afternoon delight
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Thanks for the synopsis as I definitely plan on reading that this summer.
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What are you reading? (February 2011)
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I have recently read these:
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (for school). I read it a couple of years ago, and didn't really enjoy it. But I went into it with the wrong mindset - I believed she wrote "serious" books. How wrong I was. She is all about irony, and knowing that, this second reading was much more interesting.
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (for school). An allegorical short story set in the puritan New England, in the late 17th century, about a man losing his faith. Dark, unsettling stuff, heavy on unsubtle symbolism.
When We Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen. I have read his plays chronologically in between other books during the last 3-4 years, and this was the last one. Another text heavy on symbolism. Now, I only have left to read his poems before I can finally put the huge Complete Works aside.
Now, reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (for school). Like with Sense and Sensibility, this is the second time I read it. But unlike S&S, I loved WH the first time. Those dark moors and bitter people are strangely alluring!
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (for school). I read it a couple of years ago, and didn't really enjoy it. But I went into it with the wrong mindset - I believed she wrote "serious" books. How wrong I was. She is all about irony, and knowing that, this second reading was much more interesting.
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (for school). An allegorical short story set in the puritan New England, in the late 17th century, about a man losing his faith. Dark, unsettling stuff, heavy on unsubtle symbolism.
When We Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen. I have read his plays chronologically in between other books during the last 3-4 years, and this was the last one. Another text heavy on symbolism. Now, I only have left to read his poems before I can finally put the huge Complete Works aside.
Now, reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (for school). Like with Sense and Sensibility, this is the second time I read it. But unlike S&S, I loved WH the first time. Those dark moors and bitter people are strangely alluring!
elrechazado
Banned
reading book one of the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. So far not too impressed.
Onion_Relish
Member
Reading "The Satanic Verses" By Salman Rushdie. All of his books are so different yet so similar. Comparing it to Midnights Children or The Enchantress of Florence is both easy and hard, but i would certainly recommend them for people who like books that have it all.
The only thing that really bugged me about the First Law Trilogy is the way
is written. Almost every damn chapter he has involves him complaining about how something in his body hurts. It got REALLY annoying by the third book to the point where I wanted to have him put out of his misery. WE GET IT.
Glokta
SafeinSound
Member
Wellington said:
Good read. I'm surprised since I am not huge on allegory.
Gonna get more into Coelho.
One of my absolute favorite books. I would recommend reading Veronika Decides to Die. I picked up The Witch a couple of months ago and really wasn't feeling it at all, so I put it down.
I recently just started reading:
I've been having a hard time putting it down.
The Super Bob
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I usually read 3-5 books a month but I haven't been able to get much reading done over the past couple of weeks which has bugged me.
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Just started on this:
SafeinSound said:I recently just started reading:
I've been having a hard time putting it down.
I had the exact same experience. I always wanted to know what happened next, despite there being little coherence or easily-graspable explanations for the events as they unfolded. weirdly compelling.
nakedsushi
Member
Starting this for our bookclub:
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Finally finished Chiang's book. Thanks for the recommendation, GAF!
Stories of Your Life: and Others by Ted Chiang
Loved it. My favorite stories in here were Tower of Babylon and Story of Your Life. I was afraid that GAF would have overhyped this, but I was very wrong.
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Finally finished Chiang's book. Thanks for the recommendation, GAF!
Stories of Your Life: and Others by Ted Chiang
Loved it. My favorite stories in here were Tower of Babylon and Story of Your Life. I was afraid that GAF would have overhyped this, but I was very wrong.
Bloodbeard
Member
Pikelet said:
One amazon review says this is due to the fact that the American publishers put out an abridged version of the book with something like 100 pages missing from the text and with a different ending. The description of the book sounds really interesting, but I wouldn't want an abridged version.