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Thank you so much - I will absolutely look into Barry. Mudfoot, I've been given select chapters out of Culler's text too and it brought me the closest I have been up to this point at comprehending...

I usually experience this when characters make choices that reflect a complete lack of "forethought", or lack of in-depth consideration about how their decision will impact the future.

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"Structuralism" evades me. I'm a lit student (just about to enter the 'meat' of the degree this fall), and so far, in a few classes, we've discussed structuralism and have been assigned some readings...

I am barely familiar at all with Japanese writers, but recently read The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe, which I would absolutely recommend.

Female characters with strong presences and dark disturbances always make me feel erratic and self-sabotaging. Anna Karenina, or--another cheer for Dostoevsky--Nastasya Filippovna from The Idiot are...

I feel exactly the same, Rakthor. It's a pride issue for me.

I also can't bring myself to purchase the "movie" version of a book. For instance, I went online to order a pricey out-of-print, but...

Agreed. I wonder what credentials are generally required for book reviewers in newspapers/magazines--a self-proclaimed "interest in reading"? A 4-year degree, where a lit class or two was a...

Wow, what a wealth of knowledge in these forums. I join the OP in saying thanks for sharing all of this information! And Sebas. Melmoth, I have added Tom & Viv to my Netflix queue - thanks for...

Sheherazade, can you please let me know how the pacing works? (If there even is suggested pacing for everyone to follow) I have not participated in a group reading online before.

I honestly haven't come across too many authors who have given me this impression (not trying to cross your comment Mr Endon)... except maybe Nietzsche, but I find I don't especially hold that...

What did you think of The History of Love, Dark Muse? A friend of mine lent it to me, and secretly I have been snubbing it, because I am put-off by the title. (I know, I know... judging a book by its...

Wide Sargasso Sea is a great one... I was also thinking Wuthering Heights.

Very interesting, sixsmith. I was thinking more about this last night (before reading your post) and started thinking it might have something do with an author who has not yet found his or her voice,...

Ah, the unplacable qualities of a "true artist!"

I think you are on the money when you say it involves pure skill - I don't expect that we will come to any conclusive formula through this...

Nick - this is why I love Roger Ebert as a movie critic. An unexpected source of poetry (at times).

Take a sentimental passage or piece of writing for instance: some people fail miserably at capturing the reader's empathy or emotion, while others are quite moving and effective.

Obviously, this...

Oooh, very tricky indeed. I've always been in awe of how some authors have added such depths to names I previously regarded as boring, obvious, or even aversive (Jane/Jane Eyre, Anna/Anna Karenina,...

I always loved reading (my parents instilled that love by reading to me constantly as a baby/toddler/young child until I could do it myself) -- but Matilda was the one that pushed me into deeper...

Very interesting! I don't have any suggestions, leobloomsbury, as I have never read Henry Miller, but if you don't mind, I think you have also opened an interesting topic of discussion... I have only...

I'll join! This book has been sitting on my shelf for years, and I keep "meaning to read it" but never have.

I have never participated in a group-read before - any details to share on the...

Much is made of Rosemary's innocence and the fact that she is impressionable - she sees the Divers the way that they present themselves: as a glamorous, intoxicating, attractive couple. Once the...

Sorry, haven't read the book at all. Sometimes when I am trying to find the best translation, I'll look at reviews on Amazon.com. People sometimes comment on the particular translation.

P.S. I...

I have never read it either - sometimes if you look at reviews on Amazon.com, people will comment on the particular translation. This may require sifting through all the reviews for each listing they...

Sometimes they can be one and the same. :)

Lolita may be a perfect piece of writing, but it is genius. Madame Bovary is also profound.

For me, Gatsby is one example that I felt could have been...

I was wondering the same thing. I read a translation of Mme Bovary (which claimed to be a very excellent updated translation of Flaubert's language, though I don't have the name of the translator...