woolf woolf
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Is it not a bit too violent to be nice?
After Game of Thrones and Vikings, this show seems a bit soft for its subject. But it is violent, nonetheless.
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Where are you at? "Nieuw" means "new" in Dutch
. So you learned one word in a strange language 
.I'm moving to Hoorn wednesday next week, a port town up north. I played a bit with the website Duolingo, but didn't learn much yet.
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I might have to read a few children's books from the local library, after all I can't learn a nieuw language in a day.
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I watched the seven episodes these last few days. It's nice.
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I'm reading the first book from the My Struggle series by Karl Ove Knausgaard, titled A Death in the Family. I'm enjoying it, but I'm also conflicted, perhaps because I'm unused to autofiction.
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Shouldn't you have the fire extinguisher elsewhere? If fire breaks out from the hearth you might not be able to reach it, especially if the christmas tree or the curtains also catch fire. Nice picture, by the way, everything in it looks homely.
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I like the song 1979. It's nostalgic, in a way. This band has good lyrics.
http://www.belleandsebastian.com/lyrics/the-fox-in-the-snow
http://www.belleandsebastian.com/lyrics/judy-and-the-dream-of-horses
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Gravedigging the topic. This film stars Zach Braff and Natalie Portman, not in the picture.
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Are Scarlett, Melanie and Rhett different from their film versions?
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I assume by English-centric, you mean English speaking, as only 8 of those 20 are English (still quite a high proportion, I agree, but not extremely so, surely?).
Yes, the book largely talked to English speaking individuals, indeed mostly British nationality. It was a book published by a British bookstore for the British market, so I suspect that was almost inevitable. With over a million different books currently in print in Britain alone, and 184000 published each year in England, I suspect there's enough to be going on with!
It shouldn't be inevitable, people should recognise the good things from outside their box. All of those authors write in the english language. The Swedish Academy considers authors from around the globe to choose whom to award the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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It's a while since I read this, so would have to reread to find out. My memory is that there were about as many elements as there were nominators!
A really interesting mix, especially as so many writers who would have been predicted as future classics writers in the 19thC and early 20thC never actually made it apparently. Authors who came up in the list included:
Chinua Achebe, Martin Amis, Paul Auster, JG Ballard, John Banville, Pat Barker, Samuel Beckett, AS Byatt, Angela Carter, Don DeLillo, Penelope Fitzgerald, William Golding, Graham Greene, Josephy Heller, Ernest Hemingway, John Irving, James Joyce, Cormac McCarthy, Shena McKay, Irish Murdoch - and that is just the first half of the alphabet, and those 20thC+ authors with 2 or more books named!
The list is extremely english-centric, perhaps the interviewed were from english-speaking countries only.
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You made me want to read the book. What do people usually dislike about it?
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1 What is your definition of a classic?
Which elements were more common across the different answers?
2. Please nominate ten essential books as classics for the next hundred years.
What did you think of the books they considered as essential?
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I'm sorry, I won't be able to continue. I'm too far behind, life has been busy since the month began and it won't stop for a few weeks more.
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Interesting: this, of course, has the potential to open up (again!) the whole debate on what makes a classic, but for me, the book's longevity and its influence definitely make it a classic.
I kind of regretted writing what you quoted, because it might be a bit arrogant to consider myself enough to determine what's a classic. I agree with you, the label classics seems more of an easy way to gather a hall of fame in which books are concerned.
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My girlfriend said she'd break up with me if I didn't stop obsessing over Oasis. I said maybe...
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Also argh for my list of 'books read this year' being too long to fit into one post! I shall reserve two posts for it next year.
I suggest you settle a new book blog thread for the remainder of the year, or for as long as you see fit.
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Personally, I know more of british gastronomy than of the country next door and still I never tried sausage rolls. They don't seem very appealing, unlike steak and ale pie.
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I'd say that is a fact rather than a controversial statement...
You shouldn't write those things with young men present. I hear we are very impressionable.
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This guide helped in my latest review and allowed me to flourish from set points instead of writing a confusing cluster. Thank you for sharing, Kell; bookmarked in the browser.
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I wouldn't consider it a classic, just old and popular; nonetheless, it is vastly influential and perhaps that is a good enough reason. The more modern interpretations of vampires I know don't seem much different from the one in this book, but fail in the execution and/or adjust small bits.
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I'm always so indecisive with what to do with these games......they are so open ended that you can do anything, but I end up dithering about because I can't choose what to do or where to go.
The first time I played Fallout 3, I went from the first real-world town directly to the ship in Rivet City just by exploration and cut across more than half of the game.
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