I discovered today that Hemingway wrote a book set in Africa and now I'm totally going to read True at First Light. I'm excited.
I discovered today that Hemingway wrote a book set in Africa and now I'm totally going to read True at First Light. I'm excited.
"Memory believes before knowing remembers."
--Faulkner
Not too sure of mine. Maybe Oscar Wilde or Nick Hornby. Their prose is so amazing.
moose_gurl, have you ever read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad? That's a tale set in Africa, about a steamer that goes up the Congo, and is also a parallel of going deep into the dark intricate jungle of the human heart.
It's an awesome novella.
Currently Reading:
The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Volume 1 - Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Song for Night - Chris Abani
Ian McEwan, Poe, Wilde, Dumas...
No I haven't. I've heard of it, but I never knew what it was about. Now, it's on the list.
Thanks.
Nick Hornby is a unique writer. I read A Long Way Down and gave it a 7/10. I love his movies--About a Boy and High Fidelity are both really good. I thought the book was good but at times uninspired. Really good character development, and very interesting story-telling approach. Light-hearted, yet profound.
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"Memory believes before knowing remembers."
--Faulkner
Oscar Wilde.
More to come soon.:
From my limited experience, E. E. 'Doc' Smith.
Dante and Milton. Currently, at least. Though, to the former at least, I seem to constantly return. Milton is a relatively new discovery in my life, on the other hand, whilst my connection with Dante goes back to my childhood.
HERMANN HESSE
Friedrich Nietzsche, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jack Kerouac, Marcel Proust, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, Henry Miller, and Arthur Rimbaud.
one of my favorite all-time writer:
Feodor Dostoevsky
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Is it me, or is the resemblance to Jack Nicholson, like, uncanny?
pretty much Joyce & Borges, not quite the limited world.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
-W.Blake
No Madame X, although there's a hint of Nicholson, check this out!!!!!Originally Posted by eyemaker
one of my favorite all-time writer:
Feodor Dostoevsky
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...%3Den%26sa%3DN
Separated at birth ot what?
(Just scrape Simm's hair back, or pull Dosty's forward...........)
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I say: William Faulkner.
the main idea with the books is that there are too many not worthy to be read.
Eleazar Famorcan in Health and Home and Christopher Marlowe because of Dr. Faustus...
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