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VanderGraafKommandöh 
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I can send you a couple of translations of Master and Margreta, of you want?
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Posted: November 26 2006 at 06:02 |
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Cheers for that, James.
Also I did a quick little search for some Borges material and came up with two short stories, there was some poetry as well but I think I might leave that for later (I'm a little hit and miss with that kind of prose): - The Library of Babel - The Universe Sound philosophical already  I will have to print them off in the near future. |
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: November 26 2006 at 06:04 |
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The Library of Babel is interesting, but I've yet to read The Universe.
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Jared
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Posted: November 26 2006 at 10:29 |
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Roger Osborne's 'Civilisation' a treatise of the rise of western civilisation from the earliest settlements, via Ancient Greece, the Black Death & the Protestant Reformation, through to Auchwitz and Sept 11th.....
as you might imagine, it's a very long book, and it doesn't cover us in glory...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Posted: November 26 2006 at 12:05 |
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Not recently, but in August and September, I read Mostly Harmlessand the Wind in the Willows... Both somewhat strange...
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Posted: November 26 2006 at 12:09 |
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Yes. I'm reading George R.R. Martin's Ice And Fire series. A very good, gripping and bloody fantasy. It involves various families, a bit similar to the Houses of old England fighting for Kingdoms with Knights, servants and back-stabbing around every corner.
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Posted: November 26 2006 at 13:40 |
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1984 by Orwell.... it's everything I DON'T want the world to become, but fear that it will... magnificent work.
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Posted: November 26 2006 at 17:52 |
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James, if you want more fantasie, I strongly suggest that you try Stephan Donaldson's Thomas Covonant series of books, very impressive, even if there was a lot of idea borrowing from Tolkien in the first three, though not with the characters, who can end up being rather complex.
As for Tolkien, always prefered his work in The Silmarillion. |
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Posted: November 26 2006 at 19:47 |
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After reading Ender's Game, I had to read more from this guy, so I just finished this:
 Excellent book!  Edited by Scapler - November 26 2006 at 19:47 |
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Bassists are deadly
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: November 27 2006 at 01:54 |
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I'm now on R.A. Salvatore's Exile. The second book in The Dark Elf Trilogy. Homeland (the first book) was excellent.
After this is Sojourn (the final book in the trilogy) and then it's onto The Icewind Dale Trilogy, also by R.A. Salvatore. Lots of reading ahead of me! Edited by Geck0 - December 02 2006 at 03:10 |
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Jared
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I studied 1984 for 'O' level.... back in er, 1984...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Posted: November 27 2006 at 12:57 |
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Either of you read 'Down & Out In Paris & London'? My favorite of his books. Edited by Jim Garten - November 27 2006 at 12:57 |
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Jared
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Posted: November 27 2006 at 13:32 |
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^^^ I have read:
1984
Animal Farm
Down & Out
Road to Wigan Pier
Homage to Catalonia
Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Burmese Days
The Clergyman's Daughter
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Selected Writings
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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I'm halfway through it Jim, but I put it down a while back and haven't picked it up again yet. It is excellent though. I also have On the Road to Wigan Pier in the same book. It's a thick hardback with a lot of his stories and essays in. Very good so far. Edited by Geck0 - December 02 2006 at 03:10 |
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Posted: December 02 2006 at 00:18 |
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La Casa Verde by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Posted: December 10 2006 at 01:02 |
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The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon
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Posted: December 10 2006 at 02:18 |
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I've read a few good essays this semester:
The Futile Pursuit Of Happiness- Jon Gertner
The Wreck Of Time: Taking Our Century's Measure (which is a small piece of a larger work)- Annie Dillard
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I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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Posted: December 10 2006 at 02:31 |
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Faust Stretch out time 1970-1975  Very interesting: the author makes a fine analysis of the band's music. There's a short moment which concerns us, i quote: (it's about "The Faust tapes" album) "The review of The Faust tapes at the Prog Archives goes too far in this direction, awarding it "three stars out of five" and describing it as "good but not essential"." Edited by oliverstoned - December 10 2006 at 02:42 |
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Posted: December 16 2006 at 00:25 |
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Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
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Posted: December 16 2006 at 00:33 |
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I'm now on the first book (The Crystal Shard) of the Icewind Dale Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore (who kind of resembles Rico in a weird way!).
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