Favourite books

[stargazekid]

anything by Bukowski

[kander]

Welcome to the Forums, Stargazekid Never heard of that author.. (shame on me??) I'll see if I can find something in the library though. What genres does he (or perhaps she.. I dunno ) write?

By the way.. are you by chance related to Lisa (Forum nickname Gankaku), who also goes by the name Stargazer sometimes?

--K

[mammaduck]

Originally posted by kander
Welcome to the Forums, Stargazekid Never heard of that author.. (shame on me??) I'll see if I can find something in the library though. What genres does he (or perhaps she.. I dunno ) write?
--K

More info on Charles Bukowski. It's amazing what Google can find

Hanneke

[kander]

http://php-man.nl/EMD/google.gif

--K

your servers down

[kander]

Weird, works for me. Here's another copy of the image...

http://www.anvari.org/db/fun/Compute...ses_Google.gif

Originally posted by kander
Weird, works for me. Here's another copy of the image...

http://www.anvari.org/db/fun/Compute...ses_Google.gif

nope. must be my connection. sorry

[mammaduck]

Originally posted by kander
http://php-man.nl/EMD/google.gif

--K

LOL

Hanneke

[Dave P in StLouis]

Originally posted by Stormcrow
Speaking of Shakespear - why do they still make us learn that these days? I know its one of the original books - maybe they could do a revision in modern English. I seriously couldn't understand it at all, half the words it it aren't used these days!

Dan.

Dear Dan,

I sympathize. Shakespeare's plays (which are what most of us read in school) are not meant to be read as literature -- they're scripts, intended for actors, directors, etc. I was never any good at doing "assigned reading" either. In one class in college, "Stranger in a Strange Land," by Robert A. Heinlein, was required reading. Even though I'd been wanting to read it for quite a while, I couldn't manage to finish it, LOL.

Best wishes,
David P.

[fastashell]

Originally posted by Dave P in StLouis
Dear Dan,

I sympathize. Shakespeare's plays (which are what most of us read in school) are not meant to be read as literature -- they're scripts, intended for actors, directors, etc. I was never any good at doing "assigned reading" either. In one class in college, "Stranger in a Strange Land," by Robert A. Heinlein, was required reading. Even though I'd been wanting to read it for quite a while, I couldn't manage to finish it, LOL.

Best wishes,
David P.

It's probably not so much WHAT you read in school that makes it hard, it's probably more the fact that you HAVE to read it. I read for pleasure, and sometimes for information, but if I had to read something to analyse it and maybe write a critique on it or suchlike it's quite probable that I would dislike reading even my favourite authors.

When I look back on it I'm surprised that school didn't kill my love of reading!

[sakura]

Lem, Stanislaw
(remember "Solaris" movie and recent remake).

I found soma translations in English here:

http://www.cyberiad.info/english/opo...owiadania2.htm

(The Star Diaries is a very funny book.)