What Are You Reading?

[MulletProof]

Originally posted by softgrey@Oct 27 2004, 03:05 PM
and i read that thing 20 yrs ago...talk about vivid imagery...

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that's so funny.. don't know why I think that fits me perfectly

 

[Vinniccio]

For Pleasure I am reading Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks, and The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (going on 2 years now).

For School I am reading The Great Gatsby.

 

[catkitty]

The Dark Tower

 

[faust]

Originally posted by softgrey@Oct 27 2004, 05:05 PM
i have been reading some russian short stories...'the captain's daughter'...

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Pushkin?! He is an amazing poet, but this is his rare prose work.

 

[faust]

Originally posted by MulletProof@Oct 27 2004, 05:09 PM
danke!

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bitte

 

[softgrey]

yes...pushkin...borrowed from my friend in london...

faust was also playing in london while i was there with huge ads in the tube stations...it felt a bit like you were there in spirit my friend...

 

[faust]

Originally posted by softgrey@Oct 28 2004, 07:45 AM
yes...pushkin...borrowed from my friend in london...

faust was also playing in london while i was there with huge ads in the tube stations...it felt a bit like you were there in spirit my friend...

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Cool. Faust always plays somewhere. When I was in London Dr. Faustus (I haven't read the book yet, it's by Thomas Mann, about a piano player, and I always wanted to know why he related the title) was playing. But since it had Jude Law in it, needless to say there were no tickets to be had.

 

[genis78]

Angels and Demons-Dan Brown

 

[chanel_girl]

Wake up sir! - Jonathan Ames

 

[meowmix]

dorinne kondo- about face... gah i hate this

 

[breathe0xygen]

I just finished "The Handmaids Tale"...
Creepy in a weird way.

 

[faust]

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner.

Alwaysandnever, I'm keeping you in mind. I'll let you know what I can recommend when I'm done with this book.

 

[orlem]

Yevgeny Zamyatin - We

I have to be finished and write it up in comparison to 1984 by 3:00, eek

 

[jennifer~]

Originally posted by faust@Oct 29 2004, 09:50 AM
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner.

Alwaysandnever, I'm keeping you in mind. I'll let you know what I can recommend when I'm done with this book.

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Thank you, kind Faust. Yes, I read As I Lay Dying and was unprepared for the stream-of-conciousness and the piecing together of the plot on one's own... very distinctive. I loved the bleak... "humor"...

 

[MulletProof]

On The Road- Jack Kerouac

 

[faust]

Originally posted by MulletProof@Oct 29 2004, 12:53 PM
On The Road- Jack Kerouac

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There is an incredible quote from it that hangs on my fridge but I don't want to paraphrase it, I'll try posting it from my house. Great book, very important.


Found it online! I am glad that I'm not the only one who found that quote important. Here it is (thank you Google);

"They need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end" ~Jack Kerouac

 

[MulletProof]

that is gorgeous, faust. I don't think I have read that yet, I actually started it last night and it's just so so amazing that I read 100 pages in 1 hour and half (too much for my standards, I must add ). I like the fact that he and Burroughs were so close and The Naked Lunch is a completely different book.. it pictures the world in such a dark way that it's scary but at the same time, it's all true and On The Road is just the opposite, from what I read, it's about a beautiful world or life or whatever, but very realistic as well. I'm enjoying every single page of it

 

[faust]

Originally posted by MulletProof@Oct 29 2004, 01:49 PM
that is gorgeous, faust. I don't think I have read that yet, I actually started it last night and it's just so so amazing that I read 100 pages in 1 hour and half (too much for my standards, I must add ). I like the fact that he and Burroughs were so close and The Naked Lunch is a completely different book.. it pictures the world in such a dark way that it's scary but at the same time, it's all true and On The Road is just the opposite, from what I read, it's about a beautiful world or life or whatever, but very realistic as well. I'm enjoying every single page of it

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The quote is towards the end. Yes, it is beautiful, it's very Buddhist and it's forshadowing Kerouac's later fascination with Buddhism.

By the way, you might finds this link of interest (referring to the trial of Naked Lunch in MA with testimonies by Norman Mailer and Allen Ginsberg) thetrial

 

[MulletProof]

thank you for another interesting link . I didn't know The Naked Lunch was taken to trial, by the way

 

[faust]

Originally posted by MulletProof@Oct 29 2004, 02:26 PM
thank you for another interesting link . I didn't know The Naked Lunch was taken to trial, by the way

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you are welcome. they tried to ban it in two states. If you look at the list of books that have been banned in the Unites States you'll realize what a "free" country it is

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (Nobel Prize Winner no less!)
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (major philospher)
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling ( Boo!)
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (most influential US poet)
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (too violent, i guess)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Poevrty in the US? What poverty?)
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize Winner)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Nobel Prize Winner)
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (racism? what racism?)
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare again