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Post by Dominique on Mar 22, 2007 0:45:23 GMT -5
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Mar 22, 2007 3:55:03 GMT -5
Thank you for positng the link, it's very interesting! I like what Marques says about his creative pause: "With the experience that I have I could without a problem write a new novel. But people would notice that my heart would not be in it,". He makes readers fell so important.  |
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Mar 22, 2007 4:43:51 GMT -5
Thanks for the link. Wow, he has so many anniversaries in one year. It´s sad that he has written anything lately but everyone expects his works to be great so obviously he cannot just write something that doesn´t feel right to him. I think I´ll need years to get through his works as it is |
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Post by Dominique on Mar 22, 2007 4:50:32 GMT -5
I agree it is sad, but I've only managed to read one of his novels so far and I absolutely loved it! So I still have much more to get through as well |
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Mar 25, 2007 21:30:57 GMT -5
Same for me, I've only read Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and I loved it - now I'm sort of waiting until my Spanish skills improve so I can read his novels in their original version. I've got "Memoria de mis putas tristes" at home, and it'll be a reward for when I get better at Spanish - hopefully I'll get to read it within the next 10 years!!
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lindsay
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us." - Franz Kafka
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Post by lindsay on Mar 26, 2007 7:02:06 GMT -5
lol. I understand. I'm taking Spanish so that I can read his books in their original language. Sometimes I think yranslations can take alot out of a piece of writing.
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Post by Dominique on Mar 26, 2007 7:04:52 GMT -5
thats pretty cool 'd love to have the time to do that. Reading about people reading books in other languages on here makes me jealous. I'm such an uncultured westerner  |
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Mar 26, 2007 8:50:28 GMT -5
You´re not uncultured. I have friends who only own 2 books and they´re comics, that´s sad. And learning a language is really time consuming.
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