Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber - interesting and quite dark versions of some known fairy tales
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises - my first Hemingway, it was ok. I got restless when reading about the characters mostly sitting in cafés all day long...sure, other things happened also, but it's the parts of the book where they are drinking at different cafés that I will remember.
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five - interesting book, but I don't understand why this book seem to be known as the "greatest anti-war" book. I think that, for example, "The Naked and the Dead" is a greater anti-war book than "Slaughterhouse Five".
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises - my first Hemingway, it was ok. I got restless when reading about the characters mostly sitting in cafés all day long...sure, other things happened also, but it's the parts of the book where they are drinking at different cafés that I will remember.
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five - interesting book, but I don't understand why this book seem to be known as the "greatest anti-war" book. I think that, for example, "The Naked and the Dead" is a greater anti-war book than "Slaughterhouse Five".
Confused but on a higher level
formerly known as matfriend
formerly known as matfriend
What are your reading plans for August?
02/08/2012 07:47:54 PM
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At the moment, L'Elégance du Hérisson. And then my mother wanted to throw some books out...
02/08/2012 09:01:01 PM
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Now read Madame de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves, I should review that.
25/08/2012 11:15:57 PM
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Jesus Christ
03/08/2012 09:25:39 AM
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I have to say that Bleak House is one of my less favorite Dickens novels.
06/08/2012 12:26:32 AM
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I love it
06/08/2012 07:12:17 AM
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Interesting. It sounds like we have diametrically opposed views.
07/08/2012 12:23:31 AM
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Re: Interesting. It sounds like we have diametrically opposed views.
07/08/2012 08:17:17 AM
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I finished A Game of Thrones
13/08/2012 08:18:42 PM
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Five (though the third is so long it's split in two in the paperbacks). And please do!
13/08/2012 08:21:03 PM
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I'm reading "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro *NM*
03/08/2012 03:16:46 PM
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I LOVE that book. Ishiguro has such a lovely writing style.
03/08/2012 04:25:25 PM
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As do I. It's the only one of his books I don't have any reservations about.
03/08/2012 07:45:51 PM
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Have you read An Artist of the Floating World? *NM*
07/08/2012 08:19:57 AM
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I also read:
03/09/2012 07:05:36 PM
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