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04.17.2019, 08:55 PM | #5522 |
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Thank you rob on recommending the Asimov guide to the bible. I'm enjoying it.
Any good books on the Sumerians? Downloading some gene wolfe now.
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04.17.2019, 09:20 PM | #5523 |
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i don't know good books ON the summerians but i used to read online actual summerican books (translated)
mostly religious stuff but their concerns were very modern (money, luxuries, crops, shitting on their enemies, etc, lol) do a search and you'll find free. |
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04.17.2019, 09:21 PM | #5524 |
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ps- here you go lol
http://sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthr...#post12 95697 eta: http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/edition2/etcslbycat.php each text comes from a transliteration (of cuneiform) and a translation (into english) |
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04.17.2019, 10:29 PM | #5525 | |
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04.18.2019, 04:42 PM | #5526 |
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soo..... is it only pedophiles that read Nabokov?
Lolita is fucking gross in every way. Ada or Ardor is even grosser, telling the story of two siblings who have a life-long affair that starts at age 12/13. fucking gross. who wants to read this shit? why is this bullshit considered important?
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04.23.2019, 10:05 PM | #5527 |
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Serving the Servent: Remembering Kurt Cobain, cause why not?
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04.25.2019, 11:35 AM | #5528 |
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Good overview of Gene Wolfe's life https://www.theringer.com/2019/4/25/...fiction-author
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04.25.2019, 11:47 AM | #5529 |
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American Vampire Vol. 4.
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04.26.2019, 03:02 PM | #5530 | |
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Elena Ferrante is <3 ! currently reading book two of the neapolitan series
afterwards I will try and translate Stratιgie d'une passion by Nathalie Gassel. I went to a reading this week, and even though I didn't understand her, I immediately fell in love with her? Afterwards we tried to communicate through the help of her friend, who only spoke little english. It was hard, but it was lovely. she brought 2-3 copies of her book to the store and I knew I had to buy it IMMEDIATELY (It's out of print?). Well. And now I sill soon start translating it and i am very excited about it.
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05.01.2019, 12:59 PM | #5531 |
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First of the month tends to mean starting a new book, and this May 1st I'll be starting this. Curious question for you guys, how many Pulitzer Winner books have you read? This will be the second that I'm sure of. The other one was Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides. |
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05.01.2019, 01:03 PM | #5532 |
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i cant remember what ive read from the charts. “i liked them before they were cool”
really no idea... now you got me wondering... |
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05.01.2019, 02:33 PM | #5533 | |
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05.01.2019, 02:33 PM | #5534 |
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I am reading a sci fi novel BIG RED from Damien Larkin.
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05.01.2019, 02:37 PM | #5535 |
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Pulitzer winners I have read
Grapes of Wrath Old Man & The Sea To Kill a Mockingbird wow. not much. Most novels on that list seemed REAL boring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitz...ze_for_Fiction
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05.01.2019, 03:35 PM | #5536 | |
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This was (unexpectedly?) SO GOOD. It's about the author's search for her family's history. Her parents came to Germany from the Ukraine as forced labourers during WW2, her mother killed herself when the author herself was very young. Her father lived a bunch longer, but he apparently didn't talk a lot about their family? So, one day the author googles her mother's name, makes a post on a message board, and WHAM! some guy emails her, and, for some reason, helps her research the family on her mother's side. SOMEHOW; they find SOME members of her family, but most of them have never met the author's mother. Very interesting family history. Through one relative, she comes into the possession of one of her aunt's diaries, so one part of the book is the reproduction of that diary. However, she doesn't find out much about her mother in that diary, since the aunt left the family very early to study in Odessa... Though the diary, the author finds out how her family got seperated in the war, though. Third part is the author's own memory of her mother and her own early life in germany. I THINK there is a book out about her father, too. Can't wait to get my hands on it!
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05.01.2019, 04:02 PM | #5537 |
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1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis 1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 1943: Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair 1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey 1947: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren 1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor 1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron 1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 1974: No award given[d] Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara 1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow 1977: No award given[e] A River Runs Through It by Norman MacLean Roots by Alex Haley (special Pulitzer Prize) 1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer 1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker 1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos 1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike 1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley 1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx 1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford 1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout |
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05.01.2019, 04:35 PM | #5538 |
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Wow llduclo, that's truly impressive. SYG won't allow me to rep you for this post but know that I rep you.
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05.04.2019, 05:15 PM | #5539 |
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Latest haul cause lately I buy more than I get through reading.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxDhprWnS32/
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05.11.2019, 01:26 PM | #5540 |
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I have since added Stephen King's "IT" and "Feed" by Mira Grant.
Finished up "The Lost World" finally last night, and soon starting "Down and Out In The Magic Kingdom" by Cory Doctrow.
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