James JOyce is fantastic, I love his work!Difficult to grasp at first but you can enjoy his work greatly through perseverence!
My favourites:
1. The hobbit - JRR Tolkein ( its better then the lord of the rings trilogy)
2.wuthering heights (think its by emily bronte, my memory isn't great)
3. How many miles to babylon - Jennie JOhnston. Its a play but its an absolutely amazing one at that!Its about Ireland during world war one.
I love Irish literatre, it is so romantic but has great stories.I love James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker, Frank Murphy and JOhn Banville!All are worth checking out!
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[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b><font color=B22222>daria wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Someone can help me please:)? English/British people? What should I have read in my life in the fields of English literature? (Of course I know of Shakespeare, Dickens, Byron, Orwell, Jane Austen, but I'd like to find out more:)) Any help will be MUCH appreciated:) Thank you!![/QUOTE]
ive had a word with a few friends and they suggest ian mckewan and pat barker and enid blyton to help you start off.hope this helps.
jon.
ive had a word with a few friends and they suggest ian mckewan and pat barker and enid blyton to help you start off.hope this helps.
jon.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]joxerthemighty wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b><font color=B22222>daria wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Someone can help me please:)? English/British people? What should I have read in my life in the fields of English literature? (Of course I know of Shakespeare, Dickens, Byron, Orwell, Jane Austen, but I'd like to find out more:)) Any help will be MUCH appreciated:) Thank you!![/QUOTE]
ive had a word with a few friends and they suggest ian mckewan and pat barker and enid blyton to help you start off.hope this helps.
jon.[/QUOTE]
Thank you very much Jon for your effort:)
ive had a word with a few friends and they suggest ian mckewan and pat barker and enid blyton to help you start off.hope this helps.
jon.[/QUOTE]
Thank you very much Jon for your effort:)
you are welcome
I like to read both classical literature and contemporary one.
e.g.
Christmas Carol
Oliver Twist
Wuthering Heights
The Five People You Meat In Heaven
The Shadow Of The Wind
and more
e.g.
Christmas Carol
Oliver Twist
Wuthering Heights
The Five People You Meat In Heaven
The Shadow Of The Wind
and more
'Naked Lunch' - William Burroughs
'The Picture Of Dorian Grey' - Oscar Wilde
'Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas' - Hunter S. Thompson
The three best books I have ever read, Meg and Mog not included due to their being in a class of their own
:D
'The Picture Of Dorian Grey' - Oscar Wilde
'Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas' - Hunter S. Thompson
The three best books I have ever read, Meg and Mog not included due to their being in a class of their own
:D
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b><font color=B22222>daria wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sonia Doris wrote: [/QUOTENAME]My all-time fav is Master and Margarita by Bulgakov.
And coming after it are (in no particular order)
-Haruki Murakami: just about anything
-Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
-George Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm
-Fiodor Dostoevski: Crime and Punishment
-Albert Camus: The Stranger
-Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
-Apuleius: Metamorphoses
-Kafka's Metamorphosis
uff... etc and etc :))
some Romanian guys you probably haven't heard of:
-Radu Pavel Gheo: Fairia
-Liviu Rebreanu: Adam and Eve
-Mircea Eliade: La Tiganci (At the Gipsies)
-Mihai Eminescu: Sarmanul Dionis (Poor Dionis)
etc again :))
and a bunch of theoretical stuff of any kind (not literary theory... noooooo!!!)[/QUOTE]
You said in another topic that you are interested in Tarot and such like; have you heard of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - she has written some famous books dealing wiht theosophy[/QUOTE]
Sorry to say it, but Madame Blavatski drowns in her own ethereal mumblings...she loses touch with reality by trying to make it all sound as mystical as is humanly possible. It's the same 'mistake' Crowley makes, in a way, but Crowley still has a lot more content hidden inbetween the crap.
And coming after it are (in no particular order)
-Haruki Murakami: just about anything
-Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
-George Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm
-Fiodor Dostoevski: Crime and Punishment
-Albert Camus: The Stranger
-Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
-Apuleius: Metamorphoses
-Kafka's Metamorphosis
uff... etc and etc :))
some Romanian guys you probably haven't heard of:
-Radu Pavel Gheo: Fairia
-Liviu Rebreanu: Adam and Eve
-Mircea Eliade: La Tiganci (At the Gipsies)
-Mihai Eminescu: Sarmanul Dionis (Poor Dionis)
etc again :))
and a bunch of theoretical stuff of any kind (not literary theory... noooooo!!!)[/QUOTE]
You said in another topic that you are interested in Tarot and such like; have you heard of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - she has written some famous books dealing wiht theosophy[/QUOTE]
Sorry to say it, but Madame Blavatski drowns in her own ethereal mumblings...she loses touch with reality by trying to make it all sound as mystical as is humanly possible. It's the same 'mistake' Crowley makes, in a way, but Crowley still has a lot more content hidden inbetween the crap.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b><font color = "crimson"> ThomasQuinn wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b><font color=B22222>daria wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sonia Doris wrote: [/QUOTENAME]My all-time fav is Master and Margarita by Bulgakov.
