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from the Never too Late to Read Classics group.
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My copy had the illustrations too. They're really good.
The Lottery in Babylon - reminded me of The Trial by Kafka where an underground government organization expands to an insane amount of power.The Library of Babel - the idea of trying to quantify everything in a certain way to contain all information.
Ficciones is definitely living up to my expectations.
Well that was whacky. It kind of reminded me of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Storied from Ficciones:Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - was really mindbending. About the way memes and ideas change our perception of reality.
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote - This seemed weird and pointless. I think the whole story demonstrates the line "There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless."
My internet's fixed now, thanks.Yeah, it seems pretty weird and random. I'm a little over a hundred pages in.
Looks fun. I haven't read that yet and didn't get what the title meant at firdt.
I finished A Universal History of Iniquity. It was a nice little book of crime stories but I'm looking forward to starting Ficciones.
Aug 02, 2023 06:50PM
Samantha wrote: "Book Nerd wrote: "This looks great but it's SO long!"As I often tell children at the library when they see a long book that they're interested in reading: every book is read the same way - 1 page..."
Yeah, one page at a time. For a looong time. Hopefully I can read it some day.
Still no internet but I'm getting better at doing things here.Pam wrote: "I finished the book in July. One of the lines in the book says that Monday starts on Saturday (referring to their work schedule) and this year August starts in July so that fit my early reading! It..."
Sounds really good. I like unusual books and this sounds quirky and funny. I'll start tonight,
note: The cable for my home internet came down in a storm and I'm struggling to get the COMCAST XFINITY idiots to fix it so I might not be around for a while.
Monday Starts on Saturday by Arkady Strugatsky & Boris StrugatskyWhen young programmer Aleksandr Ivanovich Privalov picks up two hitchhikers while driving in Karelia, he is drawn into the mysterious world of the Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry, where research into magic is serious business. Where science, sorcery and socialism meet, can chaos be far behind?
Jul 28, 2023 05:17PM
This looks great but it's SO long!
Glad you liked it. I do tend to like sensational though. :)
Pam wrote: "Book Nerd wrote: "I started Jorge Luis Borges a little early but I've been meaning to get to it for years so pretty late lol.I only read the first couple of stories of A Universal History of..."
The book I have is Collected Fictions that apparently has all of his books so I'm going to read the whole thing. Penny dreadfuls were made to be lurid, shocking stories for entertainment and the stories in Iniquity were originally published in a newspaper for entertainment.
I started Jorge Luis Borges a little early but I've been meaning to get to it for years so pretty late lol.I only read the first couple of stories of A Universal History of Iniquity so far. Pulpy, almost penny dreadful little stories.
I've seen the movie from the 90s but not the older one.What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte was in my copy. It was a pretty good story.
I just read George's Marvelous Medicine. Roald Dahl really hated old ladies. I can't wait to see what happens in The Witches.
Yeah, kids love food. And I'm just an old kid. :)
