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Sep. 5th, 2003 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusI got my books for school today. My World Literature professor looks to be a twisted sort, reading list:
Heart of Darkness
God of Small Things
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Bone People
... and one other I can't recall.
This is gonna be cheery.
Heart of Darkness
God of Small Things
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Bone People
... and one other I can't recall.
This is gonna be cheery.
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Date: 2003-09-05 01:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-05 01:19 pm (UTC)Well, if Snape Manor takes a sudden turn for the dark (or the opposite, towards the absurdly silly) you'll know why.
Icarus
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Date: 2003-09-05 01:35 pm (UTC)Well, maybe not. ;)
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Date: 2003-09-05 01:24 pm (UTC)Icarus
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Date: 2003-09-05 01:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-05 02:29 pm (UTC)Actually, I went down 'nitpick lane' with someone once, and finally realised that if you do that -- well, it's sort of like over-working a painting. At a certain point you have to recognise when you're killing the story's charm. The adverbs and 'he said, they said' in JKR's book is what gives it that 'children's book' feel.
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Date: 2003-09-05 03:04 pm (UTC)'nitpick lane' That way lies madness, I've found, even if I do suppress the urge to whip out a pen and correct every sign I see with a misplaced apostrophe.
I think Stephen King was probably right in his review of OotP when he said JRK really, REALLY wants us to like her characters, wants us to feel like we're a part of the story, and so the adverbs come out in excess. Rather sweet, really.
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Date: 2003-09-05 01:32 pm (UTC)I've also read and enjoyed Heart of Darkness. I am not familiar with the others. Let me know if you think they are worth reading.
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Date: 2003-09-05 02:30 pm (UTC)Icarus
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Date: 2003-09-05 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-06 11:27 am (UTC)But depth is good. Very good.
Icarus
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Date: 2003-09-05 05:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-06 12:57 pm (UTC)Icarus
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Date: 2003-09-05 06:29 pm (UTC)God of Small things is smart and well written. I don't think it's brilliant, I'd rather read Joyce, Rushdie, Naipaul, Rhys and the other influences on her, but it's not bad.
I adore the GGMarquez book, it's one of my favourites.
Kerri Hulme is a very singular choice for an American college reading list - I couldn't be more surprised. I've taught a course that included this (it was a co-convened course with a World Lit person) and in general the students found it hard to get into. But it's a book that would have to look and feel very different in the U.S. than in Australia.
Love to hear what the other one is, just for interest's sake.
PS. It always amazes me to see the immense difference between reading lists in Australia and the States, which is mostly less about the texts -- the above combination could definitely happen in Australia -- but the amount of reading. Here a lit course usually has one book per week, and two if it's a two lecture course and they're not long novels. No wonder American students are shocked when they come here on study abroad.
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Date: 2003-09-06 01:04 pm (UTC)It's all rather dark though, don't you think? Never been a big fan of Joyce myself, I lean more towards the whimsy of Lewis Carroll. Though even Carroll I find rather cynical, despite the fact he was light for his time.
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Date: 2003-09-06 06:04 pm (UTC)Dark? Well, Marquez and Small Things contain humour, and I think it's only healthy to laugh at Heart of Darkness but yes. The thing is, like most World Lit courses this is a course partly on the literary aftermath of European colonialism and thus there's a lot of dark.
Don't forget to tell me what the other text is, I'm all curiousity about it.
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Date: 2003-09-05 06:30 pm (UTC)Here's a quote that you may be amused by: "Mr. Conrad has paid us a pretty compliment by learning to write the English language correctly, and the journalists are so pleased that they have assigned him a place in our literature." -- George Moore
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Date: 2003-09-06 01:05 pm (UTC)Icarus
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Date: 2003-09-06 01:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-06 11:47 am (UTC)Icarus
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Date: 2003-09-07 02:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-06 12:55 pm (UTC)and now, for something completely different: i was wondering if you wanted me to take down scarred (http://www.geocities.com/owrai_fics1/rd/scarred.htm), until you finish the entire series? i think you hinted at it earlier, but i am a bit of a sod-brain, and only just hit me as to what you probably wanted. ^^;;;;;
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Date: 2003-09-06 01:11 pm (UTC)Maybe it would be better to take it down, but I'm against taking stories down in principle. I feel like an Indian giver if I do that.
Icarus
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Date: 2003-09-06 01:13 pm (UTC)Icarus
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Date: 2003-09-07 04:54 am (UTC)simmysim@livejournal.com should be simple enough. ^_________^
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Date: 2003-09-06 03:16 pm (UTC)~*Leah
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Date: 2003-09-06 10:47 pm (UTC)Icarus