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Post by DaveTheRake on Dec 16, 2005 11:47:10 GMT 2
U can see that is beautiful, but u don't know why or where is it from. Has someone else read his poetry? (Dave, at lest u did, dont u ) Ups, sorry man, I'm ashamed I must admit I've never paid much attention to him, though I know he was one of the greatest lyricist of XXth C . I must do it thanks for remind me!!!
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Post by SkogRoar on Dec 18, 2005 11:44:40 GMT 2
U can see that is beautiful, but u don't know why or where is it from. Has someone else read his poetry? (Dave, at lest u did, dont u ) Ups, sorry man, I'm ashamed I must admit I've never paid much attention to him, though I know he was one of the greatest lyricist of XXth C . I must do it thanks for remind me!!! no prob mann finished Morrison, now starting the poetry of William Blake
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Post by DaveTheRake on Dec 19, 2005 9:43:05 GMT 2
Great!!!! I really like his poetry; if you like Blake try Coleridge, and of course the second wave of English Romantics, Lord Byron, Keats (I like Keats a lot) and Shelley
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Post by SkogRoar on Dec 19, 2005 10:50:02 GMT 2
Great!!!! I really like his poetry; if you like Blake try Coleridge, and of course the second wave of English Romantics, Lord Byron, Keats (I like Keats a lot) and Shelley I've heard of Coleridge, but I forgot to look up his works, so thanks for remindin. and of course i love the second wawe of english romantics, especialy Shelley so when i finish Blake and some Borges novels (do u know him?) then i'll pay a visit to a libary and try Coleridge.
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Post by DaveTheRake on Dec 19, 2005 12:45:34 GMT 2
Great!!!! I really like his poetry; if you like Blake try Coleridge, and of course the second wave of English Romantics, Lord Byron, Keats (I like Keats a lot) and Shelley I've heard of Coleridge, but I forgot to look up his works, so thanks for remindin. and of course i love the second wawe of english romantics, especialy Shelley so when i finish Blake and some Borges novels (do u know him?) then i'll pay a visit to a libary and try Coleridge. Borges is great, man!!!! I'm sorry I can't tell you the name of his compilations, not even the name of his short stories, except for "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote"... I had to read this for a subject last course and I like it a lot. I also remember one story, I don't know if it were "The Circular Ruins" or something like that, I read it in Spanish, it's about a man who decides to create a man out of his dreams... an amazing story. And it's also great "Universal History of Infamy", one of his books. Anything you read from him is worthy enough. And about Coleridge, I'd recommend you "the Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner" (this is his most famous work) and "Christabel" which is maybe my favourite one, even more than the Rhyme.
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Post by SkogRoar on Dec 19, 2005 13:08:00 GMT 2
I also remember one story, I don't know if it were "The Circular Ruins" or something like that, I read it in Spanish, it's about a man who decides to create a man out of his dreams... an amazing story. And it's also great " One of my favorite Borges novels. It's just simply wonderfull. I've got all of his works, bcuz they were collected and printed together in a series of books (i dont know the proper word for it, maybe its "all works??") not so long ago.
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Post by SkogRoar on Jan 2, 2006 0:32:17 GMT 2
Currently I'm reading some Keats (thnx Dave ) and and Aldous Huxley book, called: Heaven and Hell. It's mainly about psychedelic drugs, like lsd, and their effects, and visions. quite intresting one, i must say
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Post by ina on Jan 2, 2006 21:42:34 GMT 2
I'm currently reading japanese tanka poems and the new testament.
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Post by sfoeznup on Jan 7, 2006 23:40:46 GMT 2
George R. R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire
A Game of Thrones, 1996 A Clash of Kings, 1999 A Storm of Swords part A and Part B, 2000 A Feast for Crows, 2005 (now out)
Lovely story about high-born women, killers, soldiërs and magicans. about outlawed men and bastards, and the writer takes you with them all. It's sometimes hard to follow it all, because it are a lot of story's through eachothers. It's in the time of war in the Middle Ages and there happen a lot of things.. At the end of the worlds there are men who are fighting against something more strong then every king and army that's in war at that time.
Lovely story... but i have to read al the books again now part 4 is out... because i realy can't remember everything what happend in the other books.
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Post by nee~chee on Jan 12, 2006 21:40:00 GMT 2
my favourite book this moment is the sevenwathers trilogy, written by Juliet Marillier. I found the second book of that trilogy, son of the shadows, in a second-heand bookshop and I loved it so much so I read the first (daughter of the forest) and the third book (child of the prophecy) too. that books really enchanted me in a trance into the world of the seven waters I also like the LOTR books, I love fantasy . when I was young I loved the book Ronja rövardotter (in Dutch of course ) I read it 8 times!
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Post by DaveTheRake on Jan 13, 2006 9:08:02 GMT 2
Last book I've finished (and it took me a looooot of time to read it) was Hemingway's "Death In The Afternoon". I realised in September that this book was in one of the shelves of my grandmother's house in Almeria, so when I went back in december I took it to Madrid and read it. First surprise was that I waited for a novel, and I found a treatment about bullfighting; I don't like bullfighting at all, but I can't say I don't understand it better now. I would ask anybody who think that Spanish are just but a bunch of rednecks full of thirst for blood, to read this book; you can learn a lot of things about that strange world of bullfighting. My opinion about this hasn't changed after reading it, but now I think I can talk better since I've read about it; it's so easy to speak shit about something you really don't know a thing about! But with this book, even being a pure treatment about bullfighting, you can learn a lot of things about why things are how they are in this world. Moreover, this book has the strongest declaration of love that I've ever heard to the city of Madrid. Can't quote it right now, but I felt proudest of being born in Madrid than ever, after reading that sentence.
Now reading a book of Steinbeck about King Arthur.
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Post by Mou on Jan 15, 2006 20:05:49 GMT 2
i'm reading now "Dragonlance Chronicles", and there is a great book, i'll finish it in a few days and i want to start the legends or "El Ocaso de los Dragones" (i don't know how is the english title) also from margaret weis and tray hickman
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Post by SkogRoar on Jan 15, 2006 21:16:58 GMT 2
some great haikus at the moment, and my maths homeworks :S
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Post by jarmo on Jan 27, 2006 15:15:54 GMT 2
I'm reading Jimmy the Hand of Raymond E. Feist & Steve Stirling at the moment. Quite a good story. I really like Feist's books. They're all different, but in the same world, and often the same characters.
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Post by SkogRoar on Jan 27, 2006 16:52:25 GMT 2
I've got two books yesterday, so I'm exploring them all the time. Some Salinger novels, and "Heaven and Hell" from the great Aldous Huxley
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