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You know, in the last few pages I felt I was reading Borges or Julio Cortazar. I was more inclined to think Borges, because I've just finished rereading "Fictions". I think I'll read it again in a few months and maybe, with a different attitude (I was expecting something more on the lines of...

Exactly. She's a spaniard and while, e.g. Italy went from fascism to democracy after the war, while Spain went from democracy to the Franco period. So it went backwards, politically. And she says that the translation of the way two characters speak (Amalia and Gragnola) was particularly hard...

Well, last night I stayed awake reading until 4:30AM and I've finished reading the book. Wow, what a journey! In the spanish translation I've read, there was an appendix written by the translator, with a lot of explanation about the structure and why it was a difficult thing to translate. I...

I have advanced further in the story of Yambo, and it's getting better in the end. I'm fascinated by his life in Italy. Eco says it's quite autobiographical, but did that events really occur? The views of the second world war expressed are really new to me, and I'm beginning to like this...

It's a great book, and when I started reading it, it was never going to end. King said he'll not live enough time to complete it. I read the first three consecutively, and years later, the 4th. They're kind of expensive books here, but I'll buy them as soon as I change my current job. I think...

I've heard XY, I personally didn't like it... maybe I have to hear it a lot more and let it grow on me. But for now, I'm sticking to Pink Floyd (today is not a good day :( )

Radiohead was also on charts, does that make them pop? does that makes them worthless? :confused:

Queen Loana I was, anyway, fascinated by the description of the different memory types, although, and I know Eco fans will kill me for this (hell, I'll kill myself for saying this) That part, reminded me of the way that Dan Brown describes things (not a good thing). Some of the dialogs between...

Hi everyone! I'm having a really hard time finishing this book. Eco has always been my favourite author, I've reread his books with pleasure. In the first chapters, I had fun with all the references to another books, or ways of thinking that I've always had. But the rest of the book was very...

Long article... I'm truly disturbed by this, I hope she does well, because it will be better for us (no one will be drug/kidnapped/urinated/raped/killed). On the other hand, is good to know that Bernando is locked up for life. Hopefully.

Oh my God... I'm sick to my stomach as I read the awful things they did. Really. I'll stop now, and resume later, when I feel better.

I think there's some redemption, maybe we, as a society, can't afford to not believing in it. I don't know if the woman recently released can be successfully reinserted, I really doubt it. But speaking of that, a few days ago I found that the killers of a kid, in England, were about to be...

As long as knowledge is dangerous to some people, there will be dangerous books. On the other hand, it feels slightly wrong the publishing of such books as The Anarchist Cookbook, etc, but maybe that was in the good ol' days, when internet didn't exist. Today, that kind of material is widely...

Hi there! While I've enjoyed some of his books, when I tried to read them again, I found them very boring or simplistic most of the time. But my mother still likes him, so maybe is just me :) I didn't have to study Wuthering Heights, it was only out of curiosity. But then I found myself...

Nice :) I'm half way to end it. I didn't get much sleep today because of that novel...

Oh, I see :) Thanks for the clear explanation... I'm learning :)

Hi! Shouldn't we actually read the book of the month first? Just a thought...

I think I'll choose "The Da Vinci Code". I found myself skipping paragraphs completely, and bored to tears. Predictable and dumb. Yet I read it from cover to cover... I thought a good ending could improve the book. Man I was wrong. Awful writing. Awful ending. Awful book. With "Atlas...

In Argentina, the spanish version (the one that I'm reading) has been available for a month. When you finish reading it, let me know, so we start a thread about it. Ice: Thanks :)

Heeey Thanks for the warm welcome! I must look so pathetic just refreshing my message to wait for feedback :( I know, I must get a life... Halo: You didn't like Wuthering Heights???? I thought some people were going to bash me for saying that, but I'm not saying the book is bad, I'm just...