What Book Are You Reading Now? Mk II

Fyodor Dostoyevsky -The Brothers Karamazov. It's such a great book. Has anyone else read it?

The Death of Ivan Illyich by Tolstoy.

I love this as well, especially as I am a medical student. Are you enjoying it? Have you read anything else by him? I have read Anna Karenina (possibly my favourite book ever) and War and Peace. I would really like to read more at some point but I have no idea what to go for next now I've read the more 'famous' ones. Think I need to have a look around and get some recommendation in the summer when exams are over. Hope you enjoy it!

I preferred War and Peace to Anna. I suppose I was more interested in the historical aspect of W&P. I quite liked The Kreutzer Sonata, and his short stories are quite an interesting read. (Although Tolstoy isn't someone many people associate with 'short' works )

Yes I read it a few years ago for the TSR book club (I didn't actually read it until about a year after the book club did it, but it was them that made me buy it in the first place. ) It is fantastic!! I am still very grateful to whoever on TSR recommended it, as it was my first Dostoyevsky and my first Russian book, and it really got me started on reading some things that I love. Is this the first time you've read it? Have you read anything else by him? Enjoy!!

This is going to sound so cheesy, but my favourite thing about Tolstoy is how he manages to describe people emotions so perfectly. There are so many times when a character describes exactly how I have felt in a similar situation and it always amazes me that a Russian man who died quite a while ago knows exactly how I am feeling. Other writers come close, but no-one gets it so right as Tolstoy for me. I really like all the relationship stuff in Anna. I also really really loved Natasha, Andrew, Sonia, Nicolas and Pierres romantic dramas in War and Peace, and loved the combination of a really great story with lots of interesting historical stuff. I do get bored in war scenes though, as much as a try to be interested, reading about a load of men running about shooting at each other, and war tactics etc, is not really for me. Some of his historical points were repeated quite a lot too, and that last chapter seemed to be repeating everything he had already repeated many times a few times more! Although I guess Anna has it's share of slow parts, with all of Levin's farming. They are both fantastic though, definitely two of my favourite books, but I think Anna slightly wins for me as there is less war.

Thank you for the recommendation! Will add it to my wish list and hopefully get around to it in the summer.

I know what you mean. I think that's why he's propbably my favourite author - that ability to present 'real people', and present everything about them (which is why it gets so long), so despite there being hundreds of characters, you can see definition in them all. His tangents can be distracting, though; a bit like Hugo in that respect. A fascinating writer.

In the last two days I read:
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
Paper Towns - John Green

The Fault in Our Stars is simply faultless, easily Green's best work to date. The setting, the storyline, the characters are each perfect and envelope the reader. As I read TFiOS First, Paper Towns was somewhat of a come down. Don't get me wrong, the book is great but John's improvement is easily viewed between the two books. I found Paper Towns to be a little slow, and I found some of the scenes in the abandoned Mini-Mall to get boring.

Today i'm reading The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger of course. I hope to get it finished before bed. All I can say is why didn't I read this years ago?
It's a masterpiece.

Can anyone recommend me my next read?