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  1. 05-19-2013 03:42 PM #91
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    I just finished The Invisible Heart, by Russ Roberts of EconTalk; I'll definitely be reading more of his stuff. It's an exploration of the merits of the free market and libertarian, written in dialogue between an econ professor (Roberts' stand-in, one assumes) and an English teacher who believes in regulation, welfare, etc. Roberts writes her concerns well, and his main character sometimes doesn't have an answer for her except to say that even a perfect system produces imperfect results.

    My current read is Chain of Thunder, an American Civil War novel; on the serious side I'm reading Diet for a Warm Planet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bolil View Post
    SOmetimes when I read Tolstoy or Dostoevsky english translations I feel like I am ingesting vomit. If only I had the mental capacity to learn Russian, and french. I have Shakespeare (Edward D'Veere) and Clemens, perhaps that is enough.

    EDIT: And tolkien... never forget the original R.R.
    I prefer the original Russian myself. Lots of nuances get lost in translation from Russian to English.
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    I finished 1984 yesterday. Good book, but the ending wasn't as good as I hoped it would be.
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    I have tried reading 1984 3 or 4 times and I just can't get into it...Animal Farm I loved.
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