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Post by Heer E. Tik on May 25, 2009 8:33:53 GMT 2
People turning into birds and forgotten pagan deities is totally up my alley! ;D I'm going to try and track it down, thanks crystiannia for the tip. How long ago did you read this advanced copy? That would give an idea whether it's in print by now.
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Post by Crystiannia on May 26, 2009 5:19:47 GMT 2
I just looked on amazon so I know it's out there. You can even look through some of the pages, but they never let you see the really good ones!
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2009 15:30:09 GMT 2
I've discovered a regional historical &literature zine called Valahia. In it poems of Martin Opitz ,a scholar that came to teach in Alba Iulia called by the noble Gabriel Bethlen. Herr 0pitz fell inlove with Transylvania and reading his magnificent poems I fell too..again!for the zilion time.. His words are bliss...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2009 14:10:26 GMT 2
As my sceptisism concerning fantasy literature died 2 years, ago l proudly announce you l've read with pleasure Marion Zimmer Bradley's ,Lady of Avalon' and l'm almost ready with R. Scott Bakker's second vol. from the trilogy The Prince of Nothing, that is The Warrior Prophet. Highly recommended as there's more than just fantasy there..
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Post by Bartbär on Jun 19, 2009 6:13:39 GMT 2
Almost finnished reading "Culture Shock! Finland" - very great book of course considering it is about Finland. The only downfall is the author found her love through the fact that her boss was Finnish (that's not the downfall), and because she is in Business many parts of the book are about statistics and the like, whereas I would just rather read about Finnish culture, more in-depth on Language, etc. But still, very great book considering it is one of the few English books we have on Finnish culture. Starting to read "Chaos: Making a new Science" and really enjoying it. It is stories of how certain concepts with in the Chaos realm of physics came to be, starting off with Lorenz and the foundations of the Butterfly Effect. I've always enjoyed the concept of Chaos, dark matter, and all the less studied parts of Physics, so it is nice to read about them, even though it is more about how they came to be than what they are all about. Also picking up on some language books. Got a book on Russian, and am trying to get back my knowledge of Cyrillic alphabet, as well as continue with some Finnish and Icelandic. Too many books I want to read right now...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2009 14:40:57 GMT 2
Ended Sam Savage's ,,Firmin. Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife" (hope I translated it correctly). I liked it and understood why they called it Frankfurt bookfair revelation last year. The funny satiric way of describind the life of the humanized rat Firmin made the reading even more good than the story itself. Firmin reads and think like a human...he is unusual among rats and feels more close to..oh,many adventures! I really recommend it. I'm starting Silvana de Mari ,The last Orc' as l enjoyed her ,Last Elf' hell of a lot!
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Post by learntokill on Jun 27, 2009 12:15:15 GMT 2
I'm reading "La coscienza di Zeno" by Italo Svevo. Svevo was an Italian writer. He's studied in every schools of the state. His writing is full of details but in some points it's boring and slow!!
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Post by marduk on Jun 30, 2009 9:31:33 GMT 2
I found somewhere in my town plenty of English books; I've bought a plenty of them about army, history etc. Most of those are romances :x Anyway, reading now Barry Davies's "Joining the SAS: what it's like and how to get in". Intersting. Maybe I'll try sometime a training schedule... looks cool.
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Post by Ǽcen on Jul 2, 2009 8:57:19 GMT 2
Currently reading "Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea" by Thomas Cahill. It's a fantastic presentation of the influence of ancient Greece upon the western world view.
I've also read "How the Irish Saved Civilization" (by the same author), and it's comparably superb.
Cahill's voice is very informal, and full of wit. Whilst many history books tend to drag on as a list of dates and facts, he tells things in a story-like fashion, vivifying topics that are otherwise static.
I can't recommend any of his books enough.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2009 14:23:30 GMT 2
Sounds fine to me; especially the writing style in history matter. Have you tried any of M. Manfredi's books? They made me devour them like I never thought a historical novel would. Now me: the other evening I read that short novel of Julian Barnes called The Porcupine. To my big surprise the author is a very informed man (as if l didn't knew that!) also in eastern european sociopolitical background. The novel is in fakt a sharp satire that fits in many countries that have know the fall of comunism. Good written! Now l read Letters from London and smile whilst finding out things bout M. Thatcher.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2009 7:49:34 GMT 2
I need to make a correction to my previous post: it's Valerio Massimo Manfredi, his writings are historical fantasies. BUT! The fantasy is put there only to attract the reader, tis just embroidery on real historic facts..at least in the books I've read. Anyway, i really recommend this writer to any passionate of ancient history...
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Post by Bartbär on Jul 4, 2009 2:17:30 GMT 2
Today a package from a dear friend of mine in Germany arrived. After mentioning I was looking for the Edda in German, she spent a good amount of time and money to buy a collection of books for me. Needless to say I was very excited to receive this package today! So today I have spent most of my time reading one of them in particular: "Die Edda: Götterlieder, Heldenlieder und Spruchweisheiten der Germanen." And am absolutely enthralled. The elder and younger Edda have both been my most beloved writings since I first read them. There is something about the verse in the Poetic Edda that draw me in as well as Snorri's collection of anecdotes in the other Edda. But to read them now in German, I am falling in Love with them all over again. Just seeing the words in a more natural language is absolutely wonderful. I love saying the words aloud as I read them, and hearing the mixture of Old Norse names and places within the German is absolutely wonderful. I can't seem to put the book down, and that is a wonderful thing! I just can't wait until I learn Icelandic and can read the Edda in that beautiful language... I have years to wait for that though!
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Post by Mighty Croc on Jul 4, 2009 7:18:37 GMT 2
Edda is a true masterpiece of ages, a huge amount of bricks in the foundation of Heathen Weltanschauung. But I can read it only in Russian, so there's more deviations from original text than in German translation is...
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Post by Bartbär on Jul 4, 2009 18:55:27 GMT 2
I can imagine the Russian has quite a bit of deviations from the original, but I am sure it gets everything across well. I would love to read it in Russian someday. The main reason I want to learn Russian is because most of the books on Slavic Mythos and Heathenism are all in Russian, Polish, or the like. Not to mention I find Russian to be a very beautiful language and very useful to know. Granted I've currently been trying to learn it, and I am still not even halfway through learning the Cyrillic alphabet, hahaha. Although I haen't been studying everyday, it is still hard to get used to.
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Post by Mighty Croc on Jul 5, 2009 10:04:14 GMT 2
Thank ya - but it will be very hard for you to find any Slavic mythos - all the ancient scrolls were burnt by christians, so we can only try to reconstruct that Weltanschauung with the only little grains we have... Now forging the "ancient scrolls" is very popular here, so you can only guess, what is truth and what is not. So - the neo-heathenism here is based only on forged scrolls, which are written nowadays, and it is the same instrument for money-sucking as any other religions for mass are. P.S. Sorry for off-topic, please. P.P.S. Anwend, hey, have you received my message a week ago? I start to guess that not all my messages to the people from States reach their addressees...
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