Broken_Erika
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What Book Are You Reading XV - The Pile Keeps Growing!
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The books. I know that Thrawn was retooled to feature in DisneyWars.
It's a strange book that took me a couple of years to read. Sometimes you just put it down and resume reading it sometime later.
And that's how it's intended to be read.
Neither Castorp nor Settembrini are meant to be particularly likable or liked, because, well… just read it.
I feel this is a book young people read. No surprise it was the first major book I tried to read, when I was 17. But only got to 3/4rths and was so bored that I took a break with Dostoevsky - and now decades have passed 
I'd rather read some novel by Mishima, tbh.
I'd rather read some novel by Mishima, tbh.
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The old books by Zahn are indeed disowned. They hired him to write a new trilogy, and then another trilogy.
The new one essentially covers how he was discovered by the Empire and became the grand admiral. I believe the second new one is a prequel series of his time in the Ascendancy, but I haven't gotten that far yet.
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Leave it around and later in the year you'll find in you to resume reading it. It's how I did it over a couple of years.I feel this is a book young people read. No surprise it was the first major book I tried to read, when I was 17. But only got to 3/4rths and was so bored that I took a break with Dostoevsky - and now decades have passed
I'd rather read some novel by Mishima, tbh.
I suppose that Zahn did the same as Arnie in T3: ‘Money? For redoing something I already did? You needn't insist!’
Chukchi Husky
Lone Wolf
I've finished reading a book called Coyote America by Dan Flores. I don't think many Americans would like this book.
Josu
Emperor
Ended Zeus y familia (Zeus and family) by Fermin Bocos
First of all, it is not a bad book, it would be a 3.5/5. It is a fine book.
The author explains that the idea of the book borns in the reduction in Spanish schools of teaching hours of humanities such as philosophy or history.
It tryes to explain greek mythology in a colloquial way so that people who suffered this reduction may have an approach to these stories.
It does it succesfully. It also succesfully links some of this stories with pictures, scultures or films.
However, this success leads to the big fail of the book, because this colloquiality and this approach means that does not deepen into the stories.
I am not an expert, however, being a kid I read some mythology books having more substance.
Starting The Song of Troy by Colleen McCullough
First of all, it is not a bad book, it would be a 3.5/5. It is a fine book.
The author explains that the idea of the book borns in the reduction in Spanish schools of teaching hours of humanities such as philosophy or history.
It tryes to explain greek mythology in a colloquial way so that people who suffered this reduction may have an approach to these stories.
It does it succesfully. It also succesfully links some of this stories with pictures, scultures or films.
However, this success leads to the big fail of the book, because this colloquiality and this approach means that does not deepen into the stories.
I am not an expert, however, being a kid I read some mythology books having more substance.
Starting The Song of Troy by Colleen McCullough
Oooh, I've read that one. It's good, but less ‘epic’ than the Masters of Rome series.
tjs282
Stone \ Cold / Fish
Sat down with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (N. K. Jemisin) at lunchtime a couple of days ago. Got halfway through before the meds knocked me out for the rest of the afternoon.
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Toole is a picaresque novel about some of the most interesting characters I have met in literature. Characters that I can laugh at and feel sorry for at the same time. Reminds me of Infinite Jest without the footnotes and deeper musings on society, but with more comedy (a lot more) and satire of American society (especially with the rather extreme stereotypes). A classic that truly deserves its reputation, though I understand the characters can be very unsympathetic at times.
Found what is a new bookshop nearby and they have a good selection of books. Leo Tolstoi's Letters, Rousseau's The Social Contract and Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism for $1000 which, in Unitedstatesian dollars, is about, uhm, five dollars.
All done. I agree with Syn. Great finish with all the loose ends neatly tied. The whole series was just excellent.
tjs282
Stone \ Cold / Fish
You can't fool me, young Takh. I know that's a Tintin book!
And a second afternoon binge finished that one off.
Now reading The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
I’ve kind of lost the ability to read at length as I once relished, so have been trying to get through The Eye of the World; over 10 months, I’ve done maybe 200 pages, which I would once do in half an hour.
Blistering barnacles, you are most sagacious!
I am a bit hesitant to say it, but today I am reading the Annals of Eugenics.
Josu
Emperor
Ended The Song of Troy by Colleen McCullough
Masterpiece. 5/5.
Fate. Glory. Pride. Honor. Revenge. Wrath. War. Fantasy. Mythology. All in a single story.
The Iliad is one of the best stories ever. And it helps.
I enjoyed a lot how the point of view changes depending on who is the storyteller in the chapter. It is simply brilliant how the story changes from mythology to a rational explanation depeding on the credulity of the character.
As the book was going on I was anxious to see how the trojan horse issue was going to be explained. Never understood why trojans saw a big horse and thought, ok, lets introduce it in the city.
Was it going to be a siege engine? an earthquake as some historians suggest?
Starting Never, by Ken Follet
Masterpiece. 5/5.
Fate. Glory. Pride. Honor. Revenge. Wrath. War. Fantasy. Mythology. All in a single story.
The Iliad is one of the best stories ever. And it helps.
I enjoyed a lot how the point of view changes depending on who is the storyteller in the chapter. It is simply brilliant how the story changes from mythology to a rational explanation depeding on the credulity of the character.
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As the book was going on I was anxious to see how the trojan horse issue was going to be explained. Never understood why trojans saw a big horse and thought, ok, lets introduce it in the city.
Was it going to be a siege engine? an earthquake as some historians suggest?
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Starting Never, by Ken Follet
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