9am

vacation baby

i may continue to have conversations with myself through ut the community thread. negative capability applied to conversation.

i get a lecture at nine, then nothing else all day, so its divided into writing, critting, reading and sleeping. and i've just decided that my room smells so i have to do a load of wahing.

i do like doestoevsky's descriptions; thats what appeals most. books are a bit weighty tough, so it takes a lot of commitment. have you read any tolstoy? same kind of idea - big russian books

Yeah Russians and their descriptions. :p

Once I'0m done with [I]Eyeless in gaza[/I] by Huxley, [I]The general in his labyrinth[/I] by García Marquez and [I]The summer of the Barshinkeys[/I] by some lady I'll go to the library and take some russian lit.

there's chekov as well, but he's more of a playwrite

the only things close to spanish literature i've read are the alchemist and ernest hemingway. i find alot of foreign literature loses alot in translation, most notably machievelli (italian) and moliere (french) - the words don't flow as they should, and probably do, in the native language.

Yes, indeed. Especially poetry.

I find writingg in Spanish hard because most of the words are too... common place, I need to work on spanish vocabulary.

And well, I'm reading [I]eyeless[/I] and [I]barshinkeys[/I] in English, to make my vocabulary wider.

poetry loses a lot in translation. the tanslator themselves needs some poetic talents in order to maintain metaphors, colliqiualisms or any rhyme schemes (Dante especialy suffers from this).

I'm currently reading the odyssey. well i say reading, i am currently doing anything in my power to avoid reading the odyssey. its not boring, i just can't be bothered. bring on beowulf; much more interesting.

I'm having to ease up on the heavier reading at the moment. Going from reading things like Tolstoy one minute to 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' with my two year old daughter the next can seriously mess with your head. :-/

two year olds love war and peace. they really appreciate the depth of character, toltstoy's dealings with the major themes of war and peace and the fact that the book is bigger than they are.

actually i read hamlet when i was five. i didn't understand a word of it, but i seemed to enjoy it nevertheless

I wish I had spare change to buy a few books...buy them for me surf..:)

second hand amazon ftw

i got mine today from a second hand book fair thing. amongst the star trek novelisatins and 'how to draw cats' i found:
Faust by Goeth
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
the discourses by Machiavelli
the Complete Prose by Woody Allen
and a book of metaphysical poetry

i have too much to read already, i suppose these count as light reading.

or you could just go to the gutenburg project online and download somestuff. and waste loads of paper printing it. i managed to get Tamberlaine the Great last year.

second hand flea markets ftw

I got Huxley's book for $3.50. :coolio:

Brave New World is great....soma ftw

Books I need to buy...

I Am the Cheese
Brave New World
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Pigman...lol good book seriously
Black Like Me
Night

...and probably some books on politics...as of now I have some Bastiat and "Economics in One Lesson", both were cheap and are for my Pol. Sci. class but they're really interesting stuff..

[url]http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/779[/url]

good god i love this book/play

Hi, everyone. :wave:

Since I really like the last piece I did and posted here, I'm thinking of attempting to write more than I did before. This will either go bad, or good. I haven't really met any dryspots where I can't think of anything so I'm thinking it should all end up good.

Writing is good for the heart and most limbs.

its been proven that writing makes you 90% more attractive to members of the opposite sex. i have yet to see this in action, but i am assured of it. its why shakespeare got loads of action

You know what else makes you attractive to the opposite sex?

Not liking s[I]hi[/I]tty authors.

Oh burn.

ow.

pray tell, who are good writers?

[QUOTE=False Advertising;13462733]Books I need to buy...

I Am the Cheese
Brave New World
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Pigman...lol good book seriously
Black Like Me
Night

...and probably some books on politics...as of now I have some Bastiat and "Economics in One Lesson", both were cheap and are for my Pol. Sci. class but they're really interesting stuff..[/QUOTE]
In other words you need to take a typical middle/high school English class

I've read them all..I just enjoy them....I wish I could ban you cuz you're a fag..

Too bad >:|

I have a copy of Brave New World, it's not an exciting read

Good book and all but not that welcoming

[QUOTE]Good book and all but not that welcoming[/QUOTE]

alot of 'classics' are like that.

still at least its not dan brown.

Yeah but at least Night and 1984 are interesting

brave New World is just a chore ugh

i found brave new world to be more interesting than 1984. maybe 1984 is too ingrained into popular culture to be as effective as it once was. but they're both better than a handmaid's tale, which is just feminist rambling

Has anyone read [I]the Stranger[/I]?

haven't read it, but it looks depressing; french existentialism is hard going

guys, denis johnson

read jesus' son and fall in love

[QUOTE=Schyma;13463978]Has anyone read [I]the Stranger[/I]?[/QUOTE]

How's that senior year english reading going? :)

GOD. You guys are all nerds.

Books. psh.

[SIZE="1"]has a few books on chess[/SIZE]