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Madame Bovary. And I can't say I'm particularly enjoying it.
*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Dillinger4
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Life.
Fictionist
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Are you okay D4?
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Dug out a collection of novels and stuff by Sade last night - so read Eugenie de Franval, which I now think is one of my favourites by him. It's got everything in one little novella - morality, religion, proto existentialism; a cracking ending that completely flips it all over, revealing the contradiction and weakness of the main characters. Also read a couple of essays on him, a letter from him to his wife, and will be delving into Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man tonight.
Been wayyy too long since I read any of his stuff - am marvelling all over again. Sade fucking rocked
Been wayyy too long since I read any of his stuff - am marvelling all over again. Sade fucking rocked
pootle
little moran
Madame Bovary. And I can't say I'm particularly enjoying it.
Shame - it's one of my favourite books evar! Are you male Fictionist? I've always thought you were...maybe you can't relate to a woman's desperate need to be loved and then let down by marriage, affairs, shopping and debt?
I've just started "The Book of Dave" It's a bit wierd getting used to the lingistics and figuring out what exactly is going on, but I'm liking it. One of those books you read aloud in your head, iysim?
I really liked that. I struggled with the language at first, but you do become more familiar with it and it gets easier to read
One of my favourite books, I reckon
Dillinger4
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cyberfairy
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Just finished 'Stone's Fall' by Iain Pears. Utterly utterly superb book-just unhappy that it is finished Murder, espionage, romance and so many twists and turns.
Murder, espionage, romance and so many twists and turns.ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Wise Children by Angela Carter.
pootle
little moran
Just discovered there's a sorta dictionary/glossary at the back!
Am kinda just enjoying sussing it out myself though On a bit of a Sade kick at the moment, so read this last night. A proper revolutionary essay/dialogue this, given the time it was written in
Also picked up Margaret Crosland's translation of Crimes of Love, and read Faxelange, and Florville and Courval
Then, for a little light reading to get me off (to sleep
), I read the first three dialogues of Philosophy in the Bedroom (Arrow publication)Just discovered there's a sorta dictionary/glossary at the back!
Ha - yeh, I only found that after I'd finished the book
But, like you, I really enjoyed sussing it out for myself anyway 
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I am genuinely shocked. For shame!
Anyway, at the moment I'm reading:
Fevre Dream by George R R Martin - picked this up in the library as I am STILL waiting for the next Ice+Fire book to come out
and needed to scratch the itch. Unfortunately it's not really doing it for me, all seems a bit silly tbh. Has had some good moments but way too much blustering about steamboats to be truly gripping.Contagious: Cultures, Carriers and the Outbreak Narrative by Priscilla Wald - very interesting.
Fictionist
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Shame - it's one of my favourite books evar! Are you male Fictionist? I've always thought you were...maybe you can't relate to a woman's desperate need to be loved and then let down by marriage, affairs, shopping and debt?
/QUOTE]
Because men just can't relate to women (real or fictional)ever, can they? As a story I found it deeply unattractive, and the writing style was occasionally irritating (although I am reading via a translation). My next book will be either 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' or 'Farenheit 451'.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I should read F451 again, it's been a long time.
In fact, I have been daydreaming lately of the day I finish my Masters and can finally get cracking on the massive pile of books I want to read, without feeling guilty that I'm not reading something else.
In fact, I have been daydreaming lately of the day I finish my Masters and can finally get cracking on the massive pile of books I want to read, without feeling guilty that I'm not reading something else.
pootle
little moran
pootle
little moran
I know! And it's a habit I hate myself as even though I just scan the pages invariably something gets given away.
My name is pootle and I flick to the back of books. That's a start eh?
I'm loving my summer break from my Masters and being able to read non-educamacational books, guilt free so I totally understand where you're coming from. Course, not like you've got any other distractions that wouldn't let you sit around for hours reading, is there. Honestly May!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I would rather stick pins in my eyes than flick to the back of a book
I used to do it, but the last paragraph divorced from the preceding text has none of the significance it gains from a full read through.
I cannot help but read appendices first though
Dillinger4
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I am revisiting Anna Karenina at the moment.
!!!I often reread Tolstoy in the summer.
I reread War & Peace again last summer. I think I might read Anna Karenina again. I need something I can really get into.
Orang Utan
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have you any idea how that reads?
Dillinger4
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Yeh I do.
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