Comments | antigonelives: reading list for 2007.

antigonelives

reading list for 2007.

Mar 31, 2007 23:49

Comments 11

x_psychedelic April 1 2007, 04:39:04 UTC

wow that is a big list..i just read the book Running With Scissors, it's really good. you should read it if you haven't already, or other stuff by Augusten Burroughs.

antigonelives April 2 2007, 03:40:43 UTC

I'll check it out, thanks! :)

itendswithafall April 1 2007, 04:51:34 UTC

confessions of an economic hit man - john perkins

tess of the d'urbervilles - thomas hardy (or anything else by him)

falling angels - tracy chevalier

father and son - edmund gosse

itendswithafall April 1 2007, 07:14:58 UTC

p.s. i absolutely love oscar wilde.

antigonelives April 2 2007, 03:42:06 UTC

Am getting all those at the library later, merci! And I nearly wet my pants during the Picture of Dorian Gray unit in AP Lit. God, Wilde is amazing. ♥

itendswithafall April 2 2007, 05:13:47 UTC

Oh, I know.
I went to the library and took out a complete collection of Oscar Wilde, it was brilliant. You should definitely check out The Birthday of the Infanta. Or The Happy Prince, both are beautiful "fairy tales" Wilde wrote.

yrch_monger April 1 2007, 16:32:51 UTC

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I wish I had time to read that much. The only opportunity I've had recently was on the plane ride to and from Vienna. I read three books, it made me so happy.

You should dfinitely read Sharon Kay Penman's Welsh trilogy.

"Here Be Dragons"
"Falls the Shadow"
"The Reckoning"

Your Llywelyn is in the second two. The first book focuses on his grandfather Llywelyn ab Iorwerth and King John "Lackland". And I'm hoping that if you do read them her anglisized use of the name Llewelyn won't bother you too much.

antigonelives April 2 2007, 04:00:12 UTC

OH MY GOD. AM READING.

alivein_christ April 1 2007, 23:14:08 UTC

Love, Remember Me.

Awesome.

And The Furies.

fuck77kids April 4 2007, 02:49:29 UTC

Don't bother with Part II of Faust. It's just tons of political and social commentary, almost none of which a modern day American such as you or I can even pick up on. Some really obscure stuff. All the literary merit Faust has to offer is pretty much concentrated in the first part.

I would, however, recommend Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, unless you've already read it.

I could list you ten thousand more, but it's past my bed time. Ask me if you're interested.

antigonelives April 4 2007, 04:23:24 UTC

I read Dr. Faustus last year, and I definitely agree with what you said about the second part of Faust. I nearly fell asleep reading it.

And oh god, do tell. You have such great taste.