GR Magazine discussion

You have a book that you keep meaning to read and somehow keep putting it off until after you read another. What is that book?

I've got quite a few on my shelves: "The Complete Essays of Mark Twain," "Lolita," "Doctor Zhivago" to name 3.

As good as "Doctor Zhivago" is it isn't exactly an easy read. I must have put it away three times before finally finished it. Right now I'm trying to get through "Little Dorrit" by Charles Dickens. The fact that it's 844 pages long doesn't make it any easier.

"Oliver Twist" was sitting in my bookcase for years before I read it this summer. I found it to be pretty good but I don't really love Dickens as much as most people do. "A Christmas Carol" is by far my favorite of the Dickens books that I've read.

Michael Frayn, Headlong, which has been on my iPad for a while now and which is getting read this week, finally, now that I'm between semesters. Loved Skios. he can be really really funny, but a good writer,

A book on Alexander, the Great. I promised myself to read at least one historically significant personality every three months, but it's still unfinished. Too much to do, so much to read, too little time. :(

Brendan wrote: "A book on Alexander, the Great. I promised myself to read at least one historically significant personality every three months, but it's still unfinished. Too much to do, so much to read, too littl..."
I've got a book on Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman that I bought about a month ago. I was just about to begin it when I decided to read Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals" instead.

I read "Alexander The Great" a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed it. It was a well-researched, well-written history of the greatest general of all-time.