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Lucy
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« Reply #3300 on: Feb 07, 2007, 02:46:51 PM »
Ooh, I do have the Garnett translation of House of the Dead and Poor Folks with me too. I forgot about that.
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silentsigh89
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« Reply #3301 on: Feb 07, 2007, 04:25:36 PM »
I just ordered Dead Souls and Fathers and Sons the other day!

Can't wait for them to come!

And, lucy, I think you'll really really really enjoy the Idiot! I liked it more than Crime and Punishment, but not as much as the Brothers Karamazov.

I'm sorry that I didn't wait for you to read Anna, but I ran out of books!
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Lucy
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« Reply #3302 on: Feb 07, 2007, 04:28:35 PM »
not a problem! maybe we can simulread dead souls instead or something.

i really am excited to read the idiot, it's true.
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davy
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« Reply #3303 on: Feb 10, 2007, 12:11:56 AM »


this book is fucking nuts.
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auto-da-fey
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« Reply #3304 on: Feb 12, 2007, 07:27:23 PM »
Just finished Thomas Hal Phillips' The Bitterweed Path. It's a homoerotic novel that began as a master's thesis at the University of Alabama in 1948, was published in 1950 by Rinehart, earned modestly positive reviews and sales, and promptly receded into obscurity, only to be recovered in the 1990s and published by the University of North Carolina Press.

I'd love to say it's a lost masterpiece, but it's not. The first four sections have a nicely understated, elegiac quality, but then the final section devolves into overwrought bathos. Phillips did go on to work as a script consultant to Robert Altman, though, and provided the voice of presidential candidate Hal Phillip Walker in Nashville, for anyone fascinated by esoteric trivia.

And with that, I imagine this thread is due for a locking?
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Lalitree
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« Reply #3305 on: Feb 13, 2007, 12:39:36 PM »
Book thread chapter two:

http://lastplanetojakarta.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7881
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