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For lack of a better title, The Book Thread!
JP:
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Tolstoy is like that. He is an intensely detailed author who loves to tell you everything about the characters & the back drop right down to the design of the shoe buckles and the texture of the wall paper. I sometimes find it boring but the truth is one could not ask for a more detailed explination of life in Tsarist Russia, how the social caste system worked, how they dressed, how they interacted, etc...
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If you value Anna Karenina for it's historical relevance, Father's and Sons by Turgenev, while not providing such detailed descriptions as how many whiskers are on a character's mustache, describes a generational conflict centering on new and radical political philosophies that were becoming popular among youth around the mid-1800s.
Aphi:
I'm still in the stage in life where I'm /allowed/ to like crappy fiction, am I not?
=pouts sullenly=
And I was not at all bothered by Sparhawk/What EVER the hell her name was, 'cause I didn't bother reading it more than once.
So he's a lot older. So what?
=/Needs/ to read some new books=
I only got my hands on them because they were in a bin of old books my father's read. =is much too young to have read them when they came out=
boeuf:
The only thing my dad will read is Stephen King, which is really fucking annoying.
My sister and I offered to pay for his coffee for a week if he'd read the Life of Pi, and he still wouldnt.
He'll read King, some Mary Higgins Clarke, and John Grisham...
thats. it.
Valrus:
--- Quote from: aphi ---I'm still in the stage in life where I'm /allowed/ to like crappy fiction, am I not?
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Sure, everyone's always allowed to like anything that's crappy. People just get on your back when you try to evangelize or sing its praises.
--- Quote from: happybirthdaygelatin ---My packback has got jets?
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I'm Boba... the Fett?
Well I bounty hunt for Jabba Hutt to finance my 'Vette
--- Quote from: JP ---I felt like Anna Karenina was overall very good, but sometimes I felt like I was literally reading a minute-by-minute account of the characters' lives.
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I just finished Anna Karenina a couple months ago too, and I totally agree. At some points it just crawled.
Right now I'm reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. It's God damned amazing. At this point it's so dated that it's not really relevant to today's problems anymore, but that's just because of how far we've come since the housewife culture of the '50s.
--- Quote from: deborah ---also, when i was in junior high, my favorite fantasy/humor author was robert asprin and his myth series. those kicked seven kinds of ass, and i got to meet him once when he was still living in ann arbor michigan.
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That's fucking awesome. I loved those books too when I was in... some school or another. Shame he seemed to have stopped writing them at some random point... I think I saw a book he wrote recently, actually, that looked like it was part of the Myth series again. As I recall, he said in the introduction that it was to try to 'warm up' and get a feel for the characters again before he dived back into the series proper, but I could have just dreamed it.
Four responses in one post. My work here is done.
deborah:
i think friedan's seminal book still has relevance in today's society. and i think that women have not come nearly as far as we should have in the forty years since its publication. the ERA failed, thanks to reagan, and we've still got phyllis schlafly acting like a moron in public.
plus today's "equality" isn't that equal - men still expect the womenfolk to do all the women-type things AND hold a 40 hour a week job.
nuts to that.
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