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i found the iliad (trans: lattimore) to be very dense and a bit tedious at times, but it was worth it. it provided me with perspective to literature as a whole.

i was wondering if anyone had thoughts on what qualities make a book 'good' or 'well written'. today, the best seller lists are full of books that many consider poorly written pap. john grisham, tom...

Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored - Richard Cole
(Zepplin once tried to see if a VW bug would float in the ocean. The band almost drowned.)

Never Fade Away: The Kurt Cobain Story - Dave...

it is he.

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Huxley,+Aldous

i'm hesitant to post a topic about this book on a literature website, but i'm curious to see if anyone has read the "Left Behind" series, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. I've read a few books of the...

to think that a character in a work of fiction is automatically a sign of the author's racist beliefs is pretty ignorant, frankly.

i've heard some good things about ayn rand, but more troubling are the criticisms i hear repeated over and over by her readers. flat, unrealistic characters slogging through bloated and pretentious...

this is just a shot in the dark, but that statement could be applied to Jack Kerouac, the "beat generation's Kurt Cobain".

heh, i guess you could call it capricious youth.

good luck. chapter 3 was all i could handle.

your point of view is...interesting. i think the eyes on the billboard symbolize the fading of God's power in the modern world. Whereas God was once a domineering influence in everyday life,...

the great gatsby is, in my opinion, the best american novel. one thing that comes to mind is the giant eyes that fitzgerald mentions on the billboard (between west and east egg, i think). the eyes...

I think "Fear and Loathing" is more of a cult classic, or a time piece than a full-blown classic. I myself consider a classic to be a work whose themes readers can relate to decades later....