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Yes, let us please cater to you.  What else do you require?

Plenty of people on here would be interested in Harry Potter, and would never click on the nerd thread, so I do not see any reason to segregate this book from any other.

killsaly wrote:
Yes, let us please cater to you.  What else do you require?

I mean, I could use a gin and tonic if you're in the area. . .

Has anybody read "When Breath Becomes Air" By Paul Kalanithi?

The review in the Economist made it sound amazing. 

killsaly wrote:
Yes, let us please cater to you.  What else do you require?

Plenty of people on here would be interested in Harry Potter, and would never click on the nerd thread, so I do not see any reason to segregate this book from any other.

I just got back from totally nerding out at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal for a few days (which if you haven't been there, and you're a fan, I would highly recommend.) So, this is great news!

I need help…this has been an outstanding matter for a few years..

you know that book Night by Elie Wiesel?

a different edition was originally published in 1955 or 1956 in Argentina through the Polish Yddish Labor Union… It was a much longer and different work.. its in yddish which is a bitch as i don't speak that obviously.. but i want to get a copy of it and try as i try i just can't find it.. obviously its a very rare book…it was part of a series of like 150 book of jews remembering the holocaust..

there is some controversy regarding the book but i'm not interested in dredging that up

any ideas where i could find the book? here is the info.. I have never seen it anywhere alhtough I have seen a picture… often the short different "Night" is listed when you search for Un di velt hot geshvign (someting like "and the world slept")..

Un di velt hot geshvign.

Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Buenos Ayres, Tsentral-Farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine, 716, 1956.
Series: Poylishe Yidnṭum, bd. 117.
Edition/Format:   Print book : Biography : YiddishView all editions and formats
Database: WorldCat

some list the author as Eliezer Wiesel

and more of the basic info:

1954: Un di Velt Hot Geshvign
Wiesel wrote in 1979 that he kept his story to himself for ten years. In 1954 he wanted to interview the French prime minister, Pierre Mendès-France, and approached the novelist François Mauriac, a friend of Mendès-France, for an introduction.[39] He writes: "The problem was that [Mauriac] was in love with Jesus. He was the most decent person I ever met in that field … and he was in love with Jesus. … Whatever I would ask ? Jesus. Finally, I said, 'What about Mendès-France?' He said that Mendès-France, like Jesus, was suffering …"[40]

When he said Jesus again I couldn't take it, and for the only time in my life I was discourteous, which I regret to this day. I said, "Mr. Mauriac," we called him Maître, "ten years or so ago, I have seen children, hundreds of Jewish children, who suffered more than Jesus did on his cross and we do not speak about it." I felt all of a sudden so embarrassed. I closed my notebook and went to the elevator. He ran after me. He pulled me back; he sat down in his chair, and I in mine, and he began weeping. … And then, at the end, without saying anything, he simply said, "You know, maybe you should talk about it."[40]
Wiesel started writing on board a ship to Brazil, where he had been assigned to cover Christian missionaries within Jewish communities, and by the end of the journey had completed an 862-page manuscript.[41] He was introduced on the ship to Yehudit Moretzka, a Yiddish singer travelling with Mark Turkov, a publisher of Yiddish texts. Turkov asked if he could read Wiesel's manuscript.[42] It is unclear who edited the text for publication. Wiesel wrote in All Rivers Run to the Sea (1995) that he handed Turkov his only copy and that it was never returned, but also that he (Wiesel) "cut down the original manuscript from 862 pages to the 245 of the published Yiddish edition."[43]

Turkov's Tzentral Varband fun Polishe Yidn in Argentina (Central Union of Polish Jews in Argentina) published the book in 1956 in Buenos Aires as the 245-page Un di velt hot geshvign ("And the World Remained Silent"). It was the 117th book in a 176-volume series of Yiddish memoirs of Poland and the war, Dos poylishe yidntum (Polish Jewry, 1946?1966).[44] Ruth Wisse writes that Un di Velt Hot Geshvign stood out from the rest of the series, which survivors wrote as memorials to their dead, as a "highly selective and isolating literary narrative".[45]


I don't have thousands of dollars to pay to some guy dealing in judaica… I would also note that Argentine printings tended to be and continue to be pretty shoddy so finding a copy of a book that must have had a very very limited run that is still serviceable would be doubly hard…

here is the picture of the book i just posted about.. even a picture is hard to find!


