*CLASSIC LITERATURE nerds, you out there?

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  • cdp1223
    cdp1223 Posts: 1,131
    dunkman wrote:
    Ok... lets get this thread back on track for the OP


    I'm a huge Ernest Hemingway fan... he's actually the reason its ok for me to drink mojitos as well.

    THANK YOU. :D
    Hemingway short stories or novels? I prefer his short stories, but that's just me.
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    cajunkiwi wrote:
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    eyedclaar wrote:
    Stephen King is trash fiction, not that there is anything wrong with trash fiction per se, but let's call it what it is.

    I know that but there's nothing wrong with reading his stuff... and just because you appreciate his 'trash fiction' doesn't mean you're not considered a book nerd. I know lots of people who regularly read his stuff that are some of the biggest book nerds going...

    I'm a proud book nerd and King fan, though I thought the ending to his latest book was a little lame :-(

    I am too! :D Last King book I read was actually Misery again... Damn I love that book :mrgreen:

    But back on topic... can we discuss Poe?
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    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    cdp1223 wrote:
    dunkman wrote:
    Ok... lets get this thread back on track for the OP


    I'm a huge Ernest Hemingway fan... he's actually the reason its ok for me to drink mojitos as well.

    THANK YOU. :D
    Hemingway short stories or novels? I prefer his short stories, but that's just me.


    short stories got me into him.. especially Old Man and the Sea.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • cdp1223
    cdp1223 Posts: 1,131
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:

    I am too! :D Last King book I read was actually Misery again... Damn I love that book :mrgreen:

    But back on topic... can we discuss Poe?

    We can discuss Poe....go!
  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    eyedclaar wrote:
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    Thank you. :)


    Sian, I wrote a zombie poem recently. You might dig it.
    Ohhhh PM it to me! :mrgreen:

    I appear to be PM challenged at times. :oops: I posted it in the writing forum instead.
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  • eyedclaar
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    dunkman wrote:
    Ok... lets get this thread back on track for the OP


    I'm a huge Ernest Hemingway fan... he's actually the reason its ok for me to drink mojitos as well.


    You have to able to box before you can safely drink mojitos.
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  • Sian-of-the-dead
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    cdp1223 wrote:
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:

    I am too! :D Last King book I read was actually Misery again... Damn I love that book :mrgreen:

    But back on topic... can we discuss Poe?

    We can discuss Poe....go!
    I love Edgar Allen Poe, poetry and short stories :D

    Favourite poem: Annabel Lee
    Favourite short story: The Black Cat

    I've often wanted to read Lovecraft but never got round to it... :think:
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    If you're a book nerd (or classic literature nerd ;) ), you might like this site:

    http://www.librarything.com/

    Good place for finding info about books, reviews, cataloging your own library, discussions about books.

    I use it for my "To Read" list. Since forever, I'm always finding out about some book that I want to read, then I can't remember the correct title or author, etc. Now I have a great list of titles although it's so huge and I'm so far behind that I can never die.

    I don't post there but there are threads about every kind of book. Probably the most erudite message board I've ever seen. People still get snarky but they do it in complete, grammatically correct sentences.

    ************

    BTW I may qualify as I book nerd. 2 degrees in English (probably before most people here were born :shifty: :P ). Somehow reading so much literature turned me off to modern fiction and I tend to read a lot of non-fiction like history and current events.
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  • eyedclaar
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    Hemingway's A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is one of my favorite short stories of all time.
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  • dunkman
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    eyedclaar wrote:
    dunkman wrote:
    Ok... lets get this thread back on track for the OP


    I'm a huge Ernest Hemingway fan... he's actually the reason its ok for me to drink mojitos as well.


    You have to able to box before you can safely drink mojitos.

    phew... punching orphans has been worthwhile after all.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    dunkman wrote:
    eyedclaar wrote:
    dunkman wrote:
    Ok... lets get this thread back on track for the OP


    I'm a huge Ernest Hemingway fan... he's actually the reason its ok for me to drink mojitos as well.


    You have to able to box before you can safely drink mojitos.

    phew... punching orphans has been worthwhile after all.

    hahaha

    Shit, man, that's its own reward. When you're done punching those bastards, send them my way. I'm running low on the real small ones for the tight chambers in my acid mines.
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  • cdp1223
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    Anybody read any Nabokov?
  • DriftEd
    DriftEd Posts: 74
    How about some of my favorites...Thompson and Bukowski. Kerouac, Hemingway, Salinger too!
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  • cdp1223
    cdp1223 Posts: 1,131
    DriftEd wrote:
    How about some of my favorites...Thompson and Bukowski. Kerouac, Hemingway, Salinger too!


    I loved all of those in college, but then I got old, crabby, and cynical. :roll: :lol: (Aside from Hemingway, of course)
  • eyedclaar
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    cdp1223 wrote:
    DriftEd wrote:
    How about some of my favorites...Thompson and Bukowski. Kerouac, Hemingway, Salinger too!


    I loved all of those in college, but then I got old, crabby, and cynical. :roll: :lol: (Aside from Hemingway, of course)


    I still like a lot of that stuff... even if Bukowski did write the same poem about 1 million times. He was the AC/DC of poetry.
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  • Enkidu
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    I'm a total classic lit nerd. Adam Bede is one of my favorite books ever. I also like James Joyce - short stories more than Ulysses (I've never been able to finish it). "The Dead." Just typing that makes me want to find it and read it again. And I would recommend Edith Wharton to anybody who hasn't read her. House of Mirth - fantastic.

    (I do have to defend S. King - I don't think he's trash fiction. I think he's more like Dickens. Trash fiction to me is anything by James Patterson and that ilk.)
  • cdp1223
    cdp1223 Posts: 1,131
    Enkidu wrote:
    I'm a total classic lit nerd. Adam Bede is one of my favorite books ever. I also like James Joyce - short stories more than Ulysses (I've never been able to finish it). "The Dead." Just typing that makes me want to find it and read it again. And I would recommend Edith Wharton to anybody who hasn't read her. House of Mirth - fantastic.

    (I do have to defend S. King - I don't think he's trash fiction. I think he's more like Dickens. Trash fiction to me is anything by James Patterson and that ilk.)

    I will second Edith Wharton! And Adam Bede for that matter.....where do you stand on Middlemarch?
  • One Song Glory
    One Song Glory Posts: 710
    Classic literature nerd to the nth degree. :D Just finishing up my last year of undergrad and then moving on to my Masters degree in English, almost entirely funded by the university.


    Although...my research interests are decidedly NON-classic and actually a little too radical for most of my profs' tastes. I'm ridiculously obsessed with digital culture and all the weird, experimental shit that's been done over the past decade. Ah, well, I've still read all the important stuff.
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  • Aero83_
    Aero83_ Posts: 933
    I'm sure I don't qualify, but I would be interested to here your take on Joseph Conrad.
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  • One Song Glory
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    Aero83_ wrote:
    I'm sure I don't qualify, but I would be interested to here your take on Joseph Conrad.

    Is "Ugh" good enough? :mrgreen:

    Seriously though, I wish I could erase "Heart of Darkness" from my memory. Overrated piece of shit that spawned one of the most mind-numbing films I've ever seen. Am I coming on too strong? Hee hee...I'm a tad passionate about what I read, whether I love it or hate it. Although I thought "Nostromo" was substantially better. I can give him credit for that one.
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