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I could read a book.

Only what.
Berlin Alexanderplatz.


Not sure if I can find a copy.



Cry

The Magic Mountain then.


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I could pick that, actually. I've been wanting to, for some time, too.
There was a Mann novel - though not one of the classics usually mentioned - that, back in 12th grade, my special Romanian tutor called it "quite possibly the best of all time, in all aspects". But of course I didn't stick on to what that novel was.


Maybe Doctor Faustus? It’s brilliant!

And it’s a strange coincidence that you were discussing Thomas Mann just one day before I chose Adrian Leverkühn (the main person of said novel) for the Guess Person Game (I hadn’t read your posts at the time).
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Starting some more Michael Marshall Smith now since Only Forward was so amazing.  Spares this time around. 
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Gonna put It on hold. I'm too busy to focus on a book that takes so long to build.

Onto this:
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Originally posted by The Truth The Truth wrote:

Gonna put It on hold. I'm too busy to focus on a book that takes so long to build.

Onto this:




No work of Kharms was released in Brazil yet...Cry
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Today I started:
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Also, who can go wrong with some comic books?

Batman, Green Lantern, The Flash and Blue Beetle 4ver. <3
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Just began Tony Bourdain's Medium Raw.  Looks promising.

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Just began Tony Bourdain's Medium Raw.  Looks promising.


Very good book David! I liked Kitchen Confidential a little better but Medium Raw focuses more on his life and travels after becoming a celebrity.

I have his book The Nasty Bits on my Kindle but haven't got around to reading it yet.


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Originally posted by The Truth The Truth wrote:

Also, who can go wrong with some comic books?

Batman, Green Lantern, The Flash and Blue Beetle 4ver. <3
 
You need to read (yes, you NEED to readWink):
 
Watchmen
Incal
V for Vendetta
The Boys (best superhero critic ever!)
Some Vertigo comic books
And Lone Wolf, the greatest manga ever made!
 
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Laid down in bed last night and decided to read the first chapter to get me ready for sleep. Next thing I knew I look at the same and I notice that I'm 300 pages into the book. Finished the rest before catching a few hours of sleep before I had to leave for work.
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You managed to get the Libertarian edition? LOL
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Latest bunch I've been reading:

Stridens skönhet och sorg ("The Beauty and Sorrow of Combat") by Peter Englund (excellent biographical take on WW1, non-fiction, my favourite history writer - this was the second time reading it)

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - first Le Carré novel for me. Loved the BBC series when I saw it last year, the book is quite excellent as well, if you like this sort of thing. Slow, methodical, "real" intelligence work with a nice story. Actualized by the new movie.

The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco. He still hasn't disappointed me.

Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac - meh, interesting enough as a study of greed and suffering, but still - kinda meh.





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Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Just began Tony Bourdain's Medium Raw.  Looks promising.
Very good book David! I liked Kitchen Confidential a little better but Medium Raw focuses more on his life and travels after becoming a celebrity.

I have his book The Nasty Bits on my Kindle but haven't got around to reading it yet.
yeah you really can't beat KitchCon--  Medium Raw is very good but seems a bit unfocused.  He's a great writer, though, so it's still a pleasure to read (a big influence on my style).   Nasty Bits is my second fave, it's a collection of articles but reads beautifully as a single manuscript.   I think you'll enjoy it thoroughly.   A Cook's Tour, as he points out in Raw, was done as a quick deal to go along with the show and is probably the weaker of his food adventure books.   I'd still like to read his fiction (Bone in the Throat, etc.) and the one about Typhoid Mary.
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Originally posted by LinusW LinusW wrote:


Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - first Le Carré novel for me. Loved the BBC series when I saw it last year, the book is quite excellent as well, if you like this sort of thing. Slow, methodical, "real" intelligence work with a nice story. Actualized by the new movie.


I ordered the whole Karla Trilogy online, in original, after seeing the "new movie". Pumped me up, I s'pose.
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You managed to get the Libertarian edition? LOL


Yes. Such a happy coincidence that its the only copy my used book store had.
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After devouring "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", the 1200+ book on, well, the subject is obvious, I'm studying more of the era with the fantastic trilogy by Richard Evans The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power and, eventually after I finish this one, The Third Reich at War. Then we will leave this part of history alone and will focus on others... Tongue
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Margaret Atwood..........Oryx & Crake........well written
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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

After devouring "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", the 1200+ book on, well, the subject is obvious, I'm studying more of the era with the fantastic trilogy by Richard Evans The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power and, eventually after I finish this one, The Third Reich at War. Then we will leave this part of history alone and will focus on others... Tongue


I found a copy of that on the steps of a factory when I was young. I'm guessing its worth reading? 
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