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Max Hastings' Armageddon: The Battle for Gemany 1944-5

Tommy (about WWI, not The Who)

Some book of diaries from Europe and the middle east in WWII

That oral history book about WWII

3 for 2. My 3 for 2s have to be thematically consistent.

Anybody know if these books are good or bad?

I saw them in the window of Waterstones on/off Brewer Street.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

No idea about those, but has anyone read My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

No but it's on my list of novels I would read if I read novels.

― RS, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

I yearn after good hardbound copies of various books, but they are too expensive for my budget - even as used books. Sometime in the next few years I will bite the bullet and buy them.

Collected Poetry of John Berryman (excludes The Dream Songs).
Above the River - Collected Poems of James Wright.
Blue Cliff Record, translator: Thomas Cleary (an 11th century collection of 100 Zen Koans, with commentaries).

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

I don't even know what those books are, let alone good or bad, so vague are your descriptions. Apart from Hastings 'Armageddon', which is good, his basic thesis being that the Russians and Germans were far better at fighting than the Yanks or British, but as this was largely due to their indiscriminate use of tactics such as mass murder of civilians and general callousness, at least the Westren allies were fighting the 'good' fight.

― snotty moore, Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

'Forgotten Voices' - someone had it on the train. I should have asked him.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

Is that the Penelope Fitzgerald book about the BBC? I liked that one.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 27 May 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

I've read "My Name is Red." I really enjoyed it, but I haven't read any other Pamuk, so I'm not sure how it compares to his others. But yeah, get it. Or we can organize a postal book trade if you've got anything I want to read.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

this if i ever see it anywhere

and maybe a copy of '7 types of ambiguity'.

― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

The Orators by Auden

― youn, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 06:33 (twenty years ago)

gonna get me some lenin soon.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

I've been thinking of buying The Arcades Project for a couple of months now. It seems inspirational in theory, though I wonder if I would read it if I got it. I guess dipping into it for a page here and there could be fun.

Someone recommended Pamuk to me a couple of months ago, and he looks good, so he is also on my list. And Baudlaire, esp. prose -- anybody know any good editions/translations?

― stewart downes (sdownes), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Nick Mamatas, Move Under Ground, Lovecraft-meets-Kerouac (writ... typed in Kerouac's style, he's the main character, battling creatures from the Lovecraft mythos)

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Nick, I got it last night. Book swapping is a very intriguing idea but I don't trust myself to actually get to the post office (the promptness of that mix cd was a fluke, trust me).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

I have to vote for next month's selection for my book club. The choices are Edwidge Danticat's "The Dew Breaker" and "The Hamilton Case" by Michelle de Kretser. I think I'm going to vote for the Danticat.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

So the vote finished and Danticat won. I bought it last night, and read the first story in it (it's a novel structured as a series of linked stories), which wasn't bad, but not all that exciting either. Maybe it will get better.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

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