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I doubt it quite the same ways that book seems to have for you Larry Send a noteboard - 11/01/2010 03:43:37 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?


The Stendhal is still among my all-time favorites. Might need to read it in French next time I re-read it. The Kerouac is a mood read, I'd imagine. The Camus, Milton, and Lem are good. I'm drawing a blank on the Nabokov. What's the translated title?
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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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 859 Views
I doubt it quite the same ways that book seems to have for you Larry - 11/01/2010 03:43:37 AM 781 Views
"Invitation to a Beheading" is the translated title *NM* Tom - 11/01/2010 03:55:06 AM 283 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 721 Views
I liked 1776. Darth_Katie - 11/01/2010 04:00:03 AM 793 Views
John Adams sounded good, but I've vowed to limit book-buying. Tom - 11/01/2010 01:41:50 PM 754 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 363 Views
Cool, I'll put it on the list. *NM* Darth_Katie - 11/01/2010 05:23:21 PM 359 Views
The Plague might disappoint you. jh - 11/01/2010 06:31:54 AM 705 Views
I was suspecting that: I studied some other Camus in school, but not that one. Tim - 11/01/2010 09:02:04 AM 725 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 630 Views
Y'a pas de bonnes bibliothèques avec une section "Langues Étrangères" à New York? Tim - 11/01/2010 02:11:33 PM 679 Views
I'm too lazy to respond in French. Tom - 11/01/2010 02:37:41 PM 736 Views
Looks like you win. Can't find it on fnac.com either. Tim - 11/01/2010 02:55:10 PM 787 Views
I just can't justify buying a book I would want to keep in paperback. Tom - 11/01/2010 03:53:06 PM 728 Views
I would have thought "it's not available in hardback" was a good justification... *NM* Tim - 11/01/2010 03:55:56 PM 325 Views
Not for a book that I am sure is in hardcover somewhere... Tom - 11/01/2010 03:59:08 PM 700 Views
Are you sure it's in hardcover somewhere? *NM* Tim - 11/01/2010 04:00:54 PM 332 Views
It's a classic. How could it not be? Tom - 11/01/2010 04:03:07 PM 653 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 727 Views
Because it's a classic. Tom - 11/01/2010 05:06:51 PM 652 Views
I see. Legolas - 11/01/2010 05:46:06 PM 793 Views
Book culture is different in France. DomA - 12/01/2010 07:06:17 PM 798 Views
That's so sad! Tom - 12/01/2010 11:27:37 PM 627 Views
They do, but the price seems to be even steeper than that. Legolas - 12/01/2010 11:37:45 PM 798 Views
Re: They do, but the price seems to be even steeper than that. DomA - 13/01/2010 02:36:35 PM 655 Views
Re: That's so sad! DomA - 13/01/2010 02:24:53 PM 797 Views
Can you let me know what you think of 1776? Tim - 11/01/2010 09:13:58 AM 829 Views
Re: Can you let me know what you think of 1776? snoopcester - 11/01/2010 11:29:22 AM 661 Views
I had skimmed a part of it previously Tom - 11/01/2010 01:45:20 PM 668 Views
Oh, and regarding another of your points Tom - 11/01/2010 02:49:26 PM 845 Views
That's some pretty assonance . Tim - 11/01/2010 02:56:20 PM 801 Views
It's pretty straightforward Tom - 11/01/2010 03:57:41 PM 654 Views
Re: Well, if Tim can post his planned reads for 2010, so can I. snoopcester - 11/01/2010 11:32:53 AM 751 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 699 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 341 Views
Try "Did you know sheep have no gag reflex?" next time. Tom - 11/01/2010 04:01:54 PM 670 Views
On the Road is a classic. everynametaken - 12/01/2010 04:08:11 AM 608 Views
I've read 2, 3 and 12. Vodalus - 13/01/2010 07:38:33 PM 807 Views
There is a more important question to ask Amys - 14/01/2010 08:04:51 AM 921 Views
She reads the same books over and over and over. Tom - 14/01/2010 05:08:20 PM 645 Views
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