Swiss.
3:39 Sun Jul 23
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Rasputin was an absolute cunt of a person. A rapist and paedo. Suits some on here I guess.
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Far Cough
3:33 Sun Jul 23
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BubblesCyprus 2:43 Sun Jul 23
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Lev Yashin great goalkeeper
YES
The Black Spider
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muskie
3:08 Sun Jul 23
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Anna Kournikova
Mikhail Bulgakov
Rasputin
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BubblesCyprus
2:43 Sun Jul 23
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Lev Yashin great goalkeeper
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Swiss.
2:08 Sun Jul 23
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. Olga Kurlyenko is Ukrainian so big faux pas there. She’s married to an Englishman as is Milla Jovovich also Ukrainian. They love us.
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yngwies Cat
1:34 Sun Jul 23
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The one what Boney M wrote a tune about...
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Hammer and Pickle
1:32 Sun Jul 23
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Yup Nagal - meant Conrad’s publications of course. The pre-internet equivalent of pixel-botherer par excellence, was Conrad. Absolute cunt of a read.
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Nagel
1:18 Sun Jul 23
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FC, I read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich when I was at school but I don't remember it too well. I like Gogol, Lermontov, Turgenev, and some of Gorki and Chekhov. Can't stand Tolstoy though.
H&P, expect that's true of Conrad. I think at that time most novels were published in magazine form, probably went on up until the time that mass printing of paperbacks came in.
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Hammer and Pickle
1:09 Sun Jul 23
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I seem to recall that was the case with Conrad’s original publication, or am I wrong?
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Far Cough
1:08 Sun Jul 23
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Nagel, what's your opinion of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's works?
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Nagel
1:06 Sun Jul 23
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Yeah, I don't know if it was literally by the word, but mostly his works were originally published serially in magazines, so the longer they were the more money he'd get. The Brothers Karamazov was first published monthly over the course of almost 2 years.
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Hammer and Pickle
12:53 Sun Jul 23
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Really? I did not know that!
Sometimes WHO delivers, it really does.
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Nagel
12:47 Sun Jul 23
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Fair enough. Dostoevsky probably did use more words than he needed to but he always had a lot of gambling debts and he got paid by the word, so...
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Hammer and Pickle
12:25 Sun Jul 23
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That’s a great point and I accept it Nagel.
However, whatever the translation, neither Dostoevsky nor Tolstoy meet my basic need for flow and content. As I say, it’s all far too dense - too many words and not enough really going on. Same problem with Conrad and, of course, Proust.
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Willtell
11:40 Sun Jul 23
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Used to be Sobranie Black.
Probably banned now as being racist or something but very trendy at the time...
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Mike Oxsaw
11:14 Sun Jul 23
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Don't argue with teacher - he nose (NOSE) best.
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Nagel
10:20 Sun Jul 23
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Hammer and Pickle 8:14 Fri Jul 21
That quote is from the Constance Garnett translation. All her translations of Dostoevsky are terrible, especially the longer novels. There are plenty of better translations around these days but hers still get bandied about because they're over 100 years old and so in the public domain.
To be fair, Brothers Karamazov is a bit heavy going with a lot of digressions, but The Idiot, Demons, Crime and Punishment, the Gambler, The Eternal Husband and Notes from Underground are all a breeze to read through (in a decent translation).
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northbanker
1:14 Sun Jul 23
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He was Georgian, same thing.
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riosleftsock
1:07 Sun Jul 23
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Shevardnedze was not Russian. Not sure about some of the others either.
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northbanker
1:03 Sun Jul 23
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1. Konstantin Rokossovskiĭ
2. Olga Kurlyenko
3 Aleksandr Chivadze
4. Yuri Djorkaeff
5. Eduard Shevardnadze
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Boycie
9:25 Sat Jul 22
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The famous three testicled long jumper Oojanika Bolokof
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