Reading at t'moment?
#1721 Guest_Lily_*
Posted 20 September 2006 - 07:31 AM
So, after some searching , two articles in ENGLISH about what I'm reading in FRENCH , Jonathan Littell is perhaps an American but he writes in french and lives in Spain
Les Bienveillantes --- Jonathan Littell
http://www.turkishda...p?enewsid=54140
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/n...icle1362661.ece
So , here it's a big success , I would be so happy if Littell wins the Goncourt Prize or the Médicis one . Truly , this book is GREAT , Littell writes/speak very well french . Okay it's a big book (900 pages) it's written small , not a lot of chapters , it's really compact . It's hard to read when Maximilien explains how they slaughtered the Jews , the amateur ways of the SS in the beginning the effects that it was a ****ing mess : bloody , full of pieces of brain , cries and screams .
Maximilien is clever and for help him to do what he must do , he remembers his reading : Sophocle , Schopenhauer , Stendhal , Platon etc . Maximilien told when he started to tell his life that in the end he went totally crazy , I'm impatient to know what he did , and how him and his mates reacted when the nazism fell apart , when Hitler killed himself
Well , a great book by a great author (who loves Sade eh eh eh) Littell is stranlating his novel into english , there an interview of him (but in french)
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-...1-754074,0.html
Littell writes so well , it's like you are here when they shoot the Jews , when some SS take pictures , when Maximilien (who's gay but he hides it , of course) explains how he decided to enter in the Sicherheitsdeinst 'et c'est ainsi , le cul encore plein de sperme , que je me résolus à entrer au Sicherheitsdeinst'
Right now Brondel tell them they must shoot women & kids , that they must take it like an act of humanity , by killing their husbands and sons , they are left alone into the world . By taking Poland , Germany 'received' three millions of Jews , they can't feed them , they can't keep an eye on them so they must kill them and because 'les enfants juifs d'aujourd'hui , sont les saboteurs , les partisans , les terroristes de demain'
This book freezes me ...
Les Bienveillantes --- Jonathan Littell
http://www.turkishda...p?enewsid=54140
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/n...icle1362661.ece
So , here it's a big success , I would be so happy if Littell wins the Goncourt Prize or the Médicis one . Truly , this book is GREAT , Littell writes/speak very well french . Okay it's a big book (900 pages) it's written small , not a lot of chapters , it's really compact . It's hard to read when Maximilien explains how they slaughtered the Jews , the amateur ways of the SS in the beginning the effects that it was a ****ing mess : bloody , full of pieces of brain , cries and screams .
Maximilien is clever and for help him to do what he must do , he remembers his reading : Sophocle , Schopenhauer , Stendhal , Platon etc . Maximilien told when he started to tell his life that in the end he went totally crazy , I'm impatient to know what he did , and how him and his mates reacted when the nazism fell apart , when Hitler killed himself
Well , a great book by a great author (who loves Sade eh eh eh) Littell is stranlating his novel into english , there an interview of him (but in french)
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-...1-754074,0.html
Littell writes so well , it's like you are here when they shoot the Jews , when some SS take pictures , when Maximilien (who's gay but he hides it , of course) explains how he decided to enter in the Sicherheitsdeinst 'et c'est ainsi , le cul encore plein de sperme , que je me résolus à entrer au Sicherheitsdeinst'
Right now Brondel tell them they must shoot women & kids , that they must take it like an act of humanity , by killing their husbands and sons , they are left alone into the world . By taking Poland , Germany 'received' three millions of Jews , they can't feed them , they can't keep an eye on them so they must kill them and because 'les enfants juifs d'aujourd'hui , sont les saboteurs , les partisans , les terroristes de demain'
This book freezes me ...
#1722
Posted 20 September 2006 - 09:43 AM
Rich the Great;117185 said:
Nothing at the moment, any suggestions people?
Gene Wolfe ....
#1723
Posted 21 September 2006 - 12:20 PM
I finished reading The Charnel Prince, which was a quick, easy read. Couldn't help feeling that it didn't advance the plot by much, though.
#1724
Posted 24 September 2006 - 07:06 PM
I just read Pratchett and Gaiman's GOD OMENS to get me in the mood for Gaiman's FRAGILE THINGS.
It's an hilarious take on the Last Battle between Heaven and Hell, and a very entertaining read!
Check the blog for the full review. . .
Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com
It's an hilarious take on the Last Battle between Heaven and Hell, and a very entertaining read!
