What are you currently reading?

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Yes, that's right. He was also over the years a leading light in the Venice in Peril campaign.

Mike

Thank you. I am glad my memory is in perfect working order... I can still hear Gordon Clough.

[knight66]

And the wonderful voice of Irene Thomas.

Mike

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

And the wonderful voice of Irene Thomas.

Mike

Yes!

[Kullervo]

Know nothing at all about this writer, other than he won the Nobel Prize for this novella. Is anyone familiar with him?

[Norbeone]

You will eventually encounter an entire chapter(s), a dissertation on Russian farming or similar.  It has nothing to do with the story as far as I could discern.  You can ignore that entire part and be just as well off.  It's like 60 - 100 pages if I recall correctly.

You're reading a wonderful book.  I enjoyed it also.

Thanks for the heads up....i'll see how far I can plough through (pun vaguely intended)   

[karlhenning]

Right. We skip the bits about fishing in Moby-Dick, too 

[Kullervo]

Right. We skip the bits about fishing in Moby-Dick, too 

And the sections of music theory in Doktor Faustus! 

[Kullervo]

Robert Musil - The Man Without Qualities

[pjme]

I'm being swept away by Andrej Platonov's "Sokrowennyj tsjelowjek" (1928)  Secret man - translation Charles B.Timmer / Meulenhoff A'dam. Great and disturbing.

http://www.sovlit.com/bios/platonov.html


And re-reading parts of a little book ( Mme De La Fayette ,par elle même/ Bernard Pingaud)  on Mme.de la Fayette ( 1634 - 1693)- author of "La princesse de Clèves" (written between 1672 and 1678).
Wonderful information on (high society) life in France / 17th century - and on how difficult it is to be a woman & a writer!!
La princesse de Clèves ( which I haven't read) is considered by some as the first French novel of any consistance, and  a kind of prototype of the psychological novel.

[rockerreds]

The Journals of Kierkegaard

[mn dave]

Borrowed this from the library to sharpen up a little.

BE AN ISLAND

by Ayya Khema

[SonicMan46]

Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life (2008) by Carl Zimmer - purchased because of a great review in a recent NY Times Book Review summary - plus, right up my interest in genetics & the importance of the humble but ubiquitous bacterium E. coli in research done over decades - just arrived today and I can't put the book down (but remember, I'm a physician & a little weird about this stuff!  ) - CLICK on the image for a description & Amazonian comments - 

[mn dave]

Stickied.

It's getting mighty sticky 'round these parts.

[Maciek]

 

[Valentino]

Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy.
Supposedly good, since it won her a Nobel Price.

[Novi]

Right. We skip the bits about fishing in Moby-Dick, too 

And the sections of music theory in Doktor Faustus! 

And the sewers in Les Miserables .

[Renfield]

And the sewers in Les Miserables .

And the journals in Dracula.

[orbital]

And the journals in Dracula.

and the letters in Les Liaisons Dangereuses 

[mn dave]

Just picked this up:

[Anne]

And Tolstoy's dissertation on farming in Anna Karenina.