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« Reply #250 on: November 28, 2011, 08:18:26 PM »

In the last week i've read 'The Hunger Games', which was a reasonably good page turner with zero heft; 'Enchanted Glass', Diana Wynne Jones' last book, which was not up to her standards to be frank; and finished the three-month process of going tgrough the second book from 'Game of Thrones', which I am rather enjoying.

I'm currently 1/4 of the way through 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', and 3/4 of the way through 'The Boys From Brazil', with 'Stephen Fry in America' next on the list.
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« Reply #251 on: November 28, 2011, 09:39:01 PM »

Finished with Camus's La Peste. Parts 3 and 4 are astounding, and so is the rest of the novel if you don't mind its plodding bits.

Two books lined up this week: Parfit's Reasons and Persons and Faulkner's Light in August.
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« Reply #252 on: November 30, 2011, 08:00:57 PM »

Reading the great Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, but terribly worried about a bad translation Tongue
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« Reply #253 on: December 21, 2011, 07:17:52 AM »

Reading the great Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, but terribly worried about a bad translation Tongue

all I've ever read of the Russian authors is Constance Garnett, who is probably heavily criticized, but I've managed to enjoy myself all the same... try not to worry about it.
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« Reply #254 on: December 21, 2011, 08:52:06 AM »

Ghada al-Samman, Beirut Nightmares
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« Reply #255 on: December 21, 2011, 09:50:24 AM »

La France aux urnes by Pierre Brechon. Great book.
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« Reply #256 on: December 21, 2011, 06:41:57 PM »

Nana by Emile Zola. Looking to be about as depressing as every other Zola.
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« Reply #257 on: December 21, 2011, 07:05:26 PM »

Daniel Deronda, it's an okay read, though I can understand why some people would grow tired with the jewish/zionist bits. Can I do with that for as far as Eliot's concerned or is Middlemarch really a must-read?
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« Reply #258 on: December 21, 2011, 08:23:17 PM »



Quite good and explained a bit of the history of family dysfunction.  Smiley



In light of the Penn State scandal, it helped show how insular the institution is.  It is about an on campus murder in 1969.  The author is quite a good researcher. 

He actually cited something I wrote.



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« Reply #259 on: December 21, 2011, 09:28:21 PM »

Reading the great Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, but terribly worried about a bad translation Tongue

all I've ever read of the Russian authors is Constance Garnett, who is probably heavily criticized, but I've managed to enjoy myself all the same... try not to worry about it.

I try not too, but I heard that Garnett 'softened' the language, and I worry about having the plot somehow become weaker. I try to stick with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, but library's usually only have the Garnett translation, cheap jerks.
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« Reply #260 on: December 22, 2011, 12:52:02 AM »

秋風の記 (Record of the Autumn Wind). Rereading. One of the best Tokugawa-era poetic travelogues, and it doesn't get anywhere near enough love.
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« Reply #261 on: December 22, 2011, 10:03:39 AM »


'A Life' was the best subtitle the six figure editing department could come up with?
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« Reply #262 on: December 24, 2011, 04:04:52 AM »

Reading the great Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, but terribly worried about a bad translation Tongue

all I've ever read of the Russian authors is Constance Garnett, who is probably heavily criticized, but I've managed to enjoy myself all the same... try not to worry about it.

I try not too, but I heard that Garnett 'softened' the language, and I worry about having the plot somehow become weaker. I try to stick with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, but library's usually only have the Garnett translation, cheap jerks.

I was pleased with the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of Crime and Punishment.
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« Reply #263 on: December 24, 2011, 07:42:58 AM »

just bought a Kindle yesterday.  trying to avoid the gadgets as a rule but made an exception, this one seemed like it had a chance to be actually edifying.  fun stuff.
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« Reply #264 on: December 25, 2011, 11:04:40 AM »

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« Reply #265 on: December 25, 2011, 11:24:58 AM »

I got "Giants: the parallel lives of Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln" for Christmas.
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« Reply #266 on: December 25, 2011, 03:09:15 PM »

I've also been going through Bill Clinton's newest book, mostly for amusement.
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« Reply #267 on: December 25, 2011, 03:42:29 PM »



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« Reply #268 on: December 25, 2011, 07:38:18 PM »

Finished Nana. Favourite Zola so far. The fact that it's the upper classes going to hell makes it easier to laugh at the absurdity of their behaviour instead of feeling nauseated.
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« Reply #269 on: December 26, 2011, 09:13:08 AM »

My gf has asked me to read Isaacson's bio of Steve Jobs with her over the break.  One thing I can say so far is that Isaacson knows how to dramatize a point.

I just finished the chapter where Woz has just completed the first prototype of the Apple 1 and it's begun to sell.  Isaacson notes at the end of the chapter that Ron Wayne, who had originally bought in for 10% of the company and did its first legal paperwork, decided to cash out his shares when Jobs and Woz took out a loan to make more machines.  Wayne was skittish, in the end, about the new venture, because he had failed in a business before, and he says even to this day that he doesn't regret getting himself out when he did.  His shares amounted, when he pulled out, to $2,300.  Isaacson reports that, today, Wayne is living off Social Security checks in Nevada and playing slot machines.  If. Isaacson points out, Wayne had held on to his shares until the end of 2010, they would have been worth $2.6 billion.
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« Reply #270 on: December 29, 2011, 04:40:40 PM »

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« Reply #271 on: December 29, 2011, 04:43:09 PM »

Bakunin: The Creative Passion by Mark Leier.
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« Reply #272 on: December 29, 2011, 04:53:40 PM »

I have a weird system in which I rotate between 2-3 books at the same time.  Currently reading:

The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays by Russell Kirk and
The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard

Just finished:

Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi by Dean Faulkner Wells
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« Reply #273 on: December 30, 2011, 10:20:32 AM »

I have a weird system in which I rotate between 2-3 books at the same time.  

I do the same thing; it's much easier to read all day by switching books each time that you've finished a chapter. It's like tabbed browsing.
That is similar to what I do, but I must admit my exact system of switching between books is a little too OCD inspired for me to delve into here. Smiley
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« Reply #274 on: December 30, 2011, 11:37:27 AM »

I have a weird system in which I rotate between 2-3 books at the same time. 

I do the same thing; it's much easier to read all day by switching books each time that you've finished a chapter. It's like tabbed browsing.

Certainly.  I get bored of one subject pretty easily, so rotating between 2-3 books at the same time is great.  Once in a while I'll pick up a book interesting enough to where I can read right through.
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