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Post by Someguy on Oct 18, 2008 19:31:40 GMT
And why not? I've started reading wholesale again. First impressions of Ernest Hemmingway (The Snows of Kilimanjaro) is pretty good. Real broad range of short stories from a guy with a gangrenous leg being very cruel to his rich girlfriend whom he blames for sapping all the writing creativity out of him while he has flashbacks to places he's been to (he's such a griping intellectual that it's incredible) while another guy fights in some civil war or something (I flicked through it in the store).
And Bloody Chamber is shaping up nicely, another series of sort stories by Angela Carter. I'm reading through the first story and it is definitely building up to something gruesome with that title and the running metaphor of death, pain, etc. Good ol' tension.
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mojojojoe
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Post by mojojojoe on Oct 19, 2008 14:12:49 GMT
I know everyone says this, but try The Old Man and the Sea by good old Hemingway. Classic piece of literature, and one of the few books I've read where I've genuinely cared about the character.
Also, despite being slated by many a person, The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter is actually a very well written book. It's disturbing and crazy and everything you'd expect from a deranged feminist writer. I enjoyed it, I guess.
Also, how's Slaughterhouse 5 working out for you? Isn't it so sweet?
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kitty
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Post by kitty on Oct 19, 2008 16:56:37 GMT
I have the film version of the snows of kilimanjaro though I have not watched it yet. It has Gregory Peck in it though so it's bound to be attractive if nothing else.
Is Bloody Chamber the one with the Snow White story? You know the one where they make the most attractive girl, kill her and then rape her corpse in the snow? I'm not a Carter fan.
I'm reading a book called the Fuck Up by Arthur Nersesian. So far the main character cheated on his girlfriend but never actually convinced the other girl to sleep with him so he ditches her and decides he's in love with his girlfriend who has found out about the other girl and throws him out of their flat. He then gets fired from his job for asking for a raise which he only did because the other girl forced him to. This was the first three chapters. Either it gets really dull from now on or wonderfully worse for the poor bastard. I have hopes for the latter.
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Post by Someguy on Oct 19, 2008 19:58:11 GMT
Ah, now ya see, I read that very short story (two pages) of the snow girl and I'll say this. Ya know what happens, who to feel sorry for and who the bastards are to hate.
Your story...is an assault on my brain.
But the snowgirl story was pretty...unmoving. It's like those old children stories from years ago, where it chucks words and events at you and you're supposed to somehow care about a character that has a ten second lifespan (I have a quick reading speed. RUN, SNOWGIRL! YOUR PENNED FATE COMES EVER CLOSER BECAUSE I'VE GOT QUICK READING EYES!).
And I haven't read SH 5 yet. I refuse to believe that a German sounding man has written anything 'sweet', however.
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