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Post by Rhiflect on Jan 31, 2010 23:17:24 GMT
Oh that sounds fun, Florence!
I am reading something not very good, but I don't know if it will get better.
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Post by wanderer on Feb 12, 2010 11:06:58 GMT
…and mind breaths by Allen Ginsberg, who i'm really not sure what to make of. Go for it! Ginsberg is an amazing writer if you’re into craziness and passion (like me) He’s definitely one of my favourites. Just bought The Bell Jar today. I've read quotes, and I like them, so I think this will be a good old read. The Bell Jar is brilliant in my opinion. It makes me feel so much more normal, I just re-read it for the second time after being given it last year. Even though there’s a lot of ‘madness’ in the subject matter I see a lot of truth and stuff I can relate to. I continued the ‘madness’ theme into my current read; ‘Billy Liar’ by Keith Waterhouse…basically just because I found it in the bottom of a bag I hadn’t used for ages!
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Post by lastgoodbye on Feb 12, 2010 20:51:43 GMT
Just bought The Bell Jar today. I've read quotes, and I like them, so I think this will be a good old read. The Bell Jar is brilliant in my opinion. It makes me feel so much more normal, I just re-read it for the second time after being given it last year. Even though there’s a lot of ‘madness’ in the subject matter I see a lot of truth and stuff I can relate to. I'm half way through (Chapter 8 out of 15) and at the moment it's just like a really middle-of-the-road old chick lit novel. I assume it will pick up, though
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Post by Aly on Feb 20, 2010 19:00:00 GMT
I'm reading Lolita again. I like it, it's funny in that it's taken seriously by idiots who think it's defending a pedophile, but, oh, the contrary.
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Post by lastgoodbye on Feb 20, 2010 22:50:13 GMT
I've finished The Bell Jar now and it was really good, but there are a few things I didn't understand so I shall read the wikipedia page.
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Post by victorinox on Mar 11, 2010 23:15:24 GMT
THE FLU PANDEMIC AND YOU: A CANADIAN GUIDE by vincent lam + colin lee (!!!) kind of sad but that's easily the most interesting thing i've read in months.
also, i'm finishing good old reliable slaughterhouse-five by kurt vonnegut. then i'm starting a heartbreaking work of staggering genius by dave eggers, which i might use for my english project, depending on how good it is.
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Post by Aly on Mar 12, 2010 0:13:43 GMT
I'm never going to read Toni Morrison books while listening to Bjork again. That is like a mind-screw combination.
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Post by wanderer on Mar 12, 2010 15:00:50 GMT
Alice In Wonderland; because I saw the film, thought it was crap,and remembered the book was much better. XD
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Post by lastgoodbye on Mar 13, 2010 14:28:45 GMT
I'm never going to read Toni Morrison books while listening to Bjork again. That is like a mind-screw combination. Ahh man. I never got to the end of 'Beloved'. It was just too... yeah.
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Post by Aly on Mar 13, 2010 16:17:42 GMT
Too what? too creepy? definitely. This ending was the most creepiest part, and I had nightmare about it, although it wasn't scary, just REALLY weird.
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Post by lastgoodbye on Mar 13, 2010 19:34:55 GMT
Yes, a little creepy and also just.. unusual was the word I was searching for, I guess. Weird.
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Post by Aly on Mar 13, 2010 19:51:31 GMT
Especially Beloved, herself. Her characterization is just bizarre. So that why Bjork + Beloved = nightmarish love baby (though, I do like using the word "rememory" now) The movie didn't help either. WHEN OPRAH PLAYS SETHE.
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Post by lastgoodbye on Mar 13, 2010 22:08:01 GMT
^ WHAT!? Wow. Her writing style always gave me real trouble visualising the action (which is one reason why I found it so hard to read), so I shall have to watch the film, most definately.
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Post by Aly on Mar 13, 2010 22:28:30 GMT
I've seen parts of it, but the movie had an interesting take on Beloved. They gave her these frog-like features, like croaking, and I couldn't help but to snicker. Also the book provides disturbing images, like when Sethe was raped, and it was just too much for hard for me to imagine. Like, everything is well described, it's just so much, too sad or strange to picture.
Also the movie is filled with hot Oprah action. But to be honest, the part actually suits her pretty well.
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Post by newslang on Mar 17, 2010 2:06:35 GMT
I've just finished Wuthering Heights (loved loved loved) and I guess I'm on a Bronte-high because today I picked up Villette by Charlotte Bronte for my next endeavour.... with school and work and sleep I should be finished by the end of the summer I am a bit confused, though... the appendix of my copy of WH says something about how after Emily Bronte died Charlotte 'fixed' the novel so that it was better? Apparently I read the original Emily version with just the obvious typos taken out. Have I read the wrong version? haha... to be fair I would read the other version as well, I really loved it.
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Post by idreamofcherrypies on Mar 24, 2010 23:13:43 GMT
Howards End. I'm well pleased because I'm properly enjoying it and (mostly) understanding it, and it's I think one of the first proper 'classics' that I'm reading and they scare me. I've read one other Forster though (Maurice) and loved it so maybe that helped. His satire and characterisation is excellent; my favourite bits so far have been when the two families are travelling in the cars and they hit a cat and all of the 'ladies' are shepherded into another car and driven back whilst the men stay and sort it, and at the Beethoven concert where Helen goes off with Mr Bast's umbrella.
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Post by wanderer on Aug 16, 2010 0:07:04 GMT
Has anyone read Keith Waterhouse's 'Billy Liar'?
If so...do you know if he's just a pathological liar, or if he has a deeper mental 'issue'?
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Post by allison on Aug 29, 2010 19:55:22 GMT
well this is an under-used thread. apart from reading lots about india, i recently finished The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
i was disappointed. it was very simple, see-through humour. like it was trying too hard to be funny. and wasn't. i probably would have loved it in middle school. but for this 21 year old reader, its was too "lolrandom."
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Post by Rhiflect on Aug 29, 2010 21:45:09 GMT
Pride and Prejudice! I decided it was about time I read some actual literature. It's pretty hard going, but i'm getting through it. It's a little drab for me, but it least it's actually going places.
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Post by Rosie The Red on Aug 29, 2010 22:30:25 GMT
^I've thought in the past about trying to get through some proper 'classics' or whatever, but I just can't seem to. I got about a third of the way through LotR then almost died of the boredom and had to give up {much to my shame}, so I don't reckon my chances with any Jane Austen or her kin.
So not technically at the moment, but I finished Mockingjay a couple'a days ago. Anybody read any of the Hunger Games trilogy? If not, I strongly suggest you do, it's brilliant.
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