[NWRA]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

like you, I find myself having to go back and re-read Proust simply because of the sheer density of his writing. As a result he's probably the only authors I can quote purely from memory. Well, Proust and Fredrick Forsyth maybe, although in his case it's for entirely different reasons.

The Penguin editions, each with a detailed synopsis at the back, i.e, (I'm flicking through Sodom And Gomorrah) 'Soirée at the Princesse de Guermante's (39). My arrival. Description of the moon (40).' are so useful for this!

That reminds me, a couple of months ago I read Proust by Edmund White, a very short autobiography (less than 200 pages). It has lots of interesting facts in it (nearly every female character is based on a former male lover of his, hence the masculine-sounding names Albert-ine, Gilbert-e - that kind of thing).

[jimbrim]

I'm going through a Murakami phase. I Finished Norwegion Wood a few weeks ago, and I'm nearly done with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, so now I've got the all the others to look foward to this summer.

[Lurker]

Originally Posted by NWRA

I'm thinking of reading some Shakespeare too. I feel that, as an English student, I need to know more about the plots and characters (I've only read Romeo & Juliet at school) as reference-points. But I find it very difficult to sit down and read a play as you would read a novel. Does anyone else have the problem? Can you get used to it? or should I buy the Laurence Olivier DVD collection.

You really need to read more of them! I find it gets easier the more I read or watch of Shakespeare and more and more enjoyable. Remember, each of those plays you could read in a day. Watching can help comprehension through hearing how the words are meant to be said and you learn other things and can more closely look at the language by reading; so you learn different things, so do both. I'm English student too and a quarter of this past year has been spent on Shakespeare, it's been great...maybe the lecture weren't that fantastic though.

[acousticrock87]

After over a year and a half, I finally finished motherfucking Ulysses this week. Good riddance.

Now I'm reading Einstein's Relativity and Gibson's Pattern Recognition, and will try to read James Watson's The Double Helix and the second half of The Brother's Karamazov next.

[Lurker]

Originally Posted by acousticrock87

After over a year and a half, I finally finished motherfucking Ulysses this week. Good riddance.

Hahah, that took me about a year to rid. But I really liked it.

[gmku]

I read it in a week for an English class. But we were only assigned the first 60 or so pages and the last chapter. Instructor, David Morrell, explained everything else in class.

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by jimbrim

I'm going through a Murakami phase. I Finished Norwegion Wood a few weeks ago, and I'm nearly done with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, so now I've got the all the others to look foward to this summer.

wind up bird fucked with my mind! time ssstttrreeeeeettcchheeeeeddd out

[automatic bzooty]

i've only been reading for my english lit class. i decided to pay off my library fines and pick up a few books today...

player piano and mother night by kurt vonnegut
the dharma bums
kurt cobain's journals (curiosity is a strange thing.)

i have so much shit on order as well. awesome. i miss reading.

[me.]

These two books need finishing -

 

 

[phoenix]

I plan on some anais nin this winter ( summer )

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by NWRA

I'm thinking of reading some Shakespeare too. I feel that, as an English student, I need to know more about the plots and characters (I've only read Romeo & Juliet at school) as reference-points. But I find it very difficult to sit down and read a play as you would read a novel. Does anyone else have the problem? Can you get used to it? or should I buy the Laurence Olivier DVD collection.

I really enjoy reading shakespeare, but it's definately far better to watch if you have the opportunity ( I force boyshape along with me to midsummer night's dream which they do in the botanical gardens here every the summer), than read to yourself. From a young age I always had the complete works at home (thanks to my mother.. thus my name jessica I guess).. but it wasn't until I was in my mid teens that I ever saw any. I can't comment on those dvd's as I've only ever watched the Tempest in film version, and it wasn't bad, but just not the same as seeing something live.

[gmku]

gonna grab some murakami at the biblioteque today

[blunderbuss]

My holiday books so far are Snow Ball In Hell by Christopher Broomyre and Dead Famous by Ben Elton. I may also take Tony Benn's political diaries, but I start a new job next week and will be becoming a commuter, so they may become my reading for the train journey.

[Everyneurotic]

i'm starting to reread lords of chaos.

so that.

[gmku]

Discovered I have a Barnes and Noble $25 gift card in my wallet. Woo hoo. Don't have a fucking idea what to get though. Maybe Rabbit, Run.

[Silent Dan Speaks]

Originally Posted by NWRA

I'm thinking of reading some Shakespeare too. I feel that, as an English student, I need to know more about the plots and characters (I've only read Romeo & Juliet at school) as reference-points. But I find it very difficult to sit down and read a play as you would read a novel. Does anyone else have the problem? Can you get used to it? or should I buy the Laurence Olivier DVD collection.

I'm an English major too and I've never had much trouble with plays, but that might be because I was in drama all through high school. I don't know about the dvds, but I will recommend King Lear. That's probably my favorite of his.

[Satan]

carl sagan - the varieties of scientific experience
fear and loathing in las vegas (anything by HST really)
lolita
gravity's rainbow
breakfast of champions
a clockwork orange
dracula
philip k. dick books
animal farm
the bell jar
electric kool aid acid test

all books ive read 40707508 times. and all still good.

[automatic bzooty]

Originally Posted by gmku

Discovered I have a Barnes and Noble $25 gift card in my wallet. Woo hoo. Don't have a fucking idea what to get though. Maybe Rabbit, Run.

yeah, i've got about $30 to schuler's books, and i have yet to spend it. i don't know what to get! i'll probably end up just blowing it all on coffee and scones and shit like that.

[gmku]

Used my gift card to buy fresh copies of Rabbit, Run (Fawcett) and On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Penguin). Beautiful softcover artwork on both. Glad to finally have a copy of Rabbit, Run. Dig it. I love the sort of old pulp paperback look of the Bond book.

 

 

From the library I picked up Murakami's Dance Dance Dance, Sputnik Sweetheart, and Khafka on the Shore. Any recommendations which I begin with?

[gmku]

Anybody?