That looks like pretty standard fare stuff. No offense intended.
Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 30/01/2011 06:51:09 AM
I'm trying to nail down a sort of back to basics reading list for myself. I've read about half of those and know next to nothing of the others.
I plan to revisit Godot. Beckett is brilliant.
Why do you have Conrad on there? He's quite possibly the most overrated author that i have come across in the history of the English language. Wretched, stilted writing.
I'd go with the Chaucer, the Boccacio, and the Beckett.
I plan to revisit Godot. Beckett is brilliant.
Why do you have Conrad on there? He's quite possibly the most overrated author that i have come across in the history of the English language. Wretched, stilted writing.
I'd go with the Chaucer, the Boccacio, and the Beckett.
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30/01/2011 04:13:47 AM
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That looks like pretty standard fare stuff. No offense intended.
30/01/2011 06:51:09 AM
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I'm mostly revisiting books I read in my late teens to mid-20s
30/01/2011 07:42:48 AM
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The themes may improve. His inability to form any sort of coherent style likely will remain.
30/01/2011 08:55:10 PM
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These ones:
30/01/2011 01:07:58 PM
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Don't choose Gurney!
30/01/2011 02:23:14 PM
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It certainly was the worst of the four Ancient Empires books *NM*
30/01/2011 04:18:53 PM
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I think Camilla ought to read Flight to Lucifer
30/01/2011 04:42:32 PM
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I am doing very well pretending Bloom does not exist
30/01/2011 06:54:24 PM
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You might like his novel, though
30/01/2011 07:03:09 PM
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Okay.
30/01/2011 01:13:24 PM
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The number of votes for Chaucer is curious
30/01/2011 04:41:37 PM
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Well... could be an international readership?
30/01/2011 07:38:51 PM
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Very possible, considering 1/3 or so of the blog's readership isn't Anglo-American *NM*
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Re: Very possible, considering 1/3 or so of the blog's readership isn't Anglo-American
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