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Persephone · « **Reply #20 on:** September 03, 2007, 08:10:54 pm »

Reading The Writer's diary of Virginia Woolf finished.

Coming after..."Bdelost, tot vse! Gustava Meyrinka cesta k nadsmyslu" written by D. Z. Bor
You can find there detailed Meyrink's biography. Last pages inscribe his strong friendship with Prague publisher Oldrich Neubert. Evidence about this frienship are proclaimed by till this time uknown and unpublished letters. These letters bring out some hazily parts of G. Meyrink's life.

Aluqak · « **Reply #21 on:** September 03, 2007, 08:42:40 pm »

Now reading: "The Black Book" by last years Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk. I've only read 100 pages or so of this book and man!... this guy is great!!

The way he describes things (especially gestures and situations), and the cinism he uses to treat some slippery subjects has already put him into my top ten of favourite authors. Wonderful!
... just keep reading his Black Book

Persephone · « **Reply #22 on:** September 07, 2007, 08:06:20 pm »

So the book called "Bdelost, tot vse!" Gave me some interesting informations about G. Meyrink.
For example that G. M. knew within common drugs also drugs like peyote.
There are also written very interesting iformations about lot of important Czech political and artistic characters in connection with secret societies and so.
It has suprised me how many people were concerned about these things in era when G. M. lived.

Oncoming:

Gustav Meyrink: "Walpurgisnacht" (or Valpurgis Night)

deathdancer · « **Reply #23 on:** September 19, 2007, 08:44:38 pm »

Song of Ice and Fire: A feast of crows (that is the 4. book in series) by George R. R. Martin

VladH · « **Reply #24 on:** September 20, 2007, 12:54:44 am »

This one still awaits me... hope you enjoy it... and, don't tell me who died

The One · « **Reply #25 on:** September 20, 2007, 02:08:34 am »

I'll be doing notes on "The Lord of the Flies" for my unit test, that will be next week. Last 4 chapters of this book are the best. If you've watched the movies, they're crap compared to the book. Well, they're crap period.
And I'm reading some poetry from Pablo Neruda for Spanish.

deathdancer · « **Reply #26 on:** September 20, 2007, 11:23:36 am »

Quote from: VladH on September 20, 2007, 12:54:44 am

This one still awaits me... hope you enjoy it... and, don't tell me who died

WARNING!!! may be SPOILER!!!

Nobody yet... but as reading those books before this one... ANYONE can die at ANY TIME.
Just look at Robb Stark at the "Bloody Wedding". Everything was boring and peaceful, i was just looking how long do I have to read this crap. And in last 2 pages of the title... everybody just suddenly dies. Not even a reader knows WTF just happened

Persephone · « **Reply #27 on:** September 20, 2007, 07:55:19 pm »

Did anyone read The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley?
I am going to buy it ASAP.

And as I decided to read all Meyrink's works printed in Czech - now reading: Der Engel vom westlichen Fenster

Elena · « **Reply #28 on:** September 23, 2007, 09:27:10 am »

now reading: Thomas Karlssons - Adulruna

Markus · « **Reply #29 on:** September 25, 2007, 03:20:06 am »

Quote from: Shelley on September 23, 2007, 09:27:10 am

now reading: Thomas Karlssons - Adulruna

Nice one, Shelley!

Cheers!

Markus

Agnes · « **Reply #30 on:** September 25, 2007, 10:14:09 am »

woooow! if I could buy it

me - Zofia Nałkowska - Granica (boarder)

what a boring book!

Elena · « **Reply #31 on:** September 25, 2007, 03:46:02 pm »

Thank you so much, Markus - it´s so interessting!!!!

Agnes, why do you read it?

Loke · « **Reply #32 on:** September 25, 2007, 11:23:12 pm »

Metamorfosis - Franz Kafka (again)

yo yo yo

deathdancer · « **Reply #33 on:** September 25, 2007, 11:32:27 pm »

Quote from: Loke on September 25, 2007, 11:23:12 pm

Metamorfosis - Franz Kafka (again)

Ah... love it...
I wrote many essays of it.

Persephone · « **Reply #34 on:** September 26, 2007, 08:13:15 pm »

Is it that one where he slowly turns to a bug?
That was the only one book by Kafka which I like...

Lucy · « **Reply #35 on:** September 26, 2007, 08:27:40 pm »

Yes, that's it. I'm not able to decide if I like that or not though.

Loke · « **Reply #36 on:** September 28, 2007, 09:54:28 pm »

Quote from: Praha on September 26, 2007, 08:13:15 pm

Is it that one where he slowly turns to a bug?
That was the only one book by Kafka which I like...

Wll , he didnt "slowly" turn into abug , he (Gregory Sammsa) just awakes like one , ya know , just like one of those days you just dont belong , common

yo yo yo

Persephone · « **Reply #37 on:** September 29, 2007, 03:52:31 pm »

I followed Markus with reading Hermann's Hesse Demian. And I must agree with his opinion.
I can only recommend.

The part about Cain also remind me Old English heroic epic Beowulf, where Grendel and Grendel's mother are seen as punished by the Curse and mark of Cain.

The One · « **Reply #38 on:** September 29, 2007, 05:37:50 pm »

Next book I'll be reading for my English curriculum: "To Kill a Mockingbird" from Harper Lee.

SimonBread · « **Reply #39 on:** October 01, 2007, 03:14:25 am »

Just recently I finished reading "Hitman: Enemy Within", which was much better than you'd at first think. You have to marvel at the writers ability to keep you tense even when nothing is really "obviously" happening. At the moment I'm reading "The Essential Tales and Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe".

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