https://www.google.com/search?q=Un+di+Velt+Hot+Geshvign&biw=1920&bih=945&tbm=isch&imgil=N8h4Ug60Jvtm1M%253A%253BHOtDu4_H4e0weM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.yiddishbookcenter.org%25252Fslideshow%25252Fvoices-from-holocaust&source=iu&pf=m&fir=N8h4Ug60Jvtm1M%253A%252CHOtDu4_H4e0weM%252C_&usg=__RjoH5EDpTNDp5SACu6vuozTqVnE%3D&dpr=1&ved=0ahUKEwivoqi1lpLLAhWFPD4KHSFIA4sQyjcISw&ei=H5DOVu-WNIX5-AGhkI3YCA#imgrc=N8h4Ug60Jvtm1M%3A

hmm.. maybe there is an actual copy here..

http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=1642722

and another

http://www.queenslibrary.org/es/item/un-di-velt-hot-geshvign

maybe i will have to go to queens to make a copy…

I don't think we've talked about this here.

http://awfullibrarybooks.net/

I had to shut my door when I got to

http://awfullibrarybooks.net/crafts-for-the-retarded/

and

http://awfullibrarybooks.net/satan-for-kids/

I'm about 110 pages into Petty, by Warren Zanes, a book my wife got me for Xmas. Tom has just completed the debut album with the Heartbreakers. I now know a whole lot more about Mudcrunch.

Space wrote:
I'm about 110 pages into Petty, by Warren Zanes, a book my wife got me for Xmas. Tom has just completed the debut album with the Heartbreakers. I now know a whole lot more about Mudcrunch.

i've been getting psyched for seeing Petty and Mudcrutch at the 930… going to be great!

Space wrote:
I'm about 110 pages into Petty, by Warren Zanes, a book my wife got me for Xmas. Tom has just completed the debut album with the Heartbreakers. I now know a whole lot more about Mudcrunch.

I read this. I thought it was all right though nothing really stood out about it. Maybe Tom Petty is just kinda boring. But it felt like one of those bios where this happened and then this happened and then this happened and then the end.

yeah I heard the book was a slog so I'm not planning on getting it..

You wanna talk slog, how about a 854 page biography on Paul McCartney



That said, I'm liking this quite a bit and will probably finish it this weekend. I've read every book on the Beatles that I can find, so diving into this seemed a little unnecessary, but I have it a shot and it's really pretty good. Having read a bio on Ringo a few months ago, and a Lennon one before that, I like reading about the Beatles era through the perspective of just one of the members rather than a whole-group view.

Relaxer wrote:

Space wrote:
I'm about 110 pages into Petty, by Warren Zanes, a book my wife got me for Xmas. Tom has just completed the debut album with the Heartbreakers. I now know a whole lot more about Mudcrunch.

I read this. I thought it was all right though nothing really stood out about it. Maybe Tom Petty is just kinda boring. But it felt like one of those bios where this happened and then this happened and then this happened and then the end.

Sounds a lot like my life except I'm not in Mudcrunch.

Relaxer wrote:
You wanna talk slog, how about a 854 page biography on Paul McCartney



That said, I'm liking this quite a bit and will probably finish it this weekend. I've read every book on the Beatles that I can find, so diving into this seemed a little unnecessary, but I have it a shot and it's really pretty good. Having read a bio on Ringo a few months ago, and a Lennon one before that, I like reading about the Beatles era through the perspective of just one of the members rather than a whole-group view.

yeah but Phillip Norman is like the authority on the Beatles isn't he? I think I read his first one on the Beatles…

Yeah, he wrote a big bio on Lennon, which I liked a lot, and he wrote an overall Beatles book called 'Shout' which is funny because the Beatles didn't record that song or even play it very much.

Read Zero K by DeLillo which was merely OK. Did not live up to the "his best novel since Underworld" hype that was flying around.

Also read The Secret History after hearing from multiple people that I needed to check out Tartt's two pre-Goldfinch books. It was a solid B+. Would recommend to anyone who liked Goldfinch.

Also read The Plot Against America by Roth which was a lot of fun and wildly timely with Trump being a major party candidate.

Finally got around to reading Interpreter of Maladies recently too (somehow had read all her other stuff sans the thing she actually won a Pulitzer for). So good. One of my favorite authors. She can write things that are nostalgic and sad all at once. Sorry to hear she's stopping writing in English.

About 2/3rds of the way through the new Klosterman. It's an interesting thought experiment. Enjoying it.

Next up is Vol 3 of Danielewski's The Familiar serial. Enjoyed the first two but I'm a sucker for ergodic lit.

Anybody read The Sympathizer or All The Light We Cannot See? Trying to figure which to read first.

I just read  Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon. Nice job, Kim. Thurston is an idiot.

Space wrote:
I just read  Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon. Nice job, Kim. Thurston is an idiot.

I'm in the middle of that one. I never knew she had such ties to Hollywood and the art world even before SY existed. I love that she dated Danny Elfman in high school.

I also read Carrie Brownstein's in one sitting, but I was a bit disappointed with it. I wanted more than just S/K history, would love to know more about the relationship with Fred.