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On 4/22/2024 at 8:24 AM, Referentzhunter said:

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Chekhov is a MASTER.  :tup 

 

I was recently re-reading some of his short stories in this Pevear/Volokhonsky translation:

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Two Russian giants, Chekhov & Tolstoy:

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I'm not going to read all of it, but in memory of Alice Munro's passing, RIP, I'll read a couple of the shorter short stories from The Love of a Good Woman tonight.

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I've been somewhat slowly going through her collections in order and only got to the midway point last year.  The collection Love of a Good Woman is the next up.

I think my favorite overall collection so far is Moons of Jupiter, followed by Lives of Girls and Women.

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2 hours ago, ejp626 said:

I'm not going to read all of it, but in memory of Alice Munro's passing, RIP, I'll read a couple of the shorter short stories from The Love of a Good Woman tonight.

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I've been somewhat slowly going through her collections in order and only got to the midway point last year.  The collection Love of a Good Woman is the next up.

I think my favorite overall collection so far is Moons of Jupiter, followed by Lives of Girls and Women.

My favorite has always been the book titled "Who Do You Think You Are?" (a quintessentially Canadian title)  but retitled "The Beggar Maid" in the US.  

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Just finished this incredible book about a French writer who tries to find out about a postcard that her mother receives that lists the names of her relatives who died in the Holocaust. 

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1 hour ago, Referentzhunter said:

Disappointed in this book. Way to slowwww for me, not enough substance.

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I had trouble with the book too but I want to give it another try. I wouldn’t say it didn’t have enough substance. 

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22 hours ago, Brad said:

I had trouble with the book too but I want to give it another try. I wouldn’t say it didn’t have enough substance. 

I understand that the subject of the book is a weigthy one. 'Steinbeck' keeps on repeating the same message over and over again after a while. That's what i meant with not enough substance. I did like East of eden !

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47 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said:

I understand that the subject of the book is a weigthy one. 'Steinbeck' keeps on repeating the same message over and over again after a while. That's what i meant with not enough substance. I did like East of eden !

Steinbeck: the Grant Green of writers.

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On 4/15/2024 at 9:06 PM, ejp626 said:

I just finished up A Hero of Our Time.

Interestingly, there is a contemporary novel by Naben Ruthnum by the same name!  I'll get to it fairly soon, but it isn't the very next thing on my list.

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In the end, I found this very disappointing, primarily because almost none of the characters acted in plausible ways.  I'm actually disappointed in myself for not dropping it sooner, but I thought the post-COVID storyline would be more interesting.  It was not...

I've just started Rushdie's Victory City.  Aside from a starting point that is magic realism on steriods, it's pretty interesting so far.  It reminds me a fair bit of The Enchantress of Florence, so your feelings about that novel will probably be a good guide for this one.

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20 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

I picked one up when you posted it here. I haven't read it yet. 

Lon, of the five I've read, I think Mr. Maddox was the best, and Mike Blair was the worst.

Inspector Allhof had a gimmick - he was a complete jerk.  Perhaps the author succeeded in his intentions, but I found reading stories about such a man to be tiresome.

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On 5/29/2024 at 4:10 PM, jazzbo said:

I'll be prepared to feel tiresome then as it was Allhof I picked up. ;)

Lon, I forgot about the first one I read, Volume 2 of the Cardigan stories by Frederick Nebel.  I liked these stories more than the others.

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40 minutes ago, GA Russell said:

Lon, I forgot about the first one I read, Volume 2 of the Cardigan stories by Frederick Nebel.  I liked these stories more than the others.

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Thanks!

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