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?
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.
Je suis méchant.

Well, if Tim can post his planned reads for 2010, so can I.
11/01/2010 02:34:47 AM
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I doubt it quite the same ways that book seems to have for you
11/01/2010 03:43:37 AM
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"Invitation to a Beheading" is the translated title *NM*
11/01/2010 03:55:06 AM
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Ah, I was wondering if it might be that one (obviously, I know very little Russian)
11/01/2010 04:04:14 AM
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I liked 1776.
11/01/2010 04:00:03 AM
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Re: I liked 1776 and try The Johnstown Flood. One of my best reads for last year *NM*
11/01/2010 03:33:24 PM
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The Plague might disappoint you.
11/01/2010 06:31:54 AM
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I was suspecting that: I studied some other Camus in school, but not that one.
11/01/2010 09:02:04 AM
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Well, then I'd have to buy it in French, and that gets me back to my old problem:
11/01/2010 01:42:35 PM
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Y'a pas de bonnes bibliothèques avec une section "Langues Étrangères" à New York?
11/01/2010 02:11:33 PM
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I'm too lazy to respond in French.
11/01/2010 02:37:41 PM
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Looks like you win. Can't find it on fnac.com either.
11/01/2010 02:55:10 PM
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I just can't justify buying a book I would want to keep in paperback.
11/01/2010 03:53:06 PM
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I would have thought "it's not available in hardback" was a good justification... *NM*
11/01/2010 03:55:56 PM
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Not for a book that I am sure is in hardcover somewhere...
11/01/2010 03:59:08 PM
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Are you sure it's in hardcover somewhere? *NM*
11/01/2010 04:00:54 PM
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It's a classic. How could it not be?
11/01/2010 04:03:07 PM
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Why would one do a new edition of a book that old - and that short - in hardcover?
11/01/2010 05:00:04 PM
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Because it's a classic.
11/01/2010 05:06:51 PM
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Book culture is different in France.
12/01/2010 07:06:17 PM
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That's so sad!
12/01/2010 11:27:37 PM
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Can you let me know what you think of 1776?
11/01/2010 09:13:58 AM
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Oh, and regarding another of your points
11/01/2010 02:49:26 PM
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Re: Well, if Tim can post his planned reads for 2010, so can I.
11/01/2010 11:32:53 AM
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I have a lot more on my "to read one day" list, but I don't want to read them all in one year.
11/01/2010 01:46:59 PM
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I assumed you would have... I just didn't have anything more interesting to say
*NM*
11/01/2010 02:59:30 PM
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