I am just glad if I have one book read during a year with more than 1 000 pages.
I really enjoyed My Name is Red, certainly paints a vivid picture of the time, and the characters are all so awful and conniving. I should read more Pamuk.
Have you tried the Millenium trilogy?
I have some 1000 paged books in e-book form, about which I've heard some praise. My first book of 2020 will be 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon'. Also, 'The Deed of Paksenarrion'. And I'm toying with the decision to read Churchill's biography. I shall also read some omnibuses.
Never heard of it: I'll add it to my list
What did you think of Mao II? Considering reading some DeLilo again soon, intrigued by it.
Im only on book 3 but its very good. I struggle with the swedish place names but otherwise its all good.Never heard of it: I'll add it to my list
Physical. E-books are a bridge too far, technologically.
Dostoyevsky is out on his own imo. Genius
Do most of my reading on a Kobo ereader now. Prefer it to Kindle as it supports more formats band you can sideload too.
Sorry Cheesy missed your post.
The Lionel Messi of Literature.
IT is probably the best Stephen King book I've read. The Stand and Misery I also enjoyed.
The Trial is one of my favourites.
Throwaway novels on the kindle. Proper books, cook books and kids books i buy on paper.
I haven't read Ripley's Game and am only familiar with the film starring the great John Malkovich but Tom Ripley might be the kind of cultured psychopath you're seeking.
I'll add that series to my list too, thanks
Awesome! Thompson definitely has a great voice for twisted characters. I have a few of hisI'll add that series to my list too, thanks
@oneniltothearsenal I'm about a fifth of the way through The Killer Inside Me so far, enjoying it. I've rarely read this far back (1952) so it's really interesting seeing how it's written and how the world is portrayed
Entirely possible to love it even if War & Peace wasn’t your jam. It’s a different flavor of greatness.
The Trial is great. It's a shame that most of Kafka's work was unfinished. Check The Castle by Kafka also -- I think that's actually my favourite Kafka novel.
It'll be the first book I open 2020 with.
Go for a kindle, provided it is e-ink. For troubleshooting advice and pro e-book camaraderie, I strongly urge you to join mobileread.com.
Do you have an advisable translation for The Castle at all? Downloaded a couple on my Kindle but one seemed off grammatically and the other had some typos. And I've heard different translations of the book can give it a very different feel - some are perhaps more lyrical but thus lose Kafka's writing style a little bit.
My favourite Stephen King book is 'The Stand', just finished the latest 'The Institute' which okay but not as good as '11.22.63'.
I picked up a Wordsworth Classics translated by John R Williams. It's called 'The Essential Kafka' and has his main stories + some of his shorts. The translation is pretty economic when it needs to be to allow for fluency, but maintains enough integrity to some of Kafka's more lengthier passages. Grammar is pretty solid, I can't recall too many issue with typos.
M is for your Mum. When you read too many at once one always gets left bottom of the pile and takes ages to read.
Rubbish theory. I'm doing very well. Read 119 books this year. One more and I'll have completed my yearly Goodreads challenge.
