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butterflydreamingIf anyone is interested in taking me up on this, I think the results could be funny. C'mon, it'll be awful.
1. Comment here and I'll pick one of your LJ interests and draw a picture using the mighty MS Paint.
2. You have no say in what I draw for you, or in how bad it will be!
3. Put this in your journal along with the pictures people drew for you.
If you want, I can even make it icon sized.
Obligatory visit/meal with family today, conversation included discussion of the movies Catwoman and Memoirs of a Geisha, which led to Sayonara and The Hawaiians. My brother wanted anchovies on the pizza, and oddly enough, I had the same inclination.
After Full Dark House, I have The Count of Monte Cristo. No, really -- I haven't read it before. Like Robinson Crusoe, it's one that I simply haven't read. I am trying to put together a list of necessary-to-have-read books. Dumas, Defoe... if I do it alphabetically, I can avoid Tolstoy for a while.
Suggest one? I'll tell you if I've read it.
1. Comment here and I'll pick one of your LJ interests and draw a picture using the mighty MS Paint.
2. You have no say in what I draw for you, or in how bad it will be!
3. Put this in your journal along with the pictures people drew for you.
If you want, I can even make it icon sized.
Obligatory visit/meal with family today, conversation included discussion of the movies Catwoman and Memoirs of a Geisha, which led to Sayonara and The Hawaiians. My brother wanted anchovies on the pizza, and oddly enough, I had the same inclination.
After Full Dark House, I have The Count of Monte Cristo. No, really -- I haven't read it before. Like Robinson Crusoe, it's one that I simply haven't read. I am trying to put together a list of necessary-to-have-read books. Dumas, Defoe... if I do it alphabetically, I can avoid Tolstoy for a while.
Suggest one? I'll tell you if I've read it.
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Date: 2006-01-16 12:53 am (UTC)You can draw for me, if you want.
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Date: 2006-01-16 01:01 am (UTC)Whee! I draw.
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Date: 2006-01-18 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-18 08:08 pm (UTC)(I also adore the Memento Mori!)
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Date: 2006-01-16 12:53 am (UTC)The Miserables. Crime and Punishment. Most Dickens. Don Quijote. Wilde's play are entertaining. Usually books are classics for a reason...even if I hated Proust's "In search of lost time"
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Date: 2006-01-16 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-16 01:07 am (UTC)Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkein's translation is good, the Middle English is better and I would be happy to read bits aloud to you).
Beowulf (Seamus Heaney's translation is strangely academic).
Pride and Prejudice (IronyMaiden had my paperback copy).
The Illiad. (I'm not so keen on the Odyssey.)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (the only thing Joyce ever wrote worth reading, IMHO)
Dante's Inferno.
I love books...
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Date: 2006-01-16 05:56 pm (UTC)Joyce, yes. {adds to list}
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Date: 2006-01-16 01:12 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-01-18 09:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-16 01:08 am (UTC)and, considering this is my first comment, I feel a bit like I'm exploiting the offer, but whatever.
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Date: 2006-01-18 06:28 pm (UTC)Re: (tea)
Date: 2006-01-18 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-16 01:18 am (UTC)It is best read in a darkened room, wrapped in a soft but heavy blanket, with a lamp.
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Date: 2006-01-16 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-17 03:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-16 01:21 am (UTC)Seconding the rec for Pride and Prejudice. And after that, Persuasion, also by Austen.
(very cute stuffed animals)
Date: 2006-01-18 07:50 pm (UTC)Re: (very cute stuffed animals)
Date: 2006-01-18 11:28 pm (UTC)*goes to iconize*
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Date: 2006-01-16 04:23 am (UTC)Just saw the Count of Monte Cristo done as anime last night. Surprisingly good.
Suggest one. Hmmmmm, Dracula?
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Date: 2006-01-16 06:01 pm (UTC)Of course, I've read Dracula. {smiles}
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Date: 2006-01-18 06:26 pm (UTC)How did this comment become "A Reading List of Feisty Women in English Literature"?
