Danihel
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Hello! Saluton! Konnichiwa!
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Post by Danihel on Oct 30, 2008 4:17:58 GMT -5
Hang on, there are 19 members but only 4 people (including myself) have logged in in the past 24 hours?
Anyway, to anyone who's reading this, I have a nice book to recommend. It's a collection of short stories by Michel Faber called "The Farenheit Twins". It's really deep and interesting etc. and I really liked it. Other books by the same author: The Crimson Petal and the White, The Fire Gospel, and Under the Skin.
So, enjoy (if you want)!
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Post by Ián Anglatzarâ on Oct 30, 2008 8:01:53 GMT -5
I'm rereading Le Guin's original Earthsea trilogy and finding it unexpectedly fresh and rewarding. Tehanu next!
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Post by eispetz on Oct 30, 2008 13:28:45 GMT -5
I'm rereading Don DeLillo's big fat novel "Americana", well, the German translation thereof. When I read it for the first time in 2003, I found it a somewhat lame matter, even though well written. I had to push myself through the lecture. This time I'm finding it brilliant and entertaining, full of surprising observations, at least the part that I read so far. The main character is David Bell, someone who's working for an obscure radio station in New York City, in a leading position. The crew at the helm of the radio station is a bunch of 90's-style careerists, who behind all manners are clinging at each others' throats, figuratively speaking, and who, behind their success and wealth, are permanently afraid of being pushed back down the ladder instantly.
I haven't reached the part of the book yet, in which David Bell is leaving all that behind for going on a long road trip to the Navaho settlements, somewhere in the southwestern USA.
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Dréu
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Post by Dréu on Nov 4, 2008 7:51:51 GMT -5
I'm reading De Bello Gallico for my Latin class... it's way too hard...  |
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Post by eispetz on Nov 4, 2008 17:00:06 GMT -5
OMG. Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quorum unam incolunt Belgae... et cetera, et cetera. Nam studium linguae Latinae verum gaudium est.  |
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Post by xhorxh asmour on Nov 5, 2008 8:41:20 GMT -5
De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum! |
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Post by Ián Anglatzarâ on Nov 6, 2008 4:11:32 GMT -5
Have to bring my Latin for All Occasions to the office so I can spout irreverent quotes at you all day long...
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Post by eispetz on Nov 6, 2008 5:24:17 GMT -5
De Presidente nil nisi bene. :-)
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Eoin Ursüm
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Post by Eoin Ursüm on Jun 30, 2009 15:08:46 GMT -5
I'm rereading Le Guin's original Earthsea trilogy and finding it unexpectedly fresh and rewarding. Tehanu next! I must read that. I have the book on my shelf at home. |
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Post by C. M. Siervicül on Jul 2, 2009 10:33:56 GMT -5
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Eoin Ursüm
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Post by Eoin Ursüm on Jul 6, 2009 2:17:59 GMT -5
Hm..I may take a look at that. I do love me some Alternativweltgeschichten. |
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Post by C. M. Siervicül on Jul 8, 2009 11:57:33 GMT -5
Hm..I may take a look at that. I do love me some Alternativweltgeschichten. Same here. Alternate history fascinates me. I like alternate history fiction fine, but this book is a collection of essays by historians. |
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Post by breneir on Jul 9, 2009 15:16:25 GMT -5
I just finished a sci-fi novel titled "Exultant" by Stephen Baxter. It was an incredible read with a temporal scope running from the singularity before the Big Bang to 25,000 years into a spacefaring human society...I was sad when I was through with the book.  |
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Post by C. M. Siervicül on Jul 13, 2009 10:59:06 GMT -5
I would be truly impressed if the chapters were evenly distributed along that timeline. |
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