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Lonely Planet Mexico (Lonely Planet Mexico) by John Noble

The emperor's new mind : concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics by Roger Penrose

'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman

Sto rokov samoty by Gabriel García Márquez

Chinese: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Grammars) by Yip Po-Ching

The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

Dieselbe Geschichte, nur anders / Der Mann auf der Straße / Der Matrose von Amsterdam. by George Simenon

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Favorite authorsUmberto Eco, Edith Grossman, Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, Gregory Rabassa (Shared favorites)

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About meI like to read novels of the “literary fiction” type. I dislike “genre fiction”. But I’m perhaps the slowest reader in the world.

I collect One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez and a few other books in as many languages as I can find.

I’m currently travelling through Central and Eastern Europe where I’m picking up copies of One Hundred Years of Solitude translated into the local languages as well as one famous novel by a local author in the original and cheap little dictionaries or grammars. Today's goal in Prague is The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Czech.

I also do a lot of work on the English Wiktionary.

About my libraryI’m trying to enter the exact editions I own. I use the tag “checked edition” when I have the book with me and can use the ISBN or other details, “unchecked edition” when I use another user’s library, Amazon, etc but the edition looks like mine, and “wrong edition” when I’m pretty sure it’s different to mine.

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Currently readingPantaleon y las visitadoras by Llosa Mario Vargas
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Hey,

Was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here (as well as on a few other book-related sites). Saw you liked Trainspotting, and I thought you might like my novel since it's also about a group of disturbed kids and a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like. Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id...

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 1:50 pm (EST) on Mar 30, 2009

Sorry to advise gertrude & Alice Cafe Bookshop has changed name and is not how it once was.
Hope you are enjoying Central America.

posted by Seamusoz at 5:38 am (EST) on Nov 7, 2008

How did you learn Japanese so well? I'm studying it but I've had a lot less success than you, I can't imagine myself managing to read Noruwei no Mori in the original...

posted by sluggy at 7:46 am (EST) on Sep 20, 2007

Hello mate - didn't realise you were here. I admired your review of Shadow of the Wind. Did you read it in Spanish? I read the English version and couldn't work out if it was badly-written or just badly-translated..

posted by Widsith at 2:28 pm (EST) on Jul 14, 2007

I actually have a copy of "Norwegian Wood" sitting in storage back in Oregon, along with many other unread books I was unfortunatly unable to bring when I moved. I'll be sure to dig it out during my next trip back.

Probably not too strange that you weren't able to find more Borges during your trip. I imagine that he'd be more widely read in his home country than there. I'd recommend Penguin's three volume collection of his works, particularly the "Collected Fictions." Andrew Hurley does a decent translation, plainspoken and immediate, though some have suggested he loses a lot of the poetry of the language. Worthwhile anyway. I'll add Rulfo to my shopping list, even if the translations are inferior. Only way anyone is going to get interested in doing a decent one is if people show some interest.

Thanks for the recommendations.

posted by coffeezombie at 6:31 am (EST) on Jul 16, 2006

I noticed that we share a few favorites (Borges, "One Hundred Years of Solitude," "The Woman in the Dunes," and "The Name of the Rose" in particular) and decided to take a look into your catalog. I'm pretty impressed with the number of languages covered (I have no head for it and have enough trouble trying to keep up with English, so anyone who can read Spanish and German in the original is pretty impressive to me). Like to hear what you thought of "Woman in the Dunes," maybe nab some Latin American lit recommendations from you (I'm faily limited in that respect, though like most American lit freaks I've got a thing for Central/South American magical realism). Appreciate it if you'd drop me a line.

Have a good one.

posted by coffeezombie at 8:34 pm (EST) on Jul 15, 2006

I'd be happy to try to answer some basic conceptual questions about neural nets, but don't take the number of books I have on that topic as an indicator of any expertise, I tend to buy a lot of textbooks on subjects that interest me for future reference (and a bit of skimming), for the most part the only technical books I own that I've read in depth were ones I used in college courses (physics and math mostly). If you want to find someone who knows more, you could also try looking for people with tags like "cognitive science" or "artificial intelligence".

posted by lasermazer at 2:48 pm (EST) on Apr 10, 2006

I hated If on a Winter's night, but loved Invisible Cities with Mr. Palomar not far behind.

Since your original comment, I've looked through my catalog and notice that I created a couple of other "special groupings" to make Librarything behave the way I have my shelves. I grouped Homer & Virgil by their translator, Robert Fitzgerald. I did the same for the inferno. I grouped The Paris Review's Writers-At-Work series of interviews together and all the diminutive Penguin 60s are together, despite the diversity of authors.

I would like to know which Calvino you read and what you think.

Thanks,
S

posted by Smiley at 2:12 pm (EST) on Mar 1, 2006

Since you are a Calvino fan you might want to check out some of John Barth's "Metafiction" Giles Goatboy etc.
Smiley

posted by Smiley at 11:57 pm (EST) on Feb 26, 2006

Of course you are absolutely right and I thank you for going out of your way to correct what appears to be an error. I purposefully listed Eco as the primary author of "Key" so that Librarything would place it alongside my copy of Eco's "Name" as it is on my shelves at home. I did give credit to Haft, J. White & R. White on the "other authors" line of the edit page.

I also see by looking over your library that you are obviously more adept with languages than I will ever be. I am struggling through Wheelock's Latin course. Smiley.

posted by Smiley at 11:55 pm (EST) on Feb 26, 2006

Upon investigation I have found that you are absolutely right. "The Seventh Secret" really refers to Irving Wallace's book, that I possess. Gabriel Garcia Márquez book that is at my library, beside "The Seventh Secret" is " O Amor nos Tempos do Cólera". I thank you for having discovered this error in my database..
Pierre (patf4444)

posted by patf4444 at 9:16 pm (EST) on Feb 23, 2006

Ola mi amigo!

Chiapas, eh? My son spent quite a bit of time there during his travels throughout Central America last November. He said the Chiapas were the most beautiful, and he also stayed in San Cristobal de la Casas (I had to wire him some money to that location).

Anyways, I digress.

I've been asking this question of certain LT members, and it's up to you if you wish to answer:

If you were stranded on a desert island, and had only 5 books to take with you, which ones would you pick? :-)

Cheers,
~app

posted by appaloosa at 7:43 pm (EST) on Feb 9, 2006

I noticed your Unendliche Geschichte review. I felt the exact same way! I did manage to make it all the way through Momo, though (by the same author).

posted by angharad at 10:14 pm (EST) on Oct 17, 2005

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