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What is anybody reading right now? I've just finished Robertson Davies' very uneven (IMO) Cornish Trilogy which has inspired me to finally pick up La morte d'Arthur seriously.
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« Reply #1 on: 19:16:17, 18-07-2007 » |
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Just finished an edition of Keats' letters, and maybe try to get Dylan Thomas's out of the way as well (was about half way through last time I took a break from them I think).
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« Reply #2 on: 19:49:22, 18-07-2007 » |
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I'm reading "Life's Solution - Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe", by Simon Conway Morris. This is a fascinating read for all of of us who struggle with the concept of evolution and our place in the universe. It discusses whether the emergence of life will inevitably lead to intelligence - is evolution random, or is there a pattern? I'm reading about research on the convergence and lability of brain structure and its correlations with function and ecology. Well I'm enjoying it anyway. 
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« Reply #3 on: 20:26:45, 18-07-2007 » |
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I've been travelling, so instead of dragging weighty books I've carried downloadable ones on my PDA.
My current eBook is Tobias Smollett's "The Adventures Of Peregrine Pickle"... C18th authors seem out-of-fashion these days, so I decided to redress the balance. "Commodore Trunnion" is a marvellous creation, an irascible precursor of Herge's "Captain Haddock".
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« Reply #4 on: 20:31:00, 18-07-2007 » |
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Finishing: "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem Finished: "After Dark, my Sweet" - Jim Thompson (really fantastic, savegely gd pulp) Going onto: "Birds of America" by Lorrie Moore and PK Dick "Our Friends from Frolix 8"
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« Reply #5 on: 20:34:25, 18-07-2007 » |
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La morte d'Arthur seriously.
A pedant writes: Oddly enough what modern-day Frenchpersons call la mort Malory called Le Morte. The ever-reliable  wiki continues: "Originally Malory intended Le Morte Darthur to be the title of only the final book of his cycle; he calls the full work The hoole booke of kyng Arthur & of his noble knyghtes of the rounde table". Spelling, eh? 
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« Reply #6 on: 20:37:59, 18-07-2007 » |
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Broccoli Brocolli La morte La mort Le morte D'Arthur Darthur Let's call the whole thing off? Language isn't too bad actually.
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« Reply #7 on: 20:55:39, 18-07-2007 » |
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Just this evening finished Andrew Taylor's "An air that Kills" - not my usual type of reading but I read another of his books on holiday last month (as I ran out of my own books I borrowed one from my wife) and that too, was very good. Next up, erm, another Andrew Taylor and then probably something completely different!
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« Reply #8 on: 21:20:40, 18-07-2007 » |
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Alternating between "thinking in TKinter" (turgid turgid stuff) and "1862" an alternative history of the American Civil War.
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« Reply #9 on: 21:22:24, 18-07-2007 » |
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Working through lighter fare at the moment to try to give my few braincells a break - Kate Atkinson One Good Turn (very enjoyable in a milder-than-Iain-Banks-but-still-set-in-Edinburgh sort of way); the complete Ghost Stories of E F Benson (not as good as M R James - or Henry James for that matter - but still more than readable, especially The Room in the Tower, The Face and The Sanctuary - disturbing undertones of paedophilia there); John Mortimer's Rumpole and the Reign of Terror (thoroughly predictable, some moments where editorial intervention would have been welcome); I have a complete Raffles (E W Hornung) and Clive James Cultural Amnesia to alternate before I get stuck into my serious stuff again (The Return of the Reader; Escher, Godel, Bach: an eternal golden braid; A History of God - Karen Armstrong). And then the latest Ian McEwan should be out in paperback! 
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« Reply #10 on: 21:39:08, 18-07-2007 » |
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Working through lighter fare at the moment to try to give my few braincells a break - Kate Atkinson One Good Turn (very enjoyable in a milder-than-Iain-Banks-but-still-set-in-Edinburgh sort of way); the complete Ghost Stories of E F Benson (not as good as M R James - or Henry James for that matter - but still more than readable, especially The Room in the Tower, The Face and The Sanctuary - disturbing undertones of paedophilia there); John Mortimer's Rumpole and the Reign of Terror (thoroughly predictable, some moments where editorial intervention would have been welcome); I have a complete Raffles (E W Hornung) and Clive James Cultural Amnesia to alternate before I get stuck into my serious stuff again (The Return of the Reader; Escher, Godel, Bach: an eternal golden braid; A History of God - Karen Armstrong). And then the latest Ian McEwan should be out in paperback!  GEB is a lot of fun  (about the only pop science book I can think of of recent times near my field that has anything to recommend it).
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« Reply #11 on: 21:58:14, 18-07-2007 » |
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I'm reading "Life's Solution - Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe", by Simon Conway Morris. This is a fascinating read for all of of us who struggle with the concept of evolution and our place in the universe. It discusses whether the emergence of life will inevitably lead to intelligence - is evolution random, or is there a pattern? I'm reading about research on the convergence and lability of brain structure and its correlations with function and ecology. Well I'm enjoying it anyway.  I found that a very interesting book too, Milly, highly thoughtful and thought-provoking, though it edges a bit too close to religion for my liking...
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« Reply #12 on: 22:06:39, 18-07-2007 » |
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'ordinary heroes' by Scott Turow.
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« Reply #13 on: 22:08:26, 18-07-2007 » |
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This week, and most weeks for the foreseeable future I imagine, I have been catching up with some of the great recommendations on the "Post the cover of a book you like" thread. This particular week it's been Flann O'Brien's "The Third Policeman". I am sorry to say I can't now remember who it was that recommended it but, whoever you are, thank you very much. I've had a wonderful time with it. It's one of those books that once you've entered its world, it becomes a familiar landscape and part of your life. And now there are going to be hundreds more recommendations to add to the reading list from this thread too  .
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« Reply #14 on: 22:08:56, 18-07-2007 » |
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instead of dragging weighty books I've carried downloadable ones on my PDA.
I do this too Rheiner, where do you get yours from? I use audible.com for my ipod... is there a better, cheaper one? !! A
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Well, there you are.
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