07-10-2008, 02:50 PM
Some months ago I mentioned "reading group" and I only recently realized that I got a reply from mella that got lost in my spam filter. Sorry mella!
Does anyone like to read what I call the hard stuff?
Or would you like to read it with a weekly group?
Anyone ever had a yen to read Ulysses or Finnegans Wake?
I've read them both multiple times and can teach them both.
Shakespeare? Virginia Woolf? Bronte sisters? Milton? Chaucer in the original?
Beowulf? Virgil? Ovid? Homer? Wordsworth? Blake? Dante?
Folklore? Freud?
Lewis Carroll?
Brian O Nolan?
Oscar Wilde? (not difficult, delightful)
Nabokov?
Pynchon?
Umberto Eco?
Tolkien (seriously)
Or even Harry Potter?
Some of the above I've read, and some I haven't (like all of Pynchon and Nabokov)
I'd be interested to hear what books you all would pick for a book club.
I'm fully aware that my taste is not for everyone, which is why I never really put out the effort to recreate here what I did in Berkeley. But hey, you never know.
Does anyone like to read what I call the hard stuff?
Or would you like to read it with a weekly group?
Anyone ever had a yen to read Ulysses or Finnegans Wake?
I've read them both multiple times and can teach them both.
Shakespeare? Virginia Woolf? Bronte sisters? Milton? Chaucer in the original?
Beowulf? Virgil? Ovid? Homer? Wordsworth? Blake? Dante?
Folklore? Freud?
Lewis Carroll?
Brian O Nolan?
Oscar Wilde? (not difficult, delightful)
Nabokov?
Pynchon?
Umberto Eco?
Tolkien (seriously)
Or even Harry Potter?
Some of the above I've read, and some I haven't (like all of Pynchon and Nabokov)
I'd be interested to hear what books you all would pick for a book club.
I'm fully aware that my taste is not for everyone, which is why I never really put out the effort to recreate here what I did in Berkeley. But hey, you never know.