What are you reading right now?

**Janszoon** · 12-07-2010, 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Flyingpig437

Touching from a distance. Ian Curt's wife book about him...or them rather.

He's not coming out of it too well. Very controlling of her and racist.

Ugh. Stuff like that is why a lot of the time I avoid learning too much about the personalities of the people in bands I like.

storymilo · 12-07-2010, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

Nope, it's the first thing I've read by him.

Well if you like The Corrections I guess I'd recommend it, as he seemed to really enjoy it. Maybe I should read one so I can actually know what I'm talking about.

Zarko · 12-07-2010, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by clementine

I'm reading it now too, I've almost finished City of Glass and I really liked it, he's got a very interesting narrative, I found really interesting all the little details, though what I like best about it is all the quoting other texts and adding all that information that made me want to look it up and read more about the whole thing, I like being motivated to investigate about something by a book!

A good way to put it.

Just finished Ghosts and The Locked Room and I definitely prefered those two over City of Glass. Expertly crafted grouping, though the third one has a few too many references to the previous books, despite being totally independant from them (Though that is up to interpretation I suppose)

adidasss · 12-08-2010, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

Moving on to:

So far, great...(:

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“The desserts were a foot tall!” Enid said, her instincts having told her that Denise didn’t care about pyramids of shrimp. “It was elegant elegant. Have you ever seen anything like that?”

“I’m sure it was very nice,” Denise said.

“The Dribletts really do things super-deluxe. I’d never seen a dessert that tall. Have you?”

The subtle signs that Denise was exercising patience—the slightly deeper breaths she took, the soundless way she set her fork down on her plate and took a sip of wine and set the glass back down—were more hurtful to Enid than a violent explosion.

“I’ve seen tall desserts,” Denise said.

“Are they tremendously difficult to make?”

Denise folded her hands in her lap and exhaled slowly. “It sounds like a great party. I’m glad you had fun.”

Enid had, true enough, had fun at Dean and Trish’s party, and she’d wished that Denise had been there to see for herself how elegant it was. At the same time, she was afraid that Denise would not have found the party elegant at all, that Denise would have picked apart its specialness until there was nothing left but ordinariness. Her daughter’s taste was a dark spot in Enid’s vision, a hole in her experience through which her own pleasures were forever threatening to leak and dissipate.

loveissucide · 12-10-2010, 09:17 AM

One can never get too much of a good thing.

SATCHMO · 12-10-2010, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by loveissucide

One can never get too much of a good thing.

We are talkin' about existentialism, right?

rondo · 12-11-2010, 12:07 AM

This stuff would probably require a lifetime to finish!!! Reading the English translations. Hope its worth the ride.

TheBig3 · 12-11-2010, 11:07 PM

Can anyone recommend me a book on WW1? I'm looking for an in-depth text leading up to covering and the aftermath of WW1. Any help is really appreciated.

zachsd · 12-12-2010, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by rondo

This stuff would probably require a lifetime to finish!!! Reading the English translations. Hope its worth the ride.

Hm, is that just another name for Remembrance of Things Past? If so I've never heard it referred to that way, interesting. And yeah, that would take a ****load of time to read.

I'm reading:

Or at least going to start reading in a few minutes.

rondo · 12-12-2010, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by zachsd

Hm, is that just another name for Remembrance of Things Past? If so I've never heard it referred to that way, interesting. And yeah, that would take a ****load of time to read.

I'm reading:

Or at least going to start reading in a few minutes.

Oh yes, it is Remembrance of Things Past (or In Search of Lost Time). The first volume is titled as 'Du côté de chez Swann' which pretty much translates as Swann's Way. All volumes put together should amount to around 4000 odd pages? Yeah, I'm pretty much going all in!

Interesting that you're reading Three Lives. It's the sort of book I've imagined to read say, on a sunday afternoon. I'm no expert on American literature though, so there's a lot more waiting ahead of it! Do you find it a bit dated in terms of the topics and themes covered? I guess it's more so important for the history 100 years back and the writing style employed.

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