What Are You Reading?

[Aida.Sevan]

Originally posted by Sexed up@Aug 24 2004, 09:31 AM
I can't believe people are reading that ever here!!!
May I ask why?
Are you of Russian origin or something...
I mean, it's clear that Faust probably speaks Russian, and oddly obssessed with communism (btw thanks for the "educate yourself" link, but no thanks!)...

Anyway, I'm currenly reading the biography of Madame de Pompadour, and I find it scrupulous, but rather boring... Lever is a great biographer but not a great writer...

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I am of a Russian origin. Born in Ukrain actually. I dont speak Ukranian though, just Russian. I live in Hungary for quite a long time to count it as my mother country. But I study in Russian which explains reading that kind of stuff.

 

[Spacemiu]

The Stranger by Albert Camus

 

[Aida.Sevan]

Originally posted by faust@Aug 24 2004, 05:18 PM
Heart of a Dog is a must read. I'd love to read more (even just because I read it on the original) but my reading list is quite long, and I'm going back to school (Master's Degree = LOTS of reading).

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Yes, I'm reading it now. Just finished Master and Margarita. You wont believe, but before I started to read it, just from the title I thought that the story will be about a mean person who has a "dog's" heart. You can imagine how surprised I was when I started to discover it was really about a dog.

One thought I wanted to share with you is that after reading Master and Margarita, I've stayed with a feeling that Bulgakov described Devil not as someone scary and mean, but as someone who makes the people show their worst qualities, like greedyness, angryness, meanness, theft, impoliteness.

 

[faust]

Originally posted by Asdiklon@Aug 26 2004, 03:13 PM
One thought I wanted to share with you is that after reading Master and Margarita, I've stayed with a feeling that Bulgakov described Devil not as someone scary and mean, but as someone who makes the people show their worst qualities, like greedyness, angryness, meanness, theft, impoliteness.

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Absolutely Remember the epigraph (from Goethe's Faust by the way ) "'...who are you, then?'/'I am part of that power which eternally/wills evil and eternally works good.' " Moreover, the people they exposed were not some dingbat criminals, they were supposed to be prominent cultural figures - and in reality they were as immoral as the worst of the human kind. The point also is that God and Devil are not enemies but are a part of the whole, like Ying-Yang.

 

[faust]

Originally posted by Spacemiu@Aug 26 2004, 03:00 PM
The Stranger by Albert Camus

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Have you read "The Fall"? INCREDIBLE.

 

[Sugo]

Moreover, the people they exposed were not some dingbat criminals, they were supposed to be prominent cultural figures - and in reality they were as immoral as the worst of the human kind.

isnt that always the case?

It is my lifelong goal to finish Master and Margarita.

 

[faust]

Moreover, the people they exposed were not some dingbat criminals, they were supposed to be prominent cultural figures - and in reality they were as immoral as the worst of the human kind.

isnt that always the case?

It is my lifelong goal to finish Master and Margarita.

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Do it!!!

 

[Aida.Sevan]

Originally posted by faust@Aug 26 2004, 10:39 PM
Absolutely Remember the epigraph (from Goethe's Faust by the way ) "'...who are you, then?'/'I am part of that power which eternally/wills evil and eternally works good.' " Moreover, the people they exposed were not some dingbat criminals, they were supposed to be prominent cultural figures - and in reality they were as immoral as the worst of the human kind. The point also is that God and Devil are not enemies but are a part of the whole, like Ying-Yang.

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Agh, I really like this opinion. Usually we are pushed by the thought that God and Devil are like The Good and The Bad. But really the border between those is almost invisible.

 

[jennifer~]

No Exit and Three Other Plays by Sartre - just 'No Exit', for the sixtieth time.

 

[faust]

Originally posted by alwaysandnever@Aug 26 2004, 04:42 PM
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Sartre - just 'No Exit', for the sixtieth time.

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HEAVY

 

[Spacemiu]

Originally posted by faust@Aug 26 2004, 01:41 PM


Have you read "The Fall"? INCREDIBLE.

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no I haven't , this is my first Camus book, i will remember it though

 

[slinky_vagabond]

Brave new world by Aldous Huxley

 

[Erin]

reading a Woman's Guide to Savvy Investing by Marsha Bertrand

 

[FabulousFashion]

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
^ high schoool reading list! lol


I recently read Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier- a reallllllly good book!

And of course Style by Kate Spade- interesting, but veryy good book!

 

[model_mom]

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
I read it a few years back but I heard there is a movie version of it due out soon and I wanted to refresh the story in my mind.

 

[always in vogue]

The Rice Mother.. nothing special

 

[slinky_vagabond]

Originally posted by model_mom@Aug 27 2004, 09:06 PM
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

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Ooooh, I liked that one!

 

[prixi]

"Chinese Cinderella "..very moving.

 

[MayaPapaya9]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas....freaking hilarious so far. Few books make me laugh out loud, but this one is hysterical.

 

[MayaPapaya9]

Originally posted by slinky_vagabond@Aug 26 2004, 09:39 PM
Brave new world by Aldous Huxley

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I didn't like that book...for me it was very interesting in the beginning but as it went on it mutated into something irritating and kind of schizophrenic. But it's stuck with me, I still think about it in relation to issues today.