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[Nenz]

I was surprised at the meagerness of the redemption. Most books of this kind give you a stronger sense of relief. But Amir, after all that he had done, does the bare minimum by raising this kid and that makes everything alright? Hardly.

Maybe why I was underwhelmed by it. Not every novel needs such resolve but this one did IMO considering the nature of the betrayal.

 

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[king Ale]

Killer in the Rain (a collection of short stories) by Raymond Chandler, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and The Eye by Nabokov. Enjoyed them all.

Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore, Italo Calvino. Was hard to finish, started out pretty interesting but the constant leaps from story to story didn't appeal to me much.

Same here. Try other works by Calvino if you haven't already. I enjoyed Il Cavaliere Inesistente, Il Visconte Dimezzato and Le Cosmicomiche very much.

I was surprised at the meagerness of the redemption. Most books of this kind give you a stronger sense of relief. But Amir, after all that he had done, does the bare minimum by raising this kid and that makes everything alright? Hardly.

I never took it as a way to redeem.

 

[AndreaCristiano]

Art of Manliness, Key of Soloman

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Art of Manliness, Key of Soloman

Serious question: Does that have anything to do with the summoning of spirits?

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: It's a bit overrated, isn't it? The premise was good and it had potential to be better but the characters were uninteresting and it was tediously and unnecessarily descriptive.

 

[Martin]

A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: It's a bit overrated, isn't it? The premise was good and it had potential to be better but the characters were uninteresting and it was tediously and unnecessarily descriptive.

Read it in high school, liked it then. After what you wrote I don't want to read it again, I could ruin it for myself.

 

[Martin]

Same here. Try other works by Calvino if you haven't already. I enjoyed Il Cavaliere Inesistente, Il Visconte Dimezzato and Le Cosmicomiche very much.

The latter I have on the shelf, for later. Other than that Calvino is well known to me, don't worry:

Il barone rampante
Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
Le città invisibili
Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore

:wink:

I never took it as a way to redeem.

What then?

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Read it in high school, liked it then. After what you wrote I don't want to read it again, I could ruin it for myself.

It's not bad, I was just disappointed. When you see it at the top end of lists like "Most Influential Books" or "Best Sci-Fi Books Ever", you expect more.

For a comparison, 1984 was way better

 

[Miki]

A Dance With Dragons, Part V of George R. R. Martin's A Song Of Ice and Fire -- which the show, Game of Thrones is based on-- comes out tomorrow. I have to wait about 2 weeks for it though

I've read the first book about a year ago, but managed to stop there.
The thought of waiting for who knows how many years until all three (now two) remaining books come out... So I've started reading Malazan Book of the Fallen instead.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

I've read the first book about a year ago, but managed to stop there.
The thought of waiting for who knows how many years until all three (now two) remaining books come out... So I've started reading Malazan Book of the Fallen instead.

Read them now

 

[adriano_c]

Foulcault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco

 

[Raz]

Can anyone recommend a good book about european history? Everything works before christ after him, french revolution, world war and etc. Just that the book needs to be good written with considerable thought and insight.

 

[IrishZebra]

History isn't my strong point, Soz.

Marco Pierre White: The Devil in the Kicthen - This man is my hero, The man is all about hard-work and simplicity leading to flair and success. No bullshit, straight to the point, but complex and colourful, a lot like his cooking. Not greatly written, as he wrote it himself but for any 'foodie' it's a must buy.


Marco

 

[Elvin]

How is Charles Bukowski?

 

[IrishZebra]

How is Charles Bukowski?

Very entertaining, Post Office is one of my favourite books of all time.

 

[Martin]

Foulcault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco

I found that one interminable. I stopped somewhere in the middle and left. Then I came back to it several weeks later. It's sooo slow paced. How are you finding it?

 

[Kate]

Just finished A Dance With Dragons, very enjoyable. I am going to try to squeeze in Emma or Wuthering Heights before term starts. No more reading for pleasure for a while then

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

I'm still waiting for it.

 

[Kate]

I'm still waiting for it.

It was good, though some bits were a bit of a slog.

 

[Gustav]

Been reading collections of aphorisms from Lichtenberg, Karl Kraus, Jerzy Lec. All good.

Here's one from Kraus
"An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half"