Reply to the post about Henry James' books...........
Just finished "Portrait of a Lady". Same type of "dense" verbiage but worth the effort. Have you seen the movie version of Washington Square, The Heiress? Also worth seeing, both are period pieces, well done. KDM
Max Havelaar (Multatuli)
Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories (Herman Melville)
Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)
Rites of Passage (William Golding)
Fugitive Pieces (Anne Michaels)
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Currently reading: The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Heinrich Böll)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Just received The Iliad in the Richmond Lattimore translation today. It's the large hardcover tome with Leonard Baskin illustrations. A fantastic translation and book wrapped into one!
I stopped by Half Price Books-my favorite book store-and got, in this order: CBGB, Decades of Graffiti; Identify and Draw North American Birds, A Field Guide for the Artist and Naturalist; Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Maybe I will actually learn to draw-I am at once hopeful and skeptical); and last, but certainly not least, On Writing, A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King and Bird by Bird, Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott. I am very excited. I love bookstores!
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
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Originally Posted by Vota
What do you know! I'm reading RotTK right now. What translation did you get? I'm reading the Moss Roberts, and I'm finding it pretty heavy going.
I would recommend Tyler's translation of The Tale of Genji, if you're curious about Eastern literature.
I have a nice, 2 volume hardcover edition in slipcase of The Tale of Genji. It's the Edward G. Seidensticker, which I had seen recommended by Harold Bloom for it's faithful, if dryer translation.
It's amusing when I think about my Eastern literature exposure; I've read many books about martial arts, philosophy, the Tao, Chi etc, but no actual literature per se.
I think you're in safe hands with the Seidensticker translation. I haven't read his Genji, but I did read his Snow Country, and that was fantastic.
Stopped by the book store to find a gift for my mom's birthday when I saw Nineteen Eighty-Four. I have heard about it so I decided to buy it to start reading soon.
Without any form of punctuation, our language would not say "I'm perfect"; it would say "imperfect".
"Access to works of art cannot be defined solely in terms of physical accessibility, since works of art exist only for those who have the means of understanding them."
The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
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Currently reading: Max Havelaar (Multatuli)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Snowman (Christmas present for a friends little boy)
READING-An Essay by Hugh Walpole, a small and quaint old hardcover book from 1927, about, well, reading; the book is not about reading criticism though, rather, the joy of reading.
Hawksmoor (Peter Ackroyd)
On the Black Hill (Bruce Chatwin)
Slow Man (J.M. Coetzee)
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
Burmese Days (George Orwell)
La Leçon d'Allemand (Siegfried Lenz)
Melmoth the Wanderer (Charles Maturin)
Like Life (Lorrie Moore)
Them (Joyce Carol Oates)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
I just bought Kafka The Trial
Why?
It's simply I have heard so much about him that I wanted to read his work. And The Trial caught my eyes.
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I’ve bought a couple of books yesterday, Madame Bovary and Tender is the Night, looking forward to read both.
The Best American Short Stories (Tobias Wolff, ed.)
Parade's End (Ford Madox Ford)
Platform (Michel Houellebecq)
March (Geraldine Brooks)
The Debriefing (Robert Littell)
Gargantua & Pantagruel (François Rabelais)
Mémoires d'Hadrien (Marguerite Yourcenar)
Classic English Short Stories (Derek Hudson, ed.)
How to Raise a Gentleman (Kay West)
Waterland (Graham Swift)
The Magus (John Fowles)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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