Nathalie
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by Nathalie on Oct 29, 2007 13:24:38 GMT -5
**** , i didn't have the time to write them yet, but i have no uni tomorrow, i will do it then. i promise. sorry
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Oct 29, 2007 13:57:56 GMT -5
I haven't read Ulysses yet but I tried to write a description using English Lit notes I wrote down at school: ULYSSES by James Joyce Leopold Bloom aimlessly wanders around Dublin, while his wife is betraying him with a lover. Stephen looks for a paternal figure, who could replace his reckless father. Joyce borrowed the title, as well as narrative framework, from Homer’s Odyssey, and the two works show many parallels. This novel is divided into 18 episodes and focuses on Mr. Bloom’s thoughts, as they emerge from his mind, with the aim of showing that an endless epic can be condensed into a single day. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce First published in book form in 1916, it is a semi-autobiographical account of development of personal identity and artistic awareness. The novel despicts Stephen Dedalus, who can be considered as a fictional alter-ego of the author, from his childhood to his achievement of self-consciuosness and his leaving Ireland, throughout five chapters characterized by growing literary complexity. ( it's hard writing a description of a book I did not like at all...)
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Post by Dominique on Oct 29, 2007 18:57:27 GMT -5
I'm going to repost the list here to make it easier:
Classics that still need descriptions include: Hedda Gabler by Ibsen The Dolls House by Ibsen
Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving Daisy Miller by Henry James
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allen Poe
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Hamlet, Othello and Romeo and Juliet Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott Dracula by Bram Stoker
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Ethan Frome by Edith Warton The Age of Innocence by Edith Warton The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Modern classics not done yet:
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, 1949
A Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 1916 Ulysses James Joyce (1922) Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Diary Of Anne Frank by Anne Frank Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 1932 A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, 1922 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse Of Mules and Men by Zora Neal Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1932
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 1961 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Light in August by William Faulkner Time and Again by Jack Finney The Trial by Franz Kafka On the Road by Jack Kerouac Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov, 1938 The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill, 1921 Animal Farm by George Orwell The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Grapes of Wrath by Jonathan Steinbeck Of Mice and Men by Jonathan Steinbeck A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 1943 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut Night by Elie Wiesel A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, 1948 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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phishhead42
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Post by phishhead42 on Oct 30, 2007 1:24:43 GMT -5
I can do Gulliver's Travels, Ethan Frome, Of Mules and Men, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn all when I have some time during this week/weekend.
Edit: I haven't forgotten... just been busy with school.
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Post by Dominique on Oct 30, 2007 1:33:52 GMT -5
That would be great, thanks
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dragonfly
First poem written for Mother’s Day
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Post by dragonfly on Nov 1, 2007 9:13:36 GMT -5
THE HOBBIT, OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN by J.R.R. Tolkien With this childrens’ novel, first published in 1937, Tolkien introduced the reading public to his fantasy world of Middle-earth as well as some characters that would later star in his masterpiece The Lord of the Rings. The story takes the form of a quest into which our hero, Bilbo Baggins of the small people, gets drawn against his will. He is persuaded to go on a long journey with his friend, the wizard Gandalf, and a party of 13 Dwarves who are planning to steal the dragon Smaug’s treasure hoard and reclaim his lair, the Lonely Mountain in faraway Wilderland, which had once been the site of a Dwarf kingdom. Adventure ensues, and in the course of their journey Bilbo and his companions encounter many of the creatures living in Middle-earth, from the fair Elves to brutish trolls and vile goblins, narrowly escaping numerous life-threatening situations. Hope, that's okay. Please feel free to change it and correct my mistakes. Nathalie: Are you still going to write the descriptions for LotR and Fahrenheit 451? I've just read the latter, so I could do those as well.
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Post by Dominique on Nov 1, 2007 17:13:45 GMT -5
thanks for the hobbit description
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Ash
First poem written for Mother’s Day
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Post by Ash on Nov 2, 2007 16:06:11 GMT -5
Hi There, I am brand new to the forum. Major reader...just wondering though do you guys actually discuss the books you're reading? Just a little curious, I think it would be fun if we did. Let each other know what they thought about various books. Please let me know. thanks! ash
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Nathalie
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by Nathalie on Nov 2, 2007 16:15:46 GMT -5
it's been stressful lately, all i have come up with is this crappy description of LOTR, the others i haven't even begun yet.
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Post by Dominique on Nov 2, 2007 18:07:25 GMT -5
Hi There, I am brand new to the forum. Major reader...just wondering though do you guys actually discuss the books you're reading? Just a little curious, I think it would be fun if we did. Let each other know what they thought about various books. Please let me know. thanks! ash Lol yeah we do that a lot. There are either threads on specific books or people comment on what they've just read in the recently finished thread. We're also starting a book club discussion of Mrs Dalloway soon.
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Ash
First poem written for Mother’s Day
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Post by Ash on Nov 4, 2007 10:45:17 GMT -5
Great Thanks for the info! I noticed in the forums while looking around that there were some book discussions going on, but I couldn't find the entire list, can you point me in the right direction? thanks!
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Post by Dominique on Nov 6, 2007 5:41:49 GMT -5
The entire list of what sorry? This book list? It's still in progress at the moment. Or do you mean a list of book discussions? If so you can just browse through the different pages of the book discussion board or start a thread on any book you want to discuss
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Ash
First poem written for Mother’s Day
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Post by Ash on Nov 6, 2007 11:21:53 GMT -5
Sorry, I was looking for a schedule for the group for the different books, I found it in the calendar. But thanks! ;D
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Post by Dominique on Nov 19, 2007 4:34:48 GMT -5
I did a couple of descriptions while I had some down time at work today: The Handmaid's Tale In this dystopian novel an extremist group has overthrown America's government and become the nation's totalitation rulers. In order to improve the nation's exceedingly low birth rate (many people have been left infertile from extreme environmental pollution) the government forces unmarried women to become "handmaidens" to married couples. These handmaidens must become pregnant to the male as soon as possible, if they fail in doing this they are declared infertile "unwomen" and are shipped off to colonies. The novel focuses on the character Offred and her struggles in this environment. The Handmaid's Tale was nominated for the 1986 Booker Prize and won the 1987 Arthur C. Clarke Award. It is frequently attacked for its anti-religious sentiment and sexual content.
On the Road This work is largely autobiographical: Kerouac drew on his experiences on the road with his friends, embodying them and himself in the story through characters with pseudonyms. Kerouac is the narrator Sal Paradise in this story of road trips around America, jazz and drugs, amongst other things. On the Road is written as a stream of consciousness and is one of the most well-known works from the post-war Beat Generation.
lemme know if there's anything wrong with on the road, I haven't actually read it.
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Nov 19, 2007 12:18:31 GMT -5
Sounds great, very professional The handmaid´s tale is one of the books we´re reading in my Utopian novel class. I´ll try making time to write a description. Can´t have you doing all the work!
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