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Post by Silva on Jun 19, 2011 19:23:44 GMT -5
I'm about to start Beowulf in addition to my three other books. Any opinions on that?
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 19, 2011 19:43:44 GMT -5
I'm about to start Beowulf in addition to my three other books. Any opinions on that? Which edition/translation are you going to read? It all depends upon the translation. |
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Post by Silva on Jun 19, 2011 19:55:07 GMT -5
-goes to find-
It says it's a B&N Classic translated by John McNamara? I got this version because I had no idea and it was also in the bargain books...
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 19, 2011 20:04:31 GMT -5
-goes to find- It says it's a B&N Classic translated by John McNamara? I got this version because I had no idea and it was also in the bargain books... Hmmm, I don't know much about that edition. I remember picking up a really old copy of Beowulf from my library and I found it really dry and difficult to get into. I later had to read Seamus Heaney's version in one of the Norton Anthologies and loved it. It's one of the newer critically accepted translations and I feel that it communicates better to the modern audience. |
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Post by Silva on Jun 19, 2011 20:14:50 GMT -5
Well, I guess I'll just see. I saw the Seamus Heaney version but I didn't have enough money on me for it....
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Post by cyanea on Jun 19, 2011 21:58:32 GMT -5
As far as Beowulf, it depends how you read it. We had to read a prose edition in my "Origins of English Lit" class, and I felt it lost a lot of the magic.
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Post by fifi on Jun 20, 2011 18:27:08 GMT -5
I'm currently reading The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. It's pretty interesting, but I'm not sure how I like the writing style yet. Plus there is an entire page where all the incorrect quotations marks make me crazy. After I finish this I'll probably finish rereading Pride and Prejudice then move on to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series or something else entirely. I actually ended up liking The Eyre Affair enough to consider reading the next one in the series. And I finished Pride and Prejudice. Now I'm currently rereading The Great Gatsby for the Blurbing Book Club. Then I'll finally move onto The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. |
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Post by evenpottiesneedtoe on Jun 22, 2011 14:15:01 GMT -5
I'm so indecisive, I always end up reading multiple books at once. Right now I'm reading:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Color of Water
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (which is actually quite good and not at all boring)
Hamlet
A Tale of Two Cities
Son of a Witch
and The Dark is Rising
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Post by Mary Sandals on Jun 22, 2011 15:52:57 GMT -5
I'm rereading the Harry Potter series currently, but I was hoping someone could give me an opinion on Wide Sargasso Sea? I've just read Jane Eyre and I wish to read WSS, but the copies I find are always expensive and the novel looks short, and I'd love to know if there was anyone here who particularly enjoyed or despised it?
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Post by Marina on Jun 22, 2011 17:41:14 GMT -5
I'm rereading the Harry Potter series currently, but I was hoping someone could give me an opinion on Wide Sargasso Sea? I've just read Jane Eyre and I wish to read WSS, but the copies I find are always expensive and the novel looks short, and I'd love to know if there was anyone here who particularly enjoyed or despised it? It was all right. It was one of the books that I actually liked reading this semester. Although it makes you despise Rochester, though the man is never named as such. |
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 22, 2011 18:39:32 GMT -5
I'm rereading the Harry Potter series currently, but I was hoping someone could give me an opinion on Wide Sargasso Sea? I've just read Jane Eyre and I wish to read WSS, but the copies I find are always expensive and the novel looks short, and I'd love to know if there was anyone here who particularly enjoyed or despised it? I am ambivalent about it. It provides a different twist on Jane Eyre and Rochester (you appreciate his wife much more). But it is definitely different from the novel in terms of style. The symbolism (at least, for me) seemed pretty obvious, like Rhys was trying hard to include as much as she could, making it as obvious as she could. It's interesting because you can read it in two ways: a prequel to Jane Eyre or as a regular novel that has nothing to do with it. |
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Post by mollywobbles on Jun 23, 2011 23:22:58 GMT -5
I'm reading Emma for the first time. I've been reading it for about two months. No, I don't find it really difficult, I've just been taking a summer class. It ends on Tuesday, though, so I can finally finish Emma and move on to something else. So far I don't like Emma, the character, that much. I'm only about fifty pages in so that could change.
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Post by WhatIf on Jun 24, 2011 13:00:20 GMT -5
I'm reading The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wold right now, and I have Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton for later. I also want to finish reading My Secret Life, by Walter.
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 25, 2011 15:54:13 GMT -5
I just finished up The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham. I had seen the film (which I adore) before and had expected it to be like it. Not at all ): I are disappoint. Definitely a good book, but I have to go back and reread it with a different perspective because what I thought was going to happen never did. Arghhhjhfhf
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Post by Marina on Jun 25, 2011 16:22:03 GMT -5
I"m reading A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin, which is the second installment of The Game of Thrones. I gotta say through that I have to put down the book once in awhile because I just get bogged down with all the dialogue and description. Also I find it annoying that everyone just up and goes to war because someone else is, I mean it's a good excuse -- hit them when they're off fighting somewhere else, but guuuuhhh....
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