https://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?32303-title The largest classic literature discussion forum on the Internet. Read Write Teach Share. en Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:36:19 GMT vBulletin 10 https://www.online-literature.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg https://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?32303-title https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5756-B*L*O*G Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:14:54 GMT it's official i will do this crap starting on tuesday. i'm recovering from my illness and right now tropical storm Frank is creating havok here.

Done:
[I]Daisy Miller[/I]

To Read:
[I]Washington Square
The Portrait of a Lady
The Spoils of Poynton
What Maisie Knew
The Turn of the Screw
The Wings of the Dove
The Beast in the Jungle
The Ambassadors
The Golden Bowl
The Jolly Corner [/I] ]]> Sir Bartholomew https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5756-B*L*O*G https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5695-B*L*O*G Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:18:37 GMT ok these two priests' adventures and misadventures are making my day bright. i'm only half way on this second read and i'm sure this will be on my definitive list. (look at my top five novels to the left to the left) it's already up there and the list will grow and change as time goes by. why i like it... it's simple and direct, and i like the way the author describes her setting. as a catholic this one's also a plus :p ]]> Sir Bartholomew https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5695-B*L*O*G https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5677-B*L*O*G Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:31:51 GMT i'm calling my control freakishness its quits. no more schedules! i am going to choose the book to read as to my fancy. i chose this book from willa cather because even though i liked it i believe that i didn't give it any justice - i read it in a single reading. now i am going to read it one chapter at a time. so good riddance you bore! ]]> Sir Bartholomew https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5677-B*L*O*G https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5652-B*L*O*G Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:13:57 GMT if any album can draw out the strongest of emotions from me it would be Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys. i never pay close attention to lyrics, except... if any album can draw out the strongest of emotions from me it would be Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys. i never pay close attention to lyrics, except in this case. it's a concept album ala buldisngroman; from the sunny "Wouldn't It Be Nice" to the cynical "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times". the melodies are superb and the Beach Boys showed here that they can sing better than "Kokomo"; the composition is odd but i got used to it. my favorite song would be the last one "Caroline, No".

[IMG]http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd500/d550/d550667n708.jpg[/IMG] ]]> Sir Bartholomew https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5652-B*L*O*G https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5630-B*L*O*G Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:59:01 GMT i have a story behind this. i was a sickly child and about twice a week i had to be sent to the doctor to have my shots. my brother told me my... i have a story behind this. i was a sickly child and about twice a week i had to be sent to the doctor to have my shots. my brother told me my behaviour in the clinic. he told me that i had this habit of cursing at the doctor's face a crunchy "PUTA!" expelled from the top of my lungs. what does this have to do with [I]The Good, the Bad & the Ugly[/I]? remember that scene where Blondie drops and leaves Tuco alone in the desert, Tuco shouts in front of the camera "PUTA!". Now, my father, every Sunday watches [I]The Good, the Bad & the Ugly[/I] while me and my brother play with our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. i never thought that i'd hold this as one of my favourites and that each and every scene were stuck in my sunbconsciousness since i was five. anyway this also plays a parable on how my friendship with Dr Richard and Lord Irwin works. Dr Richard is the goody two shoe backstabbing Blondie, i'm the ever lean and mean Angel Eyes, while Lord Irwin is the slightly neurotic Tuco.

[B]Advice: watch this using the original italian mono audio track.[/B]

[IMG]http://image.allmusic.com/00/adg/cov200/drt000/t003/t00363bqdoa.jpg[/IMG] ]]> Sir Bartholomew https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5630-B*L*O*G https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5629-B*L*O*G Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:44:34 GMT another jazzy treat i picked three years ago from the Rolling Stone Top 500, this one, unlike Davis' Kind of Blue, is an exhilirating journey of one's reflection on his life. Divided into four parts Acknowledgement, Resolution, Pursuance & Psalm, this is the one to listen to an early Sunday morning if you're too lazy to go to church and repent on your sins :D .

[B]warning: pumped-up jazz session[/B]

[IMG]http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f617/f61733zr6cw.jpg[/IMG] ]]> Sir Bartholomew https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5629-B*L*O*G https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5603-B*L*O*G Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:13:54 GMT saw this listed in Rolling Stone Top 500, said it was the definitive jazz album. cool, calm and sophisticated this is the one to listen to if you're stressed out.

