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08-09-2012, 05:41 PM
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centurion
Join Date: Feb 2010
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
Why thank you. My dad actually just loaned me Cloud Atlas, so I will read that next, but I had not even heard of those last three. Merci bien.
Also, to contribute to the thread, I am currently about to finish Anna Karenina and Goethe's Faust and really liking both. Some of the verses in Faust are sort of grating to me, but it's a translation so who knows how much is lost there and the content is well worth it. I was also pretty surprised at how hilarious Goethe is.
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08-09-2012, 06:06 PM
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#8207
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Looking forward to AA
Posts: 15,281
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
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Originally Posted by Dominic
oh for **** sake
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Yeah, I have the 1000pp one and had the *exact* same reaction as you. It's back in the pile until good knows when...maybe if I need back surgery or something.
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08-09-2012, 06:09 PM
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#8208
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Looking forward to AA
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
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Originally Posted by johnnycarson
Why thank you. My dad actually just loaned me Cloud Atlas, so I will read that next, but I had not even heard of those last three. Merci bien.
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some more recent ones would be Kavalier and Clay, White Noise /or Underworld, Martin Dressler, The Line of Beauty.
Cloud Atlas was shockingly good imho.
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08-09-2012, 06:59 PM
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#8209
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 15,660
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
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Originally Posted by Dominic
oh for **** sake
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On the plus side, part two is completely different from part one in just about every respect (other than writing style obv.)
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08-09-2012, 07:06 PM
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Pooh-Bah
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 4,299
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
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Originally Posted by SL__72
Yeah, sounds like you only have the first part of the first book then. Quicksilver the novel is ~1000pp. Quicksilver, the first 1/3 of the novel, was about 480pp paperback.
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We're they originally released as several books? I am currently reading the version with only three books.
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08-09-2012, 08:03 PM
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Pooh-Bah
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 4,299
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
Gonna take a look at some lovecraft. Just downloaded his collected works on kindle for .99 after seeing a limited collection at the local bookstore for $17.50. Gonna start with call of cthulu and the mountains of madness.
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08-09-2012, 08:07 PM
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old hand
Join Date: May 2012
Location: making fetch happen
Posts: 1,579
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
The composer Arnold Schoenberg said "art belongs to the unconscious". I am thoroughly enjoying Infinite Jest with this in mind. On mental cruise control, just absorbing it.
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08-09-2012, 09:44 PM
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banned
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 8
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
Halfway thru Shades of Grey
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08-10-2012, 01:16 AM
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Tripod
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Norma's Diner
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
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Originally Posted by Vikingz
Halfway thru Shades of Grey
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Make sure you check out Twilight next
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08-10-2012, 07:18 AM
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#8215
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old hand
Join Date: May 2012
Location: making fetch happen
Posts: 1,579
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
Fwiw BEE loves shades of grey
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08-10-2012, 10:43 AM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 15,660
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
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Originally Posted by ianlippert
We're they originally released as several books? I am currently reading the version with only three books.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksi...el%29#Editions
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Split into 3 volumes in 2006
Quicksilver, January 2006, US, HarperCollins (ISBN 9780060833169), mass market 480 pages
The King of the Vagabonds, February 2006, US, HarperCollins (ISBN 9780060833176), mass market paperback, 400 pages
Odalisque, March 2006, US, HarperCollins (ISBN 9780060833183), mass markete paperback, 464 pages
See also
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08-10-2012, 11:01 AM
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journeyman
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 277
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
I was after reading The Curse of the Lono until I realised that it would set me back £30/$45 to pick up a copy. Has anyone read it, any thoughts?
Anyway, I got Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas instead. Slightly off-topic but Ralph Steadman's illustrations in the edition I got are pretty cool.
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08-10-2012, 11:13 AM
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#8218
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 16,089
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
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Originally Posted by Vikingz
Halfway thru Shades of Grey
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dominic
Make sure you check out Twilight next
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Was he banned for reading Shades of Grey? lol
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08-10-2012, 01:16 PM
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#8219
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journeyman
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 238
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
Just read Terry Pratchett's Good Omens ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Omens)
Was fantastic, studing Kill Everyone and reading Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore. Great read so far!
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08-10-2012, 03:31 PM
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#8220
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old hand
Join Date: May 2012
Location: making fetch happen
Posts: 1,579
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
Dfw biography comes out aug 30
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