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Legacy Of The Night · **Posted:** Sun Jun 05, 2011 8:37 am

I got genuine chills at the end of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Speedyjx · **Posted:** Tue Jun 07, 2011 6:44 pm

Powering through Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Every word is read in his voice.

Goat · **Posted:** Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:40 pm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/ju ... d-his-life

:sad:

noodles · **Posted:** Sun Jun 12, 2011 9:24 pm

its ok hes a wizard

noodles · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:15 am

Finished Woman in White. Really enjoyed it because dude's a cunning writer.

Now reading Richard the 2nd by Shakespeare and Les Miserables (in French!) by Hugo. Took me 40 minutes to get through about five pages of the latter, so I might finish it before the end of forever. The pace will pick up from now on though because I'm going to refer to the dictionary less; my guesses were right for what most of the words I looked up meant, and for a couple of the ones I didn't know the meaning, it was a bit redundant (eg a list where someone gets described as fat and chubby).

Bruce_Bitenfils · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:21 am

noodles wrote:

Now reading Richard the 2nd by Shakespeare and Les Miserables (in French!) by Hugo. Took me 40 minutes to get through about five pages of the latter, so I might finish it before the end of forever. The pace will pick up from now on though because I'm going to refer to the dictionary less; my guesses were right for what most of the words I looked up meant, and for a couple of the ones I didn't know the meaning, it was a bit redundant (eg a list where someone gets described as fat and chubby).

Again, good luck.

Victor Hugo wrote:

Ils tombèrent dans cette redoutable erreur de prendre l’obéissance du soldat pour le consentement de la nation. Cette confiance-là perd les trônes. Il ne faut s’endormir, ni à l’ombre d’un mancenillier ni à l’ombre d’une armée.

Damn I love being French sometimes.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:27 am

Read the first chapter of Voltaire's Zadig in French. Really proud of myself for that lol.

Bruce_Bitenfils · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:37 am

Kudos.

I pretty much learned english by reading these Harry Potter books. :lol:

heatseeker · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 5:43 am

Just finished Roberto Bolaño's "The Savage Detectives". So goddamn good...really. Very challenging but also very readable, which is my fav combination in books. The whole aesthetic, for some reason, reminds me of The Mars Volta, with the Latin American characters/setting and avant-garde, yet familiar and entertaining feel.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:14 pm

Gene Wilder - The Woman Who Wouldn't (Yeah, it was great. A short novella took me like 3 hours to read and it was just fun. It's definitely Gene Wilder in his writing and jokes. A very quality love story but a kinda hokey, too happily ever after ending.

Nick Cave - The Death of Bunny Munro (So far, it is like The Road meets Palahniuk. It's decent, and much better than what I had read of And the Ass Saw the Angel).

Almost finished the Phenomenology of Perception by Merleau-Ponty then after that it is all stuff to prepare for writing my PhD writing sample over the summer.

The Annoying Frenchman · **Posted:** Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:25 pm

Jonathan Coe - The Rain Before It Falls
Beautiful and moving novel.

Speedyjx · **Posted:** Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:59 pm

Rattling though A Game of Thrones before I watch the TV version, planning to move onto American Gods after it.

Gonna end up buying the rest of the Song of Fire and Ice series at this rate...

traptunderice · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2011 8:16 pm

What are some good books to read in French? I'm thinking some Voltaire and Debord. Read a little Sartre, Rousseau, Blanchot and Voltaire for my class and did fine with those tiny excerpts.

noodles · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:28 pm

I read L'Etranger in December and loved it. Reading Les Miserables between school books this summer and also loving it. Neither seems particularly difficult language wise (any problems I'm having is mostly due to my French being rusty).

The Annoying Frenchman · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:33 pm

AlexandeR · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:50 pm

Stefan, I read Onfray's atheist manifest. Good stuff. The last weekend I visited my grandma and I read to her some fragments of the text. She got mad at me :lol:

The Annoying Frenchman · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:13 pm

Curse you, you heathen, trying to kill Grandma with an anarchist's theory. :lol:

Afro_D-Shak · **Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:48 am

My boss at Borders has an advanced copy of the latest Song of Fire and Ice book and he says it's really good. Reading Game of Thrones myself.

stevelovesmoonspell · **Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:59 am

Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater, I plan on picking more books up when I start working. For the most part, he has some common sense ideas regarding unions and states rights regarding farming, he's dead wrong on civil rights though.

Goat · **Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:25 am

A Most Wanted Man by le Carré. :wub:

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