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Hmmmm smaug Send a noteboard - 13/02/2010 09:15:55 PM
1. The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway.

I have this, but it's still unread and on The Pile.

5. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

I've got his "Country doctor's notebook" on The Pile as well.

8. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino.

This book was insane. I don't even remember what it was about :P I started 2666 recently and I have the impression that's going to be similar.

I am still torn on a couple of them. I tend to agonise over lists. More than usual over this one. Which books would you list? And don't you just hate it when the Olympics are the only thing the news seem able to write about? Is there any way we could get an anti-sports-and-especially-the-fucking-Olympics-bookclub as a bi-annual event?

Well, I enjoy some Olympics. And since I don't have a TV anyway I can be selective about how much exposure I get. Now, where are my cowbells? ;)
(also don't you mean "biennial" event?)
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Books instead of sports! Camilla - 12/02/2010 07:58:48 PM 894 Views
Re: Books instead of sports! lyringlas - 12/02/2010 08:08:24 PM 615 Views
Re: Books instead of sports! Camilla - 12/02/2010 10:15:43 PM 599 Views
Oh Camilla. And your nationstate has the most Winter Olympic medals ever!!! The Shrike - 12/02/2010 08:09:24 PM 674 Views
That is part of the problem. It makes the media very enthusiastic. Camilla - 12/02/2010 10:14:05 PM 679 Views
So cynical. I bet if whale hunting were a sport, you'd be on board The Shrike - 12/02/2010 10:29:26 PM 632 Views
Only if you don't count East and West Germany's medals as German medals. *NM* Tom - 13/02/2010 03:07:15 AM 239 Views
Can't do that. jh - 13/02/2010 04:18:28 PM 603 Views
What about disregarding the DDR, for example? Tom - 14/02/2010 02:12:00 AM 688 Views
probably. jh - 14/02/2010 04:05:41 PM 650 Views
Yeah, but they don't beat Norway then. Legolas - 14/02/2010 04:12:53 PM 623 Views
Can't combine defunct nationstate(s) with their successor(s). The Shrike - 13/02/2010 07:33:09 PM 692 Views
I have read half of those books. Including the first, you will be pleased to know. Cockatiel of Doom - 12/02/2010 10:54:18 PM 633 Views
The wonderful thing is they can all stand a reread. Camilla - 12/02/2010 11:16:55 PM 551 Views
Re: The wonderful thing is they can all stand a reread. Cockatiel of Doom - 13/02/2010 06:24:21 PM 528 Views
That's not what you said to me Wibble - 13/02/2010 08:17:44 PM 752 Views
Right. Cockatiel of Doom - 13/02/2010 08:22:42 PM 603 Views
LOL! Rebekah - 13/02/2010 10:43:51 PM 539 Views
Re: The wonderful thing is they can all stand a reread. Camilla - 13/02/2010 09:52:44 PM 590 Views
Hm. Cockatiel of Doom - 14/02/2010 01:02:06 AM 621 Views
I rather enjoy the Winter Olympics. The Summer Olympics are worthless shit, for the most part. Tom - 13/02/2010 03:02:56 AM 564 Views
Re: I rather enjoy the Winter Olympics. The Summer Olympics are worthless shit, for the most part. Camilla - 13/02/2010 09:31:52 AM 599 Views
This just strengthens the stereotype that you have to be a nerdish bookworm to enjoy literature... Shannow - 13/02/2010 08:39:40 AM 614 Views
I like stereotypes Camilla - 13/02/2010 09:32:55 AM 570 Views
I'm watching rugby(!) and reading. nossy - 13/02/2010 03:46:41 PM 652 Views
That is my plan for the second half of the day Camilla - 13/02/2010 03:48:08 PM 546 Views
Hmmmm smaug - 13/02/2010 09:15:55 PM 652 Views
Re: Hmmmm Camilla - 13/02/2010 10:05:26 PM 556 Views
Re: Hmmmm smaug - 13/02/2010 10:35:22 PM 835 Views
Re: Hmmmm Camilla - 13/02/2010 10:38:27 PM 602 Views
I finished Calvino a few weeks ago and I'm reading Harkaway now. *NM* Missa Sedai - 14/02/2010 04:12:41 AM 256 Views
Excellent! *NM* Camilla - 14/02/2010 09:28:30 AM 262 Views
Re: I disapprove, a little, of lists. Danae al'Thor - 14/02/2010 05:44:53 PM 563 Views
I disapprove of them when they try to be definitive Camilla - 14/02/2010 10:47:27 PM 593 Views
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