Just finished with Wuthering Heights.
I have no book at home to read now.
People sometimes watch the movie so that they don't have to read the book but I went one step beyond and watched the music video so that I don't have to read the book
Just finished with Wuthering Heights.
I have no book at home to read now.
You definitely like to cut corners.People sometimes watch the movie so that they don't have to read the book but I went one step beyond and watched the music video so that I don't have to read the book
That sounds so interesting! I’m going to have to search around now!I saw a documentary on the Brontë sisters a few months ago and found their lives fascinating. Despite Emily and Charlotte writing classics, and Anne also writing a respected novel, I had never gotten around to reading their works. They had amazing childhoods of writing imaginative stories, and all died very young, with contaminated water supplying their family home and community speculated as a contributing factor.
You must read Jane Eyre. It is stupendous!I decided to read Emily's Wuthering Heights, which had its genesis in a childhood story she wrote, as I found her imagination the most interesting. While I enjoyed her writing and really respected her talent and insights, the themes and story were not innately gripping for me, and I did skim here and there. Not sure if I'll get around to Jane Eyre, but I read a brief literary analysis of it.
What are your thoughts on Don't Look Now?That sounds so interesting! I’m going to have to search around now!
You must read Jane Eyre. It is stupendous!
I also wanted to say that I LOVE Daphne du Maurier. I believe The Scapegoat and Frenchman’s Creek were the best as far as I felt, but, looking at them now, (I have six others), I’m trying to jog my memory on most but failing miserably! I just remember being extremely impressed with her writing.
I also know I need to engage myself in this thread and read what you interesting folks have to say!
That’s one I don’t have and haven’t read. Perhaps I should remedy that!What are your thoughts on Don't Look Now?
Los casos del comisario Croce | Ricardo Piglia |
Las cartas del Boom (The Correspondence of the -Latin American- Boom) | Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa |
Izquierda no es woke (Left Is Not Woke) | Susan Neiman |
El mundo entonces | Martín Caparrós |
Sarmiento | Martín Caparrós |
Capital e ideología (Capital and Ideology) | Thomas Piketty |
A 1200 page book. Almost everything must be there.Piketty? Good choice!
At least read these two:A 1200 page book. Almost everything must be there.
@Bagumbawalla: Don't Look Now is currently available to watch on KanopyI agree. In my opinion the book's main literary point is irony. At first the husband believed himself the more well adjusted and sees his wife as needing to benefit
from a vacation. Toward the end, the wife almost instantly takes charge and becomes the stronger of the two when their son is taken to a hospital.
It is the husband who then becomes abstracted with mental issues. And, yes again, the movie seems to have patched up many weaknesses in the "novel". I will keep
an eye out for the movie.
Well, I just finished Civilization and its Discontents (Freud), first published in 1930.
I was kind of expecting something different- like an overview of civilization in it different
forms, but really it was more about describing civilization, culture, society, religion as neurosis.
In a brief discussion of religion Freud mentions a friend who suggests that the impulse
for religion comes from an inner experience of a feeling or sensation of "eternity"- a oceanic feeling of
something unlimited, unbounded that we all possess.
Freud claims he never had those feelings and looks to psycho-analytic research for explanation-
when what he describes as the "primary ego feeling" from the early days of development
when the ego is undifferentiated from the external world..
Bagumbawalla, on the other hand, believes religion derives from the same roots as our ability to recognize
symbolic meanings and purpose in spoken sounds and written markings.
Anyway, about halfway through the book I am beginning to suspect that the various things Freud is describing are
basically just everyday things to which he has attached his own analytical explanations. And sure enough, Chapter VI
begins- "Never before in any of my previous writings have I had the feeling so strongly as I have now that
what I am describing is common knowledge."
And so, the fairly obvious conclusion, that we suspected all along, is that civilization is an artificial construction that
(just as with groups of animals/insects...) aids with survival but requires the sacrifice of some aspects of individuality.
Though we do get a smattering of Freudian terminology, the book is a fairly easy read (144 pages) and worthwhile,
if for no other reason than to get a feeling for the beginnings of psychology.
Yes, I have noticed in other readings that the translation can make a big difference.Your expectation is due to a bad translation. The title is "Das Unbehagen in der Kultur' in German. This is, perhaps, "Unease with the Constraints of Culture".
When you finish give us a review.American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
(The Correspondence of the -Latin American- Boom) | Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa |
I bought more books during my stay there, I will comment later.I am travelling to Buenos Aires, so I plan to buy more books
People sometimes watch the movie so that they don't have to read the book but I went one step beyond and watched the music video so that I don't have to read the book
i guess some people will just read your post instead of watching the clip...You definitely like to cut corners.
