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Post by randy on Apr 23, 2005 11:47:19 GMT 2
my fave author is dostoevsky and my fave book is crime and punishment. it just is too good, and i love the way how dostoevsky writes. and that book really makes u think..
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Post by Hiding on Apr 23, 2005 15:40:41 GMT 2
do you really like his style?? when i was trying to read this book for the first time i couldn't read it to the end because it was boring. but for the second attempt i managed to read it and i can say that i liked much his ideas, but not his style
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Post by randy on Apr 23, 2005 16:02:37 GMT 2
i love his style, i seriously do. i just get so into it, if u know what i mean. and i really have no problems in reading his books (well that maybe that i always lost them somewhere... specially that one which ive printed from net... ive no idea where it is, and im too lazy to print it again (and itd take too much paper) so it is bit difficult to finish that book now...) i usually like the way how russians write... i like how they descripe ppl. and i like the ppl in them someway as well (somehow they are too much like me but dont worry, i havent killed anyone yet...) but i do really like his stuly (and i do know that i am weird)
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Post by Hiding on Apr 24, 2005 2:12:09 GMT 2
probably the translation plays its role. maybe if i read it in English for example, I'd like it. in Russian it sounds rather bulky
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Post by CrazyMary on Apr 24, 2005 6:00:37 GMT 2
I read the Brothers Karamazov in English, and his style didn't appeal to me at all. I found it very difficult to wade through.
A favourite of mine is Don Quixote.
On a conpletely different scale, I also like anything by Kurt Vonnegut.
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Post by randy on Apr 24, 2005 10:31:02 GMT 2
ive read crime and punishment in finnish... and next i read idiot (in finnish...) and in moment im reading notes from the underground in english, but ive no idea where it is in the moment... and still abt his style... well, i know many ppl dont like that kinda style at all... and find it difficult (or something) but for me it is easy to read. even in english. one book i really like is the motorcycle diaries (or something) by ernesto guevara... he has really cool style of writing... and of coz there are others too, i just have poor memory so i cant remember any names rite now...
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Post by DaveTheRake on Apr 24, 2005 11:59:23 GMT 2
A favourite of mine is Don Quixote. OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lovely someone not Spanish mentions at last the great knight from La Mancha! Definitely, for me the best book ever, which doesn't mean it's my favourite one. I simply think about this book -which I've read twice, this summer I think I'll do it for the third one- and wonder how could a guy manage to write such a large book, so much coherent, in this smart way in which he could critizise for example the Church withouh being jailed (again)... and in late 16th C early 17thC! Amazing! I mean, now every wirter has his/her computer, creates a profil for his characters and so on; but in Cervantes-Shakespeare years, there was no possibility of things like that, and the result (maybe due to that) was much more grrrrrreat! I read Crime and Punishment 8 years ago, and I remember I like it, but the problem is that the very first 300 pages are a bit dense, a big brick; but when you finish the book, you feel you've read a great masterpiece.
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Post by randy on Apr 24, 2005 12:48:18 GMT 2
i didnt have problems in first 300 pages either. abt don quixote, i dont think ive read it myself, but i think my mom has read it to us (me and my bro) when we were little... or then ive listened it on tape... but pretty long time ago anyway... but i think it was good, even though i was that little then that i sure didnt understand all of it, if u know what i mean... oh, i almost forget some. "tuntematon sotilas" (unknown soldier) by väinö linna. really great book. movies are good as well, specially the first one (ive probably seen it first time before i was in school... and i think it is from that that i love sibelius' finlandia hymn) and another one i really like: "seitsemän veljestä" (seven brothers) by aleksis kivi (so those are books we also had to read in school, and all others hated them but i love them both... and ive read both earlier too. and my mom has read to us (me and my bro again) pretty many times. but aleksis kivi has fantastic style of writing.
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Post by DaveTheRake on Apr 25, 2005 9:58:41 GMT 2
abt don quixote, i dont think ive read it myself, but i think my mom has read it to us (me and my bro) when we were little... or then ive listened it on tape... but pretty long time ago anyway... but i think it was good, even though i was that little then that i sure didnt understand all of it, if u know what i mean... This is grrrrreat! Errr, I don't think I'll be a father ever, but if for an apocalyptical interplanetary alingment I become one, I'll do as your mother with Don Quijote. About the understanding now more than when you were a child, I think that you're right, you never stop becoming mature, hence you see things from another point of view each time, hence you will always understand things that previously you don't understand. I've read, for example, three times The Old Man and The Sea, when I was 9, 22 and 24. First time I didn't understand the book, second, not much, but third time I almost touched heaven with it. That's the good part of re-reading, each time you feel the book in a different way.
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Post by illumina on Apr 25, 2005 12:15:28 GMT 2
I've read, for example, three times The Old Man and The Sea, when I was 9, 22 and 24. First time I didn't understand the book, second, not much, but third time I almost touched heaven with it. That's the good part of re-reading, each time you feel the book in a different way. So many people don't understand why I re-read books so often - you're so right. You miss things, you understand things differently, something that has occured in your life can make a part of the book resonate with you in a way it couldn't before this event... so many reasons to re-read!
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Post by Humppaporo on Apr 25, 2005 12:30:58 GMT 2
Don Quichote and Sancho Pancha are inextricably bound up with my childhood. My father read this to us several times. He liked this story very much and thought we should know it too.
If read almost everything from Dostojevski several years ago and most of it more than once. I love his style (translated in Dutch). I also love a lot of other Russian authors. Great stuff!
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Post by randy on Apr 25, 2005 13:03:28 GMT 2
i also like many russian authors. but im too often lazy to read books to end... but many russian authors have that kinda cool way to write (that most of ppl who i know hate ) and i had some author in my mind earlier, but not now... but good one anyway ill tell it later...
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Post by CrazyMary on Apr 25, 2005 13:34:17 GMT 2
I've read, for example, three times The Old Man and The Sea, when I was 9, 22 and 24. First time I didn't understand the book, second, not much, but third time I almost touched heaven with it. That's the good part of re-reading, each time you feel the book in a different way. That's good advice. I read The Old Man and the Sea when I was ten or so, and found it very boring. Maybe I should pick it up again. @ Illumina - I also re-read books I love. My most-read book is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I have read it about three times a year since my last year of school - that is about 30 times now.
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Post by Sethlad on Apr 26, 2005 12:00:39 GMT 2
I'm personally not a big fan of Hemingway's style of writing, it gives me no "struggle", too direct, too straightforward. I like a book that forces me to read the same passage 2 or 3 times to really grasp what is going on. With Hemingway everything is very "move-along". The last book I read from him (can't remember the fucking name damn it...), I read it in a few hours... all of it. I really don't like that. Makes me think of Paulo Coelho, another writer I can't stand... Anyway, this is all a matter of taste, as I admit he was a very important writer and don't deny that he does know how to place his words around.
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Post by DaveTheRake on Apr 27, 2005 10:51:24 GMT 2
Yes, many people says Hemingway was too much clear... but in fact what he was best at was in usin the precise word in every line and expression. Also the intrusion of the thoughts of the characters were brilliantly done. Hemingway is one of those writers that goes beyond what it seems at first.
Coelho, I read one book form him the last year, and yes, that's the difference, he's much clear and poetic, but he doesn't dare your intellect at all.
If you like so much intellect provokers... try Henry Miller's Cancer Tropic or Tropic of Cancer... I read it in Spanish. If you haven't read it, try... the most impressive begining of a book ever, in my opinion.
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