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mdemone posted:IIRC, she did the first volume of Proust for the Penguin Classics edition, and I thought it was really good compared to other Proust #1's I've seen. For what that's worth. Thanks, I'll check it out. The language is a bit mannered in my copy
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:There are like five three musketeers books. Read the first two and the last one (man in the iron mask). if you do this don't get an abridged version, just abide by Hugo's intense wordiness because nothing makes sense if you start cutting out parts of the novel
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blue squares posted:I've never seen one that isn't very superficial The only one I've ever used is Library Thing, and I agree that was kind of superficial at the time. It might have gotten better as it has collected more data tho, but that still depends on readers not being like "Game of Thrones is like Lord of the Rings because they both have swords and wizards you see" or whatever. t_h just do what I do and get all your recommendations from this thread.
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A human heart posted:I like all the parts where he starts talking about how he's been sent by god to punish people, like when he's going to kill his former lover's son. also when he owns the crown prosecutor and his entire family except for the daughter and mute old guy I liked when he took a bunch of opium and thought he could fly but im still not sure what everything in italy/the whole sinbad ruse had to do with the rest of the book
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rest his guts posted:Thanks, I'll check it out. The language is a bit mannered in my copy Enright's revision of Moncrieff and Kilmartin? Wait until you get to Proust talking about gay sex. It's something else.
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Normal Adult Human posted:I liked when he took a bunch of opium and thought he could fly but im still not sure what everything in italy/the whole sinbad ruse had to do with the rest of the book I think Dumas probably just wanted to have some cool Italian stuff in his book, but in plot terms I think the Count is there specifically to meet Albert again so that he can get close to him and get a plausible reason for entering Paris society. Also I guess he was probably finding Cavalcanti senior then, since he turns up later on once the Count is in Paris.
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I finished The Snow Child. I liked most of it a lot, but the ending was a letdown. It didn't make me feel anything at all. And it ended too quickly after the final event. I wanted to see the characters deal with it more fully and come to some conclusions about what had happened.
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blue squares posted:I wanted to see the characters deal with it more fully and come to some conclusions about what had happened. I think the ambiguity is most of the point, especially since it is a conscious retelling of a folk tale
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I don't mean for the novel to tell me what happened definitively, but for the characters to decide for themselves what happened and why
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I was thinking of picking up The Snow Child next. You recommend it, mel & blue?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:There are like five three musketeers books. Read the first two and the last one (man in the iron mask). It doesn't even work as a silly adventure because it's all about saving Charles I from assassination and uh I loved Count of Monte Cristo and Three Musketeers but Twenty Years After upset me enough (several years ago) that I still have Man in the Iron Mask sitting unread
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End Of Worlds posted:I was thinking of picking up The Snow Child next. You recommend it, mel & blue? I do although you did not ask me!
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Christ no, Twenty Years After (the second one) is terrible. Hundreds of pages of "remember how good The Three Musketeers was? This book probably won't be as good" then the second half is a long, upsetting tract about why Charles I was actually really good. If you think that was bad, try reading Louise de Vallerie or Vicomte de Bragellone. Or, pro-tip, don't. Man in the Iron Mask is legit good again but very sad.
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End Of Worlds posted:I was thinking of picking up The Snow Child next. You recommend it, mel & blue? Not wholeheartedly, but sure.
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End Of Worlds posted:I was thinking of picking up The Snow Child next. You recommend it, mel & blue? Best book of 2012 imho and it was a really strong year
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Since people have been jamming on Gilead, Snow Child, and Aquarium I want to toss another book rec out there. Carry the One by Carol Anshaw. Get on that.
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I finished Runaway Horses last night and it was cool but I think I liked Spring Snow more. I also started The Temple of Dawn and I thought it was funny when Honda was like 'Yet there stood the Temple of Dawn!' less than twenty pages in.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Since people have been jamming on Gilead, Snow Child, and Aquarium I want to toss another book rec out there. I read this based on Mel's recommendation last year and it's really good. Short book that spans the life of a family dealing with an accident. Very realistic portrayal of the nature of addiction.
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hooked on Fauxnics posted:I finished Runaway Horses last night and it was cool but I think I liked Spring Snow more. I also started The Temple of Dawn and I thought it was funny when Honda was like 'Yet there stood the Temple of Dawn!' less than twenty pages in. Temple of Dawn was probably the worst in the tetralogy, but there is a cool scene where Honda watches the reincarnation of his childhood friend have lesbian sex with his wife. I mean he watches, with his wife (spies really), the reincarnation of his childhood friend have lesbian sex. The last book is real good, just power through all the Buddhist stuff my man.
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Yeah Temple is the weakest. It has a really important bit of Mishima's ethos though in that whole perfect society that kills themselves while they are still beautiful
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david crosby posted:Temple of Dawn was probably the worst in the tetralogy, but there is a cool scene where Honda watches the reincarnation of his childhood friend have lesbian sex with his wife. I mean he watches, with his wife (spies really), the reincarnation of his childhood friend have lesbian sex. The last book is real good, just power through all the Buddhist stuff my man. That's pretty baller. I like the locale change so far but I'm kinda worried about it given how much it showed that the man loved Japan in the first two books. Mel Mudkiper posted:Yeah Temple is the weakest. This is perfect as I am both incredibly vain and fairly young.
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I know I'm a bit late but I took Aquarium on a ferry crossing last night b/c of this thread and read the whole thing and the section where Caitlyn is forced to reenact her mother's youth is one of the most anxiety ridden sections of a book I've ever read. Hella good. Thanks for the rec.
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read the book Ras
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We was really good guys, but I've still not read better speculative fiction than A Canticle for Leibowitz
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hooked on Fauxnics posted:I finished Runaway Horses last night and it was cool but I think I liked Spring Snow more. I also started The Temple of Dawn and I thought it was funny when Honda was like 'Yet there stood the Temple of Dawn!' less than twenty pages in. The best part of Temple of Dawn is the Land of the Pomegranate sequence.
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:We was really good guys, but I've still not read better speculative fiction than A Canticle for Leibowitz I had heard a lot about it but was not really impressed myself. What made it so special for you? I always worry I miss subtext in some of these books.
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Invicta{HOG}, M.D. posted:I had heard a lot about it but was not really impressed myself. What made it so special for you? I always worry I miss subtext in some of these books. I think you have to be Catholic?
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Zorodius posted:I think you have to be Catholic? You don't have to be Catholic, but it helps.
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Invicta{HOG}, M.D. posted:I had heard a lot about it but was not really impressed myself. What made it so special for you? I always worry I miss subtext in some of these books. I was in a Lutheran school growing up, and it may have just been me personally. I really liked how it dealt with Christianity from cultural and historical perspectives.
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A Canticle for Liebowitz has the clearest marker of a high work of Catholic art, as it was written by an agnostic. (Evelyn Waugh was such a shithead he has honorary status)
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StashAugustine posted:A Canticle for Liebowitz has the clearest marker of a high work of Catholic art, as it was written by an agnostic. Walter Miller was definitely not agnostic at the time he wrote Canticle. Still, it's a bit like how some of the most theologically sound Christian movies of the last quarter-century were written and directed by the Coen brothers.
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rest his guts posted:It's a 1950 edition of Flaubert's Madame Bovary translated by J Lewis May and published by Heritage Press For reasons I don't recall, I thought you were talking about Lydia Davis's translation of In Search of Lost Time. Whew. I hope someone else somewhere in this thread has mentioned the greatness of Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose.
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