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 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!
12/02/2010 07:58:48 PM
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Oh Camilla. And your nationstate has the most Winter Olympic medals ever!!!
12/02/2010 08:09:24 PM
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That is part of the problem. It makes the media very enthusiastic.
12/02/2010 10:14:05 PM
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So cynical. I bet if whale hunting were a sport, you'd be on board
12/02/2010 10:29:26 PM
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Only if you don't count East and West Germany's medals as German medals. *NM*
13/02/2010 03:07:15 AM
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Can't do that.
13/02/2010 04:18:28 PM
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I have read half of those books. Including the first, you will be pleased to know.
12/02/2010 10:54:18 PM
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The wonderful thing is they can all stand a reread.
12/02/2010 11:16:55 PM
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Re: The wonderful thing is they can all stand a reread.
13/02/2010 06:24:21 PM
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I rather enjoy the Winter Olympics. The Summer Olympics are worthless shit, for the most part.
13/02/2010 03:02:56 AM
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Re: I rather enjoy the Winter Olympics. The Summer Olympics are worthless shit, for the most part.
13/02/2010 09:31:52 AM
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This just strengthens the stereotype that you have to be a nerdish bookworm to enjoy literature...
13/02/2010 08:39:40 AM
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Hmmmm
13/02/2010 09:15:55 PM
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I finished Calvino a few weeks ago and I'm reading Harkaway now. *NM*
14/02/2010 04:12:41 AM
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