What are you currently reading?

[Kullervo]

Nostromo - Joseph Conrad

An awesome novel. Hope you like it!

[Dr. Dread]

An awesome novel. Hope you like it!

I have to start taking my reading more seriously or else you'll make me look like a chump. 

I hope I like it too. 

[Kullervo]

Yes, but you actually write yourself. I'm only a devotee of others' writings.

[Lilas Pastia]

Thanks for the posts on Orhan Pamuk. I had no idea who he was. Seems like my kind of novelist. I guess Mahfouz and Pamuk books will be on my table a lot  .

[Dr. Dread]

Yes, but you actually write yourself. I'm only a devotee of others' writings.

Still, I've been reading too much "junk" lately. Don't want the old brain getting flabby(er).

[bwv 1080]

Very readable and engaging financial history. 

[Florestan]

Enjoy 

Thanks. I really do.

[Haffner]

Still, I've been reading too much "junk" lately. Don't want the old brain getting flabby(er).

Conrad is great, "Lord Jim" is a classic as well. I really reccomend Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", but you have to kind of bleep all the boa constrictor last names in it (got that from a "Peanuts" strip, laughing).

[karlhenning]

Philip Normans new Lennon biography. Very wellwritten and illuminating.

I've been reading that at odd stretches . . . but now, the shop seems to have sold off both copies, and I am still a hubdred and fifty or so pages from the end!  I know how it ends, sure, but I'm interested in the interval . . . ah well.

[Dr. Dread]

Conrad is great, "Lord Jim" is a classic as well. I really reccomend Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", but you have to kind of bleep all the boa constrictor last names in it (got that from a "Peanuts" strip, laughing).

Gee, I heard he was great. Now where did I hear that...?

Crime and Punishment? Been there, done that.

[Kullervo]

Conrad is great, "Lord Jim" is a classic as well. I really reccomend Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", but you have to kind of bleep all the boa constrictor last names in it (got that from a "Peanuts" strip, laughing).

What does Lord Jim have to do with Dostoevsky?

[Dr. Dread]

What does Lord Jim have to do with Dostoevsky?

I was wondering too. 

[Kullervo]

Maybe as much as Allan Petterson has to do with Roger Sessions.

All in jest, of course, Mr. D.

[Haffner]

What does Lord Jim have to do with Dostoevsky?

From one perspective, Lord Jim is a classic book. Dostoevsky also wrote classic books.

From another perspective, perhaps you might have some ideas as to how Lord Jim has "something to do" with Dostoevsky, the man...or his work.

No disrespect intended, just food for conjecture. I have the day off (laughing good naturedly).

[Florestan]

Actually, I see Lord Jim as Conrad's Crime and Punishment.  0:)

[Dr. Dread]

Actually, I see Lord Jim as Conrad's Crime and Punishment.  0:)

That clears that up.

[Kullervo]

Would that make Nostromo his Brothers Karamazov?

[Dr. Dread]

Would that make Nostromo his Brothers Karamazov?

No, it would make it his Mary Poppins.

[karlhenning]

Crime and Punishment? Been there, done that.

Why, of course you have!  

[Dr. Dread]

Why, of course you have!  

Quite a good book, actually, I hit a roadblock with Karamazov.