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Post by jimmalone on Sept 16, 2017 7:54:12 GMT
Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Hope you will like it. I myself certainly do. Though it's sometimes a bit debauched - but not nearly as much as Ulysses, to connect two of the last posts...
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Sept 17, 2017 12:25:05 GMT
Just finished A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams.
I'm starting Macbeth now.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Sept 17, 2017 18:23:58 GMT
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Post by jimmalone on Sept 18, 2017 8:36:30 GMT
Simply fantastic book. For me I'm over to "The World of Yesterday" by Stefan Zweig now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2017 0:09:54 GMT
Gryphon: New and Selected Stories by Charles Baxter for a creative writing class I'm taking.
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Post by cheesecake on Sept 21, 2017 22:13:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2017 6:24:29 GMT
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Post by MsMovieStar on Sept 22, 2017 10:28:59 GMT
I can't put this book down! It's like American Horror Story: Stardom. I've always had this love / hate thing with Judy Garland. Love her talent & on screen persona but loathe her off screen. This book is more than just about the monstrously needy & manipulative Garland but about the parasites (her management) and how they fed off and fleeced her in the 1960s. The seedy side of showbiz where everyone is trying to screw each other and ego's clash continuously.
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Post by cherry68 on Sept 22, 2017 15:41:10 GMT
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Post by jimmalone on Sept 26, 2017 11:37:20 GMT
Read "Thirst", the newest entry in Jo Nesbos Harry Hole stories. While it doesn't reach the thrilling heights of "Snowman" or "Police" it's another strong showing that confirms Nesbos place among the in my eyes three greatest living writers of crime novels.
Now I've begun to read "Au revoir là-haut" by Pierre Lemaitre for which he won the Prix Goncourt.
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Post by cheesecake on Sept 30, 2017 2:58:28 GMT
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 1, 2017 13:03:22 GMT
that's becoming a movie right?. Yep, coming out in November. I finished it in about 25 minutes so I'm curious to see how it translates to a film's run time. I dug it though.
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Post by jimmalone on Oct 1, 2017 13:39:32 GMT
Re-reading Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird". One of the most wonderful novels ever written.
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Post by Pavan on Oct 3, 2017 5:19:29 GMT
Anyone read Dan Brown's Origin?
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Post by jimmalone on Oct 4, 2017 19:42:48 GMT
Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2017 19:54:54 GMT
Well Walden is excruciatingly boring
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Post by moonman157 on Oct 11, 2017 0:51:04 GMT
Well Walden is excruciatingly boring It's brutal. The famous quotes and ideas that we're all familiar with are great but I can't imagine ever slogging through the whole thing.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2017 4:59:27 GMT
Well Walden is excruciatingly boring I started last year and shelved it before the second chapter .
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Post by Deceit on Oct 11, 2017 5:41:37 GMT
Reading The Trial at the moment, probably move onto Metamorphosis after.
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Post by eliuson on Oct 12, 2017 5:13:33 GMT
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Post by jimmalone on Oct 12, 2017 18:15:51 GMT
Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit Another fantastic work by the great master. Now "Rimelig tvil", a crime novel by norwegian author Chris Tvedt.
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Post by tobias on Oct 14, 2017 18:37:04 GMT
I just read Mogens by J.P. Jacobsen yesterday. Very curious to read the rest of the collection as this was potentially the best danish novella I've ever read.
I also read T.S. Elliot's Prufrock and Other Observations. The poem in the title is of course amazing, the rest is good, too but it could only fall short of Prufrock.
And I finally read H.C. Andersen's The Red Shoes (yes, that fairy tale the P&P film is based on). I do not at all remember it from my childhood so it must be true that I never read it before. I liked it quite a bit but it's also quite clunky and of course not at all like the movie (going by the plot at least).
Next up is as I said the rest of Jacobsen's collection.
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Post by jimmalone on Oct 15, 2017 7:47:06 GMT
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 20, 2017 10:24:25 GMT
Just started reading A Clash of Kings for the second time.
I really enjoyed re-reading A Game of Thrones, so hopefully this will be a case of the same.
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Post by atn on Oct 20, 2017 14:51:28 GMT
About to start in on Heaney's translation of Beowolf accompanied by Gardner's Grendel
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