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« Reply #100 on: July 30, 2016, 02:08:46 PM »

An online copy of Buddenbrooks. That was the only one of Mann's novels I could read in the original. German

I've been meaning to read it (in English) for a while; how is it?
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« Reply #101 on: September 17, 2016, 11:56:45 AM »

Experience and the Creation of Meaning by Eugene Gendlin.
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« Reply #102 on: November 15, 2016, 03:20:13 PM »

I really need to start reading books with a male protagonist.

Why?
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« Reply #103 on: November 24, 2016, 06:22:04 PM »

A commentary on the Shōbōgenzō by Francis H. Cook. Cook tries to cram Dōgen into this Rudolf Bultmann-y 'demythologization' framework, which runs counter to my understanding of the history of Japanese Buddhism and of Dōgen's liberal use of the techniques of anecdote and parable, but read with that in mind it's useful for other purposes and has clarified my understanding of various concepts.
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« Reply #104 on: January 06, 2017, 12:20:34 PM »
« Edited: January 06, 2017, 12:49:55 PM by Winds for the spices and stars for the gold »

J. RAMSAY MACDONALD: LABOR'S* MAN OF DESTINY.

Publication date MCMXXIX.

*(sic)
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« Reply #105 on: February 19, 2017, 02:28:11 PM »

Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity.

I'm trying to do a general survey of World War II literature in preparation for a massive World War II-focused writing project of my own and this is supposed to be one of the better recent English-language novels about the war (despite being YA). It seemed much more accessible than Herman Wouk or Sword of Honor or Every Man Dies Alone, and I don't have access to either of my copies of Twenty-four Eyes right now.

Just finished a reread of Lord of the Rings.
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« Reply #106 on: March 01, 2017, 09:48:35 PM »

The Beginning of Heaven and Earth, the Kakure Kirishitan Bible.
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« Reply #107 on: March 28, 2017, 12:39:37 PM »


Is this the one where Balaguer is a sympathetic character?
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« Reply #108 on: March 30, 2017, 11:06:47 AM »


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« Reply #109 on: June 16, 2017, 04:05:44 PM »

I recently finished Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh. I liked the characters and the prose was gorgeous but holy sh**t what a gelid, despairing book.

Now finishing up a reread of Endō's Silence that I started earlier in the year and after that either a reread of We Have Always Lived in the Castle (which is objectively about as downbeat as Sword of Honour but which I find a ton of fun to read because it has one of the best narrative voices I've ever read) or the new Beren and Lúthien book that I pre-ordered months ago and that really should have arrived by ow.
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« Reply #110 on: March 09, 2019, 11:21:53 PM »

Working my way through Don Quixote; currently about 2/9 of the way in.
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« Reply #111 on: April 13, 2019, 06:58:08 PM »

Working my way through Don Quixote; currently about 2/9 of the way in.

I hope you have better luck than I did. I loved Man of La Mancha, but when I tried to read Don Quixote, I got about as far as you did before giving up!

I'm now more than 2/3 of the way through! I'm actually enjoying it a lot.
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« Reply #112 on: May 02, 2019, 01:45:25 AM »

I finished the Quixote a couple of days ago.

I'm the converted. GOAT-tier novel. Fully deserves its reputation.

Currently reading the seminal (pun intended since there's lots of weird psychosexual stuff) cyberpunk novel Neuromancer.
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« Reply #113 on: August 07, 2019, 12:07:27 AM »

I've found myself in the position of reading no fewer than seven books at once:

Some medieval Japanese biwa player or other, The Tale of the Heike
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters
Rachel Held Evans (RIP), Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
Oscar Romero, A Shepherd's Diary
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck
Yukio Mishima, Death in Midsummer

I'm enjoying all of these books a lot so far, although Evans's persistent inability to grok why the Old Testament is the way it is has been getting on my nerves for a while now. A close friend informs me that I am probably not the intended audience for a book about the Bible by a WASPy ex-Evangelical with no known Jewish ancestry, even a really bighearted and perceptive one like RHE.
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