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@panzade,

panzade wrote:

You think that's desolate and depressing, wait til you read Blood Meridian. McCarthy is a talent and like a terrier he'll pick you up, shake you and won't let go.

He's got a way with words for sure. Blood Meridian is on my short list to read but it's not available till January on the Kindle store.

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@dlowan,

dlowan wrote:

There's more than one Portuguese version?

Not of The Alchemist, but I mean his other books. There are two Brazilian authors I've been meaning to read, Jorge Amado and Paulo Coelho but I've been only finding their books translated in local bookstores so now that I'm doing ebooks I've found the original versions for sale.

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Mind you, I hate recommending anything for you...so I'd do samples if you follow up on this.

Why? I think I'm much more tolerant of a bad read than you are. I've only stopped reading 3 or so books in my lifetime. And one was Don Quixote in Spanish (before I learned Spanish to boot) which shouldn't count due to Cervantes' logorrea.

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@dyslexia,

Dys, you aren't reading anymore?

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@littlek,

since my stroke I'm been able to read one book and that took me two years, I am now on my second book "Whole Earth Discipline" by Stewart Brand.

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@dyslexia,

Is it because of eyesight, brain-works, or fatigue? Or is it something else entirely? What about books on tape?

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@littlek,

eyesight, brain-works

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@dyslexia,

Which suggests concentration dys. That is difficult for anybody to maintain if the book is not good enough. I would have difficulty with "Whole Earth Discpline". I nearly fell asleep typing out the words.

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@dyslexia,

dyslexia wrote:

since my stroke I'm been able to read one book and that took me two years, I am now on my second book "Whole Earth Discipline" by Stewart Brand.

Have you thought of audiobooks Sir Dyslexia? Reading by audiobook might use a different area of the brain so you still might be able to soak up books like a sponge soaks up a dropped and spilled teapot full of Assam Superb tea.

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@Robert Gentel,

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Why?

Sneer factor.

I love Don Quixote.

Mind you, what would I know? I can only read it in English. But the new English translation rocks.

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@tsarstepan,

tsarstepan wrote:

dyslexia wrote:

since my stroke I'm been able to read one book and that took me two years, I am now on my second book "Whole Earth Discipline" by Stewart Brand.

Have you thought of audiobooks Sir Dyslexia? Reading by audiobook might use a different area of the brain so you still might be able to soak up books like a sponge soaks up a dropped and spilled teapot full of Assam Superb tea.

Interesting thought. Worth an experiment, I'd have thought? Unless you already did?

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Steve Krug's latest 'Rocket Surgery Made Easy'. For work, but I do like the way he writes and expresses an idea. He describes writing as an enormously painful activity which is why is only written two books in a decade.

He's a web usability practitioner who runs the 'Advanced Common Sense' site

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@spendius,

yes, I quite agree, having received my primary education at an English boarding school I continue to regard myself as illiterate. I didn't even read Jack London until my 20's.

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@dyslexia,

Americans are made to feel that British schools are superior to our own. Why do you regard yourself as an illiterate?

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@dyslexia,

You haven't answered, Dys. Have you tried audio-books?

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Someone wrote of being a Tony Judt fan. Does everyone know he died Friday of complications from ALS?

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@plainoldme,

plainoldme wrote:

Americans are made to feel that British schools are superior to our own. Why do you regard yourself as an illiterate?

Irony, POM, irony.

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@littlek,

no, I haven't but I should.

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@plainoldme,

I had just finished his masterwork "Postwar: A History Of Europe" , a book that was recommended by georgeob.

A nice tribute
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynn-parramore/only-imagine-remembering_b_676071.html

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As Lynn Parramore notes in her tribute on The Huffington Post, Judt "pondered American culture and politics with the critical eye of an uncle whose affection was tempered by exasperation but buoyed by an undaunted belief in us. He understood what ails us – our materialism, our selfishness, our delusions of perpetual growth and free-wheeling markets – but he also gleaned our potential to regain our footing if we could but imagine alternatives."

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@littlek,

actually littleK and molga are the only posters here I think would enjoy "Whole Earth Discpline" besides Thomas who I already mentioned it to.

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@dyslexia,

So, what is whole earth discipline?

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