

Just finished A Memory of Light and now I'm working on New Spring. WoT has been a great series.

 

[jaingorenard]

Re-reading (for the umpteenth time) Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

I just finished this! An almost-tradition every Christmas. Have you read his other Christmas stories?

 

[huntertrw]

Have you read his other Christmas stories?

Yes. They include The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man. The Oxford Press collected these in an edition titled The Oxford Illustrated Dickens Christmas Books with an Introduction by Eleanor Farjeon.

 

[Rossi320]

James patterson Alex cross must die and James patterson, bill Clinton the president daughter

 

[Gimlet]

Yes. They include The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man. The Oxford Press collected these in an edition titled The Oxford Illustrated Dickens Christmas Books with an Introduction by Eleanor Farjeon.

I think I've always preferred The Chimes to A Christmas Carol, even before the latter was done to death in TV adaptations. The Chimes is very vivid in the way it brings the Victorian world to life.

 

[jaingorenard]

I think I've always preferred The Chimes to A Christmas Carol, even before the latter was done to death in TV adaptations. The Chimes is very vivid in the way it brings the Victorian world to life.

I just read the Chimes for the first time and liked it a great deal. I agree, it's hard to read a Christmas Carol with fresh eyes, but in a strange way I think that can come with many repeated readings (much like other Dickens like Oliver Twist, or Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, or anything else that can suffer from a large number of adaptations). Shakespeare's plays are a great example of this. I've seen many adaptations of my favourites, both good and bad. But it's through repeated viewings or readings that you begin to love the plays behind any specific adaptation.

 

[jaingorenard]

After a short break, I'm back on Simon Raven's Alms for Oblivion series. This one was written in 1972 but set in the late 60s. It's a funny and cynical look at radical politics at universities, and the sinister and dangerous people who can exploit that. Just as applicable nowadays... As good as all the others I've read, and there are sections that make me laugh out loud.

 

[makhorkasmoker]

Rereading one of my faves by Naipaul after many years

 

[warren99]

Roberto Bolano, Distant Star (taking a short break from War & Peace).

 

[Gimlet]

I just read the Chimes for the first time and liked it a great deal. I agree, it's hard to read a Christmas Carol with fresh eyes, but in a strange way I think that can come with many repeated readings (much like other Dickens like Oliver Twist, or Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, or anything else that can suffer from a large number of adaptations). Shakespeare's plays are a great example of this. I've seen many adaptations of my favourites, both good and bad. But it's through repeated viewings or readings that you begin to love the plays behind any specific adaptation.

Dickens's Christmas stories are still worth reading, just to enjoy the use of language, which gets lost in screen adaptations.
No film depiction of Marley's ghost has ever been a patch on the original description on the page.