Plan on reading it before the month is over, considering how many good things I've heard about the book and its author.
He is considered one of the best Czech writters of the 20th century. And especially his use of the Czech language has been matched only by few. In case of War with the Newts, there may be certain little things lost in translation, for example, when certain cosmopolitan characters use English words when speaking Czech, but hopefully it won't affect the story too much.
What's the best book you've read so far this year?
22/02/2010 04:34:39 PM
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Re: While it was not the most clever or innovative or what-have-you
22/02/2010 04:44:30 PM
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Best Served Cold
22/02/2010 05:57:27 PM
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I will pick up Abercrombie at some point. Ben has them. <3 Ben's bookshelves. *NM*
10/03/2010 09:21:24 PM
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy.... In fact, it is one of the best I've read ever! *NM*
22/02/2010 09:03:18 PM
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In the Valley of the Kings by Terrence Holt.
22/02/2010 10:23:04 PM
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After googling that...
10/03/2010 09:23:37 PM
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It truly is great. Larry reviewed it here sometime in September or October. *NM*
19/03/2010 12:00:21 AM
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A Game of Thrones
22/02/2010 10:34:56 PM
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Re: I'm going to be that bitch
22/02/2010 10:44:03 PM
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I don't know whether to agree or disagree with this.
23/02/2010 03:17:02 PM
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Re: I don't know whether to agree or disagree with this.
23/02/2010 03:38:13 PM
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Andromaque by Jean Racine.
22/02/2010 10:39:12 PM
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En français?
10/03/2010 09:25:23 PM
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Oui. Renaissance French isn't that different from modern French.
11/03/2010 01:04:09 AM
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While Cloud Atlas was indeed a very fine book that I read this year...
22/02/2010 10:58:45 PM
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Elizabeth Bear's By the Mountain Bound was sick good. *NM*
22/02/2010 11:37:47 PM
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Either a Storm of Swords or Gardens of the Moon *NM*
22/02/2010 11:55:17 PM
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Both "Grass" by Sheri Tepper & "Pandora's Star" by Peter Hamilton *NM*
23/02/2010 05:15:06 AM
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If you had to recommend one of those to someone, which would you choose and why? *NM*
10/03/2010 09:29:23 PM
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
23/02/2010 08:36:27 AM
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Fateless by Imre Kertesz
23/02/2010 10:04:55 AM
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I think I like most things you read, so that's going on my list too. *NM*
10/03/2010 09:30:11 PM
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The Archer's Tale by Bernard Cornwell *NM*
24/02/2010 03:04:56 PM
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I've picked up Cornwell many times and then put them down again.
10/03/2010 09:31:58 PM
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Re: I've picked up Cornwell many times and then put them down again.
19/03/2010 12:08:36 AM
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War with the Newts by Karel Čapek *NM*
27/02/2010 10:06:10 AM
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I love the title. May have to read it based on that alone. *NM*
10/03/2010 09:32:23 PM
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Re: I love the title. May have to read it based on that alone.
11/03/2010 07:43:03 PM
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I found a used copy of that book last Friday
11/03/2010 07:45:45 PM
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Re: I found a used copy of that book last Friday
11/03/2010 08:24:53 PM
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