I geniunely just started the second chapter. I'm lazy and busy with work/fixing cars. Should get alot more read in the next two days... Hopefully.

I am jumping in to report that I have just passed the halfway mark.

You must like it then James

Curling up in a corner. Ignoring the world. Reading Blind Assassin right now. Right. Now.

I really like it, i just haven't set aside time to take a bit chunk out of it. When i started reading it while waiting for an appointment. I started to fly through pages of it.

nvm i was on pg 40 something i think.

I certainly do. The detail is amazing, she describes something almost completely without making me lose interest. I also like how there are kinda 4 stories going at once, yet they're all interesting to read and you don't think "I wish it was another ---- part".

It legitimately is one of my absolute favorite books. I'm about to just go ahead and start it again; I've not read it in five months or so. :)

Anyone done yet? I have the next one picked :)

Ew lmao. Don't rush me. I finally got the book from the lib though. And I read soooommmeeee last night.

Not done yet, will be finsihed by monday hopefully. I read most at the weekends and I have a week off atm.

Complete. What an amazing ending.

New here, book club looks interesting. What's the next read?

Read the first book like everyone else.

Considering I had just joined and wanted to partake in this, is there a deadline to finish this? Because I can pull all nighters if need to be. I already just read the first paragraph and I didn't even want to stop to reply here.

No deadline, no one else is reading it apparently!

Let's read another book.
(Angela's Ashes)

No

I've already read Angela's Ashes and we are not a group of housewives, ****

I couldn't get into it, so I took it back to the library. My bad!

can you recommend something lighter, Clemmy?

i've finished Gravity's Rainbow not long ago, and am not so keen to jump into another spindling yarn

I'm half way through it and loving it.

My copy of the Blind Assassin just came. I'll start it after I'm done what I'm reading now.

Oh yeah I forgot to finish starting that.

umm how about

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?
You guyzzzzzzz.

Okay for anyone else who wants a different book, there's Everything Is Illuminated or these two:

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This is longer and weird

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And this is short and sweet and a fun read.


Digital copies are available to be lent out, just send a PM asking me

YAY-YUHh

Everything is illuminated looks like a bloody excellent book.

Kafka on the shore is pretty brilliant, second favorite by Murakami.

So... if the book changes, Blind Assassin won't be discussed for those who read/almost finished it?

i'll take on the Murakami

Bloody hell, and here I am halfway through the Blind Assassin. Make up your damn minds!

So... what's the book then?

The Giving Tree

Life of Pi

**** off you guys, if you're not going to read any of the books in the first place you don't have the right to suggest a book. Either participate in what's already been picked, or **** off.

The first book is the Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Does it really take someone six months to read a book?

It took me six months to get a copy of the book...

So, near as I can tell, Paloma and I are the only ones who've actually started and finished the Blind Assassin, and I for one would like to talk about it. I don't really know where to start, so I'll just give my general reaction and wing it from there.



Spoilers to follow. I'd have hidden them, but the tags aren't working.






I, for one, was both shocked, and unsurprised by the way the novel resolved. I also found it mildly confusing, and I imagine that a re-reading would shed a whole lot of light. It occurred to me about 3/4 of the way through that "Laura Chase" was telling her sister's story. There was a lot of confusion following this idea, because the Blind Assassin chapters continually flopped two and fro between characters as I read.

I hadn't at all imagined the development involving Richard. I was quite shocked to find that Laura wasn't directly involved with Alex Thomas (the extent to which I still have not completely grasped).



Not a disappointment. I prefer her dystopian works, but even in novels I dislike (f.ex. Alias Grace), Margaret Atwood's prose is stunningly beautiful and always a pleasure to read.

In the back of my mind as I read it the first time I hoped that Iris would be with Alex Thomas, since she was stuck with Richard...Previous experience with Atwood's novels never made me hope for a happy ending, and I was VERY surprised by the fact that she did get her chance at love.

Once the possibility came to me, I hoped for it as well. My experience with Atwood's endings hasn't been that they're unhappy, so much as they're unresolved (though, I tend to lean towards hopeless interpretations).

What of her novels have you read? Have you read them all?

Oh no, not at all. I read quickly, but in short bursts. I've read the Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and Alias Grace as well, only the last of which I found sub par.