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Bookworm
Bookworm
9:48 AM
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Q: Where was the first English playhouse outside London built?

Christophe StrobbeWhen reading about English Renaissance theatre, discussions centre on authors, theatre companies and theatre buildings in and around London. For example, the first English playhouses were the Red Lion, which opened 1567 just outside London, The Theatre, which opened in 1576, also just outside Lon...

history-of-literature english-renaissance-theater
 
Bookworm
Bookworm
10:21 AM
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Q: Do the new characters ever wonder about olders muses of Robert Langdon?

ShaliniI was reading The Origin - Dan Brown, and wondered if Ambra Vidal ever thought about whatever happened to Sienna Brooks - Langdon's muse from Inferno? Or Sienna must have vetted Langdon knowing his past, did she ever wonder what happened to Sophie Neveu - Langdon's muse from The Da Vinci Code? ...

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Bookworm
Bookworm
6:35 PM
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Q: Is Hemmingway to much (read difficult) for persons with no experience in reading novels?

JohanLI have never really been reading novels in my life and I am 26 years old. I recently graduated with Masters in Math and now when I have sparetime I want to start reading novels. Off course there are thousands of places where I can start but I am thinking giving Hemmingway a chance. The Old Man an...

ernest-hemingway
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
6:49 PM
Reminded me both of lemmings and hummingbirds at the same time
 
heather
heather
@Bookworm seems a bit opinion based to me
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
@Bookworm Yes. Heck, it was too much for me and I read Atlas Shrugged ;)
 
heather
heather
i haven't read the old man and the sea, but i got about halfway through "for whom the bell tolls" and then gave it up.
when i'm 300 pages in and nothing has happened yet, i tend to get a wee bit bored ;)
i've found in general i prefer sci-fi/fantasy/mythology for fun-reading, with some history occasionally thrown in.
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
7:33 PM
I don't think it's necessarily an opinion-based question. One can rank novels, at least relatively, according to their difficulty. Tolkien's works would be a good example
 
heather
heather
true.
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
I skipped the close vote though
 
 
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Feeds
Feeds
9:38 PM
This month we're into Danish literature with #HarryMulisch's "The Assault" - come join! https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-assault
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