[IMG]http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc900/c903/c90369l6uc6.jpg[/IMG] ]]> Sir Bartholomew https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5603-B*L*O*G https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5590-B*L*O*G Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:14:23 GMT never went crazy over it the first time i saw it on the theater. now i have to watch it at least once a week. must admit one of the most overrated... never went crazy over it the first time i saw it on the theater. now i have to watch it at least once a week. must admit one of the most overrated movies in 2003, critics applauded it, and people were expecting a "groundbreaking" film, a main reason why the general public hated it. but i hold it as one of those gems. a great movie that understands how it is to be lonely and out of place.

[IMG]http://image.allmusic.com/00/adg/cov200/drt400/t400/t40050rfege.jpg[/IMG] ]]> Sir Bartholomew https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5590-B*L*O*G https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5582-B*L*O*G Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:35:03 GMT A couple of months ago I ventured on my 3rd Jane Austen Marathon, and after that decided to give this task a long break, for I had my plans to read... A couple of months ago I ventured on my 3rd Jane Austen Marathon, and after that decided to give this task a long break, for I had my plans to read her novels ten times. With this I am also on my 2nd year trying to finish the Modern Library Top 100 list, hoping to read each title twice, now I am on my first run with 66 titles down. Aside from my reading I am extremely busy with my constitutional. Now I am reading Henry James' [I]the Beast in the Jungle[/I] and to what effect I can't comprehend I suddenly had this strong itch to read his books I own in my shelf. A Jane Austen Marathon is silly but a Henry James Marathon is suicide. I know I know, but my mouth is watering. I am leaving this task for speculation till the 10th of June and then I will decide if I'll do it or not. Need your help! This is my list:

[I]Daisy Miller
Washington Square
The Portrait of a Lady
The Turn of the Screw
The Wings of the Dove
The Beast in the Jungle
The Ambassadors
The Golden Bowl
The Jolly Corner[/I] ]]> Sir Bartholomew https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5582-B*L*O*G https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5531-B*L*O*G Tue, 27 May 2008 02:17:59 GMT shot in film, without artificial lights, then transferred to video and then transferred back to 35mm, Breaking the Waves achieved that "visceral" look like no other film can. it won the 2nd top honor in the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, while Emily Watson in the lead role had an Oscar nod for Best Actress. i saw this with my friends and we were glued to our seats, mesmerized by Watson's performance. the director, Lars von Trier, meanwhile, doesn't let things go that easily as he ends the movie enough for us to scratch our temples.

[IMG]http://image.allmusic.com/00/adg/cov200/drt000/t062/t06258kly47.jpg[/IMG] ]]> Sir Bartholomew https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5531-B*L*O*G https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5518-B*L*O*G Sat, 24 May 2008 23:38:26 GMT lyrical and unpredictable Hiroshima Mon Amour is a movie Virginia Woolf would have been proud of. it is stream of consciousness right before your... lyrical and unpredictable Hiroshima Mon Amour is a movie Virginia Woolf would have been proud of. it is stream of consciousness right before your eyes. the film starts off with entwined limbs covered with ashes, then abruptly cuts to a series of vignettes similar to Citizen Kane's "News on March". This scene is followed by the proper story where a French actress shoots a "peace" film in Hiroshima while her Japanese lover follows her. Their affair is intercut with flashbacks as the French actress tries to save her slowly fading memories. Hiroshima Mon Amour was released in the late 1950s, it received wide acclaim though it's pretty much forgotten now. French director Alain Resnais directed it, while the poetic screenplay was written by Marguerite Duras.

[IMG]http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReview/hiroshima/cov.jpg[/IMG] ]]> Sir Bartholomew https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5518-B*L*O*G https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5456-B*L*O*G Tue, 20 May 2008 01:03:32 GMT This is, by far, the most skillfully blended movie I've seen, as far as photography, lighting, music, decor and costume goes. This is the ultimate sensory trip. Winner of Best Actor and the Gran Prix Technical awards in the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, watching this makes you ask "why don't they make more like this?" Set in 1960s Hong Kong the plot is basic, two couples and yadi yadi yah! But this isn't about why he's soandso and if she really loved him and whatever; it's about everytime that odd waltz song, or a Nat King Cole in espanol, is playing in the background while the camera pans slowly on a woman's curves. Shot claustrophobically in tight hallways, you can't help looking at it with wonder.