Check the blog for the full review. . .
Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com
#1727
Posted 25 September 2006 - 02:07 PM
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin. I must admit that I hesitated very much before I started Martin's epic series A Song of Ice and Fire, but I am glad that I didn't listen to those who claimed that it isn't good. I am really loving the first book of the series!
#1728
Posted 26 September 2006 - 12:08 PM
Finished Anansi Boys, now reading A Clockwork Orange.
#1729
Posted 26 September 2006 - 12:10 PM
That was quick Murrin!!
Just starting The Forever War, Joe Haldeman.
Just starting The Forever War, Joe Haldeman.
O xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti têde; keimetha tois keinon rhémasi peithomenoi.
#1730
Posted 30 September 2006 - 08:19 PM
I am just about to start reading Midnight Tides. I am sure you know who the author is, and my expectations are as high as they can be.
#1731
Posted 30 September 2006 - 09:59 PM
Midnight Tides is like Marmite...you either love it or you hate it. It was my favourite in the series and is indeed my favourite book of all time, but I know that it is not everyone's cup of tea. You've got to love the humour though.
Sir Thursday
Sir Thursday
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#1732
Posted 01 October 2006 - 12:45 AM
Diplomacy of Wolves... by some female author who's name escapes me, I'd check but it's dark and I'm stuck behind the couch. I'm maybe a quarter of the wya through it and I gotta say it's not half bad.
#1733
Posted 01 October 2006 - 05:23 PM
Now reading Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey. When you're on a roll with the fast reads, nothing like a 1000 page novel to throw a spanner in the works.
#1734
Posted 01 October 2006 - 05:35 PM
Just finished Garden of the Beasts by Geoffrey Deaver
Reading american Gods - Neil Gaiman .. again
Reading american Gods - Neil Gaiman .. again
#1735
Posted 08 October 2006 - 01:38 AM
Hi there!
Just finished Joel Shepherd's Crossover, a scifi debut published by Pyr.
Just as Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora was an extremely entertaining fantasy debut this spring, so is Shepherd's Crossover a very good novel as well. As an intelligent, action-packed, kick-ass scifi thriller, there is a lot to love about this book.
Hard to put down. I commend this one to your attention. I can't wait to read the two upcoming sequels! Check it out!
For the full review, check the blog!
Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com
Just finished Joel Shepherd's Crossover, a scifi debut published by Pyr.
Just as Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora was an extremely entertaining fantasy debut this spring, so is Shepherd's Crossover a very good novel as well. As an intelligent, action-packed, kick-ass scifi thriller, there is a lot to love about this book.
Hard to put down. I commend this one to your attention. I can't wait to read the two upcoming sequels! Check it out!
For the full review, check the blog!
Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com
#1736
Posted 08 October 2006 - 02:06 AM
Reading Steph Swainston's "No Present Like Time". Meh, so far... it's alright, I suppose. Not up to the standard of "The Year of our War" yet.
O xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti têde; keimetha tois keinon rhémasi peithomenoi.
#1737 Guest_potsherds_*
Posted 08 October 2006 - 02:41 AM
MrXIII said:
Diplomacy of Wolves... by some female author who's name escapes me, I'd check but it's dark and I'm stuck behind the couch. I'm maybe a quarter of the wya through it and I gotta say it's not half bad.
Her name is Holly Lisle, and its sitting unread on my shelf. Message me and let me know what you thought of it when you've finished. I read another book by her and liked it, but I was something like 16 or 17. Maybe younger. So I have no idea if my tastes are still similar enough to like her writing today.
#1738
Posted 08 October 2006 - 09:30 AM
Vellum - Hal Duncan.
Not what I was expecting. I picked it up in perth yesterday and just browsed through it .... I don't know what I thought it was going to be,, but not what it is.
Not what I was expecting. I picked it up in perth yesterday and just browsed through it .... I don't know what I thought it was going to be,, but not what it is.
#1739
Posted 08 October 2006 - 09:44 AM
Am reading 'Eerie Queerie' Yep, I know - cute boy manga, but hey, I like it
Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:
And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.
~TQB~
#1740
Posted 08 October 2006 - 03:19 PM
I just finished to read Wizard and Glass. Fantastic book.
I would like to have a small respite and rest a little bit after reading the first four books of the Dark Tower series, so I am going to read The Last Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.
I would like to have a small respite and rest a little bit after reading the first four books of the Dark Tower series, so I am going to read The Last Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.
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