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#126 Post by chaos » Fri Mar 29, 2013 4:39 pm

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#127 Post by farrellgirl99 » Sat Mar 30, 2013 6:44 am

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#128 Post by Larry B. » Sat Mar 30, 2013 6:47 am

The Further Stories of An Idiot Abroad, by Karl Pilkington. Hilarious and insightful.

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Re: What are you reading?

#129 Post by chaos » Sat Mar 30, 2013 8:37 am

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I got hooked on this book and read it in one sitting on a Saturday several years ago. I have read a couple of other books by Michael Cunningham, but nothing compares to The Hours. He does a fantastic job with his luminous prose, intricately weaving together the narrative strands and observational details of his slowing unravelling characters.
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Re: What are you reading?

#130 Post by jptm » Sat Mar 30, 2013 8:40 am

Say Larry, have you read anything from Michel Houellebecq? I think his stuff is right up your alley...

Les Particules élémentaires would be a good place to start. :wave:

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Re: What are you reading?

#131 Post by Larry B. » Sat Mar 30, 2013 12:15 pm

jptm wrote:Say Larry, have you read anything from Michel Houellebecq? I think his stuff is right up your alley...

Les Particules élémentaires would be a good place to start. :wave:
Hey! I hadn't heard of him before. I just checked my collection of e-books and I do have that book and Platform. I'll give your recommendation a go! :cheers:

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#132 Post by farrellgirl99 » Sun Mar 31, 2013 7:46 pm

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I got hooked on this book and read it in one sitting on a Saturday several years ago. I have read a couple of other books by Michael Cunningham, but nothing compares to The Hours. He does a fantastic job with his luminous prose, intricately weaving together the narrative strands and observational details of his slowing unravelling characters.
Yeah I finished this and thought it was great. He did a great job of emulating Woolf both in style and character depth (I haven't read anything else by him so I assume he was trying to pay homage to Woolf with his prose). I love Virginia Woolf so it was a great read.

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#133 Post by kv » Sun Mar 31, 2013 11:11 pm

nausearockpig wrote:I just finished this:

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It was somewhat disconcerting hearing that he was murdered as I was reading the book he wrote...
really? damn just got that have yet to start it

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#134 Post by jptm » Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:33 am

Larry B. wrote:Hey! I hadn't heard of him before. I just checked my collection of e-books and I do have that book and Platform. I'll give your recommendation a go! :cheers:
:thumb: Hope you enjoy it....

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Re: What are you reading?

#135 Post by chaos » Mon Apr 01, 2013 10:52 am

This is a just a FYI (I haven't read the original version, let alone the one in Chinese). :conf:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 28300.html

Updated March 31, 2013, 10:14 p.m. ET
'Finnegans Wake' Is Greek to Many; Now Imagine It in Chinese
Translation of Joyce Novel in Works for Years Sells Well to Readers Craving a Challenge

BEIJING—"Finnegans Wake" has bedeviled readers for decades, but few can claim the toil and triumph it has given to Dai Congrong.

Ms. Dai spent eight years translating into Chinese the 1939 James Joyce novel that the author's own brother described as "unspeakably wearisome." She endured low pay, a skeptical husband and the continued demands of her teaching job. That is on top of deciphering sentences like this: "Rot a peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface."
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A newly affluent nation that prizes black Audi sedans and Louis Vuitton handbags has made a literary status symbol of what may well be English literature's most difficult work. Thanks in part to a canny marketing campaign involving eye-catching billboards and packaging, "Finnegans Wake" sold out the first, 8,000-volume run shortly after it was released in December. The book briefly rose to No. 2 on a bestseller list run by a Shanghai book industry group, just behind a biography of the late Deng Xiaoping, the architect of China's modern-day boom.
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The appetite for Joyce's most challenging work comes from a real hunger for demanding literature. A Chinese writer, Mo Yan, last year won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first for a Chinese national. But his victory only underscored China's lack of a global profile in the printed word. Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution suppressed China's rich literary heritage. Continued government censorship and the lack of emphasis on reading for pleasure in the schools haven't helped.
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"Finnegans Wake" famously begins midsentence. It defies conventional narrative structure. It offers 10 different words referring to thunder, each at least 100 letters long, such as "bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunn-
trovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!"
Experts are still arguing, but many believe it takes place during a shifting dream or dreams, and it involves among many other matters a bar owner and his family and an unspecified sexual transgression in a park.

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Re: What are you reading?

