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In another subject, does anyone have a good post apocalyptic book to advise me ? I read The passage and World War Z last Year and really enjoyed the both of them
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Philozovic
France1677 Posts
I'm starting Tocqueville : L'ancien régime et la révolution In another subject, does anyone have a good post apocalyptic book to advise me ? I read The passage and World War Z last Year and really enjoyed the both of them | ||
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lock203
United States43 Posts
Next up will be the three stand alone books he wrote set in the First Law world while I still have it fresh in my memory. If you're a fan GRRM I would recommend you give Joe a try. | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
On January 12 2015 07:28 Philozovic wrote: I just read The hearth of Darkness, It was really not as good as I hoped (expected ? which one here ?) http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/heart-darkness-joseph-conrad-paperback-cover-art_1254.jpg I'm starting Tocqueville : L'ancien régime et la révolution http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/De_tocqueville_alexis/ancien_regime/ancien_regime_L25.gif In another subject, does anyone have a good post apocalyptic book to advise me ? I read The passage and World War Z last Year and really enjoyed the both of them I believe that either 'hoped' or 'expected' work in the context. But on a more general basis, as you hoped means as you wanted it to be, while as you expected means as you thought it would be. For example, I hope I get a million dollars tomorrow, but I don't expect it to happen. On your request for a post apocalyptic recommendation: I like The Road by Cormac McCarthy. | ||
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Philozovic
France1677 Posts
On January 12 2015 07:49 dmnum wrote: I believe that either 'hoped' or 'expected' work in the context. But on a more general basis, as you hoped means as you wanted it to be, while as you expected means as you thought it would be. For example, I hope I get a million dollars tomorrow, but I don't expect it to happen. On your request for a post apocalyptic recommendation: I like The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Oh I already read it thanks (and really really hated it). I wanted to used hoped but wasn't sure I could  | ||
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MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
On January 12 2015 07:49 dmnum wrote: I believe that either 'hoped' or 'expected' work in the context. But on a more general basis, as you hoped means as you wanted it to be, while as you expected means as you thought it would be. For example, I hope I get a million dollars tomorrow, but I don't expect it to happen. On your request for a post apocalyptic recommendation: I like The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I can second this recommendation, although with a caveat: I think that Cormac McCarthy's writing is a bit too sparse. I don't like the way he abdicated basically all grammar and punctuation, even though it did have a pretty profound effect on the novel. I also did not like Heart of Darkness, but that's probably cause I had no idea what was going on... | ||
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farvacola
United States18869 Posts
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
On January 12 2015 08:36 farvacola wrote: Blood Meridian is 1000 times better than The Road. I think so too, but that doesn't mean The Road is even close to being bad. | ||
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farvacola
United States18869 Posts
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
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CosmicSpiral
United States15275 Posts
On January 12 2015 08:36 farvacola wrote: Blood Meridian is 1000 times better than The Road. By comparison, The Orchard Keeper is 10 times better than Blood Meridian. :D On January 12 2015 06:32 dmnum wrote: 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. I've only read English translations of his work, but most of them seem to suffer from being overly stilted. There are also odd turns of phrase that just sound plain weird. | ||
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farvacola
United States18869 Posts
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LasTLiE
United States428 Posts
On January 12 2015 07:28 Philozovic wrote: I just read The hearth of Darkness, It was not as good as I hoped (expected ? which one here ?) http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/heart-darkness-joseph-conrad-paperback-cover-art_1254.jpg I'm starting Tocqueville : L'ancien régime et la révolution http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/De_tocqueville_alexis/ancien_regime/ancien_regime_L25.gif In another subject, does anyone have a good post apocalyptic book to advise me ? I read The passage and World War Z last Year and really enjoyed the both of them I Am Legend by Richard Matheson is a good one. There's another book that I can't recall the title or author of but I know I have around here somewhere. It's about a journalist who travels across America after a nuclear war happened that devastated pretty much the entire world. It was really good, I'll try and find that. | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
I really liked Heart of Darkness.  It felt like a black hole of despair and words, which was perfect considering the content. (Same with Crime and Punishment, which made me feel paranoid and anxious while I was reading it.) | ||
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Ingebrigtsen
Norway343 Posts
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Philozovic
France1677 Posts
On January 12 2015 15:10 babylon wrote: Doesn't McCarthy strip at least one grammar tenant in most of his books? (I at least recall the lack of double-quotes in All the Pretty Horses.) I thought The Road was a bit excessive at first, but to be honest, I don't think the lack of punctuation made it any harder to read. It felt gimmicky, but I find most of his stylistic "quirks" to be fairly gimmicky to the same degree. It just came together all at once in the one book. I really liked Heart of Darkness. It felt like a black hole of despair and words, which was perfect considering the content. (Same with Crime and Punishment, which made me feel paranoid and anxious while I was reading it.)Oh no I liked it, I was just hopping it will be better (not as good as crime and punishment though) and it was a little bit underwhelming | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
On January 12 2015 09:59 CosmicSpiral wrote: I've only read English translations of his work, but most of them seem to suffer from being overly stilted. There are also odd turns of phrase that just sound plain weird. That's the thing though, at times he reads like that in Portuguese too. | ||
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lungic
Sweden123 Posts
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Bluebear.jpg) Never read anything like it. It's not a childrens book, but not really an adult book either. It's like someone had too much creativity and needed a notebook to dump the data to. | ||
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MrForm
1 Post
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/S4hHOLO.jpg) Can't put it down... | ||
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sperY
Serbia444 Posts
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Shadows_Linger.jpg) Second book in the series. So far so good. Its kind of refreshing reading fantasy series that doesn't consist of 10 books and million pages. | ||
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PhoenixVoid
Canada32755 Posts
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