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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #340 on: April 23, 2010, 06:14:26 pm »
Hey bookworms,

today I received four books I had ordered recently: One travel guide to Catalonia and one to Barcelona :ninja: as well as Dante's Divine Comedy and a Lovecraft Anthology. I'm starting with Lovecraft because I'm somewhat in the mood for that. I've already re-read some of my favourite stories by him: "Azatoth", "Nyarlathotep" and "Polaris".  :thumbup:

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #341 on: April 23, 2010, 06:37:30 pm »
According to BlackRose's recomendation (that's a joke, of course), I'm reading Nietzsche  :biggrin:

Interesting if someone here tried to read "A Complete Guide to Asatru" (or its name was like that) by Raymond Kidwell........ :disgust:
"Die gewöhnlichsten Irrschlüsse der Menschen sind diese: eine Sache existiert, also hat sie ein Recht." (F. Nietzsche)

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #342 on: April 23, 2010, 06:43:01 pm »
Lovecraft! Oh yeah!
It's been a while since the last time I read one of this stories (12 years? :huh:). Anyway, I think I'll put him in my "to re-re-read list". :nosweat:

Now reading another book from my new favourite Colombian writer: Juan Gabriel Vasquez. It's called "Los informantes" and it's about the hidden persecution that the German and Italian citizens suffered in our country at the end of WW2.
As usual, it's a very well written story, about the history of history in a forgotten country. I particularly love the sarcasms he uses and the small hints he gives about every day's life in Bogotá.
Check this one out and (if not in Spanish) pray that the translators haven't screwed it up.
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #343 on: April 23, 2010, 07:58:37 pm »
Hey, please, share your thoughts about La Divina Commedia later, will you, Markus, please! :)

I'm reading one of the Discworld books at the moment. :roll:




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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #344 on: April 23, 2010, 08:30:05 pm »
Hey, please, share your thoughts about La Divina Commedia later, will you, Markus, please! :)

I'm reading one of the Discworld books at the moment. :roll:

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #345 on: April 23, 2010, 08:41:56 pm »
I only accept personal appearance. :biggrin:

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #346 on: April 23, 2010, 08:54:39 pm »
:roll: :roll: :roll:

Which one are you reading, Lucy?

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #347 on: April 23, 2010, 09:00:03 pm »
"Reaper Man", where good old Death retires in pension. :) It's especially funny when early in the morning I go "AHHA-HA-haa-HAA-aa!" on the subway. :biggrin:
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #348 on: April 23, 2010, 09:08:33 pm »
I can imagine that scene. :lol3:

Is that the one where those creepy cosmic book-keepers send Death to pension, so noone really dies anymore and life-force accumulates? That would also be the one where, errrmmm... I just say SQUEAK!

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #349 on: April 23, 2010, 09:12:24 pm »
Yes. But please, don't tell me spoilers, otherwise I'll tell you in advance how Divina Commedia will end. -_- ^_^

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #350 on: April 23, 2010, 09:15:12 pm »
:D I adore Discworld :D And also some other stuff out of the Discworld series are fantastic.... for example a book about cat called Maurice... "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents"
And I loved "Soul Music"

I stared to read them one after another from the beginning but not always I have time for it... now there are "Pyramids" waiting for me :)
But then again, who does.

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #351 on: April 23, 2010, 09:59:25 pm »
Yes. But please, don't tell me spoilers, otherwise I'll tell you in advance how Divina Commedia will end. -_- ^_^

I know that already. :nana:

But don't worry, I won't tell you any spoilers, I don't do that. I'm only telling you stuff that you'll understand when you get there and not earlier. I've already said one of those, and I'll add that Azrael impressed me.

In fact I can't tell you any spoilers because it's so long ago that I've read this one, but I guess it would make a nice entry for my re-reading-list.

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #352 on: June 02, 2010, 09:18:37 pm »
I'm reading Terry Pratchett's series about witches - The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky and now I am reading the Wintersmith :)
It's pretty cool. Cause I love winter and I like the main character (Don't know her name in English :/ - wikipeding - Tiffany Aching). I like also the other witches... :) especially Esme Weatherwax and the other one... which dies in this book Miss Treason I think... and another one :D brave character of Horace - Cheese on the run :D
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #353 on: June 04, 2010, 01:57:03 pm »
Finished the Wintersmith.

Now I continue in reading "Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery.
It was a big besteseller around the Europe and I didn't really trust it might be good but now - I quite like it - it is supposed to be funny, a literal comedy but - well people like me does not see it as comedy but as a tragicomedy cause it is so much telling the truth about life.
But then again, who does.

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #354 on: June 04, 2010, 04:02:55 pm »
Currently reading "The parallel Rambla" by the Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo. This is one of the most misanthropic, anti-religious, atheistic, anti-patriotic, and funny things I've read :roll:
Here is a small quote just to give you an idea: "... And that night the old man couldn't sleep, and he started counting sheep, then soldiers entering a battalion, and finally, cardinals going to a conclave: one son-of-a-bitch, two son-of-a-bitches, three son-of-a-bitches..."
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #355 on: June 04, 2010, 08:29:44 pm »
Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism by Roy Medvedev
The Rise of Modern Japan by W.G. Beasley
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #356 on: June 19, 2010, 10:00:08 am »
Now Terry Pratchetts's Faust Eric. One of the funniest books by him  :lol3:

And something for my studies: Marc Stern - Gelebte Jüdische Fest (in Czech of course)
Simon Philip de Vries - Jüdische Riten und Symbole (also in Czech)
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #357 on: June 20, 2010, 05:54:05 pm »
Starting tonight: Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse. That woman was a genius.
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #358 on: June 21, 2010, 05:09:51 pm »
Edgar Allan poe's complete stories :cht: (second try... in less than year :blush: )
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #359 on: June 21, 2010, 07:06:55 pm »
Edgar Allan poe's complete stories :cht: (second try... in less than year :blush: )

What has kept you off the first time, Alu?

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