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Lucky Llareggub - no more cannibals in our village, we ate the last one yesterday.. Posted Aug 28, 2007
Apropos music - I rather like The Underdog by Spoon at the moment.
All other books are on hold, as I tackle the rather fat Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil. As someone once bravely said in the Antarctic - I may be gone some time.
Progress reports may / may not duly appear.
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MiniMy Posted Aug 29, 2007
Going Postal by Pratchett. Suitably entertaining thus far.
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toybox Posted Aug 31, 2007
I listen to an audio version of 'The Assault' by harry Mulisch. I'll definitely try to listen again, or to read a printed one.
The speaker (Burghart Klaussner) was very good, too
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Jim Lynn Posted Aug 31, 2007
I've gone through 'The End of Harry Potter' by David Langford, 'God is Not Great' by Christopher Hitchens and 'First Among Sequels' by Jasper Fforde.
Now I'm starting 'Breaking the Spell' by Daniel Dennett.
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DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Aug 31, 2007
Robin Hobb! She's awesome - I have just finished the third volume in the Farseer trilogy. Not "literature" but they should be... Some fantasy books are fully worthy of the name.
Vicky
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night-eyes Posted Aug 31, 2007
Robin Hobb is great yes! I loved the Farseer trilogy and I found the follow-up (Tawny Man) rather good as well, although it wasn't a match for the first three boks. The other sequel, the Liveship Traders, had very interesting characters, really full of live and changing through the story and there were some rather good twists in the plot - I enjoyed it even if I I am somehow not that interested in ships
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Aug 31, 2007
>> Having seen the 3 Bourne films in the last few weeks, I've decided that I'd like to read the books. I'd guess that a lot of the politics has been omitted, and the characters would be fleshed out etc. <<
You're going to be disappointed, I'm afraid. The first book is similar to all Ludlum books (I stopped reading them after about 3), in that "characterisation" is an alien concept to him. Of course, in "The Bourne Identity" that's kinda the point. But in all his other books, I dare anyone to know anything about the protagonist, other than his name, and maybe his job, at the end of the book. Don't try to read Ludlum for the characterisation.
Anyway, I finished Hawksmoor (Peter Ackroyd). I know you've all been waiting with bated breath to hear this from me... I didn't like the way it ended. I know, it's all so postmodernist (it was written in 1985) but even so, it was dissatisfying.
Currently reading (OK, about to finish) I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan. This has some of the funniest writing and episodes I've read for ages!
RF
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Bagpuss Posted Aug 31, 2007
View from the Summit by Sir Edmund Hillary. So far he's climbed Everest, toured the world talking about it, been knighted and got married. And I'm only two chapters in.
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pedro Posted Aug 31, 2007
It's all downhill from then on, I suppose.
RF, Ludlum sounds similar to Michael Crichton. Zat fair?
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Lucky Llareggub - no more cannibals in our village, we ate the last one yesterday.. Posted Sep 1, 2007
I picked up a second-hand pocket-size Penguin yesterday - A Friend of Kafka and other short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
It's the right antidote for the book by Musil that I'm reading - The Man Without Qualities - which is thicker than a Harry Potter book, weighs half a ton and is impossible to carry around.
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Sep 1, 2007
>> RF, Ludlum sounds similar to Michael Crichton. Zat fair? <<
I think Crichton at least attempts to give his characters, er, character, even if it's a cardboard-cut-out cliché. From what I remember of reading Ludlum, he didn't even bother with that.
Mind you, the only Chrichton books I've actually read are the Jurassic Park ones...I don't know if they're representative.
I finished I, Lucifer (Glen Duncan) this morning. It really is rather good. And devilishly funny!
RF
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korculablue Posted Sep 1, 2007
Finally started the new Harry Potter and I'm struggling! For me this is the poorest book though not too sure why yet, except that I'm struggling and it seems very long-winded. Nothing seems to be happening much.
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Sho - employed again! Posted Sep 1, 2007
I've nearly finished my 2nd read of that. I'm glad I've read it again, but I doubt there will be a 3rd time. Unless I cave in and read it to The Gruesome Twosome.
Nothing much does happen, until the end. And even then it has a kind of detatched quality to it though.
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korculablue Posted Sep 1, 2007
Hmmmm Well I'm not giving up yet. Maybe it will be worth it just to find out what happens at the end.
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Sho - employed again! Posted Sep 1, 2007
push on - if anything it's interesting to find out about Dumbledore, the lad.
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SilviaWordsworth Posted Sep 2, 2007
Indefatigable - I remember the Canticles of Liebowitz! What did you make of it? Wasn't it the cycle of religion repeating every 2,000 years or so, and the coming of the messiah just after a nuclear holocaust? Wasn't my favourite book of all time...
SW
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SilviaWordsworth Posted Sep 2, 2007
Just finished the Exiles/Milieu. Just started the Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! Bit of a difference in literary styles!
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SilviaWordsworth Posted Sep 2, 2007
Korculablue, the seventh Harry Potter doesn't seem to have any action in the first half - stick with it, though, I enjoyed the second half! All the loose ends seem to be nicely tied off, from throughout the other six books, as well.
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Sep 3, 2007
I've just finished 'God Is Not Great'. Very entertaining! The other day I found myself in the same room as a pastor, but I don't think I quite managed to persuade her to read it.
Back to Bulgakov now.
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Literarythinker Posted Sep 3, 2007
hi
you read the books written down by writers of high understanding-----you write books for me and them......happy you
I am in the maze of life-----dazzled------life is complex----no one helps me---i want to study in Europe or America------oh you seem a learned on----can you help me?
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