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[NumberSix]

Big big sale on audible.com right now! I already picked up a few things.

I have about 30 more items in my cart at the moment, but I'm gonna sleep on it before I drop that kind of money! Stephen King, James Bond, Star Wars, Star Trek - plus a few other random choices.

[Papy Oli]

Took a break from Proust for 2 days and devoured Our Man from Havana (Graham Greene) and The Gold Bug (Edgar Allan Poe).

Back to Proust now (loose quote read earlier: my eating of asparagus, through some sort of Shakespearian magic turned my bedpan into a vase of perfume      ).

[Mandryka]

Took a break from Proust for 2 days and devoured Our Man from Havana (Graham Greene) and The Gold Bug (Edgar Allan Poe).

Back to Proust now (loose quote read earlier: my eating of asparagus, through some sort of Shakespearian magic turned my bedpan into a vase of perfume      ).

Ideas to shock the bourgeoisie are very common in Proust, often sexual. I don't think you get it quite so explicitly in e.g. Flaubert.

[vers la flamme]

Just finished reading. Lots of interesting information. Maybe too much?

Just started this. Information overload is right... makes me want to read every one of the books and listen to every piece of music mentioned at rapid fire pace.

[AnotherSpin]

Just started this. Information overload is right... makes me want to read every one of the books and listen to every piece of music mentioned at rapid fire pace.

Sounds like my impression. Especially since my interest in all things oriental is long-standing. The abundance of information just slowed down the reading, but didn't make it less interesting.

[Mandryka]

There's another book by Enard which has the same feel as Boussole, it's about war not music. I don't know if it's been translated -- it's called Zone in French. It's very good.  The other things he wrote have impressed me much less.

Everyone has the same reaction to Boussole. 

[AnotherSpin]

There's another book by Enard which has the same feel as Boussole, it's about war not music. I don't know if it's been translated -- it's called Zone in French. It's very good.  The other things he wrote have impressed me much less.

Everyone has the same reaction to Boussole. 

Yes, Zone is published in translation of Charlotte Mandell.

[Papy Oli]

A few more short stories in the last couple of days:

THE QUEEN OF SPADES by Alexander Pushkin
THE WIND BLOWS by Katherine Mansfield
THE FLY by Katherine Mansfield
THE CALL OF CTHULHU by H. P. Lovecraft
A SOCIETY by Virginia Woolf
THE TELL-TALE HEART by Edgar Allan Poe


 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

A few more short stories in the last couple of days:

THE QUEEN OF SPADES by Alexander Pushkin
THE WIND BLOWS by Katherine Mansfield
THE FLY by Katherine Mansfield
THE CALL OF CTHULHU by H. P. Lovecraft
A SOCIETY by Virginia Woolf
THE TELL-TALE HEART by Edgar Allan Poe


 

Love the Pushkin and Mansfield. Mansfield's "Her First Ball" is a masterpiece, imho.

[Papy Oli]

Love the Pushkin and Mansfield. Mansfield's "Her First Ball" is a masterpiece, imho.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll jot it down. I was really impressed by The Fly in this lot.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll jot it down. I was really impressed by The Fly in this lot.

Please allow me to suggest her "Garden Party" as well. A contrast of light and shadow in all her works.

[vers la flamme]

In a slump; I've started, and bailed on, a bunch of books over the past month. But I do have to leave a glowing recommendation for two books by an author that I just heard about recently, and proceeded to devour both of his books currently available in English: Benjamín Labatut. He writes about mathematics and science in a genre which blends fiction and nonfiction, and in an extremely thrilling manner.





Both of these books, I can't recommend highly enough. I haven't been this excited about a new writer in a very long time.

[Papy Oli]

Please allow me to suggest her "Garden Party" as well. A contrast of light and shadow in all her works.

Noted, thank you.

[krummholz]

In a slump; I've started, and bailed on, a bunch of books over the past month. But I do have to leave a glowing recommendation for two books by an author that I just heard about recently, and proceeded to devour both of his books currently available in English: Benjamín Labatut. He writes about mathematics and science in a genre which blends fiction and nonfiction, and in an extremely thrilling manner.





Both of these books, I can't recommend highly enough. I haven't been this excited about a new writer in a very long time.

Sounds extremely interesting!

[SimonNZ]

Needing some lighter reading this week:

Finished:



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[JBS]

A few more short stories in the last couple of days:

THE QUEEN OF SPADES by Alexander Pushkin
THE WIND BLOWS by Katherine Mansfield
THE FLY by Katherine Mansfield
THE CALL OF CTHULHU by H. P. Lovecraft
A SOCIETY by Virginia Woolf
THE TELL-TALE HEART by Edgar Allan Poe


 

The one Lovecraft story I would strongly recommend is The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

[Papy Oli]

The one Lovecraft story I would strongly recommend is The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

Added to the list, thank you Jeffrey!

[AnotherSpin]

In a slump; I've started, and bailed on, a bunch of books over the past month. But I do have to leave a glowing recommendation for two books by an author that I just heard about recently, and proceeded to devour both of his books currently available in English: Benjamín Labatut. He writes about mathematics and science in a genre which blends fiction and nonfiction, and in an extremely thrilling manner.





Both of these books, I can't recommend highly enough. I haven't been this excited about a new writer in a very long time.

I've read the first of the two, quite fascinating. Demystification of science, or on the contrary, mystification, either way refreshing.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Boris Yeltsin: The Struggle For Russia.

[AnotherSpin]

Boris Yeltsin: The Struggle For Russia.

Russian tsars, old and new, have always understood the struggle for Russia as a struggle against neighbours, near and far. They wanted to develop their own country much less, and there was nothing particularly heroic about it. Attacking someone and smashing them to smithereens is another matter! It is not without reason that the main parameter by which they assess relations with other countries is fear, whether others afraid of them or not, the more the better. And that's easy, everyone is afraid of irresponcible idiots with missiles.