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Right back at you, and thanks!
I did, however, have to cut it short with the wine after two glasses, or otherwise actually reading the book would have been a tad more difficult. I guess I'm getting old, which is always a fun thing to discover.
Actually, after more than two glasses of wine, I have little problem in reading a book; however, whether I shall remember what I have read is an entirely different matter.
See, that's what it was like for me for the longest time too. Now the letters, words, lines and everything else just start dancing around on the page after a glass or two. The fact that I retain practically nothing of said dance, at that point, is actually a bonus.
Well, so this was delivered on Saturday.
Giving it a go.
Part of me desperately wants to like the Kindle experience. It's a lovely little device. But that is my problem: It is just a device. Not something I am warming to.
Anyway, I am not usually someone to return things willy nilly — but I have a few days to get used to it and see if it is a keeper.
Giving it a go.
Part of me desperately wants to like the Kindle experience. It's a lovely little device. But that is my problem: It is just a device. Not something I am warming to.
Anyway, I am not usually someone to return things willy nilly — but I have a few days to get used to it and see if it is a keeper.
A heartfelt and profound amen to this sentiment.
Last night, I ordered a hardback copy of Gitta Sereny's book on Albert Speer (Albert Speer His Battle With The Truth).
I read it when it was first published in the 1990s and thought it outstanding; over the years, I have had several copies and have given them away quite a lot - for this is a book I have often given as a gift. At the moment, I don't have it, and want to read it - re-read it - and think about what it has to say.
However, I have been to places since I first read it - mostly physically and professionally, but also psychologically - and politically, too, things have transformed, the optimism of the 1990s now something seen in the rear-view mirror of distance and history.
So now, I am interested in re-reading this insightful, thoughtful, impressive - and formidably intelligent - book with fresh - and perhaps questioning - eyes.
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Good luck with it. I love my Kindle, it is one of my most favorite purchases ever.
Well… let's just say I am already scoping out which cover to buy. So all is not yet decided.
Just started:
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
I enjoyed his short stories (including "Death in Venice") and I'm liking this so far
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
I enjoyed his short stories (including "Death in Venice") and I'm liking this so far
Just started:
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
I enjoyed his short stories (including "Death in Venice") and I'm liking this so far
Ah; I must say that I enjoyed that book, and also enjoyed Death In Venice.
Have you seen the movie of Death In Venice? It was directed by Luchino Visconti while Dirk Bogarde played von Ashenbach, a role apparently somewhat loosely based on the composer Gustav Mahler whose music features in the movie.
I have not seen it yet, but I would like to! Especially as someone who's a huge fan of Mahler
A superb book. I was totally engrossed in it. Absolutely fascinating. I think it was your good self how first recommended the book to me? I predict you'll discover new bits and bobs as you re read it. Enjoy.
I have not seen it yet, but I would like to! Especially as someone who's a huge fan of Mahler
Superb movie; Dirk Bogarde always regarded it as his personal masterpiece as an actor while Luchino Visconti (some of his movies are stunning - The Leopard, another brilliant adaptation of an outstanding book of the same name, by di Lampedusa, The Damned and so on) also thought it superlative.
Yes, I seem to recall that I did recommend it to you - delighted that you found it as engrossing and superlative as I did: I thought it brilliant and am interested to discover fresh insights when reading it anew.
Today, I ordered another book by Gitta Sereny: "The Healing Wound: Experiences & Reflections, Germany 1938-2001".
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I do not know about wine, but I once found out that after a couple of shots of Mezcal, C.S. Lewis' "Image and Imagination" gets somewhat more profound and thought provoking. But then again, I don't always drink mezcal while reading.
Ah, well, if I partake of the Grape or the Grain while reading, it is usually just that, namely, wine or beer.
Not spirits; then, the book might acquire whole new dimensions never hitherto suspected or discovered, but dimensions which might not repay close scrutiny when sobriety returns the following day.
Just started:
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
I enjoyed his short stories (including "Death in Venice") and I'm liking this so far
Oh, and something else that crossed my mind.
If you like the writings of Thomas Mann, may I strongly recommend that you read The Buddenbrooks.
This is a masterpiece, and I thought it excellent - actually, superb, - it was a gift from my German sister-in-law, who - also believing it to be excellent - insisted that I read it.
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Il Gattopardo was one of those novels I discovered in my late teens and stayed with me ever since.
Lifted from Wikipedia, apologies, but Lampedusa was quoted as saying "I was a boy who liked solitude, who preferred the company of things to that of people."
Oh yes!
The film when I finally saw it — alas! Burt Lancaster? So miscast. But reading up on it, the funding was dependent on "big name" stars — and some one the Americans would recognise. *sigh*
Curiously enough, I was scheduling a revisit to "Death in Venice" just the other day. Again, a film I last saw decades ago and wondering how well it has stood the test of time and my own personal development.
The music and the evocation of hot, typhoid plagued Venice… the languid slide into tragedy.
Though the Tadzio is just tooooo pretty. I wish Visconti had just held back a tad (pun not intended!) on the beauty. But then again, I guess that was the point after all.
Enjoy, and as others have mentioned, it is probably one of my favorite devices and purchases I have done in a very long time.
I do not have the "Paperwhite" version though. I have an older one that doesn't have the backlight on it. Which is what I wanted. The wife on the other hand has this version and she loves it.