What are you reading?

[zamb]

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the republic...... by Plato

[Fuuma]

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I finished readingMaudit manègeby Philippe Djian for the second time, heavilyrecommended, I know part of hiswork has been translated.

[Faust]

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[quote user="Fuuma"]I finished readingMaudit manègeby Philippe Djian for the second time, heavilyrecommended, I know part of hiswork has been translated.[/quote]</p>

Can you give me a 101? Never heard the name.</p>

I'm done with Borges, so today I picked up Francois Rabelais - Gargantua and Panttagruel. I am reading it in Russian.
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[Fuuma]

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[quote user="Fuuma"]I finished readingMaudit manègeby Philippe Djian for the second time, heavilyrecommended, I know part of hiswork has been translated.[/quote]</P>


Can you give me a 101? Never heard the name.</P>


I'm done with Borges, so today I picked up Francois Rabelais - Gargantua and Panttagruel. I am reading it in Russian.
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Try this interview, it's not amazing or anything but will help you somewhat situate him in the contemporary literary landscape:</P>


http://www.abc.net.au/arts/books/stories/s424266.htm</P>


Some have said that he picked up where the Beats left but I believe that an oversimplification.</P>

[Servo2000]

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I'm about halfway through a copy of Men in Black I found for $3. It's an interesting read, if a bit tedious.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>

[jj.still]

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Started Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic

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[quote user="jj.still"]Started Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic
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Have you read anything else by him? How is he? I always see a ton of books by him here translated into Russian.</p>

[jj.still]

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Have you read anything else by him? How is he? I always see a ton of books by him here translated into Russian.</p>

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I've read Second Body previous to and thought it's been a good book and sooo not straightforward. From what I know nonlinearity is one of the main features of his books.
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Have you read anything else by him? How is he? I always see a ton of books by him here translated into Russian.</p>

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I've read Second Body previous to and thought it's been a good book and sooo not straightforward. From what I know nonlinearity is one of the main features of his books.
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Interesting. Would you compare him to someone like Jorge Luis Borges? Or Dmitriy Lipskerov?</p>

[jj.still]

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Interesting. Would you compare him to someone like Jorge Luis Borges? Or Dmitriy Lipskerov?</p>

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Some people call Pavic "Balkan Borges" :))) As for Lipskerov, I haven't read anything by him.
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[Faust]

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Interesting. Would you compare him to someone like Jorge Luis Borges? Or Dmitriy Lipskerov?</p>

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Some people call Pavic "Balkan Borges" :))) As for Lipskerov, I haven't read anything by him.
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Gotcha [Y]</p>

[Fuuma]

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[quote user="jj.still"]Started Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic
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What's a good "entry point" book for Pavic?</P>

[jj.still]

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What's a good "entry point" book for Pavic?</p>


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Try this: http://www.khazars.com/en/new-novel-...e-second-body/</p>

[sea of stitches]

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the wilderness world of john muir (a selection from his collected work)</p>

i really like this excerpt "his trousers, in particular, have been so adhesive with the mixed fat and resin that pine-needles, thin flakes and fibers of bark, hair, mica scales and minute grains of quartz, hornblende, etc., feathers, seed-wings, moth and butterfly wings, legs and antennae of innumerable insects, or even whole insects such as small beetles, moths and mosquitoes, with flower petals, pollen dust and indeed bits of all plants, animals, and minerals of the region adhere to them and are safely imbedded"</p>


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[Faust]

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Has anyone read this?</p>

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