EPT2011 - What are you Reading? - Page 34
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ShadowDrgn
United States2497 Posts
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Cuddle
Sweden1345 Posts
"Beklagligtvis går mycket av Tolkiens minutiösa noggrannhet förlorad i den svenska översättningen...Där Tolkien i original oftast är lakonisk och fåordig och påtagligt inspirerad av den isländska sagotraditionen, är Ohlmarks översättning frodig, adjektivrik och mångordig" (Translation: "Sadly, a lot of Tolkiens extreme carefulness is lost in the Swedish translation..Where Tolkien is originally very laconic, sparse with words and deeply influenced by the Icelandic storytelling tradition, Ohlmarks translation is full of adjectives and rich in words.") Source (In Swedish):Wikipedia So, please read the 2004 version or the original next time you decide to give LoTR a try. It's still not a great book but miles ahead of the old Ohlmark experience. | ||
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ICA
498 Posts
On July 11 2011 23:00 hypercube wrote: Have you read Kluge by Gary Marcus? It looks at idiosyncracies of the human mind from an evolutionary perspective. Covers topics other than decisions too like memory and belief. No and I have never heard of Gary Marcus neither. Is it a good read? I am usually more interested in the economic side when ready psychology but if you recommend it I will at least check it out. | ||
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mprs
Canada2933 Posts
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ZapRoffo
United States5544 Posts
On July 11 2011 04:44 ZapRoffo wrote: To me (I'm almost finished), it ends up very powerful once it all comes together even though portions of it are quite obtuse (or I just get lost in unfamiliar territory because I'm not used to the different structure in writing what's in the mind--and not really a normal person mind) and I will sit there having to go over it multiple times to figure out what he's saying exactly and digest it. I need something lighter next though, not sure what yet. Nausea also will get you snared in existential malaise if you are prone to that or not ready to fight it off. I wrote this the other day in the middle, what I would add is one of the main reasons it bogged me down is that I would continually "try on" the ideas, try to perceive things in the way the narrator was perceiving the world to understand it more deeply, and this actually distracts from reading but produces really interesting sensations and I feel like it's necessary to actually delve into the material. This is also what lets it be powerful to a reader outside of just a philosophy example/study. Now ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/SoTheWindWontBlowItAllAway.jpg) The cover here is one of the main important images of the novel. It's very short and it has a similar tone to really nostalgic childhood semi-autobiographical stories but it differs in being bitterly tragic but beautifully evocative with a narrator who gets along only mainly with outsiders. Brautigan should be read more, and he committed suicide not long after writing this, one of his last works. Next: I'm thinking Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man as a possibility, haven't read Joyce before at all. Or I'll read more Brautigan from the anthology I'm reading out of. | ||
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Od]i[N
United States2 Posts
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Rintrah
United States25 Posts
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Inferno272
United States19 Posts
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sk1nex
Finland299 Posts
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/14/Andrzej_Sapkowski_-_The_Last_Wish.jpg/200px-Andrzej_Sapkowski_-_The_Last_Wish.jpg) Simply pro. Got it as a birthday gift from my girlfriend. She gave me quite a stare after she gave it to me. She was browsing around the bookstore but didnt find it - asked from the shopkeeper who took the book from under the desk, saying "we're not supposed to keep this book anywhere public, so we kinda have to sell it secretly". | ||
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Zorgaz
Sweden2951 Posts
I'll recommend Inquisitor Gaunt aswell, its a great warhammer 40k series. | ||
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targ
Malaysia445 Posts
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Zorgaz
Sweden2951 Posts
On July 13 2011 16:56 targ wrote: I'm now reading "A Dance with Dragons" by George R.R. Martin. Oh Yeah!! I need to go buy that book now :D. Will be awesome! | ||
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Rintrah
United States25 Posts
I'm thinking Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man as a possibility, haven't read Joyce before at all. This is such a great book. Some would suggest reading Dubliners as an entry point to Joyce, but I say just read "The Dead" (the last story in Dubliners) first. Get it from Gutenberg. | ||
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dadu
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bellhop
United States165 Posts
On July 13 2011 17:54 Rintrah wrote: This is such a great book. Some would suggest reading Dubliners as an entry point to Joyce, but I say just read "The Dead" (the last story in Dubliners) first. Get it from Gutenberg. I read Portrait in high school, and will read it again this year in a college class on Joyce. It's one of my favorite novels, so good luck and enjoy the ride! Portrait of the Artist is probably the easiest of Joyce's longer works, so I don't think you'll have as much trouble as you expect. It is by no means an easy summer read though, so get a decently annotated edition with just enough footnotes and you'll be fine. | ||
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pyrogenetix
China5098 Posts
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Valashu
Netherlands561 Posts
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targ
Malaysia445 Posts
On July 13 2011 17:10 Zorgaz wrote: Oh Yeah!! I need to go buy that book now :D. Will be awesome! Sure is so far! | ||
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TheGiz
Canada708 Posts
![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZS8F07MSL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg){kind=icon} Currently reading The Coming of the Third Reich. It's mostly a history book covering Germany from the unification up until the election of the Nazi Party in 1933, focusing most heavily on German life after WWI and in the 1920s. It's very dry although highly informative and I still find it interesting. I'm only about 200 pages in and there are at least 500. It's taken me a while to even get this far as I don't read it that often. Very interesting read; life in Germany was very not awesome after the war. There were whole mercenary armies running around, roving bands of communist gangs, political assassinations galore, attempted coups and states of emergency, and hyperinflation that would make the Zimbabwean Dollar seem like viable currency. 1 US Dollar cost 4,200,000,000,000 Marks in 1923. There are two other parts called the Rise of the Third Reich and the Fall of the Third Reich, but I doubt I'll ever read them. Just borrowed this one from my cousin's library. | ||
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grieverEU
84 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/news/may10/utdpaperback.jpg) started it last year and didnt finish. didnt read it for at least half a year but im halfway through. i used to read books like those in a week, but somehow i dont anymore... plan to pick it up soon again anyone read it? | ||
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