Please nominate books for March here.
Please nominate books for March here.
IWilKikU here by nominates "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller. Please help him knock this one off of his "to read list".
...Also baby duck hat would be good for parties.
Oh I have that book..
Tried to read it, but never finished!!
How bout George Elliot's Silas Marner. I just bought it, though I don't know whether it is interesting or not.
Last edited by subterranean; 02-05-2004 at 10:36 PM.
I have read Catch 22- Ok for one reading, but I really don't want to read it again and certainly am not keen on discussing it- my funny vibes don't seem to be on the same wave length as that books'!
Silas Marner? Ok, I guess-
My two suggestions- Milan Kundera's Unberable Lightness of Being ( there might be a major objection to that being not all that easy to get)
Conrad's Lord Jim OR Heart of Darkness (I prefer the scond, but it might be a bit over discussed
I'm nobody, who are you?
Are you nobody too?
There's a pair of us, don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know!
How dreary to be somebody!
I had never heard of that Catch 22 thing before I found this forum...I'm actually curious about it.
The Milan Kundera thing is interesting too, it's famous and I want to see with my own eyes what's it all about, plus it's high time I read some Czech author...
(yeah very constructive post
dead on the inside, i've got nothing to prove
keep me alive and give me something to lose
I would do "Heart of Darkness". Its been sitting on my shelf collecting dust and I keep hearing how great it is.
...Also baby duck hat would be good for parties.
I never heard about the Kundera thing. Is it worth reading? If yes, I'll start hunting right away..
I'll still vote for 22. I have it already (so I don't have to look for it again) and I feel like reading it now! Beside it said that it's one of the best satirical work. Now, I think I never read about satirical stuff
The Observer said " The greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon? Anyone happened to know what/who is Erewhon?
Last edited by subterranean; 02-08-2004 at 10:28 PM.
how about me talk pretty one day by david sedaris? I hear it's pretty alright.
I'll join in if we read it.
Apparently it is a satirical work by Samuel Butler and Erewhon is an anagram of Nowhere.....Originally posted by subterranean
I never heard about the Kundera thing. Is it worth reading? If yes, I'll start hunting right away..
I'll still vote for 22. I have it already (so I don't have to look for it again) and I feel like reading it now! Beside it said that it's one of the best satirical work. Now, I think I never read about satirical stuff
The Observer said " The greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon? Anyone happened to know what/who is Erewhon?
oh, I see
Thanks
I would like Catch 22 as well. I´ve read it in swedish years ago, but it ´s always differnt to read the original version of a book. I really hope I´ll get time to read this month. I´ve missed all the books so far :-(.
"Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go" Blake
Heart Of Darkness is bloody great and as it is a novella, short - it is the perfect introduction to Conrad.
I'd go with Heart of Darkness too.
Ningún hombre llega a ser lo que es por lo que escribe, sino por lo que lee.
- Jorge Luis Borges
How about 1984?
Or how about the futurological congress by Stanislaw Lem?
Or how about a short storie, like the Bicentenial Man by Isaac Asimov?
---------------
Stanislaw Lem
1921 - 2006, Rest In Peace.
"Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible"
If a newbie may, Heart of Darkness is my choice.
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