that Tom really loathes Chekhov and considers him massively overrated.
I'd say collectively he comes ahead of Sholokhov, which I know he doesn't care all that much for, based on previous conversation about Quiet Flows the Don (which I'll be reviewing in March, it seems).
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
So Vladimir Putin wants a canon of 100 Russian books for all Russians to be required to read
- 26/01/2012 01:21:44 PM
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I can come up with 75 without any problem
- 26/01/2012 05:10:47 PM
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I was wondering if you'd have to include Sholokhov there
- 26/01/2012 05:15:48 PM
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- 26/01/2012 05:15:48 PM
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I think it's probably safe to conclude from that list...
- 26/01/2012 08:15:35 PM
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Considering his first 20...
- 26/01/2012 09:30:10 PM
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Oh, nevermind, I'd overlooked his plays there on the 16th position. Ignore what I said.
- 26/01/2012 09:42:03 PM
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It was more in chronological order, rather than in terms of quality
- 26/01/2012 11:35:10 PM
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It was that obvious? *NM*
- 26/01/2012 11:29:06 PM
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Apparently not for me
- 26/01/2012 11:34:29 PM
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- 26/01/2012 11:34:29 PM
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The only Sorokin I care to read is Pitirim Sorokin.
- 26/01/2012 11:39:39 PM
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Pelevin being the exception?
- 26/01/2012 11:49:18 PM
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"SNUFF" is coming out in English in February already?
- 27/01/2012 12:04:16 AM
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Zamyatin? *NM*
- 30/01/2012 10:17:29 AM
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What did you want to ask about Zamyatin? *NM*
- 31/01/2012 08:38:31 PM
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I suspect she, like me, read a little too fast and wrongly thought she'd found an omission. *NM*
- 02/02/2012 06:42:22 PM
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I'm more interested in how this would be enforced
- 27/01/2012 02:39:15 AM
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The same way everybody else does it...
- 27/01/2012 04:14:41 AM
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The same way everybody else does it...
- 27/01/2012 04:14:41 AM
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