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« Reply #1100 on: October 25, 2014, 05:13:04 PM »



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« Reply #1101 on: October 25, 2014, 06:46:07 PM »
« Edited: October 25, 2014, 06:48:29 PM by Pope Kalwejt I of Northeast »

The Renaissance of Islam by Adam Mez and I Borgia by Roberto Gervaso.
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« Reply #1102 on: October 25, 2014, 10:32:27 PM »

Last Month: A book by Al Franken mocking Conservative Media

This Month: The first volume of the Nixon Tapes (not sure I'll finish though, it's just so dang huge)

Next Month: Hard Choices (Hillary Clinton)
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« Reply #1103 on: October 30, 2014, 08:30:03 AM »

Claudius the God by Robert Graves. I feel like it should be right up my alley - politics, history, intrigue, I really enjoyed the BBC adaptation et cetera - but something about the prose just stops me from really getting into it.
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« Reply #1104 on: October 30, 2014, 09:24:19 AM »

Crime and Punishment.  I'm about 3/4 finished.  Don't tell me how it ends.

I was actually inspired by Senator bore:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=200553.msg4338757#msg4338757

Well, I was inspired to pick up Brothers Karamazov, but at the library all the copies of that book were really fat and really old but right next to them was Crime and Punishment.  The book was shaped better.  Tall, and therefore thinner, with newer binding.  The Idiot was there too, but I have already read that.  I'll probably read Brothers Karamazov when I can find a more aesthetically pleasing edition.  So far, every Russian book I've ever read was very depressing--we have discussed Anna Karenina and War & Peace elsewhere.  Not as depressing as Dickens, but depressing nonetheless.

Anyway, Sonya's father has just been laid to rest.  I think I'm about to find out whether Raskolnikov has given himself away to the cops.  I imagine he has, although I'm not entirely sure what will happen to his sister and his mother.

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« Reply #1105 on: October 31, 2014, 06:52:51 AM »
« Edited: October 31, 2014, 06:57:30 AM by swl »

I think russian novels have a tendency to shatter the naive hopeful views we have on life sometimes.

I just finished The Joke, by Milan Kundera, and it had the same effect. I could not help but relate on the things we all do sometimes, the hopes or the big plans we all have. If only we could read 1% of others have in mind, we would realize that all these plans are actually completely stupid. My personal lesson from this book is that life is an absurd joke and it's better to laugh at it.  Cheesy
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« Reply #1106 on: October 31, 2014, 09:30:29 AM »

Crime and Punishment.  I'm about 3/4 finished.  Don't tell me how it ends.

I was actually inspired by Senator bore:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=200553.msg4338757#msg4338757

Well, I was inspired to pick up Brothers Karamazov, but at the library all the copies of that book were really fat and really old but right next to them was Crime and Punishment.  The book was shaped better.  Tall, and therefore thinner, with newer binding.  The Idiot was there too, but I have already read that.  I'll probably read Brothers Karamazov when I can find a more aesthetically pleasing edition.  So far, every Russian book I've ever read was very depressing--we have discussed Anna Karenina and War & Peace elsewhere.  Not as depressing as Dickens, but depressing nonetheless.

Anyway, Sonya's father has just been laid to rest.  I think I'm about to find out whether Raskolnikov has given himself away to the cops.  I imagine he has, although I'm not entirely sure what will happen to his sister and his mother.



I'm glad to hear it Smiley

I read The Brothers Karamazov last year and am coincidentally also reading Crime and Punishment at the moment, although I'm a bit closer to the end (I have 30 pages left, so should be finished today or tomorrow).

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« Reply #1107 on: November 10, 2014, 10:51:55 AM »

The Russians are great.

My two most recent reads were The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera and Sweet Thursday by Steinbeck.

TULOB is undeniably a great novel, well written and lots of very insightful things in it about people (I was going to say the human condition but then I vomited in my mouth at that cliche).

At the same time he comes off as unbearable douche, so there is that. Tongue And the sexism in it was at times a bit too much for me. I don't mind sexism much in older books but this is modern enough that he should know better and there is a sophisticated evil to it that goes beyond mere ignorance.

