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June 2008 - Book Group Suggestions

Stewart said:
So now it's Sons And Lovers D.H. Lawrence or Embers by Sandor Marai. So how about we go:

  • June: A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway
  • July: Fathers And Sons, Ivan Turgenev
  • August: Sons And Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
  • September: Embers, Sandor Marai
Or, if Turvenev, being Russian, follows too closely on the heels of Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, we can switch it with Embers. And then, as Peder suggests, start thinking even further forward to try and be six months on top of the game.
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I like your list, but I favor switching Turgenev to the end, so as to have more separation from the present Russian.
 
Which changes to:

  • June: A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway
  • July: Embers, Sandor Marai
  • August: Sons And Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
  • September: Fathers And Sons, Ivan Turgenev
 
Stewart said:
Which changes to:

  • June: A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway
  • July: Embers, Sandor Marai
  • August: Sons And Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
  • September: Fathers And Sons, Ivan Turgenev
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Sounds good Stewart, now - can you suggest the most accurate translation?
I mean of course of Fathers and Sons.
 
Stewart said:
I have absolutely no idea. My inclination, since I collect them, would be to go with the latest Penguin Classic. :D
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You may be right, the second customer review on Amazon [for that version] agrees,
If this is indeed the Edmonds-Penguin edition, let me first refer the reader to the eloquent and unsurpassed introduction by Isaiah Berlin. It runs for 50+ pages, but is the most precise, uncorrupted look at mid-19th century Russian literature that I have come across. If you want a supreme overview by a great thinker on a great subject, go directly to this introduction, do not pass go. If you have even indirectly perused The New York Review of Books, you know who Berlin is, and how revered a thinker he is. Here he sums up pre-revolutionary Russia in a few pithy phrases.
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Dogmatix said:
Ahhh Peder you can swirl my water anytime you want to;)
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Hi dogmatix,
/blushing/ But actually, oops. :eek:
I was thinking Fitzgerald when I made that comment; Lawrence was already on that list, Fitzgerald not. Haven't read either yet and it looks like I can't tell one from another. :(
 
Really good list,I'm fully on this.I shall catch up with the First circle,much easier than i remenbered(the Russian sense of humor).

The all group is going to be very interesting and i hope it swell's along the way.
 
Stewart said:
Which changes to:

  • June: A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway
  • July: Embers, Sandor Marai
  • August: Sons And Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
  • September: Fathers And Sons, Ivan Turgenev
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The list looks good to me. Is the list official as is will there be further changes?
 
Everyone seems to like it. Let's make it official.

So, October? Something in English? Fitzgerald, as suggested? Or something else? And then November? Something from around the world again? I would suggest something Asian to get away from Europe.
 
Stewart said:
Everyone seems to like it. Let's make it official.

So, October? Something in English? Fitzgerald, as suggested? Or something else? And then November? Something from around the world again? I would suggest something Asian to get away from Europe.
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Perhaps Tender is the Night?

Something Asian? I can't wait to see what kind of suggestions that idea generates.
 
Yasushi Inoue-the hunting Rifle
A Japanese writer.The two of his books i read were historical fiction(on about Gengis Khan),One was made a film by Kurosawa.
Should be clever and entertaining.
 
I have been out of it for a while (kids sick) and It's nice to come back and see more people on board!:)

Nice changes, good list.

Stewart I was hoping you would suggest something:)I was thinking of trying Doctor Glas in the summer whenI have more time.

saliotthomas I wouldn't mind reading some historical fiction about Gengis Khan.
 
The Great Gatsby has been done so much, but I have never read Tender is the Night.

Yes, something Asian, but I don't have any good ideas unless maybe one of the Indian writers:

Salmon Rushdie, Midnight's Children
V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas (Indian, but located in Trinidad)
Rohinton Mistrie, Such a Long Journey
 
i like the list idea as well. Let's folk plan ahead and I tend to do large orders off Amazon rather than bitty ones.
 
what about (the purpose of creation) by Dr.Bilal Philips ?
I nominate this book ,

And you can write to: Qatar Guest Center/The Purpose of Life, PO Box 33306, Doha, Qatar, for your free copy of the book: The Purpose of Creation by Dr. A.B. Philips.
 
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