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Hi all! I am reading "Not wanted Wanted on the Voyage" for my bookclub. I really love it. But I was chatting with someone this morning, and she mentioned, "I hope someone can tell me why Japeth is blue?" And, my fellow readers, I can't stop thinking about it. Why did Findley decide Japeth...

thank god! i tried to read it and, at the end of the first chapter i put it down to do something and somehow never picked it up again (read: i was bored to tears). i will definitely give it another shot! thanks!

loved the book, could not put it down, had no problems with the un-dialoque-ish dialogue. it is going in my section of books to be read over and over, and i will recommend to all my friends. oh, um...advice? *blush* well, many books use not-natural events/circumstances to highlight human...

i'm rcommending these two not only out of good will--because i thought they were both fabulous books-- but also for selfish reasons. i want to discuss these books!! :D deafing, by fraces itani: the story of a deaf girl who loses her hearing due to illness and goes to a school for the deaf...

oi. this thread is highly appropriate (who hasn't been disappointed by a classic?) but it's very depressing. :( to the lighthouse (woolfe): a shining example of why interior monolgue should remain interior. bo-ring. faulkner, d.h. lawrence: they have themes from here to forever, but...

i read da vinci code in a day. i would not file it under "good literature" but under "compelling genre book (with religion/history/art thrown in)". i often devour mystery/police procedurals: they're 'brainless' yet i can't put them down until i finish them. luckily, i read pretty quickly. ;)...

ooooh, thanks to all who contributed-- i've really enjoyed this thread so far). my 2 cents (maybe 4 cents): unless a book has some morally-uplifting or society-improving point, than it's all just entertainment. many of the books i've enjoyed the most have made me say "oooh, that was a...

i would venture that gender affects our interpretation/enjoyment of a novel more than the decision whether or not to read it. of course, i may be biased due to recent experience: my book club met yesterday, and our book for the month was catch-22. i enjoyed it because i am very familiar...

i use whatever is handy for bookmarks: receipts, bills, envelopes, torn-out bits of paper, etc. i have gone back to read a book i last read the year before and found an old grocery list between the pages. big quirk!! "Ex Libris", by fadiman (can't remember her first name), includes a...

Peter Quince from "a midsummer night's dream" ...i cheated, i looked that one up. who can think of a q name?!? :rolleyes:

Nemo, captain, from "20000 leagues under the sea"... not from disney/pixar. ;)

oops! double posted. :o

this thread is starting to make it sound like we advocate polygamy. ;)

when i first saw the title of this thread, i thought, "omg, two books at once? who can do that?" and then i realized i was reading a book club pick and an old reliable of mine at the same time. however, one was a short story collection by salman rushdie and the other was "the princess...

re stephen king: he keeps coming out with new books in the "dark tower" series, and i could not care less. i read the first one (when i was 13, however, and going through my stephen king phase) and thought it was an absolute waste of time. the horrible-book yardstick for my book club is "the...

"zen and the art of motorcycle maintanance" i've never read it though. authors again? or maybe memorable characters this time, to challenge ourselves? :p

sweeeeet... thanks so much!!

"a scientific romance" -- another very disappointing ending. spoiler: it was basically a "was it a dream?" ending. it was either real, or a illusion/delusion brought by BSE (mad cow disease). i hate endings like that-- they seem like such a cop-out. the author in those cases must be unwilling to...

"the polished hoe" by austin clarke it took 500 pages (very long, meandering, and boring pages) to get to an ending that made me say, "well, duh." and i never can see an ending coming, even if it is completely obvious. that was a very disappointing book all around, and the ending made it...

would it be committing a forum sin to initiate titles a-z? i enjoyed this thread, and i don't want it to end. :p "all's well that ends well" by his shakespeare-ness ;)