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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 6:20:02 GMT
Madame bovary Anna Karenina War and peace Game of thrones, first book in the series.
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Post by mmexis on Mar 3, 2017 8:28:48 GMT
Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina is essentially the same story with different endings. Loved them both. Haven't read W&P, but it's on my list at some point in the future. Also, haven't read any of the thrones books.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 21:42:09 GMT
I have not read anna yet, now I know what to expect in the plot.
It's ok, i'll read it anyway.
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Post by DarkManX on Mar 3, 2017 23:33:31 GMT
I've read all the Game of thrones books. I loved the first book in the series, it's not hard to imagine that it became as popular as it did after reading that first novel.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 1:59:15 GMT
I've only read War and Peace of those books, the Briggs' translation. Once you get past the Russian names, it is a very straightforward novel, filled with colorful and fascinating characters.
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Post by mmexis on Mar 6, 2017 6:09:29 GMT
no, joe, the plots are different but they are both about women longing for something else. There's an amazing Anna Karenina movie (not the one with Garbo) but you need to know the story to get the movie.
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Post by bonerxmas on Mar 6, 2017 7:25:56 GMT
bovary does not translate very well, flaubert's place in literature is that he was the first to write a novel the way people write poetry, choosing every word carefully to create a particular mood, in translation it seems like there are a lot of irrelevant details, not enough discussion of motive of his characters, though you can still read it for the story
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 3:17:01 GMT
no, joe, the plots are different but they are both about women longing for something else. There's an amazing Anna Karenina movie (not the one with Garbo) but you need to know the story to get the movie. ah |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 22:42:28 GMT
Read War and Peace in high school. Don't remember much about it except I felt a big sense of accomplishment when I finished it.
Have read all the books that Game of Thrones is based on. The first book is basically the first season, with very few changes/differences....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 1:00:33 GMT
I was a GoT skeptic. Had a really tough time at first wiht the tv show, getting straight who was who and how they were related. Then I read the first book, and I really enjoyed it. Apart from the dragons. They weren't needed, IMO.
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Post by lunda2222 on Aug 2, 2017 9:26:56 GMT
Read Game of thrones and then had to wait about six years before the next book. Stopped reading after that. I'd rather wait for all of the books to be published.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 2, 2017 13:38:45 GMT
I read about half of War And Peace. I didn't stop because I was bored or didn't like it, quite the contrary. It is a fast read (at least in the translation I had, remember it was written in Russian) and a good story. The only thing that made me stop was that the book is just so damn long and takes a long time to read. My stack of books to get to next was piling up, but W&P was still going on. It's a dilemma: keep reading this book you are enjoying or move on to other things after a certain amount of time.
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