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Which Canadians have you read eyez0nme?

Thanks for that Ell! It perfectly summarizes why I read. I recently picked up Mason & Dixon as a remainder. After I get through Joyce I am going to tackle, attempt to tackle, Pynchon although not necessarily beginning with Mason & Dixon. I also bumped this because of Pynchon's new book...

Thanks. :)

Amazon is stating that November 21st is the release date for Against The Day.

Wayne Johnston. Probably my favourite Canadian author.

In late November, during a thaw, around nine in the morning, a train on the Petersburg–Warsaw railway line was approaching Petersburg at full blast. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky.

I don't think this was mentioned in Freakonomics but one possible explanation is that those methods were simply too exensive for the parent that would end up having a child with a high probability of becoming a criminal. Suburban and rural crime rose substantially because drugs are first...

Guy Gavriel Kay. Historical fantasy decently written.

Crossposted from another place. Not sure how to review The Elementary Particles for a couple reasons. The first being I'm not particularly good at writing reviews. The second being that this is a different book than any other book I have read. I can't think of any reasonable comparisons to...

Ya beat me to it. There's a meandering read that works quite well.

I agree that If on a Winters Night a Traveller and The Remains of the Day are beautiful. I really want to read that Calvino but it's proving difficult to find.

There isn't anything wrong with the questions you are asking. Sometimes you ask them in a sparse way that leads to one liners that don't amount to much discussion. You can't imply. History here has shown that poor short answers are the majority and even with explicit focused questions they...

Ballets are always love stories. Not sure Dracula is. Certainly there are close husband wife relationships but are they the purpose of the story?

Maybe he thinks he's Joyce now.

There's that and there's also the fact that what happened was a bore. It wasn't a very satisfying final scene.

True, but once you dismiss all authors listed without a reason the list gets much shorter.

There were two threads on signed books revealed by a search. This was slightly newer so I chose it. :) I like signed books, particularly if the author signs it in person. I have the following signed: JPod, Hey Nostradamus! and Microserfs signed by Douglas Coupland in person. Never Cry...

I'm at a disadvantage here. I've only picked up Ham on Rye and Women and just read through random scenes. One of the benefits of working in a book store. But it still leaves me without the whole. I don't know if I agree or disagree with you. I do know that the scenes I read were honest...

Just, finally, finished Dracula. An uneven work. Some of it was beautiful and some of it was very awkward. I found the ending anti-climatic, there was no final battle, just a chase for a box of sand. Glad I read it but it did not meet my expectations. 3.75/5

The Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq.