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On June 07 2014 07:25 bookwyrm wrote:
I'm sorry you started with 1Q84, that book is a complete failure IMO
Some of his short stories are very brilliant. "The Second Bakery Attack" in particular is a masterpiece. I also recommend _A Wild Sheep Chase_
Ugh... I liked the first 200 pages or so of 1Q84. But it just won't end and is getting rather repetitive and boring. Trying to finish it now. I liked Norwegian Wood a lot though. Will still give his other work a shot at some point since I hear good things about it.
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Just finished part one of 1Q84 last night. It's repetetive, yes. Even more if you've read his other books, since he's reusing the same framework again. Still, I think he's very good at describing intimacy between people, and the sex scenes are touching.
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My favourite Murakami is Dance Dance Dance and Sputnik Sweetheart.
Currently reading A Wild Sheep Chase and enjoying it so far.
I haven't read 1Q84 but I've read pretty much all of the others, and can recommend them all!
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So I cannot get my Ismail Kadare novel or any books for that matter because I have to save up money for L.A. =/
Instead, I have been torrenting Great Courses and listening to them while I watch fighting games or Brood War VODs.
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I read 1Q84 when it came out. I thought it was a bit of a chore in part 2, but I enjoyed part 3. It is also the only Murakami I have read.
I finished reading Brothers Karamazov last weekend. It's funny because I really want to read some analysis and learn about the history of the time period so I can get a better understanding, but when I search in Google I tend to find a lot of hits for stuff like Sparknotes and other related websites on how to pass your summer reading course or whatever.
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10% Happier by Dan Harris
Sycamore Row by John Grisham
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Delphi is dope. This stuff is fascinating
On June 11 2014 03:37 kainzero wrote:
I finished reading Brothers Karamazov last weekend. It's funny because I really want to read some analysis and learn about the history of the time period so I can get a better understanding, but when I search in Google I tend to find a lot of hits for stuff like Sparknotes and other related websites on how to pass your summer reading course or whatever.
do you have access to Jstor?
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On June 11 2014 04:12 bookwyrm wrote:
Delphi is dope. This stuff is fascinating
When I saw the book cover I thought it was one of the subject I most wanted to read about :D
Quite a fewq stuff on my side, but will update a bit later so that I post more than a one liner 
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I'm writing a paper which is about the oracle in Herodotus and Sophocles (among other things, it's also about Macbeth and Philip Dick). It's really complicated. Delphi became this super important place for Greek politics and people are always fighting over it and stuff, Herodotus is an apologist for the oracle (and he got a lot of his information at Delphi anyway) but when Sophocles is writing Oedipus Tyrannus the oracle is a Spartan puppet and so the Athenians are really ambivalent about it. It's really complicated trying to figure out exactly what the oracle was and how it functioned and why it mattered so much. I highly recommend this book though.
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The "fly to the world's end" is strange in Herodotus. I think some people accused an Alcmeonides of buyind the oracle to get back to Athens and throw away the Pisistratides. And yeah, Thucydides seems to think of him as a spartian puppet indeed, even if it's always hard to guess what he is really thinking. Fascinating indeed, I'll buy it I think 
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On June 06 2014 00:12 lungic wrote:Show nested quote +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.....
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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?
Yeah the series was more of the same. It was nice for summer time reading. I had a fun little adventure with the trilogy but I think it a wise move to stop at the third one, which he has done.
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I ended up reading another Bukowski. I should stop reading Bukowski soon, feels like I've been reading nothing but him for a long while.
Either way, it's Factotum, another sort of biographical novel about Henry Chinaski. It's a really good read that focuses more on Chinaski's mental health than it does on what goes on around him.
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On May 25 2014 08:00 123Gurke wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2014 06:19 zulu_nation8 wrote:
every book in this thread has been english course text books or fantasy ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JbIZQemhL._SL500_.jpg) Better?
Finished this. I like how not straightforward it was. Chandler meanders through several hundred pages and until the end - even after the crimes are solved - it is not clear how everything is connected and what really happened. Also this book is quite different from the other Chandler books because Marlowe is not so hard-boiled. I do not even remember him beating someone up.
