What are you reading? - Page 7

Originally Posted by rdawson808

I am firmly of the opinion that this is one of the top 5 books ever written by humankind. I first read it my senior year in high school and have tried to read it every spring since. Some years I never got around to it, but I still have a pretty good record over these last 17 years.

Originally Posted by dr.no

I just started Lolita based on the "If you only had one book to read" thread. Already ordering The Defense for next week.

Originally Posted by dr.no

I just started Lolita based on the "If you only had one book to read" thread. Already ordering The Defense for next week.

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

Add "Pale Fire" and you've pretty much got Nabokov down. The rest of his stuff is just filling in the gaps - albeit with often brilliant filler.

Originally Posted by DocHolliday

Possibly the finest closing line in literature. Say what you will about Hemingway, I think he can rest his reputation on that one sentence.

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Various Agatha Christie mystries--sort of guilty reading
The Lais of Marie de France.

Originally Posted by DocHolliday

Best opening sentence: "Anna Karenina"

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Various Agatha Christie mystries--sort of guilty reading
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Originally Posted by aportnoy

I would nominate Camus "The Starnger"

"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday. I dont know."

Originally Posted by Manton

"The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay."