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NikF

#7700
August 06, 2016, 11:37:12 AM
Shklovsky

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"You overestimate my power of attraction," he told her. "No, I don't," she replied sharply, "and neither do you".

SimonNZ

#7701
August 06, 2016, 11:15:46 PM
Quote from: Ken B on August 05, 2016, 06:39:55 PM
I liked From Russia best.

As did I, though its been a while.

That Pan paperback cover above brought back memories:

Jaakko Keskinen

#7702
August 07, 2016, 01:11:44 AM
Did you know From Russia was in John F. Kennedy's top 10 novels?
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

ludwigii

#7703
August 07, 2016, 04:36:41 PM
Desmond Morris : The Naked Ape

"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."
Marcel Duchamp

stingo

#7705
August 09, 2016, 04:41:35 AM
Picked up because I saw it on one of my Kindle pricetracker emails. It's not a bad read so far, but I'm only 3 chapters in.

Ballerina by Edward Stewart

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Christo

#7706
August 13, 2016, 01:32:04 AM
Quote from: Alberich on August 07, 2016, 01:11:44 AMDid you know From Russia was in John F. Kennedy's top 10 novels?
Quite surprised that he actually read ten.
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

André

#7707
August 13, 2016, 03:49:42 PM
Quote from: Christo on August 13, 2016, 01:32:04 AM
Quite surprised that he actually read ten.

Ouch  !!  ::)

Politicians are sometimes thought-oriented, sometimes action-oriented, and sometimes disoriented  >:D. I'm not sure I'd choose our next leader based on his/her reading choices.  ;)

Christo

#7708
August 14, 2016, 02:04:25 AM
Quote from: André on August 13, 2016, 03:49:42 PMI'm not sure I'd choose our next leader based on his/her reading choices.  ;)

I would be happy with reading capacities (not sure about them re one specific American presidential candidate).  ::)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Kontrapunctus

#7709
August 14, 2016, 08:22:04 AM
It's amazing how Spielberg turned a 37-page short story into a 2.5 hour movie!


Kontrapunctus

#7710
August 14, 2016, 01:48:21 PM
I'm also reading this rather densely written book from 1927. Had Joseph Conrad lived longer, one might think he wrote it! Interesting, but not a page-turner.

Bogey

#7711
August 14, 2016, 01:52:29 PM
Quote from: Toccata&Fugue on August 14, 2016, 08:22:04 AM
It's amazing how Spielberg turned a 37-page short story into a 2.5 hour movie!



Indeed.  L enjoyed both versions, though I do need to read this one again.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

André

#7712
August 16, 2016, 10:08:49 AM


That pic reminds me of Stromae.

Karl Henning

#7713
August 16, 2016, 10:19:56 AM
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Brian

#7714
August 16, 2016, 10:26:57 AM
Recently on a nonfiction streak. Just finished "Food in History" by Reay Tannahill, an excellent single-volume treatment of exactly what the title says. Now midway through "Dark Money" by Jane Mayer, a history of the political contributions and leanings of American oligarchs like the Koch brothers and Richard Mellon Scaife.

Next: "Memories," the Russian writer Teffi's memoir of her escape from the revolution in 1917. Then, finally, some fiction again!

Karl Henning

#7715
August 16, 2016, 10:34:17 AM
Quote from: Brian on August 16, 2016, 10:26:57 AM
Recently on a nonfiction streak.

I've been sampling each of three volumes of a Liszt bio.  May likely spring for the ebooks.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Drasko

#7716
August 16, 2016, 10:40:32 AM


William Faulkner - The Hamlet (Dugo, Vrelo Leto (The Long, Hot Summer) in Serbian translation)

André

#7717
August 16, 2016, 11:37:31 AM
Please let us know what you thought of it. Faulkner is one of my literary heroes (Light in August, Sound and the Fury, Intruder int he Dust, Sartoris...).

Drasko

#7718
August 16, 2016, 02:04:08 PM
Quote from: André on August 16, 2016, 11:37:31 AM
Please let us know what you thought of it. Faulkner is one of my literary heroes (Light in August, Sound and the Fury, Intruder int he Dust, Sartoris...).

Will do. 8)
I love Faulkner. He is most likely my favorite American writer, though Flannery O'Connor of lately is giving him a run for his money. I've read pretty much all of his major works: August, Fury, Absalom, As I lay Dying (probably a favorite), Sartoris, Sanctuary, Unvanquished, Wild Palms ...
Snopes Trilogy (The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion) is more or less the last large body of work of his that I haven't read, apart of some standalone pieces that don't seem that interesting (to me) like A Fable, The Reivers and some early novels. 

Ghost Sonata

#7719
August 18, 2016, 10:19:34 AM
For the third time, Adam's Diary, an extraordinary novel by Norwegian author Knut Faldbakken.  Clever, devastating and highly recommended.

I like Conor71's "I  like old Music" signature.
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