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Always meant to but never did.

Posted by Proffer5 • 10/16/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: literature

Now that Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, I feel bad for never sticking with any of her books. The list of writers I've always meant to read but never did is embarrassingly long ~ Pynchon, Nabakov, Tolstoy. How about you?

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10/16/07

Aprilfreelance

Kierkegaard and Josephus are two I always want to read everything from but haven't.

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  Proffer5
  
  Wow. That's heavy. Good luck with them.
10/16/07

infonistacrat

Hate to admit it, but I started Candide by Voltaire about a half dozen times. Everytime, something else came up to take my attention away.

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  Proffer5
  
  I'm familiar with the musical, how imposing is the text?
10/16/07

footiam

I do think that blogging has drawn many of us away from books.

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  Proffer5
  
  I feel the same. I'm hoping the pendulumm will swing back and I'll regain some equilibrium. I do miss books.
10/16/07

gmoney

As time goes on you will see more and more blog become books

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  Proffer5
  
  You might be right but it's tough for me to imagine someone writing a masterwork in a blog. Then again, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield as a newspaper serial. Not too different.