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On February 23 2013 02:13 dmnum wrote:
Well, I bought the first three novels of Raymond Chandler, but it's going to take a while until delivery, so I went to the book store and found The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Just started it, and so far it's very promising.
Karamazov is one of the greatest things I've ever read.
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Finished reading The Road by McCarthy a bit ago. Takes place in a world where the earth has been ravaged, and a man and his young son are trying to survive. Considering nothing much happens the whole book I feel like I should've been disappointed, yet I wasn't.
Starting on the Hobbit now, should be a fast read, but when I do have free time nowadays I find myself putting reading on the back burner so might be a while.
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On February 23 2013 02:25 Jonoman92 wrote:
Finished reading The Road by McCarthy a bit ago. Takes place in a world where the earth has been ravaged, and a man and his young son are trying to survive. Considering nothing much happens the whole book I feel like I should've been disappointed, yet I wasn't.
Starting on the Hobbit now, should be a fast read, but when I do have free time nowadays I find myself putting reading on the back burner so might be a while.
I too felt like I should be disappointed but I aboslutely loved that book. The relationship between the boy and the man is simply incredible. McCarthy is the best fiction writer alive the way he describes the darkness is amazing.
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On February 23 2013 02:13 dmnum wrote:
Well, I bought the first three novels of Raymond Chandler, [...]
Oh, I envy you quite a bit. Have fun. 
For my part, I've recently read:
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Which is a near-future noir mystery that owes quite a bit to Chandler. (Speaking of.)
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On February 23 2013 02:16 ohsea.toc wrote:Show nested quote +On February 22 2013 18:27 Azera wrote:
Are there any good books told in first-person where the protagonist dies but the story still continues for a bit? Any such recommendation is a spoiler, still: + Show Spoiler +though not in first person, The Metamorphosis by Kafka runs a little like this. Well worth the read.
oh say! ohsea, long time no see
Azera, I wrote a story like that in 9th grade but you can't read it. HA!
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Holy shit, ohsea.toc is back! Woo!
Thanks for the recommendations btw
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I can't justify this question with a dedicated thread, and I figured a well established thread full of book lovers would be a good place to ask: Does anyone know what's up with location names being edited in some novels? I just re-read Pride and Prejudice, and am now reading Crime and Punishment and every once in a while there will be a name of a place edited out, or missing for some other reason. In P&P it appears whenever a reference is made to the Bennet's county of ----shire. It's always written "---shire", and in C&P often there are street names that are written "V-----" or what have you. In both novels there are numerous examples of other places not being edited such as Derbyshire, Merryton, etc, and Petersburg, etc in C&P. What's up with this? This has been bugging me for years! I haven't been able to dig anything up online after hours of searching.
P.S.:
Please tell me someone has read/is reading Revelation Space?! PLEASE! It's so good.
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On February 22 2013 18:27 Azera wrote:
Are there any good books told in first-person where the protagonist dies but the story still continues for a bit?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Posthumous_Memoirs_of_Bras_Cubas
The main character is already dead when the book starts.
The novel is narrated by the dead protagonist Brás Cubas, who tells his own life story from beyond the grave, noting his mistakes and failed romances. (...) ) Cubas decides to tell his story starting from the end (the passage of his death, ironically caused by pneumonia after inventing the "Emplasto Brás Cubas", a supposedly revolutionary medicine), then taking "the greatest leap in this story", proceeding to tell the story of his life since his childhood.
It is a very important writer for brazilian literature, is a little funny and very good to read, but not so big.
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On February 23 2013 20:41 Kommatiazo wrote:I can't justify this question with a dedicated thread, and I figured a well established thread full of book lovers would be a good place to ask: Does anyone know what's up with location names being edited in some novels? I just re-read Pride and Prejudice, and am now reading Crime and Punishment and every once in a while there will be a name of a place edited out, or missing for some other reason. In P&P it appears whenever a reference is made to the Bennet's county of ----shire. It's always written "---shire", and in C&P often there are street names that are written "V-----" or what have you. In both novels there are numerous examples of other places not being edited such as Derbyshire, Merryton, etc, and Petersburg, etc in C&P. What's up with this? This has been bugging me for years! I haven't been able to dig anything up online after hours of searching. P.S.: Please tell me someone has read/is reading Revelation Space?! PLEASE! It's so good.