[IMG]http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare/inthemoodforlove/cri-cov.jpg[/IMG] ]]> Sir Bartholomew https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5456-B*L*O*G https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5455-B*L*O*G Mon, 19 May 2008 23:58:43 GMT ok folks sorry to bore you but this is how i read. call me a control freak, but that's fine. :lol:

first i have to estimate the total number of words in a book. and this is achieved by multiplying the total number of pages (P) X average number of words in a horizontal line (HW) X the total number of vertical words (VW).

to get the average number of words in the horizontal words in a horizontal line choose four full horizontal lines and then divide them by four.

thus, for example, in Master and Margarita (Penguin Red Classics 2006 Edition) you'll get PXHWXVW = 560X9X32.

now to get your pages per hour (P/H) you must have your own estimated words per hour (WPH) and mine is 5600. formula is P/H = 5600 / HW*VW. so thus P/H = 5600 / 9*32, and the answer would be somewhere in 20. that means every hour I should finish 20 pages. i appointed myself to read three hours a day so that would be 60 pages a day. so in Master & Margarita, i can finish it for about 28 hours by counting number of pages (560) divided by pages per day (20). so it's roughly about ten days till i finish Master & Margarita. ]]> Sir Bartholomew https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5455-B*L*O*G https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5428-B*L*O*G Fri, 16 May 2008 23:58:52 GMT so i just finished last [I]The Secret Agent[/I], though i liked it better than [I]Heart of Darkness[/I] and [I]Lord Jim[/I] i find it a hard time to get comfortable with Joseph Conrad. Next book will be Master & Margarita. somewhere in the forum, there's this discussion about the "best 150 novels", a compilation of lists from Modern Library and two others. i am doing the Modern Library and no, i'm fine by not adding another 50. :p [I]The Secret Agent[/I] happens to be the 66th novel I've read from that list, a project which i started early last year. i had fun, though it slowed down drastically since December 2007. there were terrible ones but most inpired me to read and discover more. strange though my favourites happens to be from the final end of the list: [I]The Sheltering Sky [/I]and [I]Wide Sargasso Sea[/I] are ranked in the line of 90. ]]> Sir Bartholomew https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5428-B*L*O*G https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5407-B*L*O*G Wed, 14 May 2008 01:18:55 GMT okay i've been reading these two books from Linda Goodman and they're titled Sun Signs and Love Signs. i like her approach as it doesn't take astrology that seriously. i love it when people say they don't believe in this sh-- but look at what happened in my copy of Sun Signs - all raggy taggy and torn to bits. It shows how most people are eager to read about themselves and hear what they always wanted to hear. I'll be hiding my Love Signs behind my shelf just in case.

Sun Signs is a great introduction to those who are curious about astrology but aren't that interested in the technicalities. Goodman enumerates the 12 zodiac signs and divided each through: an overview, male, female, child, boss and employee. I was born under Cancer and the book was surprisingly accurate except for one: money matters. Unlike the typical Cancerian I enjoy wasting money, on myself. I had my other planets "read" and found out that I have a moon in Aquarius and my rising sun was in Leo. So that's why I lose my temper that quickly. I also had fun evaluating my friends and relatives. So that's why father hates being contradicted because he's a Leo. My mother is a brutal talker/nagger because she's a Sagittarius. Lord Irwin never listens to my advice because he's an Aquarius. Dr Dick is a social climber because he's a Capricorn. Lady Magalpok always smells nice because she's a Taurus. Master Pogi always looks at the looking glass because he's a Virgo. My dog Kim is a party b---- because she's a Libra. My brother can't decide quickly because he's also a Libra. The purpose of the book is to help you understand people better, but you can also use it to find what's the best way to infuriate a Scorpio.

Aside from compatibilities in Love Signs I also learned how the Karmic Wheel of the zodiac signs works and how two signs are matched. There are patterns to follow on how an Aries will treat other signs. If you would study the temperaments of the zodiac you'd notice an order. Aries the first sign symbolizes birth and infant: impudent, rash, brash and noisy. Then follows Taurus, the baby, all cuddly and indulgent security hungry folks. Next is Gemini, the child, active, playful and loving words for the first time. Then my sign Cancer, the adolescent (how sad), unpredictable, moody, and, like Taurus, security hungry. And so it goes. It's like a pattern of life. It all ends with Pisces the sign of death, resignation and humility. Then it's all back to Aries the sign of birth. It's all cool stuff. ]]> Sir Bartholomew https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?5407-B*L*O*G