. NON BOOK CLUB RELATED ONLY
As you well know, we are reading the first 7 chapters of The Master and Margarita in our recently created book club.
However the Friday threads are for non book club readings only, we’ll reserve “The Master and Margarita” discussions for Sundays.
I finished Lolita earlier this week. 
. I’m glad both of them died, after finishing I went back to the prologue to realize Dolores was “Mrs Schiller” who died at childbirth 
This book had a hard to swallow plot, and Nobokov managed to write an engaging story with it, he said he based Humbert Humbert on Lewis Carroll, probably because of his writing style but the funny thing is Carroll was probably a closeted 
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But I have to say that among Nabokov’s works, I preferred “Pale Fire” to “Lolita”.
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just finished into thin air, really good. either going to read runaway horses or bag of bones next.
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I really enjoyed Into Thin Air, learned a lot about Everest by watching the IMAX film and reading that book, it was interesting to see how the two groups interacted
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yeah, probably one of my favorite books i've read this year. will be buying and subsequently reading into the wild after my backlog is smaller. a friend recommended endurance about the 1914 antarctic expedition based on into thin air and will be checking that out too
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I'm reading runaway horses currently and quite like it so far
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Finished it last week, I feel like it had the same problems as Spring Snow, in that it took a long time to really get going.Once the league started up and especially once they got raided, I though it was as good as I had hoped/expected. Just started Temple of Dawn and 40 pages in, it certainly is more attention grabbing
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nice, i'm looking forward to it. spring snow was good and only got better towards the end, so hoping runaway horses is that quality
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Started reading 1001 nights, got sucked in. Pretty good stories tbh
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It's pretty fun to read, partly because they're nice stories and partly because sometimes the characters have a heated g*mer moment. They do start to feel samey after a while tho.
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Started reading 1001 nights, got sucked in. Pretty good stories tbh
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Finished My Disillusionment in Russia/My Further Disillusionment in Russia. Ngl after the first half anything she says gets pretty repetitive
Ordered T.E. Lawrence's 7 Pillars of Wisdom
not sure if I'll read it right away though.
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seven pillars of wisdom is great
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I love T.E. Lawrence’s story, definitely a book I want to read someday
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I aint touching lolita because of the association, but the constant praise he gets makes me contemplative of pale fire. Sell me on it.
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The libertarian in Lolita is pretty much a psychopath, I never thought of him as a sympathetic character at all. Pale Fire is basically about a schizo stalker writing a “commentary” on a dead poet’s poem. He was the poet’s Neighbor and was obsessed with him and he tells his own bullshit story throughout the commentary. The Poem is part of the novel as well.
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After watching video about MyHouse.wad started reading "House of leaves" to see what's it all about.
Currently I like it, but reading this is a slow process for me
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currently reading faraday, maxwell, and the electromagnetic field, and im struggling with some of the concepts in my circuit analysis class so i figure if i read up on it recreationally then some of the core concepts might click with me a little more
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Just read Stardust by Neil Gaiman. An enjoyable modern take on proto-fantasy fiction, though I found it a bit too short to really get into the romance plot. But concise writing does help feed the fairy story atmosphere.
After reading it, I found out that it was originally published in a heavily illustrated format. The version I read was text only. I wonder how that affects the overall experience. I didn't really feel like it was missing anything, but maybe the illustration balanced out the "short" feeling.
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I read lolita a few years ago, the writing was really well done.
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Just finished Embers of War about the French in Vietnam. I think my next one is gonna be about John Adams or maybe a book on the Crusades I have waiting.
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i just read blood meridian which i read about a decade ago, holds up
if youre a fan of nabokov his "lectures on literature" are worth checking out, hes mostly spot on, in my opinion, and i agree with everything he says except hes way more explicitly misogynistic to women authors than i am, its funny the lectures were at a womens college tho, mans telling a sea of women faces that women cant write
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Oh shit i just got that one in the mail too
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Its rly good. I just read up to the intermission (page 28 ish)
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I did not know this. I have this book and haven't gotten around to reading it yet.
Has anyone started yet? How is it?
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I’m loving it. Join ! bookworms to get notifications, first discussion on Sunday at noon E.T.
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Aberration in the heartland of the real. Explains a lot of things
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