Comments on: Farewell J.D.

By: amanda13

amanda13 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:23:29 +0000

Woolf is amazing but take your time… it takes a lot of tea and solitude, I’m not sure I could read her again these days.
As for the Victorian novels, you’re right… I remember them choosing excerpts from Bleak House (what were they thinking!? geez!) when they could have chosen something nicer even from Dickens.

By: ggl

ggl — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:19:22 +0000

Yes I can remember the list – all those depressing classics like Dickens and Hardy. I can’t say they were really that boring but I’m not just into those typical victorian novels – except for Joseph Conrad which is rather different, modern in some ways? But Conrad wasn’t in the books. Those English literature books were all excerpts from victorian-era novels.

Salinger is so different in subject, language and just about everything. If you read Joyce (especially Portrait) you can see some sort of transition from the victorian-era novels to works such as Catcher in the Rye. But the English literature books missed James Joyce and Virginia Woolf (which I’ve yet to read) as well.

Not very smart.

By: amanda13

amanda13 — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:26:16 +0000

Yeah, he was pretty old alright…

But I remember that The Cather in the Rye was the only digestible English literature book of my high school (remember how boring that reading list was?). I still dread Alice in Wonderland, for instance, but when I think of Holden I always smile :)

By: ggl

ggl — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:47:13 +0000

Da, aia.

By: Mihai

Mihai — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:52:06 +0000

ce iti placu la el? aia cu holden?