Registered: Oct 2001
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What are you reading right now?

I went to a book sale, and managed to get two books worth $29 for just under $12. One is a book on self-hypnosis (which is essentially a form of positive affirmation) and the other a book called "flash fiction" with 72 short stories! I started reading the latter of the two tonight.

What are you reading right now? What's it like, and how are you liking it?

I've always liked short stories for discovering new talents/new writing styles. Often I'll buy novels by authors that wrote short stories if I like them. I'm very excited about this book. I don't LOVE anything yet, but nothing's been terrible...

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Everything I'm reading, with the exception of the internet, tends toward my thesis:

Ann Radcliffe: A Sicilian Romance, Mysteries of Udolpho
Maggie Kilgour: The Rise of the Gothic Novel
John Berger: Ways of Seeing
Jane Austen: Letters, memoirs (by her nephew), and all of her novels
(compilation): Jane Austen in Hollywood
Kenneth Burke: A Grammar of Motives, A Rhetoric of Motives
Aristotle: The Poetics, The Rhetoric
Northrop Frye: Anatomy of Criticism, The Secular Scripture
Bakhtin: The Dialogic Imagination

I won't list the rest...just enough to give you an idea.

edit: forgot the rest of your question. I love this area of study, particularly Austen herself, and am especially excited because I found new avenues that have not yet been explored. I could do without Bakhtin, but oh well.

Ann Radcliffe makes me stab my eyeballs out though. I'm not a fan of the gothic, and wish death on most of the heroes and heroines.

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Registered: Apr 2001
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i'm rereading the grapes of wrath (by john steinbeck), but only on the toilet. i don't know why it's only on the toilet, but it is. it's good, i like it. i was pleasantly surprised the first time i read it, and am rereading to reaffirm that it is good. besides the literary aspect, it's an interesting look at the whole dust bowl thing and the people it affected.

and, reflections of a siamese twin: canada at the end of the twentieth century, by john ralston saul. it's about canada, and it's really interesting. a sort of outline of canadian national philosophy, and the origins of such.

i bought finnegan's wake (by james joyce) today, and started it, but it will obviously be difficult to read because he doesn't even pretend to stay within the confines of the english language. i like him, though.

good things, all around.

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Registered: Jan 2001
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H.M.S Unseen by Patrick Robinson.

Sort of crap and long, but it has interesting connections with Osama bin Laden, which I noticed after picking it up again after months.

bye now.

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