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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
![]() For as I Lay dying, I have a trauma since reading Beckett. Later... | ||
packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On January 04 2015 01:51 corumjhaelen wrote: I have a huge problem with the Sound of Fury : there is somewhere in my parents' house a copy of it which I haven't been able to find among the ca. 2500 books there are for the past month ![]() For as I Lay dying, I have a trauma since reading Beckett. Later... As I Lay Dying isn't even that incomprehensible. Some of the scenes kind of don't make sense, but for the most part the story actually made sense and everything. | ||
dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
I still prefer Hemingway though, especially The Old Man and the Sea. | ||
packrat386
United States5077 Posts
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
And I've finally found a respected author who seems to love parenthesis as much as I do. This is Christmas I swear. | ||
Zergneedsfood
United States10671 Posts
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
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Zergneedsfood
United States10671 Posts
It might be in another one of Kafka's short story collections, that I'll have to look around for when I have the time. | ||
dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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peanuts
United States1225 Posts
On January 03 2015 19:02 GhandiEAGLE wrote: ![]() I make sure to re-read this at least once a year. Big fan of biographies and detailed historical settings, so DKG (and, while totally irrelevant, Haruki Murakami) has been a big source of books for me. I also really liked The Bully Pulpit, which was on Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Ditto on this one. Got to hang out with Tony Kushner for a few days my senior year of high school and he praised the book to no end. I went to Gettysburg College and one of my professors was the same way. Figure I ought to actually read it at this point. Grabbed my copy from the library yesterday. | ||
Zergneedsfood
United States10671 Posts
On January 06 2015 04:36 dmnum wrote: Thanks for the heads up. I'll start with that then. Ah I'd start with Letter to His Father then. Once you read it Kafka's fiction becomes much more meaningful. | ||
imre
France9263 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21242 Posts
On January 06 2015 04:45 bookwyrm wrote: ![]() ![]() Three Body Problem was incredibly underwhelming. I kinda went into it with somewhat high expectations considering the intriguing premise and all the raving reviews hailing it as the zenith of Chinese sci-fi and such, but it was kinda meh. Still haven't gotten around to reading the rest of the trilogy yet, though from what I understand it's capable of standing alone. | ||
KNICK
Germany248 Posts
![]() After turning the last page of A Dance with Dragons and now desperately trying to master telepathy so I can order GRRM to finish The Winds of Winter faster, I decided to start reading the Gap Cycle by Stephen R. Donaldson in the meantime. I immediately ordered the other four books after getting halfway through this one. It's a pretty bleak and violent story with strong characters, excellent world-building and so far it's thankfully not too heavy on the hard sci-fi. From reviews I've read that the series gets better with every book, so I've got something to look forward to, because I'm already loving the introductory one. | ||
Glowsphere
United States170 Posts
![]() Picked this up randomly from used book store. Really enjoyable... the treatment is scholarly yet still presented in an easily readable narrative. It reveals a complex character in Saigo Takamori, and gives a view of Japan's transition into a modern state. | ||
bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
On January 06 2015 23:59 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: Three Body Problem was incredibly underwhelming. I kinda went into it with somewhat high expectations considering the intriguing premise and all the raving reviews hailing it as the zenith of Chinese sci-fi and such, but it was kinda meh. Still haven't gotten around to reading the rest of the trilogy yet, though from what I understand it's capable of standing alone. I'm about 200 pages in, and so far I think it's great. I would definitely teach this book | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
we'll speak again when I'm done | ||
bookwyrm
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