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Well, if Tim can post his planned reads for 2010, so can I. Tom Send a noteboard - 11/01/2010 02:34:47 AM
I'm planning on exactly 12 books that I need to read for the year since the volume of work is picking up again.

1. 1776, by David McCollough
2. The Red and the Black, by Stendhal
3. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (also on Tim's list, I noted)
4. The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy by James Evans
5. Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry by R.B. Parkinson
6. The Plague by Albert Camus
7. Paradise Lost by John Milton
8. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (Russian translation) (re-read)
9. Selected short stories by Alexander Kuprin
10. Selected short stories by Ivan Bunin
11. Bakunin (bio) by Valery Delin
12. ??????????? ?? ????? by Vladimir Nabokov

Is any of this going to disappoint me the way The Count of Monte Cristo is?
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!

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Well, if Tim can post his planned reads for 2010, so can I. Tom - 11/01/2010 02:34:47 AM 833 Views
I doubt it quite the same ways that book seems to have for you Larry - 11/01/2010 03:43:37 AM 751 Views
"Invitation to a Beheading" is the translated title *NM* Tom - 11/01/2010 03:55:06 AM 272 Views
Ah, I was wondering if it might be that one (obviously, I know very little Russian) Larry - 11/01/2010 04:04:14 AM 696 Views
I liked 1776. Darth_Katie - 11/01/2010 04:00:03 AM 769 Views
John Adams sounded good, but I've vowed to limit book-buying. Tom - 11/01/2010 01:41:50 PM 724 Views
Re: I liked 1776 and try The Johnstown Flood. One of my best reads for last year *NM* Nolan - 11/01/2010 03:33:24 PM 349 Views
Cool, I'll put it on the list. *NM* Darth_Katie - 11/01/2010 05:23:21 PM 349 Views
The Plague might disappoint you. jh - 11/01/2010 06:31:54 AM 671 Views
I was suspecting that: I studied some other Camus in school, but not that one. Tim - 11/01/2010 09:02:04 AM 694 Views
Well, then I'd have to buy it in French, and that gets me back to my old problem: Tom - 11/01/2010 01:42:35 PM 605 Views
Y'a pas de bonnes bibliothèques avec une section "Langues Étrangères" à New York? Tim - 11/01/2010 02:11:33 PM 650 Views
I'm too lazy to respond in French. Tom - 11/01/2010 02:37:41 PM 706 Views
Looks like you win. Can't find it on fnac.com either. Tim - 11/01/2010 02:55:10 PM 760 Views
I just can't justify buying a book I would want to keep in paperback. Tom - 11/01/2010 03:53:06 PM 696 Views
I would have thought "it's not available in hardback" was a good justification... *NM* Tim - 11/01/2010 03:55:56 PM 313 Views
Not for a book that I am sure is in hardcover somewhere... Tom - 11/01/2010 03:59:08 PM 671 Views
Are you sure it's in hardcover somewhere? *NM* Tim - 11/01/2010 04:00:54 PM 319 Views
It's a classic. How could it not be? Tom - 11/01/2010 04:03:07 PM 626 Views
Why would one do a new edition of a book that old - and that short - in hardcover? Legolas - 11/01/2010 05:00:04 PM 703 Views
Because it's a classic. Tom - 11/01/2010 05:06:51 PM 629 Views
I see. Legolas - 11/01/2010 05:46:06 PM 765 Views
Book culture is different in France. DomA - 12/01/2010 07:06:17 PM 778 Views
That's so sad! Tom - 12/01/2010 11:27:37 PM 601 Views
They do, but the price seems to be even steeper than that. Legolas - 12/01/2010 11:37:45 PM 768 Views
Re: They do, but the price seems to be even steeper than that. DomA - 13/01/2010 02:36:35 PM 626 Views
Re: That's so sad! DomA - 13/01/2010 02:24:53 PM 772 Views
Can you let me know what you think of 1776? Tim - 11/01/2010 09:13:58 AM 805 Views
Re: Can you let me know what you think of 1776? snoopcester - 11/01/2010 11:29:22 AM 636 Views
I had skimmed a part of it previously Tom - 11/01/2010 01:45:20 PM 642 Views
Oh, and regarding another of your points Tom - 11/01/2010 02:49:26 PM 820 Views
That's some pretty assonance . Tim - 11/01/2010 02:56:20 PM 775 Views
It's pretty straightforward Tom - 11/01/2010 03:57:41 PM 627 Views
Re: Well, if Tim can post his planned reads for 2010, so can I. snoopcester - 11/01/2010 11:32:53 AM 723 Views
I have a lot more on my "to read one day" list, but I don't want to read them all in one year. Tom - 11/01/2010 01:46:59 PM 668 Views
I assumed you would have... I just didn't have anything more interesting to say *NM* snoopcester - 11/01/2010 02:59:30 PM 330 Views
Try "Did you know sheep have no gag reflex?" next time. Tom - 11/01/2010 04:01:54 PM 645 Views
On the Road is a classic. everynametaken - 12/01/2010 04:08:11 AM 584 Views
I've read 2, 3 and 12. Vodalus - 13/01/2010 07:38:33 PM 779 Views
There is a more important question to ask Amys - 14/01/2010 08:04:51 AM 819 Views
She reads the same books over and over and over. Tom - 14/01/2010 05:08:20 PM 620 Views
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