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Gustaf
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« Reply #475 on: July 14, 2012, 06:51:07 AM »

Our Man in Havana is DONE. Now on to something else, haven't decided what yet though.
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« Reply #476 on: July 14, 2012, 07:31:58 AM »

It's his earliest IIRC, and certainly one of his angrier books. I've read quite a few of his, but not everything, and I didn't like everything I've read. (Also, Rushdie's German translations are horrid and unreadable. Though I don't think I checked the later books' German versions as I could get those in English at the library. I think some of the early ones were translated in a rush during the Fatwa controversy, and rushed translations always suck royal circumsized balls. That I never got far with Midnight's Children is at least partly due to the translation. They don't stock it in English.) But I liked this one a lot when I read it. Been a few years though.
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« Reply #477 on: July 14, 2012, 08:46:17 AM »

It's his earliest IIRC, and certainly one of his angrier books. I've read quite a few of his, but not everything, and I didn't like everything I've read. (Also, Rushdie's German translations are horrid and unreadable. Though I don't think I checked the later books' German versions as I could get those in English at the library. I think some of the early ones were translated in a rush during the Fatwa controversy, and rushed translations always suck royal circumsized balls. That I never got far with Midnight's Children is at least partly due to the translation. They don't stock it in English.) But I liked this one a lot when I read it. Been a few years though.

Don't you mean Rushdied? Tongue

Ok, sorry about that. Anyway, it isn't the earliest but it's certainly early. I think it is the second after Midnight's Children, because the cover of my copy references that.

I agree on translations. Ever since my English became good enough I make a point out of reading all English novels in English.
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« Reply #478 on: July 15, 2012, 07:14:07 AM »

It's his earliest IIRC, and certainly one of his angrier books. I've read quite a few of his, but not everything, and I didn't like everything I've read. (Also, Rushdie's German translations are horrid and unreadable. Though I don't think I checked the later books' German versions as I could get those in English at the library. I think some of the early ones were translated in a rush during the Fatwa controversy, and rushed translations always suck royal circumsized balls. That I never got far with Midnight's Children is at least partly due to the translation. They don't stock it in English.) But I liked this one a lot when I read it. Been a few years though.

Don't you mean Rushdied? Tongue

Ok, sorry about that. Anyway, it isn't the earliest but it's certainly early. I think it is the second after Midnight's Children, because the cover of my copy references that.

I agree on translations. Ever since my English became good enough I make a point out of reading all English novels in English.
(wikies) apparently Children is second and Shame is third.
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« Reply #479 on: July 15, 2012, 01:34:49 PM »

Here Comes Trouble - Michael Moore Cheesy

Bought it used from the library yesterday (used) for $2. Already half way done. Turns out my Mom had bought it for my birthday as well, and was a little upset, but I had no idea :/
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« Reply #480 on: July 15, 2012, 03:49:23 PM »

The Massie trilogy, currently partway through Nicholas and Alexandra having finished the other 2.
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« Reply #481 on: July 16, 2012, 06:25:24 AM »

Letter from the Earth by Mark Twain. It's pretty hilarious!
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« Reply #482 on: July 18, 2012, 12:48:36 PM »

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace (translated by Constance Garnett Sad)

No access to Pevear and Volokhonsky? Or are you feeling masochistic?

I would have to buy it

I shelled out the $22 for the P/V today after reading the clumsy Garnett for 2 books.
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« Reply #483 on: July 18, 2012, 03:06:57 PM »

Currently I am reading The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days that Shook the Union by John and Charles Lockwood. The two brothers are wonderful story tellers and give a fine tour of Washington City in spring 1861.
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« Reply #484 on: July 18, 2012, 09:48:20 PM »

Jean-Paul Sartre's "The Age of Reason."

