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GKR
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Just finishing another Machado de Assis, "Esaú e Jacó".
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OK, I'm getting sorely tempted. Where to start, have to be English translations as I have no Portuguese. Posthumous Memoirs or something else ? |
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Andrew B
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” ― Julius Henry Marx |
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Machado de Assis surely must have good english translations, because he is studied in North American and European Universities.
Sadly, I dont know any good edition, as (obviously) I always read it in portuguese. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, are also known in English as Epitaph of a Small Winner, its his first work in the style that immortalize him: cruel, acid, ironic (even with comedy), realist and treting the best and the worst in human nature. Start with this one, surely. |
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t d wombat
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I figured as much. OK then, consider it added to the Pile of the Unread. |
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t d wombat
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Having dispenssed with that drivel from Poul Anderson I've moved on to Mieville's Embassytown. If anyone can come up with two more exceptional writers of Sci-Fi/Fantasy then please let me know. I don't mean the masters of old but new guys. Sadly Banks is dead and Mieville is not exactly prolific. |
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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Right now I'm reading...
Short essay collection by Umberto Eco, which delve into confusing political and ethical situations. So far I've read the one analyzing how the political discourse surrounding the Gulf War expose the media's underlying motivation structures, as well as one about how his childhood memories of Italy's defeat in World War 2 shaped his current worldview. He's got a rather wry sense of humour and impressive sense for connecting different academic subject matter to each other, which kind of remind me of Tom Wolfe. |
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t d wombat
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Toaster, Have you read other Eco ? He really is a splendid talent, both with his fiction and non. Even Hollywood couldn't completely fluck up his wonderful "Name of the Rose".
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Andrew B
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Agreed. I think I've read most of his output. PSS is still my favorite, though "The City and the City" and "Railsea" were also very good. "King Rat" feels like an early work, which of course it is and I didn't get into either "The Scar" or "Iron Council". Readin Embassytown at the moment. Jury is still out. To be frank it feels like a Young Adult book. I probably should go back and reread Scar and Council. Edited by t d wombat - October 22 2015 at 18:56 |
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Yeah, back when I studied art history at university the curriculum included several of UE's essays on the subject. I've been meaning to read Foucault's Pendulum one of these days but right now I don't really have time or energy to read a novel that long and complex. |
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t d wombat
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Last year I put myself on a no fiction diet. It actually took me a couple of months this year to get back to to it. I think I just needed to chill out for a while. Indeed it may have been this thread that got me started again. Nonetheless fiction for me has to go beyond the usual blather. Thrillers usual bore me to tears, I'm to old and too cynical to give a flying fornication about fictional romances and I simply do not get the point of historical fiction. For me the best Sci-Fi has the scope to keep me interested while I do like top notch crime fiction especially British and Scandinavian. Iain Banks, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Paul Auster are examples of authors of straight fiction that I do enjoy. |
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Andrew B
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After a big hipster Chuck Palahniuk phase, I have moved on to Henry David Thoreau's Walden.
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I just reread "Melmoth the Wanderer" by Charles Maturin. One of the very best Gothic novels ever. There are passages which are so terrifying I could hardly read on. The corruption of the innocent nature child was the hardest to take for me (though some people may not consider that passage terrifying at all), closely followed by some of the tortures the monk goes through.
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t d wombat
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Oh yes. An absolute belter. Not an easy read but a great one nevertheless. |
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Edited by dr wu23 - October 31 2015 at 10:15 |
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^ I read that in a single day when it came out. I don't think the band were real happy about that book.
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^ Found it in some dusty old boxes of mine some days ago, first read in more than 20 yrs. Didn't remember it to be so WILD.
Pretty disturbing stuff, indeed. |
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