The last of the year...

[i_need_the_eggs]

Stuff I've Read: December 2005

Gentlemen's Blood: A History of Dueling by Barbara Holland

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Epicure's Lament by Kate Christensen

1984 by George Orwell

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

Seven Types of Ambiguity by Eliot Perlman

Happy New Year...

Comments

[paperispatient]

Happy New Year, Drew!

[runlowarun]

I've been wanting to read 1984 for awhile and I just checked it out of the library to force myself to get it over with. However, I dread reading it. Is it one of those books that pulls the reader in?

[i_need_the_eggs]

You know that one part in the first Star Wars movie where the Millenium Falcon gets caught in the Death Star's tractor beam and gets dragged into that air hanger? 1984 is a lot like that.

[hippie68chick]

i'm curious: what did you think of the stranger? (all these movies and books... my favorite things to talk about.)

that dueling book looks great.

[i_need_the_eggs]

I really liked The Stranger, although I don't know if I like it more than The Plague. Regardless, the book lived up to its billing.

[hippie68chick]

i'm glad you liked it. i struggled through it in french and loved it, but a lot of people i know who read it in english didn't seem to like it as well. the plague... i keep meaning to get to that. now, the fall, there's a good one.

yeah books! i'm thinking of posting my books list, but i dunno how interesting it would be.

[i_need_the_eggs]

Post the books list! It would be interesting even if the books you read weren't. Just don't do a "Whole Year in Review" list...information overload would most definitely follow.