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Reading this summer
TheFuriousWombat:
That Heaney translation of Beowulf is awesome. I also didn't get through Against the Day on my first try. I eventually did finish it but it took me a very long time. Talk about grueling.
Oli:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 08 Jun 2008, 22:19 ---You will never finish Ulysses....ever.
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I actually have to read it for my course (I study english lit) so I really hope I do manage to read it. It looks really interesting.
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--- Quote from: Oli on 07 Jun 2008, 17:56 ---Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Ulysses by James Joyce
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So moving onto some other books, these are some interesting choices.
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The three books you quoted there are also for my course, although I am looking forward to reading them. I find that having a basic knowledge of the bible (I was raised in a christian household and did the whole sunday school thing) is invaluable when studying books, but knowledge of the classics (like Homer's Odyssey) as well as of greek and roman mythology is equally useful. I have a great book called "Who's who in the ancient world" which is basically an encyclopedia of Roman and Greek myths and characters. I'd give the author but I've packed away all my books for moving and I'm not going to hunt it out.
--- Quote from: imapiratearg on 07 Jun 2008, 21:34 ---I am halfway through On the Road by Jack Kerouac, and loving it.
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I finished On the Road the other night, absolutely fantastic book. Have you read lonesome traveller? It's really great, my favourite kerouac (of the few I've read at least) however is the subterraneans, unfortunately my copy got stolen from my bag when it was in the cloakroom at a gig - I finished it earlier that day.
Sorry for the quoting from the previous page and all that but I've only just checked the thread.
CamusCanDo:
Guys, I love this thread.
It being winter here (Fuck You Northern Hemisphere) I'm trying to gather all the books I wasn't much in the mood for reading earlier this year. Lovecraft is a good example. I bought his complete fictions at a steal in Feb but really wasn't in the mood to read about eldritch voices calling upon waning moons. Now it being all grey and gloomy, bring that shit on!
Oh man, Michael Swanwick is one hell of an unappreicated author.
Right now I'm rereading Vellum by Hal Duncan since I picked up the sequel, Ink, a few weeks back.
Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: CamusCanDo on 09 Jun 2008, 21:37 ---Oh man, Michael Swanwick is one hell of an unappreicated author.
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SERIOUSLY. The first thing I read was Stations of the Tide, I read it in a few hours while I was doing laundry and it blew my gourd like nothing had since I first got into PK Dick.
And I still recommend The Iron Dragon's Daughter as the most baffling, seemingly pointless novel of all time, with the kind of twist ending that M. Night Shyamalan only has wet dreams about writing.
Hopefully I can get the sequel on my day off tomorrow. How's Bones of the Earth? I've heard good things but the premise doesn't sound all that intriguing.
E. Spaceman:
I just finished reading The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton. This continues my summer plan of reading The Great American Bestselllers, previously i did Stephen King, i also plan on doing Clancy and Grisham and Ken Follet
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