Well I haven't had much time to read anything but stuff for school, so this is what I have read the past month
The Great Gatsby
Winseburg, Ohio
The Sun Also Rises
Well I haven't had much time to read anything but stuff for school, so this is what I have read the past month
The Great Gatsby
Winseburg, Ohio
The Sun Also Rises
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Haven't read much this month, some Flanery O'Connor short stories, Eureka Street by Robert Mcliam Wilson, a collection of T. S. Eliot poetry and I'm currently reading Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace.
"And the worms, they will climb
The rugged ladder of your spine"
V by Thomas Pynchon
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
and i started Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
All very good.
[QUOTE=Dark Muse;635679]Well I haven't had much time to read anything but stuff for school
Me to and it is not that exciting. I hd my exam yesterday so I am now free until February 2009
man, everyone's so fast at reading except me, now. I'm still reading "Les Miserables" and "The Theban Plays," although I did finish rereading "Macbeth."
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
1.Duino Elegies- Rilke
2.Cuttlefish bones- Montale
3.Letters to Classical Authors- Petrarch
4.The Secret of Petrarch- roughly half
5.Ibis- Ovid
6.Argonautika- Apollonius Rhodius
7.True Story- Lucian
8.The Lottery in Babylon- Borges
9.The Lusiad Book I- Camoes
10.Batman: The Killing Joke- Alan Moore
11.The Suppliant Maidens- Aeschylus
12.Persians- Aeschylus
13.Battle of the Frogs and Mice- Unknown
"So-Crates: The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing." "That's us, dude!"- Bill and Ted
"This ain't over."- Charles Bronson
Feed the Hungry!
For my university course, I read:
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
All Quiet on the Orient Express, Magnus Mills
Walden, Henry David-Thoreau
S.C.U.M. Manifesto, Valerie Solanas
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes, Billy Collins.
Which only left time for Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut for casual reading.
Shaun
This is not an exit.
Some of you guys must not sleep, i'm unemployed and i can't read that much.
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
Snabba Cash - Jens Lapidus
The Moomins and the Great Flood - Tove Jansson
The Lollipop Shoes - Joanne Harris
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
Fanny, Erica Jong, halfway through
about 100 pages from the middle of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (re-read)
critical analysis + textbooks
yeah I agree w/ tallon. I'm a slow reader however T_T
Leaves of Grass - Whitman
Wormwood - Corelli
Therese Raquin - Zola
Basic Writings of Nietzsche - not all
Some early Rand as well as ww2 american lit
Hey Mark, how is Brief Interviews with Hideous Men? I've always been curious but I've yet to check it out, but it has always intrigued me.
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Timbuktu - Paul Auster
Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
plus bits and bobs of poetry, mainly Ted Hughes but also some Pablo Neruda and Lorca.
Last edited by TheFifthElement; 11-04-2008 at 07:02 AM.
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“The tin drum” – Guenter Grass
“Northanger Abbey” – Jane Austen
“The orange girl” – Jostein Gaarder
“The hunchback of Notre Dame” – Victor Hugo
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
LOVE AUSTER, how you finding him? Not read Timbuktu - heard its a dog! Loved new york trilogy and the music of chance.Originally Posted by TheFifthElement
This past month I've been reading/rereading
1. Great expectations - our beloved DIckens, r.i.p
2 Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
We can never know what to want, because living only one life we can neither compare it with our previous lives, nor perfect it in our lives to come'
Milan Kundera,The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Parce que c'est toi, parce que c'est moi
I love Auster too! So far I've read the one's mentioned plus Travels in the Scriptorium and The Brooklyn Follies and I have The Book of Illusions waiting in my 'to read' pile. I really enjoyed Timbuktu, and yes it's about a dog "Mr Bones" beloved pet of Willy G Christmas. So far the only one I've been a bit disappointed with was Mr Vertigo, though it is very well written and an interesting story. So far The New York Trilogy has been my favourite - definitely a re-read.
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