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Post by jimmalone on Jul 31, 2017 9:31:20 GMT
Read "Aura" by Carlos Fuentes. Just 65 pages long, but a haunting little novel, very reminiscent of some of Edgar Allan Poe's stories.
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Post by stephen on Jul 31, 2017 22:48:55 GMT
Decided to re-read James Jones's WWII trilogy. I'm hip-deep in From Here to Eternity.
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Post by Mattsby on Aug 2, 2017 2:28:37 GMT
The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem. Really interesting and hilarious so far...... as if Woody Allen wrote sci-fi fairy tales.
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Post by notacrook on Aug 5, 2017 20:10:25 GMT
About halfway through The Handmaid's Tale. Great so far, and deserving of its classic status. I wish I'd read it before watching the show, but oh well.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Aug 6, 2017 19:28:45 GMT
Currently reading some of Chekhov's short stories. Just finished Volodya. Very dark.
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Post by pickpocket on Aug 9, 2017 4:17:33 GMT
Nearly finished with White Noise by Don DeLillo. It gets bogged down with repetition, especially with its preoccupation/obsession with death. And DeLillo has a tendency to turn his words into shopping lists. That said he cultivates a richly ominous atmosphere, and he's an inspired dialogue writer, the likes of which keep the pages turning.
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Aug 10, 2017 9:42:09 GMT
Re-reading The Hours, by Michael Cunningham.
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Post by jimmalone on Aug 16, 2017 12:01:46 GMT
"The Razor's Edge" by William Somerset Maugham, therefore closing another gap of a well-known author I haven't read anything before.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Aug 20, 2017 4:28:21 GMT
Crime and Punishment
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Post by jimmalone on Sept 2, 2017 10:21:33 GMT
"The Glass Bead Game" by Hermann Hesse. Halfway-through and so far it looks as I have a new entry in my list of favorite novels.
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Post by jimmalone on Sept 2, 2017 23:21:52 GMT
Read "Aura" by Carlos Fuentes. Just 65 pages long, but a haunting little novel, very reminiscent of some of Edgar Allan Poe's stories. Has Fuentes actually written alot at all?. Wikipedia counts 24 "novels", though 3 of them seem very short ones, as well as many short stories, essays and also a few stage and screen plays. |
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Sept 3, 2017 7:35:27 GMT
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Post by Sharbs on Sept 3, 2017 19:37:24 GMT
Just hit the halfway mark of IT, jaysus this is fantastic
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Post by DeepArcher on Sept 3, 2017 21:05:46 GMT
Just hit the halfway mark of IT, jaysus this is fantastic Same here, actually. Well, I'm not sure if I'm quite halfway through; I'm in the midst of the "Walking Tours" section. But that's beside the point. It's indeed great, but I'm not overwhelmed. I just keep having this feeling that the narrative may work better if presented in chronological order; it would make the descriptions of the characters as introduced in '85 all the more impactful had we actually known them prior, not to mention it would spare the reader from all the obnoxious side-stepping taken in the dialogue in the '85 section (the number of times a character says, "I don't remember so-and-so that happened that summer", and then another character responds, "You *will* remember", is actually absurd) if we as the reader knew that entire half of the story already. Still, it's otherwise pretty fantastic. The characters and setting are so wonderfully realized that you can feel King's passion for the novel oozing out of every page. |
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Post by Sharbs on Sept 5, 2017 14:44:44 GMT
Just hit the halfway mark of IT, jaysus this is fantastic Same here, actually. Well, I'm not sure if I'm quite halfway through; I'm in the midst of the "Walking Tours" section. But that's beside the point. It's indeed great, but I'm not overwhelmed. I just keep having this feeling that the narrative may work better if presented in chronological order; it would make the descriptions of the characters as introduced in '85 all the more impactful had we actually known them prior, not to mention it would spare the reader from all the obnoxious side-stepping taken in the dialogue in the '85 section (the number of times a character says, "I don't remember so-and-so that happened that summer", and then another character responds, "You *will* remember", is actually absurd) if we as the reader knew that entire half of the story already. Still, it's otherwise pretty fantastic. The characters and setting are so wonderfully realized that you can feel King's passion for the novel oozing out of every page. I'd be pretty upset if the kids' climax ended halfway through the book and then gone with the beginning of the adults section. I'm a huge fan of the structure even though King does use the 'Can't Remember?' plot-device. I think it beats having it linear. But I do wish it was something different then the can't remember angle, but I wouldn't how to go about that. |
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Post by jimmalone on Sept 6, 2017 19:14:41 GMT
"A Strangeness in my Mind" ("Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık") by Orhan Pamuk.
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Post by atn on Sept 8, 2017 11:15:08 GMT
Finished Old School by Tobias Wolff a couple weeks ago, now The Same Sea by Amos Oz
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Post by MsMovieStar on Sept 11, 2017 14:06:57 GMT
Oh honey, I'm on a very famous pop star's private jet on my way to a party in Vegas and I'm just reading the in-flight manual... Oh hang on... the flight attendant just come around to tell us we can unfasten our belts and bras...  |
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Post by jimmalone on Sept 15, 2017 14:05:09 GMT
Read "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virgina Woolf. Very good read, though I hesitate to call it great. Definitely highly interesting views inside the minds of her characters and well written. But while the style is very good it's not as fantastic as the one of Javier Marias for example to outweigh the fact that not very much is happening in the "story".
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Post by jimmalone on Sept 15, 2017 15:53:34 GMT
Now on to "The Witchwood Crown", the continuation of Tad Williams' great fantasy saga "Memory, Sorrow, Thorn", which I had expected more eagerly than anything else since it was announced over two years ago.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Sept 15, 2017 16:16:17 GMT
Think I'm going to read James Joyce's Ulysses all the way through finally.
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Post by stephen on Sept 15, 2017 19:45:22 GMT
James Carlos Blake's Country of the Bad Wolfes.
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Post by atn on Sept 15, 2017 19:53:17 GMT
Think I'm going to read James Joyce's Ulysses all the way through finally. Good luck lol |
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Post by atn on Sept 15, 2017 19:53:56 GMT
Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
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Post by jimmalone on Sept 16, 2017 7:53:22 GMT
Think I'm going to read James Joyce's Ulysses all the way through finally. Good luck. If I remember right I gave up like 100 pages before the end. While the beginning of the book was good I totally lost the interest by then. |
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