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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 854 Views
I doubt it quite the same ways that book seems to have for you Larry - 11/01/2010 03:43:37 AM 776 Views
"Invitation to a Beheading" is the translated title *NM* Tom - 11/01/2010 03:55:06 AM 281 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 717 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 753 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 360 Views
Cool, I'll put it on the list. *NM* Darth_Katie - 11/01/2010 05:23:21 PM 357 Views
The Plague might disappoint you. jh - 11/01/2010 06:31:54 AM 701 Views
I was suspecting that: I studied some other Camus in school, but not that one. Tim - 11/01/2010 09:02:04 AM 720 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 629 Views
Y'a pas de bonnes bibliothèques avec une section "Langues Étrangères" à New York? Tim - 11/01/2010 02:11:33 PM 675 Views
I'm too lazy to respond in French. Tom - 11/01/2010 02:37:41 PM 731 Views
Looks like you win. Can't find it on fnac.com either. Tim - 11/01/2010 02:55:10 PM 784 Views
I just can't justify buying a book I would want to keep in paperback. Tom - 11/01/2010 03:53:06 PM 723 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 696 Views
Are you sure it's in hardcover somewhere? *NM* Tim - 11/01/2010 04:00:54 PM 329 Views
It's a classic. How could it not be? Tom - 11/01/2010 04:03:07 PM 649 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 726 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 788 Views
Book culture is different in France. DomA - 12/01/2010 07:06:17 PM 796 Views
That's so sad! Tom - 12/01/2010 11:27:37 PM 624 Views
They do, but the price seems to be even steeper than that. Legolas - 12/01/2010 11:37:45 PM 796 Views
Re: They do, but the price seems to be even steeper than that. DomA - 13/01/2010 02:36:35 PM 651 Views
Re: That's so sad! DomA - 13/01/2010 02:24:53 PM 793 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 657 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 798 Views
It's pretty straightforward Tom - 11/01/2010 03:57:41 PM 651 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 694 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 340 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 804 Views
There is a more important question to ask Amys - 14/01/2010 08:04:51 AM 917 Views
She reads the same books over and over and over. Tom - 14/01/2010 05:08:20 PM 641 Views
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