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Post by Faithy on Oct 18, 2004 2:46:56 GMT -5
I thought we had a thread about what book we were reading, but I can’t find it, so here is a new one, lol.
What am I reading?
Right not I am reading the newest Laurell K Hamilton book called Incubus Dreams, it’s excellent per her usual, though as always I wish there was more time spent expanding the plot rather than writing love scenes. Also I am reading a book called, Dead in Dixie, by Charlaine Harris, which isn’t to bad, but has some type-o’s where the main character isn’t called by her name but called Char, like the authors name, lol. I am also part way through 3 other vampire books, (I have a theme going, lmao) one called the mammoth book of vampire stories, one called Cravings, and book of short stories, organized by Laurell K Hamilton, and I am rereading Interview with a Vampire, by Anne Rice, again. October is officially Vampire book month for me, lol.
So what are you guys reading?
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Post by Xander Snaps on Oct 18, 2004 19:38:43 GMT -5
Lol, "The Witching Hour" by Anne Rice. I read a few pages of it last month so I guess I havent given up on it. I'm up to page 114 now. Lol, out of over 1,000 pages...... Dunno if i'll ever finish it.
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Oct 19, 2004 6:53:50 GMT -5
[glow=navy,3,900000] Past week Peter Pan (thanky Faithy )
Currently : The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown (strongly recommended by my former English prof)
The fifth Moutain – Paolo Coelho
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (for English course)
The Comdedy of Errors – Shakespeare (for the English option course)
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Ryce (have te re read it quickly for the English option course)
Story of a modern Greek – Prévost (in French for the French literature course)
Next : Little Big – John Crowley (when done with the da vinci book)
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Nov 20, 2004 3:18:03 GMT -5
[glow=teal,2,9000000]Just finished The Catcher in the Rye[/b] by Salinger, I liked it a lot, the psychology of the characters, some good sentences too, I'll put them later in the quotes thread.
Little Big or The fairy parliament[/b] J Crowley ... I force myself to be slow on this one, that way I know I enjoy it better even though sometimes I don't want to stop reading, lol
Jane Eyre[/b] - Charlotte Brontë ; gonna start it cause even though it's not required it might be useful for the English literature + it seems interesting [/glow][/color]
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Dec 3, 2004 4:49:36 GMT -5
[glow=orange,1,9000000]E-E Schmitt ~ When i was a piece of art
That book is really crazy but very good !!! It's about how an artist without qualms makes a piece of art with a man who wanted to commit suicide. Here is a piece of the beginning I translated :
"I always blew my suicides. I always muffed everything to be precise : my life, and my suicides. The crual thing in my case is that I'm aware of it."
You would thing it's depressive, but it's really not, lol. [/glow]
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Post by Faithy on Dec 10, 2004 0:50:48 GMT -5
Right now I am looking for a few good books.. I wanted to finished everything I was reading before december, and I succeeded, but now I have run out of books.. I did however just get a gorgeous, leather bound copy of Moby Dick in the mail, which I have begun to read, and I stumbled across something very unusual in the first chapter...
“I should now take it into my head to go on a whaling voyage; this the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has the constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me, and influences me in some unaccountable way- he can better answer than any one else. And, doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand program of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago. It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances. I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this:
"Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. "Whaling voyage by one Ishmael." "Bloody Battle in Afghanistan." “
what an odd thing, that the two events listed in a book written in the late 1800's would come to pass, even in that order.. weird hu?
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Dec 19, 2004 11:44:26 GMT -5
[glow=blue,3,900000]Hey, that's very great that you talked about Moby Dick, because I read it such a long time ago, & it was the children version (way shorter) & in French. Now, I had totally forgotten it until I read this post of yours. & all of sudden the memory came back, nt much but I could remember the feeling of bewilderment by the sea. So then I've been to the french american center & by chance i saw the book, which I borrowed. So i'm gonna read it now (the whole book & in English) !!! & about what you posted, yup, it's odd indeed ![/glow]
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Dec 31, 2004 2:25:38 GMT -5
[glow=teal,3,900000]I'm reading La part de l'autre (the part of the other one) by E.E Schmitt. That's a VERY good book, I'm half way, but it's just astonishing & I'm hooked. I found a critic of it :
"(…) The idea of a Hitler as an accomplished artist or a total failure, in perfect harmony with himself and with the whole world or bursting out with rage, this is Schmitt's latest creation. His novel is most certainly a "uchrony" and the best example of the kind. Imagine a little : Hitler accepted into the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna on October 8th 1918. What would have his life been like? What would have become of the world? As a truly good "uchronian" writer, Schmitt could very well have told us the story of such a successful life in another world. And yet, what does he do ? He blows up all the rules of the game and decides that his writing will alternate between Hitler's real life and his imaginary destiny. A most surprising choice. For, what is the use of telling a story we already know everything about ? In fact, Schmitt has chosen to evoke Hitler's younger days. Those which end with the second world war. The average reader does not know much about this period. And we are surprised, horrified at finding this character quite human. "That was my goal" Schmitt says "To show that no man was ever born a monster. But that you become one. I wanted to call my novel : The Archeology of a Monster. Hitler's beautiful dream was to become a painter. But he failed. Up to this failure he was a pleasant man to meet. When he was no longer a student he became poor. From this exclusion "resentment" as Nietzsche says "was born". Thus, he integrated into society again thanks to the first world war. For him, war had become a principle of existence. Germany's defeat in 1918 was another trauma for him. What I intended and was interested in was to show how a man is made. We are all part of the same stock from which two completely different men can be created." Hitler became inaccessible to himself and to the others and so, he became mad (this madness will lead the world as well as 55 million of individuals to their death). Meanwhile, Adolf H., his positive double, is a seducer, enjoying himself, taking advantage of life and of all its pleasures, goes to Paris, meets Breton and the surrealists. He is not an ambitious man. Just a man who longs to live in harmony with his era. La Part de L'Autre is a serious, deep and tense novel. It is a great literary piece which forces the readers to ask themselves questions, quite disturbing ones, on the dark side which lays sleeping in them, in us. As a reflexion on Evil, its deserves all our attention."
By Bruno Corty Source: www.eric-emmanuel-schmitt.com/eng/en_novels_crit_alternative.html [/glow]
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Jan 7, 2005 4:32:37 GMT -5
[glow=navy,2,900000]Done with the Hitler one now & it was really & great book !!!
Perfume by Patrick Süskind www.sfsite.com/~silverag/perfume.html
Eveyone is telling me it's an amazing book sometimes stifling because of the description. So far, I've already dived into all these smells, & I love the way it's told though so far it's all obnoxious, lol[/glow]
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Mar 26, 2005 3:03:36 GMT -5
[glow=navy,2,900000]On the Road ~ Jack Kerouac
Trips' stories on the US road in the 50ies! So great!
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Joey
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Post by Joey on May 3, 2005 8:42:16 GMT -5
Right at the moment, I am reading "White Fang".
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Post by Starlight* on May 5, 2005 0:49:54 GMT -5
I'm reading a book by a Polish man who cam to India by a kayak, with his wife... it's very interesting.
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Post by Birdy on May 27, 2005 2:08:02 GMT -5
I'm reading English Ghost Stories and there are 2 that you should read : The Ghost[/i] by Richard Hughes taken from A Moment In Time and Dual Control[/i] by Elizabeth Walter taken from Dead Woman[/color]
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Birdy
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Post by Birdy on May 27, 2005 2:09:55 GMT -5
Oh !! And I've also begun The Da Vinci Code[/u]... We'll see if it's interesting .... [/color]
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