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What Are You Reading?
Topic Started: Jan 13 2012, 03:21 PM (1,068 Views)
Riot-X	Jan 13 2012, 03:21 PM Post #1
Fuck This! Posts: 2,661 Group: Members Member #54 Joined: February 15, 2010	Noticed from time to time people mention books they're reading. So thought it be cool to have a thread dedicated to it. right now i'm reading: and I'm reading the complete works of Lewis Carroll...
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CrimzonFear	Jan 13 2012, 03:32 PM Post #2
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DubGee	Jan 13 2012, 03:52 PM Post #3
Posts: 683 Group: Members Member #116 Joined: September 30, 2010	any interesting pieces in Criticism?
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Riot-X	Jan 13 2012, 04:13 PM Post #4
Fuck This! Posts: 2,661 Group: Members Member #54 Joined: February 15, 2010	It's basically just the types of things you'd expect to find. Aristotle's Poetics, couple pieces by Plato. As a writer, I found works like Sir Philip Sidney's, An Apology for Poetry; Samuel Daniel's, A Defence Of Rhyme; Edgar Allen Poe's, The Poetic Principle; Northrop Frye's, The Archetypes of Literature (Especially this one) and Virginia Woolf's, Modern Fiction. There's a few others like something from The Decay Of Lying by Oscar Wilde and a piece from Conversations Of Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that are good as well. I haven't been reading it in order but sort of jumping around the book. But it's all fairly typically what you would expect from such a book.
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DubGee	Jan 13 2012, 04:36 PM Post #5
Posts: 683 Group: Members Member #116 Joined: September 30, 2010	http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html might interest you, if you're so inclined. one hell of an essay Quote: Therefore, if I should certainly say to a novice, "Write from experience, and experience only," I should feel that this was a rather tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, "Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!"
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Riot-X	Jan 13 2012, 05:23 PM Post #6
Fuck This! Posts: 2,661 Group: Members Member #54 Joined: February 15, 2010	i'm familiar with The Art Of Fiction.. I must say that I appreciate the views of Henry James more than those of Walter Besant. " The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting." ^that's probably my favourite quote. Edited by Riot-X, Jan 13 2012, 05:25 PM.
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DubGee	Jan 13 2012, 08:56 PM Post #7
Posts: 683 Group: Members Member #116 Joined: September 30, 2010	I never read the original Besant piece, I should look into it. James is one of the best, it's a shame how overlooked his work is. Even his journal entries are amazingly insightful: Quote: I took a lodging at 3 Bolton St., Piccadilly; and there I have remained till today . . . I have lived much there, felt much, thought much, learned much, produced much; the little shabby furnished apartment ought to be sacred to me. . . . It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent. You can draw up a tremendous list of reasons why it should be insupportable. The fogs, the smoke, the dirt, the darkness, the wet, the distances, the ugliness, the brutal size of the place, the horrible numerosity of society, the manner in which this senseless bigness is fatal to amenity, to convenience, to conversation, to good manners - all this and much more you may expatiate upon. You may call it dreary, heavy, stupid, dull, inhuman, vulgar at heart and tiresome in form. I have felt these things at times so strongly that I have said - ''Ah London, you too then are impossible?'' But these are occasional moods; and for one who takes it as I take it, London is on the whole the most possible form of life. I take it as an artist and as a bachelor; as one who has the passion of observation and whose business is the study of human life. It is the biggest aggregation of human life - the most complete compendium of the world. . . . I had very few friends, the season was of the darkest and wettest; but I was in a state of deep delight. I had complete liberty, and the prospect of profitable work; I used to take long walks in the rain. I took possession of London; I felt it to be the right place.
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DBlackulate	Jan 13 2012, 09:26 PM Post #8
Stuntin' On These Hoes Posts: 5,359 Group: Members Member #17 Joined: January 30, 2010	crimzon, what you think of wretched of the earth? i started the assassination of fred hampton the other day
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Riot-X	Jan 13 2012, 09:27 PM Post #9
Fuck This! Posts: 2,661 Group: Members Member #54 Joined: February 15, 2010	I find his writing very typical of 19th/ early 20th century writing style. His syntax pretty much gives away the era in which he wrote. But I do like him. I think to a degree his fictional works overshadow his critiques and other nonfiction material. As far as journals go, his is incredible if only for the sheer intelligence of the entries.
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XfreehueyX	Jan 21 2012, 01:47 PM Post #10
#RARE Posts: 2,995 Group: Members Member #95 Joined: May 29, 2010	Realized I've owned this for about 3 years now, and haven't even opened it up. Enjoying it quite a bit thus far. As far as "actual" literature I just started reading Hamlet for school.



CrimzonFear	Jan 21 2012, 02:15 PM Post #11
Go Away Posts: 6,370 Group: Admin Member #9 Joined: January 28, 2010 PSN ID RZA07	DBlackulate Jan 13 2012, 09:26 PM crimzon, what you think of wretched of the earth? i started the assassination of fred hampton the other day I like it so far. Right now I'm about 75% of the way through. Some shit I agree with other shit I don't. But overall it's been a good read so far. I wanna read black skin white masks now.
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Riot-X	Jan 21 2012, 02:23 PM Post #12
Fuck This! Posts: 2,661 Group: Members Member #54 Joined: February 15, 2010	I definitely consider Watchman real literature. fuck the haters.
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DubGee	Jan 21 2012, 03:34 PM Post #13
Posts: 683 Group: Members Member #116 Joined: September 30, 2010	watchmen was great reading chaucer. painfully hard.
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Riot-X	Jan 21 2012, 03:44 PM Post #14
Fuck This! Posts: 2,661 Group: Members Member #54 Joined: February 15, 2010	Haven't gotten to him yet. I plan to though, I just haven't had a lot of time to sit down with a book in the last little while. What are you reading by him?
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XfreehueyX	Jan 21 2012, 04:23 PM Post #15
#RARE Posts: 2,995 Group: Members Member #95 Joined: May 29, 2010	Riot-X Jan 21 2012, 02:23 PM I definitely consider Watchman real literature. fuck the haters. I wasn't disputing that, but I didn't know how others feel about graphic novels as literature and didn't feel like debating it.



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