marduk
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Post by marduk on Apr 13, 2009 17:07:15 GMT 2
Just finished www.1939.com.pl by Marcin Ciszewski. The book is about Polish Recon Battalion, which by accident (?) goes back to the past to 1st September 1939, just about nazi attack in Poland. Good one, shows the "What if?" history. The autor has just released another book-www.1944.waw.pl about Warsaw Uprising. I hope it will be soon in the libraries here.
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Post by nicorla on Apr 14, 2009 10:03:35 GMT 2
What was the last book I read... hmm, probably 'A misdummer nights dream' - but I had no choice, I had to read it... Good book, still, if you are forced to read it, it's not half as nice...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2009 12:18:09 GMT 2
Oh, no! Shakespeare's the greatest! Re-read the play when you have time and you don't feel forced to... I'd better not start talking bout it, as it is a neverending topic for me... ;D
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Post by nicorla on Apr 14, 2009 13:18:09 GMT 2
Sure... I've read it a dozen times... But it is no fun, when having to part it into small extracts to analyse it menticulously... I've seen the play last year, it was great. But the next book, I'm going to read, is: Hugh Laurie 'The Gun Seller'... got it from my dad for Christmas... didn't get to catch a glimpse of it in the last months... I'm looking forward to reading it. Has anyone of you read it before? If so, how is it?
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Post by mraw435 on Apr 15, 2009 17:41:01 GMT 2
just finished reading The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam
started a book on the Templar this morning
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Post by Heer E. Tik on Apr 19, 2009 11:14:12 GMT 2
Oh, no! Shakespeare's the greatest! Re-read the play when you have time and you don't feel forced to... I'd better not start talking bout it, as it is a neverending topic for me... ;D So, another huge Shakespeare fan! ;D What's your favorite play, Walkyrie? Mine would have to be- Tragedy - King Lear Comedy - Midsummer Night's Dream History - Richard III (AND the whole Henry VI trilogy! I'm one of the few people who've actually read those and loved them, I'm sure. The whole portrayal of Wars of the Roses is fascinating.) Still, it's hard to pick even a handful of them, they're so good. I think I've read all of his plays except Anthony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Comedy of Errors, and Timon of Athens... oh, and Henry VIII. And I wasn't even forced.
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Post by Heer E. Tik on Apr 19, 2009 11:19:18 GMT 2
The last good novel I read was "Sword of the North" by Richard White. It's a historical novel about Jarl Henry Sinclair of Scotland and his theorized journey to North America in the 1300s. It's now one of my very favorite books, lots of strong characters and action. Is that the infamous Herr Sinklar from Tyr's "Sinklarsvisa"?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2009 7:14:57 GMT 2
Hark! For l speak the truth: l love Shakespeare's work and tis a pleasure to find someone else who does too. Oh, it very hard to choose...but l promise l'll think and write more here. As soon as my shrewish claws will be free!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2009 8:20:56 GMT 2
Alas l kant choose! Tis hard..example: what comedy? Between A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW or MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING? :> With tragedies tis simpler as l like HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK, KING LEAR, MACBETH, TITUS ANDRONICUS,....oh, but this talk made me read again!
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Post by Heer E. Tik on Apr 20, 2009 9:31:14 GMT 2
Titus Andronicus is so underrated! Beside the nine people getting killed on stage and severed limbs aplenty, its tightly woven story is a bonus too It was Shakespeare's first play, and he went Michael Bay on his audience by delivering a surefire blockbuster: the "groundlings" wanted much gore, and he gave them just that, and it was an instant success overnight. p.s. shall we make a separate Shakespeare thread or is that taking it too far? ;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2009 9:51:44 GMT 2
I knew that. Tis the first shakespearian tragedy l've read (at 15) and maybe that's why l'm fond of it. A new thread?that thought crossed my mind too ;D There's so much to talk on the topic..,we haven't even saƮd a thing bout the Poems and the Sonnets
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2009 15:50:22 GMT 2
As promised, here are the details about MIDDLE AGES AND THE BIRTH OF EUROPE by Jacques Le Goff, one of the most respected medievalists among historians. The book is a part of the series THE MAKING OF EUROPE; the author believes that from all Europe's inheritances, the one provided by all movements in the M.Ages is the most important. He presents here all aspect of medieval life: wars, scholars, important christian figures, economy ...everything! Those interested must read it to have complete image of the birth of our ancient Europe... First l thought it will be hard to read it because l know J. Le Goff's works are to be read by those who study history in uni, but it turned that it contains a basic knowledge we all have and that it just organises in an accesible structure the dates and the events. I highly recommend it!
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Post by learntokill on Apr 21, 2009 16:13:09 GMT 2
The latest book is, mmm, "The Closed Circle". It is the following book of "The Rotters' Club" of Jonathan Coe. The first book talks about four friends grow up in the British 1970s. In the latest book resumed the history since year of 2000, when they're mens with a family, a job, but they never ceased to hang out together sometimes. There're a lot of unexpected and some particular situations that leave the reader speechless A very light reading
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Post by Heer E. Tik on Apr 23, 2009 10:07:13 GMT 2
Currently immersed deep in the Fritz Leiber's series of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Finished book 4 (Swords against Wizardry), currently in the middle of book 5 (Swords of Lankhmar). It's only been two weeks since I started this series, mostly extending the pleasure and restraining myself mightily from devouring the whole thing overnight. Just when I was starting to fear there's nothing good left to read in the genre, out comes this pair and makes me eat my words on the spot, and I of course gladly oblige. They sure don't make 'em like that no more!
(For those not in the know: it's a swords & sorcery "low" fantasy (btw it was Leiber who coined the "swords and sorcery" phrase in the first place), Leiber created his Fafhrd and Gray Mouser characters back in the 1930s as more realistic and down to earth characters, antithetical to the warrior ideal of Conan. Since then Leiber was writing more and more stories and novellas about this duo all the way through to late '80s... and their chronological arrangement makes up this series of seven books. It's a "low" fantasy because it's very picaresque in style, dealing with adventures and misadventures of rogues/thieves and all the unlikely or likely things they get themselves into - lots of boozing, wenching, and good earthy humor and color. This is opposed to "high" fantasy of Tolkien for instance, with its more epic/global scope and high ideals at stake.
Anyone else here into fantasy, any kind?
p.s. speaking of picaresque... I'm putting Grimmelshausen's "Simplicissimus" on my re-reading list! ;D
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Post by Mighty Croc on Apr 23, 2009 10:17:40 GMT 2
Anyone else here into fantasy, any kind? I used to be into fantasy when I was younger. My favourite fantasy writer is Terry Pratchett.
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