07-01-2013, 04:54 PM | #16 | |
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With my last nomination, I'm putting up The History by Herodotus. What is apparently the most accessible translation is under five bucks at Amazon.
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07-01-2013, 10:01 PM | #17 |
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Fourth Paradise Lost of Milton.
Second The History of Herodotus. |
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I third The History.
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07-02-2013, 07:19 AM | #20 |
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I read parts of The History by Herodotus for the material on the Scythians during a college course on the history of nomadic people. This was many years ago, but I recall it being good stuff. I'll use my final nomination to fourth it.
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07-02-2013, 01:18 PM | #21 |
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ho,ho, ho...stop...what's the hurry.....
I am too late for giving my last vote for The History |
07-02-2013, 09:37 PM | #22 |
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"Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable."
I second that sentiment. I am not up for a re-read. |
07-02-2013, 09:42 PM | #23 |
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07-03-2013, 09:13 AM | #24 |
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I've two more nominations up my sleeve, waiting to see whether anything else needs support: sorry though but I am keeping to shorter works this month, as I am still battling my way through the Andes, and this time I want to make sure I finish with the rest of the group, to get more out of the discussion. Still more than one day to go, I'll be watching this space.
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07-03-2013, 10:45 AM | #25 | |
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But couldn't we nominate Lucretius, On the nature of Things? (330 pages). That is both challenging and literary and also would be good to read for the other choice of the Bookclub, the Swerve? It is a separate book...... And it's not expensive as well, or free I think at MR? |
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07-03-2013, 11:50 AM | #26 |
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why, yes of course: so let me nominate De rerum natura/on the nature of things, and see what happens
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07-03-2013, 12:27 PM | #27 |
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I second De rerum natura/On the nature of things.
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07-03-2013, 01:48 PM | #29 |
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With my last nomination I'd like to nominate Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann. I think it definitely qualifies as highly challenging yet it's also accessible, and it was specifically mentioned as the principal reason that Mann won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
From Goodreads: Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a classic of modern literature. It is the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertain new world, the family’s bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate. As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks’ decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the reader into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor. In its immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modern family chronicles. Last edited by sun surfer; 07-03-2013 at 02:00 PM. |
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I'd be happy with any of the books named in this thread. Really, nominating and voting come down to whim and a soupçon of randomness. They all sound good. |
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