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Post by northernmonkey on Mar 1, 2006 19:38:20 GMT 1
the following pieces of literature are amazin'-
walt whitman 'song of myself'
samuel coleridge 'kubla khan'
john keats 'when i have fears','ode to a nightingale'
dbc piere 'vernon god little'
budisha 'seahorses'
john milton 'paradise lost'
ben jonson 'the alchemist'
shakespeare 'romeo and juliet' and 'othello'
jack kerouac 'on the road' and 'dharma bums'
bob dylans autobiography (wished he'd hurry n write the other two)
william blake 'songs of innocence and of experience'
allen ginsberg 'howl','america','kaddish'
t.s eliot 'wasteland' and 'love song of j alfred prufrock'
f scott fitzgerald 'a diamond as big as the ritz','the offshore pirate' and all other short stories
i'll stop-if you have time read them,live inside them.theyll make you a better person,or cure world disease...
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Post by Rob on Mar 1, 2006 21:02:40 GMT 1
I feel so unread - I've only read Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre off that list. I quite enjoyed it. My uncle was telling me all about the author and the terrible things he has done. Do you think it the allegations are true?
I really like 'Waterhip Down' by Richard Adams and 'Burmese Days' by George Orwell. Burmese Days is fantastic. It is one of the few books I've read were I could feel everything in it. I like swashbuckling adventure stories too, like King Soloman's Mines and Robinson Crusoe and stuff.
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Post by mcv on Mar 1, 2006 22:50:28 GMT 1
I feel so unread - I've only read Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre off that list. yeah ive got a similar feeling lookin at that list, ive read thatthough , no idea about the authors background although the books abit weird strangely im reading chronicles 1 at the moment so pleased you think its good, i've never really been big on poetry but im tempted to read howl just because the brmc albums named after it |
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Post by Scottish Clare-Bear on Mar 2, 2006 7:49:01 GMT 1
i have to admit that julia didn't actually write that, someone far more interesting did, guess who.......................
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Post by Lisa on Mar 2, 2006 15:10:03 GMT 1
hehe makes me feel pretty well read...but then i do english lit so only to be expected. howl is such a great poem... " I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night..." if that's not the most dynamic opening to a poem ever, i dunno what is. saying that, my favourite ginsberg poem is "a supermarket in california". i love the beats so much. i can't wait for them to finally crop up in my america in the 40s and 50s module...which is the best module ever. i don't like coleridge, but only cos he reminds me of the poetry module i just did (quite badly in). bloody ye old poems that go on with themselves for pages and pages which you can't get away with reading five minutes before the exam  i know, i know they're great literature. but not easy to blag your way through. must say i've not heard of budisha's seahorses...at least i don't think so ...one to look up i think if it's as good as the rest of your list. |
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Post by elaine on Mar 2, 2006 16:44:06 GMT 1
i didnt like vernon god little. it made me feel sick
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Post by Scottish Clare-Bear on Mar 2, 2006 16:50:42 GMT 1
i have to admit that julia didn't actually write that, someone far more interesting did, guess who....................... julia, you ho, you've made me sound like a twat now by DELETING your post  |
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Post by dozyjulia on Mar 2, 2006 20:24:00 GMT 1
hee hee, you ARE a twat! a scottish clare-bear dumb-idiot-face!
don't post as me! i am me, you are not!
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Post by Chris on Mar 2, 2006 20:31:05 GMT 1
Julia! talk about the topic of the thread for once!
That said, I don't think I've actually read ANY of those books/anthologies...
*philistine*
Apart from Romeo And Juliet, Othello, and America. I think I've read that... Was a while ago.
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Post by dozyjulia on Mar 2, 2006 20:53:00 GMT 1
bah, anyone that says they've read and understood all of paradise lost is a FILTHY LIAR.
my favourite poet is AE Housman, but i also like Dylan Thomas, and i did a lot of Keats for A level. I've read Howl and On the Road because my best friend has significantly beatish tendencies. And oh, I wouldn't ever specify which works by Shakespeare i consider the best...it's a cliche, but it's true - everything he ever wrote, ever, is out of this world.
on topic enough, frankie??
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Post by Chris on Mar 2, 2006 21:08:51 GMT 1
Yeah, but don't call me Frankie. That's so unright...
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Post by dozyjulia on Mar 2, 2006 21:11:21 GMT 1
i called Simon chinky-pants the other day. i'm still unsure as to whether he appreciated it or not.
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Post by Simon on Mar 2, 2006 21:12:31 GMT 1
well...
am I really gonna appreciete that?
reeealy? hmmm? hmmm?
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Post by Chris on Mar 2, 2006 21:15:56 GMT 1
Probably not as much as you'd appreciate some good, wholesome poetry m'boy!
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i know, i know they're great literature. but not easy to blag your way through.
