What was the last book you bought or read

[belamyi]

A 3 volume box set of the Captain Horatio Hornblower series by CS Forester from 1939

Are they as meh as the movie?

 

[Alistair]

Are they as meh as the movie?

The books are very good. I've read all 11 stories.

 

[Hotrich]

As a result of my interest in railways, I’ve bought this book to help with some projects I’m working on.

 

[belamyi]

The books are very good. I've read all 11 stories.

Oh, so it's a genuine literary plague, not just one single long pain in the brain.

 

[Latimer]

The last book I bought was a present, Il Sentiero dei Nidi di Ragno by Italo Calvino and had it sent to my brother who is currently living in Liguria not far from where Calvino sets his novel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Path_to_the_Nest_of_Spiders

I'm currently not reading any new books, but trying to catch up on the magazines that have piled up on my nightstand: 4 months worth of History Today, 5 months worth of The New Criterion, and the last 2 issues of First Things. Problem is that I'll read 1 or 2 articles in an issue rather the read the entire issue, figuring I'll finish it another time, and another time may be months in the future. My partner hates magazine piles, and I've been trying his patience.

 

[Alistair]

Oh, so it's a genuine literary plague, not just one single long pain in the brain.

Have you read it, or you're just basing it on a movie?

 

[pat grimshaw]

The last book I bought was Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Man



The last book I read was The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_and_the_Fury

I'm sure the OP (Belamo) would include Non-Fiction Books in his question.

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Are you a signaller yourself?

 

[belamyi]

Have you read it, or you're just basing it on a movie?

I was talking about the format of the extension, not the quality of the discourse.

In any case, it's like telling someone that you just had a shit, and then protesting that someone labels it smelly without having actually smelt it.

 

[Hotrich]

I'm sure the OP (Belamo) would include Non-Fiction Books in his question.

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Are you a signaller yourself?

I used to be, then family matters came along, but I’m hoping to get back into it soon.

 

[Latimer]

Umberto Eco: "I only read fiction at night before going to sleep."

http://www.alainelkanninterviews.com/umberto-eco/

 

[pat grimshaw]

I used to be, then family matters came along, but I’m hoping to get back into it soon.

I knew quite a few men obsessed with railways who devote their weekends (or their retirement) to train-spotting and steam-engine restoration.

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Umberto Eco: "I only read fiction at night before going to sleep."

http://www.alainelkanninterviews.com/umberto-eco/

The implication is that book reading is boring.

 

[Latimer]

Eco said that he felt reading novels during the day would keep him from more important reading and, I assume, writing. Said he finally got around to reading Magic Mountain and War and Peace when he was sick in bed.

 

[tarallucci]

Probably the only one: Il Viandante e il Serpente - a fairy tale from elementary

 

[pat grimshaw]

...the steep-stepped escalator trundled untiringly upwards…

 

[pat grimshaw]

Yeah, I know..

So would you include comics in this thread?

(I notice a solemn thread here earnestly discussing comic characters— including one named Thanos which I assume is a corruption of Thanatos, i.e. Death)

 

[belamyi]

So would you include comics in this thread?

What's the difference between C. S. Forester and Stan Lee?

Anyway... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_novel

 

[peeonme]

Little Women

 

[belamyi]

...the steep-stepped escalator trundled untiringly upwards…

Oh, I read Hollinghurst's "The Line of Beauty" a couple of years ago, and I don't think I quite got what is so extraordinary about thr style of the novel that so many critics and readers keep praising ever since it was first published.

 

[rareboy]

I am re-reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

If you haven't read it....do not die before you do.

 

[belamyi]

I am re-reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

If you haven't read it....do not die before you do.

Read it in English or in Spanish?

The movie was so bad. Thankfully, I didn't watch the whole thing from the beginning.