What Book Are You Reading XV - The Pile Keeps Growing!
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I don't know the quality of the Borzoi version is, but it is certainly a very poetic book.
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We should compare notes, because I'm reading that as well.
IIRC the version is the original one. Do you know it is in translation? My Borzoi edition doesn't say anything about a translation.
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Ended The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
Awesome. 5 out of 5.
Great plot, maybe the part in which the count arrives to Paris is more tedious, but begining and end is tottaly easy reading.
Starting The Traitor's Emblem by Juan Gomez-Jurado
Awesome. 5 out of 5.
Great plot, maybe the part in which the count arrives to Paris is more tedious, but begining and end is tottaly easy reading.
Starting The Traitor's Emblem by Juan Gomez-Jurado
Josu
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Ended The Traitor's Emblem by Juan Gomez-Jurado.
Yeah, readed it in less than a week, it is not a long book, also helped that I have been traveling, and I usually don't watch TV in hotels.
Masons, Nazis and a treasure in a easy reading novel with a consistent plot.
Starting to read The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes.
As the Secondary syllabusI was supposed to read it when I was 14, but my literature teacher decided that reading this, we would hate reading, so he asked us to read other book, that was a crap recomended for kids between 9 and 12 years.
Yeah, readed it in less than a week, it is not a long book, also helped that I have been traveling, and I usually don't watch TV in hotels.
Masons, Nazis and a treasure in a easy reading novel with a consistent plot.
Starting to read The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes.
As the Secondary syllabusI was supposed to read it when I was 14, but my literature teacher decided that reading this, we would hate reading, so he asked us to read other book, that was a crap recomended for kids between 9 and 12 years.
"Master of the Revels" Nicole Galland. This continues "The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O." by Neal Stephenson. 
C0nstantG@ming
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Im a chaotic good type of reader lol!
If anyone is interested in fantasy here. Brandon Sanderson has a lot of great series one of my favorites is The Stormlight Archive book one is The Way of Kings.
Also, Brent weeks Black Prism series is amazing and has a very unique magic build that I really enjoyed.
If anyone is interested in fantasy here. Brandon Sanderson has a lot of great series one of my favorites is The Stormlight Archive book one is The Way of Kings.
Also, Brent weeks Black Prism series is amazing and has a very unique magic build that I really enjoyed.
Hello C...G... and welcome to Off Topic.
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Hi and thanks for the welcome!
You should also watch the nice film adaptation, by Visconti. Iirc they didn't change anything of significance (instead of a writer, the protagonist is now a composer)
Reading incredibly slowly, but I am now halfway through Death in Venice.
After this I might even pick up The Magic Mountain once again. I never read it in its entirety, although it was among the first books I was reading of my own accord, at 17. Got 3/4rths in (thousands of pages), before taking a break to read something else (that "something else" was thousands of pages of The Brother's Karamazov) and never finished it.
That's a lifetime ago. I recall going through chapters of The Magic Mountain, in a large room in a luxurious hotel, approaching reading as a kind of adventure.
After this I might even pick up The Magic Mountain once again. I never read it in its entirety, although it was among the first books I was reading of my own accord, at 17. Got 3/4rths in (thousands of pages), before taking a break to read something else (that "something else" was thousands of pages of The Brother's Karamazov) and never finished it.
That's a lifetime ago. I recall going through chapters of The Magic Mountain, in a large room in a luxurious hotel, approaching reading as a kind of adventure.
Yes. In the prologue of the book, Mann jokes that while the reader won't read this in 7 weeks, or (possibly) even 7 months, with some luck he won't need 7 years.
Josu
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Ended The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes.
Did not enjoy it. Giving that it was written some centuries ago, I can understand that it was considered a masterpiece, but each book has its time, definetely, it was not time for me and this book, maybe 30 or 300 years ago.
Started Futbolistas de izquierdas by Quique Peinado. An essay about Football (soccer) players that admited being politically in the left
Did not enjoy it. Giving that it was written some centuries ago, I can understand that it was considered a masterpiece, but each book has its time, definetely, it was not time for me and this book, maybe 30 or 300 years ago.
Started Futbolistas de izquierdas by Quique Peinado. An essay about Football (soccer) players that admited being politically in the left
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I'm on a Gene Wolfe binge. Audiobooks are nice when you drive 10 hours a day. Finished the Latro books, I enjoyed those a lot. The Roy Avers version of book of the new sun is pretty good, and I'm catching a lot of stuff that I missed when I read it back in college. A lot of that is Wolfe being a profoundly smug writer I think.
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