Inspired somewhat by Tom's post, here's one I'm toying with for next year
Larry Send a noteboard - 15/12/2010 04:46:05 AM
Reading a prose work, a play, and an epic-length poem or poetry collection in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, and either Latin or German. Some of those by necessity would be re-reads; some of which I've been meaning to do for a while.
For example, I could read Petronius or Cicero, Terence, and maybe Juvenal, Ovid, or Vergil for the Latin, re-read/review something by Gabo or Vargas Llosa, Calderón de la Barca or Vega, and Darío or El Cid for the Spanish, then Camus, Moliere, and Chrétien de Troyes for French, Eco, Buzzati, or Calvino, Benelli, and either Ariosto or Boiardo for the Italian and then Pessoa, Saramago, and Camões for Portuguese.
Hrmm...that might actually be worthy of a challenge, as it would force me to insure that my fluency improves in each of those languages, even if I've read roughly half of the authors named in their native tongues.
For example, I could read Petronius or Cicero, Terence, and maybe Juvenal, Ovid, or Vergil for the Latin, re-read/review something by Gabo or Vargas Llosa, Calderón de la Barca or Vega, and Darío or El Cid for the Spanish, then Camus, Moliere, and Chrétien de Troyes for French, Eco, Buzzati, or Calvino, Benelli, and either Ariosto or Boiardo for the Italian and then Pessoa, Saramago, and Camões for Portuguese.
Hrmm...that might actually be worthy of a challenge, as it would force me to insure that my fluency improves in each of those languages, even if I've read roughly half of the authors named in their native tongues.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
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2011: a year of RAFO challenges.
13/12/2010 10:45:30 PM
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What do we win? *NM*
13/12/2010 10:59:45 PM
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I like.
14/12/2010 01:08:36 AM
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I refuse to watch film versions of books if I can help it
14/12/2010 01:20:21 AM
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I generally agree, but sometimes the movies are better than the books. *NM*
14/12/2010 01:27:44 AM
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Name one. *NM*
14/12/2010 05:07:36 AM
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I'll name a dozen.
14/12/2010 10:32:04 AM
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Not all of those are valid choices.
14/12/2010 03:32:55 PM
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Also Big Fish.
14/12/2010 08:02:07 PM
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Lots of poor movies there
14/12/2010 10:48:59 PM
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Yeah, I don't know how any movie could be as bad as that book. *NM*
15/12/2010 08:06:20 AM
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This is a really good idea. I like the challenges. I wonder if I can be arsed to do one. Or more. *NM*
14/12/2010 08:23:42 PM
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Question: Can books count for multiple challenges? *NM*
14/12/2010 09:34:28 PM
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Preferably not. But we can be tolerant if you're running out of time.
14/12/2010 09:49:26 PM
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But the challenge-books can count towards the 50 and the book you'd been meaning to read.
14/12/2010 10:17:12 PM
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Re: But the challenge-books can count towards the 50 and the book you'd been meaning to read.
14/12/2010 10:22:06 PM
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Inspired somewhat by Tom's post, here's one I'm toying with for next year
15/12/2010 04:46:05 AM
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A condition and an observation
15/12/2010 11:27:29 AM
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Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian?
15/12/2010 01:08:04 PM
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I liked The Road and No Country For Old Men as well.
22/12/2010 06:23:23 PM
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Is The Road really a western, though? *NM*
22/12/2010 10:30:44 PM
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true. Not so much, I just always pigeonhole McCarthy as a westernish writer. *NM*
25/12/2010 02:20:54 AM
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Karl May?
15/12/2010 07:27:03 PM
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Hm
15/12/2010 03:15:50 PM
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I've read a western. I'm counting that!
30/12/2010 10:50:46 PM
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Re: <will watch interestedly as you play>
16/12/2010 12:22:54 PM
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Question:
17/12/2010 01:56:50 AM
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Dirty half dozen and genre challenges for me
17/12/2010 12:14:00 PM
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As always, I won't succeed at the 50 book challenge, but the others...
20/12/2010 07:05:30 AM
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I think you missed a trick here.
30/12/2010 09:19:20 AM
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More questions
16/01/2011 08:39:01 PM
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Re: More questions
16/01/2011 08:48:09 PM
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