Originally posted by @vanderveldeYou reach a point, being half-way through a disappointing book, when it would be a waste of time not to finish it, you might as well go on reading.
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers.
I have been reading this book since summer 2016 (!), and it's so boring. It was cheap used copy purchased via abebooks.
I thought Powers was fast and furious postmodernist, as he was described in euphoric reviews. "He conveys the influence of science on men in our time" etc.
But he was so traditional in his narrati ...[text shortened]... ider his books (I haven't even started with his "Prisoner-s Dilemma" yet) as English practicing.
Originally posted by @torunnAnother review:
Heard about this book - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. Have any of you read it?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/books/review/killers-of-the-flower-moon-david-grann.html?_r=0
Originally posted by @handyandyThank you Andy - I will try to find this book in Swedish - 'emotionally devastating', will I manage that...?
Another review:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/books/review/killers-of-the-flower-moon-david-grann.html?_r=0
Originally posted by @handyandyThank you. It was published earlier this year and hasn't been translated yet. With Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio directing the film, it can't go wrong. I look forward to the movie.
It's not a happy story but I think you can handle it. I believe a movie is in the works.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
– Barbara Tuchman
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Originally posted by @handyandySo beautiful, so true.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, ...[text shortened]... ians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
– Barbara Tuchman
There is a small library in the very centre of Gothenburg, it is named '300 m2' because of its size. There was previously a shop selling furs and leather but animal right activists made it impossible to continue. At about that time, our main public library needed refurbishment, so 300 m2 was meant as one of the temporary solutions for a couple of years or so. This was in 2011 and it is still here, and apparently only granted permission to stay a year at a time. I was there yesterday and learnt that we will keep it at least until December next year.
