Comments | __goldberry__: Books, books, chocolate and books.

__goldberry__

Books, books, chocolate and books.

Apr 17, 2006 22:33

I am going to get some serious reading done this week.

Here is my list of possibilities..

- Ulysses. (Is it humanly possible to read this in one week and still have time to do other things?) No. Tooooooo long and heavy for my holiday state of mind.
- The Sound and the Fury. This one will wait till later too.
- Rebecca.
- The New York Trilogy.
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littleli April 17 2006, 15:48:11 UTC

Yay for productivity. :) Excellent choice of reading material.

- 100 Years of Solitude.

Oh my, aren't we brave! Even the English version is heavy stuff. I tried reading this in the original Spanish and for the life of me, it's tough going, I have to have a dictionary by my side or I'd be lost.

florescer April 17 2006, 23:47:14 UTC

i couldnt do it. it's like reading saramago, everything is too thick all at once. like trying to swallow a vitamin e pill.
GAG.

littleli April 18 2006, 00:09:44 UTC

Geez, how big is a Vitamin E pill? Have you tried Omega 3 oil? It's purple, huge, if you can do that, you can do VE. :)

florescer April 18 2006, 15:11:02 UTC

ve looks (to me) like a big amber maggot. scares the CRAP out of me.

and i dont do pills. the size of a calcium pill is all i can handle.

but i bow down to you if you can tackle the elephant that is Om3 Oil.

dru_scarlett April 17 2006, 17:08:12 UTC

One Hundred Years of Solitude sounds so interesting. I read part of it in Spanish, and the storyline was really unique.

Otherwise, Fahrenheit 451 is always a great read. Not too difficult either.

florescer April 17 2006, 23:47:47 UTC

good on you!

how's it going so far?

__goldberry__ April 23 2006, 10:00:11 UTC

Eep. I'm so slow at replying (as usual).

Finished Vonnegut. It was OK. Reminded me a bit of Tom Robbins and although I see the value of their work, I'm not a huge fan. On to Rebecca now. It's great, if a little serious. But a definite page turner.

I also bought 100 Years of Solitude and The Leopard, so they will be next :-)

spits April 20 2006, 17:55:55 UTC

I likeh the brave new world

ether_girl April 22 2006, 17:06:10 UTC

I adore you. I'm a bookworm, too. I just finished reading "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Shantaram".

Who is the author of Rebecca?

__goldberry__ April 23 2006, 09:56:53 UTC

I love Shantaram! That's one of my all time faves. Did you read them at the same time?

Daphne Du Maurier wrote Rebecca. It's kind of like a darker, more serious Jane Eyre.

ether_girl April 23 2006, 21:35:54 UTC

I read them back-to-back. I'm fixated on all things eastern right now.

Rebecca sounds like something I'd enjoy. I'll have to check it out.