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I've heard that it ignores most Hitler resistance movements and instead insinuates that they did not exist. |
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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^It's a little too "Germans were always war-hungry and antisemite and militaristic therefore the Nazis were just a logical and unavoidable conclusion to their history" without doing more analysis of how not all Germany was like that, how the whole Europe was antisemitic, how WWI was the crucial determinig factor in cooking nazism out of that boiling pot. Yes, it has its flaws. But I would say is the perfect primer on that history. The other three i'm reading now are much more in-depth but would've been less effective had I read them first.
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Got you. I'm working through some monster non-fiction works now. Perhaps I'll take that on next.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Atavachron
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really starting to get into Medium Raw, didn't know he'd become so depressed; careening in a jeep toward certain death, his addictions considered romantic and cool by the very people & chefs he'd try to warn away from that life with Kitchen Confidential. Good stuff and I'm only on page 60.
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The whole chapter he does on chef David Chang is fascinating. If you like reading Bourdain you should try out Bill Buford,I read his book "Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany" not too long ago and loved it.
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JJLehto
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After quite a break...finished "Seeing" by Saramago.
Was a good read, pretty brutal ending. Also we never find out who was really responsible Was a bit more avant garde than I expected, not just in style but how it seemed to move. Lots of detail on obvious/unnecessary things, with overly verbose statements to say simple things...I'm guessing that was all part to help create a "governmental" feel. O I see what you did there... Alitare, if you see this by any chance: Did it hurt not having read "Blindness" ? It was referenced a lot, I looked up what it was about but not sure if actually having read it would have shed more detail. Edited by JJLehto - February 28 2012 at 03:03 |
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I've read everything by Max Barry and I love the guy, his novels are really funny. Jennifer Government is my least favourite, maybe because it is too action-oriented and has too many characters. Syrup is the best, it is a hugely entertaining take on the marketing industry. Company is funny as sh*t, starts as a sort of Office Space then has a Matrix-like plot development. I read Machine Man recently, the premise is interesting but I feel it reads too much like a Hollywood movie. The mix of action-oriented plot and "philosophical" bits is a bit gratuitous. Still enjoyable. |
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Jack Kerouac's On The Road: didn't like it as much as The Dharma Bums, it's the unpolished gem; still "excellent" though, 8+ out of 10
Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red: amazing book, borderline 10/10 for me. John Updike's Rabbit Redux: not as strong as a the first Rabbit novel, but still intriguing and powerful; 7/10 Currently re-reading One Hundred Years Of Solitude, still the fundamental masterpiece that shook my world a decade and a half ago |
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so tru & so tru |
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So tru So tru ...and sounds nice, since I've only read Love In The Time Of Cholera. Seems I need to get it. |
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It doesn't hurt. Seeing picks up the events and characters from Blindness giving enough info. Blindness is still a book of its own and a hell of a book. You may want to not grab it right away, though, if Seeing got heavy enough for you in certain moments. That didn't happen to me, though. I read it in a few days, sometimes not clutching to it for hours. I was luckily in vacation, up in the mountains. Sure picked a book not to be able to relax with. |
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:brofist: You know, the amazing thing for me is that the Muslim medieval miniaturists were very similar to Byzantine icon painters, who are still alive and well in contemporary Romania - either still as icon painters or disguised as "secular" painters. I know quite a few and it's amazing how they perpetuate the same ancient tradition, and have the same problems in regards to art, life, transcendence. BTW the story with the old master who witnesses the sacking of Baghdad and quits calligraphy is amazingly similar to the main story in Tarkovsky's Rublyov.
Most definitely, especially if you liked LITTOC. |
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Honestly, only at the very end. It was actually a difficult read for me, first getting used to the style but second just holding my interest. I wasn't really captivated till near the end and the VERY end is when I was pretty shocked (though it wasn't even surprising, now that's some writing)! I mainly plowed forward to finish it and also find out what exactly happened...so it was pretty great when you never actually know who was the mastermind/what happened. Someone else mentioned Blindness as being superior and an amazing read. Will pick it up today probably! |
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Just finished:
Now well into: Dem pesky Lannisters! |
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I also finished Game of Thrones just a while ago. It was very good, much better than I expected. It has been long hyped as a "fantasy with sex&violence", so I feared it to be a shallow read full of blood & sex and one-dimensional characters. That's why I was a little bit wary and it took me a long time to start it, but actually it was cleverly written: the plot was interesting and had couple of twists. The characters were deep enough and realistically prone to errors. The violence and sex scenes were described quite graphically but they still weren't self-purposeful and were used quite sparsely. I'm quite eager to go on with the second book of the series, but I think I'll wait a while and read a couple of different kind of books first. Currently I'm reading Hermann Hesse's Rosshalde. A very good novel, too.
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I currently have this on the backburner: Was thinking about reading this first, but as it's been so long since book 2 came out, I'll have to re-read the first couple before this one... then again, if I get too much into the Song Of Ice & Fire series, that's another 5 books until I get to read 'Abarat'... so many books, so little time... |
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If anbybody is well taught in Dutch or French or German, please help me with this:
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=85240 |
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That's an horribly orange cover!
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