Date: 2006-01-16 06:39 am (UTC)I recommend Jane Eyre, one of my favorites that you probably have hit (but if you haven't, you should), and Vanity Fair, one that most people haven't. I FAR prefer Thackeray to Dickens so far as novels originally published in episodic format. Such a deliciously vicious satirical wit.
Please don't let your Defoe reading stop at Robinson Crusoe, do not pass go or collect $200 before reading Moll Flanders. Guy deserted on island, yes a classic, but feisty women need to read Moll Flanders. Well, ok, Jane and Becky are significantly feisty too.
I intend to read Anna Karenina someday - I took it out of the library once and got totally bogged down and stalled in the academic introduction, before I learned never to read them before reading the book itself (damn you, you stupid editors of Pride and Prejudice that let the introduction writer give away the plot before I even got past the pages with roman numerals!). Consequently I do not know if Anna is feisty or not.
I only intended to recommend a couple, so I'll stop now. I will add, however, that I feel it is a grevious error to allow someone (such as myself) to attain an English literature degree without forcing her to read Milton. I don't feel any real urge to pick up Milton (other than to deepen my understandings of the references Neil Gaiman makes in The Sandman oeuvre, sad creature that I am), but I sincerely believe that I ought to have been compelled to read some in order to get my stripes.
Re: How did this comment become "A Reading List of Feisty Women in English Literature"?
Date: 2006-01-16 06:09 pm (UTC)AK is the Tolstoy on the list. I admit that the presence of a prominent female character can often be a deciding point for me when I'm choosing something to read or watch.
Re: How did this comment become "A Reading List of Feisty Women in English Literature"?
Date: 2006-01-23 08:11 pm (UTC)BTW, I also liked Les Miserables a great deal, and read it several times. I have never seen/heard more than snippets from the musical so I didn't have that set of mental images to wipe out.
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Date: 2006-01-18 06:29 pm (UTC)Re: (steak)
Date: 2006-01-23 08:08 pm (UTC)If I might ask, what made you pick that one?
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Date: 2006-01-23 09:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-16 08:16 am (UTC)Someone mentioned Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I'd second that and recommend the short story The Dead, which I loved. In keeping with my weakness for short stories, I'd also suggest sampling some Kipling (yes, colonial, etc but great for capture the period), Poe, Isak Dinesen and even Hemingway.
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Date: 2006-01-16 06:16 pm (UTC){adds Dinesen, Collette} I've been debating which Hemingway I should read. Do short stories get me out of a novel, or will I be hooked?
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Date: 2006-01-16 07:56 pm (UTC)I realized later I should have also mentioned Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy and Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf (pair it with The Hours, but maybe not until after the rain stops).
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Date: 2006-01-16 08:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-16 03:13 pm (UTC)Memiors of a Geisha was such a good movie. Have you also read the book?
And I third the Austen recommendation. Anything by Jane Austen is worth reading, as well as The Great Gatsby. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is good too.
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Date: 2006-01-16 06:22 pm (UTC)MofG, like DaVinci Code, is one of those books on the "everyone tells me it's good" list. I'll end up reading them once everyone has forgot about them; I tend to do that! If you liked Memoires, you might like Tokaido Road, set in an earlier time period but also in JP, about a samurai's daughter. It grew on me & I found myself enjoying her adventures (and romance).
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Date: 2006-01-16 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-16 07:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-16 03:27 pm (UTC)Most of the books I can think of were mentioned already. But I have to second Don Quixote, because it's one of the few classics that are actually funny.
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Date: 2006-01-18 06:31 pm (UTC)Re: (faeries)
Date: 2006-01-18 09:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-18 10:13 pm (UTC)I somehow missed the memeboat. sigh.
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Date: 2006-01-19 01:33 am (UTC)Re: not really
Date: 2006-01-19 03:07 am (UTC)LOL!!! :D
*love*