As far as I know, at least concerning Dostoevsky, it is done for places and names that are not important for the story, in a way not wishing to 'force' the attention of the reader into a name. But then again, I could be wrong.
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Ive been searching for Dagger and Coin for a while... Don't think it's been translated to spanish T.T
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Finished:
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I had read this before. It is even better than I remembered. Strongly recommended!
Reading:
Two things in parallel:
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This is the next text in the collection I am reading.
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This is a collection of short stories. The texts are translated by the same guy that invested six years (!) into translating Infinite Jest. That translation is so good that he won several awards for it. I want to read it one day, but since it has more than 1500 pages in German, that will have to wait until I have enough time (which might e never...).
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The best story about vengeance ever told. Great book, and not a paragraph wasted. Currently re-reading because of a new dutch translation.
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On February 22 2013 17:08 sam!zdat wrote:![[image loading]](http://jacketupload.macmillanusa.com/jackets/high_res/jpgs/9780812515282.jpg) edit:@below Show nested quote +On February 22 2013 17:11 Cambium wrote:
Standing on Zanzibar, Dune series, and possibly Red Mars and more Dan Simmons. nice taste (it's Stand on Zanzibar, though, so no one gets confused. John Brunner is a recent new favorite of mine!
This, SO much this. Im glad someone else finally recommends A Fire Upon the Deep, such a great book. MUCH better than Hyperion, at least IMO. I haven't read A Deepness in the Sky yet, but others say its on par, I think i'll give it a try although im somewhat disappointed with the reviews his third book "children of the sky" received. Also, i really need to read Dune, everyone recommends it idk what keeps holding me back from it. Maybe because I remember the movie as not being so good....
As far as Red Mars, another book lots of people recommend, is it slow paced? I had to trudge through Hyperion which imo is overrated and I'm not looking forward to doing it again.
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Finished Snow Crash a few days ago. Really thought the whole neurolinguistic virus idea was so cool.
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Now plan to read The Diamond Age b/c I liked Snow Crash so much.
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@HeavenS - yeah, I'm enjoying Fire on the Deep so far. Vinge is no stylist, but the world is really cool.
On February 25 2013 03:05 HeavenS wrote:
As far as Red Mars, another book lots of people recommend, is it slow paced?
Red Mars is slow-paced kinda like amazing sex is slow-paced.
@ilikestarcraft - Diamond Age is even better than Snow Crash :D
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Want to get back into reading. And exercising, looking for a job, studying and generally keeping my shit together.
This is what I try to get back to reading, whenever I manage to pull myself off of this electronic cocaine that is my computer.
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Originally a campaign for a swedish RPG (apparently one of the best campaigns in the world, up there with Masks of Nyarlathotep). Which turned into a book, Which turned into a stand alone RPG. Waiting for someone to announce the computer game and movie any day now.
EDIT: Resized.
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On February 23 2013 00:17 corumjhaelen wrote:............ ![[image loading]](https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSme0ioiLM6UkWEZ2dUXXpvbrZXQCxsbrBzfPB6_D2AW4FlMXru) Looks really interesting. Probably too modern for me though :p Not sure by which one I'll start though. Oh and I've picked up a translation of Ulysses, but I'll try to wait for sam and the others
Read it a few days ago, really enjoyed it! It starts out rather scholarlike but segues into a more conventional story later on. Has anyone read anything else of Herman Hesse?
Now reading:
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About Aldous Huxley's experiences with mescaline and how it relates to art and religion. Not that exciting so far, some interesting passages perhaps.
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I'm at about two third of it, and it's a really strange book for me, I'm not sure where he's getting at. Really really interesting anyway.
I do feel not having read Wilhem Meister before is a problem though.
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