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Post by Dominique on May 7, 2009 0:15:22 GMT -5
I've started The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell. It's a bit of a challenge, nearly 1,000 pages long! It's a fictional memoir of a former SS officer who reinvented himself as a family man after the war. It has some interesting philosophical theories in it so far, but is a little confusing and slow going.
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Lu
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Post by Lu on May 7, 2009 7:18:13 GMT -5
I've started Le Sabotage amoureux (Loving Sabotage) by Amélie Nothomb.
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lindsay
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"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 May 8, 2009 12:22:36 GMT -5
I'm reading Ada by Vladimir Nabokov.
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Post by belle on May 8, 2009 12:52:48 GMT -5
I've started The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell. It's a bit of a challenge, nearly 1,000 pages long! It's a fictional memoir of a former SS officer who reinvented himself as a family man after the war. It has some interesting philosophical theories in it so far, but is a little confusing and slow going. Tell me how you like it. When it was firstly published in Germany I still used to work in the bookshop and everyone supposed that it would be a raving success, because it was all over the media and, well, it's a "German topic". But in the end there weren't many demands, although it was on the bestseller lists. It was very expensive (I think about 30€!), maybe that's a reason and it'll become more successful as a paperback...
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Isa
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Post by Isa on May 8, 2009 12:53:18 GMT -5
The Awakening for the book club, I'm almost done with Part I so I'll try to post my comments tonight. I'm also reading The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on daily lit
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Post by Dominique on May 8, 2009 22:30:24 GMT -5
I've started The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell. It's a bit of a challenge, nearly 1,000 pages long! It's a fictional memoir of a former SS officer who reinvented himself as a family man after the war. It has some interesting philosophical theories in it so far, but is a little confusing and slow going. Tell me how you like it. When it was firstly published in Germany I still used to work in the bookshop and everyone supposed that it would be a raving success, because it was all over the media and, well, it's a "German topic". But in the end there weren't many demands, although it was on the bestseller lists. It was very expensive (I think about 30€!), maybe that's a reason and it'll become more successful as a paperback... I will Yeah the cover says it was a massive success in Europe. I found the first chapter really interesting because it was very thought provoking. But the second chapter that I'm on to now is full of beurocratic nazi stuff that I don't really understand too well, and the only parts I do understand are very violent or sexually explicit, which was too be expected. I'm going to stick with it awhile longer but if it doesn't get a bit easier to understand I probably won't keep going with it.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2009 6:11:12 GMT -5
I am starting today to read 'The boy in striped pyjamas' by John Boyne in english.
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on May 9, 2009 10:14:34 GMT -5
I'm reading Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Post by gilmoreandbasketball on May 10, 2009 15:44:13 GMT -5
Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
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Isa
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Post by Isa on May 11, 2009 7:34:34 GMT -5
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. I'm reading the French translation and it's not that great, but the story itself is amazing.
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Bina
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Post by Bina on May 11, 2009 11:47:50 GMT -5
Started The Awakening, a little late, but I think I´ll be able to catch up with you discussion guys
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Isa
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Post by Isa on May 11, 2009 11:58:29 GMT -5
Started The Awakening, a little late, but I think I´ll be able to catch up with you discussion guys yay!
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Halie
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
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Post by Halie on May 12, 2009 18:56:02 GMT -5
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
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Bad Kitty
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Post by Bad Kitty on May 13, 2009 9:25:18 GMT -5
nearly finished "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
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