Chris’s Comments (group member since Feb 01, 2011)

Chris’s comments from the Around the World in Books group.

Somebody beat us to it ... but left a helpful list behind:

http://ayearofreadingtheworld.com/the...

I really like the look of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle.

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

The winner of the poll for the book to read from China is the (slightly misleadingly titled) Walking Home from Mongolia by Rob Lilwall.

Feel free to share your thoughts on this thread :)

The poll for China is now live at https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/4...

Please get your votes in before 15th Jan.

Only a few chapters in to The Tin Drum, but it's got me hooked already. It's very witty:

" 'Well, I knew it would be a boy, even if sometimes I said it would be a little lass.'

Thus prematurely acquainted with feminine logic, I heard the following: 'When little Oskar is three years old, we'll give him a tin drum.' "

The way this group works is we pick one country per month and read a book from that country. I don't think we've 'visited' China yet.

But these look like good suggestions, so let's read a book from China in January.

So, if everybody could suggest books they'd like to read, I'll put them into a poll near the end of the month.

The winner of the poll for the from Germany was The Tin Drum, closely followed by The Book Thief. So both will be December's reads.

If you want to share your opinions, good or bad, favourite quotes or anything else - this is the place to do it.

Enjoy!

Poll now live at Germany Poll

Lets throw in a few more suggestions before the poll goes up then...

Gunter Grass The Tin Drum
Herman Hesse The Glass Bead Game
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust
The Brothers Grimm The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
Timur Vermes He's Back

Sorry, yes, November 9th.

Thanks for the book suggestions

Hi all

Very sorry about the inactivity in the group for a while. We haven't read any books from a country beginning with G yet, so let's kick things off with a book from Germany next.

Please get in any suggestions of books you'd like to read by Satuday 9th Oct, and then I'll put the suggestions up fo a vote in a poll.

Cheers
Chris

Looking forward to reading this... Though - it wasn't in my local library so I ordered it online. Didn't realise it was coming from the States - so wont arrive til 5th May dammit!

I'd like to suggest The Savage Detectives based on the strength of a friend's recommendation.

If I'm not too late, I'd like to vote for Admiring Silence please.

I'm all for selecting the runner up!

Oh also... that chapter with the storm was another of the better ones :)

Probably both, Ricardo! The prose is admittedly poor throughout, but the first third of the book is dull on top of that. I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it to anybody, but as it's such a short read, I don't feel like it cheated me of time lost.

I wouldn't say I loved it but it did grow on me as I read it. There were a few standout chapters (The Neighbour and Midsummer), but generally it was a little too twee and sentimental for me to really enjoy.

That being said, the island - and others around it - sounds like my idea of paradise!

I like the look of The Zanzibar Chest by Aiden Hartley

Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe by Jane Goodall

And Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard

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