What are you reading tonight DU? I'm reading James A. Mitchener's "Hawaii". About missionaries so

far. I like it.

Or, rather,

Михаил Булгаков, Мастер и Маргарита

Reading it again. This time in Russian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita

everywhere, must have read it 3 or 4 times out of sheer boredom. I enjoyed it a lot, and I think you will as well.


mark

Unless, of course, you're reading the cliff-notes version...that is one chunky book.

And It is a really great read..

Tikki

I read most of them as a teenager. He always had good strong female characters, & I learned a little history too.

read his "New York" which I liked a lot, now I try "London".

The Forest--not so much. :)

dg

some of my relatives were missionaries to the Sandwich Islands. I think another one of them may have been President there, I cannot remember for sure now. Michener said that he liked to do research and include lots of facts in his books, so that the reader was learning something, and not just pleasantly killing time.

...just once

Starring the F2H2 Banshee:

It takes a while, especially if you don't have the names of every flower ever grown in England memorized.

Funny thing is, I joked the other day about her being the Stephen King of her generation (critics thought she was just a pop fiction writer). The more I read this book, the more convinced I am that Stephen King deliberately modeled himself after her writing. He uses the same methods of building suspense, of introducing mysteries early in the book, of using intense descriptive passages to delay the culmination of a scene... Aside from differences in linguistic conventions and semi-scary monsters, they are very similar writers.

But I will finish it. To the last I will grapple with it; from hell’s heart I will stab at it; for hate’s sake I will sped my last breath reading it.

It's my third, Mitchener. I plugged through, The Source, and, The Covenant. Each took me about a year because there is so much to digest. I have, Hawaii, around here somewhere. Maybe next year?

and they are worth re-reading...he is good for a few years.

Enjoy, AG!

mark

That was one of my favorite Michener books by far.

"A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute