What are you reading?

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<P mce_keep="true">at the moment about to finish notes from underground - dostoyevsky, and starting the double by him aswell straight after, just because its a 2 in one book.
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The Twelve Chairs [&lt;:o)] For the Nth time.
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yeah, larger fan of eastern literature then western. but read both.</P>


9th time reading a book, intense man, i can hardly repeat a book let alone read it that much. persistence! haha</P>

[Faust]

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[quote user="Boki"][quote user="Faust"][quote user="Boki"]
<p mce_keep="true">at the moment about to finish notes from underground - dostoyevsky, and starting the double by him aswell straight after, just because its a 2 in one book.
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[Y]</p>


The Twelve Chairs [&lt;:o)] For the Nth time.
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yeah, larger fan of eastern literature then western. but read both.</p>


9th time reading a book, intense man, i can hardly repeat a book let alone read it that much. persistence! haha</p>

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Meh, it's a real pleasure to read, especially in the office, hehe.</p>

Started Austerlitz by Sebald - it begins in Antwerp. [Y] It also reminded me that I've meant to read Jean Amery's At the Mind's Limits for a while (I've only read excerpts).
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[quote user="Real Real"]Reading Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent.

One of, if not the, worst accepted-as-a-classic novels that I've ever read. So predictable, torturously overwritten, good lord.[/quote]</P>


conrad such an overpraised shite...</P>

[Faust]

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[quote user="Real Real"]Reading Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent.

One of, if not the, worst accepted-as-a-classic novels that I've ever read. So predictable, torturously overwritten, good lord.[/quote]</p>


conrad such an overpraised shite...</p>

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Heart of Darkness is good. Haven't read anything else.</p>

[stickliy]

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Working on The Immoralist by Andre Gide </P>


then onto A Journey to the End of the Night by Celine</P>

[mamaboy]

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i tried celine--i wish i could read french--they say he is lost in translation--not too good </P>


like bukowski ,very primitive bukowski is lost in russian--why is that ?</P>

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hmm, I think celine's french is as conducive to translation as any. the standard manheim translation of journey to the end of night is perfectly passable and, if not 100% faithful, still a phenomenal text in its own right.

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The later novels are well worth reading too. My personal favorite is his last, Rigadoon, which is haunting and eerily prophetic. The best place to start is probably Death on the Installment Plan, a prequel to Journey that's far more ribald and entertaining than its predecessor.

[justine]

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The Cathedral Builders by Jean Gimpel.

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[quote user="philip nod"]finished the road. most depressing thing i've read in years. i hate the summer.
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worst beach reading ever.</p>

how will they make this into a movie. maybe will ferrell and jonathan lipnicki will star.</p>

[AKA*NYC]

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[quote user="philip nod"]finished the road. most depressing thing i've read in years. i hate the summer.
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worst beach reading ever.</p>

how will they make this into a movie. maybe will ferrell and jonathan lipnicki will star. </p>

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Worst beach reading in a good way?</p>

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[quote user="philip nod"]finished the road. most depressing thing i've read in years. i hate the summer.
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worst beach reading ever.</p>

how will they make this into a movie. maybe will ferrell and jonathan lipnicki will star. </p>

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Worst beach reading in a good way?</p>

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yes; awesomely bleak story, but it ruined my day.
</p>i think this book should be read in a dank basement for full effect.

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It seems that 'The Road' has become SZ most read book. [85]</p>

Finished it recently. waiting for the movie .</p>

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Now I'm looking for <span style="font-weight: bold;">'Malina'</span> by Ingeborg Bachmann. (russian edition is quite old and almost impossible to find)
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[AKA*NYC]

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[quote user="xadam"][quote user="AKA*NYC"][quote user="xadam"]

[quote user="philip nod"]finished the road. most depressing thing i've read in years. i hate the summer.
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worst beach reading ever.</p>

how will they make this into a movie. maybe will ferrell and jonathan lipnicki will star. </p>

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Worst beach reading in a good way?</p>

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yes; awesomely bleak story, but it ruined my day.
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i think this book should be read in a dank basement for full effect.
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Okay, done deal, on my way to the Strand right now. </p>

[Faust]

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It seems that 'The Road' has become SZ most read book. [85]</p>

Finished it recently. waiting for the movie .</p>

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Now I'm looking for <span style="font-weight: bold;">'Malina'</span> by Ingeborg Bachmann. (russian edition is quite old and almost impossible to find)
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I can send you an English one - it's a very hard book to read though. She's almost forgotten outside the German speaking world, so I am not surprised you are having trouble finding it in Russian.
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