[Jordan~]

John Brockman? Isn't that the newsreader from The Simpsons? Oh, no, that's Kent.

[ursulabear]

Just Kids by Patti Smith. Amazing book.

[queenofnerds]

John Brockman? Isn't that the newsreader from The Simpsons? Oh, no, that's Kent.

[Wanbli]

Saga
One of the best comics ever
Written by Brian K Vaughn & art by Fiona Staples

read issue 1 for free
http://www.comixology.com/Saga-1/digita ... /JAN120485

[dwaink]

L’ostie d’chat

http://voir.ca/livres/2012/07/12/iris-e ... -1-2-et-3/

or at least i would like to...friend Nick pointed the way, maybe milky will read it to us?

[Nemo]

but lately I've felt very odd about reading translations (I have this idea that every word is important, and it bothers me that the word I'm reading is not the same word the author wrote).

but you cut yourself off from a lot of great authors all around the world. I am French and if I was with your argument I never read Emily Bronte, E A Poe, Wylde etc etc . this is a pure nonsense. do you really think we have to read the bible in Aramean ?

[Nemo]

I'm reading 'Les enfants terribles' by Jean Cocteau. It's very short but alas not any the simpler for it...

good choice it is a great book. yes it's not simple but the book is worth the effort.

[Nemo]

50 shades of gray
nah i'm kidding i'm not readding anymore...
the ultimate truffaut-hitchcock interview

câle à armoire normande

[Ann]

but lately I've felt very odd about reading translations (I have this idea that every word is important, and it bothers me that the word I'm reading is not the same word the author wrote).

but you cut yourself off from a lot of great authors all around the world. I am French and if I was with your argument I never read Emily Bronte, E A Poe, Wylde etc etc . this is a pure nonsense. do you really think we have to read the bible in Aramean ?

Yeesh, when is that quote from? Anyway, I don't read enough for it to really be a problem. There are more than enough great English authors I'll probably never read, so the translation thing isn't hurting me so much as my inability to finish books.

[Nemo]

I started reading the topic from the beginning I think this one of the first post in this thread. you are right, there are lotta great english authors. just thinking how long is reading the whole Shakespeare's work.

[solfatara]

Just finished a great postcolonial novel by Jamaica Kincaid called Lucy, after hardly having read anything fictional since summer! Feels good to read books again.

[Nemo]

I am reading Petronius. incredible how human turpitude and patheticness are always the same through centuries...

[Jordan~]

I am reading Petronius. incredible how human turpitude and patheticness are always the same through centuries...

Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέμεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν θέλω.

[Nemo]

there is the same story in Ulysses. when Calypso offers eternity to Ulysses, he declines.

[Jordan~]

The Cumaean Sibyl just rejected Apollo, so he cursed her with immortality. She kept shrinking until she fit in a jar, so that's where they kept her, in her cave. "Sibyl, what do you want?" "I want to die."

[Nemo]

yes there is a slight difference between the two stories. Calyspo offers eternal youth to keep Ulysses her lover with her but he knows the story of the sibyl and its meaning. the immortality goes with prison of eternal boredom. so he chose mortality. it's a metaphor.

[milkisobel]

grass is singing from Doris Lessing, and in english please !

[Nemo]

bravo donc ça ferait l'herbe chante ou je chante après l'avoir fumée (l'herbe)

p.s.: milki I think there is a problem with yr signature. we are seeing a little frog instead of this beautiful owl

[Gradus]

Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέμεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν θέλω.

Yes, Eliot was fond of that one - always suspected him of being a half-educated show-off.

[holter]

I'm currently reading Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, my favorite author. I bet there's a lot of crossover fans between Woolf and Newsom, actually, that same deepness and complexity can be found in both. They also have similar "vibes", imo.