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jdr1066

Library meme

Apr 30, 2008 15:03

Here is my list (with comments)

bold = read
italic = owned but not read
$ = read long ago because I heard there was sex in it
CF = couldn't finish
* = standard star rating system
DL = didnt like
H = hated it

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell CF
Crime and Punishment (didn't Poe write this story better in The TellTale Heart?)
Catch-22 ****
One Hundred Years of ( Read more... )

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jdr1066 April 30 2008, 20:33:43 UTC

I forgot - I actually tried reading Gravity's Rainbow. Thomas Pynchon may be beyond me, or may just need a boot to the groin to straighten him out. Im not sure - possibly both are true.

elasait April 30 2008, 23:15:15 UTC

'Sokay, I couldn't get into *Wicked* either...I have to actually like some of the characters to like a work of fiction.

hey Tris--it's Daye anonymous June 12 2008, 14:57:55 UTC

This list makes me want to sit on your lap and talk Lit Crit all night. You should join Facebook. we could play scrabble.

Re: hey Tris--it's Daye jdr1066 June 13 2008, 04:54:57 UTC

Will you kind of wiggle around a lot?

I hate Scrabble any more - I spend all my time trying to think of the most obscure words I can think of, and then how I am going to convince my opponents they are really words - while the aforementioned opponents are dropping in one letter at a critical point to get 46 points going in one direction and 55 in the other.