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I've started on Sartre's Nausea for probably the fourth time. Judging from the bookmark still in it, I last read it in 1989. More recently than that I did buy a French edition, together with a French dictionary, thinking that, as I knew the book well, my school French, together with a few references to the dictionary, would suffice to read it in the original language. But it didn't, I soon gave up, as I found myself constantly looking up words. I shall have to be in the Happy Room to get to the end again though, it's not a book for when you're in the Slough of Despond.
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So are you mired in the slough of despond now, Andy? If so, my commiserations.
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Go for it, Andy - it'll be hard work and frustrating, but you'll be really glad afterwards that you did so.
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Well wadyano, I am currently engaged in trying to rescue what I can from an old cassette recording, made under very far from ideal conditions, of an old Radio 3 broadcast of the dramatized version of Pilgrim's Progress, with music composed by RVW. I find the audio quality of that cassette suggests it was recorded by a device submerged below the surface of said slough.  |
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I'm not actually feeling that sloughful (  ) at the moment, hence I thought it was a good time to start on Nausea. I was prompted by talking to a French friend of mine the other day who said he'd never read it. I've actually finished the English translation I've got c.3 times before so I know it fairly well, although the last time seems to have been 1989. It's the original La Nausée that I gave up on. |
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I read Nausea (in an English translation so shoot me) on choir tour in Prague. I remember that I had constipation at the time and just shut myself in the toilet with the book and just waited for nature to take it's course... Probably tmi but I have very strong memory associations with certain books, and this is one of them! I did love the book I hasten to add. a palate cleanser  Well that might be nice, but I think it's actually going to be:  |
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« Reply #216 on: 18:27:21, 21-02-2008 » |
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Having been blown away by The Kite Runner, I'm now battling with Hosseini's One Thousand Splendid Suns. Well, 'battling' is too strong. It's good, perhaps very good, but is nowhere near as tight and punchy and eloquent as tKR. Worth reading for the background and Afghan history alone, though.
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I am, today, once I have got this feast out of the oven and totally pigged out and probably gained at least 24oz in weight  going to make a start on The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington which I bought upon the recommendation of a Member of this Illustrious Message Board. I wonder if anyone knows of it? Alternatively I may well be so stuffed I might replay Wales beating Italy!  |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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Obviously ducks behind the sofa time!!
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #220 on: 15:01:25, 24-02-2008 » |
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Richard, those paintings are disturbingly wonderful. Or do I mean wonderfully disturbing? Whichever, I like very much. Although I suspect that "like" is probably not the right word.
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« Reply #221 on: 16:31:10, 24-02-2008 » |
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I have now finished reading "Autobiography of a Super Tramp". (W. H. Davies). Excellent book and all I can say about the man is that he must have had the constitution of an ox to live as long as he did in face of such adversity. It was just one long struggle for survival. I've always loved his poems so to read about the man's life was very interesting. Highly recommended.
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #222 on: 12:00:54, 03-03-2008 » |
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"The Vesuvius Club" by Mark Gatiss
and "The Owl Service" by Alan Garner.
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« Reply #223 on: 12:20:22, 03-03-2008 » |
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 Just brilliant. Very moving, very well written, and very thought provoking. Tommo |
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« Reply #224 on: 20:03:55, 03-03-2008 » |
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Tommo, I've just started that. I read the first page and knew the book had to come home with me.
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