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livingshinigami) wrote2010-04-21 01:23 pm
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About books ...
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I didn't feel like spamming the commentbox over there, so I'll post about it here.
Books read this year
* De Avonden - Gerard Reve
* De Geruchten - Hugo Claus
* The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - R.L. Stevenson
Whoa! That's ... not enough *sigh* ... I'm ashamed to call myself a literature student. It certainly felt like I read more, but I guess that's because I've done quite a lot of reading in December with Frankenstein, Heart of Darkness, Waiting For the Barbarians, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Hard Times ... B-but I'm definetely planning to start reading more from now on!
Books that failed this year
* Middlemarch - George Eliot
Actually it's more "I that fail" since this was required reading and I wasn't able to finish it. It's quite long, I started too late and it isn't the type of book you can read in one go, so to speak ... I still want to try and pick it up again. Though since I quite liked (even loved) the other books I've read, I guess this one was the biggest fail.
Books I'm reading now
* The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
* The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
The first one is required reading, but I'm quite liking it. The second one seems interesting, I've had the movie on my to-watch list for a while now so when I saw the book I really wanted to try it.
Books I want to read
* Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
* Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
* Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
* Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
* Une Saison en Enfer - Arthur Rimbaud
* Kartonnen Dozen - Tom Lanoye
And many many more that I'm forgetting at the moment, I'm afraid. (And of course I also still want to read Middlemarch ...)
Books I want to re-read
* Crime and Punishment - F. Dostojewski
Currently lend out to some friends, but I definetely want to re-read it once I get it back.
Books I have to read
* Max Havelaar - Multatuli
* Kaas - Willem Elsschot
Required reading for Dutch Literature next September. I can't say I'm looking forward to it ... Especially since Iris already told me that I best start reading them in advance because they're very hard to finish ... and not very interesting ...
bookfailsI didn't feel like spamming the commentbox over there, so I'll post about it here.
Books read this year
* De Avonden - Gerard Reve
* De Geruchten - Hugo Claus
* The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - R.L. Stevenson
Whoa! That's ... not enough *sigh* ... I'm ashamed to call myself a literature student. It certainly felt like I read more, but I guess that's because I've done quite a lot of reading in December with Frankenstein, Heart of Darkness, Waiting For the Barbarians, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Hard Times ... B-but I'm definetely planning to start reading more from now on!
Books that failed this year
* Middlemarch - George Eliot
Actually it's more "I that fail" since this was required reading and I wasn't able to finish it. It's quite long, I started too late and it isn't the type of book you can read in one go, so to speak ... I still want to try and pick it up again. Though since I quite liked (even loved) the other books I've read, I guess this one was the biggest fail.
Books I'm reading now
* The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
* The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
The first one is required reading, but I'm quite liking it. The second one seems interesting, I've had the movie on my to-watch list for a while now so when I saw the book I really wanted to try it.
Books I want to read
* Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
* Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
* Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
* Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
* Une Saison en Enfer - Arthur Rimbaud
* Kartonnen Dozen - Tom Lanoye
And many many more that I'm forgetting at the moment, I'm afraid. (And of course I also still want to read Middlemarch ...)
Books I want to re-read
* Crime and Punishment - F. Dostojewski
Currently lend out to some friends, but I definetely want to re-read it once I get it back.
Books I have to read
* Max Havelaar - Multatuli
* Kaas - Willem Elsschot
Required reading for Dutch Literature next September. I can't say I'm looking forward to it ... Especially since Iris already told me that I best start reading them in advance because they're very hard to finish ... and not very interesting ...