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Post by mln59 on Mar 14, 2018 21:36:45 GMT -5
i'll be starting 'between man and man' by martin buber tomorrow
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2018 17:44:24 GMT -5
Big Little Lies because @allamerican11 said it was better than the show. I think.
That's NINE Hs, ftr. And that's not the username.
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Post by maplespear on Mar 23, 2018 17:47:29 GMT -5
"Self Compassion, The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself" by Dr. Kristin Neff. I think everyone should read this book.
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Post by mln59 on Apr 5, 2018 20:41:50 GMT -5
i'll be starting 'between man and man' by martin buber tomorrow been reading this book for a bit now. it's an english translation of the original but i've reached a point in the book where the author is quoting other authors at length....in latin, italian (i think) and french. i don't read any of those languages so i keep having to turn to google translate to figure out what's going on. i have now learned that google translate sometimes doesn't do a good job...as in, didn't translate the words at all. oops
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Post by sonofdogman on Apr 5, 2018 21:22:51 GMT -5
i'll be starting 'between man and man' by martin buber tomorrow been reading this book for a bit now. it's an english translation of the original but i've reached a point in the book where the author is quoting other authors at length....in latin, italian (i think) and french. i don't read any of those languages so i keep having to turn to google translate to figure out what's going on. i have now learned that google translate sometimes doesn't do a good job...as in, didn't translate the words at all. oops Your translater didn't translate foreign passages? Only read I and thou by Buber
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Post by mln59 on Apr 5, 2018 21:36:41 GMT -5
been reading this book for a bit now. it's an english translation of the original but i've reached a point in the book where the author is quoting other authors at length....in latin, italian (i think) and french. i don't read any of those languages so i keep having to turn to google translate to figure out what's going on. i have now learned that google translate sometimes doesn't do a good job...as in, didn't translate the words at all. oops Your translater didn't translate foreign passages? Only read I and thou by Buber apparently not and it hasn't been a problem until meow. the translator made the decision to leave the quotes and didn't give english in a footnote. google translate did the latin and french okay but had a tough time with the italian...or what i think is italian. i might read i and thou in the future but i'll probably pick up fiction next. i try to alternate between fiction and non-fiction.
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Post by mln59 on Apr 6, 2018 12:06:15 GMT -5
speaking of fiction and non-fiction, a question for the readers on VT. do y'all read one type faster than the other? read them at the same speed?
i find that i can read fiction far far faster than i can read non-fiction
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Post by mln59 on Apr 11, 2018 18:04:59 GMT -5
finished the book by martin buber. just picked up vita brevis by ruth downie. it's book 7 in her medicus series. i highly recommend all of them
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 11, 2018 18:14:12 GMT -5
speaking of fiction and non-fiction, a question for the readers on VT. do y'all read one type faster than the other? read them at the same speed? i find that i can read fiction far far faster than i can read non-fiction I think it depends on the author. Every author has their own "voice" (i.e., word choice, rhythm, sentence structure, story structure) and a lot of times, I need to adjust to that voice. Some are really really difficult (e.g., James Joyce, Virginia Woolf) and others are perfectly in synch with my own "voice" (e.g., Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, John Irving, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan). I tried reading Roberto Bolano because so many great things were said about his work. But I tried to read them and found difficulty maintaining my concentration. So many writers are so idiosyncratic. I can read non-fiction at a really furious clip. It's almost breakneck speed. But some non-fiction genres like memoirs incorporate fictional devices or really obtuse voice choices so, sometimes, I have difficulty getting through them.
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Post by mln59 on Apr 11, 2018 18:26:18 GMT -5
I think it depends on the author. Every author has their own "voice" (i.e., word choice, rhythm, sentence structure, story structure) and a lot of times, I need to adjust to that voice. Some are really really difficult (e.g., James Joyce, Virginia Woolf) and others are perfectly in synch with my own "voice" (e.g., Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, John Irving, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan). I tried reading Roberto Bolano because so many great things were said about his work. But I tried to read them and found difficulty maintaining my concentration. So many writers are so idiosyncratic. I can read non-fiction at a really furious clip. It's almost breakneck speed. But some non-fiction genres like memoirs incorporate fictional devices or really obtuse voice choices so, sometimes, I have difficulty getting through them. i read fiction faster than non-fiction 10 times out to 10. speaking of margaret atwood...have you read the oryx and crake trilogy?
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 11, 2018 18:27:55 GMT -5
I think it depends on the author. Every author has their own "voice" (i.e., word choice, rhythm, sentence structure, story structure) and a lot of times, I need to adjust to that voice. Some are really really difficult (e.g., James Joyce, Virginia Woolf) and others are perfectly in synch with my own "voice" (e.g., Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, John Irving, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan). I tried reading Roberto Bolano because so many great things were said about his work. But I tried to read them and found difficulty maintaining my concentration. So many writers are so idiosyncratic. I can read non-fiction at a really furious clip. It's almost breakneck speed. But some non-fiction genres like memoirs incorporate fictional devices or really obtuse voice choices so, sometimes, I have difficulty getting through them. i read fiction faster than non-fiction 10 times out to 10. speaking of margaret atwood...have you read the oryx and crake trilogy? No. I read The Handmaiden's Tale and The Blind Assassin.
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Post by mln59 on Apr 11, 2018 18:33:00 GMT -5
i really like the oryx and crake trilogy. haven't read the handmaiden's tale or the blind assassin
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 11, 2018 19:16:12 GMT -5
i really like the oryx and crake trilogy. haven't read the handmaiden's tale or the blind assassin The Blind Assassin is on my Top 5 Favorite novels of all time list. My wife read the Oryx and Crake trilogy. She loved it. She read the last two first and then the first one: 2, 3, 1.
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Post by mln59 on Apr 11, 2018 19:19:35 GMT -5
i really like the oryx and crake trilogy. haven't read the handmaiden's tale or the blind assassin The Blind Assassin is on my Top 5 Favorite novels of all time list. My wife read the Oryx and Crake trilogy. She loved it. She read the last two first and then the first one: 2, 3, 1. what are the other 4? i loved the first 2 and thought the 3rd was okay. the 2nd half of the 3rd book was way better than the 1st half
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 11, 2018 19:34:54 GMT -5
I'd say:
1. The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro) 2. Atonement (Ian McEwan) 3. The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood) 4. The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes) 5. All the Little Live Things (Wallace Stegner) 6. Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates) 7. Enduring Love (Ian McEwan) 8. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Roddy Doyle) 9. The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton) 10. The Sweet Hereafter (Russell Banks)
The experience of reading these are better than that of any video game I played.
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