Any Literature Geeks Here?

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Yeah, I get around.

I've only read some short works of Queneau in anthologies, and his Exercises in Style.

As for Perec... A Void, and some of his short work. Big plans to read his Life: A User's Manual soon. Big fan of A Void - PoMo tricksy, but a good yarn at the same time, sort of a self-aware mystery novel. It sounds like i'd enjoy his essays but haven't come across them yet.

I luurve Calvino as well. Sad you didn't like If on a Winter's Night a Traveller... it's one of my fave books, ever. And the introduction is so hilarious... Somehow i managed so sell my copy buy accident (whoops) the last time i moved. I'm planning on getting his Complete Short Stories soon.... they've finally ALL been translated and anthologised. Late last year the New Yorker published one of the 'new' ones, fab.

I stumbled upon OuLiPo originally because I'm interested in formalism and language games - so approached from the angle of Calvino, Borges, Bioy Casares, and their like.

Got a list of things to read of that ilk, too...Alvaro Mutis being at the top, as well as the Bioy Casares/Borges collaborations (if they've been translated).

Unfortunately, all of the above is in translation. My french is bad, and I have no spanish.

ta,

-Luke

I taught myself to read when I was 4 if I remember correctly... I got to kindergarten already knowing how to read, yet i had never heard of nor could I sing the alphabet. THAT was embarrassing! I read everything I could find... My house had a lot of books in it. I even read the encyclopedias, dictionary, and medical encyclopedias. I was reading my mom's old college books when I was in 1st or 2nd grade. The only ones I couldn't read were the ones in french, and the ones I couldn't reach even when standing on a chair. Funny my parents rarely would buy me a toy, but they never said no to buying me a book.

I love reading the classics... My favorite book of all time is Atlas Shrugged. I re-read it every 2 years or so.
I also enjoy Hemmingway, Sinclair Lewis, Amy Tan (I know she's not a classic author) and lots of others. I'll have to enumerate on that when I'm not tired...

I read that when I was quite young, and for a long time I thought the French for "gay" was "hormosessuel" or however she spells it.



...which is approximately the time it takes to read through (a character)'s 70 page monologue.

I don't doubt that Ayn Rand was an aspie.

I love to read! I can read since I was 2. When I was in kindergarten, teachers bought more books with more text to make me busy. They organised a meeting with children books writer and I was delighted. Other children wanted to read, so they learned from me, I think it was great profit for them.

When I was 4, my aunt was pregnant and I read her book (thick) Pregnancy and Baby many times. But my favourite books were: encyclopedia, Anatomy-atlas, World maps (especially politicial), phone-numbers-book, How machines work, Alice in Wonderland (I have pretty edition with psychedelic pictures) and Bullerbyn Children. When I went to school, I said Hello, my name is Katarina, I like books, cats and Soviet Union!. And I heard first time Are you ok?

Now I read everything I can. My favourite book is 1984 and other books in this style (political). I love also King's and Cook's books (horrors & thrillers), Tolkien's Trilogy, Mythology, biographies etc. And ofc dictionaries, I can spend all day with them

I also like dystopian novels - Valyossa, have you read Yvgeny Zamyatin's 'We'? I'd be interested to know what you think. I really like dictionaries, too. Especially now that they're being designed using multiple colours in the text. so handy!

-Luke

Essential reading! 1984 is very like this book, I think Orwell was inspired. Glass houses reminded me Żeromski's The Spring To Come. And sometimes I write myself as V-88

Dito!

Lucky you! My Kindergarten-folks always urged me to mingle with the other kids , who only played unintelligible noisy games;

Yeah, I love all kinds of books, smell of old, rare ones included. Always calm me down immediately. Dictionaries are just fantastic. I read other stuff as well though, facts, fiction, travel- and museumguides, children books, etc., - normaly more than one book at the same time, too. (one in each room, kinda)


Books - languages - libraries ==> pleasure, heaven

Does anyone here like Aldous Huxley and bernard shaw?

Wow, people have actually heard of 'We' That's a first.

I love books! My room is stuffed with them

Huxley is fascinating, albeit a bit dated these days ...

I have read two stories by Aldous Huxley, both somewhat fading from memory.
The Huxleys are rather interesting people.

Books rock, btw.

I like both, especially Huxley.

Chesterton, Emerson, pretty much anything that isn't fiction, technical manuals, scientific/medical papers, anything at all that has something to do with human memory.

Anyone knows books of this man? [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Günter_Grass]LINK[/url]
I like his books and him, not only because he's also from FSD.

Yeah, I was on a lecture with him last year.
Very interesting person and very vivid in lecturing. He also discussed afterwards and answered questions and gave autographs. I had to read tin drum in school and I hated it (can't remember why, though probably cos it was homework; I hated any kind homework, took way too much time from my interests)
But the ideas are very precise and reflective and the graphics are just fabulous! He presentet and recited one of his newer poem-books with watercolours and it all was really great. Loads of fun, as well.
Have some of his books at home, haven't read anything yet though (ie other than random)
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