Confess your literary ignorance
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Neither, other than extracts at school. I might add them to my list this year though, ta
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no
Disney smashed it tbf - makes the book redundant
I'd recommend Kim very highly indeed.
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stop making the rest of us look bad ringoNeither, other than extracts at school. I might add them to my list this year though, ta
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so would i: as did aleister crowley
I'd recommend Kim very highly indeed.
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I was looking a bit keen wasn't I?
I'll go back to mucking about on the back row now
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^^hah, great picture!
Please sir, can I read Kim out loud to the rest of the class sir! PLeeeeease!!!
OKay. "This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures....
I see there are a couple of film adaptations of Kim.... this has got Sunday afternoon written all over it
Please sir, can I read Kim out loud to the rest of the class sir! PLeeeeease!!!
OKay. "This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures....
I see there are a couple of film adaptations of Kim.... this has got Sunday afternoon written all over it
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Please sir, can I read Kim out loud to the rest of the class sir! PLeeeeease!!!
OKay. "This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures....
I see there are a couple of film adaptations of Kim.... this has got Sunday afternoon written all over it
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That Snowdrops thing does look really interesting as it goes - "a hilarious and remarkably inventive collection of erotic prose and verse"
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Ive even struggled to read Kiplings If? 
Should really try again I suppose. He does make exceedingly good cakes tbf
Should really try again I suppose. He does make exceedingly good cakes tbf
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I could not finish Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I also put 100 Years of Solitude back on the shelf, 20 years ago.
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only 80 more years to go
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Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden (The Nameless Novel) - Aleister Crowley at Hermetic.comThat Snowdrops thing does look really interesting as it goes - "a hilarious and remarkably inventive collection of erotic prose and verse"
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i got about 2/3rds...it felt like enough...
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Now that reminds me Ive read some de Sade short stories - they were cool
seems like a nice chap
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Same here. I hope never to torture myself with ZATAOMM again, I hated it. I am going to finish 100 Years of Solitude though.
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Same...have tried twice to read it...got a chapter or so in and back to the shelf...still have a copy, no idea why.
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Hah - next time theres one of those "great opening lines "thing that comes up, I'd have to bring this up:
“Good, by Jesus!” cried the Countess, as, with her fat arse poised warily over the ascetic face of the Archbishop, she lolloped a great gob of greasy spend from the throat of her bulging cunt into the gaping mouth of the half-choked ecclesiastic.
(now read on.....)
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When I bought Naked Lunch (in FOyles IIRC) the guy at hte counter said he'd never met anyone who'd finsihed it.
I got half way. TBH with a lot of Burroughs books theyre not really mean to be read front to back. They werent really written that way. Its enough to dip in and read a few pages I find.
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Jane Austin and Charles Dickens. I've tried, but they're so, so boring!
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Naked Lunch the film is amazing - one of the greatest book adpatations of all time - though it goes beyond the book. Love that film
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I like where Dickens is coming from politically but yeah, too boring.
I think many of them were originally weekly episodes serialised in a newspaper? and only later collated into books...really messes up the flow that.
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Never understood how people find either Austen or Dickens boring.
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I enjoyed all three, would recommend The Old Man And The Sea, it's only a very slim novella, done in no time, but incredible stuff. Hemingway doesn't have time to come across as such a macho cock either.
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I need tightness in writing...Dickens is so long winded
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He's not. He's just detailed about people.
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