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[theinevitable]

dang.
I meant English.
English teacher.
and she is not a manman.

[side_show]

heshe?

sheshe?

mantawomb?

wombtaman?

wombat?

(sorry, I'm working off two days with almost no sleep, and I'm gettin' all zany up in here.  To clairify, the gender of our wombat is not questionable.  She is a sheshe, and that is that.)

[misterqueue]

(sorry, I'm working off two days with almost no sleep, and I'm gettin' all zany up in here.  To clairify, the gender of our wombat is not questionable.  She is a sheshe, and that is that.)

Don't you mean that is thatthat?

[wombat]

At first you'll likely think WTF, D00D? but then slowly you'll start to think "What the fuck, dude?"

This is the best book review I ever read.  I wish I could give you 4100 cans.

[Hobot]

This is the best book review I ever read.  I wish I could give you 4100 cans.

Agreed.  It quite literally made me "LOL."

[jough]

This is the best book review I ever read.  I wish I could give you 4100 cans.

Now you can!

ASK ME HOW

[Hobot]

Okay, so here's the lengthier post I promised earlier.  I know you were all waiting for it, biting your nails and quivering with anticipation. 

Anyway, since I am something of a literature snob (despite not being very well read; I am high-minded without the credibility is basically what I'm saying), I plan to read as many "classics" as I can get my hands on this summer, in between my job and internship.  Emphasis will most likely be placed on Russian literature.  I received a copy of Gogol's short stories for my birthday, so that is first on my list.  Works to tentatively read (Russian and otherwise) include those of George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Thomas Hardy, Dante, Milton, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, and Joyce.

I doubt I'll get very far, unfortunately.

[Mite]

Works to tentatively read (Russian and otherwise) include those of George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Thomas Hardy, Dante, Milton, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, and Joyce.

I doubt I'll get very far, unfortunately.

Allow me to summarize. Ahem:

Some people were sad, and some people died, and some people were so sad that they died.

[wombat]

Great!  Now that we've taken care of that we can read Douglas Adams and John leCarre instead!  What a relief. Thanks, Mite!

[wombat]

On a more serious note:  If you want to read Dante, I recommend taking a class.  I think you need someone to give you a ton of background to get anything out of it. Anyway that's why you're paying good money to the college, to have someone explain stuff like Dante to you.

Out of that list, at one point I actually read almost all of Thomas Hardy of my own volition.  But the rest of it... well, the first book I ever in my life checked out of the library and didn't finish was Kafka.  And we will leave the rest to a respectful silence.  Good luck.

[misterqueue]

Kafka is my very personal deity.  Sometimes I speak to him late at night.  I wish I were joking.


Joyce is also very very high on list of heroes.


I have a new poetic xlation of Dante's Inferno (not the whole Divine Comedy mind) and while it certainly amuses in ways, I never really fully enjoyed it because most of it's imagination is based on a mythology I suppose.

Still though being buried upside down IS pretty funny.

[Roger]

If you are into turn-of-the century Big American Cities (Chicago) Historical Events (the 1893 World's Fair) famous architects and architecture (Daniel Burnham) and murder (The real-life mass murderer H.H. Holmes) then you realy ought to read The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.

I guess that's the book for me. Or at least it was a couple of years ago, right when I finished the Jimmy Corrigan graphic novel and became all obsessed with the Chicago World Fair and everything. I might pick that obsession up again.

If you're interested in one about events (like the molasses flood) instead of things (like the cod book, which I read but am not left with a strong impression of), the most compelling piece of that sort of nonfiction I've read in fairly recent years was The Circus Fire by Stewart O'Nan.  Depressing of course though with like dead burnt children and stuff, don't say I didn't warn you.

Right now I'm halfway through The Fall of Berlin 1945. Which is as far into the nonfiction-depressing-events category as I can go. And I mean depressing. Dead burnt children? How about refugee women trying to nurse their dead frozen babies?

[Hobot]

Kafka is my very personal deity.  Sometimes I speak to him late at night.  I wish I were joking.


Joyce is also very very high on list of heroes.

Well, you know I am reading both at your recommendation.

[misterqueue]

Well, you know I am reading both at your recommendation.

Well, I am rather bright and cute as a button.


(Although, also a Sick Fuck; so.. you know.. grain of salt and all that.)

[Drygioni]

(Although, also a Sick Fuck; so.. you know.. grain of salt and all that.)

Surely 'pinch?'

I saw Dostoevsky up above. Has anyone read Crime and Punishment? I am expecting a resounding YES, and I would like to hear your opinions on it.

('Cos to be truthful, I never enjoyed it as much as I thought I would. Maybe I'm just too young for that sort of thing. I can always try later.) (Not talking about sex)