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Bohne
 
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Reply Fri 26 Oct, 2007 02:26 am
Started on Ulysses once again (about fifth time in 8 or 10 years)
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Lisa Simpson
 
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Reply Sat 27 Oct, 2007 03:40 am
Origin of the Species (been working on it for a month now, only half done)

Just started on Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

Just finished Thousand splendid Suns last week.
good but not as good as kite runner

Last month:

6 Days of War June 1967 and the making of the Modern Middle East

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition
LOVED IT

The Portrait of Doren Gray
LOVED IT TOO.
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maporsche
 
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Reply Sat 27 Oct, 2007 07:08 am
Lisa Simpson wrote:
Origin of the Species (been working on it for a month now, only half done)

Just started on Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

Just finished Thousand splendid Suns last week.
good but not as good as kite runner

Last month:

6 Days of War June 1967 and the making of the Modern Middle East

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition

I like the reading list.
LOVED IT

The Portrait of Doren Gray
LOVED IT TOO.
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Chai
 
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Reply Sat 27 Oct, 2007 09:11 am
Quarantine by Jim Crace


been reading to read it for awhile.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 27 Oct, 2007 09:33 am
Name and Tears & Other Stories
Forty Years of Italian Fiction
edited and translated by Kathrine Jason
The Graywolf Short Fiction Series, 1990



excellent...

includes Giovanni Arpino, Giuseppe Bonaviri, Vitaliano Brancati, Gesualdo Bufalino, Dino Buzzato, Italo Calvino, Carlo Cassola, aUmberto Eco, Beppe Fenoglio, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Natalia Ginzburg, Raffaele La Capria, Tommaso Landolfi, Luigi Malerba, Alberto Moravia, Anna Maria Ortese, Geffredo Parise, Giuseppe Pontiggia, Vasco Pratolini, Francesca Sanvitale, Leonardo Sciascia, Carlo Sgorlon, Mario Soldati, Antonio Tabucchi, Mario Tobino, Elio Vittorini. Quite a sampler..


A2K amazon link for Names and Tears (etc)
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urs53
 
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Reply Sun 28 Oct, 2007 06:36 am
Cry Hard Cry Fast by John D. MacDonald
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Gargamel
 
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Reply Sun 28 Oct, 2007 01:04 pm
ossobuco wrote:
Name and Tears & Other Stories
Forty Years of Italian Fiction
edited and translated by Kathrine Jason
The Graywolf Short Fiction Series, 1990



excellent...

includes Giovanni Arpino, Giuseppe Bonaviri, Vitaliano Brancati, Gesualdo Bufalino, Dino Buzzato, Italo Calvino, Carlo Cassola, aUmberto Eco, Beppe Fenoglio, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Natalia Ginzburg, Raffaele La Capria, Tommaso Landolfi, Luigi Malerba, Alberto Moravia, Anna Maria Ortese, Geffredo Parise, Giuseppe Pontiggia, Vasco Pratolini, Francesca Sanvitale, Leonardo Sciascia, Carlo Sgorlon, Mario Soldati, Antonio Tabucchi, Mario Tobino, Elio Vittorini. Quite a sampler..


A2K amazon link for Names and Tears (etc)


Sounds good. I'm going to revisit Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities as soon as I finish George Saunders' book of essays, The Braindead Megaphone.
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tomasso
 
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Reply Mon 29 Oct, 2007 08:57 pm
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Wed 31 Oct, 2007 08:42 pm
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Sleeping at the Starlite Motel, by Bailey White (of NPR fame/infamy)





good in an odd sort of way
I felt like I was reading about Lash's family at times
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 31 Oct, 2007 08:57 pm
In italian class, we studied Moravia and Ginsburg, of those I remember, Gargamel, among of course others, me with dictionary at hand at all times.

I read Sciascia, if not then, on my own later, but in english.


Personally, I connect to Sciascia and Ginsburg, way disparate people.





Plus Carlo Levi, since I am a compleat fan of Christ stopped at Eboli.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 31 Oct, 2007 08:59 pm
er, I sound like I know stuff, and I don't, much. Will pay attention to what Gargy is reading...
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 31 Oct, 2007 09:00 pm
I have a diatribe to write about a grocery store book, perhaps tomorrow.
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Builder
 
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Reply Wed 31 Oct, 2007 09:09 pm
Trevayne by Robert Ludlum

Originally written under a pseudonym, this release came with an explanation as to why he originally didn't use his own name.


It's an old novel, but very relevant to what is happening in American politics today.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 31 Oct, 2007 09:14 pm
Snarling about the book I want to rail against, as I said, tomorrow, a concoction by the Kellermans.

Domani.
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bigdice67
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 08:59 am
The Glassbooks of the Dreameaters-- G.W. Dahlquist.
Lots and lots of names.... getting interesting though, after a hundred pages...
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hemlock34
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 10:04 pm
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
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mismi
 
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Reply Thu 8 Nov, 2007 08:37 am
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco - hard read - but interesting
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maporsche
 
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Reply Thu 8 Nov, 2007 10:03 am
hemlock34 wrote:
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.



GOOD one! Truly.
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hemlock34
 
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Reply Thu 8 Nov, 2007 07:08 pm
maporsche: if the God Delusion interests you, you might want to read The End of Faith by Sam Harris, if you haven't already
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maporsche
 
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Reply Thu 8 Nov, 2007 08:23 pm
hemlock34 wrote:
maporsche: if the God Delusion interests you, you might want to read The End of Faith by Sam Harris, if you haven't already


Yep, that was good too. Harris' "Letter to a Christian Nation" is worth a read too.

Christopher Hitchens had a good book come out recently.

And you have to love Bertrand Russell's "Why I'm not a Christian" essay.
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