Official Russian Author Book Club Thread

[fox]

Okay, so a few people in the reading thread expressed interest in



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[fury]

id be interested in this, ive been meaning to read this book for a while. i guess we'd have to settle on a translation as well?

[The Dirty Turtle]

im definitely in

[mites]

I've always wanted to read that.

also, just to steal jeremy's fire, we all need to read:

[dr. badvibes]

i'll probably reread this if you guys use the translation i already have

[psyduck]

I'm in. Schedule pretty loose until the end of the month.

[TASKER, JERRY L]

I'll be in. I've read two different translations of this and it's one of the best books ever written. My favorite translation is .

[droctagon2000]

Since I usually just lurk the reading thread, I would be up for a rereading of this.

[The Dirty Turtle]

my vote would be to tinychat every two days, and in 50 page intervals (hopefully that makes sense wrt chapters, havent looked yet)
wed finish the book in two weeks, and if you missed some chats it wouldnt matter, and if you wanted to talk a lot you could

[The Dirty Turtle]

im such a novice at russian lit this will be great

[TASKER, JERRY L]

Also I want to vote for at some point. I need an excuse to re-read it.

[sadville]

i'm interested in participating but i prob won't be tinychatting

loose reading deadlines would be pretty alright

[waldojeffers1]

just reposting these in here from the now reading thread




also:

[psyduck]

I also vote loose deadlines.

Also different translations would be more of an asset. At least I have Burgin/O'Connor and it'd be cool to compare with P&V.

[The Dirty Turtle]

i disagree, unless we set more aggressive deadlines this will be worthless

[fox]

all good picks

also hear good things about

[waldojeffers1]

this is dual-language and obviously marketed towards language students, but it's worth it just to read the stories in english too (edit: under $7 on amazon)

I especially like the dostoevsky and zamyatin stories that are included ("Bobok" and "The Cave," respectively)

[manvstrees]

[The Dirty Turtle]

two weeks per book is the limit we should set, im ok on whatever meeting schedule happens in the middle, although i do think more meetings offers more flexibility than fewer

[fox]

i disagree, unless we set more aggressive deadlines this will be worthless

I don't think that I could make deadlines of every two days

Maybe we could shoot for midday weekend chats (that don't conflict with the movie nights) at around 75 pages?

[waldojeffers1]

heart of a dog is awesome

the movie version from 1988 is absolutely worth watching also

[The Dirty Turtle]

i disagree, unless we set more aggressive deadlines this will be worthless

I don't think that I could make deadlines of every two days

Maybe we could shoot for midday weekend chats (that don't conflict with the movie nights) at around 75 pages?

this means 6 weeks for this book, i think u lose people

[TASKER, JERRY L]

I don't have any invites but I could grab whatever book we're reading off Bibliotik and upload it to mediafire or something.

[mites]

hpn is going to make a productive member of society out of me

[Riverchrist]

this will get us chicks right

[pantsoclock]

I'd be into this, but yeah 6 weeks is way too long for one book.

[waldojeffers1]

for non-Russian Soviet authors writing in the Russian language, this is pretty good



not my favorite Aitmatov but it's the only one easy to find in English

[The Dirty Turtle]

why is this in the members forum

[TASKER, JERRY L]

I would suggest Dead Souls but I doubt this board could make it through that.

Lolita or Pale Fire might be a cool choice

[The Dirty Turtle]

lolita needs one week MAX