Don't know if that makes any difference in your eyes...
Indeed, that is usually the case with us. Which is why I couldn't count most of my reading towards the 50-book challenge – unfairly in my view, as all the time I spent reading law books was time I didn't spend reading other books. I just decided it would be a good idea to read the whole book before my exam. Especially since it says in the introduction that it's best read as a whole.
About law books not counting: if you read a non-fiction pop-science book, doesn't that count? So why is this different?
Yes, that is one we covered. English decisions based on American translations of French analyses of Roman law are even used in Scotland .
I think it's interesting that recent decisions like The Achilleas (2008) have swung back to the original principles of Baxendale, which date from 1854, after a bit of deviation in recent decades.
P.S. I read your profile, which I couldn't get to load yesterday. Nice list. I need to get back into reading stuff in Greek. I am going to try and get the Loeb side-by-side translation of Lucian's A True Story (?????? ??????????) next year.
Also, we never read the whole book in most classes in law school. They would have us read something like pp. 100-350, then 400-925, then 1100-1128.
Indeed, that is usually the case with us. Which is why I couldn't count most of my reading towards the 50-book challenge – unfairly in my view, as all the time I spent reading law books was time I didn't spend reading other books. I just decided it would be a good idea to read the whole book before my exam. Especially since it says in the introduction that it's best read as a whole.
About law books not counting: if you read a non-fiction pop-science book, doesn't that count? So why is this different?
Does your contract case book have the famous Hadley v. Baxendale? It's been used as a precedent all around the world, which makes sense considering it was an English decision based on an American translation of a Frenchman's analysis of the Code of Justinian.
Yes, that is one we covered. English decisions based on American translations of French analyses of Roman law are even used in Scotland .
I think it's interesting that recent decisions like The Achilleas (2008) have swung back to the original principles of Baxendale, which date from 1854, after a bit of deviation in recent decades.
P.S. I read your profile, which I couldn't get to load yesterday. Nice list. I need to get back into reading stuff in Greek. I am going to try and get the Loeb side-by-side translation of Lucian's A True Story (?????? ??????????) next year.
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
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50-book challenge complete!
31/12/2009 10:02:42 PM
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What did you think of Three Men on a Boat? One of the more underrated comedies out there, IMO. *NM*
01/01/2010 12:02:36 AM
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I think Jerome K Jerome was brilliant, and wish there were more like him.
01/01/2010 11:21:07 AM
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Good job, Tim!
01/01/2010 01:09:20 AM
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Not only that: my current read is Matter, the last Culture novel.
01/01/2010 11:16:34 AM
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Me too.
01/01/2010 11:53:57 AM
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You counted a book about contract law???
01/01/2010 04:16:53 PM
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fnords!!!!!
01/01/2010 07:29:09 PM
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by the way
01/01/2010 07:30:04 PM
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Three. If they were originally published separately, the fact that someone collected them into...
01/01/2010 11:55:22 PM
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The Night Watch series just got progressively worse. I liked all of them, though. *NM*
01/01/2010 10:18:15 PM
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Of course. It's the 50-book challenge, not the 50-SciFi-or-Fantasy-book challenge.
02/01/2010 12:14:59 AM
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I would never have considered case books "books" for purposes of the 50-book challenge.
02/01/2010 05:41:02 PM
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It's a textbook, not a case book.
02/01/2010 08:43:42 PM
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I think even books we called textbooks were essentially case books.
03/01/2010 05:42:45 PM
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Re: You counted a book about contract law???
04/01/2010 10:30:24 AM
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We both speak Spanish already.
04/01/2010 02:00:06 PM
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Do you really figure...
05/01/2010 01:57:54 AM
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I don't think it would take less time than for Portuguese or French, but...
05/01/2010 04:53:27 AM
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I think you should teach her Koine before French
05/01/2010 04:01:44 AM
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If I could convince my wife, I would
05/01/2010 04:57:05 AM
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There's always Amharic, I suppose
05/01/2010 07:32:50 AM
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For some reason I always want to read that word as though it were in Gaelic
05/01/2010 01:49:44 PM
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Well, at least it's not Klingon!
05/01/2010 11:30:48 PM
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I have a cursory knowledge of Old Persian and a smattering of Gatha Avestan...why do you ask?
07/01/2010 06:09:20 AM
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Oh, come on. Finnish is all kinds of awesome.
05/01/2010 05:01:16 PM
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I know the word "omenapiraaka" means "apple pie" - I went to the Helsinki McDonald's.
07/01/2010 06:10:49 AM
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Since 50 and a half seems to be quite a popular number this year, here are mine.
01/01/2010 04:38:09 PM
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I think I managed, too. However, after that, my reading just... ceased.
01/01/2010 06:02:16 PM
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What did you think of Foucault's Pendulum?
02/01/2010 08:42:02 PM
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Because I'm not American.
03/01/2010 05:50:36 AM
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Yes, but you lot have lost so much more...
03/01/2010 06:03:38 AM
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Is the subjunctive any more alive in America than in Britain?
03/01/2010 06:23:09 AM
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Not in any meaningful sense. I suppose there are some irregularities which could be subjunctive...
03/01/2010 09:54:46 AM
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Would y'all ( ) say it's the same situation as with French (and I think Spanish)?
05/01/2010 02:05:59 AM
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Not exactly
05/01/2010 04:00:04 AM
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All I know about French is what's in Louisiana, and it's just completely incomprehensible.
06/01/2010 08:20:53 AM
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Aaah.
03/01/2010 09:04:45 AM
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I should have mentioned...
03/01/2010 11:39:27 PM
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Illuminatus! is so great. I finished the trilogy last year, I think.
05/01/2010 06:58:14 AM
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If this will be your first Eco, I definitely recommend The Name of the Rose rather than FP. *NM*
05/01/2010 11:13:07 AM
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I finished with 90 books.
09/01/2010 09:45:29 PM
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