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imre
France9263 Posts
On March 02 2014 06:59 123Gurke wrote: Oh, those are both so good! Reading: ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZXDZfpY0L._.jpg) I am expecting much from this. Recommended by my mother whose advice on books I trust blindly. that book was soooooooo good, i generally like what Marquez wrote but it was like on a whole other level than most of his work. | ||
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ZapRoffo
United States5544 Posts
Now reading Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin which is very intriguing and I feel like should be a more well known classic. | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
Now I'm reading some short stories by the latter aforementioned author, and tomorrow I'm going to start working on the rest of Kafka's ouevre(I have not read Amerika and some of his short stories - especially looking forward to A Hunger Artist) and The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares. | ||
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Salteador Neo
Andorra5591 Posts
On March 05 2014 08:31 Qwyn wrote: Words of motherfucking Radiance, oh my god! Just finished the Prologue, and at the end, a single manly tear fell from my eye. Everything about this book, my god! I haven't been this excited, since, well,...the Way of Kings? Jasnah Kholin <3. Holy crap o.o I don't know if I'm gonna have the patience to wait until they translate it to spanish. Omfg hype. | ||
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
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elt
Thailand1092 Posts
On March 06 2014 16:24 WindWolf wrote: I'm trying to find time to wrap up Robin Hobbs Blood of Dragons currently. It's been a really good so far. I've read the first three but somehow the wait and the not-so-favourable lingering opinion I have of the first three means I never got around to it. Then again I'm probably doing Hobb and injustice given her ability to wrap up series. Just about done with my re-read of The Last Light of the Sun. A lot better than I remembered it to be, but that's probably because the first time I read I was in the middle of a a Guy Gavriel Kay burning through all of his books. Next will definitely by Words of Radiance. | ||
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
On March 06 2014 17:03 elt wrote: I've read the first three but somehow the wait and the not-so-favourable lingering opinion I have of the first three means I never got around to it. Then again I'm probably doing Hobb and injustice given her ability to wrap up series. Have you read the Liveship Traders Trilogy first? Rainwild Chronicles gets so much better if you have read those books first. What happened in Liveship does have an impact in Rainwild. | ||
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elt
Thailand1092 Posts
On March 06 2014 17:07 WindWolf wrote: Have you read the Liveship Traders Trilogy first? Rainwild Chronicles gets so much better if you have read those books first. What happened in Liveship does have an impact in Rainwild. I've read the Liveship traders. It wasn't exactly my favourite among the books she's written though. I'm dreading and excited in equal parts for Fool's Assassin though. | ||
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
On March 06 2014 17:25 elt wrote: I've read the Liveship traders. It wasn't exactly my favourite among the books she's written though. I'm dreading and excited in equal parts for Fool's Assassin though. I've only read Liveship Traders and Rainwild Chronicles. But on the other hand I do have some interest in marine themes, (I used to scuba dive and I was a part of sea scouts) | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On March 07 2014 10:29 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: I finally read Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, and it really exceeded all expectations. Such a great book. | ||
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Enki
United States2548 Posts
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/AFeastForCrows.jpg) A Feast For Crows - Was Surprised to say I enjoyed this. Some parts were a bit slow but I pretty much flew through this book. I think after this I can confidently say I want to continue to series. ![[image loading]](http://thescifichristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/batman-noel-cover-embed.jpg) Batman: Noel - The art is really good but I can't say I really enjoyed the story...seemed pretty short and ended just as quick. Hopefully Black Mirror is better. Reading Now: ![[image loading]](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/2012/10/total_recall_arnold_book_cover.jpg) Total Recall - The Arnold biography. So far just got the part where he starts toward his movie career after he retires from weightlifting. Pretty cool, learned a lot about his childhood and even some back-round stuff from the Pumping Iron documentary that I watched awhile back. Interesting stuff. Reading Next: Dunno yet. Been thinking of reading one of the Murakami books that I got for Christmas. | ||
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
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lungic
Sweden123 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
In addition, I thought everything was just achingly sad, and how a sense of loss permeated every aspect of the novel. You're never sure of the exact source of this sense of sadness and loss, and it is only as you read more do you go from a state of ignorance to partial knowledge, much in the same way a child learns more of the world around himself as he grows up. Even in the end, however, a lot is left unsaid and unexplored, much in the same way that we can never claim perfect knowledge of our circumstances. The part of the novel l that I liked the most was, as I implied, not the actual story, but the way it explored childhood, and more importantly, our perceptions of childhood, and the growth of knowledge and loss of innocence, so to speak. | ||
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On March 08 2014 04:27 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: I found the core story of Never Let Me Go a bit bland, but was really taken in by the way Ishiguro described childhood and the past through the narrator. I really related with the way the narrator looked into the past to re-examine childhood friendships, obsessions, and memories. In addition, I thought everything was just achingly sad, and how a sense of loss permeated every aspect of the novel. You're never sure of the exact source of this sense of sadness and loss, and it is only as you read more do you go from a state of ignorance to partial knowledge, much in the same way a child learns more of the world around himself as he grows up. Even in the end, however, a lot is left unsaid and unexplored, much in the same way that we can never claim perfect knowledge of our circumstances. The part of the novel l that I liked the most was, as I implied, not the actual story, but the way it explored childhood, and more importantly, our perceptions of childhood, and the growth of knowledge and loss of innocence, so to speak. I also really enjoyed the sense that something was wrong and sad throughout the whole novel. It was sort of strange that there seems to be this sense of impending doom hanging over the group the whole time, but nobody knows why. I think that was part of why I liked it so much. That and the fact that I love a good tragedy, and it was, as you said, "achingly sad". | ||
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lungic
Sweden123 Posts
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On March 08 2014 04:50 lungic wrote: Thank you both for your insights, much appreciated, I'll going to ponder it a bit and see if I can appreciate it more from that point of view. I mean, if you don't like it you aren't wrong or anything. People have different taste in books and thats ok. | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
And since I'm a sucker for the melancholy, I adore stories like this :3 | ||
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se7en247
United States487 Posts
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