Possession - A.S. Byatt (1 Viewer)

[glycerine]

I had to read this for Ext1, and I finally got around to finishing it. Who's read it? What did you think? I found it difficult to get into, but it was a good read once I did. The only thing was that there was SO much intertextuality (with the poems at the beginning of the chapters etc) that I often just skipped it over.

 

[Sarah168]

Is this the book that was made into the movie? Or am I on a completely different tangent?

 

[glycerine]

no, it was a movie........a pretty shit movie!

 

[Belle]

I HATED it. I did it for ext.1 as well and I never got through it coz it was too painful. The bit in the middle with about 60 pages of letters was the most boring thing I've ever read. I ended up giving up on it and writing on the others coz I couldn't bring myself to finish it.

As a consequence I haven't seen the movie either

 

[JoyDivision]

Hey; I recently finished it. Im guessing you guys did it in conjunction with 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' too? - Thats the book I studied it with, and I have to say in that context it was the lesser of two evils!


I dont love to read poetry at the best of times but I liked the classic stories that were in the book.

Apparently the movie is very average. VERY average.

Anyway, for assessment on this module we had to present a tutorial on 'The postmodern view of Romance' which had me majorly stressed but I did get a perfect score on it. Postmodernism is an interesting study and im glad im doing it instead of like crime fiction or that SPORT one.

Cheery.

 

[glycerine]

no, my texts were orlando and dead white males.

the movie is terrible... don't even bother

 

[JoyDivision]

Ohkay cool.

I did Orlando too, what did you think of the movie? I wasnt inspired to write about the movie, or even talk about it so Im trying to avoid it in an exam.

I get the feeling I shouldve loved it.........

Cheery.

 

[glycerine]

ahaha yeah that was my feeling! like "err why don't i love this?". i dunno, i thought it was ok, had good moments, but overall just...meh

 

[porge]

we doing po mo aswell but were doing FLW, DWM and if on a winters night a traveller
my cousin did possesion last yr and when i get some spare time i wanan read it
is it a good book to read rather then study or should i give it a miss?

 

[Loz#1]

Blah, I rented the movie tonight. I have to pick up the book.

 

[super katie]

i think the movie and book are very different... and i hate gwyneth so i really dont want to see the movie.

i cant seem to finish the book i keep falling asleep dammit, it really does get boring in places

 

[glycerine]

i skipped over a lot of it

i love the ending though. it reminded me how i really love language. actually, i think that's something the english course neglects to do - it forgets the beauty of language.

 

[super katie]

i skipped over a lot of it

i love the ending though. it reminded me how i really love language. actually, i think that's something the english course neglects to do - it forgets the beauty of language.

thats why I loved doing Eliot in prelim ext 1, because its absolutely beautiful