Either way, they're mercifully short works, compared to Der Zauberberg and Anna Karenina.
Tom Send a noteboard - 11/10/2011 01:07:59 AM
I think it was a mistake to read two extremely long novels at the same time.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
It's October. Only three months left this year. What are your reading plans?
- 03/10/2011 08:31:28 AM
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i'll be reading, almost exclusively, the jobs section of every newspaper i can get my hands on
- 03/10/2011 10:52:39 AM
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It's still all about Dickens
- 03/10/2011 11:22:43 AM
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I just read The Scarlet Pimpernel, after stumbling across it in a second-hand bookstore.
- 03/10/2011 02:17:15 PM
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- 03/10/2011 04:08:07 PM
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I accidentally read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, or most of it, yesterday
- 10/10/2011 03:56:00 PM
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Pratchett!
- 15/10/2011 03:38:44 PM
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Would one of you lovely people please write a review?
- 17/10/2011 06:33:35 PM
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Might write one tomorrow evening or maybe Saturday. *NM*
- 20/10/2011 02:32:33 PM
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Eh, what is this reading you speak of?
- 06/10/2011 01:01:18 PM
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Read Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino on the train yesterday.
- 08/10/2011 05:03:09 PM
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Re: Read Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino on the train yesterday.
- 10/10/2011 03:56:27 PM
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By "festive" I take it you mean Halloween-related?
- 09/10/2011 12:05:49 AM
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I mean any of the big days that are coming up in the next three months, actually. *NM*
- 09/10/2011 10:30:52 AM
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Ah, so you're looking further ahead than October? I should have realised you meant Bonfire Night... *NM*
- 09/10/2011 11:07:22 AM
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Reading. Yeah, I remember that.
- 10/10/2011 06:27:36 PM
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That's a bit how I'm feeling these days. I read, but I don't remember anything. *NM*
- 10/10/2011 06:37:15 PM
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The final book is among the better ones, albeit completely unrelated to the rest of the series. *NM*
- 10/10/2011 10:42:39 PM
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Either way, they're mercifully short works, compared to Der Zauberberg and Anna Karenina.
- 11/10/2011 01:07:59 AM
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It is perhaps the worst pile of shit I have read in a long time.
- 19/10/2011 03:04:12 AM
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Oh. I guess there's no accounting for tastes.
- 19/10/2011 08:08:50 PM
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- 19/10/2011 08:08:50 PM
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SMOOTH READ? That book is the definition of a choppy, disjointed piece of shit.
- 19/10/2011 08:30:22 PM
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Just vague plans this month.
- 10/10/2011 06:38:27 PM
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No plan but...
- 18/10/2011 01:55:41 AM
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And here was me thinking nobody could be any slower than Murakami's English translators...
- 18/10/2011 07:06:56 PM
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Re: And here was me thinking nobody could be any slower than Murakami's English translators...
- 19/10/2011 02:15:03 AM
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- 19/10/2011 08:18:06 PM
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- 21/10/2011 02:45:37 AM
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Huh, did I not reply to the main thread? Guess I'll have to do it rather belatedly then.
- 24/10/2011 07:45:33 PM
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- 24/10/2011 07:45:33 PM
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*NM*