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Quote: Originally Posted by Chilly Didn't you spell Julius Caesar wrong? Also, this list is awesome and pretty accurate to my own opinion. LOL, I didn't mispell it, whoever nominated it did, I just copy and pasted the nominations when compliling my list. Though I suppose I should have double checked.

Quote: Originally Posted by bohn I am now reading 1984 - Orwell. Thoroughly enjoyed reading 1984. Now reading Howards End by Forster.

I am reading now Namesake by an Indian writer. This book is about migrants and the sufferings they undergo in fact. Life is really difficult for all of them. They are treated as second-rate citizens and the kind of social, political discrimination against them. I like the book. Since I am also an Asian and I empathize with all those Asians who are getting inflictions in the west. __________________ I am a poet and live the way a poet does A...

Madame Bovary

I am just starting Grendel by John Gardner. When I asked the lady at our local used book store if they had Grendel she got very excited and raved about how much she loved it. Encouraging. I am also about half way through Roots by Alex Haley (audio book).

XD I'm reading Crime and Punishment after Slaughter-House 5. The Picture of Dorian Gray can wait.

Currently reading Cockroach by Rawi Hage. I try to get in some contemporary can-lit at least once a year

People, Places and Books by Gilbert Highet. Marlfox by Brian Jacques

It is a lot of fun. __________________ When I was your age, I was dumb too.

I'm reading the "Never Let Me Go" by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. "Never Let Me Go (2005) is a novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize (an award Ishiguro had previously won in 1989 for The Remains of the Day), for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. Time magazine named it the best novel of 2005 and included the novel...