Read fiction only in its original language, and read only foreign fiction, with a minimum of 25 significant works of fiction in a foreign language read in 2011.
There are several works in Russian literature I still haven't read and really should read, and I want to continue with French literature once I'm done with Le Rouge et Le Noir (I expect to finish it shortly now that work has started to die down as holiday season kicks into full gear). I also want to read some Kafka and Goethe in German, as well as Schnitzler's Traumnovelle. I'm not sure if the last would be long enough to be "significant". Some classical works might make it into the mix, too. I might also take up Ishtar's Descent into the Underworld but I think that would be a major handicap to getting through 25 in one year. Akkadian is difficult to read for a lot of reasons, most (well, almost all) of which have to do with the writing system.
That having been said, I still do read non-fiction (I've been agonizing over a book on the War of the Spanish Succession for a while now, mainly because it isn't really the best I've read), and most of that would be read in English.
There are several works in Russian literature I still haven't read and really should read, and I want to continue with French literature once I'm done with Le Rouge et Le Noir (I expect to finish it shortly now that work has started to die down as holiday season kicks into full gear). I also want to read some Kafka and Goethe in German, as well as Schnitzler's Traumnovelle. I'm not sure if the last would be long enough to be "significant". Some classical works might make it into the mix, too. I might also take up Ishtar's Descent into the Underworld but I think that would be a major handicap to getting through 25 in one year. Akkadian is difficult to read for a lot of reasons, most (well, almost all) of which have to do with the writing system.
That having been said, I still do read non-fiction (I've been agonizing over a book on the War of the Spanish Succession for a while now, mainly because it isn't really the best I've read), and most of that would be read in English.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
2011: a year of RAFO challenges.
- 13/12/2010 10:45:30 PM
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What do we win? *NM*
- 13/12/2010 10:59:45 PM
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I like.
- 14/12/2010 01:08:36 AM
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I refuse to watch film versions of books if I can help it
- 14/12/2010 01:20:21 AM
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I generally agree, but sometimes the movies are better than the books. *NM*
- 14/12/2010 01:27:44 AM
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Name one. *NM*
- 14/12/2010 05:07:36 AM
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I'll name a dozen.
- 14/12/2010 10:32:04 AM
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Not all of those are valid choices.
- 14/12/2010 03:32:55 PM
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Also Big Fish.
- 14/12/2010 08:02:07 PM
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Lots of poor movies there
- 14/12/2010 10:48:59 PM
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Yeah, I don't know how any movie could be as bad as that book. *NM*
- 15/12/2010 08:06:20 AM
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This is a really good idea. I like the challenges. I wonder if I can be arsed to do one. Or more. *NM*
- 14/12/2010 08:23:42 PM
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Question: Can books count for multiple challenges? *NM*
- 14/12/2010 09:34:28 PM
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Preferably not. But we can be tolerant if you're running out of time.
- 14/12/2010 09:49:26 PM
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- 14/12/2010 09:49:26 PM
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But the challenge-books can count towards the 50 and the book you'd been meaning to read.
- 14/12/2010 10:17:12 PM
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Re: But the challenge-books can count towards the 50 and the book you'd been meaning to read.
- 14/12/2010 10:22:06 PM
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A challenge I'm toying with for 2011:
- 15/12/2010 04:00:36 AM
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Inspired somewhat by Tom's post, here's one I'm toying with for next year
- 15/12/2010 04:46:05 AM
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A condition and an observation
- 15/12/2010 11:27:29 AM
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Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian?
- 15/12/2010 01:08:04 PM
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I liked The Road and No Country For Old Men as well.
- 22/12/2010 06:23:23 PM
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Is The Road really a western, though? *NM*
- 22/12/2010 10:30:44 PM
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true. Not so much, I just always pigeonhole McCarthy as a westernish writer. *NM*
- 25/12/2010 02:20:54 AM
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Karl May?
- 15/12/2010 07:27:03 PM
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- 15/12/2010 07:27:03 PM
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Hm
- 15/12/2010 03:15:50 PM
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I've read a western. I'm counting that!
- 30/12/2010 10:50:46 PM
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Re: <will watch interestedly as you play>
- 16/12/2010 12:22:54 PM
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Question:
- 17/12/2010 01:56:50 AM
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Dirty half dozen and genre challenges for me
- 17/12/2010 12:14:00 PM
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As always, I won't succeed at the 50 book challenge, but the others...
- 20/12/2010 07:05:30 AM
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I think you missed a trick here.
- 30/12/2010 09:19:20 AM
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More questions
- 16/01/2011 08:39:01 PM
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Re: More questions
- 16/01/2011 08:48:09 PM
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