The Books/Reading Thread

[MasterOLightning]

You could probably check it out from your local library.

Of course, but I have fines to pay next time I go. Maybe I'll just watch the movie, ha.

 

[Alter]

Also, has anyone read any Bukowski?

 

[cookiecutter]

Haha cookiecutter has Katy Perry in his last.fm

I like her

 

[Alter]

I like Lady Gaga for some reason...

 

[MasterOLightning]

Also, has anyone read any Bukowski?

Tons of it. The novels and any poetry compilation are great. I could take or leave the short stories.

I know Unknown likes him as well.

 

[challenge_everything]

@c_e: Are you drunk? You seem to be more annoying atm.

Reading The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde is such an annoying amazing writer. I would have sex with his writing style.

Yes I am. Apologies. Are you too? I don't think you meant to say Oscar Wilde was an annoying amazing writer. I'll go along with amazing though.

 

[Alter]

Tons of it. The novels and any poetry compilation are great. I could take or leave the short stories.

I know Unknown likes him as well.

I am going to start Ham On Rye soon. I am excited, mostly because I am want to read his style because I have been told it is almost sleezy and decadent but also well-composed and thoughtful.

 

[challenge_everything]

Of course, but I have fines to pay next time I go. Maybe I'll just watch the movie, ha.

Please don't. It's not good.

 

[skeptik]

Yes I am. Apologies. Are you too? I don't think you meant to say Oscar Wilde was an annoying amazing writer. I'll go along with amazing though.

I'm not, and I said precisely what I meant to say. He is such an amazing writer that it's downright annoying.

 

[Einherjar86]

Oscar Wilde was the best writer to come out of the Victorian period. He definitely wrote some of the best literary criticism.

 

[skeptik]

Tracing the influence that Walter Pater had on him is sickeningly rewarding for a douchey English major who has largely focused on the Victorian period such as myself.

 

[Einherjar86]

Ars gratia artis indeed. Pater was a genius. I'll admit that I enjoy several writers from the Victorian period, but I still find Wilde the most amusing. The Decay of Lying is one of my favorite works of criticism.

I want to focus on Modernism and contemportary literature for my graduate studies. However, I have a soft spot for Romanticism. It's all interconnected really, so it's tough to choose just one era.

 

[skeptik]

Just go with what feels most epic.

 

[youdontknowme]

whats some good anti-feminist literature?

 

[skeptik]

I don't think there is such a thing, unless you mean for comedic purposes.

 

[youdontknowme]

I don't think there is such a thing, unless you mean for comedic purposes.

I mean misogynistic stuff.

 

[Einherjar86]

Just go with what feels most epic.

True. I do believe that would be Romanticism.

Of course, as far as contemporary literature goes, Blood Meridian is one of the most epic novels I've ever read.

 

[Zephyrus]

whats some good anti-feminist literature?

Everything written before Mrs. Dalloway.

 

[Einherjar86]

I mean misogynistic stuff.

No authors really claim to be misogynistic in their writings. Some Feminist criticism argues that certain works are inherently misogynistic. Some books that have been accused of this are Moby Dick and Heart of Darkness. I, personally, think a lot of feminist criticism treats works unfairly.

 

[youdontknowme]

wasn't Nietzche misogynistic?