...and I have also returned to one of my all time favourites - Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky.

Game of Thrones series, Book Five, A Dance with Dragons. HBO turned me on to this series and it is brilliant! All the books so far are fantastic. Some poor reviews for books four and five, but I find them great! I am trying to savor book five because I know it takes the author a long time for the sequels, and I think there is two more books left for him to write before ending the series. I also can't wait for season two on HBO in March.

Rereading "Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers", by W. Goethe

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...and I have also returned to one of my all time favourites - Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky.

That's one author one doesn't get tired of, for sure; the 4 last books I've read has been analysis of his intentions and works; allthough not about Notes from the Underground in particular

Strange to see this old thread popping up again....can't even remember starting it



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What did you think of this book?
I am engaged in Merrill Peterson's "Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation"

I have no idea....you could write a review - when you're finished...thanks!

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The Sicilian
What did you think of this book?
I am engaged in Merrill Peterson's "Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation"

I have no idea....you could write a review - when you're finished...thanks!

I was referring to the Hesse book "Der Steppenwolf" you were reading a while back.

Rereading Jonathan Littel's 'The Kindly Ones'.

Mathijs

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The Sicilian
What did you think of this book?
I am engaged in Merrill Peterson's "Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation"

I have no idea....you could write a review - when you're finished...thanks!

I was referring to the Hesse book "Der Steppenwolf" you were reading a while back.

You were - aha; well - that's half a year ago.....well; I won't give you a review; that'll take too much time
But - it's worth reading; if you see it for what it's for; which is: an important book somewhat ahead of it's time; allthough it NOW seems somewhat dated now; and somewhat *childish*......to me at least
Not too different from Maestro & Margrita in what happens and what it is about; apart from that there's no devil there...instead of the devil there's the "wants to live/wants to die"-question that is the big question for the main charcter
....but Bulgakov takes everything much further out than what Hesse does.....and Bulgakov succeeds in doing so; for the 1st half of the book anyway



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Before the Frost by Henning Mankel
It's one of the Wallander mysteries from Sweden

I am currently reading the following:

Turning The Hiram Key
juvenal's 16 Satires
Melvin Bragg's In Our Time bbc book tie-in

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Game of Thrones series, Book Five, A Dance with Dragons. HBO turned me on to this series and it is brilliant! All the books so far are fantastic. Some poor reviews for books four and five, but I find them great! I am trying to savor book five because I know it takes the author a long time for the sequels, and I think there is two more books left for him to write before ending the series. I also can't wait for season two on HBO in March.

yeah George Martin is the best story writer out there . The interweaving of his characters is better than Beast of Burdens weaving, almost. But I quit at three books cause I was waiting for more and that sucked.

Now I am reading "Words from the Myths" by A. Iasmoff 1961 , very good. peace

'Soul Diamond' by Robert Nicolas.

Black Light - Steven Hunter

The CD that came with the blu-ray for Live in Texas


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Nothing! I cant both read a book and this thread at the same time!

Antimemoir and Picasso's Mask by Andre Malraux.


Just finished a terrific contemporary novel about the NY art world with a fascinating heroine by Steve Martin, the actor-comedian. A wonderful writer.

The War Against the Jews 1933 to 1945 by Lucy Dawidowicz

"Touching From A Distance: Ian Curtis And Joy Division" by Ian's widow Deborah Curtis.



It's really good.

Any Inspector Maigret fans here?
Georges Simenon hooked me for life with "Maigret." Love walking around
Paris in locations described in these books.

Steve Jobs ......... He was sure a fan of LSD.

Keith's Life in Swedish. Read it in English almost a year ago and didn't like it. Now it's a brilliant reading...

2 1 2 0

THE TALE OF GENJI. It was the first novel ever written. Written in Japan 1,000 years ago. (And it's over 1,000 pages.) It's first rate. And its hero, Genji, is as promiscuous as Bill Wyman! Promiscuity definitely existed before rock n' roll and the birth control pill.

Your post. MY post. The preview.

Sam Shepard - Rolling Thunder Logbook

Bio over Beethoven...1000 pages...great composer, even wrote scottish folk songs....

2 1 2 0

The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander. A great book about child bullying that all educators and parents should read. Fantastic!

Graham Greene - The Honorary Consul

Roger Bootle - The Trouble With Markets; Saving Capitalism From Itself

Not light reading. However lined up next is the Warhol Diaries.

American Diabetes Association Complete Guide To Diabetes