Oh, thanks! :3 I like to play around with HTML a bit. (Helps also to not forgot the few things I've learned about HTML in school.)
It's fatal to look on my flist before and after the turn of the year. Everyone posts their reading lists and I'm thinking constantly "Oh, I've wanted to read THAT book for ages. Oh, that sounds interesting. Oh, I mustn't forget to put that on my next list!". :D
Ah, so many great books! I think I've read around 15 on the list and still more are on my to-read-list.
Embers was a most fascinating read, indeed - I started it last year, at some point in the Shiphol airport and kept trying reading on every minute I had. It was also somehow a deeply unsettling book, I can't put the finger on why, but it's one of those books which left me with the wish to go out and do something, change something. Márai is definitely an author I will read more by. And it's satisfying to hear, that your experience with the book was so much like mine. A friend of mine was bored, my ♥, whom I believed to be the perfect match for the book as a reader, liked it, but not as much as I did.
I think it's the simplicity of his plots and simultaneous complexity of his stories that intrigues me. I don't think I've ever immersed so vividly in a character's head and thoughts. ... I thought about those sentences for approximately half an hour. Just like you, I can't quite put my finger on it. Esther Inheritance is, although not quite as good as Embers, written in the same intriguing fashion.
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It's fatal to look on my flist before and after the turn of the year. Everyone posts their reading lists and I'm thinking constantly "Oh, I've wanted to read THAT book for ages. Oh, that sounds interesting. Oh, I mustn't forget to put that on my next list!". :D
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Embers was a most fascinating read, indeed - I started it last year, at some point in the Shiphol airport and kept trying reading on every minute I had. It was also somehow a deeply unsettling book, I can't put the finger on why, but it's one of those books which left me with the wish to go out and do something, change something. Márai is definitely an author I will read more by.
And it's satisfying to hear, that your experience with the book was so much like mine. A friend of mine was bored, my ♥, whom I believed to be the perfect match for the book as a reader, liked it, but not as much as I did.
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