Current Reading

[Lil Me]

Through Black Spruce- Joseph Boyden
 The 2008 Giller Prize winning novel.
   

[Gopher]

 Gopher wrote:
Homecoming  - Bernhard Schlink  
...............

One of the best 'new to me' books I've come across in ages.
 

[Lise]

The Way of the Shadow by Brent Weeks

[Gopher]

 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell  

[Michel]

   
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[Gopher]

The Old Patagonian Express - Paul Theroux (second time around)  

[Gopher]

Pompeii - Robert Harris  

[Lil Me]

Finished The Gum Thief by Doug Coupland.
 
 Like any Doug Coupland, it's full of witty description but also makes one feel generally depressed and lethargic.
 
 
   

[Gopher]

 The Plague - Albert Camus  

[Michel]

   

 

[Gopher]

Not as overwhelmingly wonderful as I had been led to believe. I recall reading it in my teens (600 years ago) and not finding it very special even then. I just thought I'd give it another try and see if my opinion had changed.  

[Michel]

   

[Russ]

Road to Omaha by Robert Ludlum

[P.C.]

I'm reading Ageless Body Timeless Mind by Deepak Chopra.....again.  It didn't take the first time.[img onclick="selecte('eh.gif');" alt=emoticon src="http://www.pushupstairs.com/images/emoticon/blehnet/eh.gif" border=0]

[Gopher]

 Michel wrote:
lol same here. I read it twice in the original French and was not impressed. I too give it another try after many years just in case. I suspect that a lot of Camus prestige is coming from political reasons as he was the only well known anticommunist intellectual who participate in the French Resistance.
 
I found [em]La Chute[/em] however much better ("the fall" maybe it would be called in English)......

I was relieved that you had the same reaction to this book, I thought I was the only one.