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On June 11 2014 04:12 bookwyrm wrote:Show nested quote +On June 11 2014 03:37 kainzero wrote:
I finished reading Brothers Karamazov last weekend. It's funny because I really want to read some analysis and learn about the history of the time period so I can get a better understanding, but when I search in Google I tend to find a lot of hits for stuff like Sparknotes and other related websites on how to pass your summer reading course or whatever. do you have access to Jstor?
Unfortunately, no. Is that where they put academic papers?
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On June 12 2014 04:14 kainzero wrote:Show nested quote +On June 11 2014 04:12 bookwyrm wrote:On June 11 2014 03:37 kainzero wrote:
I finished reading Brothers Karamazov last weekend. It's funny because I really want to read some analysis and learn about the history of the time period so I can get a better understanding, but when I search in Google I tend to find a lot of hits for stuff like Sparknotes and other related websites on how to pass your summer reading course or whatever. do you have access to Jstor? Unfortunately, no. Is that where they put academic papers?
yes. behind the great paywall in the sky  It's a bunch of fucking bullshit, seeing as the people producing that nonsense are all on the public payroll
I believe if you go there you can still browse through abstracts and such. Then there is just a glimmering possibility that someone on this site might be able to get the pdfs and email them to you...
http://www.jstor.org/
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On June 12 2014 04:14 kainzero wrote:Show nested quote +On June 11 2014 04:12 bookwyrm wrote:On June 11 2014 03:37 kainzero wrote:
I finished reading Brothers Karamazov last weekend. It's funny because I really want to read some analysis and learn about the history of the time period so I can get a better understanding, but when I search in Google I tend to find a lot of hits for stuff like Sparknotes and other related websites on how to pass your summer reading course or whatever. do you have access to Jstor? Unfortunately, no. Is that where they put academic papers?
See if you can get the last volume of Dostoyevsky's biography(The Mantle Of the Prophet) by Joseph Frank. That should help you.
If you don't want to read get the abridged version(Dostoevsky: A Writer in his Time) and read the parts concerning TBK.
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I'm also reading the Brothers Karamazov at the moment. The Grand Inquisitor and the Zosima parts were pretty amazing. I struggle a little with some of the dialogues though. They tend to be a little bit confusing and not that interesting, especially the ones around this Grunshenka/Katherina/Dmitri storyline.
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On June 12 2014 05:12 dmnum wrote:Show nested quote +On June 12 2014 04:14 kainzero wrote:On June 11 2014 04:12 bookwyrm wrote:On June 11 2014 03:37 kainzero wrote:
I finished reading Brothers Karamazov last weekend. It's funny because I really want to read some analysis and learn about the history of the time period so I can get a better understanding, but when I search in Google I tend to find a lot of hits for stuff like Sparknotes and other related websites on how to pass your summer reading course or whatever. do you have access to Jstor? Unfortunately, no. Is that where they put academic papers? See if you can get the last volume of Dostoyevsky's biography(The Mantle Of the Prophet) by Joseph Frank. That should help you. If you don't want to read get the abridged version(Dostoevsky: A Writer in his Time) and read the parts concerning TBK.
Oh wow, that is long. I guess I'll just put it on the list and get to it later.
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On June 12 2014 09:14 kainzero wrote:Show nested quote +On June 12 2014 05:12 dmnum wrote:On June 12 2014 04:14 kainzero wrote:On June 11 2014 04:12 bookwyrm wrote:On June 11 2014 03:37 kainzero wrote:
I finished reading Brothers Karamazov last weekend. It's funny because I really want to read some analysis and learn about the history of the time period so I can get a better understanding, but when I search in Google I tend to find a lot of hits for stuff like Sparknotes and other related websites on how to pass your summer reading course or whatever. do you have access to Jstor? Unfortunately, no. Is that where they put academic papers? See if you can get the last volume of Dostoyevsky's biography(The Mantle Of the Prophet) by Joseph Frank. That should help you. If you don't want to read get the abridged version(Dostoevsky: A Writer in his Time) and read the parts concerning TBK. Oh wow, that is long. I guess I'll just put it on the list and get to it later.
Yeah but TBK only takes 3 chapters in the abridged version, so it's not too long.
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