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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #200 on: June 28, 2009, 08:34:11 PM
I'm reading a suspense novel , "Total Control" by David Baldacci. 
Cool plot!   8)
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #201 on: July 03, 2009, 10:44:00 PM
The Count of Monte Cristo. It's slowly turning into my favorite book.
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #202 on: July 03, 2009, 11:36:19 PM
Am now reading the "Outermost Bank" by Henry Beston about the Atlantic Beaches of Cape Cod.  Gorgeous descriptive writing.

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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #203 on: July 04, 2009, 01:45:50 AM
The Count of Monte Cristo. It's slowly turning into my favorite book.

I love that book too!   =)
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #204 on: July 05, 2009, 09:58:00 AM
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. It's my third re-reading in 3 months, but the writing is so good that I read it even though I know what's going to happen. It's not your typical 'three young adults go adventuring and find many magical items and scary dragons' novel. It's the story of Kvothe, a very interesting and mysterious character.
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #205 on: July 07, 2009, 05:14:38 AM
Right now I'm in the middle of Mansfield Park (Jane Austin) it's kinda slow....i'm waiting for it to pick up though....I still have a little hope... :)

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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #206 on: July 19, 2009, 05:24:26 PM
The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffery Deaver. Little different to the usual but still a bloody good read.

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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #207 on: January 27, 2010, 07:13:48 PM
Oliver Twist and Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman.
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #208 on: January 27, 2010, 07:33:00 PM
Soon I'll be reading "Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown....I LOVE his books!!!
Also, any book by John Grisham, a wonderful author.  All his books are great!   ;D
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #209 on: January 27, 2010, 09:13:15 PM
Fire in the minds of men by James Billington.
A book about the revolutionary faith throughout the centuries that lead to the ideologies of our current societies.
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #210 on: January 27, 2010, 09:23:51 PM
Gods of the New Millenium by Alan Alford.

Humans were the result of genetic experiments by Aliens.

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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #211 on: January 27, 2010, 09:37:55 PM
Immanual Kant's critique of pure reason.
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #212 on: January 28, 2010, 12:00:43 AM
I just started reading "A Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein.
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #213 on: January 28, 2010, 05:39:54 PM
"The Lives of the Great Composers" by Harold Schonberg.  It's odd, I am suddenly having this big discovery as it relates to writing and writers, and I have to say that Schonberg is working for me, for some reason.  I was reading a book about Rachmaninov by Max Harrison, but I had to put it down --like I do so many other books-- because I couldn't stand the writing.  Schonberg is smooth, and I suddenly want to read everything he ever wrote (never felt that way about an author before).  

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Reply #214 on: January 28, 2010, 05:47:49 PM
Indeed, he is excellent. I would also suggest Great Conductors and Great Pianists if you have not already read them.

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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #215 on: January 28, 2010, 05:56:25 PM
Schonberg? Harold SchonbergIs that the guy who hated Mahler?
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #216 on: January 28, 2010, 07:33:34 PM
Schonberg? Harold Schonberg Is that the guy who hated Mahler?

Why, you know him ?  ;D

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Reply #217 on: January 28, 2010, 08:58:20 PM
stieg larsson - the girl who kicked the hornet's nest
is alan alford the one who maintains the world is ruled by alien reptiles?

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Reply #218 on: January 28, 2010, 10:00:55 PM
Why, you know him ?  ;D
Not really, I just read that he was a critic and I never trusted critics much, didn't know he wrote books though.

is alan alford the one who maintains the world is ruled by alien reptiles?
Isn't that David Icke?
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #219 on: January 29, 2010, 05:05:22 AM
Indeed, he is excellent. I would also suggest Great Conductors and Great Pianists if you have not already read them.

Thal

Thanks for the suggestions, Thal :)

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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #220 on: January 29, 2010, 07:16:09 AM
I've read a lot of Schonberg, especially as a child (or young teen) in that big music library with all its books and scores. I was like a kid in a candy store. Schonberg is good, and I think the key is his ability to tell a story. Story telling is a great art, and I wish, oh I wish that I had it down.
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Reply #221 on: January 29, 2010, 07:24:04 AM
Not really, I just read that he was a critic and I never trusted critics much, didn't know he wrote books though.
Isn't that David Icke?
[/quo oh, that's right. now i remember.
my current sitting-on-the john book is conversations with arrau, by the critic horowitz.  really lots of fun when he remenisces about berlin in the 20's.

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Reply #222 on: January 29, 2010, 04:21:07 PM
Story telling is a great art, and I wish, oh I wish that I had it down.

