Just started Notes from the Underground last night.
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Me too! Not five months ago though. I wanted to do The Idiot next because that's supposed to be a companion piece of C&P, but, yeah, I went for something shorter like NftU. Pretty good so far. The guy just rants about life and other existential fodder.
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"Loves them? They need them, like they need the air."
"Loves them? They need them, like they need the air."
It's not the same as, let's say, Russian to English, Spanish to English, German to English. It's not the same at all. A lot of times in those languages the words correspond to English one-to-one. In Japanese, I highly doubt it is this way. I don't think they even use pronouns?
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Just the title Kafka on the shore (I'm aware it has nothing to do with Franz) entices me. Also, I've heard many great things.
I guess I'll just have to get over it...
I guess I'll just have to get over it...
Definitely read Murakami if you have the chance. I'm sure some of it is lost in translation, but I'd still encourage anyone to read him.
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Definitely read Murakami if you have the chance. There are probably plenty of aspects that were lost in translation, but I'd still encourage anyone to read him.
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"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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Norwegian Wood is another more popular title, which is also great. I'd say start with that one. But, I can't say I wouldn't recommend Hard-Boiled Wonderland, because it's probably one of my favorites by him.
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War Reporting for Cowards by Chris Ayres
Bookended by his experiences as an embedded journo in 2003, there's a certain degree of fluff in the middle of this account (all be it fluff that includes his proximity to 9-11). The kudos-chasing side of his rise through the journalistic ranks to Los Angeles glamour reporter doesn't exactly paint him in a favourable light, even if it is all honestly and wittily portrayed. The real meat is in the pink mist and adrenalin-fuelled perspectives of the invasion. The banter of his Humvee-bound protectors made me think of the early sections of Three Kings, as 'Fighting Irish' blithely admits his malaria pill will probably knock him unconscious at the wheel, and everyone presses him on his Press kevlar. Probably not much in the way of new news here, but plenty of insider perspective, of soldiers on the ground, and the politics and pant-soiling of being a journalist alongside them.
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A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Pact: a Love Story - Jodi Picoult
uh, my cousin begged me to read it. it made me want to gauge my eyes out.
It - Stephen King
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Pact: a Love Story - Jodi Picoult
uh, my cousin begged me to read it. it made me want to gauge my eyes out.
It - Stephen King
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
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If I had a dollar for every existential crisis I've ever had, does money really even matter?
If I had a dollar for every existential crisis I've ever had, does money really even matter?
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Just finished The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. Brilliant stuff. I think Waters is now my favourite author, there hasn't been a single one of her books I haven't enjoyed reading. I wasn't sure a possibly-haunted house story would appeal to me but it's so well written because you get swept up in the story. There is a creeping sense of dread that makes it quite scary in places.
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Just a heads up that the English translation of Murakami's Hardboiled Wonderland is heavily abridged.
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Just finished the final Dark Tower book. Stephen King's masterpiece, I know a few were disappointed with the ending but I thought it was perfect
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If at his council I should turn aside, Into that ominous tract which all agree, Hides the Dark Tower. Yet aquiescingly I did turn as he pointed, neither pride nor hope at the end descried, so much as gladness that some end might be.
Robert Browning 'Childe Roland to The Dark Tower Came'
If at his council I should turn aside, Into that ominous tract which all agree, Hides the Dark Tower. Yet aquiescingly I did turn as he pointed, neither pride nor hope at the end descried, so much as gladness that some end might be.
Robert Browning 'Childe Roland to The Dark Tower Came'
The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton
Delirious, giddy, turn-of-the-Century hijinks. The story of a detective infiltrating an anarchist ring has a certain predictability to its loops but it's still a joy to stay on its trail as it circumscribes balloon chases, intangible terrors and punctured pontifications. Lotsa fun
WARNING: "Man and boy" spoilers below
Kinda strange that he dapples everything with Christian connotations, especially towards the end, but also claims that Sunday isn't God at all - that the whole thing is just a fever dream of the anarchy-pessimists of the time. Still, it's this burning young-writer's fever that I like about it, so can certainly excuse it rattling off the tracks of logic in it's threshing excesses
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Me too! Not five months ago though. I wanted to do The Idiot next because that's supposed to be a companion piece of C&P, but, yeah, I went for something shorter like NftU. Pretty good so far. The guy just rants about life and other existential fodder.
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"I know, honey. Look at the map. We go your way, that's about four inches. We go my way, it's an inch and a half. You wanna pay for the extra gas?"
"I know, honey. Look at the map. We go your way, that's about four inches. We go my way, it's an inch and a half. You wanna pay for the extra gas?"
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Just finished The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. Brilliant stuff. I think Waters is now my favourite author, there hasn't been a single one of her books I haven't enjoyed reading. I wasn't sure a possibly-haunted house story would appeal to me but it's so well written because you get swept up in the story. There is a creeping sense of dread that makes it quite scary in places.
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Has anyone here read The Hours by Michael Cunningham and if so, was it good?
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The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton
Delirious, giddy, turn-of-the-Century hijinks. The story of a detective infiltrating an anarchist ring has a certain predictability to its loops but it's still a joy to stay on its trail as it circumscribes balloon chases, intangible terrors and punctured pontifications. Lotsa fun
WARNING: "Man and boy" spoilers below
Kinda strange that he dapples everything with Christian connotations, especially towards the end, but also claims that Sunday isn't God at all - that the whole thing is just a fever dream of the anarchy-pessimists of the time. Still, it's this burning young-writer's fever that I like about it, so can certainly excuse it rattling off the tracks of logic in it's threshing excesses
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