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What Are You Reading? Part Deux. (pg. 67)
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| Dj Nacht |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
You think that's bad!? HE'S IN OUR ACADEMY OF LETTERS!
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So does a former president, actually, and no, not the brainy one. |
My condolences to your Country.
So far Canada seems to have avoided praising this guy, I think. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| quote: | Originally posted by Alex
I'm trying to start reading Cloud Atlas, but I will admit I am struggling a bit although I am interested.
Anyone know if there are cliff notes for this thing? :toothless
I know I know I'm hipstering on this one. |
try reading with a note pad for notes. i do this on say an ipad for books that are complex so you keep track of everything. A program like omnigraffle is useful. |
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| Spam |
I'm just finishing Midnight Tides which is book 5 of Malazan Book of the Fallen. Although book 1 was really tough to get into, this series has been fantastic. After I put this book down I'll be reading Towers of Midnight in preparation for the final WoT book in January, which I will read in 2 days and be glad that THAT story has finally come to a conclusion.
Also reading a book called Animal, Vegetable, Miracle which my hippy friend let me borrow. It's all about some family's mission to eat local food for a year. I've only read about 20 pages in, but the read thus far has been very enjoyable. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Nacht
My condolences to your Country. |
Thanks :( |
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| woscar |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Nacht
Unfortunately, a trustworthy friend recommended it. To be fair, they warned me that they had read it a long time ago.
I should have known better when I read that Oprah and a bunch of stupid Hollywood celebrities love the book. I actually burned the freaking book, no joke. I hate it. |
LOL, well done.
I just remembered he made headlines a couple of months ago for saying that James Joyce's Ulysses was detrimental to literature while his books are of great benefit.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/boo...insults-readers |
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| stren |
hopefully I'll finish it before the next season of GOT |
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| infiniteJEST |
Philip Roth has retired.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/enter...0,4262111.story
| quote: | Seminal American author Philip Roth, whose novels explored modern Jewish-American life, has told a French magazine that he will write no more books because he has lost his passion for it.
The author of such novels as "American Pastoral", for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and "Portnoy's Complaint" slipped his retirement announcement into an interview last month with French magazine Les Inrocks. On Friday, Houghton Mifflin confirmed his decision. "He told me it was true," said Lori Glazer, executive director of publicity at the publisher. Roth, 79, one of the world's most revered novelists and a frequent contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature, said he had not written for three years.
"To tell you the truth, I'm done," Roth was quoted as telling Les Inrocks. "'Nemesis' will be my last book," he said of his 2010 short novel set against a fictional polio epidemic in Newark, New Jersey, in 1944.
The novella "Goodbye, Columbus" catapulted Roth onto the American literary scene in 1959 with its satirical depiction of class and religion in American life. Published along with five other short stories, it won the National Book Award in 1960. He again received that award in 1995 for "Sabbath's Theater."
Roth, who has written some 25 novels, told Les Inrocks that he had always found writing difficult and that he wanted nothing more to do with reading, writing or talking about books.
He said that when he was 74, he started re-reading his favorite novels by authors Ernest Hemingway, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and others, and then re-read his own novels.
"I wanted to see whether I had wasted my time writing," he explained. "After that, I decided that I was done with fiction. I no longer want to read, to write, I don't even want to talk about it anymore," he was quoted as saying.
"I have dedicated my life to the novel: I studied, I taught, I wrote, I read - to the exclusion of almost everything else. Enough is enough! I no longer feel this fanaticism to write that I have experienced all my life. The idea of trying to write again is impossible," Roth told the magazine.
Roth's four most recent novels, "Everyman," "Indignation," "The Humbling" and "Nemesis", have been short works, often focusing on ageing, physical decline, depression and death. New Jersey-born Roth is best known for his semi-autobiographical and unreliable alter-ego Nathan Zuckerman, who appeared in nine of his novels.
Roth told Les Inrocks that he had spent most of his time in recent years preparing material for his biographer, Blake Bailey. "If I had a choice, I would prefer that there is no biography written about me, but there will be biographies after my death so (I wanted) to be sure that one of them is correct," Roth was quoted as saying. Roth said he had asked his literary executors and his agent to destroy his personal archives after his death once Bailey has finished the biography. "I don't want my personal papers hanging around everywhere," he said. |
Godspeed sir, you heavyweight, you morose bastard. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Might I invoke the right to hate him? I've not read a word of his work, and maybe his work is for me, and his irrefutable ignorance (which we all possess) will erase more of me than it does of him. Will he pardon me that?
He will not. So damn him. It's best to not read a bit. |
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| infiniteJEST |
YesssSSs...Let THE ha-TRED flow through you...Hard-en.Hither with eternity IN STONE. Let these words pet-ri-fy upon your PALING lips: Damned IS man in his ignor-ANCE, best not to read into its lines, ne-ver staBLE, fluctu-ating always in bloom AND wither. Now, invoke the gar-GOYLE.
*cast iron bells tolls*
Well, shucks Hally. Guess that's the last ring. We always mean to stay swell about it all but damned if you do, damned if ya' don't. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| Some scorn the cacophony of life's empty tit. Others leave madness to do it for them. To burn all that they have made themselves to be demands no greater respect than the well-wishing ignorance of their beholden, with not more than a salute and a brief word of their elected erasure. |
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| Lira |
Currently reading/listening to this:
Quite interesting, it's a good combo of ethics and neuroscience. |
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| Lagrangian |
The chaplain to King Charles I, Edward Simmons described a Cavalier as "a Child of Honour, a Gentleman well borne and bred, that loves his king for conscience sake, of a clearer countenance, and bolder look than other men, because of a more loyal Heart."
1642 (June 10) Propositions of Parlt. in Clarendon v. (1702) I. 504 Several sorts of malignant Men, who were about the King; some whereof, under the name of Cavaliers, without having respect to the Laws of the Land, or any fear either of God or Man, were ready to commit all manner of Outrage and Violence. 1642 Petition Lords & Com. 17 June in Rushw. Coll. III. (1721) I. 631 That your Majesty..would please to dismiss your extraordinary Guards, and the Cavaliers and others of that Quality, who seem to have little Interest or Affection to the publick Good, their Language and Behaviour speaking nothing but Division and War.
—Oxford English Dictionary "Cavalier" |
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