"The Chronicles of Narnia", back when I thought it was nothing more then a cool fantasy story about fawns and evil witches.

I think that it would've been more just on my part to call Crime and Punishment a young man's book, and none-the-worse for it. It was after all a book written about a young man and (I think) by one. Unfortunately, no longer able to describe myself as such I now find much of its intensity increasingly less applicable to my life.

G.G. Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, now that really is a perfect complement to the onset of hair-loss.

I feel that way about most of the Beats, although On the Road was a book I never got on with at any time.

I stopped reading altogether from about 10 til 18, then read Day of The Triffids and 1984 one summer and got back in the habit. I'll have to see how i feel about those in a few years.

On the Road, as it was mentioned. Just because I never really got into it. I can see why it is god, but in my opinion some of his novellas are better.

Who's the woman in your avatar SyntheticalY?

Oh Lindsay Lohan.

QFT


Anyway, I had a lot of trouble getting through Catcher in the Rye the second time. So damned depressing.

It is depressing, but I can still make it through, another depressing book that I could not finish, cause it really depressed me was The Sorrows of Young Werther By Goethe.

chuck palahniuk's books seemed great a year ago. now it's just silly

I'm actually about to read it, and I've only heard good things... so I have high hopes hehe.

Hey, don't get me wrong, it's a far better book than most you'll read at any time in your life. I'd hardly call Crime and Punishment a bad book, whether I'm 18 or 80.

yeah they are one-time deals, but enjoyable nevertheless for that first time.

shit im tired of is julio cortazar, but you eeeeenglish wouldn't know who he is, would you?

Julio who?

brush up on your spanish or find a good translation. this was fun once upon a time.

Oh, he's the guy that wrote the blow-up short story that they based the film on. cool.

I really wish I could read more Spanish.

yeah! garcia marquez in the original blows everything else out of the water. he's got so much rhythm, so many puns jokes & allusions, the english version is ok but loses tremendously. just imagine the pleasure... (worth taking a few classes i think). no it's not joyce, but it's very colorful prose.

Yeah, I've only read GGM in translation and I know I must be missing so much.