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Post by stentorsrevenge on Jun 4, 2007 22:44:00 GMT
Since this is a new trend, I thought I would join in. I'm a trend-joiner today.
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Post by 0-0 on Jun 4, 2007 22:55:54 GMT
There was no trend, we had merely gone on a bit much in a completely unrelated thread, which I felt was unfair, since it may prevent people whining about what had actually gone wrong during their day rather than a full-scale debate over books.
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Post by blake on Jun 4, 2007 23:17:15 GMT
I love Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway is my favourite, and I've also read The Waves and Orlando, but shockingly never To The Lighthouse.
I love modernist writers, pretentious tosswank that I am.
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Post by stentorsrevenge on Jun 4, 2007 23:19:06 GMT
I love Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway is my favourite, and I've also read The Waves and Orlando, but shockingly never To The Lighthouse. I love modernist writers, pretentious tosswank that I am. So do I, hah. I haven't gotten to read Mrs. Dalloway yet, but I bought it, and I'll be sure to read that one before the others since you liked it more. Apparently the movie "The Hours" is based off of Mrs. Dalloway, but I haven't seen it either.
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Post by blake on Jun 4, 2007 23:28:01 GMT
That film is quite good.
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Post by lltoastll on Jun 5, 2007 5:08:36 GMT
I, too, love Virginia Woolf, and To The Lighthouse is one of my favourites by her, but A Room of One's Own wins all!
And I have a non-sexual crush on her but it happens with a lot of dead literary/revolutionary figures.
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Post by Mellifluous Poetry on Jun 5, 2007 5:56:04 GMT
Just the other day I promised myself this summer I'm gonna read both To the Lighthouse and Room of One's Own. I might as well wait till I'm in England to buy them though, because I don't want to read them as translations.
I have a crush on her character in The Hours, which, anyhow, might be baaaadly influenced by the fact that she's being played by Nicole Kidman with a cooler than cool fake nose. Rawwwwrrrrr.
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Post by BoyHeroine on Jun 5, 2007 6:39:24 GMT
I've had to read Mrs Dalloway and To The Lighthouse for my Modernist Fiction course, and really enjoy them both, i really like the aesthetics of her work and the fullness of her characters. Im not sure what to read of hers next, but im sure i'll try something else for fun over the summer.
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Post by tombland on Jun 5, 2007 8:21:29 GMT
To The Lighthouse actually makes me want to cry with boredom. I seriously can't stand it...
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Post by BoyHeroine on Jun 5, 2007 8:24:39 GMT
I think its the fact that i had to look at the influences on the text and the sturcture itself that interested me in the book, although i thought the charcater of Mrs Ramsay was written really well, she seemed so real. To be honest though, i feel like im much more interested in Woolf herself then her books, and although its stupid to seperate her from her work, im more likely to read a biography of her next rather than a book of hers, although im sure ill do both.
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Post by admin on Jun 5, 2007 8:35:06 GMT
The greatest lie ever told. As for Virginia Woolf, I like her non-fiction - A Room of One's Own and her diaries are interesting - but her fiction is the most insufferable lot of wank I've ever had the misfortune of reading. Apologies! Cheerio, Michael. xxx
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Post by stentorsrevenge on Jun 5, 2007 11:49:05 GMT
The greatest lie ever told. As for Virginia Woolf, I like her non-fiction - A Room of One's Own and her diaries are interesting - but her fiction is the most insufferable lot of wank I've ever had the misfortune of reading. Apologies! Cheerio, Michael. xxx Haha, Michael, we love you.
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Post by mimicry on Jun 5, 2007 14:55:10 GMT
I've been told to read A Room of One's Own because apparently I'll agree with a lot of it... because I like the Brontës more than Austen?
I'm reading To the Lighthouse right now. I couldn't get into it at first. She uses so many commas, and her pronouns can be so unclear. I once had to read a paragraph at least three times to get what she was saying and then I realized that that paragraph was one whole sentence.
But I got past some of the first parts and I'm really starting to get into it. We shall see.
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Post by hark on Jun 5, 2007 16:54:34 GMT
I have it on my book shelf (Guilt factor: I stole it from my school library since I was the first person to ever take it out in the 20 years it had ever been there). I tried reading it, but I have a ridiculously short attention span, and had to read sentences about 30 times before I absorbed them. And by the time I'd finished that, I had forgotten what had happened on the previous page.
Stream of consciousness - Not for the MTV Generation.
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Post by blake on Jun 5, 2007 16:58:03 GMT
I stole the complete works of William Blake from my old college library just because I left the college and the daft burks never even asked for it back..
Actually during my shoplifting days, my favourite thing to nick was books, my copies of On The Road, Allen Ginsberg's Selected Poems, Nietzsche's Just Spoke Zarathustra, The Catcher In The Rye, The Outsider and Ulysses where all pinched from Whsmiths when I was 15/16.. but kids it's not big, not clever.
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Post by hark on Jun 5, 2007 16:59:18 GMT
I tried reading Ulysses when I was 13.
Hahhahahhahaha.
PS: don't steal from libraries! it's not cool.
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Post by blake on Jun 5, 2007 17:08:02 GMT
I tried reading Ulysses when I was 13. Hahhahahhahaha. PS: don't steal from libraries! it's not cool. But stealing from nasty corporations like Whsmiths is totally cool. Seriously I hate those corporations their always being so damn corporationy! (this may be an exclusive first glimpse of the lyrics for Patrick's new album)
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Post by Daniellalala on Jun 5, 2007 17:08:57 GMT
I discovered Patrick through this book, I was researching some Alevel coursework on the book and came across the song. TTL is one of my favourite all time books, I love it so much I could cry and I am now stupidly obsessed ith Virginia Woolf. My mum, being an english teacher is too, we are going to Cornwall and staying where she stayed and then visiting the lighthouse! I read A Room of One's Own before Reading TTL plus a few books about her, helped me get straight into the book, I don't think I would have been able to get into it so easily without reading a bit about her first. oh and as for The Hours and Nicole Kidman's nose. Ugh, shitshitshitshit.
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Post by hark on Jun 5, 2007 17:11:05 GMT
I thought your post said you were going to Cornwall with your English Teacher and I was all like, "NOOO! DON'T DO IT!"
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Post by Daniellalala on Jun 5, 2007 17:12:57 GMT
haha noo mother/daughter geek bonding! Though my Alevel group did decide to go to Jane Austen's house with our English teacher - she was damn cool
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