einolu
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JOE1951 said:
heh, I havent read it myself (cant see how its really possible 😉), I got through 3 pages 😛 ...
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heh, I havent read it myself (cant see how its really possible 😉), I got through 3 pages 😛 ...
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Poptart said:
I agree...Vlad is the best. It just doesn't get any better. I think learning English at 3 or 4, but it still not being his native language allowed him to view it more aesthetically than someone is capable of viewing their own language. Since he started so early he had all the grace of a native speaker, but the artistic distance of a foreigner. Anyway. I have read most of his stuff, but oddly, not two on your list. I don't think I ever got around to reading Ada or King, Queen, Knave. I will surely do so at some point. My favorites:
1. The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (is that fair for a favorite? it is all his short stories...)
2. Invitation to a Beheading
3. Pnin
4. Speak, Memory
summaron
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My favorite Nabokov is the Gift about N.'s days in Berlin. It opens with this quote:
"The oak is a tree. The rose is a flower. The deer is an animal. The sparrow is a bird. Russia is our fatherland. Death is inevitable."
P. Smirnovskii, Textbook of Russian Grammar
[The source of this quote was recently discussed on languagehat.com] The first several pages of the Gift contain a great word picture of a 1920/30's Berlin neighborhood.
I have just finished the first two short novels of Roberto Bolano, recently translated into English: Distant Star and By Night in Chile. Pitch-perfect narrators tone, incredible books. Pinochet and Neruda are casual characters in By Night.
Am in the middle of Kakfa's America, new translation by Michael Hoffman, ("He put out a hand and called out: 'Come here!' in a voice so firm you could have beaten it with a hammer"). And I am looking at books on Cy Twombly, Bill Brandt and at Cartier-Bresson's surrealist-tinged work of the year 1933--by far his best stuff (with the exception of some of the portraits and the 1960/70s photo of the couple asleep in the train compartment).
"The oak is a tree. The rose is a flower. The deer is an animal. The sparrow is a bird. Russia is our fatherland. Death is inevitable."
P. Smirnovskii, Textbook of Russian Grammar
[The source of this quote was recently discussed on languagehat.com] The first several pages of the Gift contain a great word picture of a 1920/30's Berlin neighborhood.
I have just finished the first two short novels of Roberto Bolano, recently translated into English: Distant Star and By Night in Chile. Pitch-perfect narrators tone, incredible books. Pinochet and Neruda are casual characters in By Night.
Am in the middle of Kakfa's America, new translation by Michael Hoffman, ("He put out a hand and called out: 'Come here!' in a voice so firm you could have beaten it with a hammer"). And I am looking at books on Cy Twombly, Bill Brandt and at Cartier-Bresson's surrealist-tinged work of the year 1933--by far his best stuff (with the exception of some of the portraits and the 1960/70s photo of the couple asleep in the train compartment).
cp_ste.croix
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gabrielma said:
heh...it is my greatest accomplishment as an english major to have escaped without have to read Ulysses. I have read the first chapter probably 10 times I've restarted it so many times. Maybe you and I should have a friendly bet to spur us on to finishing it?
Currently reading a book of short stories by Alice Munroe
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StuartR
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Yeah, he had some serious first lines. How about this one for the first line of his autobiography, Speak, Memory:
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
Hahaha, imagine starting your autobiography with that!
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
Hahaha, imagine starting your autobiography with that!
ClaremontPhoto
Jon Claremont
'How to Build a Time Machine'
A great (non-fiction) read covering wormholes and stuff like that.
A great (non-fiction) read covering wormholes and stuff like that.
JOE1951
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cp_ste-croix said:
I've tried reading it. Got through the first third and just jumped to end to Molly Blooms stream of conscious solioquy at the end. It's actually quit enjoyable.
BTW, for those confounded Ulysses readers:Ulysses for Dummies
I work at a university so all these references interest me. I remember hearing about an english major writing his final theses on "How many time each letter of the alphabet occurs in the novel Ulysses." 🙄
Needless to say, I'm a little jaded about "higher education"
sigh...
ikophot
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Textbook, pharmacology
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qaiade
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I just finished Helmut Newton's biography.
einolu
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textbook, physics for engineers. thank jesus im switching to economics next semester. I was never ment to be an engineer, heh.
Artem
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Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Well, it's so short I started it on the train yesterday and shall probably finish it today. Superb so far.
tetrisattack
Maximum Creativity!
Everything I know about Finnegan's Wake I read in Tom Robbins' Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates.
My attention is currently split between Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History, and Wheelock's Latin.
Hic haec hoc, huius huius huius, huic huic huic...
My attention is currently split between Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History, and Wheelock's Latin.
Hic haec hoc, huius huius huius, huic huic huic...
einolu
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tetrisattack said:
One of the best books... EVER. I really liked it.
ampguy
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Have the Vivian Maier book checked out from the library. Many great documentary photos.
KoNickon
Nick Merritt
The Great Sea by David Abulafia (book group assignment).
Spanik
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Joyce has the honour of writing the only books I never managed to read more than a couple of pages of. Started Finnegans Wake and gave up after a couple of pages. Same with Dubliners. I never managed to get through Sterne and Gödel, Esher, Bach either, but that had different reasons. At least they weren't as boring a Joyce. Really, if you have nothing to say, then quoting a dictionary won't help.
sepiareverb
genius and moron
Just finished some local history for research into the building I've been photographing. Now onto The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art by Martha Buskirk.
Kodak Instamatic 500 / Verichrome Pan
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gb hill
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Reading Queen of Lamentation by Eric Hill (Helen's husband) Really good & I recommend it.
http://www.amazon.com/Queen-of-Lamentation-ebook/dp/B0096TP948/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
http://www.amazon.com/Queen-of-Lamentation-ebook/dp/B0096TP948/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
robert blu
quiet photographer
Stieg Larsson: The girl who played with fire.
robert
robert
JayM
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Half way through Dead Souls, getting back to Being and Time, and still dinking around with The Order of Things.
It seems like in the time it takes me to read one non-fiction I end up reading between 2 and 4 fictions. That and I occasionally get the feeling I'm reading things outside of the optimal "order" and that I need to jump ship to something that precedes what I'm currently working on.
It seems like in the time it takes me to read one non-fiction I end up reading between 2 and 4 fictions. That and I occasionally get the feeling I'm reading things outside of the optimal "order" and that I need to jump ship to something that precedes what I'm currently working on.
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