Books you're reading (4 Viewers)

[Lion]

I'd still hump you.

 

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[Geof]

Le Rocher de Tanios, by Amin Maalouf

 

[Lion]

did you like it?

 

[Sadomin]

I've got 50 € to buy books for. I haven't read a great book for a long time, most have been good or decent. I'd appreciate it if you listed some of the best books you have ever read - whether they're famous classics or unknown gems - and I'll look into the ones I haven't read.

Preferably fiction.

 

[Lion]

The count of Monte Cristo

The shinning

It

A game of thrones (the song of ice and fire series)

The darkness that comes before (the prince of nothing series)

Watchmen

The breakfast of champions

World war Z

 

[Martin]

that's a lot of books in 24 minutes

 

[Martin]

I've got 50 € to buy books for. I haven't read a great book for a long time, most have been good or decent. I'd appreciate it if you listed some of the best books you have ever read - whether they're famous classics or unknown gems - and I'll look into the ones I haven't read.

Preferably fiction.

Crime and punishment

 

[Lion]

the Alphabet of Manliness

 

[Geof]

did you like it?

I sure did. I enjoy Amin Maalouf's style; he's a great storyteller and lets you enjoy and understand a lot of the culture, the geography and the history of places he takes you to.

Le rocher de Tanios is a nice story about the bastard son of a local Sheikh in the 19th century Lebanon. The village intrigues blends nicely with the bigger picture of the struggle between the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, the UK and France, always at the edge between legend and history.

Crime and punishment

Ouch. Did you ever read that? It took me months to get halfway that monster and I just gave up. It's soooo slow!

 

[Gustav]

I've got 50 € to buy books for. I haven't read a great book for a long time, most have been good or decent. I'd appreciate it if you listed some of the best books you have ever read - whether they're famous classics or unknown gems - and I'll look into the ones I haven't read.

Preferably fiction.

Michel Houellebecq - The Elementary Particles

 

[Fred]

I've got to remember this. It's very well put.

You're better the way you are. You do have your comebacks from time to time, Bes is pathetic and predictable, you always know how he's going to respond. If you start taking lines from him, i'm not going to bully you anymore, won't be any fun.

 

[Martin]

Ouch. Did you ever read that? It took me months to get halfway that monster and I just gave up. It's soooo slow!

Really? I loved it. It's true that it's long, but I really enjoyed the psychological ordeal piece by piece.

 

[Joaco]

Dostoyevsky is always a good choice. Any Chejov fans here?

 

[Geof]

Really? I loved it. It's true that it's long, but I really enjoyed the psychological ordeal piece by piece.

It was a couple of years ago, maybe I was too young to take it. I remember that guy being all feverish and sweaty in his bed amidst remorse and hallucinations; the atmosphere is so thick... it just made me feel very bad.

 

[Martin]

It was a couple of years ago, maybe I was too young to take it. I remember that guy being all feverish and sweaty in his bed amidst remorse and hallucinations; the atmosphere is so thick... it just made me feel very bad.

Oh it does that, yes. It does mess with you a bit, but then isn't that why we read books like this instead of a Donald Duck comicbook?

 

[Geof]

Oh it does that, yes. It does mess with you a bit, but then isn't that why we read books like this instead of a Donald Duck comicbook?

I guess, but after a while the book was just there on my table, looking at me with feverish eyes. The mere sight of it would fill me with disgust, so I just hid it among other books.

I'm planning to give it a second try though, some day. Maybe I should start with a "lighter" book by Dostoyevski. But does that exist?

 

[Martin]

I don't know. I have the Brother Karamazov in dead tree format, but I fear starting it for how huge it is. I haven't read any others of his.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

Dostoyevsky is always a good choice. Any Chejov fans here?

chekhov you mean lermontov and pushkin all the way for me

 

[GordoDeCentral]

Le Rocher de Tanios, by Amin Maalouf

le petit marocain peut ecrire!

 

[Joaco]

chekhov you mean lermontov and pushkin all the way for me

Bah, all the books I've appears as Chejov. Maybe a translation issue.