And coming after it are (in no particular order)
-Haruki Murakami: just about anything
-Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
-George Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm
-Fiodor Dostoevski: Crime and Punishment
-Albert Camus: The Stranger
-Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
-Apuleius: Metamorphoses
-Kafka's Metamorphosis
uff... etc and etc :))
some Romanian guys you probably haven't heard of:
-Radu Pavel Gheo: Fairia
-Liviu Rebreanu: Adam and Eve
-Mircea Eliade: La Tiganci (At the Gipsies)
-Mihai Eminescu: Sarmanul Dionis (Poor Dionis)
etc again :))
and a bunch of theoretical stuff of any kind (not literary theory... noooooo!!!)[/QUOTE]
You said in another topic that you are interested in Tarot and such like; have you heard of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - she has written some famous books dealing wiht theosophy[/QUOTE]
Sorry to say it, but Madame Blavatski drowns in her own ethereal mumblings...she loses touch with reality by trying to make it all sound as mystical as is humanly possible. It's the same 'mistake' Crowley makes, in a way, but Crowley still has a lot more content hidden inbetween the crap.[/QUOTE]
I have a different opinion on that:) I read the 1st part on Cosmogenesis and in my opinion there are indeed very interesting thoughts; what I found good is that she tries to 'reveal' things and that she puts the things in question instead of stating it like a dogma. And I think also that our world is more mystique than we imagine; that's because I'm studying Philosophy in University - every time we discuss questions like God, soul, spirit, no-one can give a definite answer to that... probably because these are 'terms' which simply cannot be explained with conventional methods i.e. with physics etc. But that's my opionion and I tolerate everyoneelse's opinion because everyone has a different imagination of the world as a whole...
And coming after it are (in no particular order)
-Haruki Murakami: just about anything
-Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
-George Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm
-Fiodor Dostoevski: Crime and Punishment
-Albert Camus: The Stranger
-Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
-Apuleius: Metamorphoses
-Kafka's Metamorphosis
uff... etc and etc :))
some Romanian guys you probably haven't heard of:
-Radu Pavel Gheo: Fairia
-Liviu Rebreanu: Adam and Eve
-Mircea Eliade: La Tiganci (At the Gipsies)
-Mihai Eminescu: Sarmanul Dionis (Poor Dionis)
etc again :))
and a bunch of theoretical stuff of any kind (not literary theory... noooooo!!!)[/QUOTE]
You said in another topic that you are interested in Tarot and such like; have you heard of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - she has written some famous books dealing wiht theosophy[/QUOTE]
Sorry to say it, but Madame Blavatski drowns in her own ethereal mumblings...she loses touch with reality by trying to make it all sound as mystical as is humanly possible. It's the same 'mistake' Crowley makes, in a way, but Crowley still has a lot more content hidden inbetween the crap.[/QUOTE]
I have a different opinion on that:) I read the 1st part on Cosmogenesis and in my opinion there are indeed very interesting thoughts; what I found good is that she tries to 'reveal' things and that she puts the things in question instead of stating it like a dogma. And I think also that our world is more mystique than we imagine; that's because I'm studying Philosophy in University - every time we discuss questions like God, soul, spirit, no-one can give a definite answer to that... probably because these are 'terms' which simply cannot be explained with conventional methods i.e. with physics etc. But that's my opionion and I tolerate everyoneelse's opinion because everyone has a different imagination of the world as a whole...
I personally find her nazi-views on Aryan vs. Semitic peoples enough to sentence her to the dustbin as far as ethics are concerned.
Added to that, I have found absolutely nothing as far as the Theosophical Society is concerned, that is not a load of mumbo-jumbo which packs ideas and discoveries made by others.
Added to that, I have found absolutely nothing as far as the Theosophical Society is concerned, that is not a load of mumbo-jumbo which packs ideas and discoveries made by others.
head straight for Seamus Heany's <Beowulf>
Heaney bugs me!!He tries too much to be like Yeats!