Originally posted by @vandervelde 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.
You 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.
Originally posted by @handyandy It's not a happy story but I think you can handle it. I believe a movie is in the works.
Thank 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.
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
Originally posted by @handyandy 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
So beautiful, so true.
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.
A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
fifth book in A Song Of Fire And Ice series (Game Of Thrones)
May have to read all five books two or three more times before the sixth book is finally published.
I have just finished reading 'Black Water Rising' (Svarta Vatten) by Attica Locke, very well written, a joy to read - but a complicated story with a lot going on. I would still recommend it, here are some reviews: http://www.atticalocke.com/book/black-water-rising/
What are you reading?
07 Dec '17 05:41
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