#136 Post by Hype » Mon Apr 01, 2013 2:06 pm

chaos wrote:This is a just a FYI (I haven't read the original version, let alone the one in Chinese). :conf:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 28300.html

Updated March 31, 2013, 10:14 p.m. ET
'Finnegans Wake' Is Greek to Many; Now Imagine It in Chinese
Translation of Joyce Novel in Works for Years Sells Well to Readers Craving a Challenge

BEIJING—"Finnegans Wake" has bedeviled readers for decades, but few can claim the toil and triumph it has given to Dai Congrong.

Ms. Dai spent eight years translating into Chinese the 1939 James Joyce novel that the author's own brother described as "unspeakably wearisome." She endured low pay, a skeptical husband and the continued demands of her teaching job. That is on top of deciphering sentences like this: "Rot a peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface."
...
A newly affluent nation that prizes black Audi sedans and Louis Vuitton handbags has made a literary status symbol of what may well be English literature's most difficult work. Thanks in part to a canny marketing campaign involving eye-catching billboards and packaging, "Finnegans Wake" sold out the first, 8,000-volume run shortly after it was released in December. The book briefly rose to No. 2 on a bestseller list run by a Shanghai book industry group, just behind a biography of the late Deng Xiaoping, the architect of China's modern-day boom.
...
The appetite for Joyce's most challenging work comes from a real hunger for demanding literature. A Chinese writer, Mo Yan, last year won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first for a Chinese national. But his victory only underscored China's lack of a global profile in the printed word. Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution suppressed China's rich literary heritage. Continued government censorship and the lack of emphasis on reading for pleasure in the schools haven't helped.
...
"Finnegans Wake" famously begins midsentence. It defies conventional narrative structure. It offers 10 different words referring to thunder, each at least 100 letters long, such as "bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunn-
trovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!"
Experts are still arguing, but many believe it takes place during a shifting dream or dreams, and it involves among many other matters a bar owner and his family and an unspecified sexual transgression in a park.
I started reading it. Then I thought I was clever for having sort of figured out a rough meaning for a few sentences. Then I got really exhausted and annoyed and never touched it again. I hate that shitty book. :lol:

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Re: What are you reading?

#137 Post by SR » Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:05 am

WW-Leaves of Grass

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#138 Post by Warped » Mon Apr 08, 2013 10:27 pm

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#139 Post by perkana » Mon May 06, 2013 12:38 pm

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#140 Post by perkana » Tue May 28, 2013 4:53 pm

Finally reading A Game of Thrones. I'm getting everything now.

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Re: What are you reading?

#141 Post by Bandit72 » Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:23 pm

Read this on holiday

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Easy read, and to be honest I loved it. My wife kind of said "all those rock n roll books are the same" which maybe true in terms of what one did/does in a band, but that's only a small part of someones life.

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Re: What are you reading?

#142 Post by nausearockpig » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:01 am

that was a really good read.

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#143 Post by SR » Tue Jul 02, 2013 5:33 am

nausearockpig wrote:that was a really good read.

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Re: What are you reading?

#144 Post by farrellgirl99 » Tue Jul 02, 2013 11:55 am

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definitely an interesting and worthwhile read, even if i wish it was a bit more expansive. i liked it more than i thought i would.

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#145 Post by NYRexall » Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:35 pm

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#146 Post by creep » Tue Jul 02, 2013 5:42 pm

i don't read because i'm dumb but the school i am going to requires that i read a book before school starts (what a bunch of shit) so i am reading this:

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#147 Post by NYRexall » Sat Jul 06, 2013 3:11 am

Currently engrossing myself in this: http://www.amazon.com/She-Comes-First-T ... omes+first

And when I'm done, I'll be engrossing myself in certain other things :nod: :banana:

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#148 Post by Larry B. » Sat Jul 06, 2013 11:09 am

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Great, simple narrative of a guy who lived (lives?) for Manchester United. Really beautiful.

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#149 Post by Artemis » Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:17 pm

I bought two new books today. One of my resolutions this year is to read more books. In 2013 I didn't read a single book...not even a short story!

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On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife. Sadly, she dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in any number of ways. Clearly history (and Kate Atkinson) have plans for her: In Ursula rests nothing less than the fate of civilization.

Wildly inventive, darkly comic, startlingly poignant — this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best, playing with time and history, telling a story that is breathtaking for both its audacity and its endless satisfactions.
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Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Canada's Governor General's Literary Award, a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems....

It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky.

Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bus, The Luminaries is a brilliantly constructed, fiendishly clever ghost story and a gripping page-turner. It is a thrilling achievement for someone still in her midtwenties, and will confirm for critics and readers that Eleanor Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament.
I like having a couple of books on the go at the same time.

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Re: What are you reading?

#150 Post by farrellgirl99 » Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:28 pm

i wanted to check out Life After Life, let me know how it is!

im reading these two right now:

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