Currently reading ....

[Jog On]

Currently reading "courage" by Osho.

[SupremeSpod]

The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Original Russian Edition, backwards and upside down)

If you're going to be pretentious then do it properly!

[russell]

If you're going to be pretentious then do it properly!

Pretentious? How? I like his work.

[OwlHoot]

Pretentious? How? I like his work.

I would maybe try Russian novels, but I'd never be able to keep track of those names, which all sound the same to me. When they translate the novels, they should also substitute equivalent English sounding names (arguably - although some might claim that was as objectionable as dubbing film tracks).

Currently just finished Ken Follett's World Without End, the sequel to "The Pillars of the Earth") - Brilliant, if you like historical fiction. I look forward to the next instalment, if any, which I imagine will be set in the Wars of the Roses, or maybe Tudor times.

Started Many Worlds?: Everett, Quantum Theory, & Reality by Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent, David Wallace - Expensive, and long, but so far highly readable and bang up to date.

[norrahe]

Currently reading Catch 22. Trying to get on top of stuff I should have read but never got round to.

Same here, have bought some books but need to get round to them, just started going through boxes from our move and found some recently.

[SupremeSpod]

I would maybe try Russian novels, but I'd never be able to keep track of those names, which all sound the same to me. When they translate the novels, they should also substitute equivalent English sounding names (arguably - although some might claim that was as objectionable as dubbing film tracks).

Currently just finished Ken Follett's World Without End, the sequel to "The Pillars of the Earth") - Brilliant, if you like historical fiction. I look forward to the next instalment, if any, which I imagine will be set in the Wars of the Roses, or maybe Tudor times.

Started Many Worlds?: Everett, Quantum Theory, & Reality by Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent, David Wallace - Expensive, and long, but so far highly readable and bang up to date.

I enjoyed reading "The Pillars of the Earth" too, I like Follett's work.

[d000hg]

Pretentious? How? I like the way his work looks on my bookshelf.

FTFY.

[Lockhouse]

Well most SF is crap. Like most books of any genre. A good story is a good story in any universe.

Sturgeon's Law; 90% of everything is crap.

Wait a minute, wasn't Sturgeon an SF author?

[Clare@InTouch]

Currently reading Catch 22. Trying to get on top of stuff I should have read but never got round to.

I loved that book, the film doesn't do it justice in my view.

Currently reading Martin's Song of Ice & Fire series, there's nothing like a good dragon tale

[Gibbon]

Ovid

Ovid, Amores, 2.10

Tu mihi, tu certe, memini, Graecine, negabas
uno posse aliquem tempore amare duas.
per te ego decipior, per te deprensus
inermis–ecce, duas uno tempore turpis amo!
utraque formosa est, operosae cultibus ambae:
artibus in dubio est haec sit an illa prior.
pulchrior hac illa est, haec est quoque pulchrior illa; et magis haec nobis, et magis illa placet! erro uelut uentis discordibus acta phaselos diuiduumque tenent alter et alter amor.


3(b) Literal translation

You surely, you used to tell me, I remember, Graecinus, that it was not possible for anyone to love two girls at one time. Through you I am deceived, through you, caught unarmed; behold, ashamed, I love two at one time. Each one is beautiful, both elaborate in dress, in accomplishments it is doubtful whether this or that one is first. This one is more beautiful than the other, but the other is also most beautiful than this one, and this one is more pleasing to me, and so is the other too! I wander just like a boat driven by contrary winds and this love and that love hold me torn in two.