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Re: The Sound and the Fury post

I think maybe Faulkner might have had families about the "sleeping with your sister" problem. That creeps up all of a sudden in Absalom, Absalom in that Henry...

I'll admit, I haven't exactly been, "keeping up" on every single post, but a girl can only do so much. For those of you that have read Absalom, Absalom, or suffering through it, whatever the case may...

I've been on this forum for a few years now and the subject of William Faulkner has yet to appear. Shocking, I know. Anyway, I've recently been reading Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom and I've discovered...

I love George Orwell, but until recently I had only read his fiction. I stumbled across this essay he wrote condemning atrocities we so often commit with our choice of words. For all of us word...

I know they were made a while ago, but what did you guys think of the film adapations of the Anne series? I loved them personally, i was finally able to put a face on one of my favorite characters

I fell in love with the beat poets because of this forum. Aside from Keroac who i'm still attempting a second stab at, i really dig there style. But i also fell in love with Salman Rushdie--i highly...

I know that the opening chorus gives an entire synopsis of the play, including the main characters' deaths. But there are two speeches that Juliet gives that foreshadow the death of romeo. It is just...

I went on this site only to discover that if you wanted to read the rest of the information you have to pay a $30.00/month fee. I was bummed to say the least. You'd think that a website spouting...

I thinks its called The Tragedy of Julius Caesar because the play is not tragic because Caesar dies, its because of what Caesar represented. When he is murdered, the governing principles of the...

I think what makes Shylock's character so hard to pin down is his relationship with his daughter. Jessica is very young and her father is keeping her from the man she loves. Of course she's gonna be...

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I don't know if our international participants our familiar with this public television staple, but what do you guys think of the productions they produce? I love them, and I watch it whenever its...

Personally, I like the genre, but in saying this, I have to say that not all of them are any good. Howards End, for instance, is dreadfully boring because the characters are so shut up in their own...

yes, Elizabeth changes Darcy for the better. During his second proposal, he says that her berating him made him realize how selfish she was being, and what a spoiled person he had been. He even knew...

This poem is not so much about nature, but Wordsworth's realization that he's getting old. He goes out walking and remembers that as a child he could revel in it completely. But now as an old man,...

Hey Admin!! First of all, I love the site, been here about a year or so and it's been great.

Anyway, I've noticed a member named irapass who's doing nothing but posting an advertisement for a...

hey, thanks for the first hand experience, especially now that its out in paperback.

speaking of historical fiction, I'm a bit of a fan myselft. Do you have any other favorites? Because I loved...

well, for one, not everybody ends up with a perfect ending. Although Lydia does have a great time with Wickham, he had to be persuaded to marry her. In the end, Elizabeth says she almost never comes...

I had read many reviews about Crimson Petal... and all of them were great--but I hadn't convinced myself to read it quite yet. What worried me was the comparisons to Dickens. Did you find the length...

I enjoyed The Scarlet Letter, but I think it was because I read it for pleasure. I just fell in love with Hester Prynn. Her characteris so greatly developed by Hawthorne that you can see her anger...

There is a little known 18th-century novel called Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood.

Many of the love scenes in that book take place in gardens and, considering the times, they were pretty erotic. ...

You need to add the Letters from the earth short stories. I'm not shure if theat's the name of the actual collection, but it has the letter from Adam, and letter from Eve

I really enjoy F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories because they deal with so many different subjects. I think his best collection would be Flappers and Philosophers

But I just discovered Mark...

Not to say that talking about grammar is irrelevant, but I have a hard time seeing any of the contemporary novels of the past 10 years living on as classics 50 years from now. Publishing houses are...

I couldn't believe they thought collections of short stories were to be considered novels--you'd think they'd know the difference.

And isn't Ian McEwan's Atonement a littl modern to be beating out...