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« Reply #525 on: November 29, 2009, 01:19:58 PM » |
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The Reader was a nice fast read. Translated from the German and it did remind me of All Quiet on the Western Front. It's a teacher's book.
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« Reply #526 on: November 29, 2009, 06:00:26 PM » |
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The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey. Now, let's see if I can actually be debt-free (or very close to it) in a year.
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« Reply #527 on: November 30, 2009, 03:56:32 PM » |
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Chime to Water for Elephants. I loved that book!
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« Reply #528 on: December 02, 2009, 11:04:38 PM » |
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I just finished Trollope's Christmas Stories, which I thought were just so-so. At least they inspired me to go re-read my collection of Dickens' Christmas stories. Much better.
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« Reply #529 on: December 02, 2009, 11:45:34 PM » |
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Started Grafton's "U/Undertow" and have my eye on a couple more newly-minted-for-the-holiday-season mysteries after that.
In my copious free time....
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« Reply #530 on: December 03, 2009, 01:16:59 PM » |
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Am in the midst of the Saga of the Volsungs, will read The Master and Margarita next, just finished Gwenhwyfar, by Mercedes Lackey. It was...OK.
Has anyone here read the Bolgakov book? My uncle recommended it at Thanksgiving. What am I in for, here?
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« Reply #531 on: December 03, 2009, 01:31:02 PM » |
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Am in the midst of the Saga of the Volsungs, will read The Master and Margarita next, just finished Gwenhwyfar, by Mercedes Lackey. It was...OK.
Has anyone here read the Boulgakov book? My uncle recommended it at Thanksgiving. What am I in for, here?
Sheer, crazy, wild pleasure. |
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« Reply #532 on: December 03, 2009, 02:13:13 PM » |
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Am in the midst of the Saga of the Volsungs, will read The Master and Margarita next, just finished Gwenhwyfar, by Mercedes Lackey. It was...OK.
Has anyone here read the Bolgakov book? My uncle recommended it at Thanksgiving. What am I in for, here?
I've read it, and you're in for a whole bunch of Beelzebub. The book takes a lot of focus, but I thought the prose was quite seductive (although I'm not sure if that's true in the English translation). I read it as an undergrad, prompted mostly by the story one of my professors had told us about the risk she and her parents went through to acquire and read a copy while they were still in the Soviet Union (each family could only have the book one night!). |
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« Reply #533 on: December 03, 2009, 02:45:55 PM » |
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Am in the midst of the Saga of the Volsungs, will read The Master and Margarita next, just finished Gwenhwyfar, by Mercedes Lackey. It was...OK.
Has anyone here read the Bolgakov book? My uncle recommended it at Thanksgiving. What am I in for, here?
I've read it, and you're in for a whole bunch of Beelzebub. The book takes a lot of focus, but I thought the prose was quite seductive (although I'm not sure if that's true in the English translation). I read it as an undergrad, prompted mostly by the story one of my professors had told us about the risk she and her parents went through to acquire and read a copy while they were still in the Soviet Union (each family could only have the book one night!). Now that really makes me look forward to it, Stanwyck. I chose the translation that claimed to preserve the sense and feel of the Russian prose, but of course there's only so much a translation can do. My uncle said the book made him want to learn Russian so that he could get more of the jokes. |
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« Reply #534 on: December 03, 2009, 02:46:40 PM » |
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Am in the midst of the Saga of the Volsungs, will read The Master and Margarita next, just finished Gwenhwyfar, by Mercedes Lackey. It was...OK.
Has anyone here read the Boulgakov book? My uncle recommended it at Thanksgiving. What am I in for, here?
Sheer, crazy, wild pleasure. Chime. The Master and Margarita is amazing fun, intellectual and full of wordplay and cleverness. There are several translations available--I haven't run into any to really avoid yet. It's one of the books I'm always buying for relatives and friends--I think I've probably given away at least a dozen copies, I love it so much and want others to experience it. |
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« Reply #535 on: December 03, 2009, 03:14:21 PM » |
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I was just skimming through the online version ( http://lib.ru/BULGAKOW/master.txt) and suddenly remembered that it was in this book that I first encountered the word Бегемот (behemoth). That should probably go in the "words your students don't know thread," because I was 20 years old at the time and surely should have known its meaning by then. |
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« Reply #536 on: December 03, 2009, 10:36:18 PM » |
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Which translation? I've heard there's a relatively new one that's really good. (My copy is from the 80s, but it's packed away somewhere and I don't recall who the translator was.)
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« Reply #537 on: December 04, 2009, 12:57:56 PM » |
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I was just skimming through the online version ( http://lib.ru/BULGAKOW/master.txt) and suddenly remembered that it was in this book that I first encountered the word Бегемот (behemoth). That should probably go in the "words your students don't know thread," because I was 20 years old at the time and surely should have known its meaning by then. One day I will have a giant black cat and name him this. And teach him to shoot and play chess. |
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« Reply #538 on: December 04, 2009, 01:47:36 PM » |
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I'm reading "The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss right now and loving it.
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« Reply #539 on: December 04, 2009, 05:26:03 PM » |
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I'm reading "The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss right now and loving it.
I loved that book, too. And yet. I didn't think her other novel was as good, unfortunately. |
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