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| Posted on 2006-09-14 23:25:31 |
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so the old one was already closed, and I thought that this was quite an interesting thread. I learned about several good books. so this time we could also have just general discussion about books and literature, perhaps?
I´m reading Hanif kureishi´s the body. seems interesting, but also some how kinda boring. it´s not as good as gabriel´s gift, I must say...
here´s more info: http://dir.salon.com/story/boo...dex.html |
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| Posted on 2006-09-15 09:30:07 |
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Between the Acts
Virginia Woolf.
I love&adore you Virginia.
Come and take me to the river by the hand |
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| Posted on 2006-09-15 14:20:41 |
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"Happiness : Lessons from a new science" by Richard Layard about how the ultimate aim of public policy is to make people happier.
Not exactly literature, but it appealed to the economist in me and what we can do about being happier (cos it certainly ain't about having more and more, which is the main concern for economics). Very good and accessible too. |
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| Posted on 2006-09-15 22:42:37 |
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Patrick Süskind - The Perfume [In German, of course]
I´m so excited to go and see the movie, I love the book, it´s wonderful! |
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| Posted on 2006-09-17 01:39:50 |
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Patrick Süskind - The Perfume [In German, of course]
I´m so excited to go and see the movie, I love the book, it´s wonderful! |
Oh I love love love that book!!!  
I read it in Serbian,of course  or rather 
What,there is a movie based on book!!??? 
How it's called (same I guess?),who plays..? I have to know!!!  
Sorry for asking something off topic,but in a way it is about the book! |
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| Posted on 2006-09-17 12:00:57 |
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^wanted to see the movie yesterday, but laika wouldnt go with me ;-)
the book is fantastic. i think it is the most successful originally german-speaking book ever, and righteously so.
i love the idea for this thread, bugsy, enjoy talking about good books. just right now i am busy reading copies of books about the hsitory of media in prussia of the 16th century for an exam. but by the end of october (if i pass the test) i'll have nothing else to do but read and get all the books you're going to recommend here, so please go on! |
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| Posted on 2006-09-17 14:29:21 |
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Yes,true,this is really a great idea! So yes Berlin,maybe this is a good way to recommend some books you have read before,not just what reading now..?
Yes,when exams are over (though I doubt I'll finish them like I hope :'( ),I'll have more time to read what I really feel like reading..
So,this movie,it's a new? |
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| Posted on 2006-09-20 09:32:39 |
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john irving - the hotel new hampshire. I was so dissapointed with his latest novel, that I just had to read something worth reading by irving. Irving´s so strange to read sometimes. he´s like the only writer whose books are worse than the movies based on them.. the novels are so kinky. like the world according to garp, which is a masterpiece I must say. or the 158-pound marriage. weird books... |
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| Posted on 2006-09-20 21:41:56 |
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^wanted to see the movie yesterday, but laika wouldnt go with me ;-)
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you're right, I didn't, but I dislike the director and I dislike costume movies :-)
We watched other good movies instead;-)
I am currently reading a book by Michel Houellebecq, "Extension du domaine de la lutte" (in German though).
It's very funny:-)
Cardigans Forever
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| Posted on 2006-09-22 15:55:43 |
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Forum people don't like reading? |
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| Posted on 2006-09-24 14:08:17 |
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guess so.. |
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| Posted on 2006-09-24 16:12:11 |
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Maybe.. and maybe some just don't have time.. :( |
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| Posted on 2006-09-25 08:47:50 |
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people should find time to read..
sometimes i feel so bad because there are hundreds of books that i wander but i haven't got enough money to afford them.. |
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| Posted on 2006-09-25 10:16:51 |
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| sometimes i feel so bad because there are hundreds of books that i wander but i haven't got enough money to afford them.. |
There are no public library in your city ?
I know, they don't have all the latst books. But the best books are not the latest ones.
Consider that most written-today-books will disappear in 5 or 10 years. So don't mind for the latest books.
Public libraries have so many great books. |
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| Posted on 2006-09-25 11:56:33 |
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applause laaran! i really wonder why people run into bookshops and buy all the latest books. stuff they don't even know what it's like. then they read it and put it away and never look at it again. libraries are soo much better. you got so much more books to choose from then you got in a bookshop..
posthuman, reading is not that time-consuming! in case your going by train every day, why dont you take a book with you? or use the 'five minutes in privacy in the rest-room' ;-) |
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| Posted on 2006-09-25 12:11:42 |
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| or use the 'five minutes in privacy in the rest-room' ;-) |
Oh no please, not that.
This is so disgusting.
I don't say that I don't read during these moments. But not a book, I have too much respect for books.
Newspaper yes, and rather the pages about politic. |
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| Posted on 2006-09-25 12:21:20 |
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And the newspapers you've read you can re-use in these moments.
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| Posted on 2006-09-25 13:38:39 |
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posthuman, reading is not that time-consuming! |
Oh,no,you are right,that's not excuse,like for many things "I would,but I don't have time..",in my case,it's more like "I would like to read 'this',but instead,I have something else I HAVE to read,and I don't like to feel the 'guilt' or lessen that great experience of reading what I love,by pausing it or reading it for days.."
But yes,we all have other things to do,so,there are no excuses,just,I'm a bit 'strict' about some things I care about..
But I really can't wait to be 'free' and read what I feel like..  |
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| Posted on 2006-09-26 00:39:32 |
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i know what you mean! when you got other things to read i think infiltrate your head so much you fell like you can't bring up the energy to read anything else. but i've experienced that in these kind of situations it might help you even more to occupy your mind with other stuff, too. like i never thought i could learn with tv in the background and writing sms all night. but surprisingly i did very well |
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| Posted on 2006-09-26 01:02:26 |
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| like i never thought i could learn with tv in the background and writing sms all night. but surprisingly i did very well |
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| Posted on 2006-09-27 08:38:55 |
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| sometimes i feel so bad because there are hundreds of books that i wander but i haven't got enough money to afford them.. |
There are no public library in your city ?
I know, they don't have all the latst books. But the best books are not the latest ones.
Consider that most written-today-books will disappear in 5 or 10 years. So don't mind for the latest books.
Public libraries have so many great books. |
there are some public libraries in my city.
i agree that the latest doesn't mean that the best but i want to keep the books that i like in my own library.
i dont think that reading once some books is enough. for example i need some rest after 'waves' and i was ready for the second time... |
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| Posted on 2006-10-12 16:31:02 |
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harry potter and the half-blood prince. cool! let´s get the war started! |
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| Posted on 2006-10-12 19:44:46 |
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Le Tour by Geoffrey Wheatcroft..
it's a book about the history of the cycling event TheTour de France which i'm interested in! |
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| Posted on 2006-10-12 19:52:36 |
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I just finished John Stossel's "Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity"... a fun book, very interesting.
I'm currently reading, "Thousands... Not Billions" a book by some Creation Scientists regarding some recent studies of helium diffusion, C-14, and other types of radioisotope dating. Pretty controversial to the hardened evolutionists and old earthers (sorry daniel_o! ;-))
Also, I'm re-reading "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis. A very powerful book, of course. |
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| Posted on 2006-10-13 03:47:32 |
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I'm reading a stack of introductions by my students. They are horrendous. Absolutely terrible. I guess I didn't teach them too well.....sigh..... |
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