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Well, if Tim can post his planned reads for 2010, so can I. Tom Send a noteboard - 11/01/2010 02:34:47 AM
I'm planning on exactly 12 books that I need to read for the year since the volume of work is picking up again.

1. 1776, by David McCollough
2. The Red and the Black, by Stendhal
3. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (also on Tim's list, I noted)
4. The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy by James Evans
5. Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry by R.B. Parkinson
6. The Plague by Albert Camus
7. Paradise Lost by John Milton
8. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (Russian translation) (re-read)
9. Selected short stories by Alexander Kuprin
10. Selected short stories by Ivan Bunin
11. Bakunin (bio) by Valery Delin
12. ??????????? ?? ????? by Vladimir Nabokov

Is any of this going to disappoint me the way The Count of Monte Cristo is?
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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Well, if Tim can post his planned reads for 2010, so can I. Tom - 11/01/2010 02:34:47 AM 841 Views
I doubt it quite the same ways that book seems to have for you Larry - 11/01/2010 03:43:37 AM 759 Views
"Invitation to a Beheading" is the translated title *NM* Tom - 11/01/2010 03:55:06 AM 275 Views
Ah, I was wondering if it might be that one (obviously, I know very little Russian) Larry - 11/01/2010 04:04:14 AM 704 Views
I liked 1776. Darth_Katie - 11/01/2010 04:00:03 AM 778 Views
John Adams sounded good, but I've vowed to limit book-buying. Tom - 11/01/2010 01:41:50 PM 732 Views
Re: I liked 1776 and try The Johnstown Flood. One of my best reads for last year *NM* Nolan - 11/01/2010 03:33:24 PM 351 Views
Cool, I'll put it on the list. *NM* Darth_Katie - 11/01/2010 05:23:21 PM 351 Views
The Plague might disappoint you. jh - 11/01/2010 06:31:54 AM 680 Views
I was suspecting that: I studied some other Camus in school, but not that one. Tim - 11/01/2010 09:02:04 AM 701 Views
Well, then I'd have to buy it in French, and that gets me back to my old problem: Tom - 11/01/2010 01:42:35 PM 610 Views
Y'a pas de bonnes bibliothèques avec une section "Langues Étrangères" à New York? Tim - 11/01/2010 02:11:33 PM 656 Views
I'm too lazy to respond in French. Tom - 11/01/2010 02:37:41 PM 712 Views
Looks like you win. Can't find it on fnac.com either. Tim - 11/01/2010 02:55:10 PM 765 Views
I just can't justify buying a book I would want to keep in paperback. Tom - 11/01/2010 03:53:06 PM 704 Views
I would have thought "it's not available in hardback" was a good justification... *NM* Tim - 11/01/2010 03:55:56 PM 315 Views
Not for a book that I am sure is in hardcover somewhere... Tom - 11/01/2010 03:59:08 PM 678 Views
Are you sure it's in hardcover somewhere? *NM* Tim - 11/01/2010 04:00:54 PM 321 Views
It's a classic. How could it not be? Tom - 11/01/2010 04:03:07 PM 630 Views
Why would one do a new edition of a book that old - and that short - in hardcover? Legolas - 11/01/2010 05:00:04 PM 708 Views
Because it's a classic. Tom - 11/01/2010 05:06:51 PM 634 Views
I see. Legolas - 11/01/2010 05:46:06 PM 770 Views
Book culture is different in France. DomA - 12/01/2010 07:06:17 PM 781 Views
That's so sad! Tom - 12/01/2010 11:27:37 PM 606 Views
They do, but the price seems to be even steeper than that. Legolas - 12/01/2010 11:37:45 PM 776 Views
Re: They do, but the price seems to be even steeper than that. DomA - 13/01/2010 02:36:35 PM 632 Views
Re: That's so sad! DomA - 13/01/2010 02:24:53 PM 776 Views
Can you let me know what you think of 1776? Tim - 11/01/2010 09:13:58 AM 812 Views
Re: Can you let me know what you think of 1776? snoopcester - 11/01/2010 11:29:22 AM 642 Views
I had skimmed a part of it previously Tom - 11/01/2010 01:45:20 PM 649 Views
Oh, and regarding another of your points Tom - 11/01/2010 02:49:26 PM 825 Views
That's some pretty assonance . Tim - 11/01/2010 02:56:20 PM 780 Views
It's pretty straightforward Tom - 11/01/2010 03:57:41 PM 633 Views
Re: Well, if Tim can post his planned reads for 2010, so can I. snoopcester - 11/01/2010 11:32:53 AM 731 Views
I have a lot more on my "to read one day" list, but I don't want to read them all in one year. Tom - 11/01/2010 01:46:59 PM 672 Views
I assumed you would have... I just didn't have anything more interesting to say *NM* snoopcester - 11/01/2010 02:59:30 PM 333 Views
Try "Did you know sheep have no gag reflex?" next time. Tom - 11/01/2010 04:01:54 PM 649 Views
On the Road is a classic. everynametaken - 12/01/2010 04:08:11 AM 589 Views
I've read 2, 3 and 12. Vodalus - 13/01/2010 07:38:33 PM 783 Views
There is a more important question to ask Amys - 14/01/2010 08:04:51 AM 828 Views
She reads the same books over and over and over. Tom - 14/01/2010 05:08:20 PM 625 Views
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