We had to read Portrait in high school (it was one of ten books on the summer reading list, and I only got through eight; that was one of the two I missed) and sections of Dubliners in college. I liked the parts of Dubliners that I read, but I never got more than about two pages into Portrait. I keep wanting to try Ullyses, but I haven't gotten a chance yet.
I think what my daughter's trying to say is: nyah nyah nyah nyah.
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Hil R. - Jun 16, 2004 4:06:55 pm PDT #3339 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
P.M. Marc - Jun 16, 2004 4:44:54 pm PDT #3340 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
The course mainly made me a huge fan of Yeats and John Millington Synge.
SYNGE???
Oh, Ginger. You are so dead to me. t weeps.
Like Joyce, prefer Virginia. Not large with the Yeats love. Entirely lacking the Synge love.
Believe that, despite taste being subjective, some books really are better than others on an objective level. However, my Western Canon != that of Howard Bloom, because he thinks Madame Bovine belongs, to which I say, "Bitch, PLEASE."
Also, will confess, Jane Austen bores the ever loving snot out of me. I keep wishing she didn't, but there you have it.
Prefer Fyodor's shorts to his longs, and think Leo's poor wife was a saint for putting up with him, even if I do adore his work.
Oh, also: think Marlowe's writing was better, but Wm. stole better plots + was more prolific.
Thus ends my controversial views post.
Ginger - Jun 16, 2004 5:12:13 pm PDT #3341 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The Aran Islands. Playboy of the Western World. How can you not like Synge, Plei? t throws away sodden Kleenex and picks up another to sop up the tears
I also find Austen somewhat soporific. And I've never been able to get through Madame Bovary.
juliana - Jun 16, 2004 5:15:17 pm PDT #3342 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
think Marlowe's writing was better, but Wm. stole better plots + was more prolific.
Don't forget Wm. being a better spinmeister (Richard III) with a blatant disregard for actual historical fact (MacBeth).
(Waiting for Deb's rant on Richard.)
(I still love him, though.)
Jen - Jun 16, 2004 5:18:14 pm PDT #3343 of 10002
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Believe that, despite taste being subjective, some books really are better than others on an objective level. However, my Western Canon != that of Howard Bloom
See, Plei, this is one of the many reasons why I love you.
DavidS - Jun 16, 2004 5:24:17 pm PDT #3344 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
with a blatant disregard for actual historical fact (MacBeth).
Please. Wm. doesn't owe shit to historical fact.
juliana - Jun 16, 2004 5:26:04 pm PDT #3345 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Wm. doesn't owe shit to historical fact.
Dude. I wasn't criticising, but it is fun to see what he does.
DavidS - Jun 16, 2004 5:38:09 pm PDT #3346 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dude. I wasn't criticising, but it is fun to see what he does.
Sorry - I didn't mean to sound so crabby about it. But histories were notoriously slippery back then anyway. But you're right - I love it when he's toadying up to the Powers That Be by rewriting history to flatter their ancestors.
juliana - Jun 16, 2004 5:39:54 pm PDT #3347 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I love it when he's toadying up to the Powers That Be by rewriting history to flatter their ancestors.
And then you go and say what I was trying to say. Thank yew. I do love it. It's a sick love, but there ya go.
DavidS - Jun 16, 2004 6:00:23 pm PDT #3348 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's a sick love, but there ya go.
Heh. Just today I was listening to that recording I have of Ian McKellen reciting the HoYayful Sonnett XX backed by a rock band sounding like the Velvet Underground. You really need to spend a weekend with Jen chatting up all the dark twisty corners of Wm. Shakespeare.