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Post by Olli The Drunk Bear on Feb 6, 2011 11:13:03 GMT 2
The latest book I've read is The wolf sea wrote by Robert Low. A band of vikings are hired to recover the Holy Spear that was used to Kill Jesus and other fictional religious artifacts bringing curse, death and new adventures with each one. At the start of one book he goes into detail about how people would get staked..... up their bottom
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Post by Esteban on Feb 15, 2011 0:00:04 GMT 2
I've finished The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai 1 hour ago.That book was so depressive but was impressive too .It's about a formerly noble family and their life after 2nd WW.I'll read a book by him in future.But not nowadays.Because I may get very unhappy if I read his books too much .I just need a "brake" to read his books again .
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Post by seana on Mar 13, 2011 18:45:53 GMT 2
Last book I've read was "Meteor" by Dan Brown, currently I'm reading "The Dragonbone Chair" by Tad Williams.
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Post by ingrid on Mar 22, 2011 15:33:27 GMT 2
I'm reading the Harry Potter books at the moment.. never done that.. shame on me
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Post by maris on Mar 22, 2011 16:25:23 GMT 2
I'm reading the Harry Potter books at the moment.. never done that.. shame on me I never read those either in fact as for the movies didn't come further then part 3 xD. Rereading first part of the strain trilogy again since I'm still waiting for the second book to come out. It's written by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan Mayby I should order both parts of the book in english seems that the they are published earlier in that language
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2011 17:35:06 GMT 2
ingrid: it's never late,a nd they are better tahn the films..or so I think, I've read the books with each apparition due to a friend's kid who wanted them and let me be the next reader soon after him. Never got to watch the last part of the movies adapted after it, because I've lost interest. maris: better order them in English; it can be even cheaper and also you don't wait much for them, not to mention it's a good exercice for gaining more knowledge in the language too. I won't bother you guys with the list of English writers , nor the literary critical studies I am into these days (the main reason why I stopped posting in this thread that is)..but I will say I am about to finish (hopefully today) Johanna Sinisalo's "Troll, a love story''....will post more after.
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Post by kuusuru on Mar 22, 2011 20:06:40 GMT 2
I'm reading the Harry Potter books at the moment.. never done that.. shame on me Are you ashamed of never reading them... or ashamed that now you do? ;D
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Post by ingrid on Mar 22, 2011 23:49:35 GMT 2
lol.. ashamed of never reading them it is. I never liked all the Harry Potter stuff and the big hype of it. But somehow there was a turning point somewhere, now I really like it
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2011 17:36:51 GMT 2
Ok, so I've finished last week Johanna Sinisalo's "Troll, a love story'' , and was a matter of not letting the book down starting the half of it..simply caught up by the intrigue. If not read up until now, I highly recommend it to anyone who's open and like to have a session of magic and contemporary prose connected to mythology, yet so in ''our days''...well, actually I am trying to say the author made an excellent connection between mythology, natural science, homoerotic relations and..well, Nature with its mighty power and human nature. Will burry myself in the short Oxford History of English Literature of Andrew Sanders now, but I must add that the other books I read at the moment are Fowles ' Mantissa, Italo Calvino's Inexistent Knight and....had a painful longing for Milan Kundera's books and its magic realism thus grabbed The Joke. The post it's a signal I'll post less often for a while here. ;D Which is the best for everyone.
