Radio Paradise

I read it for a school project, it might be drier then I remembered, but I had a vivid imagination, loved the images of a society going through a dark period... Loved the Stand by Stephen King too...

EDIT: and the books by JG Ballard about the end of the world

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 1:33pm
Painted_Turtle wrote: ...and excuusee moi Didn't mean nothin'...

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 1:30pm
lunar1963 wrote: Probably, non fiction, history... I've started this book three times. Once having it read to me on tape. Got through the first 600 pages before simply running out of steam.

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 1:26pm
BlueHeronDruid wrote: Isn't that A Distant Mirror? Probably, non fiction, history...

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 1:23pm
lunar1963 wrote: Plague : Barbara Tuckman (not sure of the title anymore) Spanish Flu - Dennis Lehane - Any Given Day (?) Awesome book! TB - Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Isn't Death in Venice not about typhus as well? Isn't that A Distant Mirror?

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 1:22pm
phineas wrote: Love in the Time of Cholera danka...and excuusee moi

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 12:37pm
lunar1963 wrote: Plague : Barbara Tuckman (not sure of the title anymore) Spanish Flu - Dennis Lehane - Any Given Day (?) Awesome book! TB - Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Isn't Death in Venice not about typhus as well? I see that the illness in literature genre is one that I have barely scratched the surface of. I don't think I've read any Mann.

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 12:30pm
Plague : Barbara Tuckman (not sure of the title anymore) Spanish Flu - Dennis Lehane - Any Given Day (?) Awesome book! TB - Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Isn't Death in Venice not about typhus as well?

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 12:26pm
MrsHobieJoe wrote: Chekhov young man. Trust a doctor!

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 12:14pm
dionysius wrote: Got anything on typhus? Chekhov young man.

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 12:13pm
MrsHobieJoe wrote: pleb Actually cholera is not extensively mentioned in the book ". If you want to read a book lived through a cholera epidemic read "Horseman on the Roof" by Jean Giono Now that's a book with the most extraordinarily graphic depictions of the effects of cholera. shudder

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 12:05pm
MrsHobieJoe wrote: pleb Actually cholera is not extensively mentioned in the book ". If you want to read a book lived through a cholera epidemic read "Horseman on the Roof" by Jean Giono Got anything on typhus?

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 12:04pm
hobiejoe wrote: Quite right, just had "a" in my mind, sorry. Didn't like the book anyway pleb Actually cholera is not extensively mentioned in the book ". If you want to read a book lived through a cholera epidemic read "Horseman on the Roof" by Jean Giono

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 12:02pm
MrsHobieJoe wrote: More importantly - are you enjoying it? I read it years ago in Italy on a vacation. First part was with a group, then a week alone... A hundred years of solitude would have been more fitting, but I liked it a lot. Am a fan anyway, meant it as a tip!

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 11:56am
phineas wrote: Pretty sure it's "the" Quite right, just had "a" in my mind, sorry. Didn't like the book anyway

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 11:54am
phineas wrote: Pretty sure it's "the" poster says the too... Dutch translation: Love in times of cholera, guess the Spanish is ambivalent and difficult to translate. Any Spanish people here?

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 11:54am
dionysius wrote: Phineas is actually right, for once. He will cherish this moment for a long time. I was right a few months ago and you pretended not to notice.

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 11:54am
hobiejoe wrote: Love In A Time Of Cholera edit Or possibly not, BIAB. Phineas is actually right, for once. He will cherish this moment for a long time.

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 11:52am
hobiejoe wrote: Love In A Time Of Cholera Pretty sure it's "the"

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Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 11:51am
phineas wrote: Love in the Time of Cholera Love In A Time Of Cholera edit Or possibly not, BIAB.

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