Admiral Ackbar ([info]enickmatic) wrote in [info]booksarelove,
2005-08-03 22:03:00

N00b.

Howdy, all. I'm new. I'm a seventeen-year-old about-to-be-senior from northern New Jersey. When I have the time, I love to read. I'm finding it difficult to fill out this little blurb about myself because, typically, I don't talk about my own life at all.

Anyway, currently I've not had any time to crack my "extracurricular reading list" because Jane Eyre is ruining my entire month of August. I'm confident that if you were to take any male literature professor from any institution across the country, put them under scrutiny of a lie detector, and ask them whether or not they TRULY like the Bronte sisters, you'd get an across-the-board "no" reading. That is all.

Here's my list of my current ten favorite novels, in no preferential order.

1. Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Tom Robbins
2. The Blood Meridian: or the Evening Redness in the West Cormac McCarthy
3. The Pump-House Gang by Tom Wolfe
4. The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
5. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
6. Dubliners by James Joyce
7. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
8. Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
9. Just about any short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. Working Men by Michael Dorris

Suggestions/comments are more than welcome.

Thanks, all.

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[info]kyliegray

August 4 2005, 01:53:34 UTC 6 years ago

i like fitzgerald too. do you like zelda?

[info]enickmatic

August 4 2005, 02:01:06 UTC 6 years ago

I know very little about her, and haven't ever read anything by her (there isn't much, is there? I could be mistaken...), so I have to abstain from this question for now.

[info]kyliegray

August 4 2005, 02:05:50 UTC 6 years ago

http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/zeldabib.html

[info]enickmatic

August 4 2005, 03:05:42 UTC 6 years ago

Hmm... Maybe if I haven't slit my wrists by the end of the required reading list, I'll check her out.

[info]bellalanay

August 4 2005, 02:02:31 UTC 6 years ago

Ohh, Save Me the Waltz!!!

[info]kyliegray

August 4 2005, 02:03:24 UTC 6 years ago

yes. yes.

[info]bellalanay

August 4 2005, 02:11:07 UTC 6 years ago

I am impressed to find another fan of Zelda. She tends to get overlooked.

[info]kyliegray

August 4 2005, 04:21:00 UTC 6 years ago

i'm actually not that big fan. like, she is not religion to me. but i like her more than i like many other authors. however, i really agree that she tends to get overlooked.

[info]bellalanay

August 4 2005, 02:01:34 UTC 6 years ago

I've been meaning to read Fierce Invalids for the longest time. I don't even know what happened to my copy. *Sigh* So many books, so little time.

I was forced to read Jane Eyre in high school, and I ended up really liking it. But then again, I am a female.

I also have to applaud you for underlining the titles - unlike my lazy self.

[info]enickmatic

August 4 2005, 03:04:47 UTC 6 years ago

I'm not huge on Robbins. Everything else I've read by him has either been way too similar to F.I.H.F.H.C. or has failed to grab me. However, I think that I had more fun reading that book than any other I can recollect. Also, I just kind of wanted to be Switters.

[info]limmenel

August 4 2005, 03:21:03 UTC 6 years ago

Yay for Murakami!

I haven't heard of many of these books... definitely going to look into a few of them :D

Hullo. Welcome!

[info]fragmentsofyou

August 4 2005, 18:29:54 UTC 6 years ago

Another soon to be senior with a suckass required list?!? Awesome. What've you been stuck with?

[info]enickmatic

August 4 2005, 20:13:18 UTC 6 years ago

I'm big on procrastinating, so people tend to think I'm much more swamped than I really am. Basically, I'm waiting until now to start all of my reading.

I have the following:

Jane Eyre
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Reading Lolita in Tehran

You?

[info]fragmentsofyou

August 5 2005, 01:08:29 UTC 6 years ago

Dude you're complaining about 3? So not cool... I have 7 and I haven't even started one.

And they go as...
Native Son
Monster
Chronicles of a Death Foretold
Oedipus
Antigone
Medea
... and some book I forget the name to about 40 serials killers or something along those lines.

Good luck with yours though... they sound about as fascinating as mine.

[info]enickmatic

August 5 2005, 01:54:51 UTC 6 years ago

Yea. Like I said, I tend to make it sound like more than it is because I'm the biggest procrastinator ever. I spend all my time complaining about what I should be reading rather than sitting down and reading it.

I just... I fail to understand what makes many of these books worthy of repeat each and every year. Teachers must get tired of them, and I know for a fact that students cringe every time they hear their titles.

[info]fragmentsofyou

August 5 2005, 02:09:18 UTC 6 years ago

At my school they tend to give us the worst books and then change the list for the upcoming kids to amazing ones. i.e. my freshmen year I got The Hobbit and wanted to rip my eyes out with a fork the next year they got A Child Called It.

I think my sophomore English teacher could recite Of Mice and Men if he had to he's read it so many times.

[info]kyliegray

August 7 2005, 20:59:11 UTC 6 years ago

oedipus, antigone and medea are all honestly brilliant.

[info]fragmentsofyou

August 7 2005, 22:43:52 UTC 6 years ago

I actually read Antigone my freshmen year of high school and have no idea why they're having us read it again. And when we read it my teacher near acted out the first two Oedipus installments for us so I already know the story itself. I thought they were okay... nothing fabulous I enjoyed Gilgamesh much more.

[info]kyliegray

August 7 2005, 22:59:01 UTC 6 years ago

a matter of taste. i like gilgamesh too. yet again, oedipus is the worst out of those three, especially worse than medea. in my opinion.

[info]fragmentsofyou

August 8 2005, 01:37:12 UTC 6 years ago

I do like the Greek dramas but I'm so much more into Shakespeare's plays than the Greeks. Like you said a matter of taste.
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