I haven't read it, although it may be. But you shouldn't say that.the Odyssey of Homer is the most boring book ever!
you probably got the wrong edition......the Odyssey of Homer is the most boring book ever!
I can't read on the beach.In the summertime when lighter reading is desired, many turn to a “beach read.” I have tried this several times in the past only to be disappointed with poor writing and insipid storylines. To remedy this situation, I turn to well-written children’s books. The Eyes & the Impossible by Dave Eggers (McSweeney's) is such a book. Aimed at readers grades 3-7, this imaginative book features a dog named Johannes as the protagonist. Johannes is a free dog who lives in a park and serves as the “eyes” for the bison who also live in the park, but behind fencing. Johannes runs through the park surveying all around him reporting back to the bison all the while trying to avoid getting caught by humans who also frequent the park. Unfortunately, Johannes eventually does get caught:
“I felt a tug on my neck. I have never worn a leash, but right away my mind said leash. I turned around and saw the legs of a man. They were covered by green pants, and the green pants were covered in mud.“I was now kept. While looking at the picture, thinking of other worlds, I’d lost my freedom in this one.“As we walked, I thought and planned. My mind was in a swirly state, though. I have swum in the gray ocean and more than twice was tossed in the cruelty of a crashing wave, rolling in the white, the shushing, the close-to-oblivion. My mind was like that now.”
After scheming and plotting the other animals in the park hatch a plan to set Johannes free. Cleverly illustrated by Shawn Harris, this 2024 Newberry award winning book is a great choice as a gift for any child and a fine diversion for readers of any age.
I would recognise you in total darkness, were you mute and I deaf. I would recognise you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times. And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion.The First Man in Rome.. just started
A Storm of Swords
Don't make me cry now. This hits everytime I read it but especially nowI would recognise you in total darkness, were you mute and I deaf. I would recognise you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times. And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion.
In the summertime when lighter reading is desired, many turn to a “beach read.” I have tried this several times in the past only to be disappointed with poor writing and insipid storylines. To remedy this situation, I turn to well-written children’s books. The Eyes & the Impossible by Dave Eggers (McSweeney's) is such a book. Aimed at readers grades 3-7, this imaginative book features a dog named Johannes as the protagonist. Johannes is a free dog who lives in a park and serves as the “eyes” for the bison who also live in the park, but behind fencing. Johannes runs through the park surveying all around him reporting back to the bison all the while trying to avoid getting caught by humans who also frequent the park. Unfortunately, Johannes eventually does get caught:
“I felt a tug on my neck. I have never worn a leash, but right away my mind said leash. I turned around and saw the legs of a man. They were covered by green pants, and the green pants were covered in mud.“I was now kept. While looking at the picture, thinking of other worlds, I’d lost my freedom in this one.“As we walked, I thought and planned. My mind was in a swirly state, though. I have swum in the gray ocean and more than twice was tossed in the cruelty of a crashing wave, rolling in the white, the shushing, the close-to-oblivion. My mind was like that now.”
After scheming and plotting the other animals in the park hatch a plan to set Johannes free. Cleverly illustrated by Shawn Harris, this 2024 Newberry award winning book is a great choice as a gift for any child and a fine diversion for readers of any age.
...I may also need to rethink randomness as a method of finding reading material...
I think that I would act like that if I were immortal, as I would know that I would always recoup the time spent reading a book in the case it was not good. This is because I always finish the books I start reading.I have always admired your willingness to take the risk of buying a book you know nothing about and giving it a try. I hope you don't give that up entirely. You can always take a break and read a "tried-and-true" when randomness lets you down.
I really liked Dune, Then tried to read the second novel, Dune Messiah.Dune Messiah, Paul Atreides has stoic Sinner aura.
I am finishing this book these days.As anounced in my books purchases above, now I am reading this one:
(The Correspondence of the -Latin American- Boom) Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa
It's a collection of letters exchanged between these writers (actually the ones that could be kept).
These were personal friends in the 60’s, and currently, only Vargas Llosa (the younger of them) is alive. To locate them in time: Cortázar (1914-1984), García Márquez (1927-2014), Fuentes (1928-2012), and Vargas Llosa (1936-).
There is a general consensus that those were the major exponents of the Latin American Boom.
It's interesting to see how they shared their books before publishing them, and how they supported reading and commenting each other's works.