What Are You Reading?

[MulletProof]

why oh why?.. that is so utterly ridiculous! ..the curse of ignorance

I can see why they'd ban 100 years of Solitude, though. that book is so long and.. I never found its beauty

 

[faust]

Originally posted by MulletProof@Oct 29 2004, 03:07 PM


why oh why?.. that is so utterly ridiculous! ..the curse of ignorance

I can see why they'd ban 100 years of Solitude, though. that book is so long and.. I never found its beauty

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Well, I'm sure that's not why they banned it . I am with you, I have yet to find a person who could explain that book to me, because I don't see the beauty of it either. It's one of the things I scare the pretensious artsy types, "Ah, can you explain this book you are raving about to me?" They run like there is no tomorrow .

 

[MulletProof]

Originally posted by faust@Oct 29 2004, 01:59 PM
Well, I'm sure that's not why they banned it . I am with you, I have yet to find a person who could explain that book to me, because I don't see the beauty of it either. It's one of the things I scare the pretensious artsy types, "Ah, can you explain this book you are raving about to me?" They run like there is no tomorrow .

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haha, I know, once I asked what was that all about and I was told to grow up
I read Love in the Time of Cholera, to give Gabriel a second chance, and no, I so so regret all that time wasted, it was about 2 months of just trying to get out of the torture. let's not mention the almost 5 months spent in a 100 years

 

[faust]

Originally posted by MulletProof@Oct 29 2004, 04:23 PM
haha, I know, once I asked what was that all about and I was told to grow up
I read Love in the Time of Cholera, to give Gabriel a second chance, and no, I so so regret all that time wasted, it was about 2 months of just trying to get out of the torture. let's not mention the almost 5 months spent in a 100 years

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Have you ever read Jorge Louis Borges? Now that guy is fantastic, what an insane imagination.

 

[MulletProof]

Originally posted by faust@Oct 29 2004, 02:30 PM
Have you ever read Jorge Louis Borges? Now that guy is fantastic, what an insane imagination.

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I haven't read anything from him, where is he from?.
I think Gabriel's imagination fails a lot and falls into grotesque thoughts ..yep, prissy me

 

[pradaesk]

italo svevo - senilità

 

[faust]

Originally posted by MulletProof@Oct 29 2004, 04:41 PM
I haven't read anything from him, where is he from?.
I think Gabriel's imagination fails a lot and falls into grotesque thoughts ..yep, prissy me

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He is from Argentina. He is hard to swallow, but some of his stories are really imaginative and ground-breaking. My favorite short stories are "The Library of Babel" and "Fumes en Memories (I butchered the tittle here)"

 

[MulletProof]

Originally posted by faust@Oct 31 2004, 05:38 PM
He is from Argentina. He is hard to swallow, but some of his stories are really imaginative and ground-breaking. My favorite short stories are "The Library of Babel" and "Fumes en Memories (I butchered the tittle here)"

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I should check out some of his work. I'm personally a huge fan of Chilean writers. don't know what does that have to do with the conversation, btw

 

[GardaPrincipesa]

JUST finishing The Bourne Ultimatum

 

[banksy]

the burgalar who liked to quote spinoza by lawrence block very easy reading for a dyslexic like me

 

[faust]

alwaysandnever, I'm done with half of Faulkner's book. Damn, it's so freaky and sad and innovative that I'm a bit hesitant to recommend something that is entirely similar. I would definitely look into Kafka's writing - The Process (or is it The Trial?), The Castle, etc...

 

[jennifer~]

Originally posted by faust@Nov 3 2004, 10:35 AM
alwaysandnever, I'm done with half of Faulkner's book. Damn, it's so freaky and sad and innovative that I'm a bit hesitant to recommend something that is entirely similar. I would definitely look into Kafka's writing - The Process (or is it The Trial?), The Castle, etc...

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Thanks, faust -- conquering Kafka, my new ambition..?

 

[faust]

Originally posted by alwaysandnever@Nov 3 2004, 12:04 PM
Thanks, faust -- conquering Kafka, my new ambition..?

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You are welcome.

I am reading A Rumour of War by Phil Caputo. It's the most famous Vietnam War memoir. I am meeting him on Thursday B)

 

[ladollyvita]

Requiem For A Dream by Hubert Selby Jr

The film was so fantastic I thought I'd try the book.

 

[Noodle]

Wow.. I feel so juvenile Right now I'm reading like.. the Georgia Nicholson books, and The Wish List by Eoin Colfer and the His Dark Materials series.. You all are reading war memoirs and philisophical books for foreign writers and... yeah...

 

[eleanor]

Right now I am reading Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy.

 

[faust]

Originally posted by Noodle@Nov 4 2004, 12:17 AM
Wow.. I feel so juvenile Right now I'm reading like.. the Georgia Nicholson books, and The Wish List by Eoin Colfer and the His Dark Materials series.. You all are reading war memoirs and philisophical books for foreign writers and... yeah...

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You should like give other books a try Reading is really a fulfilling, eye-opening experience.

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut. (In case you guys are wondering why I read so fast, well I have to read a book a week for each of my two classes ).

 

[helena]

The Guardian

 

[PrinceOfCats]

My history teacher claims that to expect a good grade in our A/S module we need to read 'Endurance and Endeavour' and 'A People's Tragedy' - two degree level texts for an A/S module What kind of crack is he smoking...

 

[meowmix]

consent theory of political obligation by harry beran...