with the difference that Joyce is just plain boring. believe me. i read both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. the former was just rather interesting because i was studying the Odyssey for Classics I, so it kind of made sense & all. Finnegans Wake is boring and confusing and that’s it. oh, and it doesn’t make any sense. whatsoever. all in all, neither is any worth reading. i don’t recommend unless you’re a liberal arts major.
Orlando is different. it’s fantastic. it’s great. it’s gorgeous. read it. read it, read it, read it. it’s so mindblowing. ah, Woolf; that woman was such a freak genious.
is that what you’d like to think? ;p
oh? really, that sounds more like Jane Austen. but yeah, english speaking female modernists tend to be awfully obsessed about feminism in the most tetrical way. i wish people read more of brazilian modernism, or hell, even argentinian modernism, our female modernists weren’t annoying. they just stood up for their lives, there was no need to write frustrations & accusations in their literature.
well descriptions of stories by Borges, Cortázar or, hell, that guy who wrote Fight Club tend to all be rather uninteresting, and still the stories are great. Clarice Lispector, there’s another writer with some pretty weird plots. “it’s the story of a family who buys a chicken for sunday meal, and then the chicken runs away and they chase it”. and it’s one of the finest stories i’ve read. another one: “a woman who walks around in the zoo and kind of falls in love with a buffalo”. that one gets in my top 10 short stories list.
but yeah, Woolf might’ve written some boring stuff every once in a while. she was too much of a weirdo, a bit.
…like the late Harry Potter books look like cheap Harry Potter fan fiction!
sigh I’ve wanted to read that so bad, but my public library is lame and doesn’t have it. (It also doesn’t have the books I really really want to read, like Brave New World and other books you’d think a library would have…)
Massive cutbacks. It is a public library after all. They rely totally on volunteers and very few employees (who have worked there, for the most part, for some 12+ years, as long as I’ve lived in this city). They aren’t even open on Fridays, a recent change due to “lack of interest,” and the high cost of leaving the lights on when no one’s there.
The western, mystery, and sci-fi sections combined don’t even fill the whole side of a shelf.
The computers haven’t been updated for about 10 years now.
There are only about 3 copies of Animal Farm in the county, and two of 1984. I know we’re a small county, but there are 5 branches!
It’s a shame. I would donate if I had money. (And the library is perfect for broke people like me.)
So for the first time in over a year, I’ve picked up a book and started reading tonight! Not just any book, it was Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix. I stopped reading the series after the Goblet of Fire, but now I want to take it back up.
I forgot how much of an escape it is to read a good book.
lots of travel guides, and On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems by Kurt Gödel. liberal arts student reads math on his holidays.
I’m reading The Stand by Stephen King it’s supposed to be one of his best books and so far it’s very good, but i’m not sure if any book can contend with the Final Dark Tower book in my Heart . I’m also reading Small Gods by Terry Pratchett so far it’s good too. Unfortunately I got to bed so late these days tht I takes me forever to go through a book.
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. The hero of the book is a unique individual and level of integrity he has in his pursuit of excellence in his field is quite motivating. What I really like about her books is she incorporates philosophy into her stories, it makes for not just an entertaining novel, but a thought provoking one as well.
Alright, been a while since I posted in here. Finished a lot of books since I last posted, but I’ll stick to what I’ve finished recently.
I just finished the Narnia series (excluding The Magicians Nephew), which I thought was really good. I thought the parallels in it of Christianity and Islam were rather interesting. I looked that up on wikipedia, and of course there’s charges of “racism” about Lewis, which I thought was pretty typical of the politically correct
Just getting to work on a bunch of others. I’m continuing reading the Day of the Jackal, which is challenging but very well written. I’m trying to get into the Count of Monte Cristo, but finding it a little hard to get into. It’s bloody long as well, so that isn’t helping the motivation.
Oh… I tried to read The Fountainhead before… I enjoyed Anthem for the same reasons as you enjoy The Fountainhead, but it’s such an intimidating book. I think I got to chapter 4. I mean to pick it up again someday, as I own it.
Ah yes, Anthem was the first of her books I read, it was definitely a great book, short but sweet. While The Fountainhead is a bit more intimidating, once you just pick it up you’ll start reading. I read about 337 pages in 2 days about 10 days ago, just picked it up again today and finished it off and thought what took me so long!
I am reading the “Remember Me” Series by Christopher Pike again. Very good reading he puts dream related stuff in most of his books (or at least that of the paranormal) I also like Whisper of Death by him (my favorite book so far by pike)
Found an amazing buy-one-get-one deal at a local bookstore while out of town. I picked up The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics by Robert Oerter. I’ve yet to see how good it is.
I also picked up Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them by David Anderegg. I’m a few chapters in and it’s both humorous and informative.
(I think that makes 5 books I’m currently reading )
. I’m also reading Small Gods by Terry Pratchett so far it’s good too. Unfortunately I got to bed so late these days tht I takes me forever to go through a book.
I mean to pick it up again someday, as I own it.
goood . altough the previous parts have been terribly abridged so ill read them again later …