tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971721308549315776.post8096147380113369200..comments2024-01-05T14:01:30.024-08:00Comments on useless beauty: Book Masochism Progress! (Of Sorts!)Susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664454336482695288noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971721308549315776.post-62060915613739445132011-03-06T14:29:37.718-08:002011-03-06T14:29:37.718-08:00I read Steppenwolf in high school but am completel...I read Steppenwolf in high school but am completely unable to recall any of it now. I'm afraid that is the case for most of the great literature I read back then and on through my twenties. Then I had children and my reading tastes changed to books with fast-moving plots and guaranteed happy endings.Marushka C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15501083029600186860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971721308549315776.post-44012343303353503952011-03-02T10:22:16.227-08:002011-03-02T10:22:16.227-08:00I once had wine and called the professor of someth...I once <i>had wine</i> and called the professor of something or other a Dead White Male and he was very confused. He said, 'but I'm not dead!', which he was right, he wasn't, but that was not the point.<br /><br />This is all looking very good for Catch-22! I am very excited that I might enjoy it.Susiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05664454336482695288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971721308549315776.post-14769061325687218042011-03-01T16:40:12.734-08:002011-03-01T16:40:12.734-08:00I can't read "challenging" books any...I can't read "challenging" books anymore. The drugs won't let me focus long enough to finish the sentence. I read distracting books with good plots and short sentences. I shall admire your endeavours from afar while reading my urban fantasy.Chrissyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13254578516714017969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971721308549315776.post-46823951691513140492011-03-01T15:36:14.420-08:002011-03-01T15:36:14.420-08:00I'm always reading but I'm not what people...I'm always reading but I'm not what people considered 'well-read' because I skipped over all of those so called great books when most people read them. Because, frankly, what meaning could a bunch of dead white dude's Very Important Feelings have to me? I'm a little more lenient with dead white ladies, but not much.<br /><br />But, I did just read Gissing's The Odd Women and found the proto-feminism to be quite well written even if from a male perspective. Which makes me wonder if I ought to try to give the dead white dudes another go.<br /><br />Also, I lovelovelove Catch-22, it had me laughing out loud. So, I guess my votes for that one,resahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01164658238180984834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971721308549315776.post-81828796914342195762011-03-01T12:42:31.356-08:002011-03-01T12:42:31.356-08:00:O Oh my look at all those books! :D
I'm afrai...:O Oh my look at all those books! :D<br />I'm afraid I'm terribly uncultured and just start singing 'Born to be Wild' when I hear the word 'Steppenwolf' (though I do know it means 'wolf of the steppes).<br />I would say go with Catch-22 next, the half I've read was brilliant.<br />Kafka just confused me terribly, but he is one I will go back to once I've cleared my list. I wont be beaten!<br />I'm still on The Feminine Mystique (just had to renew it!) and for lighter reading I've started a series of books by Lillian Beckwith about her adventures as an Englishwoman living on the Scottish Islands in the 40's.Kathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16857141769810117183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971721308549315776.post-45802531018659733832011-03-01T12:20:09.533-08:002011-03-01T12:20:09.533-08:00Wonderful...
I've never managed Ulysses. I do...Wonderful...<br /><br />I've never managed Ulysses. I do like Steppenwolf very much, but if we're going for Hesse then I think The Glass Bead Game is my favourite. I have read The Trial, but it was so long ago that I can't remember a thing about it. This is actually a common feature with books I've read! It makes for cheap living - I can read the same books again and again and always feel as though they're new... Apart from Catch-22 of course. I studied that for A Level, so that's etched into my mind (and a wonderful book it is too).<br />At the moment I'm reading a biography of Margot Fonteyn, which is proving rather an eye-opener. She was a bit of a raver, apparently.Maria Snoreply@blogger.com