kernow_reader Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 (edited) Currently reading: (Re-read: Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell. Read so far this year 2008: Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen 9.75/10 Breakfast at Tiffanys - Truman Capote 9/10 Master Geordie - Beryl Bainbridge 9/10 Explaining Death to the Dog - Susan Perabo 7/10 On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan 10/10 Engleby - Sebastian Faulks 8/10 Flush - Virginia Woolf 9/10 Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson 9/10 The Painted Veil - W Somerset Maugham 10/10 A Burnt Out Case - Graham Greene 9/10 The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton 9/10 The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind 9/10 That's The Way It Was - Stella Duffy 9/10 Lizzie Leigh - Elizabeth Gaskell 9/10 No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy 10/10 The Road - Cormac McCarthy 8/10 We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. 9/10 Edited September 13, 2008 by kernow_reader updating list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernow_reader Posted September 7, 2008 Author Share Posted September 7, 2008 Yes. Water for Elephants I loved -- couldn't put it down, in fact. Have you read it? Breakfast was good too though somewhat influenced by the fact that I had seen the film beforehand. I like Capote's style of writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernow_reader Posted September 7, 2008 Author Share Posted September 7, 2008 My daughter has it at the moment. Want me to send you it when she returns it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyanddandy Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 Yes. Water for Elephants I loved -- couldn't put it down, in fact. Have you read it? I bought this quite recently - looking forward to reading it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernow_reader Posted September 10, 2008 Author Share Posted September 10, 2008 Sure it is. PM me with where to send it and I'll sort it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernow_reader Posted September 13, 2008 Author Share Posted September 13, 2008 We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Blurb on the back: The citizens of One State live in a condition of 'mathematically infallible happiness' D-503 decides to keep a diary of his days working for the collective good in this clean, blue, city state where nature, privacy and individual liberty have been eradicated. But over the course of his journal D-503 suddenly finds himself caught up in unthinkable and illegal activities - love and rebellion". I came across this book via an online reading group who were nominating books for a Russian genre read and have to say I really enjoyed it. The story is told by the protagonist D-503. He lives in the One State, an urban civilisation constructed of glass where everything is based on primitive mathematics. Sleep times are measured out for each day and citizens are given mates by schedule and the issue of pink tickets. Trouble begins when D-503 falls in love. Higher mathematics take over, he loses the ability to differentiate between reality and dreams, chaos ensues, he begins a descent into near madness and has to be saved by the Great Operation. Try it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 I've been looking forward to this book for a while. Thanks for the review! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernow_reader Posted September 14, 2008 Author Share Posted September 14, 2008 Thanks, Kylie. My first review ever and someone read it I'd be very interested to read your thoughts on this book when your done with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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