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I'm about halfway through. The chapter "With Our People" is the funniest thing I've seen from Dostoyevsky. Obviously he thought people who want to start revolutions like this are mostly a bunch of clowns.
Dan wrote: "K. Dream job? Retirement so I can read whenever I want to"Amen to that!
Hi Dan and Kevin.
I never heard of I Am Omega.
Hi Ellie. I see you're reading Hyperion. Not a classic yet but it's a great book.
There were actually three versions of the movie. I agree the book was better though I've never seen the 1964 version.
"I Am Legend" is a pretty good sci-fi vampire story.I read it last year so I'll be focusing on the other short stories.
I just read Witch War. Interesting little story.
November's nonfiction read is Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges about computer pioneer Alan Turing.Alan Turing (1912-54) was a British mathematician who made history. His breaking of the German U-boat Enigma cipher in World War II ensured Allied-American control of the Atlantic. But Turing's vision went far beyond the desperate wartime struggle. Already in the 1930s he had defined the concept of the universal machine, which underpins the computer revolution. In 1945 he was a pioneer of electronic computer design. But Turing's true goal was the scientific understanding of the mind, brought out in the drama and wit of the famous "Turing test" for machine intelligence and in his prophecy for the twenty-first century.
Drawn in to the cockpit of world events and the forefront of technological innovation, Alan Turing was also an innocent and unpretentious gay man trying to live in a society that criminalized him. In 1952 he revealed his homosexuality and was forced to participate in a humiliating treatment program, and was ever after regarded as a security risk. His suicide in 1954 remains one of the many enigmas in an astonishing life story.
November's story is The Dead by James Joyce found in the collection Dubliners. A depiction of middle class life in Dublin, Ireland in the early twentieth century, the story centres on Gabriel Conroy, a teacher and part-time book reviewer, and explores the relationships he has with his family and friends.
(The Dead: James Joyce's Famous Story Annotated)
PDF:
https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/greatwo...
Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9tMt...
I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonRobert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.
By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.
How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?
I am legend --
Buried talents --
The near departed --
Prey --
Witch war --
Dance of the dead --
Dress of white silk --
Mad house --
The funeral --
From shadowed places --
Person to person.
I'm only about eighty pages in so far. It's pretty funny how Varvara Petrovna mothers Stepan. Now she's just arranged a marriage for him.
Gilbert wrote: "Finished. Very happy with his writing from a psychological viewpoint.
This has been a very good year for Dostoyevsky and me. I've now read, besides Demons, Crime and Punishment}, and The Brothers Karamazov. On to The Idiot."</i>
You should read [book:Notes from the Underground. I also liked House of the Dead.
I finished. I enjoyed the story overall. I really want to look for some pictures or video that show this purple landsape.One thing that drove me nuts, thankfully there wasn't much of it, was how Fay talked. "Do oo love my new muvver?" Seriously? There are better ways to show it's a little girl talking!
I think it's the dialogue that sounds pretty clunky.
I just started but yeah, the writing is really clunky. Mine doesn't have illustrations.
Anybody thinking of reading Lurker? It's a more understandable story.I've never seen he movie but I've heard it's good.
Oh well, enjoy the other reads.
This is a good negative review if you've finished the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsnKO...I actually like that a lot of things don't have clear answers.
Things will pick up soon.
