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The hardest part about the novel "Trainspotting" isn't the dialouge, that's all written so that when you read it you have to use a scottish accent. Its trying to figure out which characters point of view its written in, cause unlike the movie the novel has mutliple narattors at any given chapter, its not just all Renton's. I'm reading "Catch 22". |
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I read Catch 22 recently. It was pretty good. The jumbled chronology was problematic, but it's well worth it. |
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That's the problem I'm having...I just haven't got my brain to read to my in purely Scottish yet. I have no trouble with Victorian English but even if I try to have the characters from the movie read to me in my head, everything still gets jumbled. I'll just keep battling through it, but it won't be something I can read exclusively and finish in 3 or 4 days.
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My not buying books thing didn't go so well.
As for reading, I'm about 3/4 of the way done with The Hobbit. I might finish it tonight. I'm also about 50 or so pages into Trainspotting. As for recent purchases: Batman: The Long Halloween - Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale Batman: Haunted Knight - Jeph Loeb and Time Sale From Hell - Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
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I have read From Hell twice. fucking awesome shit man.
I am re-reading Watchmen for the 15th time before the movie comes out
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![]() and it is an absolutely fabulous blend of psychedelic and mundane, however, I know from previous experience that this can be the result more of the translator than the original sometimes..
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I had at 30% off one item at Borders and was going to buy V for Vendetta because they haven't had a copy of From Hell, but sure enough, they had 2 today. I'll start on that monster next week sometime. I'll also be giving Watchmen another run-through before March.
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I just started Regenesis by C.J. Cherryh the sequel to her hugo award winning novel Cyteen. Cyteen came out in the late '80s and this sequel just came out last month. It's probably her most anticipated novel ever.
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Ah, From Hell. I was just looking for something to move on to - this is just the ticket! |
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A great read, and has lots of pictures which is good:
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...d=1#post766164 |
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Isn't magical realism just a polite way of saying 'written by an elderly South American'? |
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hahaha.
it is a polite way of saying "fairy tale."
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After attempting to read Ayn Rand's bowel movement, atlas shrugged, i decided i needed something real. so im reading ghost world.
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Magical Realism = fairy tales written by elderly South Americans. |
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I don't know, maybe. Though I've seen things like Joyce's Ulysses described as magic realist in particular sections. |
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Yeah, and isn't Gunter Gras' The Tin Drum supposed to be magic realism too? Maybe they both just liked Spain?
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