eliot is a girl!!
:D
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eliot is a girl!!
:D
I read "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and her Heartless Grandmother" (in a volume that also contained several other short stories mainly centered around the idea of the evil sea and its terrible effect of people. The title story (of Erendira) was interesting up to a point but then got tiresome and boring; I find it's too stretched and... I don't know how to put this... maybe too poetic and vulgar at the same time? like a sort of fairytale for perverts :D (just my little opinion). A sick story anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psycheinaboat
Also, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" - my opinion: easy story, pervert ideas again :D nothing new, philosohpically and stylistically speaking. I was bored once again. Besides, I think I have a certain dislike for excessively weak characters. :p
I also heard opinions of people who have read "The Autumn of the Patriarch". They seemed to follow the same lines as my above-stated opinions.
Somebody who has read other G.G. Marquez book, please tell me: are all of them centered around sick ideas? are all of them gloomy, are all characters doomed?
I am however planning to read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" since that's the book who won him the Nobel prize and I'm curious to find out what's so special about it.
ps - pcockey, thank you :)
pps - hello, Nightshade :D
Hey :wave: Lightshade we are actually reading a G.G Marquez book this month "Love in time..." maybe you can join in?? :D
YAY Pratchett *waves a flag*
( the smilie supply line is down :bawling: )
PS Tal why do you call him Pterry??
:confused:
Hey, Nightshade :)
I've seen the November Book Club "assignment". I think I could manage to find the book and borrow it, but I don't really feel like reading another Marquez, thank you :D
Pterry is what his fans call Terry Pratchett. Starting from Pyramids, where everybody's name began with "Pt". And, as his last name begins with P and his first with a T.... I guess that was the idea.
ahh well you learn somthing every day :D :nod:
I'd like to read everyone except for Sienkiewicz :sick: Can I give him minus one point? We were tortured by him at school, I tell you :lol: (although I recommend Quo Vadis)
It is interesting that the usual authors are leading the poll. Are we not willing to try new authors out of our usual reading habits? Like...
Willa Cather
and
Faulkner
and
Ian McEwan
and
Hemingway
and
Angela Carter
and
Winterson
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Faulkner seems to be doing fine with 16 votes. That would make him 3rd or 4th?
...Sienkewicz!
His stuff is pretty cool!
And can be found on gutenberg :D which is pretty cool, considering that none of the public libraries around my neighbourhood are open either before or after I go to work... by some sadistic arrangement, they are open only while I am at work. And none of them is conveniently close to my office. I suspect some cosmic conspiracy against my literary education :p
Hey, Winterson got mentioned :D ... though... well, still better to have been mentioned than not at all ;) (thanks :))Quote:
Originally Posted by Scher
Though I agree... reading the classics all 2006 is soooo gonna get... boring and dull.
classics, smashics... lol, I have to/ had to read alot of this stuff in school for lit classes. :sick:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay
I think we need some fresh air, maybe vonnegut :D
Who nominate Tolstoy anwayz? http://www.websmileys.com/sm/evil/105.gif
I understand the need for classics, but some modern authors would be nice... Like Maguire and McEwan...
This is shaping up to be a longer year.