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The Penguin editions, each with a detailed synopsis at the back, i.e, (I'm flicking through Sodom And Gomorrah) 'Soirée at the Princesse de Guermante's (39). My arrival. Description of the moon (40).' are so useful for this! That reminds me, a couple of months ago I read Proust by Edmund White, a very short autobiography (less than 200 pages). It has lots of interesting facts in it (nearly every female character is based on a former male lover of his, hence the masculine-sounding names Albert-ine, Gilbert-e - that kind of thing). |
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I'm going through a Murakami phase. I Finished Norwegion Wood a few weeks ago, and I'm nearly done with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, so now I've got the all the others to look foward to this summer.
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You really need to read more of them! I find it gets easier the more I read or watch of Shakespeare and more and more enjoyable. Remember, each of those plays you could read in a day. Watching can help comprehension through hearing how the words are meant to be said and you learn other things and can more closely look at the language by reading; so you learn different things, so do both. I'm English student too and a quarter of this past year has been spent on Shakespeare, it's been great...maybe the lecture weren't that fantastic though. |
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After over a year and a half, I finally finished motherfucking Ulysses this week. Good riddance.
Now I'm reading Einstein's Relativity and Gibson's Pattern Recognition, and will try to read James Watson's The Double Helix and the second half of The Brother's Karamazov next. |
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Hahah, that took me about a year to rid. But I really liked it. |
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I read it in a week for an English class. But we were only assigned the first 60 or so pages and the last chapter. Instructor, David Morrell, explained everything else in class.
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wind up bird fucked with my mind! time ssstttrreeeeeettcchheeeeeddd out
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i've only been reading for my english lit class. i decided to pay off my library fines and pick up a few books today...
player piano and mother night by kurt vonnegut the dharma bums kurt cobain's journals (curiosity is a strange thing.) i have so much shit on order as well. awesome. i miss reading. |
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These two books need finishing -
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I plan on some anais nin this winter ( summer )
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I really enjoy reading shakespeare, but it's definately far better to watch if you have the opportunity ( I force boyshape along with me to midsummer night's dream which they do in the botanical gardens here every the summer), than read to yourself. From a young age I always had the complete works at home (thanks to my mother.. thus my name jessica I guess).. but it wasn't until I was in my mid teens that I ever saw any. I can't comment on those dvd's as I've only ever watched the Tempest in film version, and it wasn't bad, but just not the same as seeing something live.
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gonna grab some murakami at the biblioteque today
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My holiday books so far are Snow Ball In Hell by Christopher Broomyre and Dead Famous by Ben Elton. I may also take Tony Benn's political diaries, but I start a new job next week and will be becoming a commuter, so they may become my reading for the train journey.
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i'm starting to reread lords of chaos.
so that. |
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Discovered I have a Barnes and Noble $25 gift card in my wallet. Woo hoo. Don't have a fucking idea what to get though. Maybe Rabbit, Run.
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I'm an English major too and I've never had much trouble with plays, but that might be because I was in drama all through high school. I don't know about the dvds, but I will recommend King Lear. That's probably my favorite of his. |
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carl sagan - the varieties of scientific experience
fear and loathing in las vegas (anything by HST really) lolita gravity's rainbow breakfast of champions a clockwork orange dracula philip k. dick books animal farm the bell jar electric kool aid acid test all books ive read 40707508 times. and all still good. |
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Used my gift card to buy fresh copies of Rabbit, Run (Fawcett) and On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Penguin). Beautiful softcover artwork on both. Glad to finally have a copy of Rabbit, Run. Dig it. I love the sort of old pulp paperback look of the Bond book.
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Anybody?
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