What are you currently reading?

[Florestan]

The seven volume The Accursed Kings by Maurice Druon, translated from the French. This is the first

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I have almost finished the second now. Seems like a Florestan kind of book, or Mookalafalas.

I have read the whole series long ago and enjoyed it immensely.

[Ken B]

I have read the whole series long ago and enjoyed it immensely.

Glad to know I haven't lost my touch 
And that it's good!

Do you know Robert Merle's series, The Fortunes of France? It looks interesting but I was put off by a random page I looked at.

[Florestan]

Glad to know I haven't lost my touch 
And that it's good!

For me every volume was a page turner.

Do you know Robert Merle's series, The Fortunes of France? It looks interesting but I was put off by a random page I looked at.

Never heard of him. 

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Great historian and writer, attempts to answer the question:

By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation?

[aligreto]

On the train today -

Interesting as I have recently begun to read Balzac's "Pierrette".

[Draško]

Gradac is Serbian art magazine, with themed issues, in book format. This one is triple issue (300 pages) and the theme is Dandyism.

It opens with an article on English 18th century 'Fashionable Novel' (Disraeli & co.) and critique of it by Thomas Carlyle and William Hazlitt. Continues with excerpts from Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin, Baudelaire's writings on Gautier, Balzac and Barbey d'Aurevilly articles on George Brummell, article on Robert de Montesquiou (Huysmans' model for des Esseintes and Proust's for Baron de Charlus), excerpts from Huysmans, Wilde, Proust and articles by Sartre, Camus and Roland Barthes among others.

[NikF]

Interesting as I have recently begun to read Balzac's "Pierrette".

And how are you finding it? 

[NikF]

The gym I've started to use has less benches than my old gym. While only a minor issue it does mean there can be extended periods of waiting for one to become available. So I've been taking a book along.

[Ken B]

The gym I've started to use has less benches than my old gym. While only a minor issue it does mean there can be extended periods of waiting for one to become available. So I've been taking a book along.

Book as bait? 

[Florestan]

Book as bait? 

[Karl Henning]

Hitchcock's most familiar film is probably "Psycho" (1960), with its famous scene in which Anthony Perkins stabs Janet Leigh to death in a shower. The scene inspired one of Hitch's most famous exchanges with a viewer, "Dear Mr. Hitchcock," the fan wrote, "after seeing 'Diabolique," my daughter was afraid to take a bath. Now she has seen 'Psycho' and Is afraid of the shower. What should I do?"

Hitchcock's reply: "Take her to the dry cleaners."

[aligreto]

And how are you finding it? 

Slow to start but I like the characterization.
Did you enjoy Lost Illusions?

[NikF]

Slow to start but I like the characterization.
Did you enjoy Lost Illusions?

Good. I do enjoy it if characters are well written or shaded to offer depth. Hope the pace picks up for you.

Yes, I'm enjoying it so far. But I had to pause in my reading because - and I'm going to be blunt here - I needed a book for taking to the gym, and because I like to run there/back something smaller in size than Lost Illusions was required. 

Also -

Book as bait? 

Scurrilous, tabloid worthy rumour. My innocence in such matters remains lily-white.

[aligreto]

Good. I do enjoy it if characters are well written or shaded to offer depth. Hope the pace picks up for you.

Yes, I'm enjoying it so far. But I had to pause in my reading because - and I'm going to be blunt here - I needed a book for taking to the gym, and because I like to run there/back something smaller in size than Lost Illusions was required. 

Perhaps you could use it as part of you weight lifting regime 

[NikF]

Perhaps you could use it as part of you weight lifting regime 

As it is my year on slow reduction in strength is enough of a different kind of Lost Illusion to deal with. 

[Karl Henning]

Illusions Regained!

[Ken B]

Nick might find "Penis Reduction Surgery For Beginners" useful.

[Draško]

In former Yugoslavia we all pretty much grew up on Italian comics in the 70s and 80s, and I still have the soft spot for them today, despite their quality.

[Florestan]

In former Yugoslavia we all pretty much grew up on Italian comics in the 70s and 80s, and I still have the soft spot for them today, despite their quality.

protiv svakog pravila = against [...] law?

[Draško]

protiv svakog pravila = against [...] law?

Against every rule  Law would be zakon