Fashion Beast - Alan Moore
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly (again, but this is the first time I picked up on the idea that Frankenstein is gay so it was a new experience for me)
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (I shot the albatross!)
Manfred - Lord Byron
Some Wordsworth
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake
Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake
Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
A Tangled Web, Emil Miller
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos
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Imagine all the things you might pick on if you read it for a third time!Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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It'll probably be completely different! It's so strange reading things a few years after you've read them the first time, when your personality and awareness is different. I remember reading it when I was a teenager and I had a bit of a crush on the doctor, but this time I found him selfish and self-deluded and couldn't stand him.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
The other day I was reading some of my old posts on the forum, and noticed that I said I couldn't stand Daniel Defoe. Now I'm writing an MA thesis on Daniel Defoe, I don't know what happened.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
Jeez, the last time I was here you were working on a genetics degree, no?
1. I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered my Mother, my Sister, and my Brother... -Edited by Michel Foucault
2. The Birth of the Clinic- Michel Foucault
I can't wait to finish Vanity Fair so I can move on to another novel... Pretty sure I've been working on it for two years now :s Pitiful.
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
He got his microbiology degree, Pip is the total package.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
If by that you mean someone who has spent far too much time in school, haha.
But, yes, I got my microbiology degree 4 years ago, I then managed to get a BA over that time period (semi part-time, and fulltime at the end), and now am doing my MA at McGill because the fellowship they offered me made it essentially free. I'm waiting to hear from SSHRC to find out if I'll have funding for next year, which would be nice.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
That's wicked. Congrats!
Love this! I'll never forget those verses:
"Why lookst thou so?"
With my crossbow
I shot the albatross
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I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
Wow! Hope you're not becoming affected by all of the above.
ay up
The Damned United by David Peace - A football novel based upon real people and events in the football league in 1970s England written in a stream of consciousness style with intercut flashbacks.
Snuff Terry Pratchett - Commander Vimes brings Goblin equality to the country.
Pure - An engineer from Normandy is commissioned by a French Minister to dig out and remove the bones and bodies that have built up and begun affecting the air in the cemetery of Les Innocents in 18th century Paris. (The site of modern day Les Halles).
Life and Fate by Vassily Grossmann. Grossman's epic, banned after it was written, has been compared to Tolstoy's War and Peace. I would agree that the novel, which spans the months during and after the fight for Stalingrad in WW2, is a brilliant depiction the life of soldiers, commisars, civilians, old Bolsheviks, Nazi commanders, prisoners and scientists. It details the lives, loves, characters, thoughts, flaws and pressures of living under Stalin's regime.
No Country For Old Men by Cormac Mccarthy. A bleak, violent but philosophical novel that challenges the effectiveness of the cowboy/ American icon of the self sufficient, capable and honourable man. The psychopath Chigurh survives the course of the novel with his bleak, nihilistic belief in predestination.
Haha, I'll absorb them all and become a nature-worshipping naturalistic rake or something. Since I've started my long poetry phase I do have a lot more cool phrases. That reminds me that I also read The Goblin Market, so now whevever I see someone scary looking in the city I've thought "we must not look at goblin men, we must not buy their fruit; who knows upon what soil they fed their hungry thirsty roots?"
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
I remember our english teacher reading us Goblin Market long ago - She read it really well and it made quite an impression, but haven't thought about it since then until I saw your post, Juniper. Just read it again, and to me now it doesn't seem that suitable for children!
Exit, pursued by a bear.
The Prophecy by S J Parris. 7/10
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. 6/10
The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus 7/10
The Persians by Aeschylus. 7/10
The Widows Secret by Brian Thompson. 7/10 (Book club choice)
Prometheus Bound. by Aeschylus
The Lost World. by Arthur Conan Doyle. 7/10
King John. By Shakespeare
The Voyage Out. By Virginia Woolf.
Posthomerica by Quintus of Smyrna. 7/10
Engleby. by Sebastian Faulks. 8/10
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ay up
8. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf. 7/10 I really liked Mrs Dalloway, but reading this was mostly a chore!My list so far -
1. White Teeth by Zadie Smith. 6.5/10 It was a good book, but I've forgotten what I wanted to say about it. Really should take notes.
2. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett. 9/10 Funny, tragic, endearing. Cannot imagine why people find it boring.
3. The Bostonians - Henry James 7/10 This was a really good reading experience. James is a genius!
4. A Room With a View - E M Forster (re-read) 6/10 I love E M forster, and this was a good book, though Howard's End and Passage to India were better.
5. Intruder in the Dust - William Faulkner. 7/10 Faulkner writes a murder mystery!And it's a good one. I felt it was a bit repetitive and could have been cut down to an even shorter novel, or I'd have given it a higher rating.
6. Major Barbara - George Bernard Shaw (re-read). 8/10 Shaw at his argumentative best.
7. Bridget Jones Edge of Reason - Helen Fielding. 6/10 Like its predecessor, an engaging, entertaining fun read.
Uh oh, I see I've given Forster's novel and Bridget Jones the same rating. Stupid ratings...I never seem to get them right!The first part was boring boring boring...middle - sudden shock and surprise and all became haunting and beautiful...then again boring boring boring till - whew...the End.
Exit, pursued by a bear.
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