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| Books & Authors Recommended and not so recommended reading. |
03-22-2006, 01:32 PM
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Half-way through, I'm loving it. I think a lot of people don't 'get' Hemingway or dismiss his style as oversimplistic, but he's a joy to read.
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Yes, it's certainly simplistic. But that's good because with the simplicity it comes down to the word choice. And he makes good decisions there.
Someone asked me what I thought of The Old Man And The Sea and I responded by saying that it reminded me of a talented Paulo Coelho in that through the simplicity Hemingway was able to describe and create drama while laying on metaphors and allusions with a story based around a character called Santiago. Coelho's The Alchemist, was lifeless in comparison. And Coelho's Santiago wasn't tortured, determined, or threatened in the way Hemingway's was; and that's what gave The Old Man And The Sea meat. |
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03-24-2006, 11:17 AM
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Just Finished
Tales from the Quarter by Lawrence Garber
Max and the Cats by Moacyr Scliar
Stuck in the middle of...
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Just Starting
The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
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03-24-2006, 01:00 PM
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Prolific Writer
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The Princess Bride. I am not sure who it is by, some say S Morgenstein, others say Goldman.
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03-24-2006, 03:17 PM
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Location: You'll never know! MwaaaHaaaaHaaaHaaa!
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I finished "I am Legend" by Richard Matheson
Also finished "The Areas of My Expertise", by John Hodgman
And I'm in the Middle of "Johnathan Strange and Mr.Norrel" by Susan Clark.
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Critique these if you want, and I'll critique yours. (PM me if you have something specific)
Balance: I, II, III, IV, V, VI , VII
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03-24-2006, 09:09 PM
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I just finished "Where The Wizards Stay Up Late " by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon. It is about the orgins of the internet, I reccomend it if anyone is intreasted in a slighly technical book. I am about to start "Quicksilver" by Neal Stephenson. I have been looking foward to it for a while. He is without a doubt my favorite author and his book "Cryptonomicon" is what ultimately pushed me to try and write a book myself.
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03-24-2006, 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Cady
The Princess Bride. I am not sure who it is by, some say S Morgenstein, others say Goldman.
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Goldman used an old literary technique. He created a fictional author and said his words were the fictional author's. In this case he took it even further by saying his work is an abridged version of an older work. It's all fake. Goldman wrote The Princess Bride.
I'm reading too much.
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
Shardik - Richard Adams
Burmese Days - George Orwell
The Mabinogion - Unknown
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
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Usually it takes at least 100 [posts] before people start to hate Hodge
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03-24-2006, 11:05 PM
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Prolific Writer
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Just Finished: Prophecy - Elizabeth Haydon
Currently Reading: Shogun - James Clavell & The Army Field Manual
Up Next: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel - Susanna Clarke
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03-25-2006, 12:02 AM
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The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. I love it. Next I'm going to read Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. --Ernest Hemingway
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03-25-2006, 09:17 AM
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Hodge,
How are you finding Ellison's Invisible Man? Thinking about picking it up.
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His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
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03-27-2006, 08:55 PM
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Location: Toronto, Ontario
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The Mind in the Cave. It's about the art of cave painting and how it gave way to human consciousness, or vice versa.
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Just because you're a lesbian it doesn't make you any less of a being!
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03-27-2006, 08:57 PM
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Scribe
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Originally Posted by TheReMonstor
Just Finished: Prophecy - Elizabeth Haydon
Currently Reading: Shogun - James Clavell & The Army Field Manual
Up Next: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel - Susanna Clarke
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I remember reading that book - Prophecy - a few years ago. I loved it then. But only the first four books of the series is good.
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03-27-2006, 09:16 PM
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Prolific Writer
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Hodge thank you for clearing up that confusion.
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03-27-2006, 09:29 PM
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Hodge,
How are you finding Ellison's Invisible Man? Thinking about picking it up.
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It's friggin's awesome. A pity it was Ellison's only complete novel... But it's a really good story in addition to being a powerful social commentary. Pretty sick and twisted in parts, but very good (and it gives depth to black thugs and homeless people we stereotype so much).
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03-27-2006, 10:06 PM
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Prolific Writer
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I was reading a thread somewhere about the book House of Leaves by Mark Danilewski. Who ever posted the thread said the book was awesome so i went out and bought it that day. I'm reading it now and i recomend it to everybody. Danielewski has a really unique way of telling this story.
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"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." ~Mark Twain
"Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays." ~George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872
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03-27-2006, 10:18 PM
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Hodge,
Picked it up from the biblio. Read the prologue. Good stuff.
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