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Forum: Book of the Month 1st April 2008, 09:36 PM
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BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
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Posted By gato
Re: BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
Chapter 3 and 4 are probably the best chapters in the book. You'd better skim through chapter 5 in
English. It's this and that about their journey across the country. Every little idiosyncrasy is...
Forum: Book of the Month 26th March 2008, 07:59 PM
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BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
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Re: BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
As mentioned in an earlier post above, this book is most like a comedy of manners (like Evelyn
Waugh or Moliere's Tartuffe), a commentary on certain people (overseas returnees, intellectual...
Forum: Book of the Month 26th March 2008, 07:29 PM
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BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
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Re: BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
Don't give up, Sam. I think you still have the potential of getting something out of this book. I
am on page 177 out of 335 and still plan on finishing it. I thought chapters 2-4 were quite good.
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Forum: Book of the Month 21st March 2008, 08:58 PM
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BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
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Re: BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
Girl. Hair. Bed.
Forum: Book of the Month 21st March 2008, 06:18 PM
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BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
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Re: BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
It's from that girl he was eating with.
Forum: Book of the Month 19th March 2008, 10:46 PM
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BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
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Posted By gato
Re: BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
You don't have PlecoDict (http://www.pleco.com/)? You poor guy! :wink:
Forum: Book of the Month 18th March 2008, 01:55 PM
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BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
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Re: BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
Any particular story in Dubliners, as Dubliners is a collection. I would think it might be closer
to Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim, which I haven't read, but I heard that it's a great satire of
campus...
Forum: Book of the Month 18th March 2008, 12:44 PM
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BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
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Re: BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
There's some similarity with Pride & Prejudice, but whereas the central character in Pride &
Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennett, is probably a stand-in for Jane Austin, and thus made quite
sympathetic,...
Forum: Book of the Month 17th March 2008, 08:08 AM
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BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
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Re: BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
A couple of articles about the...
Forum: Book of the Month 11th March 2008, 12:09 PM
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BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
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Posted By gato
Re: BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
Glad you are enjoying it. Spoke "white-collar"? Is that a dialect spoken by office workers?
Forum: Book of the Month 6th March 2008, 09:41 PM
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BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
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Posted By gato
Re: BOTM March 2008 《围城》by 钱钟书
I thought the first chapter was a bit slow, so hang in there if you don't immediately like it. I
didn't find at first the characters all that likeable and they seem somewhat exaggerated. But then
I...
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