[nycbone]

Still working my way through the Dostoevsky novels. Reading Demons now. Shaping up to be one of my favorites so far.

 

[TheAudioDude]

 
Pretty good so far.

 

[fatcat28037]

 

[casioa5302ca]

F.M.Dostoevsky-The Possessed / Besyi (Бесы)

 

[nycbone]

Me too (see four messages above)! Are you reading a translation?
 
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F.M.Dostoevsky-The Possessed / Besyi (Бесы)

 

[KajolThappar]

Right now I have completed Harry potter book. YOu read it?

 

[casioa5302ca]

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Me too (see four messages above)! Are you reading a translation?
 

LOL, yeah, Suddenly I See (thats also good song)

 
Well, translation in Slovak language. And You?

 

[casioa5302ca]

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Right now I have completed Harry potter book. YOu read it?

Me, not yet, but it´s in my list

 

[nycbone]

Pevear and Volokhonsky (fairly recent translations into English), the same translators for all that I've read so far. I haven't tried any others such as Constance Garnett, but may read one at some point just to compare. I just purchased my reading list for the next couple months (all F.M.D.): The Adolescent, The Double/The Gambler (in one volume) and The Eternal Husband (with other short stories in the same volume). All with Pevear and Volokhonsky. That should keep me busy until the new year.

 
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LOL, yeah, Suddenly I See (thats also good song)

 
Well, translation in Slovak language. And You?

 

[goldy]

I'm reading Gravity's Rainbow right now. It's quite incredible. The writing is generally difficult to follow in the beginning, but you get used to it after the first 200 pages. I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested in post-modern literature, as this is probably the quintessential novel of that period.

 

[duotone]

 
The six books, selected from the Man Booker Prize longlist of 13, are:
 
Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)

Emma Donoghue Room (Picador - Pan Macmillan)

Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Atlantic Books - Grove Atlantic)

Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)

Andrea Levy The Long Song (Headline Review - 
Headline Publishing Group)

Tom McCarthy C (Jonathan Cap

 

The Winner announced 12/10/10...tomorrow!

 

[Ghigguls]

A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

 

[xabu]

... actually "Ark" by Stephen Baxter
 

 
next "Makers" by Cory Doctorow
 

 
before "Shades of Grey" by Jasper Fforde ...
 

 

[Permagrin]

The Soul Of Rumi - Translations By Coleman Barks
A New Collection Of Ecstatic Poems

 

[Novalis]

Finished A game of thrones a few days ago, waiting for A clash of kings.
 
The ending was a real cliffhanger, so the wait is killing me!