I would like to read "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner.
http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Fury-Correc ... 0679732241
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Fiction Suggestions needed for our Nov. & Dec. Fiction Discussion
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I'll read The Sound and the Fury too. Also on my short list, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
http://www.amazon.com/Canterbury-Tales- ... 706&sr=1-2
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is my suggestion. Although simple in style and very easy and amusing to read, it is a biting satire, and has been the source for evolutionary theory (running as fast as you can to stay in one place) and for philosophy (eg the red and blue pills in The Matrix) and mathematics (logic of words). Many of the characters are very well known in popular culture, and their satirical intent is worth exploring.
Wikipedia page is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_ ... Wonderland
It will be a feature Disney film in 2010 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_W ... 10_film%29
Full text and pictures are readily available on the internet. A range of sources linked at the wiki include http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11
An excellent illustrated version with extensive background is at http://www.the-office.com/bedtime-story ... ground.htm
Wikipedia page is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_ ... Wonderland
It will be a feature Disney film in 2010 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_W ... 10_film%29
Full text and pictures are readily available on the internet. A range of sources linked at the wiki include http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11
An excellent illustrated version with extensive background is at http://www.the-office.com/bedtime-story ... ground.htm
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We can bypass the actual polling process if a bunch of you can decide on a book that you'd like to read as a group. Today is the 7th of October and I'm about to leave town till the 12th.
This suggestion thread really isn't ready for a poll. We don't have enough suggestions or feedback yet. It would be nice to see a book chosen by the 13th when I get back in town. Of course I will have my laptop so don't be disappointed if you see me online.
This suggestion thread really isn't ready for a poll. We don't have enough suggestions or feedback yet. It would be nice to see a book chosen by the 13th when I get back in town. Of course I will have my laptop so don't be disappointed if you see me online.
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Thanks a lot Geo, now I'm torn. I've always wanted to read "The Canterbury Tales".
I have to say, I am appreciating the older, classic suggestions. If I could be so bold, I would like to see the chosen book to be of this class.
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
I have to say, I am appreciating the older, classic suggestions. If I could be so bold, I would like to see the chosen book to be of this class.
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives."
http://www.amazon.com/Sons-Lovers-Moder ... 587&sr=1-1Sons and Lovers is one of the landmark novels of the twentieth century. When it appeared in 1913, it was immediately recognized as the first great modern restatement of the oedipal drama, and it is now widely considered the major work of D. H. Lawrence's early period. This intensely autobiographical novel recounts the story of Paul Morel, a young artist growing to manhood in a British working-class family rife with conflict. The author's vivid evocation of the all-consuming nature of possessive love and sexual attraction makes this one of his most powerful novels.
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