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1. It's a book I feel like I should read. So very true ! 3. Everyone I know is recommending it. Yep! The hype gets to me. 4. It's intimidatingly enormous. I made an oath never to read any book over 500 pages. Life is just too short ! .

I didn't read this book, but I read two of Manguel's books : A History of Reading and The Reading Diary . Delightful books to say the least. I think any lover of books will tremendously enjoy reading his books.

What is the most overrated book you have read ? For me, it was The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. I couldn't even finish the book and found it so overhyped. There's also The Bridges of Madison County, one of the rare books I want to throw at the wall while struggling to finish. How...

Definitely a slacker :whistling:

Sometimes. I pick books to read depending on my mood at that moment and I don't always start reading another book directly after finishing the previous one.

There are some amazing book covers in this thread ! I'm currently reading this :

I never plan ahead. I actually tend to read on a whim.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Gandhi's autobiography : The Story of My Experiments With Truth. And I also agree that The Autobiography of Malcolm X is an excellent book.

Wouldn't want be a character in any of Jane Austen's novels. They are all plain and boring .

I highly recommend The Feast of the Goat . A superb read .

Fate, Could you please post here this article you mentioned above ? ( if you still here, I know this thread ain't new )

Every time I read (or re-read) Fahrenheit 451 I ask myself the same question : what book would I choose to protect ? and every time I come up with a different answer. Books I thought of : Nabokov's "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight" Graham Greene " The Quiet American" . Golding's...

Strangely enough, the best romance novel and the worst romance novel I've ever read both belong to the same author ,Robert James Waller . "Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend" was the good read , while "The Bridges of Madison County" was the absolutely bad one.

For me, I think it was more than a year , close to 15 months . I went into some sort of a reader's block and I barely finished reading 2 books the entire time , so buying new books was out of question when I could barely read what I had.

Hello everyone :) I finished reading "Fatal Purity:Robespierre and the French Revolution " by Ruth Scurr. It's a historical account of Robespierre's life and his influential rule in the revolution , especially during The Reign of Terror. It was an excellent read :stars5: Currently reading...