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Mar 19, 2008 5:07:16 GMT -5
Post by rosuu on Mar 19, 2008 5:07:16 GMT -5
DEFINITELY read a picture of dorian gray. i'm reading it right now. if you like really good writing, read it NOW.
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Mar 19, 2008 5:13:18 GMT -5
Post by alba on Mar 19, 2008 5:13:18 GMT -5
I will .. after Trainspotting and Frankenstein (which I need to read for Monday for uni). Oh, and Tam O'Shanter, which I need to read for tomorrow. But that won't take long, because it's six pages or something. I just have to look up words I don't know, which is what's going to take the most time.
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Mar 19, 2008 10:00:11 GMT -5
Post by misaki on Mar 19, 2008 10:00:11 GMT -5
Misaki: "Gorgeous Handwriting."
Haha! That's the first time anyone's ever said that to me! XD Thanks!
Right now, I'm going back through all of my Diana Wynne Jones books. I do this probably twice a year. XD I also really want to re-read Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tales. I have this old, well-love copy (had it since I was three) that really needs some re-reading. ^^
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Mar 19, 2008 11:22:58 GMT -5
Post by naoise on Mar 19, 2008 11:22:58 GMT -5
OMG DIANA WYNNE JONES = T3H AWESOME!
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Mar 19, 2008 12:25:13 GMT -5
Post by starvingartist on Mar 19, 2008 12:25:13 GMT -5
See, Dorian Grey was somewhere between a really good/really terrible read. Because it's a wonderful book, overall, but then he also devoted an entire freaking chapter to describing the finery Grey indulges in (it's boring, though it's been argued by a friend as the "best passage" o_0) and my soul felt dirty when I was done reading. XD alba: But did you laugh? Yes. Pretty handwriting. If I had a scanner I'd show you guys what mine looks like, lol. Mm, old fairy tales. I have this big old hardcover copy of Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales that I pick my way through when I can't sleep.
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Mar 19, 2008 14:03:35 GMT -5
Post by alba on Mar 19, 2008 14:03:35 GMT -5
I believe I did laugh, certainly at parts.
Aaaannnd there's a song by the Smiths called 'Shakespeare's Sister' which I insisted on listening to when I saw my friend had it on a vinyl because of that book. Does that count for something?
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Mar 19, 2008 14:50:08 GMT -5
Post by rosuu on Mar 19, 2008 14:50:08 GMT -5
you're welcome misaki :B
trainspotting. now theres a book that takes a massive effort to read. it should come with idiot-friendly subtitles.
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Mar 19, 2008 15:35:39 GMT -5
Post by alba on Mar 19, 2008 15:35:39 GMT -5
I don't think it's that bad, but then my parents are Scottish. There are some words I don't know, and it does take a bit too much effort when I'm feeling lazy, but all in all isn't too bad. I just get confused because I don't know who's narrating a lot of the time.
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Mar 20, 2008 22:42:53 GMT -5
Post by child-of-fae on Mar 20, 2008 22:42:53 GMT -5
we have to read the picture of dorian grey for freshamn world lit. basically we sit there and giggle about how they're all "teh ghey" for each other. we weren't sure wen we read the first three chapters, but then we asked our teacher and learned the truth.
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Mar 21, 2008 5:00:42 GMT -5
Post by alba on Mar 21, 2008 5:00:42 GMT -5
We read One Hundred Years of Solitude and House of the Spirits in grade 11, which contain rape, incest, bestiality and necrophilia; then in grade 12 we read The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, which includes a 13-year-old boy spying on his mum having sex and refers to an erection as a 'lustrous temple tower'.
School didn't fuck us up at all.
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Mar 21, 2008 11:27:29 GMT -5
Post by child-of-fae on Mar 21, 2008 11:27:29 GMT -5
you've gotta read the kite runner for junior and senior year, here. i think it contains a scene where one young boy is raped by a gang. but i haven't read it yet, so i don't know.
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Mar 24, 2008 7:23:19 GMT -5
Post by rosuu on Mar 24, 2008 7:23:19 GMT -5
Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh. It's about necrophilia and drugs. Good times.
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Mar 24, 2008 7:46:01 GMT -5
Post by alba on Mar 24, 2008 7:46:01 GMT -5
Irvine Welsh likes writing aboot drugs.
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Mar 24, 2008 8:39:13 GMT -5
Post by rosuu on Mar 24, 2008 8:39:13 GMT -5
aboot I know. But its okay, because hes a brilliant writer. Ecstasy made me laugh, because its where My Chemical Romance got their band name. I bought it, and the first page is like 'Three tales of a chemical romance'..
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Mar 24, 2008 11:49:12 GMT -5
Post by misaki on Mar 24, 2008 11:49:12 GMT -5
you've gotta read the kite runner for junior and senior year, here. i think it contains a scene where one young boy is raped by a gang. but i haven't read it yet, so i don't know. Ugh, I HATE that book. I don't see why it's so wonderful. I might have been able to enjoy it at least a little on my own, but I read it in high school for a World Lit. class and my teacher just went ON AND ON about "Oh, the irony of it all!" and thousands of examples. It was AWFUL. The thing I hate the most (and one of the main reasons why I DIDN'T become an English major in college) is the way that people absolutely rip books to shreds in order to find their meaning or symbolism. I HATE IT. Why can't you just read a book and enjoy it at face value? Jeeze. </rant>
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