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07-14-2014, 08:01 PM
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I have to ask if it's another book about HT writing about another book about HT writing a book----, well, you get the idea.
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Actually, yeh. I just finished a long book on the Eastern Front in WWII and my mind needs a rest.
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07-14-2014, 10:07 PM
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I read his "Hells Angels" in the mid-1960s out of curiosity and later the RS Fear and Loathing pieces, the hideous Ralph J. Steadman illustrations were an appropriate counterpoint to his surrealistically edgy self-indulgent style as I remember it.
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08-02-2014, 08:21 PM
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Apricot Jam and other stories: ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
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08-03-2014, 02:05 PM
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Jigsawed
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Still reading Apricot Jam and still marveling at Solzhenitsyn's writing
skills and insight:
Reach the third story"The New Generation".
A teacher is arrested and finds himself being interrogated by a former student whom he once gave a critically undeserved pass mark.
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08-06-2014, 09:47 AM
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Marcel Proust
In The Shadow Of Young Girls In Flower
volume II of a very long novel (3500 pages) called In Search Of Lost Time.
Imagine a non-linear fictional autobiography written by French guy about love in late 19th century France. But that is a very, very poor description. The paragraphs are pages long, the sentences that make them up seem longer...but it is not boring. To me anyway.
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08-06-2014, 11:07 AM
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Jigsawed
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Quote:
Originally Posted by icenine
Marcel Proust
In The Shadow Of Young Girls In Flower
volume II of a very long novel (3500 pages) called In Search Of Lost Time.
Imagine a non-linear fictional autobiography written by French guy about love in late 19th century France. But that is a very, very poor description. The paragraphs are pages long, the sentences that make them up seem longer...but it is not boring. To me anyway.
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3500 pages! Wow!
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08-06-2014, 11:34 AM
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3500 pages! Wow!
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The author died at age 51 before he could finish revising the final version...it was released in a series of seven volumes. A Scottish author named Moncreith translated most of it for the English world before he died at the young age of 40.
It has to be read to be understood.
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08-06-2014, 12:43 PM
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AKA Sister Mary JJ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by icenine
The author died at age 51 before he could finish revising the final version...it was released in a series of seven volumes. A Scottish author named Moncreith translated most of it for the English world before he died at the young age of 40.
It has to be read to be understood.
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If only our politicians could grasp that notion.
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09-12-2014, 01:38 PM
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Jigsawed
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Murio Jesus en Cachemira? Siegfried Obermeier
Did Jesus die in Kashmir?
Written in Spanish.
An alternate tale of Jesus.
An open mind is a terrible thing.
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09-12-2014, 01:45 PM
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"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
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