gabby
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Post by gabby on May 18, 2017 5:58:14 GMT -8
I've been plugging through Homer's Iliad as translated by Rob Fagles. I'm enjoying it much more than I thought I would, enough to get his translations of the Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid. This past weekend I found A Long Way Gone on a charity 'Buck-a-Book' table at our local liquor store. So that's also in the queue. I must have a half dozen different translations of the Iliad, Including the one you mentioned and the Fitzgerald translation. After fanning through a number of them over years, I found that I really appreciate the Stanley Lombardo translation most. He makes the poetry of the Iliad sound like English poetry. Granted I still haven't worked my way all the way through.
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Post by alexbrown on May 20, 2017 22:59:55 GMT -8
No One Wants You by Celine Roberts
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2017 5:34:00 GMT -8
I'm probably the last backpacker in North America that hasn't read this one, so I'm reading it now. 'Desert Solitaire' by Edward Abbey
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foxalo
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Post by foxalo on Jun 9, 2017 5:40:12 GMT -8
I'm getting ready to start Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris. That series may be one of my all time favorite.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2017 14:16:52 GMT -8
thanks @rangersven!
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Post by trinity on Jun 10, 2017 14:02:55 GMT -8
I love that video.
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whistlepunk
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Post by whistlepunk on Jun 13, 2017 16:59:11 GMT -8
re-reading The Communist Manifesto for an online college class.
The instructors keep trying to sell it as a blueprint for contemporary problems such as climate change and wealth inequality. No one else in the class seems to be buying the argument.
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Post by BigLoad on Jun 13, 2017 18:57:08 GMT -8
I'm just finishing "Ward No. 6 and Other Stories", by Anton Chekov. Of course I knew of him as a dramatist, but I hadn't known of his reputation as a major innovator of short fiction. The stories as depressing as you might expect, and good evidence that life and people weren't much different 120-135 years ago.
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Post by burntfoot on Jun 22, 2017 11:43:18 GMT -8
Under the Banner of Heaven by Krakauer Wicked by Maguire and some archeological text about the Armana period in Egypt (for my book club)
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BigLoad
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Post by BigLoad on Jun 22, 2017 16:44:00 GMT -8
Under the Banner of Heaven by Krakauer That one will get your blood boiling. It's nice to know that some of those men are finally be called to account.
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Post by burntfoot on Jun 22, 2017 17:11:42 GMT -8
Yeah, it was not what I expected when I bought it at a yard sale last month. But, it was by Krakauer, so I knew it would be well-written. A year ago, I read one called Missoula. That one also got me upset. Hope you and your wife are doing well. And, happy anniversary a little late.
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Post by amydiercon on Jun 22, 2017 19:03:16 GMT -8
I'm rereading Jane Eyre.
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foxalo
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Post by foxalo on Jun 23, 2017 5:41:15 GMT -8
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Post by rebeccad on Jun 23, 2017 10:46:25 GMT -8
I just finished My Old Man and the Sea, by a father and son who sailed around Cape Horn in a 20' sailboat. It was interesting, both for the sailing, and even more for the father-son dynamic.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2017 5:15:52 GMT -8
'Station Life in New Zealand' by Lady Barker (1870).
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