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Post by Esteban on Apr 20, 2011 0:25:36 GMT 2
While I hadn't been reading the forum,I had read some books .And I've been reading nowadays.I've read On Tranquality Of Mind by Seneca,Tsugaru By Osamu Dazai and four books by different Turkish authors(I don't know whether their books be in your native languages or not ). On Tranquality Of Mind was a good book for me.But it was philosophical so reading that book got difficult for me sometimes,I had needed to read same parts again and again to understand completely.However,there is still something which I couldn't understand.On the other hand I learned some important things from that book.For instance,it is said that people should be able to emphasize on literature during hard times of a country . I wrote that I would read one more book by Osamu Dazai.And that book had been Tsugaru.Tsugaru is a region in Northern Japan and Dazai was from there.He wrote his journey through Tsugaru region.His book differs from classical travel books in being off-rules.Dazai wrote as he desired.In conclusion I liked Tsugaru and it made me want to taste "sake" . Now I have been reading Italian Journey by Goethe and The Forgotten Realms by R.A. Salvatore.A friend of mine advised me to read that book because some books like Dazai's or Goethe's exhausts me mentally.Thus I decided to read something less serious and more funny .
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Post by kuusuru on Apr 21, 2011 3:08:13 GMT 2
In conclusion I liked Tsugaru and it made me want to taste "sake" . Welcome back dude! Good to see you again. I've had sake a few times... I suppose it's an acquired taste . Didn't help that they served it warmed, this is not a great place to drink warm spirits. Or warm anything, except coffee As for books... my usual fare is technical books of a most dull and boring kind, but my son encouraged me to read Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy, and then his Best Served Cold. This is gritty lo-fantasy done really well. Highly recommended. Next in the non-technical reading list... one of the few books in English on Dacian archaeology, when it arrives. Hopefully before the Easter break...
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Post by Crystiannia on Apr 22, 2011 7:53:54 GMT 2
I found a wonderful dusty and cramped bookstore nearby and picked up an old text called "Gods & Mortals in Classical Mythology." It's pretty heavy. I could probably do some serious damage if I were to throw it at someone. ;D I'm loving it very much! The classic black and white photos of artwork and timelines make me grin. The text doesn't teach anything new, but it's been interesting to read the authors description of some well loved figures.
Otherwise, I have an entire stack of brand new books waiting on my desk!
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Post by darknoth on Apr 24, 2011 23:18:04 GMT 2
The last book I read was 1984 by George Orwell.
It's a tremendous book, I strongly reccomend it!! It was written in 1894, and it has a very acurate vision of the future. Some countries are like the ones described in the book, unfortunately. It's a hard critic, in my opinion, to socialism.
Nevertheless I recommend it! xD
Oh and I'm urrently reading An Introduction to Science pt II: Biological science by Isaac Assimov. It's been a great book so far.
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Post by nordenstam on May 17, 2011 13:47:53 GMT 2
Giuseppe Maiello's "Vampyrism in the Cultural History of Europe". Quite an interesting reading
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Post by Nordis on May 20, 2011 9:36:56 GMT 2
Giuseppe Maiello's "Vampyrism in the Cultural History of Europe". Quite an interesting reading Sounds interesting I read some small book about vampirism in Europe a few years ago, it included lots of trial minutes and other official papers from 1400's until 1800's but I doubt it was the same book you mentioned. Have to see if I can find that in here. Latest book I finished was Itämeren merirosvot (Pirates of The Baltic sea) by Juha Ruusuvuori. It's pretty informative take on North European piracy from the vikings 'til early 19th century, concentrating mainly to renaissance because obviously that was the busiest time in that business. As an interesting fact, Baltic sea has been the largest area terrorized by pirates in the history, beating even the parts of Caribbean sea That makes sense, since all the nations from Sweden to Poland and from Russia to Denmark and German empire were fighting most of the time despite the Kalmar union and Hanseatic league, allowing their own privateers to invade other nation's ships. I also read Crowley's The Book of the law, Julius Krohn's Pakanuuden aikakausi (Age of paganism) and A bewitched life by H.P. Blavatsky, but those were mainly booklets that you can finish in one session Next I'll try to finish Suomalaisten runojen uskonto (Religion of the finnish runes) by Kaarle Krohn. It's an early 20th century in depth study about pre-christian finnish religion as well as it's merging with christianity. I'm already half way through, the best parts about evil spirits and heroes are still coming up
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