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I can't find my copy of Vico and Herder. It must be under the bed. Autobiography of Vico, Vico and Marx, Vico's New Science and Vico's Study Mehtods Of Our Time are all queued up on my desk waiting for me to rape and interperet hammed stylee into something warped and involuntary.
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I bought these yesterday:
Slaugherhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
Vinelard - Thomas Pynchon
Slow Learner - Thomas Pynchon
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Heart Of Darkness & The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad..
I've only read Slaughter House 5 and Catch-22...
NO IDEA Which to read first...
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Slaugherhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
Vinelard - Thomas Pynchon
Slow Learner - Thomas Pynchon
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Heart Of Darkness & The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad..
I've only read Slaughter House 5 and Catch-22...
NO IDEA Which to read first...
Opinions?
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Clockwork...Busta";p="783355 wrote:I bought these yesterday:
Slaugherhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
Vinelard - Thomas Pynchon
Slow Learner - Thomas Pynchon
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Heart Of Darkness & The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad..
I've only read Slaughter House 5 and Catch-22...
NO IDEA Which to read first...
Opinions?
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Vineland is all right, but probably Pynchon's worst effort
Player Piano is probably the least "Vonnegut" of Vonnegut's books, it was back before he read Catch-22 and stole Heller's style
Mother Night and Slaughterhouse-Five are post Catch-22, and it shows.
Catch-22 is great, and if you like it you should tackle Something Happened (same ideas, more dark)
Brave New World is fairly trite, if read in its entirety... so many of those dystopian books are only good for the first few chapters
Heart of Darkness bored me to tears.
Player Piano is probably the least "Vonnegut" of Vonnegut's books, it was back before he read Catch-22 and stole Heller's style
Mother Night and Slaughterhouse-Five are post Catch-22, and it shows.
Catch-22 is great, and if you like it you should tackle Something Happened (same ideas, more dark)
Brave New World is fairly trite, if read in its entirety... so many of those dystopian books are only good for the first few chapters
Heart of Darkness bored me to tears.
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We are too stupid to read! We are the MTV generation!ReverseEngineer";p="782849 wrote:where's the books?
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I've been reading Venus On The Half Shell, my copy of which lists the author as Killgore Trout... I could have sworn it was Vonnegut, but actually it's some dude named Philip Jose Farmer... apparently Vonnegut pulled the plug on this arrangement after getting all sorts of letters about how this was his funniest book ever...
It's an awful lot like Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, but darker, dirtier, and published several years before Hitchhikers guide (it predates the BBC broadcasts as well).
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When I posted this I had read all but the last three chapters. Only the penultimate chapter was worthwhile of the three and I felt "Parenthesis" and the final chapter spoiled the bok quite a bit. I don't mind authors talking at you in such a way, but it was pompous and at the same time trite. It's still pretty funny, but Barnes let himself down.Namothy Tsao";p="790051 wrote:Never read England so I'll have to say History.
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Has anyone read or is going to read Desai's The Inheritance of Loss?
I read reviews and see it as another one of those Booker winning, wishy washy descriptions of the cultural loss of the East (hey, India again!) after the havoc wrought by the evil colonialists. Translation - Rushdie clone.
I'm willing to give it a go. That or I'm going to read Gormenghast again.
I read reviews and see it as another one of those Booker winning, wishy washy descriptions of the cultural loss of the East (hey, India again!) after the havoc wrought by the evil colonialists. Translation - Rushdie clone.
I'm willing to give it a go. That or I'm going to read Gormenghast again.
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Busta";p="783355 wrote:I bought these yesterday:
Slaugherhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
Vinelard - Thomas Pynchon
Slow Learner - Thomas Pynchon
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Heart Of Darkness & The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad..
I've only read Slaughter House 5 and Catch-22...
NO IDEA Which to read first...
Opinions?
I have read all but the last one.
This is going to be a first and a last for me.
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I'm not chinese, but I can't read most of this thread!