Literature (1 Viewer)

[Tulipa]

someone then must please explain to me how austen isn't pop culture trash (for her own time period of course )

longevity does not necessarily lend to the claim of "literature". some of the most brilliant books get lost in time whilst popular pieces are revered. it's happening with Harry Potter isn't it?

right now i'm just finishing "The Wife of Martin Guerre" and starting Ayn Rand's "Anthem" (*sigh* i love theme books)

 

[walrusbear]

If they hadn't all been made into movies then u probably would think they were wonderful. What do u have against movies????

i love movies

and i also like those books (actually not lotr, but i quite liked the narnia series when i was younger)
just don't think they're 'literature' when it comes down to it

 

[nedzelic]

ok discuss whatever we want - just specifically not harry potter or lotr, or dan brown
anything else i'm not that worried about and can't be bothered to disclude or comment on

cheers

i'm reading catch 22 at the moment

 

[special_k]

my mum was going to join this book club, then they emailed her the list of books to vote on for the next month's study... if i can find it then i'll paste it. I can remember that it included the da vinvi code, the lovely bones and animal farm. Needless to say that she didn't join.

 

[nedzelic]

lol for da vinci code, but that's harsh to group with animal farm....you read animal farm?

 

[The_highwayman]

i read it in yr 9 for school.

it was fair good. i'd like to read 1984 tho.

 

[nedzelic]

i read it in yr 9 for school.

it was fair good. i'd like to read 1984 tho.

i must say, in my short reading life, it is my favourite book ever

 

[The_highwayman]

what, animal farm or 1984?

 

[nedzelic]

1984
but animal farm was a very clever book and i enjoyed i alos

 

[M-turkey]

Whenever I read those books, I always get the urge to start calling people Comrads.

They're both good books. Similar in many ways. They play with our emotions well, Animal in particular made be frustrated at some of the Pigs.

 

[MasterP]

James Joyce - Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners.

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle

Goethe - Faust

Joseph Heller - Catch-22

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

Isaac Asimov - Foundation Trilogy, The Complete Robot

Ken Kesey - One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Tolstoy - War and Peace

Victor Hugo - Les Miserables

Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karmazov, Crime and Punishment

... I've read this year. My Faust edition is illustrated, and it's fucking awesome looking and adds a chic dynamic that fits perfectly with the story.

Love Joyce. Love Tolstoy (can't get in touch with the Christian themes, but the anarchism, oh yes, that book is fucking epic)

 

[nedzelic]

James Joyce - Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners.

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle

Goethe - Faust

Joseph Heller - Catch-22

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

Isaac Asimov - Foundation Trilogy, The Complete Robot

Ken Kesey - One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Tolstoy - War and Peace

Victor Hugo - Les Miserables

Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karmazov, Crime and Punishment

... I've read this year. My Faust edition is illustrated, and it's fucking awesome looking and adds a chic dynamic that fits perfectly with the story.

Love Joyce. Love Tolstoy (can't get in touch with the Christian themes, but the anarchism, oh yes, that book is fucking epic)

i'm readinf catch 22 as we speak. unfort, i haven't had the luxury of being able to read this well this year as fucking crime fiction for ext1 has been occupying me. so i've olny managed island and the afformetioned catch 22; the best of all the catches

 

[special_k]

lol for da vinci code, but that's harsh to group with animal farm....you read animal farm?

Yes, but it's hardly forty something housewife book club material... We covered it in year 7.

 

[gorgo31]

Brown's pretentiousness is his essential downfall.

Gotta love the irony.

 

[ishq]

Anyone here read Sophie's World? I've had a few friends recommend it to me, just curious as to what everyone thinks.

I liked Sophie's World! Different.
I just finished To Kill a Mockingbird...again. Starting Hitchhiker's...again.

 

[nedzelic]

Yes, but it's hardly forty something housewife book club material... We covered it in year 7.

....in year 7??? i don't remember a study of communism and the cold war in the year 7 curriculum???? sure, of course it could be read to 10 year olds as a animal storey - but obviosuly that's not what it's about.

anyway, don't 'fotysomething housewives usually read stuff by....fuck, i dunno, michael connolly and well....the di vinci code like you said.

anyway, yeah i think she should look for a more literte book club

 

[nedzelic]

I liked Sophie's World! Different.
I just finished To Kill a Mockingbird...again. Starting Hitchhiker's...again.

life's too short to read the same book twice - there are 1000s of books that are read-worthy

 

[M.I.A-187]

I am reading something right now on Roman military from republic, Empire to christian fall times.

Another read i used to have is guns, gems and jews.

For some other subject i used to read books about fish, insects, lizards and yeah strange animals course they are intersting.

 

[The_highwayman]

....in year 7??? i don't remember a study of communism and the cold war in the year 7 curriculum???? sure, of course it could be read to 10 year olds as a animal storey - but obviosuly that's not what it's about.

We studied Animal Farm in Yr 9. Russian Revolution context and all.

 

[special_k]

....in year 7??? i don't remember a study of communism and the cold war in the year 7 curriculum???? sure, of course it could be read to 10 year olds as a animal storey - but obviosuly that's not what it's about.

anyway, don't 'fotysomething housewives usually read stuff by....fuck, i dunno, michael connolly and well....the di vinci code like you said.

anyway, yeah i think she should look for a more literte book club

acceleration program. nz education system.