But you tell stories with music!! And so good! Thats even better!  :)

I'm reading : Le petit Nicolas. In French :)

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Reply #223 on: January 29, 2010, 05:55:40 PM
Thanks for the suggestions, Thal :)

By far my favourite book is From Paris to Peroria by R Allen Lott.

Informative and an absolute hoot.

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Reply #224 on: January 29, 2010, 11:29:49 PM
But you tell stories with music!! And so good! Thats even better!  :)

I'm reading : Le petit Nicolas. In French :)

You're oh so kind, Littletune. What a magnitude of expression can be in one littletune! I hope you enjoy *your* new piano.  :)
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Reply #225 on: January 29, 2010, 11:43:36 PM
my current sitting-on-the john book is conversations with arrau, by the critic horowitz.  really lots of fun when he remenisces about berlin in the 20's.

I love that book and refer to it often. I also love Monsaingeon's Richter book, "Notebooks and Conversations," even though some of the information presented is looked at skeptically by the real experts. Its still an entertaining read. There is a knew Richter biography soon coming out which is thought to be very accurate and will no doubt clear up a lot.
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Reply #226 on: January 30, 2010, 05:52:59 AM
Sean Gaston - The Impossible Mourning of Derrida

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Amos Oz - A Tale of Love and Darkness
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Reply #227 on: January 30, 2010, 06:25:53 PM
You're oh so kind, Littletune. What a magnitude of expression can be in one littletune! I hope you enjoy *your* new piano.  :)
Thank you!!!  :)  :) I just have to wait just a bit longer for my piano now :)

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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #228 on: February 03, 2010, 02:28:31 PM
"Apolion" from the series: Left Behind by Tim Layahe y Jerry Jenkins
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #229 on: February 03, 2010, 05:12:44 PM
The Great Terror by Robert Conquest (a book about the Stalin era Soviet Union)

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Reply #230 on: February 11, 2010, 05:04:29 AM
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris. I can't seem to get away from the turn of the last century.
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #231 on: February 11, 2010, 05:14:20 AM
The Great Terror by Robert Conquest (a book about the Stalin era Soviet Union)

That's a good one. May I suggest that you read A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia, the auto biography of Semen Ivanovich Kanatchikov, translated by Reginald Zelnik, Stanford University Press,1986. It might be hard to find but worth looking for. The poor guy was liquidated around 1940.
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #232 on: February 11, 2010, 05:24:53 AM
That's a good one. May I suggest that you read A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia, the auto biography of Semen Ivanovich Kanatchikov, translated by Reginald Zelnik, Stanford University Press,1986. It might be hard to find but worth looking for. The poor guy was liquidated around 1940.

Interesting, I'll look around for that one.  The description you gave sounds very similar to a book I read last year, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.  You may have heard of it, it's also a sort of auto-biography of a man working in the Soviet Gulag.

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Reply #233 on: February 20, 2010, 05:48:26 PM
I was reading a book about Rachmaninov by Max Harrison, but I had to put it down --like I do so many other books-- because I couldn't stand the writing.  
that exactly happened to me some weeks ago reading a Chopin by Bernard Gavoty
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Reply #234 on: February 20, 2010, 05:49:05 PM
that exactly happened to me some weeks ago reading a Chopin by Bernard Gavoty
...reading "Chopin" no "a chopin"
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #235 on: February 20, 2010, 06:56:12 PM
that exactly happened to me some weeks ago reading a Chopin by Bernard Gavoty

Yes this book was sorta irritating to me. As often, I stumble upon some very "little" detail which makes me think and question the whole book. In this case it was Gavoty's harsh critique on the Nocturnes c sharp minor and e-minor op. posthum, which are true masterworks to me, though the first one seems to be actually unfinished (which I don't mind btw).

But on the other hand I think this book sheds a bit of light on the difficult relationship between Chopin and Sand.

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Reply #236 on: February 21, 2010, 01:14:43 AM

But on the other hand I think this book sheds a bit of light on the difficult relationship between Chopin and Sand.

i'm totally with you... those things were the most interesting stuff...
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Reply #237 on: March 29, 2010, 05:01:02 AM
CS Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia - The Magician's Nephew
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #238 on: March 29, 2010, 10:40:45 AM
Immanual Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Hume Dialogues concerning Natural Religion.
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Reply #239 on: March 29, 2010, 05:09:57 PM
I'm reading The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas. Liking it so far.
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Reply #240 on: March 29, 2010, 05:30:35 PM
I'm reading The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas. Liking it so far.

