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[Post Ironic]

It really sucks when you have no money and want to buy a book. So you have like 100 choices and you have to pick only one

Go for bang for you buck, bro. Péter Nádas ~ Parallel Stories 1152 brilliant pages.

Or if you're looking for some dark, strange, confusing, nightmarish read, that could be circled through a dozen times or more... Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves is always a good choice.

 

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[Völler]

It really sucks when you have no money and want to buy a book. So you have like 100 choices and you have to pick only one

Library?

 

[Dostoevsky]

Buy an ebook and download pirated pdfs. It will be worth it in the long run.

I hate ebooks, I hate reading in front of the PC. I'm old fashion, wanna hold it in my hands.

And also I'd like to have a collection of some great books, so even printing pages is not really an option.

I already have tons of books but that's all from my dad, not everything that holds my interest. I'd like to have mine selection.

Go for bang for you buck, bro. Péter Nádas ~ Parallel Stories 1152 brilliant pages.

Or if you're looking for some dark, strange, confusing, nightmarish read, that could be circled through a dozen times or more... Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves is always a good choice.

I'm leaning toward Russians at the moment. I wanna read many of their work.

I tried to find Parallel Stories on the Internet but it seems I can't find a copy in Belgrade.

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Library?

I could never return a good book, they'd jail my ass

 

[GordoDeCentral]

It really sucks when you have no money and want to buy a book. So you have like 100 choices and you have to pick only one

Buy an ebook and download pirated pdfs. It will be worth it in the long run.

thats what i do especially books 50 years old +

 

[Völler]

I could never return a good book, they'd jail my ass

Buy it afterwards if it's worth adding to the collection? I don't see the issue.

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It's the first book of his I read, so it holds a special place in my heart for that. It's probably more "out there" than any of his books aside from 1Q84. But I like the blending of genres, from a sort of noir cyber-punk world, to a surreal fantasy realm. Postmodern Cityscape to Phantasmagorical dreamland. Kafka meets Blade Runner meets Lewis Carroll. It's like much of Murakami, with a sort of lack of emotion and passion from the characters, a very prosaic approach to everything in life, whether it be sex, eating, drinking, fighting for your life, etc. Everything seems to come across as ordinary.

It's not as developed as his later works Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (my favourite of his), Kafka On The Shore, 1Q84. All three, are, in trying to be objective, better books. But it's still a favourite of mine, perhaps for nostalgic reasons alone. Any of those 4 though, and Sputnik Sweetheart. One cannot go wrong.

Ok, thanks.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

dusko i think he meant, buy a tablet for like 50 euros and read books for free on it

 

[Post Ironic]

I hate ebooks, I hate reading in front of the PC. I'm old fashion, wanna hold it in my hands.

And also I'd like to have a collection of some great books, so even printing pages is not really an option.

I already have tons of books but that's all from my dad, not everything that holds my interest. I'd like to have mine selection.



I'm leaning toward Russians at the moment. I wanna read many of their work.

I tried to find Parallel Stories on the Internet but it seems I can't find a copy in Belgrade.

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I could never return a good book, they'd jail my ass

No used bookshops around your area? The classic Russians... Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Gorky, Bulgakov, Lermontov, etc. are usually pretty easy to find in used bookshops for next to nothing.

 

[Dostoevsky]

dusko i think he meant, buy a tablet for like 50 euros and read books for free on it

That doesn't sound bad at all.

I need 50 euros then.

I hardly have 30 now and I gotta buy shoes! So meh, I guess I'll have to wait until I get a job or something. In the meantime I'll stick to what I have.

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No used bookshops around your area? The classic Russians... Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Gorky, Bulgakov, Lermontov, etc. are usually pretty easy to find in used bookshops for next to nothing.

We do have but it's not a big difference price wise. Turgenev in the store is 6e (most expensive of his work is 10e).

I have all of Dostoevsky.

But yeah, I badly want Tolstoy, Turgenev and Chekhov.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

That doesn't sound bad at all.

I need 50 euros then.

I hardly have 30 now and I gotta buy shoes! So meh, I guess I'll have to wait until I get a job or something. In the meantime I'll stick to what I have.

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We do have but it's not a big difference price wise. Turgenev in the store is 6e (most expensive of his work is 10e).

I have all of Dostoevsky.

But yeah, I badly want Tolstoy, Turgenev and Chekhov.

we'll do a tuz fundraiser for you

 

[Dostoevsky]

Love ya guys a bunch, but I could never take that, no charities for me. Better donate to save some hungry kids lol.

I'm gonna read Coelho!!!!

 

[GordoDeCentral]

I'm gonna read Coelho!!!!

self-flagellation?

 

[Dostoevsky]

You're damn right lol.

 

[Osman]

No used bookshops around your area? The classic Russians... Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Gorky, Bulgakov, Lermontov, etc. are usually pretty easy to find in used bookshops for next to nothing.

Have around 7-8 of the books you listed and they all were very cheap in english bookshop around here (bought it myself or were gifts from the same place), like 7-11 euros each more or less. Some of those books are common classics that Dule should be able to borrow in library too, and just re-borrow if he hasnt finished yet, though 1 month should be enough for each.

 

[Dostoevsky]

I read all of Hesse's work (at least what I had from my collection, I think I miss 1 book).

Now, Dostoyevsky

 

[ĵџvє_вãвγ]

I read all of Hesse's work (at least what I had from my collection, I think I miss 1 book).

Rosshalde ..***..

 

[Dostoevsky]

Rosshalde ..***..

Not a huge fan of it but I pretty much enjoyed all of his books literally, some to a lesser extent.

Last I read was Narcissus and Goldmund and I was impressed, I think it's a great book.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

ok i read this book and while i enjoyed the mystery in the first half, i found the second half to be dull at best, the last 200 pages were predictable and 'cheap' i give 2 stars out of 5

Ooh damn, still got half the book to read. O well, we'll see.

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This was worth the listen. Informative for the lay man on what and why makes athletes superior to everyone else, mostly explaining the genetic side of it. A bit overdone with anecdotes, and at times excessive biological explanations, but the rest of the book was interesting enough to give it a 3/5

 

[piotrr]

Book focuses on the 2006 final. Some stories from his Real time, international games for France and interviews with many people about Zidane. Not much about Juve so far unfortunately (1/3 through).

 

[Martin]

someone gave me that for christmas last year. nice read

 

[Fred]

@Trequartista @X

I recently finished reading Shlomo Sand's "The Invention of the Jews". Absolutely amazing read