EPTIn any case I didn't hate-hate it, but I think I just got it hyped up a lot and it wasn't the mindblowing experience I kinda thought it would be. At any rate I'm still going to read the next two books in the near future when I get around to it.
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21243 Posts
In any case I didn't hate-hate it, but I think I just got it hyped up a lot and it wasn't the mindblowing experience I kinda thought it would be. At any rate I'm still going to read the next two books in the near future when I get around to it. | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
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triangle
United States3803 Posts
![[image loading]](http://feminismandreligion.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/hild.jpg) Really enjoying it so far. 7th century England is fascinating because it bears almost no resemblance to what I thought of medieval England - we're still 4 centuries before William the Conqueror! Definitely one of the best historical fiction novels I've read in a while. | ||
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ZeroChrome
Canada1001 Posts
Now I'm not sure which novel to read next, have The Brothers Karamazov, 1Q84, and Atlas Shrugged sitting on the shelf. | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
I have not read 1Q84 but from what I've heard it's one of Murakami's lesser works. I can vouch for TBK's quality, though. Dostoyevsky's prose is nothing out of this world but his psychological insight and ability to make "edgy" characters seem real and relatable is unparalleled in literature. | ||
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Shiragaku
Hong Kong4308 Posts
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
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ZeroChrome
Canada1001 Posts
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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babylon
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Actually now that I think about it, it's still probably more readable than 75% of the academic writing I read now. | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
They kept their secret from the knowledge of others, not as a shameful guilt, but as a thing that was immaculately theirs, beyond anyone's right of debate or appraisal. She knew the general doctrine on sex, held by people in one form or another, the doctrine that sex was an ugly weakness of man's lower nature, to be condoned regretfully. She experienced an emotion of chastity that made her shrink not from the desires of her body, but from any contact with the minds who held this doctrine. I mean, DOCTRINE ON SEX? Really? And this: "What I feel for you is contempt. But it's nothing compared to the contempt I feel for myself." Who the fuck talks like that? Characters on bad YA do. I could go on but I think I've made my point. On the other hand Joyce's prose is dense but beautiful, even when I didn't understand what the fuck was going on in Ulysses I still enjoyed reading the book out loud. | ||
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LasTLiE
United States428 Posts
I just started reading Moby Dick a few days ago. I haven't gotten very far in it yet, so I don't have much to say yet. I've been wanting to read this for a while and recently got a rather old (~1933) copy of it from a family member, so I figured now would be a good time to read it. Although it makes me a little nervous reading an old book, I always feel like if I'm not careful I'm going to tear out a page or something, heh. | ||
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farvacola
United States18831 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
a question regarding the Hyperion books. I read the first one a while ago and really loved it, now I'm scared to read the other ones because I've heard they aren't as good. Any opinions? | ||
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Zergneedsfood
United States10671 Posts
On January 06 2015 04:36 dmnum wrote: Ah I'd start with Letter to His Father then. Once you read it Kafka's fiction becomes much more meaningful. Thanks for the suggestion. Just finished reading it the other day. It was very good and incredibly relateable too. | ||
CosmicSpiral
United States15275 Posts
On January 11 2015 11:08 dmnum wrote: Atlas Shrugged is awful. Bad prose, one-dimensional characters, convoluted plot. Take all that, add Rand's abhorrent ideology and you have a steaming pile of a book. Just thinking about the time I lost reading it makes me angry. I have not read 1Q84 but from what I've heard it's one of Murakami's lesser works. I can vouch for TBK's quality, though. Dostoyevsky's prose is nothing out of this world but his psychological insight and ability to make "edgy" characters seem real and relatable is unparalleled in literature. Hard to say that Dostoyevsky's prose isn't great when translating it into English is a real bitch to accomplish. At least we've progressed past the "fly at each other with our fists" period. On January 11 2015 17:50 babylon wrote: I actually thought the prose was extremely readable (certainly more readable and less awkward than the prose of the other books I was being assigned at the time). Actually now that I think about it, it's still probably more readable than 75% of the academic writing I read now. Academic English is the bane of our modern era, but still not an excuse. At best Rand is on Deborah Harkness' level. | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
On January 12 2015 06:06 CosmicSpiral wrote: Hard to say that Dostoyevsky's prose isn't great when translating it into English is a real bitch to accomplish. At least we've progressed past the "fly at each other with our fists" period. I've read TBK and C&P in Portuguese, Notes From Underground, The Double, The Gambler and Demons in one english translation(P&V) and The Idiot in another english translation(David McDuff). None of them impressed me on a prose level, and from what I gather most Russians have the same opinion. Don't get me wrong, though. Even though I didn't care much for The Double and C&P, The Idiot and TBK are up there with anything anyone has ever written. | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21243 Posts
On January 12 2015 05:51 Nyxisto wrote: spoilers man a question regarding the Hyperion books. I read the first one a while ago and really loved it, now I'm scared to read the other ones because I've heard they aren't as good. Any opinions? Read Fall of Hyperion, skip Endymion for a couple of years. Reading Endymion right after Hyperion will just make you sad :[ | ||
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