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I'm planning on putting together a seminar on Dorian Gray once the semester starts. SUCH a good book.
There definitely should be a Wilde thread. I'm currently working my way through his plays; once I finish that, I think I'll just have his non-fiction left, but I'll probably just read De Profundis, and leave articles on dress reform etc. alone.. O.o Complete Shakespeare? I'm very proud of you, sun-star. Quite an undertaking. My college did a production of Lear last semester; I discovered that if I'm going to go to a Shakespheare play, I should read it before hand. I understand him read pretty well, but when they say it, I just have this perpetual "say what?" expression...
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08-10-2006, 08:52 PM | #643 |
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I've been reading some of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries-really cool, a lot of them! The Secret Garden was somewhat gruesome, though...but very interesting.
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08-12-2006, 03:43 PM | #645 |
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Just find them at the library.
Just finished The Man Who Was Thursday, also by GK. Good book, although the end was kinda wierd...
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08-21-2006, 10:23 AM | #646 |
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I'm currently on Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien. Any of you guys heard of it?
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08-21-2006, 08:20 PM | #648 |
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JRR who?
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I'm reading Bleak House now. Sadly, I'm in between library copies. I returned the one from the local library around home, but am not quite yet at college to pick up another copy.
so sad!
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08-25-2006, 10:00 PM | #651 |
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I am in the middle of The Devil Wears Prada which is really good. I LOVE books written in the first person.
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08-27-2006, 10:07 PM | #653 |
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Just finished up The Arm of the Starfish by Madleine L'Engle, again Her books are among those I re-read every so often.
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09-09-2006, 07:40 PM | #654 |
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Just finished De Profundis by Wilde. Very, very good. Powerful book. Wouldn't recommend it to a general audience, though; you need to have the background first.
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Because it's wild, or because it's hard? Actually, that's how I feel about Hector Berlioz' Memoirs...you need to know a decent amount of musical background to "get" it.
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Because it really is "De Profundis", or "Out of the Depths", basically a very intense and close Wilde takes at himself, and enabling him and us to see how he changed in prison. But it is, very, very powerful. If St. Therese of Lisieux hadn't already taken it, an excellent title would be "Story of a Soul". It would only really appeal to someone who is interested in Wilde himself. It is very human, and very real. No, it's not "wild", if by that you mean raunchy. He makes allusions to sexual matters, but always (as I recall) in a very delicate manner. It's not really hard; I at any rate found it incredibly absorbing, and very easy to get into, but I don't know if that would be the case for someone who does not have the interest in Wilde's character which I have.
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btw, does he ever talk about evolution in his essays?...I seem to recall reading one essay in one of the signet classic books...
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He wrote it as a (very long app. 150 pages) letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, the object of his affection, from which his trials stemmed. Apparently, there's quite a history; he wrote one copy, and gave it to Robbie Ross (a very, very good friend of his, who became his literary executor, probably the most faithful friend he had), who made two type-written copies, and sent one to Lord Alfred (who denied ever receiving it), and, I believe, kept the other, bequeathing it to Wilde's son Vyvyan after his death. in 1909 he donated the manuscript to, I believe, the British Museum, on the understanding that its contents would be made public in 50 years, and published a heavily editted version of it (in which he largely removed the indictments of Lord Alfred and his father, the Marquess of Queensberry). Vyvyan published his typescript copy in 1949, and with that, it was thought that the whole of De Profundis was in print. But in 1959, when the manuscript was made available, it was discovered that the typescript had a very large number of errors (two thousand is the number that comes to mind), so a new edition was made with the manuscript, which is what I have.
I haven't read much of his essays; honestly, only one on dress reform (I was just too curious... ). Just his stories, poems, and plays.
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Did he think we should all wear dresses?
Interesting indeed... And I was reading the pianist Arthur Rubinstein's autobio, and apperantly he met one of Wilde's "associates".
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i'm going through "Bulfinch's Mythology"...it's great...
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