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Post by aubrey on Sept 27, 2009 19:17:07 GMT
I haven't read a lot of books - Middlemarch, no Dostoyevsky - stuff like that; but the only one I really feel I should have read - not that I blush when I think of it - is Dracula. I don't think I've even got a copy of it. I really should.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Sept 27, 2009 19:49:02 GMT
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonewhatisname.
Dune by Frank Herbert (although I have downloaded all the audiobooks and will listen to them soon, is that cheating?)
AH
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Post by aubrey on Sept 28, 2009 8:36:56 GMT
I find audiobooks hard now that I'm not working; it's a lot easier to read properly (I've tried listening to HP Lovecraft while I'm doing dialysis; I just fell asleep). When I was working I got through loads of them. I kept thinking I'd get Dracula but never did, for some reason. I got Dune once but it was all Court intrigue and really dull. Maybe it picked up later - well, it must have done.
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Post by aubrey on Sept 29, 2009 16:41:33 GMT
I suppose I should have read Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as well. I do have that one.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Sept 29, 2009 23:13:44 GMT
I've never reead anything by Lord Dunsany, he was a pretty important "adventure" writer of the time, a big influence on the likes of Burroughs, Howard, Lovecraft etc.
Harold Lamb is another classic adventure writer who I've never read (there are some nice collections of his works out at the moment though, I might treat myself for crimble).
AH
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Post by aubrey on Sept 30, 2009 8:42:00 GMT
Yes, Dunsany's another one; and Eddison, is it? The Worm Oboros(?) bloke. I should really read more Clark Ashton Smith; I've read some and really enjoyed it but never got round to trying more.
I'm very bad, but I've never heard of Harold Lamb.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Sept 30, 2009 21:14:58 GMT
Harold Lamb - Real boys own/historical adventure stuff. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_LambI've never read any CAS myself...there is so much out there in book form these days...I honestly believe that even sticking to just the genres I like, I could never read ALL that I would like to. I keep meaning to grab some CL Moore stuff as well, she is the mother of female science/fantasy...easily up there with REH, ERB, Lovecraft ect. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._L._MooreAH |
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Post by aubrey on Oct 1, 2009 10:07:16 GMT
I've got Shambleau by CL Moore, which looks really good.
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Post by Patrick on Oct 1, 2009 10:16:54 GMT
I really enjoyed the beginning (the travel part) of "The Road to Wigan Pier" but later on in the book Orwell gets down to some serious pontificating and I think I sort of gave up there. I must return to it again and get through that bit. It's rather shaming to admit otherwise.
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Post by aubrey on Oct 1, 2009 10:23:16 GMT
I think I can read just about anything by Orwell - I love his style. I did once get bogged down by all the essays about Spain in the (chronological) Essays and journalism, but that was more to do with them all being very similiar.
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Post by riotgrrl on Oct 1, 2009 10:36:31 GMT
I really enjoyed the beginning (the travel part) of "The Road to Wigan Pier" but later on in the book Orwell gets down to some serious pontificating and I think I sort of gave up there. I must return to it again and get through that bit. It's rather shaming to admit otherwise. I don't think Orwell's political rhetoric has aged well. The old-fashioned mid 20th Century socialism he espouses which once seemed so stirring now seems quaint, almost like the aspidistra-lifestyle of mid-century middle England he describes in 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying'. His journalism, however, is still as fresh as ever. One of his short stories (based I think on actual experience) about killing an elephant when he was out working in the colonies is breathtakingly good. |
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Post by stephan on Oct 1, 2009 12:23:20 GMT
Dracula is a good read-forget the films.
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