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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus.
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

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    Why?!
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    2-feign-reluctance said:

    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

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    Why?!
    know thy enemy. ;)

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  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,998
    F Me In The Brain said:


    23scidoo said:

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    This is next for me, have been meaning to start for a few days. Life keeps getting in the way.
    Have you read Mr. Mercedes??..
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    23scidoo said:

    F Me In The Brain said:


    23scidoo said:

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    This is next for me, have been meaning to start for a few days. Life keeps getting in the way.
    Have you read Mr. Mercedes??..
    Indeed, albeit a few years ago.
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,378
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Has anyone read Wuthering Heights? I hear mixed reviews.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Thoughts_Arrive said:

    Has anyone read Wuthering Heights? I hear mixed reviews.

    Yes I have. After years and years of avoiding it cause I was under the impression is was a chicks book, I was pleasantly surprised to discover it was not at all what I thought. I didn't see it as this great romance novel. There are a few people in the book that could do with a clip across the ear to wake them up but I enjoyed it.

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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    catefrances said:

    Thoughts_Arrive said:

    Has anyone read Wuthering Heights? I hear mixed reviews.

    Yes I have. After years and years of avoiding it cause I was under the impression is was a chicks book, I was pleasantly surprised to discover it was not at all what I thought. I didn't see it as this great romance novel. There are a few people in the book that could do with a clip across the ear to wake them up but I enjoyed it.

    Yeah all the reviews say it is depressing and that every character is despicable.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,998
    F Me In The Brain said:

    23scidoo said:

    F Me In The Brain said:


    23scidoo said:

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    This is next for me, have been meaning to start for a few days. Life keeps getting in the way.
    Have you read Mr. Mercedes??..
    Indeed, albeit a few years ago.
    Can't wait for the last book of trilogy..
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    Thoughts_Arrive said:

    Has anyone read Wuthering Heights? I hear mixed reviews.

    Yeah, read it a few times in college. Recall it being a bit of a yawn but not bad overall.
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    23scidoo said:

    F Me In The Brain said:

    23scidoo said:

    F Me In The Brain said:


    23scidoo said:

    image

    This is next for me, have been meaning to start for a few days. Life keeps getting in the way.
    Have you read Mr. Mercedes??..
    Indeed, albeit a few years ago.
    Can't wait for the last book of trilogy..
    It is out now....just need to read this one first. (Still havent started it....darn you life for getting in the way of reading!)
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • SD48277
    SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    catefrances said:

    Thoughts_Arrive said:

    Has anyone read Wuthering Heights? I hear mixed reviews.

    Yes I have. After years and years of avoiding it cause I was under the impression is was a chicks book, I was pleasantly surprised to discover it was not at all what I thought. I didn't see it as this great romance novel. There are a few people in the book that could do with a clip across the ear to wake them up but I enjoyed it.

    The bolded part is how I felt about Jane Eyre. Did not enjoy that book.
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  • jeffbr
    jeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    23scidoo said:

    F Me In The Brain said:

    23scidoo said:

    F Me In The Brain said:


    23scidoo said:

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    This is next for me, have been meaning to start for a few days. Life keeps getting in the way.
    Have you read Mr. Mercedes??..
    Indeed, albeit a few years ago.
    Can't wait for the last book of trilogy..
    I just finished the last book. Always sad saying goodbye to characters after finishing a series. It was a fun trilogy!
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    SD48277 said:

    catefrances said:

    Thoughts_Arrive said:

    Has anyone read Wuthering Heights? I hear mixed reviews.

    Yes I have. After years and years of avoiding it cause I was under the impression is was a chicks book, I was pleasantly surprised to discover it was not at all what I thought. I didn't see it as this great romance novel. There are a few people in the book that could do with a clip across the ear to wake them up but I enjoyed it.

    The bolded part is how I felt about Jane Eyre. Did not enjoy that book.
    Unfortunately, everybody usually reads Anne last, and she's the best of the Brontë bunch.

    Give The Tenant of Wildfell Hall a try. Great epistolary novel -- perhaps the first -- that was way ahead of its time.
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    edited July 2016
    F Me In The Brain said:

    Thoughts_Arrive said:

    Has anyone read Wuthering Heights? I hear mixed reviews.

    Yeah, read it a few times in college. Recall it being a bit of a yawn but not bad overall.
    Cool. Is it a long read? I don't think I will be able to finish it before my next semester at uni starts.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Another book I was interested in reading was Clockwork Orange.
    I cannot be bothered looking up translations from Nadsat to English.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    Read A Clockwork Orange, much better imo. Much!
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    F Me In The Brain said:

    Read A Clockwork Orange, much better imo. Much!

    Yes, and hopefully a copy with the glossary in the back!

    I'm reading The Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People by Grey Owl in which I learned a baby beavers are called a "kittens" (or in modern times, a "kit").
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Thoughts_Arrive said:

    Another book I was interested in reading was Clockwork Orange.
    I cannot be bothered looking up translations from Nadsat to English.

    IMHO it's better to read it without a glossary or looking up translations. The glossary wasn't Anthony Burgess's idea. You get the meaning of words by their context, how they're used in the story. That's the way we usually learn new words anyway. It will seem confusing at first but think of it as being around someone who uses slang that you're not familiar with.
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