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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 973 Views
Re: Books instead of sports! lyringlas - 12/02/2010 08:08:24 PM 695 Views
Re: Books instead of sports! Camilla - 12/02/2010 10:15:43 PM 681 Views
Oh Camilla. And your nationstate has the most Winter Olympic medals ever!!! The Shrike - 12/02/2010 08:09:24 PM 770 Views
That is part of the problem. It makes the media very enthusiastic. Camilla - 12/02/2010 10:14:05 PM 776 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 721 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 281 Views
Can't do that. jh - 13/02/2010 04:18:28 PM 683 Views
What about disregarding the DDR, for example? Tom - 14/02/2010 02:12:00 AM 766 Views
probably. jh - 14/02/2010 04:05:41 PM 733 Views
Yeah, but they don't beat Norway then. Legolas - 14/02/2010 04:12:53 PM 711 Views
Can't combine defunct nationstate(s) with their successor(s). The Shrike - 13/02/2010 07:33:09 PM 775 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 716 Views
The wonderful thing is they can all stand a reread. Camilla - 12/02/2010 11:16:55 PM 639 Views
Re: The wonderful thing is they can all stand a reread. Cockatiel of Doom - 13/02/2010 06:24:21 PM 607 Views
That's not what you said to me Wibble - 13/02/2010 08:17:44 PM 842 Views
Right. Cockatiel of Doom - 13/02/2010 08:22:42 PM 681 Views
LOL! Rebekah - 13/02/2010 10:43:51 PM 624 Views
Re: The wonderful thing is they can all stand a reread. Camilla - 13/02/2010 09:52:44 PM 676 Views
Hm. Cockatiel of Doom - 14/02/2010 01:02:06 AM 708 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 647 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 687 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 706 Views
I like stereotypes Camilla - 13/02/2010 09:32:55 AM 661 Views
I'm watching rugby(!) and reading. nossy - 13/02/2010 03:46:41 PM 743 Views
That is my plan for the second half of the day Camilla - 13/02/2010 03:48:08 PM 634 Views
Hmmmm smaug - 13/02/2010 09:15:55 PM 742 Views
Re: Hmmmm Camilla - 13/02/2010 10:05:26 PM 637 Views
Re: Hmmmm smaug - 13/02/2010 10:35:22 PM 950 Views
Re: Hmmmm Camilla - 13/02/2010 10:38:27 PM 686 Views
I finished Calvino a few weeks ago and I'm reading Harkaway now. *NM* Missa Sedai - 14/02/2010 04:12:41 AM 298 Views
Excellent! *NM* Camilla - 14/02/2010 09:28:30 AM 298 Views
Re: I disapprove, a little, of lists. Danae al'Thor - 14/02/2010 05:44:53 PM 644 Views
I disapprove of them when they try to be definitive Camilla - 14/02/2010 10:47:27 PM 674 Views
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