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[Martin]

It's not essential just Dutch?

Yep. Even for a hillbilly like me who doesn't know Dutch too well it's easy enough to read.

 

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[adriano_c]

Finished 'A Clash of Kings' today.

This medieval fantasy stuff, or whatever genre it's categorized as, is getting a bit tiresome.

Still going to finish the rest of the books in the series though.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Sorry to hear. And you bought the whole set

 

[adriano_c]

Laf, yeah. Maybe the next one will be better. This one didn't seem to actually lead anywhere in the big picture sense. After a thousand pages you still have some kids locked up, the Lannister gang is still the main enemy, blah blah.

 

[adriano_c]

Finished book one of 'A Storm of Swords' today. The series has gotten progressively less interesting thus far, plot-wise. Some of the characters, however, are really quite good now.

 

[Martin]

Knew I would reach 100 this year, just did. More importantly, I've been more selective and read less trash than last year.

 

[Trequartista]

I am reading Baudolino by Umberto Eco.

 

[adriano_c]

^ Taking a cue from Martin, are we?

Finished book two of 'A Storm of Swords' earlier. Plot's picked up a lot. Finally some satisfying, albeit long-anticipated, developments. Characters that had it coming got it, as well as some that didn't! I actually enjoyed this one quite a bit. Forza Arya Stark! Hah.

Next up, 'Pattern Recognition' by William Gibson.

 

[king Ale]

Theme of the Traitor and the Hero, a very short story by Borges

Read it now, everyone

http://allaboutjeff.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/theme-of-the-traitor-and-the-hero-by-jorge-luis-borges/

 

[suligodsilla]

i finally read the dark tower from king. i dont know but i think the book is overrated i dont know if i should the sequels did any of you guys read the books?

 

[Enron]

Yeah, it's a neat series. The first book I liked a lot (though it is slow and a bit philosophically vague), but if you're a fan of other Kings works like Salem's Lot or The Stand I would recommend continuing.

 

[Nenz]

Adriano you are a reading machine.

 

[Martin]

Yeah, it's a neat series. The first book I liked a lot (though it is slow and a bit philosophically vague), but if you're a fan of other Kings works like Salem's Lot or The Stand I would recommend continuing.

Didn't we once have a conversation about Candide? If you don't know it already there's a second story similar to that one, called L'ingénu. Even better I think.

 

[Martin]

Theme of the Traitor and the Hero, a very short story by Borges

Read it now, everyone

http://allaboutjeff.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/theme-of-the-traitor-and-the-hero-by-jorge-luis-borges/

Done.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Yeah, it's a neat series. The first book I liked a lot (though it is slow and a bit philosophically vague), but if you're a fan of other Kings works like Salem's Lot or The Stand I would recommend continuing.

Reading his Insomnia currently.

 

[king Ale]

Done.

Tell me

"That history should have copied history was already sufficiently astonishing; that history should copy literature was inconceivable." I loved this line

Heard Bertolucci made his The Spider's Stratagem based on this story, I'll have it on my watch list.

 

[Trequartista]

I am currently reading Candide by Voltaire.

I have wanted to read it for a long time after having read Zadig. Great stuff.

 

[king Ale]

Btw Martin, did you finally read The Autumn of the Patriarch?

 

[Martin]

Tell me

"That history should have copied history was already sufficiently astonishing; that history should copy literature was inconceivable." I loved this line

Heard Bertolucci made his The Spider's Stratagem based on this story, I'll have it on my watch list.

Didn't make much of an impression on me tbh. Sorry

 

[Martin]

Btw Martin, did you finally read The Autumn of the Patriarch?

No, still only some 50 pages into it. Wasn't able to read much the past few weeks.