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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
On June 05 2014 02:30 Boblion wrote: It was in a magazine/newspaper or on the internet ? (link pls). It was in le monde, luckily one of their blogger still has it : http://aboudjaffar.blog.lemonde.fr/2009/05/25/au-sujet-de-la-reponse-de-julien-coupat-au-monde-encore-un-radical-qui-nassume-pas/ | ||
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
- On a completely different note: I'm on college recess, so I finally have time to read À la recherche du temps perdu. | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
![[image loading]](https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1349002634l/871706.jpg) edit: oh this book is great | ||
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TOCHMY
Sweden1692 Posts
"The 'world' - the world always makes me think of a tortoise and elephants tirelessly supporting a gigantic disc. The elephants have no knowledge of the tortoise's role, the tortoise unable to see what the elephants are doing. And neither is the least aware of the world on their backs." The book was released 1982 in Japan, the year before Colors of Magic was released. However, A Wild Sheep Chase wasn't translated to English until 1989. I doubt that Pratchett could read Japanese. Maybe something happened around 82-83 that both authors drew inspiration from. Or it's a huge coincidence. This is fascinating for me as a huge fan of both authors! | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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Wesso
Netherlands1245 Posts
On June 05 2014 16:16 TOCHMY wrote: I found something interesting yesterday in Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase . "The 'world' - the world always makes me think of a tortoise and elephants tirelessly supporting a gigantic disc. The elephants have no knowledge of the tortoise's role, the tortoise unable to see what the elephants are doing. And neither is the least aware of the world on their backs." The book was released 1982 in Japan, the year before Colors of Magic was released. However, A Wild Sheep Chase wasn't translated to English until 1989. I doubt that Pratchett could read Japanese. Maybe something happened around 82-83 that both authors drew inspiration from. Or it's a huge coincidence. This is fascinating for me as a huge fan of both authors! It's an old Hindu myth apparently: "The combination of tortoise and elephant is present in John Locke's 1690 tract An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, which references an "Indian who said the world was on an elephant which was on a tortoise "." | ||
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TOCHMY
Sweden1692 Posts
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
On June 04 2014 22:35 Boblion wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Insurrection Surprisingly good for lefties. Never bothered to read it before but it was quite interesting. Still a a lot of self-hate, way too much "we" and snobbery (they refuse to be called lefties lol). Looks like a good preview of "their" future. I somewhat enjoyed the analyzis of the utter meaningless of the slave life tho (it's very Baudrillesque !) and how even lefties can make fun of other lefties lol. Alas their solutions are utterly retarded as always and the two last chapters are atrocious to read. Recommended for our dear comrad Sam ! Igne and farvacola should also read it because they aren't edgy enough yet. (They are still talking about wages, GDP, unemployement and all the perverted capitalist concepts duh) Glenn Beck recommends it. How can it be bad? | ||
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farvacola
United States18843 Posts
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lungic
Sweden123 Posts
On June 04 2014 04:49 FuDDx wrote: last week and a half I have read Prince of Thorns King of Thorns Emperor of Thorns By Mark Lawrence I enjoyed them. If I were to try to describe them Id say a mix of Salvatore meets George R R Martian kinda..... ... Just finished Prince of Thorns a week ago. It was, interesting. Not a masterpiece, could've been a bit less simplistic at places, but still definitely worth a read. Perhaps one could call it "Easy reading dystopian fantasy featuring a destructive personality"? How was King of Thorns? More of the same I'd guess? | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
If anyone else has an opinion, I'm interested in it. | ||
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farvacola
United States18843 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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ahw
Canada1099 Posts
Anyway, I do enjoy his writing, would anyone suggest going after 'wind up bird' or some of his short stories next? | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
Some of his short stories are very brilliant. "The Second Bakery Attack" in particular is a masterpiece. I also recommend _A Wild Sheep Chase_ | ||
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On June 03 2014 23:15 farvacola wrote: Haha indeed. People have asked me what I like about the book and my response of "it's like the Bible but for Middle-Earth." Doesn't seem to win many people over  I've had the same issue. (Its seriously my favorite book though). As for comparisons to the bible, its certainly the bible of its own genre, anything fantasy based from GRRM to Dungeons and Dragons draws heavily on Tolkien. | ||
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lungic
Sweden123 Posts
When I read Silmarillion, I think I had a hard time taking it all in in it's written from, and I think that by studying the plotline for years, improved my understanding of great (read: big) the story is. Then upon realising that the Fëanor storyline is progressed over a couple of hundred pages, and in comparison the Ring line is like three pages long, what we could've had had Tolkien lived for another 200 years. It almost turns into a "you can't see the forest for all the trees" situation. But the forest is a most haunting beauty, even if one only get's to get a glimpse of it. As for the bestiary, I really don't like the illustrations, but the book itself is a pretty nice summary of Tolkiens works. ![[image loading]](https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1385206578l/7345.jpg) | ||
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