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thoth_moon

Books Read April 2013

May 01, 2013 08:09

I've been keeping lists in various forms of books that I've read for um ... about three or four years now. Recently I started posting months' lists and my thoughts on them over on th community bookish, but since I am constantly guilty of neglecting my own journal, I thought I'd crosspost to 1) enliven the poor page, and 2) propogate the bookage fr my ( Read more... )

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praus1701 May 2 2013, 14:06:12 UTC

Excellent post! You make me want to expand my scope of literature beyond classical fiction. Anyway, here's a link to an online source for Dionysiaca. I've bought books from this place before. They specialize in out of print or hard to find titles. It may take a while to get to you, as AbeBooks is merely an intermediary between you and the seller. I ordered a book from Germany and it took 3 months to reach me....but other than that one caveat, they are very good. http://www.abebooks.com/9786134161336/Dionysiaca-6134161330/plp

thoth_moon May 4 2013, 17:26:08 UTC

Thanks for the link--both of them!

What's the classical fiction that you read? I kind of slide in and out of genres and stuff, so "classically" speaking I've read The Odyssey but not The Iliad, Dante's Inferno but not Virgil's Aeneid, "Wuthering Heights" but not "Jane Eyre," etc. Any recommendations I might've not read before?

praus1701 May 4 2013, 21:14:15 UTC

Ooooo, let's see...*scratches head*....after racking my brain and raiding what i can find of my "library," in no particular order, here are some faves ( ... )

thoth_moon May 5 2013, 16:14:12 UTC

Okay, I've read "Frankenstein," "1984," "Symposium" (yeah I was that kid in high school doing the lice laundry and avoiding eye contact with the attendant, all like, Yeah we wash everything in the house two weeks in a row, don't bug me I'm reading Greek), "Monte Cristo" (I LOVE Dumas ... there's an epic 500-page biography of his that I'd highly recommend if you're into biographies; he and Hugo were a little gayish together, I love it), and "Catcher in the Rye."

I came late to Dickens but I've read "Hard Times" (for these times, in these times!!) and "A Christmas Carol." I tried "A Tale of Two Cities" but it was like with "Little Women" and "Paradise Lost": young teenaged me picked it up, read maybe a dozen pages, went "Too young for this" and put it down. Probably high time to give it a second go then.

The only Ayn Rand I read was "We the Living," which I think was her first novel and I would most highly recommend.

Right then, I'll be looking some of these others up in the library soon then!

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praus1701 May 2 2013, 14:09:50 UTC

Here's also a link to a readable online version. It looks like you can also download te PDF, which is approx. 24 MB.
http://archive.org/details/dionysiaca03nonnuoft