50 Books: 18-30.
I did some quality dog-sitting this weekend, meaning I sat around in the owner's air-conditioning and read her books for about 48 hours. That's hardly worth the $75 she paid me, or so I was thinking until the dog bit my finger. Suddenly I felt pretty good about taking the money, though it remains exorbitant. I suspect that in another few days he
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I... don't have any stereotypes about Norwegians that aren't actually stereotypes about Lutherans. Granted, the latter are known for being rather self-effacing, but I'm not sure that explains everything.
The Venice book didn't amaze me, but as a person who has lived in Italy, you will likely feel differently. I myself radiate warm fuzzies for all countries where I've been or which I've studied, thus my fondness for, e.g., The Bourne Supremacy.
Moving on.
You could, yes. The town is called Empire Falls because it's situated by a whitewater patch in the river; of course, it's there because the author put it there, so we're back where we began. And the motor for the book is gradual economic decline and personal stagnation, which is a fall of sorts. There's even, if I'm remembering correctly, an aborted history degree in this one.
Take the setting (and part of the protagonist) of Gaudy Night, and then mix in some of the flair of the antagonists from Whose Body? and Thrones, Dominations, and you'll get most of what I'm thinking. Except that you haven't read all three, because you are busy and they are not Big Books. But PETER WIMSEY. Come on, now.
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That is quite the world you've imagined for yourself. Would it make a better or worse film than parts I and II? How sad that we'll never know.
Don't know about that. I greatly enjoyed about half the essays in A Supposedly Fun Thing..., and spent the other half pleading with him to get over himself. Infinite Jest could be an exercise in masochism depending on where it falls in his range.
Exactly. Now add some teenage angst and terrible sub-Photoshop, and you're there. It's possible, by the way, that all kinds of powers and processes not-so-secretly hate us. In any case, I read a book partly about creation-science vs. evolution yesterday, but that will have to wait for Round 3.
The Sorbs are also sometimes called Wends, or Lusatians. "Sorb" appears to be the "Roma" of this particular ethnic group, though; sorry to disappoint you.
I think it must be a quote, yes, but a quick search of "a world lit only by fire" NOT Manchester did not reveal its origin to me. Ask me again after a boring day at work (God willing).
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