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nuclearshill gau/cho  1yr ago (text post) 196 thread views #183761

Weekly “what are you reading” thread # 12 :marseyreading: . 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. Humbert and Quilty chapter was basically :marseynoyou:. 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 :marseysad::marseyrain:

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 :marseypedo:.

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'm reading runaway horses currently and quite like it so far

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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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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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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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