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homage to catalunya? I love his non-fiction, of course for most of the world it's his political fiction (1984 and animal Farm) that receives all the accolades. Mikhail, what do you think of 1984?

haha, winston is both whiny and spineless :D

Just read The Cossacks, by Tolstoy. Definitely one of the best novellas I've ever read, if not the best.

orwell is one of my favorite writers and thinkers. So much of his relatively unknown works are excellent!

just read Women in Love (DH Lawrence), and Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) Both were excellent, as well as completely different. Women in Love surprised me, as it was very different from what I was expecting. Only Lawrence I had previously read was Lady Chatterly's Lover, which is very...

i like long books actually...it's pretty expensive IIRC though. eventually i'll get it though

let me know if it's as good as I've heard

life and fate, by Vasily Grossman. One of the great 20th century Russian novels, barely known in the west though. Written in the 60s, all known manuscripts were confiscated and destroyed, and only in the 80s was a smuggled edition published in the west

just read that, very very good. read la chambre?

one would think that with the internet you'd have no problem figuring it out, but it seems to be a rather challenging one, particularly given the size of the clip ;)

it definitely sounds like there might be a specific composer or work that influenced that section, but it could also be a mixture of different influences, as within that small section there's enough to suggest Russian romantic music, jazz, early American music, etc. difficult to tell...now i'm...

I listened to it and didn't recognize it, according to Wikipedia the whole soundtrack was from Chaplin, orchestrated by David Raskin? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_(film) http://www.charliechaplin.com/en/categories/7-Music/articles/132-The-Music-of-Modern-Times so basically it's...

great, aren't they? any favourite? just got back to reading "The Great War for Civilization" by british reporter Robert Fisk. Basically an account of the 20th century-present Middle East. Fisk is knowledgeable, passionate, and a pretty good writer. He does a good job of taking his many...

i didn't read it as a kid, but nevertheless though it was slow going

I agree with Mikhail that it depends on the author. One who's brilliance lies mainly in their use of language, then it's very, very difficult. I've been hearing about a husband and wife team that's been doing a lot of russian translations, one is a poet, and the other is russian. Certainly it's...

go for it, it's wonderful. love chekhov, wonderful short stories

just read Death in Venice by Mann, excellent short story! a little worrying since I'm technically an artist myself, so i can sympathize with the main character

i'll have to check it out then. maybe i'll start a download now.

hahaha! I still haven't seen the movie, is it worth seeing? and yeah, they're definitely more than children's books!

haha, i know exactly what you mean! I had the same problem. But it's quite a good book ;) :thumbs: one of my favourite books of all time.