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Posted by Dain, Saturday, September 15, 2007 5:16 AM (Eastern)
I've not been reading much lately. I think I burned out because of school, so these past few months I've been immersed in... err... cosmetics. But I suppose you burn out in one thing, the other becomes fresh again, so I've been feeling the urge to pick up a book. Here is the reading list I've come up with. Almost strange to think of reading for self, not class. Some of these I've read before, some I've only started, but all are worth the reading.
- To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf: Never tried her before, think it's about time.
- Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes: It's been a long while since I read this.
- Duino Elegies, by Rainer Maria Rilke: Hauntingly beautiful German poetry.
- A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole: My friend, who's not much of a reader, recommended this as something she "couldn't put down".
- Tess of the D'Ubervilles, by Thomas Hardy: I'm a big fan of The Mayor of Casterbridge, but I've never read his more famous work.
- 1000 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez: Heard about it many a time, but never read it.
- The Tent, by Margaret Atwood: A book I judged by its attractive cover, but I can't really go wrong with Atwood, can I?
- The Cornish Triology, by Robertson Davies: Dazzlingly erudite.
- Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne: A really odd book, surrealist 18th-century novel without much of a story.
- The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene: I should get some nonfiction in there.
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September 15, 2007 8:25 AM,
Congratulations on getting to read at your own leisure! It must be a great feeling. I don't have the exact same experience as you, since I never studied literature and could turn to books for a break - if I had the time. But I remember the joy of not being overwhelmed with reading for school. I had lots of time to read this summer, and I did. Now that vacation is over and my magazine subscriptions are picking up again, I have less time. At least I had a great summer.
I love Duineser Elegien and often quote the opening lines to myself. At the moment, I'm reading Die Kinder der Toten by Elfriede Jelinek. It's a lot more fun than you'd expect! Her metafors are clever, and she treats her subject with respect. But she's hard to follow, just like the play of hers I saw, so I can't stick to her for more than 10 pages at a time. Luckily I have a stack of around 70 books I amassed during summer sales to pick up in between.
September 16, 2007 4:11 AM,
I know how you feel. Reading books by (own) choice is so much more interesting than reading something because you have to. I felt the same way in my literature classes seven years ago.
I read "100 years of solitude" on my honeymoon in Tuscany last year. I liked it a lot, though I had to really concentrate - all the male characters are named José Arcadio or Aureliano. Try not to mix them up :) Good luck!
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