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Post by dunc on Apr 26, 2010 13:15:57 GMT -5
does anyone else actually read proper old school literature? I feel like I'm on my own!
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Post by Mink - The Original on Apr 26, 2010 13:17:47 GMT -5
Are you suggesting that Salman Rushdie is old school literature?
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Post by dunc on Apr 26, 2010 13:22:43 GMT -5
It's of that style, yes.
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Post by Mink - The Original on Apr 26, 2010 13:30:02 GMT -5
I've read plenty of Faulkner and Hemingway and Glasgow. I've read Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Rushdie and Wolf. But I've not read most of that in the past 7 or 8 years so I wouldn't list it as a book I've read recently. If someone were to say, "Hey I'm reading Barren Ground." or "I'm reading The Sound and the Fury" then I could comment on those.
Some of the books that have been mentioned in these threads in the past I think would stand the test of time and could be read in a university or secondary school class.
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Post by dunc on Apr 26, 2010 13:32:17 GMT -5
Currently reading Dragon Factory, by Jonathan Maberry and it's prequel, Patient Zero. They're both pretty good thrillers with a sci-fi/genetic engineering twist. A good dose of science, too. Still working through God and His Demons by Michael Parenti. Picked up a used copy of Failed States by Noam Chomsky for a couple bucks at a great used bookstore by me. In my reading queue: Divine Misfortune by A. Lee Martinez Horns by Joe Hill The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi WWW: Wake and WWW: Watch by Robert J. Sawyer China Mieville has a new book out in June called Kraken. i'm trying to get my hands on an advance copy. I've got a copy of Failed States on the cabinet next to my bed.. I'm going to start reading through it tomorrow. Writing a paper on Nuclear Policy right now, thought I'd get some critique.
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Post by dunc on Apr 26, 2010 13:37:12 GMT -5
I've read plenty of Faulkner and Hemingway and Glasgow. I've read Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Rushdie and Wolf. But I've not read most of that in the past 7 or 8 years so I wouldn't list it as a book I've read recently. If someone were to say, "Hey I'm reading Barren Ground." or "I'm reading The Sound and the Fury" then I could comment on those. Some of the books that have been mentioned in these threads in the past I think would stand the test of time and could be read in a university or secondary school class. You need to read more Germans. I've got a serious infatuation with German literature right now.
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Post by FullFrontalBuddha on Apr 26, 2010 13:45:53 GMT -5
I just got another copy of Siddhartha because it's been so long since I read that that I've mostly forgotten it. I've got some other 'classics' queued up as well.
My cousin has that Swedish version of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, he said it was good. I've got that and a few other things that I've yet to get around to watching.
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Post by dunc on Apr 26, 2010 13:50:17 GMT -5
Siddhartha is one of my favourites. Love Hesse! Might read The Glass Bead Game soon, though I've heard it's not his best.
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Post by FullFrontalBuddha on Apr 26, 2010 14:03:02 GMT -5
I haven't read The Glass Bead Game, just Siddhartha and Steppenwolf. I got a bunch of free eBook stuff that I hadn't read in a while or never got around to reading, from Shakespeare to Dickens to classic Sci-Fi and Fantasy stuff like Andre Norton, Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, etc. Project Gutenberg resources are awesome. manybooks.net/www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
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Post by thefirstbardo on Apr 26, 2010 15:12:33 GMT -5
does anyone else actually read proper old school literature? I feel like I'm on my own! Not in a while but I've read plenty, yeah. I feel like I've had my fill of classics for a while so most fiction I read is not of the "literature" type, though I feel that tag gets bandied about by people who want to think they read "better" books than others (not you, just in general). Most of my non-fiction reading has to do with physics, theology, philosophy or politics. Most fiction I read (at the moment) is either indie published (many genres) or sci-fi/fantasy/new weird (Mieville, Vandermeer, etc) with a bit of Adams-style humor thrown in if I can find something comparable to his writing style. When I was in my early twenties I went through a classic lit and poetry phase where I read as much as I could take for a while, then read some Keruak and Burroughs, Leary, got into Hunter S. Thompson and whatnot...
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