First Book: Kafka's The Trial

Blogger is back! From our emails it seems we've settled on Kafka's The Trial. The following version can be found at B&N or at Borders/Amazon.com:

The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
Franz Kafka, Breon Mitchell, Arthur H. Samuelson (Editor)
Publisher: Schocken (May 25, 1999)

Let's get our hands on it and read the first 53 pages (to round off the chapter, says Anna) by next Monday, June 19th. OK? Please comment some affirmations (objections? modifications?) so I'm not the only person doing this?

Official Format for responses to books:
Book Abbreviation, page number: subject, # response
eg: Trial, p50: I Like This Book, 1

It Is Time.

Underworld by Don DeLillo? This same edition can be found at Amazon (beware, Amazon may be cheaper but it takes 2 weeks to ship!) or B&N. FYI, the thing is ~900 pages long!
Should we maybe start with a shorter book?
Also from the NYTimes list is McCarthy's Blood Meriden (330pp; amazon; b&n) , Roth's American Pastoral (430pp; b&n), Morrison's Beloved (which I've already read), and Updike's Rabbit series (I say we hold off on a a 4-book series).
Of course, we don't have to start with the books with multiple votes. Other books I'd like to read include (in no particular order) Roth's The Human Stain, Morrison's Love, Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, Kafka's The Trial. (Click on the titles to be taken to B&N websites.)
What have you guys been eyeing?

It's time.

We're ready. First book?