[LifeDistortion]

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

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

Your swipe at Dostoevsky is preposterous...and your loss.

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.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by gmku

On the Road seemed phenomenal when I was 20. I can barely get through one paragraph of it now without wanting to throw the book across the room.

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

[the ikara cult]

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.

[SynthethicalY]

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.

[demonrail666]

Who's the woman in your avatar SyntheticalY?

[SynthethicalY]

Oh Lindsay Lohan.

[Amplifly]

Originally Posted by floatingslowly

 

this book was written between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back. all I can do now is think of all the ways it breaks cannon.

it was so much better when I was 10.

QFT


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

[SynthethicalY]

Originally Posted by Amplifly

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.

[total-trash]

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

[k-krack]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

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.

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

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by k-krack

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.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by total-trash

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

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?

[demonrail666]

Julio who?

[!@#$%!]

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

 

[demonrail666]

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.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

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.

[demonrail666]

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