Mythology by Edith Hamilton
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Mythology by Edith Hamilton
E. M. Forster - Maurice
F. S. Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
D. H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
Cause it's a shame not owning them.
It was actually Germiane Greer's The Whole Women.
Heterosexual male feminism is not as rare as you may think.
Just bought Homer's Iliad translated by Richmond Lattimore (any good?) for 33p plus postage, really that is about equivalent to a Sunday newspaper.
Umberto Eco, The mysterious flame of Queen Loana, because I love everything he writes.
Soljenitsyne, Our young (novellas), ditto.
Nerval, Pandora, because I'd never seen that one around and it was cheap!
how do you know about this writer?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bitterfly
hes a brazilian guy
FANTASTIC NOVEL!!! One of my all-time favorites. I cannot praise it enough!Quote:
Originally Posted by Indicate
Erm, no, he's Italian. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by weltanschauung
And famous, at least in my parts of the world.
'Of Grammatology' by Derrida trans. by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak because it came in cheap and because it's worth keeping in the collection: even if i don't read it now at one go, i'll definitely go back to it innumerable times in the future.
The Octopus by Frank Norris, because I am interested in the influence of French naturalist literature on its American counterpart. I have recently finished McTeague by the same author ( fourth reading ) and it's my contention that anyone who claims to be fully up on American writing and hasn't read Norris, is deluding themselves.
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein.. i loved Lord of the Rings and i am a great fan of the Hobbits
i love Fiction , adventure books.. so i think readin it is wonderful...
am in the mid of the book & i can't stop readin it :-)
Ensaios radioativos, by Marcio-Andre.
He was a colleague, at school (university). We became friends. I like him, as a ... business man (him).
The book looks like interesting, by the way. I intend to read it on my hollidays, next month. I myself wrote some essays, some time ago, enough to compose two books, and sent to him, so as to know what he thought about, and until now he wishes to publish me, but neither he nor I have the money. He has enough "courage" to sell his own stuff. I don't intend to live of this.
I liked to buy his last two books, this one, and another one, intitled Intradoxos.
"Ensaios radioativos" mean "Radioactive essays". I might translate it into English, if he agreed ... I'll talk about it with him.
So ...
librarius
:crash:
"Ma i'm gettin meself a new mammy" by Martha Long.
I bought it for my mam because she loved her first book, "Ma, he sold me for a few cigerettes". I mean to read them too.
I have gone through Derrida several times and I could not comprehend the book for it is pretty hard to understand. Derrida is too hard like James Joyce. Most of us keep collections of such books but we hardly read and even if we read we can not complete.Quote:
Originally Posted by Epistemophile
We know they are great books and such books are recommended in our texts in colleges but we can not find them appealing except for the fact that we do read since we have so many referrals for reading such classics.
In my college I read Shakespeare and Milton, and of course some passages were interesting but some are very tough for me, and I read just for the sake of reading not for enjoyments.
So most classics fail as sources of enjoyments and there are a few books that can entertain and enlighten us.
I have been reading the Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid by a great Management Guru. This book is wonderful and writes about reaching out to the poor and encourage entrepreneurs, regulators and non government organizations to reach out to the poor and take the poor as not burdens but potential consumers and at the same time the book encourages to involve the poor in entrepreneurial skills and they can turn out to be capable individuals adding value the way capitalists do.
This is really a must-read book by C.K. Prahalad.
Revenge of the Lawn
In Watermelon Sugar
Abortion: A Love Story
Trout Fishing in America
All by Richard Brautigan (gone a bit mad!)