The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker*
The Dead School by Patrick McCabe
Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde*
Dubliners by James Joyce*
Watt by Samuel Beckett
The Master by Colm Tóibín
Father’s Music by Dermot Bolger
The Tain as translated by Cairan Carson
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Originally Posted by Niamh
dont worry about it
You can get it on amazon anyway but...ce la vie! The majority has voted. I knew it wouldnt get selected anyway but what the heck it was worth the try!
The language wouldnt be hard. This translation was done for an overall reading group from independant readers to adults. Now the Thomas Kinsella translation even I have problems with!
It's not over yet!!!! There's still time!!!!!!!
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Yes, seven more votes and we can be reading The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in March!
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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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If we do "Dubliners" will we be discussing it story by story? Just want to prepare and curious to know how we will discuss the stories.
I mean this and not sarcarstic at all. Scher and Papayahed, you two always remind me of news commentators or talk-room hosts at the end of our voting session. You really make me smile and chuckle with your 'hopeful' tallies...and your 'it is never too late's'
Last edited by Janine; 02-27-2008 at 10:56 PM.
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
On that note...I mean this and not sarcarstic at all. Scher and Papayahed, you two always remind me of news commentators or talk-room hosts at the end of our voting session. You really make me smile and chuckle with your 'hopeful' tallies...and your 'it is never too late's'
Going once... You can still vote and every vote matters, folks!
Janine> I don't think we will be discussing Dubliners story by story as not everyone will be able to follow a strict reading-programme. We will, as always, post our comments as and when they happen, I think.
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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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there is still time to sway the voting, Scher!
Last edited by Janine; 02-28-2008 at 06:18 PM.
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
yeah but two of the people that voted for Dubliners dont have 50 posts or more clocked... so really.. it only needs two...
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
Going twice...
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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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The Tain
The Tain
The Tain
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Going on twice some more...
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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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I've ordered Dubliners now, and will probably get it sometime next week.
Very happy to see that the board's membership has reached a consensus on Dubliners.
This decision is especially good for me because I started to read the book years ago when (uh!) I had a problem with amnesia! I had many good notes on the book's margins and was clearly enjoying my reading. But the problem is, I forgot the whole darn thing! I could not remember reading the book or any part of its contents!!!
Hopefully, all that is over now and I will be able to have lasting enjoyment of the book.
And speaking of this fine gem of a volume, literary historians have said it is a moraility tale of modern life. It reflects the universal experience in the form of an individual's experience. Each character may have an epiphany of some kind after some form of emotional or personal paralysis. To me, it reads like a modern day melodrama - what happened back then is the same as happens today in NYC or elsewhere. Thus, most of us can readily identify with its characters, settings, and experiences.
Enjoy!
Aww, and I was hiking in the Cooleys only a few weeks ago! Still, only being a newbie, I couldn't have swayed the vote.
you can still read it. Some of us are so...
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
Woohoo! I finished Dubliners at the start of this year so I'll be able to join in too!
I enjoyed it muchly.
I'm saying hello to all by the fairie pool. I am just a wee infant in this forum and i chose you to be my first contact. Are you by a fairie pool in the great emerald isle ? Could you be a bit more specific ?
Thanks from Gavaroche
in the Buckeye state
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