Literature

[Ivo]

I think we should open a topic for literature...
I'm just curious what you guys are reading in your free time and am I the only one obssessed with sci-fi and fantasy...
Some good books to recommend etc...

 

[Forlorn Hope]

I think I am very boring and repetitive: I like Stephen King and Tolkien :s

 

[without]

last book I read is : "red dyed hair"
a book of a Greek author (Kostas Mourselas)

 

[Ivo]

Anybody read Adam Nichols?

 

[neph]

hm.. nobody wants to hear that... thousands and thousands of pages of weird f***ing stuff for my exams
but apart from that, everything. Favourite books are Dubliners (James Joyce), The Red and The Green (Iris Murdoch), all the stuff by Virginia Woolf, Gothic novels, Lord of the Rings, also mythological, political stuff, books on psychology... anybody fallen asleep already okay, I'll stop here...

 

[D Mullholand]

'the portrait of an artist in youth' by James Joyce is the best book i've read so far - and i've begun 'ulysses' this week, which seems to be even better. fantastic books.

i'm a huge admirer of Kafka, Borges, Huxley, Burroughs (William), and got a very tall unread pile on my table... what else... of course, Stanislaw Lem and Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick - i was a SF fan before, but now i find that most of the books i liked sort of pale. so, i've still got a world to discover. any suggestions anybody?

 

[neph]

Originally posted by D Mullholand
'the portrait of an artist in youth' by James Joyce is the best book i've read so far - and i've begun 'ulysses' this week, which seems to be even better. fantastic books.

i'm a huge admirer of Kafka, Borges, Huxley, Burroughs (William), and got a very tall unread pile on my table... what else... of course, Stanislaw Lem and Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick - i was a SF fan before, but now i find that most of the books i liked sort of pale. so, i've still got a world to discover. any suggestions anybody?

ULYSSES?!?!?!? I'm impressed. After my prof told me what it is all about and what you have to know to understand it, I didn't even dare to touch it...

 

[speed]

I just read the Quiet American by Graham Greene- I absolutely loved this book- good read for me since my dad is a vietnam vet. I highly recommend it.

I read pretty much everything Chekov wrote this summer- Uncle Vanya- and Three Sisters were very good.

Not a fan of any science fiction or fantasy though.

Portrait Of a Artist is good- but I dont know - I become bored with his incessant descriptions and adjectives.

 

[neph]

Originally posted by speed


Portrait Of a Artist is good- but I dont know - I become bored with his incessant descriptions and adjectives.

Yes, know what you mean, but that has to do with building up this epiphany/paralysis thing... like being stuck in a situation or eventually being able to escape...

 

[somnium_in_tenebris]

Has anybody read "The Dice-man?"i'm stuck right now,cannot recall the name of the author,which is not his real name btw...
It's about a nutty shrink,that retires from his past life and leaves his life to be rules by a couple of dice.
it is the most perverse book i've ever read(not quite fantasy though,more like an alternative reality)together with Lydia Lunch's
"Paradoxia"(great book).
I love Tolkien and Marquis De Sade.
As for fantasy stuff,i have some comic series to recommend(although some of you may already know)...and,of course,this has to be the "Sandman"series and "Timothy hunter and the books of magic",by Neil Gaiman...they had a tremendous effect on me.

 

[oe]

im reading freud to impress girls. ho ho ho..no. im reading 'civilization and its discontents' by frued..hey IVO, have u heard epitaph in its original version?(king crimson)

 

[Quagmire]

Henry Miller "Tropic of Cancer"
John Milton "Lost Paradise"
Hermann Hesse "Demian"
That´s it...

 

[mehdi.i.e.e.e]

signed writers are shit anyway. real writers don't need to publish their books, neither to write them down. they just keep them for themselves and read them in their minds.

 

[HarmonyDies....]

right.

 

[D Mullholand]

hm, i find Joyce very easy to read - as to be carried along by a wave. he has something, this rich beauty of text... now, Rimbaud's late poems are, like, five times harder to grasp.

 

[cedarbreed]

Originally posted by mehdi.i.e.e.e
signed writers are shit anyway. real writers don't need to publish their books, neither to write them down. they just keep them for themselves and read them in their minds.

T'as vu ? Trankilement !
*Mtchk*
Puis arrêtes d'écouter Mass Hysteria, ça rend positif ...

 

[Ghostie]

Originally posted by without
last book I read is : "red dyed hair"
a book of a Greek author (Kostas Mourselas)

Did my avatar inspire you ?
Or some handsome guys from somehere...?

I read only three books now
The first one is a collection of novels by a Hungarian author Istvan Orkeny. It's hard to translate but the title of the collection is "One-minuteds".
The second is Aztec Chronicles written by Juan de Tovar. This is a kind of story telling about the aztec civilization...
The third one is about the aborigines of america. Here I read about Aztecs again

I would be curious if one of you could find this Hungarian book in the library !!

This one is soo funny >>

And also this one, too >>

 

[without]

Originally posted by Ghostie


Did my avatar inspire you ?
Or some handsome guys from somehere...?

ý can't see what's your avartar !

there isn't handsome boys in tukrey
and handsome boys can't inspire me but I inspire hansdsome boys

 

[Ghostie]

Originally posted by without


ý can't see what's your avartar !

there isn't handsome boys in tukrey
and handsome boys can't inspire me but I inspire hansdsome boys

Why can't you see my avatar ??
Oh, maybe i forgot to turn of the ghost mode and it is still invisible

I meant 'somehere' of the forum

 

[without]

Originally posted by Ghostie


Why can't you see my avatar ??
Oh, maybe i forgot to turn of the ghost mode and it is still invisible

I meant 'somehere' of the forum

I don't know why..

I can not find an avartar for myself