What are you currently reading?

[Jaakko Keskinen]

[North Star]

Coincidentally, I started rereading Monte Cristo about a week ago. Non-abridged, by Jalmari Finne.

[unabridged]

Very nice.

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I returned just now after bathing in the bright summer's sun on the beach in the best of companies:
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[Jaakko Keskinen]

Well, excuse meee, I wrote that in a hurry.

[North Star]

Well, excuse meee, I wrote that in a hurry.

No apology is necessary.
I certainly didn't intend to grumble. . .

How is the Finne translation, by the way? I see it's from 1912.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

1911, actually. It's excellent, although there are some outdated expressions (the word "tyhmeliini" sounds a bit silly, like straight out of old fairy tales).

[ritter]

Starting with this recent purchase:

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I still haven't reached the musical part of these memoirs by one of Italy's foremost (and most scathing) music critics. The first few pages are rather pompously loaded with latin quotes (from Virgil and Horace), but then as he starts talking about himself, Paolo Isotta is one of those raconteurs who manage to make you take a keen interest in the vicissitudes of, for instance, their third-grade teacher. Definitely a fun read so far...

[North Star]

1911, actually. It's excellent, although there are some outdated expressions (the word "tyhmeliini" sounds a bit silly, like straight out of old fairy tales).

Hah! It's a good word in the appropriate place, though.
I'll certainly keep this one in mind if/when I want to read the whole thing later on.

[Florestan]

1911, actually. It's excellent, although there are some outdated expressions (the word "tyhmeliini" sounds a bit silly, like straight out of old fairy tales).

What does tyhmeliini mean?

[ritter]

What does tyhmeliini mean?

I was wondering the same thing..saw it translated as "nincompoop" in some webpage. 

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Well, it basically means "an idiot" but it's a really odd way to say it.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

I was wondering the same thing..saw it translated as "nincompoop" in some webpage. 

Yes, that's it, pretty much.

[North Star]

I was wondering the same thing..saw it translated as "nincompoop" in some webpage. 

Nincompoop is quite accurate. It's an affectionate form - well, maybe not that affectionate - of tyhmä, i.e. stupid. The Dude might say foolerino, if he wasn't into the whole brevity thing.  0:)

[Karl Henning]

I was wondering the same thing..saw it translated as "nincompoop" in some webpage. 

Well, it basically means "an idiot" but it's a really odd way to say it.

Well, and if you please, nincompoop is perhaps an odd way of saying an idiot 

[Karl Henning]

Nincompoop is quite accurate. It's an affectionate form - well, maybe not that affectionate - of tyhmä, i.e. stupid. The Dude might say foolerino, if he wasn't into the whole brevity thing.  0:)

Reminds me of Sam's old Gaffer calling him a ninnyhammer.

[lisa needs braces]

Interesting looking but ... Let us know.
I see Tyler Cowen blurbed the book. The world knows few greater masters of the incomprehensible sentence, the garbled paragraph, than Tyler Cowen.

I ran into him at a shopping mall a year ago.

[Karl Henning]

A book that my sister wrote;  she began just by sending e-mail messages to keep our youngest sister in good cheer, and then she was encouraged to make it a complete story.  Reading it makes me smile.

[Artem]

As usual with Bernhard, I enjoyed this book. It is a story of a man, trying to write a work of his life entitled On the sense of hearing. He lives with his wife far away from the society but ends up killing her. It is the first thing that you learn on page one of the book about the main character in the novel.



The book is an account of an imaginary literary club. It is a short and fun read, but won't stay on your mind for too long after you finish it.

[NikF]

I don't suppose this really counts as reading...



We moved into this house last year and still have boxes needing unpacked. But that's nothing, because this afternoon we found a couple of boxes containing many guitar magazines dating from about 1977 to 1987. I don't remember where these came from. Anyway, one of us is continuing to soldier on with the task of unpacking, organising, storing etc. And one of us is laying back on the sofa reading about guitars with pointy headstocks.

[North Star]

I don't suppose this really counts as reading...

We moved into this house last year and still have boxes needing unpacked. But that's nothing, because this afternoon we found a couple of boxes containing many guitar magazines dating from about 1977 to 1987. I don't remember where these came from. Anyway, one of us is continuing to soldier on with the task of unpacking, organising, storing etc. And one of us is laying back on the sofa reading about guitars with pointy headstocks.

I am appalled. Please. for the love of all things bright and beautiful, read instead about guitars with open-book headstocks or those round Fender-style headstocks, and not those awful pointy things! I quite like the Randy Rhoads signature design, though - but that's probably the only decent design from the 1980s. You may read about that one. 

[NikF]

I am appalled. Please. for the love of all things bright and beautiful, read instead about guitars with open-book headstocks or those round Fender-style headstocks, and not those awful pointy things! I quite like the Randy Rhoads signature design, though - but that's probably the only decent design from the 1980s. You may read about that one. 

Ah, no, it's more that I'm considering how some can find such headstocks aesthetically pleasing, while I can only think of them as being useful if I were stranded on a desert island and could use them for spearing fish or making holes in coconuts or poking snakes or something.
I'll have a look later and see if Randy Rhodes and his guitar appear in any of the issues. For now, I can only offer either Julian Bream, Joe Pass, or Yngwie Malmsteen and his ego. No difference between those three. Heh.