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lunar1963
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Jun 30, 2009 - 1:33pm |
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BlueHeronDruid wrote:I've started this book three times. Once having it read to me on tape. Got through the first 600 pages before simply running out of steam. I read it for a school project, it might be drier then I remembered, but I had a vivid imagination, loved the images of a society going through a dark period... Loved the Stand by Stephen King too... EDIT: and the books by JG Ballard about the end of the world
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phineas
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Jun 30, 2009 - 1:33pm |
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Painted_Turtle wrote:...and excuusee moi
Didn't mean nothin'...
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BlueHeronDruid
Location: Заебани сме луѓе
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Jun 30, 2009 - 1:30pm |
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lunar1963 wrote:
Probably, non fiction, history...
I've started this book three times. Once having it read to me on tape. Got through the first 600 pages before simply running out of steam.
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lunar1963
Location: Netherlands Gender:
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Jun 30, 2009 - 1:26pm |
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BlueHeronDruid wrote: Isn't that A Distant Mirror?
Probably, non fiction, history...
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BlueHeronDruid
Location: Заебани сме луѓе
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Jun 30, 2009 - 1:23pm |
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lunar1963 wrote:Plague : Barbara Tuckman (not sure of the title anymore) Spanish Flu - Dennis Lehane - Any Given Day (?) Awesome book! TB - Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Isn't Death in Venice not about typhus as well? Isn't that A Distant Mirror?
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Painted_Turtle
Location: Land of Laughing Waters Gender:
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Jun 30, 2009 - 1:22pm |
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phineas wrote: Love in the Time of Cholera danka...and excuusee moi
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MrsHobieJoe
Location: somewhere in Europe Gender:
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Jun 30, 2009 - 12:37pm |
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lunar1963 wrote:Plague : Barbara Tuckman (not sure of the title anymore) Spanish Flu - Dennis Lehane - Any Given Day (?) Awesome book! TB - Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Isn't Death in Venice not about typhus as well? I see that the illness in literature genre is one that I have barely scratched the surface of. I don't think I've read any Mann.
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lunar1963
Location: Netherlands Gender:
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Jun 30, 2009 - 12:30pm |
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Plague : Barbara Tuckman (not sure of the title anymore) Spanish Flu - Dennis Lehane - Any Given Day (?) Awesome book! TB - Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Isn't Death in Venice not about typhus as well?
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dionysius
Location: The People's Republic of Austin Gender:
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Jun 30, 2009 - 12:26pm |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote:
Chekhov young man.
Trust a doctor!
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MrsHobieJoe
Location: somewhere in Europe Gender:
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Jun 30, 2009 - 12:14pm |
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dionysius wrote: Got anything on typhus? Chekhov young man.
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hobiejoe
Location: Still in the tunnel, looking for the light. Gender:
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Jun 30, 2009 - 12:13pm |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote:pleb Actually cholera is not extensively mentioned in the book ". If you want to read a book lived through a cholera epidemic read "Horseman on the Roof" by Jean Giono Now that's a book with the most extraordinarily graphic depictions of the effects of cholera. *shudder*
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dionysius
Location: The People's Republic of Austin Gender:
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Jun 30, 2009 - 12:05pm |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote:pleb Actually cholera is not extensively mentioned in the book ". If you want to read a book lived through a cholera epidemic read "Horseman on the Roof" by Jean Giono Got anything on typhus?
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MrsHobieJoe
Location: somewhere in Europe Gender:
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Jun 30, 2009 - 12:04pm |
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hobiejoe wrote: Quite right, just had "a" in my mind, sorry. Didn't like the book anyway pleb Actually cholera is not extensively mentioned in the book ". If you want to read a book lived through a cholera epidemic read "Horseman on the Roof" by Jean Giono
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lunar1963
Location: Netherlands Gender:
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Jun 30, 2009 - 12:02pm |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote:
More importantly - are you enjoying it?
I read it years ago in Italy on a vacation. First part was with a group, then a week alone... A hundred years of solitude would have been more fitting, but I liked it a lot. Am a fan anyway, meant it as a tip!
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hobiejoe
Location: Still in the tunnel, looking for the light. Gender:
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Jun 30, 2009 - 11:56am |
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phineas wrote: Pretty sure it's "the"
Quite right, just had "a" in my mind, sorry. Didn't like the book anyway
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lunar1963
Location: Netherlands Gender:
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Jun 30, 2009 - 11:54am |
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phineas wrote: Pretty sure it's "the"
poster says the too... Dutch translation: Love in times of cholera, guess the Spanish is ambivalent and difficult to translate. Any Spanish people here?
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phineas
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Jun 30, 2009 - 11:54am |
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dionysius wrote: Phineas is actually right, for once. He will cherish this moment for a long time.
I was right a few months ago and you pretended not to notice.
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dionysius
Location: The People's Republic of Austin Gender:
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Jun 30, 2009 - 11:54am |
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hobiejoe wrote: Love In A Time Of Cholera *edit* Or possibly not, BIAB. Phineas is actually right, for once. He will cherish this moment for a long time.
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phineas
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Jun 30, 2009 - 11:52am |
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hobiejoe wrote: Love In A Time Of Cholera Pretty sure it's "the"
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hobiejoe
Location: Still in the tunnel, looking for the light. Gender:
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Jun 30, 2009 - 11:51am |
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phineas wrote: Love in the Time of Cholera Love In A Time Of Cholera *edit* Or possibly not, BIAB.
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