It's a 19th century translation from the Persian. Not in english though.
Just something I found among some stuff I kept in boxes until recently.
It's a great little book, like a shorter and less glamorous sibling of 1001 Nights.
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It's a 19th century translation from the Persian. Not in english though.
Just something I found among some stuff I kept in boxes until recently.
It's a great little book, like a shorter and less glamorous sibling of 1001 Nights.
obanite
Kroketten
Just finished If This Is A Man / The Truce by Primo Levi. Found it inspirational, the guy is such a good writer, through the harrowing horror of the camps to the sometimes funny, sometimes sad stuck-in-limbo of the trip home. Everyone should read it I reckon...
Also still slowly working my way through Otherland by Tad Williams, it's alright but no Neuromancer
Master And Margherita next, looking forward to it, haven't read it since 2nd year of uni
Also still slowly working my way through Otherland by Tad Williams, it's alright but no Neuromancer
Master And Margherita next, looking forward to it, haven't read it since 2nd year of uni
Johnny Canuck3
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I'm reading a book about the Hundred Years War. I realize that before now, I didn't know that much about it, aside from Joan of Arc.
Jaysus christ! It's no wonder the french hate the english so much. I also didn't realize that scottish armies fought alongside the french. That helps explain a lot, also.
Jaysus christ! It's no wonder the french hate the english so much. I also didn't realize that scottish armies fought alongside the french. That helps explain a lot, also.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Innit. I put off reading it for years, despite enjoying If Not Now, When, fearing it would make me miserable. But it never is depressing. His writing is never self-pitying.
DotCommunist
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I'm reading a book about the Hundred Years War. I realize that before now, I didn't know that much about it, aside from Joan of Arc.
Jaysus christ! It's no wonder the french hate the english so much. I also didn't realize that scottish armies fought alongside the french. That helps explain a lot, also.
had ye never heard of the auld alliance before dude?
Johnny Canuck3
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No.
They don't teach us that much detailed european history, same as they likely don't teach you about the exploits of Simon Fraser, Martin Frobisher or Louis Riel.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
finished the enright. load of self-indulgent wank really, like reading the guardian family section stretched out over 200 pages. i feel the need for some fast, gripping crime fiction now.
was that 'the gathering'? i really didnt see what all the hype was about with that.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
no, it was 'making babies'. bleh. i'm not inspired to read any of her fiction, that's for sure.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Just finished French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour De France by Tim Moore, an Urban recommendation. Loved it and passed it on to another cycling mate.
Now onto The Evolution Man (Or, How I Ate My Father), by Roy Lewis. Great and very funny fiction written in 1960 about a family of early homids learning to use fire/become civilised/develop technology etc.
Now onto The Evolution Man (Or, How I Ate My Father), by Roy Lewis. Great and very funny fiction written in 1960 about a family of early homids learning to use fire/become civilised/develop technology etc.
Toast - Nigel Slater
Had me barking laughing last night, and some reallyand
bits too
Loving how to entwine your entire life around food in all its variations
it's a great book, isn't it? i read it a few weeks ago when i was staying in uni halls. after some of the chapters i really couldn't bear to eat the mass catered food provided for us
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
I am reading a book about film theory and philosophy, a book about existential psychology and The Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon.
it's a great book, isn't it? i read it a few weeks ago when i was staying in uni halls. after some of the chapters i really couldn't bear to eat the mass catered food provided for us
brilliant
first page had me laughing - about how he never had butter without black bits in it
and the parmesan cheese - 'daddy, this cheese smells like sick'
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Just seen a second hand copy of Toast in a shop near my office, might have to grab it tomorrow.
Now reading Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton. Supposed to be a minor classic of 20th century literature but I'd never heard of it. Drunk bloke gets a bit morose and sits in pubs in pre-war London watching people spout rubbish while wishing he had the guts to go out and have a real life, from what I've read so far. Hope it's as funny as JB Priestly reckons in the intro 'cos otherwise it might both bore me and put me off my pint and I want neither.
I bought it because when I opened it randomly he was going through Haywards Heath on the train to Brighton and began to feel unwell. Having grown up in Haywards Heath I know exactly what he meant. Last time I took the littlun there we got off the train and she complained "Daddy, this place smells".
Now reading Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton. Supposed to be a minor classic of 20th century literature but I'd never heard of it. Drunk bloke gets a bit morose and sits in pubs in pre-war London watching people spout rubbish while wishing he had the guts to go out and have a real life, from what I've read so far. Hope it's as funny as JB Priestly reckons in the intro 'cos otherwise it might both bore me and put me off my pint and I want neither.
I bought it because when I opened it randomly he was going through Haywards Heath on the train to Brighton and began to feel unwell. Having grown up in Haywards Heath I know exactly what he meant. Last time I took the littlun there we got off the train and she complained "Daddy, this place smells".
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Russell Brand - My Booky Wook
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
brilliant
first page had me laughing - about how he never had butter without black bits in it
and the parmesan cheese - 'daddy, this cheese smells like sick'
It's a fantastic book. Bits of it were very moving. It's weird that after such a revealing memoir, he's so cagey about his personal life now.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Patrick Hamilton's pretty much my favourite English novelist, but Hangover Square, despite being the book he had to write, is not really representative of his work in terms of humour. For really vicious and brilliantly funny black humour, you want Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, The Gorse Trilogy, or Slaves of Solitude.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo
Fictionist
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Ah, but Hangover square is great for its capturing of gin palace daytime drunk, and 30W-lightbulb hotel noises. Slaves of Solitude does maybe edge it for containing the most brilliantly realised unbearable character - Mr Thwaites. Gorse I ain't so sold on, despite moments, and excellent Brighton and Reading shabbiness. Still, essential, for a particular kind of claustrophobic desperation. I can see the mass-produced stained glass around the draughty door and smell the mildewy social limits.Dirty Martini;8055620[I said:
Now reading The Corrections. Nowt else here, for now.
In Latin or through which translation?
Seeing as my Latin goes as far as Cogito ergo sum, I am reading it in English. Translated by WF Jackson Knight and published as a Penguin Classic.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Return of the Crimson Guard. sans fifty pages
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