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jinnayah
13 yrs ago
Did I mention Stratford Festival in Ontario is doing their first production of _Dangerous Liaisons_ this fall? It's still up for nearly a month. And it's still a terrifying story. http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/OnStag…
jinnayah
13 yrs ago
In answer to your question, well, I've got this literary-critic type friend who, one night (naturally, far too late that night) during college, was expounding to a physics-music type mutual friend on the concept of liter…
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Can anyone recommend some good short books or fast reads
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_The Story of a Marriage_ - Andrew Sean Greer
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
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Under 200 pages, and although I didn't want it to end I couldn't take my eyes out of it!
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I liked Orson Scott Card's EMPIRE. Plz recommend more patriotic Card fiction?
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_Saints_?
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
Card calls this one "My love song to my people." Being about early Mormon culture, it deals far less with the United States of the same time, but it's a good book with a fantastic central character.
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(sings) This is the book that never ennnnnds...
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Yup--I only finished that to see Scarlett get squashed!
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
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jinnayah
14 yrs ago
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
It's a great East-and-West book (set in the Caucasus region), a great war book, and a great love story. Very much like _Dr. Zhivago_ (though I admit I haven't read that one myself--it got too intense for me too quickly)…
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
Great collection of twisted-love stories edited by Jeffrey Eugenides.
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Any Zombie Horror fans out there??? Book recommendation xx
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*Horror* specifically, or also Zombie Comedy?
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
'cause _Pride and Prejudice and Zombies_ is pretty awesome (much more so the more you appreciate original P&P, of course).
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
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I, too, would think multiple times about following through on someone who can't appreciate the magic of books.
I knew a girl once who broke up with her boyfriend when she realized he would never go camping with her.…
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
People tell me that part of the "joke" in _Catcher_ is that Holden Caulfield is very much the same kind of person as everyone he despises, but that's a joke which I can't really find funny. He was just annoying!
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Happy Fairy Tales - Recommendations?
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But on the third hand, tragedy can also be redeeming
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
Guy Gavriel Kay's fantasy books might suit you.
They aren't icky, but are written for adults. (i.e. sex and drunkenness happens, but only as called for by the plot and specifics left mainly to your imagination.) The…
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Happy Fairy Tales - Recommendations?
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On the other hand, authentic "fairy tales" rarely ARE happy ...
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
There's a reason the canonical compilation is by people named "Grimm." :-P
("Are the FBI in the habit of cleaning up after multiple murder?"
"Of course. Why do you think they're run by a man named 'Hoover'?")
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
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jinnayah
14 yrs ago
Copied off of Facebook.com, a new "tagging note" that's going around. On actual FB I included links to info about each of these books--most of them to copies I have put up on BX!
Jinnayah
Rules: Don't take too…
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Has there ever been a Nobel Prize in Literature Reading challenge before?
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Create your own "worksheet" and copy-paste the first columns
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
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That's how I was imagining it. One couldn't see everyone's progress at once, but each person could keep track individually. In the lower left of the window (when you have the spreadsheet open) there's a button "Add she…
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Have you ever read a book and wanted to visit the worlds you've visited in them?
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Been thinking about this ... see _The Magician's Book_ by Laura Miller
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
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I just yesterday finished _The Magician's Book_ and it's affected me deeply. It's a lit crit-cum-memoir about loving, losing, and attempting to regain the magic of Narnia.
I *believe* these other worlds exist--especi…
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Jane Austen's early death may drive me bonkers if I can't find novels to match hers
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John Galsworthy - _Forsyte Saga_
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
Sparkling, yes. Comedy, sometimes. Manners, DEFINITELY.
_The Forsyte Saga_ is a set of books that does not take its characters' way of life (upper-middle-class English, late 19th-century) entirely seriously--but Gal…
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What to do when you 'come in' at the middle of the series?
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With genre series I usually don't pay attention to order
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
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See Laurell K. Hamilton's "Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter" books, or Anne Perry's "William Monk" books. I come upon one (in the former case, _Guilty Pleasures_; in the latter, _A Dangerous Mourning_), read it, like it, and…
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
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Hoi,
Als kind woonde ik 5 jaar in Leiden, en ik heb toch nog niet m'n *hele* Nederlandse bekennis verloren. Een handvol boeken dat ik in die jaren heb gelezen zitten nog steeds heel diep in mijn hart, o.a. Guus Kuije…
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Has there ever been a Nobel Prize in Literature Reading challenge before?
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And this reviews section on the Nobel site will help
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
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http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/literature/books/recommendations.html
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Has there ever been a Nobel Prize in Literature Reading challenge before?
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I made an open Google Spreadsheet for keeping track
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
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http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pvRPpvcZmq-4DNXjSwtSGZQ
Let me know whether you can get into this properly. If you can, just create a new worksheet within the spreadsheet and make your own list!
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Has there ever been a Nobel Prize in Literature Reading challenge before?
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Remember that Nobel Lit prizes are traditionally for BODIES OF WORK
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
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So by extension the Nobel Prize in Reading should not be something one "trains" for like an Olympic medal, but rather a "Lifetime Achievement Award" given for a life dedicated to profligate, or deeply intent, or excessiv…
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
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Okay, so part of what I like about these is their willingness to be utterly RIDICULOUS:
Mortimer Brewster -- _Arsenic and Old Lace_
Miss Scarlet -- _Clue_
Wart (Arthur) -- _The Sword in the Stone_
Edwina Cutwater …
jinnayah
14 yrs ago
Karna -- Indian epic _Mahabharata_ -- the cursed, but ever honorable, warrior
Savitri -- Indian myth recounted also in the _Mahabharata_ -- the determined lover and wife who faces down Death
Hector -- Homer's _Iliad_ -…