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Re: Hmmmm Camilla Send a noteboard - 13/02/2010 10:05:26 PM
1. The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway.

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


Well, this is as good an excuse as any.

5. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

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


I haven't read that. I have been meaning to, but I never got hold of it.

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.


It is insane. And it wasn't really about anything, or it was about everything. Either way, it is hard to summarise.
2666? Never heard of it.

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?


Cowbells?

(also don't you mean "biennial" event?)


Quite possibly. I was convinced it was bi-annual. But I am probably wrong.
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Books instead of sports! Camilla - 12/02/2010 07:58:48 PM 941 Views
Re: Books instead of sports! lyringlas - 12/02/2010 08:08:24 PM 667 Views
Re: Books instead of sports! Camilla - 12/02/2010 10:15:43 PM 647 Views
Oh Camilla. And your nationstate has the most Winter Olympic medals ever!!! The Shrike - 12/02/2010 08:09:24 PM 733 Views
That is part of the problem. It makes the media very enthusiastic. Camilla - 12/02/2010 10:14:05 PM 743 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 692 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 268 Views
Can't do that. jh - 13/02/2010 04:18:28 PM 655 Views
What about disregarding the DDR, for example? Tom - 14/02/2010 02:12:00 AM 737 Views
probably. jh - 14/02/2010 04:05:41 PM 704 Views
Yeah, but they don't beat Norway then. Legolas - 14/02/2010 04:12:53 PM 683 Views
Can't combine defunct nationstate(s) with their successor(s). The Shrike - 13/02/2010 07:33:09 PM 742 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 686 Views
The wonderful thing is they can all stand a reread. Camilla - 12/02/2010 11:16:55 PM 604 Views
Re: The wonderful thing is they can all stand a reread. Cockatiel of Doom - 13/02/2010 06:24:21 PM 580 Views
That's not what you said to me Wibble - 13/02/2010 08:17:44 PM 804 Views
Right. Cockatiel of Doom - 13/02/2010 08:22:42 PM 653 Views
LOL! Rebekah - 13/02/2010 10:43:51 PM 592 Views
Re: The wonderful thing is they can all stand a reread. Camilla - 13/02/2010 09:52:44 PM 645 Views
Hm. Cockatiel of Doom - 14/02/2010 01:02:06 AM 675 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 618 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 655 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 669 Views
I like stereotypes Camilla - 13/02/2010 09:32:55 AM 623 Views
I'm watching rugby(!) and reading. nossy - 13/02/2010 03:46:41 PM 710 Views
That is my plan for the second half of the day Camilla - 13/02/2010 03:48:08 PM 601 Views
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Re: Hmmmm Camilla - 13/02/2010 10:38:27 PM 653 Views
I finished Calvino a few weeks ago and I'm reading Harkaway now. *NM* Missa Sedai - 14/02/2010 04:12:41 AM 285 Views
Excellent! *NM* Camilla - 14/02/2010 09:28:30 AM 288 Views
Re: I disapprove, a little, of lists. Danae al'Thor - 14/02/2010 05:44:53 PM 613 Views
I disapprove of them when they try to be definitive Camilla - 14/02/2010 10:47:27 PM 645 Views
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