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Lionheart Biker

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I thoroughly enjoyed "South of the border, West of the sun". I read it right after "norwegian wood" and left me with a somewhat similar feeling (completely crushed). Though the story is completely, it felt like a version of the latter, except the characters were (allegedly) more mature.
 

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I'm thoroughly enjoying Pynchon's Against the Day (makes me laugh, makes me learn, makes me cry) and starting Mikael Bulgakov's A Country Doctor's Notebook
 
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So are Bulgakov's other books as good as TMAM? I recall reading a shorter one (a much shorter one) awhile back; it was a out a dog, I think, but it has almost completely slipped from memory...

Anyway, I'm stoked about the 2014 50 book challenge thread and have spent the last two-ish months preparing a long geeky list. . I'm starting out with my Christmas gifts, all of Sarraute's novels in their original US hardback editions (woo!), and am happy to report that Portrait of a Man Unknown still moves me, remains in my top 15. :slayer:
 
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heart of a dog. i really enjoyed it.
currently reading knausgaard's 'min kamp', it's actually very good.
 
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heart of a dog. i really enjoyed it.
currently reading knausgaard's 'min kamp', it's actually very good.

Thanks for this, I also wondered if any of his other works could be as good as his masterpiece.
 

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I made a 2014 reading list. 50 books is a lil too high for me though, my goal is more like 25ish.

Pynchon - Against the Day
Nabokov - Bend Sinster
Nabokov - Annotated Lolita
Martin Amis - The Information
Dumas - Le compte de Monte Cristo
Laurence Sterne - A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings
Bulgakov - The Country Doctor's Notebook
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Proust - A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleur
James - The Bostonians
Gaddis - A Frolic of His Own
DT Max - DFW Biography
Barth - Lost in the Funhouse
DFW - Girl with Curious Hair
another Beckett novel or two
The Holy Bible
Book of Irish fairy tales and folklore (edited by Yeats)
Rabelais - Gargantua et Pantagruel
Connor - Two Girls, One on Each Knee (abt cryptic crosswords)
Gossett - Divas and Scholars (abt italian opera)
Mann - The Magic Mountain
Tolkien - The Silmarillion
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
Augustine - Confessions
Barthelme - Overnight to Many Distant Cities
 

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So jealous I'll be glad if I finish any this year. No time to spare at all.

Just to get in line with what I'm studying I picked up 'Godel's Proof' at a used bookstore in Boulder over the break. Godel's ******* proof. Not the most exciting read, but the guy did like literally excavate all over mathematics so it's been good to see that. Plus he made Bertrand Russell's life miserable which I like
 

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Thanks for this, I also wondered if any of his other works could be as good as his masterpiece.


well i don't know if it's quite as good, obviously it's a much shorter and i suppose slighter work. on its own terms it's brilliantly realised and very funny. certainly if you enjoyed TM&M you'll enjoy this. the only other thing of his i've read is 'a country doctor's notebook' which is from early in his career and quite different in style, almost chekhovian.
 

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My list of books I have bought/received and are on my bookshelf that I haven't even opened:

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
Idoru, William Gibson
Neuromancer, William Gibson
exegesis, Astro Teller
Destination: Void, Frank Herbert
Ringworld, Larry Niven
The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard
Grendel, John Gardner
The Last Gentleman, Walker Percy
After Dark, Murakami
South of the Border, West of the Sun, Murakami
Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut
Timequake, Vonnegut
Bluebeard, Vonnegut
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano
Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto
Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Native Speaker, Chang-Rae Lee
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Boxer, Beetle, Ned Beauman

The discovery of the $3 maximum used book store inside the library is burying me in text.
 

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I probably should have guessed that a book about being a doctor would have graphic descriptions of bone fractures, surgery, and etc D:
 

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Just finished High Fidelity. Was expecting mediocrity, was delivered excellence. Seriously great book.
 

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Also enjoying it a lot!
 

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Just read this.
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Not his best work but a fun, engaging read. It's thought provoking on the one hand, and a little predictable on the other. Def made me want to hang out on Twitter and FB less though...
 

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