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Moogtron III 
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 Posted: November 15 2008 at 14:47 |
 Epignosis wrote:
Moogtron III wrote:
For me the opposite as it comes to Salinger: i never could come into his short stories, except for A Perfect Day For Bananafish. |
That story made me feel really uneasy, especially at the end.
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Yes, I understand that very well. It's is some heavy prose, isn't it? It does make you think about things, about life, though. At least that's what happened with me.
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Epignosis
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Posted: November 19 2008 at 10:46 |
Moogtron III wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Moogtron III wrote:
For me the opposite as it comes to Salinger: i never could come into his short stories, except for A Perfect Day For Bananafish. |
That story made me feel really uneasy, especially at the end.
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Yes, I understand that very well. It's is some heavy prose, isn't it? It does make you think about things, about life, though. At least that's what happened with me. |
You know, "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" was one of the stories I read and said to myself, "Well that was weird. What the heck was that all about?"
But it's a story proves Salinger's genius as a master of subtlety. One must truly read between the lines in order to acquire the relevant information.
Understanding that one better has made me was to more carefully reread his other works.
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rushfan4
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Posted: November 19 2008 at 10:49 |
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The only book on the list that I have read is The Green Mile from Stephen King. Being a Rush fan I've always been curious about Ayn Rand, but I've never actually gotten around to reading her books.
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Vompatti
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Posted: November 19 2008 at 11:42 |
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I've only read four of these. Anyway, I voted for The Brothers Karamazov because it's the thickest (?) and thus there's the most good stuff in it.
Some of my favourite books:
Henri Murger - Scčnes de la Vie de Bohčme
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Journey to the End of the Night
Halldór Laxness - Heimsljós
André Gide - The Counterfeiters
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Franz Kafka - The Trial
Victor Segalen - Paintings
Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls
Charles Bukowski - Post Office
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Epignosis
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Posted: November 19 2008 at 11:42 |
rushfan4 wrote:
The only book on the list that I have read is The Green Mile from Stephen King. Being a Rush fan I've always been curious about Ayn Rand, but I've never actually gotten around to reading her books. |
Ayn Rand was a thinker- not much of a storyteller.
She writes in a thousand pages what could have been said in a hundred and twenty, to put it another way (and her sex scenes are kind of awkward).
If you don't want to invest three months reading one of her novels, it's worth checking out her futuristic novella, Anthem, which, as a Rush fan, you might be familiar with.  I read it in a morning.
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Epignosis
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Posted: November 19 2008 at 11:43 |
Vompatti wrote:
I've only read four of these. Anyway, I voted for The Brothers Karamazov because it's the thickest (?) and thus there's the most good stuff in it.
Some of my favourite books:
Henri Murger - Scčnes de la Vie de Bohčme
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Journey to the End of the Night
Halldór Laxness - Heimsljós
André Gide - The Counterfeiters
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Franz Kafka - The Trial
Victor Segalen - Paintings
Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls
Charles Bukowski - Post Office
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The Trial made me nervous the whole way through.
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