Uh-huh. But they're tolerable, especially when you get to the last words of the last sentences.Originally Posted by Admin
No seriously, Dostoyevsky couldn't have done without Raskolnikoff having a deranged mindset. It wouldn't be an adventurous one.
"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's" - Dostoevksy
I don't have a favorite book. I like lots of books but I can't seem to find a "favorite", I just realized.
"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's" - Dostoevksy
Perhaps ''A dreamer's tales and other stories'' by Lord Dunsany
I too would find it difficult to name an absolute favourite, but one book I often read and re-read is The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter - there's something about it I can't quite put my finger on, but I love it and enjoy it every time I read it.
Ulysses by Joyce, with The Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson in 2nd.
"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth." - Plato, Attributed
"Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
If I had to pick one, I suppose it would be Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, by Valdimir Nabokov. But really, who wants to pick just one?
"...for by your words you will be justified, and by your words will you be condemned."
Choosing just one I find is kind of limiting, but my top favorites are *drum roll*
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (an ultimate classic, gothic but not ridiculously so, characters that I believe I'll always remember and feel for) I cry every time on the part when Helen dies.
Désirée by Annemarie Selinko. Best historical "romance" period. I weird favorite I guess. I borrowed my mom's early edition of it and it immediately became a favorite of mine.
"The elements themselves do not endure;
Examine how they change and learn from me...
Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old
Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly
Contrives. In all creation, trust me,
There is no death -- no death, but only change
And innovation; what we men call birth
Is but a different new beginning; death
Is but to cease to be the same..."
--Ovid, Metamorphosis
The Little Prince....Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It was The Count of Monte Cristo. I loved the journary of Dantes and how at the last minute he was able to pull back enough to save himself. Now though I have picked up East of Eden and The Count has been knocked off from first place. The truths that John Steinbeck has captured in East of Eden are just incrediable. I am now sold on John Steinbeck and will be reading him for awhile. Eighth grade English and reading The Pearl unfornately kept me away from this brillant writer.
One of my favorite books is "Uncle Tom's Cabin." It really opens your eye to slavery and oppression. It makes you appreciate the importance of freedom for all mankind, and the work that still needs to be done.
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I have so many - but off the top of my head I'd say Notes From Underground, To Kill a Mockingbird and Christ Stopped at Eboli. What a horribly hard question though!
One biggie I have never managed to get on with though is Joyce: I can only take so many metaphors and my mind starts wandering... ditto some of Woolf. Ulysses and The Waves are both gathering dust on my bookshelf...
I also would have to say The Count of Monte Cristo. It's been a couple of years since I last read it, but I remember thinking, wow, I wish all classic books were this much fun to read. I sailed through it so quickly, I should go back and read it again.
Natasha-so many books, so little time
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I am looking forward to sharing information with all of you, and all you sharing with me. I have Les Miserables in two volumes, printed by T. Nelson & Sons, Ltd. They were printed in Great Britain before
1924. If you know who the interpreter was, please let me know.
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