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Re: What you are reading

Postby bella on Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:32 pm

just started- in tandem


-the way of the world nicolas bouvier & autonauts of the cosmosroute julio cortazar
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Re: What you are reading

Postby bella on Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:32 am

just to add-- way of the world by nicolas bouvier is beautifully written
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Re: What you are reading

Postby Minna on Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:20 pm

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Re: What you are reading

Postby DrJ on Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:16 pm

ILLUSIONS-The Adventures of a reluctant Messiah
By Richard bach

Dreamin of a reality where pain is merely considered a misunderstanding,,
a shadow cast down,, to present the Illusion of a challenge!
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Re: What you are reading

Postby margaret on Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:33 pm

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Re: What you are reading

Postby Joe Way on Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:48 pm

I am currently reading, "The Savage Detectives" by Roberto Bolaño which was recently translated into English.

http://www.amazon.com/Savage-Detectives ... 0374191484

It is closer to Lorca than Garcia Marquez-amazingly poetic book.

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Re: What you are reading

Postby altinkum on Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:56 pm

I've just finished The book with no name by anonymous. Crazy book but enjoyable. it appears that this book started out on the internet and there is a lot of speculation about who the author really is, someone suggested Stephen King but I think it is too funny for him. I think it just could be Robert Ranking, it's the kind of wacky thing he would come up with.

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Re: What you are reading

Postby Socializard on Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:21 pm

finished the road by cormac mccarthy. it was good. my first book i've read by him. liked the ending a lot. there is a movie coming out soon with that viggo guy from the lord of the rings movies.

currently on nostromo by conrad.
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Re: What you are reading

Postby bella on Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:23 pm

actually i think it will be brad pitt in the role. He also read for audio books ' All The pretty horses ' so he must like cormac mccarthy's work . if you want to read more then the All the pretty horses trilogy is wonderfully richly textured and more accessible than his earlier work.
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Re: What you are reading

Postby Kiwi56 on Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:56 am

I`m just reading " A thousand splendid suns" by Khaled Hosseini, the author of "The Kite Runner ".
Yes and I try it in english :) .
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Re: What you are reading

Postby Socializard on Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:48 pm

bella wrote:actually i think it will be brad pitt in the role. He also read for audio books ' All The pretty horses ' so he must like cormac mccarthy's work . if you want to read more then the All the pretty horses trilogy is wonderfully richly textured and more accessible than his earlier work.



thanks for the tip, bella. i'll look into that. and brad pitt as "the man"...? i guess it could work. i'm imagining the seven years in tibet version of pitt when i say this.
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Re: What you are reading

Postby Manna on Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:29 am

finally getting around to reading the Deptford Trilogy, Robertson Davies. I'm about 1/2 way thru book one. It's well written, except for the framing device. For me, when a guy sets out to write a letter and ends up literally writing a book, the idea that it's a letter ceases to work after about page 50.

Has any of you ever received a letter that was longer than 50 pages? Letters from lawyers, banks and insurance companies don't count. The longest letter I ever received from a real person was 9 pages of my sister's ribbony hand. One day she'd felt a need to explain her philosophy of life and to decorate it with ample loving expressions for everything else in the world, and especially for me. I read it 107 times, then taped it together to make an igloo, and I made little Eskimos out of hot glue, marshmallows and the haircut I'd given my husband that morning.
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Re: What you are reading

Postby bella on Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:54 am

i believe i read in one of his obituaries thatDavid Foster Wallace wrote a break up letter of about 90 pages to a girlfriend! i don't think she made it to the end

i haven't received any as long as that , a few of about twenty pages in earlier years, currently corresponding with someone who writes elegant communications in aboutone point type!

has anyone read Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, i was haunted by the beauty of Housekeeping for years, finally gave up looking for another book by her only to discover this evening that Gilead came out four years ago, hailed as a masterpiece-
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Re: What you are reading

Postby Manna on Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:18 am

Yes I read Gilead.
Very good book. MR came here, so I have signed copies of both books. No, I think I gave one to my sister.
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Re: What you are reading

Postby Womanfromaroom on Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:39 am

In English, the German novel by Lion Feuchtwanger which I am currently reading - "Die Geschwister Oppermann" - is, as far as I know, called "The Oppermann Family" and makes a very rewarding and insightful read as well!
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