Sweet Thursday is typical Steinbeck, very sweet and heartwarming.
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« Reply #1108 on: November 10, 2014, 04:12:43 PM »

I've cracked open The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology.
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« Reply #1109 on: November 18, 2014, 01:33:40 PM »

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« Reply #1110 on: November 18, 2014, 01:36:44 PM »



Margaret MacMillan is meticulously detailed and a pleasure to read, as always. Paris 1919 was one of my favorite history books ever, and this one is...not quite up to that standard, but is damned solid.
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« Reply #1111 on: November 22, 2014, 01:54:09 PM »

Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton.
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« Reply #1112 on: November 22, 2014, 02:18:46 PM »
« Edited: November 22, 2014, 02:41:37 PM by Storebought »

I've been diverted from literature by a bunch of technical books -- I mean you, Landau and Lifsh(i)tz Vol 8 -- but I've been reading Pride and Prejudice just to see what all the fuss is about.

EDIT: What a damn absurdity. The forum formatting actually impedes communication.
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« Reply #1113 on: November 22, 2014, 02:37:48 PM »

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« Reply #1114 on: November 22, 2014, 04:49:25 PM »


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« Reply #1115 on: November 26, 2014, 02:57:02 PM »

Recently I've been looking (don't ask me why; it's a long story, although probably not one that would really surprise anybody here) for Christian-themed lesbian literature, that is, literature featuring lesbian characters who either are believing Christians throughout the narrative or become believing Christians in the course of the narrative and stay that way. As you might imagine, this is an exceptionally niche set of specifications, especially since I consider accidentally running across 'ex-gay' tripe a worse result than finding nothing. So far I've found and read a few recently-published young adult novels that technically fit what I'm looking for but they've tended to be of relatively low artistic quality and don't do much to rectify the generally poor reputation of both lesbian YA and contemporary Christian fiction as a whole. By rights there should probably be some sort of untapped market here.
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« Reply #1117 on: December 03, 2014, 01:09:20 PM »

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« Reply #1118 on: December 03, 2014, 01:30:11 PM »

God Bless America: The Surprising History Of An Iconic Song by Sheryl Kaskowitz has proven to be a lovely little work that explores Irving Berlin's patriotic tune. Little did I know that it was written in 1918, was changed to an isolationist hymn and Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land is My Land" as a protest of the song. Incredible the history that lies behind things. 
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« Reply #1119 on: December 03, 2014, 02:15:14 PM »

I just finished Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping which has been on my 'to read' list since forever. It may well be the greatest thing ever set in Idaho.
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« Reply #1120 on: December 03, 2014, 02:36:41 PM »
« Edited: December 03, 2014, 02:38:27 PM by How Erg the Self-Inducting Slew a Paleface »

Maurice Druon, La Volupté d’être

Just finished: Ludwik Stomma, Krolów Francji wzloty i upadki (AFAIK never translated to English, so the title would be something like "French Kings' Ups and Downs")
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« Reply #1121 on: December 03, 2014, 03:34:42 PM »

I just finished Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping which has been on my 'to read' list since forever. It may well be the greatest thing ever set in Idaho.

I was born in Fingerbone (Sandpoint).
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« Reply #1122 on: December 03, 2014, 04:35:43 PM »

Inquiry into Human Understanding by David Hume
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« Reply #1123 on: December 03, 2014, 10:36:30 PM »

I got through most of Hard Choices on audiobook during my drive home/back for Thanksgiving.
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« Reply #1124 on: December 07, 2014, 08:10:11 PM »

I received several books for Christmas, but won't be able to get a hold of them until then Sad.

-On His Own Terms (Richard Norton Smith): The Nelson Rockefeller biography.
-The Nixon Tapes (John Dean): Transcripts of Nixon's tapes.
-The Greatest Comeback (Pat Buchanan): Buchanan's years with Tricky Dick.
-Another Side Of Bob Dylan (Victor Memedes): A biography of the Bobster.
-The Invisible Bridge (Rick Pearlstein): The latest bio of his 1965-1981 history trilogy.

Which one should I read first? I'm leaning towards The Invisible Bridge.
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