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Old 01-07-2025, 03:34 PM   #46
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it will be fun to compare notes when we are both done then!
Depending on when you plan to smart, I could plan to read it at roughly the same time. I'm reading Brothers K right now, but Tom Jones could be any time after that.
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Depending on when you plan to smart, I could plan to read it at roughly the same time. I'm reading Brothers K right now, but Tom Jones could be any time after that.
oh, that would be fun! I am in no rush as I have other stuff that I can put in between, so let me know when you are ready, and in the meantime I'll look for a suitable edition. I wouldn't mind an audiobook if I find one, so that will give me some time to research it properly!
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Fortunata and Jacinta, by Benito Pérez Galdós.


I haven't read this. I'm still trying to locate a copy in an ebook format, but (alas) one does not appear to exist.

I've read some writings by Benito Pérez Galdós and enjoyed them.

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Old 01-11-2025, 10:09 AM   #49
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You may wish to take a look at this:

Fortunata and Jacinta, by Benito Pérez Galdós.
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I haven't read this. I'm still trying to locate a copy in an ebook format, but (alas) one does not appear to exist.

I've read some writings by Benito Pérez Galdós and enjoyed them.
This appeared on my radar within the past month; I can't remember why. And yes, I looked around but the only ebook editions seem to be in Spanish. It's public domain, obviously, but I have no info on the translation, which I suppose could be the issue in regard to digital rights.

I moved on, on the realization I've finally (I hope) internalized, that I'll never be able to read everything I'd like to read anyway.
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This appeared on my radar within the past month; I can't remember why. And yes, I looked around but the only ebook editions seem to be in Spanish. It's public domain, obviously, but I have no info on the translation, which I suppose could be the issue in regard to digital rights.

I moved on, on the realization I've finally (I hope) internalized, that I'll never be able to read everything I'd like to read anyway.

The new edition in paper is also a newer translation.
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You said "travel" and I just finished "A Traveler at Forty", Theodore Dreiser, 1913. I found it very entertaining until he started traveling solo in Italy where he got too much into churches for my taste.

For Michener of questionable quality, I'll always vote for "The Drifters", exactly because it is a bit dated. Still, I like books where the narrator is not the main character, like in "The Razor's Edge", Maugham or even "A Town Like Alice", Nevil Shute. I like Shute, don't get me going.
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You said "travel" and I just finished "A Traveler at Forty", Theodore Dreiser, 1913. I found it very entertaining until he started traveling solo in Italy where he got too much into churches for my taste.

For Michener of questionable quality, I'll always vote for "The Drifters", exactly because it is a bit dated. Still, I like books where the narrator is not the main character, like in "The Razor's Edge", Maugham or even "A Town Like Alice", Nevil Shute. I like Shute, don't get me going.

Thank you for the Dreiser recommendation; I wasn't aware of it and it sounds just my thing. Already downloaded. As an aside, I was a huge Dreiser fan as an adolescent and read all his novels, which strikes me today as a very dreary undertaking. Kids are weird.

I liked Shute when I was younger and I'm all about accepting books as reflecting the standards of their times, but the racism is wince-making now. Joe's nickname for Jean in A Town Like Alice is painful. And I have to take issue with the narration in that, something which escaped me when I first read it but destroys it for me now: Noel knew things he couldn't possibly have known! Surely Jean wasn't sharing her intimate moments with Joe with him. A colossal technical failure in storytelling.

As for Michener, I have to confess with embarrassment that I have never read anything by him.
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I liked Shute when I was younger...
I won't claim Shute as the best literature, but maybe as the best literature from a professional engineer?

See: "Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer"

Edit: And of course "No Highway" was prescient.

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As for Michener, I have to confess with embarrassment...
No need to be embarrassed. Most of his books start, "About a zillion years ago there was a rock..." and progresses for a thousand pages. I wish that he'd get around to explaining the backstory and motivation of the rock sometime.

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I won't claim Shute as the best literature, but maybe as the best literature from a professional engineer?
That has the makings of a literary parlor game, the day jobs of writers. Actuary poet? Postal worker novelist? (That one's too easy.)

Which, especially given David Lodge's recent death, reminds me of the game played in his novel Changing Places called Humiliation, in which literary academics admitted to books they hadn't read and scored points for each person who'd read it. One won the game with Hamlet but then lost his job as a result.
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