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... Barefoot His wonderful love and his terrible Hatred By Carl-Johan Vallgren
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Fables: Arabian Nights (and days) by Bill Willingham
Chew Volume 1: Taster's Choice by John Layman 72. Fables: Arabian Nights (and days) by Bill Willingham
I did not enjoy this one as much as the last few, the lack of my two favorite fabes Snow and Biggy Wolf, it was still well written just not as good as the last ones.
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my 2010 thread http://www.librarything.com/topic/79214 ... there have been a few other such works riffing off the Bible. It did help him get that Nobel.
How about Mahfouz's Arabian Nights and Days? I think Scheherazade belongs on the list somewhere.
I'd leave Grendel, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead on ... ... seemed a bit uncomfortable in the imported form of the novel, and his work seems more natural in The Dreams and a book like Arabian Nights and Days , where he seems to ignore received forms and create his own approach to prose. In all its simplicity, this book is packed with allegories, whether ... ... it - and stares into the eyes of a clown. Mahfouz does it very well. This isn't the very best Mahfouz, and I think his Arabian Nights and Days actually draws the dream sequences out into a deeper narrative, but it's pretty good, and deeply reminiscent of Rimbaud in a lot of ways. I find ... Oh! Oh! I just thought of another great one. Naguib Mahfouz's Arabian Nights and Days is a great ghost story! It will haunt you.
Of course, there's always Edgar Allen Poe and Washington Irving. And can we throw in Faust? ...
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This was good. It's seven lectures that Borges gave in seven nights in Buenos Aires in 1977 (that's a lot of sevens). But it felt more like it was me an Borges sitting in a small room across from each other. He started talking to me about The Divine ... ... has come out with at least 11 now...
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A shorter volume this time...I got the feeling this is kind of a lull between major story ... ... I'm in possession of the Collected Fictions as well as Selected Non-Fictions and Selected Poems. I intend to add Seven Nights, Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations, Borges: A Life and perhaps The Invention of Morel and some Argentine history like Felix Luna's A Short History of ... ... Willingham
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43. Fables: The ... Well, if it's not on there already, I'd suggest Naguib Mahfouz's Arabian Nights and Days.
Here's how I described it on another thread:
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I would breeze through a graphic novel, kind of like a palette cleanser, in between chunks of The Stand. These ... ... Thomas Mann's The Transposed Heads; Derek Walcott's Omeros; The Tale of the Four Dervishes; Mahfouz's Arabian Nights and Days; John Gardner's Grendel; Par Lagerkvist'sBarrabas; Ibsen's Peer Gynt; all the various tellings of Faustus, whether by Marlowe, ... ... novel. It is a fanstastic book - I can't recommend it highly enough.
Another great choice is Naguib Mahfouz's Arabian Nights and Days, which tells a bit about what happened with Sheherazade after the wedding.
I also recently read Southey's retelling of The Cid, and it's a ... ... Jim Crace
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Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz and At the Stray Dog Cabaret:a book of Russian poems, trans. by Paul Schmidt and edited by Catherine Ciepella were also amazing.
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(11) Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz - an excellent book! I've posted on it and The Translator on a new thread in the Global Reading - Fiction Group (Islamic Voices thread).
(12) The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis, which is undoubtedly the worst Lewis I have ever read and the ... ... from different material, and it's interesting to see the different takes on them.
I also just finished Mahfouz's Arabian Nights and Days, which I talk about in another thread, and would highly recommend that. I didn't realize this discussion has started. I've spent an hour trying to combine and uncombine the various Arabian Nights / Thousand and One Nights / Thousand Nights and One, etc. I started to do this when I tried to think is there a book besides the Bible which people do not want all ... ... in print a work that originated in oral transmissions. Part of me wants to go in and just combine the whole lot of the Arabian Nights/Thousand and one Nights. Notice the variability of the Touchstones. ... in some ways, mildly deficient in others) and am going down the Nile and back in time to experience Naguib Mahfouz's Arabian Nights and Days. I've decided to read a fair bit in the Middle East and North Africa for a period.
I'm also taking photographs of the Russo-Japanese War with A ... 157. Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb - keeper
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161. Ship of Destiny by Robin Hob ... ... uncomfortable."
3) Kingdom Come by Mark Waid
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4) Arabian Nights by Bill Willingham
This was the most disappointing of the Fables series of graphic novels, perhaps because of its extensive and uninventive reliance on ...
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