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« on: April 03, 2004, 10:44:35 AM »
In addition to your current dose of Dostoevsky, what other books are you reading right now?

Here's mine:
Deliver Us From Evil by Sean Hannity
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren

On deck:
The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ghost Wars by Sean Coll
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2004, 10:54:41 AM »
currently reading:
The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
Seraphita - Balzac
Faster Than The Speed Of Light - Magueijo

next:
The Fall - Camus
Essays on Existentialism - Sartre
The Penal Colony - Kafka
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« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2004, 11:02:24 AM »
Currently reading:
The Brothers Karamazov by: Fyo himself!
100 Years of Solitude by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

On deck:
Crime and Punishment by: You know who Wink
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« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2004, 12:37:22 PM »
I still need to pick up 100 Years of Solitude...heard great stuff about it from numerous people.
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« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2004, 02:52:32 PM »
>>*Taking recommendations

you should get something from Joseph Conrad. His writing is intimidating at first, and could seem dense, but once you get into it you find something magical about it.

Most of his novels deal with the sea (or water, in some sort of way Smiley ), and are also psychological. All of his major characters are placed under extremely stressful (mentally and physically) situations, where they have to keep a level head to find the solution.

Probably, his most popular work, Heart of Darkness, is a good point to start. It is overfilled with symbolism, but like I said - it is dense. There is a [understatement] TON [/understatement] of info about this particular novel all over the net...in case you would find it over bearing...but since you're reading D, you shouldn't have any problems Grin
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« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2004, 05:23:36 PM »
I think I've heard of him. I'll look into it. Thanks!
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« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2004, 10:14:27 PM »
My next quarter of school doesn't start until Monday so my list is short... I'll update it as soon as I find out in which order I have to read my next stack of books.

I'm currently reading:
Dostoevsky-- Demons
Nietzsche- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2004, 10:02:55 PM »
Time to update my list!

I'm reading:
Nietzsche "The Case of Wagner"
Goethe's "Faust"
Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus"
Mozart "Don Giovanni"
Pushkin "Queen of Spades"
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« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2004, 05:13:16 PM »
I hate to admit it, but I too have several books I am reading at once.

Now:

Orwell: 1984
Bulgokov: Master and Margarita
Dreiser: An American Tragedy

Soon:

Evgeny Zamyatin" "We"
Sinclair: The Flivver King
Zola: Germinal
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« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2004, 06:24:26 PM »
>>Evgeny Zamyatin" "We"

hahaha...I just picked this up yesterday at the used book store. Hope to get it started pretty soon; I've read the first few pages and it seems quite interesting. Did you know that it was the Grand Inquisitor that influenced this book?
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« Reply #10 on: May 02, 2004, 04:15:24 PM »
Books i'm currently reading:
- Seneca's "Dialogues"
- re-reading "The Adolescent" and "Demons"
- Socrates; a little book with basic info about him
- Don Quixote


.. I wish i could read better and faster..
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« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2004, 09:43:51 PM »
well...mine:
Jean Giono - Le Hussard sur le toit
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« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2004, 07:53:48 PM »
Currently reading:

The Idiot  F. Dostoevsky
London the Biography Peter Ackroyd


Recently finished:  
Jonathon Edwards, a Life George M. Marsden
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It Arthur Herman

On list:
Crime and Punishment F. Dostoevsky
Nelson Love & Fame Edgar Vincent
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« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2004, 09:30:55 PM »
Quote from: Srecka on May 21, 2004, 09:43:51 PM
well...mine:
Jean Giono - Le Hussard sur le toit

I'm finished  Smiley


newest:
Dumas - The Three Musketeers[/color]
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« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2004, 09:34:45 PM »
Quote from: Paavo on May 24, 2004, 07:53:48 PM
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this one Huh

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