At first it was toilet seat reading, but the Cable Guy came over this morning--connected the internet, finally, and gave us 300+ channels of garbage.  I suppose this will cost an arm and a leg, but it's good to be back in touch.  Anyway, he noticed the book splayed, spine down, on a box in the basement and commented on it.  Apparently he'd read it because he was very well versed on it and had a detailed analysis regarding the development of characters.  We discussed it somewhat, but I felt a bit guilty that I was only on page 42 at the time.  Since then I've read another 30 pages.  I relate to Mathieu.
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« Reply #485 on: July 19, 2012, 12:08:44 AM »

Jean-Paul Sartre's "The Age of Reason."

At first it was toilet seat reading, but the Cable Guy came over this morning--connected the internet, finally, and gave us 300+ channels of garbage.  I suppose this will cost an arm and a leg, but it's good to be back in touch.  Anyway, he noticed the book splayed, spine down, on a box in the basement and commented on it.  Apparently he'd read it because he was very well versed on it and had a detailed analysis regarding the development of characters.  We discussed it somewhat, but I felt a bit guilty that I was only on page 42 at the time.  Since then I've read another 30 pages.  I relate to Mathieu.

yeah read that.  good book.  you would suffer from clinical depression without red wine, much like Sartre, read it, relate, and become a Communist
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« Reply #486 on: July 22, 2012, 03:25:22 PM »

Joanna Bourke: What it means to be human: Reflections since 1791. Excellent even if a bit too poststructuralist for my liking. But very readable.
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« Reply #487 on: July 22, 2012, 06:39:32 PM »

Can't stand her myself, though perhaps that goes without saying...

...actually there are other reasons as well, but it's more fun to be a crusader or something.
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« Reply #488 on: July 23, 2012, 04:18:35 AM »

Currently reading The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
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« Reply #489 on: July 23, 2012, 08:22:48 AM »

Read The Communist Manifesto last week as a short flight/airport read, about to start A Very British Coup.
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« Reply #490 on: July 23, 2012, 02:25:53 PM »
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Kitchen by the greatly named Banana Yoshimoto.
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« Reply #491 on: July 25, 2012, 11:00:39 PM »

David Harvey is really awful. Neoliberalism is pretty awesome, though. It's amazing how 'awful' and 'awesome' started out as meaning the same thing but diverged into two totally different words.
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« Reply #492 on: July 26, 2012, 09:08:29 AM »

I'm reading the Sword Art Online light novels. Just finished the first one this morning.
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« Reply #493 on: July 30, 2012, 11:45:18 AM »

There is No Freedom Without Bread!: 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism by Constantine Pleshakov

Just got this last week and started reading it on Saturday and I am expecting to finish it by Wednesday at the latest.
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« Reply #494 on: July 30, 2012, 01:04:40 PM »

Ces français qui votent Le Pen, the 2002 re-edition of an older book (but still good some 15 years later) by Nonna Mayer

Afterwards, I'll finally read the quite well-known (in elitist bobo leftie academia) Le Front national a découvert, from 1995.
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« Reply #495 on: August 01, 2012, 05:51:01 PM »

Caught my eye in Waterstones. Tongue
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prime-Minister-Boris-Things-Happened/dp/1849541000
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« Reply #496 on: August 01, 2012, 09:13:58 PM »

Reading an ebook of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.
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« Reply #497 on: August 03, 2012, 12:25:38 AM »



Just got it today. Been on my reading list for a while.
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« Reply #498 on: August 03, 2012, 10:23:10 PM »

Receding Tide: Vicksburg and Gettysburg- The Campaigns That Changed the Civil War by Edwin C. Bearss and J. Parker Hills. Bearss is my favorite Civil War historian because he is a natural storyteller and this work is no exception to this rule.

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« Reply #499 on: August 03, 2012, 10:44:07 PM »

I'm reading the Sword Art Online light novels. Just finished the first one this morning.

Oh! How are they? I've been meaning to pick up the anime, since it has my favorite soundtrack composer.

I'm meaning to start a reread of St Augustine's Confessions some time soon.
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