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    Madame de Sévigné's letters are great, yes. Shelley's are interesting, as are Jane Austen's.
  2. Thread: Gay Literature

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    'Be Near Me' by Andrew O'Hagan is about a priest...

    'Be Near Me' by Andrew O'Hagan is about a priest who finds himself attracted to one of his parishioners, a boy from a deprived background. Sensitive and haunting.
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    Among recent reads, I'd recommend Henry James's...

    Among recent reads, I'd recommend Henry James's 'An International Episode' --- don't know if it qualifies as a novella or is a short story, though. It's about a young American woman and a British...
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    What you say is interesting. But in order to do...

    What you say is interesting. But in order to do that (i.e. read that type of books so as to at least be able to say 'I did read it, and I hated it') one has to live in a place where such books are...
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    Spot on.

    Spot on.
  6. Thread: Peter Carey

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    I own 'Oscar and Lucinda' but haven't gotten...

    I own 'Oscar and Lucinda' but haven't gotten round to reading it yet. Looks interesting, though.
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    It is if one of the persons in question is...

    It is if one of the persons in question is killing him/herself out of unrequited love for the other. Apparently, the woman killed herself because she was terminally ill and didn't want to suffer the...
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    If the quotes are under copyright (i.e. have not...

    If the quotes are under copyright (i.e. have not passed into the public domain, usually due to a certain time having elapsed since the author's death), an attribution is not enough. You should...
  9. My own thoughts. Definitely a no-go.

    My own thoughts. Definitely a no-go.
  10. Well... I think it is completely unseemly for a...

    Well... I think it is completely unseemly for a judge to ask a litigant for copy to include in a ruling --- regardless of the merits of that litigant's case.
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    I read Jude Morgan's 'Passion' and loved it... I...

    I read Jude Morgan's 'Passion' and loved it... I also enjoyed a couple of Rosamund Pilcher books.
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    Heinrich von Kleist carried out a suicide pact...

    Heinrich von Kleist carried out a suicide pact with a woman friend (perhaps his lover) who had cancer. I don't know if he did it because he loved her and couldn't bear to lose her, or for some other...
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    Here are a few suggestions, many of which are...

    Here are a few suggestions, many of which are history books (I could go on and on...):

    A Venetian Affair, by Andrea di Robilant

    Footsteps, by Richard Holmes

    Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer
    ...
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    Unrequited passions --- that's easier than the...

    Unrequited passions --- that's easier than the happy marriages :)

    Philip Sidney's love for Penelope Devereux was, according to some rumours, unrequited. Others think that she returned his love ---...
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    I'm not so sure about Philip Sidney --- very...

    I'm not so sure about Philip Sidney --- very little is known about his feelings for his wife, who was Walsingham's daughter, and he died not long after his marriage... (But then again, very little is...
  16. Thread: Need help

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    Maybe you'd enjoy Salinger's 'Catcher in the...

    Maybe you'd enjoy Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye', or other coming-of-age novels with resourceful main characters.
  17. Only the other week, I went to see a performance...

    Only the other week, I went to see a performance of Calderón de la Barca's 'Life is a Dream', directed by the Spanish Calisto Beito. I just hated it. The actors delivered their lines so fast it was...
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    In 'Nights of Paris', an unreliable memoir...

    In 'Nights of Paris', an unreliable memoir written by Restif de la Bretonne (also French), there is a similar episode in which the prostitute, if I'm not mistaken, turns out to be a daughter. But...
  19. If you liked Dostoyevsky, why don't you try other...

    If you liked Dostoyevsky, why don't you try other Russian novelists? Turgenev, for example, or Tolstoy. They're all great. As my grandfather used to say: 'One always ends up going back to the...
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    Lispector's 'Near to the Wild Heart'

    I recently started reading this, the much-hyped first novel of the even-more-hyped Brazilian author (she wrote it in 1944, when she was 19 years old).

    A friend of mine joked that this should be...
  21. Thread: Need help

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    What kind of literature do you like? That would...

    What kind of literature do you like? That would help us in our recommendations.

    And don't feel troubled --- enjoy being 16, soon enough you'll be several decades older --- trust me :)
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    Charles Frazier's 'Cold Mountain' (beautiful...

    Charles Frazier's 'Cold Mountain' (beautiful depictions of landscape).
    John Clare's poetry (landscape, natural cycles, birds and other animals).
    Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Blithedale Romance' (a...
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    Albert Cohen's 'Belle du Seigneur' (translated, I...

    Albert Cohen's 'Belle du Seigneur' (translated, I think, as 'Her Lover').
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    1 What book/story most captured your imagination...

    1 What book/story most captured your imagination as a child?

    Many books and stories --- I loved Enid Blyton's books, for example.

    2 What book have you read the most amount of times?

    Don't...
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    Start with Larsson, by chucking it into the...

    Start with Larsson, by chucking it into the dustbin ;)
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