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DragonLady1
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Loona
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DragonLady1 said:@loona just tell us, it may be interesting
don't think they ever got translated, but I will look if so
or maybe try nice talking guys, I go and dry my hair at last and watch tv. There will be a film called 'Doors' and it has no information if it's about the band or not. Hope yes, I would be interested...
lord667
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I'm reading the Iliad at the moment. It's fantastic, like one long and fairly dramatic round of bloodshed, with a few rousing oratories thrown in.
My favourite authors at the moment are William Burroughs, of whom I've read Naked Lunch, Junky and The Place Of Dead Roads, and Chuck Palahniuk, of whom I've read Fight Club and Lullaby.
My favourite authors at the moment are William Burroughs, of whom I've read Naked Lunch, Junky and The Place Of Dead Roads, and Chuck Palahniuk, of whom I've read Fight Club and Lullaby.
i read Outsider too i think when i was 15ish was a good book, really dry and thought provoking that is if im thinking of the same one....
was it about a guy and his thoughts to situation he encountered? and he had a best friend and he met a girl and someone got shot on a beach?
was it about a guy and his thoughts to situation he encountered? and he had a best friend and he met a girl and someone got shot on a beach?
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Themanwithnoname
first day at uni today for the new semester and the "good" news came fast. these are the "few" books i have to read till the end of may:
the classics:
machiavelli - the prince
voltaire - candide
goethe - faust (part I)
flaubert - madame bovary
dostoyevsky - notes from underground
wilde - the picture of dorian gray
and the recent stuff:
john fowles - the collector
jean rhys - wide sargasso sea
graham greene - the human factor
kate atkinson - behind the scens at the museum
graham swift - last orders
add to that quite a lot of old/medieval english poetry (chaucer, shakespeare, milton, marvell, donne and many more) and you can realise my situation.
i think that song goodbye cruel world by floyd sums it up nicely.
the classics:
machiavelli - the prince
voltaire - candide
goethe - faust (part I)
flaubert - madame bovary
dostoyevsky - notes from underground
wilde - the picture of dorian gray
and the recent stuff:
john fowles - the collector
jean rhys - wide sargasso sea
graham greene - the human factor
kate atkinson - behind the scens at the museum
graham swift - last orders
add to that quite a lot of old/medieval english poetry (chaucer, shakespeare, milton, marvell, donne and many more) and you can realise my situation.
i think that song goodbye cruel world by floyd sums it up nicely.
hahaha have fun!sol83 said:first day at uni today for the new semester and the "good" news came fast. these are the "few" books i have to read till the end of may:
the classics:
machiavelli - the prince
voltaire - candide
goethe - faust (part I)
flaubert - madame bovary
dostoyevsky - notes from underground
wilde - the picture of dorian gray
and the recent stuff:
john fowles - the collector
jean rhys - wide sargasso sea
graham greene - the human factor
kate atkinson - behind the scens at the museum
graham swift - last orders
add to that quite a lot of old/medieval english poetry (chaucer, shakespeare, milton, marvell, donne and many more) and you can realise my situation.
i think that song goodbye cruel world by floyd sums it up nicely.
DragonLady1
Firesoul
sol83 said:first day at uni today for the new semester and the "good" news came fast. these are the "few" books i have to read till the end of may:
the classics:
machiavelli - the prince
voltaire - candide
goethe - faust (part I)
flaubert - madame bovary
dostoyevsky - notes from underground
wilde - the picture of dorian gray
and the recent stuff:
john fowles - the collector
jean rhys - wide sargasso sea
graham greene - the human factor
kate atkinson - behind the scens at the museum
graham swift - last orders
add to that quite a lot of old/medieval english poetry (chaucer, shakespeare, milton, marvell, donne and many more) and you can realise my situation.
i think that song goodbye cruel world by floyd sums it up nicely.
ah the french ones, had to read them too... Flaubert and Voltaire are nice tho... And Faust is a must too, I liked it
snow2fall
Member
Faust might actually be the only good thing Goethe ever wrote. We had to read "Die Leiden des jungen Werther" at school - it was a horror! About 200 pages full of self-pity and cheese...DragonLady1 said:ah the french ones, had to read them too... Flaubert and Voltaire are nice tho... And Faust is a must too, I liked it
DragonLady1
Firesoul
snow2fall said:Faust might actually be the only good thing Goethe ever wrote. We had to read "Die Leiden des jungen Werther" at school - it was a horror! About 200 pages full of self-pity and cheese...
double cheese!!! we had it too
snow2fall
Member
DragonLady1
Firesoul
I liked Lessings "Nathan der Weise" tho, and also Brecht had some good stuff... but there were so many cheesy and boring things inbetween... we even didnt read Hesse at school, tho its one of the best imo
Don Corleone
Emre
best said:
it did have a point: to show once again what sick creatures we are...the way we make fun of the different, the way we outcast them etc.
remember the scene where he is taunted by the girl and all his friends...the time he says "i felt naked"
and it also very vividly depicts the intellectual growth of a person...from retardedness to being a genius...the problems he gets into and how complex life gets as one grows.
Frodnat
New Metal Member
Oh... Machiavelli? This guy was just sick. I prefer the "Antimachiavelli" insteadsol83 said:first day at uni today for the new semester and the "good" news came fast. these are the "few" books i have to read till the end of may:
the classics:
machiavelli - the prince
voltaire - candide
goethe - faust (part I)
flaubert - madame bovary
dostoyevsky - notes from underground
wilde - the picture of dorian gray
and the recent stuff:
john fowles - the collector
jean rhys - wide sargasso sea
graham greene - the human factor
kate atkinson - behind the scens at the museum
graham swift - last orders
add to that quite a lot of old/medieval english poetry (chaucer, shakespeare, milton, marvell, donne and many more) and you can realise my situation.
i think that song goodbye cruel world by floyd sums it up nicely.
. And Voltaire... Hmmm... At the moment I am reading a lot of Russian and Polish Science Fiction.
Strugatzki - Picknick am Wegesrand, Das Experiment (Die Stadt der Verdammten) = City of The Damned? I don´t know names of the english versions... I don´t think that they were translated into English.
Stanislaw Lem - Solaris etc...
snow2fall
Member
Hesse is brilliant. We read "Der Steppenwolf" in school, meanwhile almost all his works have found their way into my bookshelf - and into my mind... He's weird, but so is Kafka, and I like his work a lot too.DragonLady1 said:I liked Lessings "Nathan der Weise" tho, and also Brecht had some good stuff... but there were so many cheesy and boring things inbetween... we even didnt read Hesse at school, tho its one of the best imo
Lessing's "Nathan der Weise" was one of the best pieces of literature that we had to read in school. Goethe, Freud and E.T.A. Hoffmann would be the some of the most traumatizing memories of my German lessons.
