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Hey. I just saw you liked my review of James' The Ambassadors. I found it absolutely horrible and almost unreadable. It made my downright angry. I had the impression it's a wilful attempt to make the goings-on as opaque as possible and put obstacles in the readers way. Do you think the same?
Marcia E. Letaw Hi Horst, Happy New Year!
The Ambassadors is one of those books I feel I should read but don't want to, so I was very happy to read your review and to thereby be released from that particular duty.
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Marcia, have you read Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude yet? It is easier than Men of Maize to read and is arguably one of the best novels of the Twentieth Century. I just finished re-reading it for, I believe, the seventh time. Good werdz 'nall.
Marcia E. Letaw Yes, many years ago and I loved it! I'm going to put it on my re-read list, something for the future, but for today I'm going to investigate Rulfo. The library only has The Burning Plain so I'll start with that.
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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?
Marcia E. Letaw The inspiration for Raskolnikov's Disorder was a painting by the French artist Leon Matthieu Cochereau: Portrait of the Artist in his Studio. I kept staring at it, and as I did so, it began to seem to me that he was waiting for someone to release him from imprisonment as if he had painted himself into the painting. From that thought, the two sisters Rhenium and Astatine were born. They too heard his cry for help and responded, but bear in mind: At least one of them suffers from Raskolnikov's Disorder.
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What are you currently working on?
Marcia E. Letaw Simoom, first book in the trilogy: Weird Sisters Concerto, a murder mystery of epic proportions with some physics based magical realism. It's actually complete, but I'm waiting on the book cover art. The short story: "A Fulgurite in Blue" (marcialetaw.com) is taken from Simoom.
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hello marcia, thanks for adding me. may I ask why you chose to add me on this page? so far i've been using it just for the purpose of shelving and listing my books, wholly in secrecy :) greets moritz
Marcia E. Letaw I was attracted by your rating of Far From the Madding Crowd which happens to be one of my all time favorite books along with some other of Hardy's novels. Also, I noticed that you are from Germany which is on my list of favorite countries due to the fact of having lived there for a couple of years, Heidelberg.
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