I love that story!    ;D
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Re: Book Lovers: What are you reading now?
Reply #241 on: March 29, 2010, 08:33:38 PM
Immanual Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Hume Dialogues concerning Natural Religion.

Do you like them?

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Reply #242 on: March 29, 2010, 10:06:40 PM
Do you like them?

Yes, I am almost done with the Kant, it can get a little confusing, but I like it. I ultimately disagree with Hume, but it is interesting writing none-the-less. Have you read them?
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Reply #243 on: March 29, 2010, 10:22:15 PM
Yes, I am almost done with the Kant, it can get a little confusing, but I like it. I ultimately disagree with Hume, but it is interesting writing none-the-less. Have you read them?
I have not read the complete works of wich you are reading. But I have read parts of ithem and been to lectures (with a very good teachere) about them. I think I agree with your points. Kant can be very complicated but it is very interesting. Hume is very different but also interesting to read.

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Reply #244 on: March 30, 2010, 12:32:02 PM
I have not read the complete works of wich you are reading. But I have read parts of ithem and been to lectures (with a very good teachere) about them. I think I agree with your points. Kant can be very complicated but it is very interesting. Hume is very different but also interesting to read.

Interesting, did you take a philosophy class when (and if) you were in college?
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Reply #245 on: March 30, 2010, 03:21:10 PM
Interesting, did you take a philosophy class when (and if) you were in college?

The first year of university in Norway everyone has to study a subject that is called Examen philosophicum. So we learn about Socrates, Platon, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Newton, Stephen Jay Gould, Simone de Beavoir and some others. I actually really like it (this is my first year in uni). But Kant is really complicated so I haven't really understood everything about him yet. I had to write this essay about Aristoteles. Amazing to think that someone who lived 2000 years ago was thinking about those subjects.

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Reply #246 on: March 30, 2010, 08:56:11 PM
The first year of university in Norway everyone has to study a subject that is called Examen philosophicum. So we learn about Socrates, Platon, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Newton, Stephen Jay Gould, Simone de Beavoir and some others. I actually really like it (this is my first year in uni). But Kant is really complicated so I haven't really understood everything about him yet. I had to write this essay about Aristoteles. Amazing to think that someone who lived 2000 years ago was thinking about those subjects.

Sounds very interesting, in do you mean Plato (rather than Platon)? I have not understood everything in the Critique of Pure Reason, so I can sympathize with you. I agree with you about Aristotle (you wrote Aristoteles), I read his work about Metaphysics, and it is harder to understand than the previously mentioned Kant :P
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Reply #247 on: March 30, 2010, 09:02:25 PM
Sounds very interesting, in do you mean Plato (rather than Platon)?
Aristotle (you wrote Aristoteles),
in my language it is also spelled Platón and Aristoteles
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Reply #248 on: March 30, 2010, 10:38:39 PM
Sounds very interesting, in do you mean Plato (rather than Platon)? I have not understood everything in the Critique of Pure Reason, so I can sympathize with you. I agree with you about Aristotle (you wrote Aristoteles), I read his work about Metaphysics, and it is harder to understand than the previously mentioned Kant :P

Yeah I ment Platon. In Norway we actually write Aristoteles. Certainly he is also difficult to understand, maybe because what he writes wasn't supposed to be read by others (at least that is what my teacher told me).

I read expert (maybe 100 pages; it was everything that was relevant for my essay) of Politics, On the soul, Metaphysics and The Nichomean ethics. I probably had to read them like 7 times to understand anything. But than everything clicked and I understood it. I wrote about the soul, reality and possibility, and what it means for the virtues (arete). Actually quite complicated stuff.

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Reply #249 on: March 30, 2010, 10:45:58 PM
Yeah I ment Platon. In Norway we actually write Aristoteles. Certainly he is also difficult to understand, maybe because what he writes wasn't supposed to be read by others (at least that is what my teacher told me).

I read expert (maybe 100 pages; it was everything that was relevant for my essay) of Politics, On the soul, Metaphysics and The Nichomean ethics. I probably had to read them like 7 times to understand anything. But than everything clicked and I understood it. I wrote about the soul, reality and possibility, and what it means for the virtues (arete). Actually quite complicated stuff.

Thats what I thought.

I read on wikipedia that his writings are pretty much lecture notes. The edition of the Metaphysics I read was a word-for-word translation, which certainly did not make it easy. I plan on reading some of his other writings, but I will not have enough time until June, because I am doing a school project on the branch of philosophy, metaphysics, so I am busy
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