book ramble
So, am currently trying to make myself look more intellectual by finishing books I was set in first year but never managed to read ~ admittedly, I got at least three quarters of the way through Beowulf, but the writing style of the translation makes it a bit of a hard slog to get through really. Riddley Walker I could not get into at all. I appreciate that to some it's a huge step in EngLit, but future!english is not my thing at all. Neither could I get into Disgrace, but that was purely down to the subject matter not interesting me in the slightest.
Dracula, however, I am detirmined to finish. I got most of the way through when I was distracted by something or other, and never picked it back up again. I have read an abridged version a long time ago, if that counts. :D The two I'm currently trying to finish though, are Goodbye to Berlin, and A Room of One's Own. The former I figure shouldn't be too hard; it inspired my to go watch Caberet after all.
And if you're starting to wonder if I finished a book at all during my first year, I did read Hamlet (though that I'd done for my A-Levels), and The Things The Carried. Typical though, that the one book I could turn up at my seminar with a proper knowlege of what was going off (I recognised the post modern style from reading The Handmaid's Tale for A-Level), and the seminar was cancelled.
I think there's one or two books I haven't mentioned, but I figure everyone can do without me rambling on about the books I didn't finish reading while at uni.;)
Dracula, however, I am detirmined to finish. I got most of the way through when I was distracted by something or other, and never picked it back up again. I have read an abridged version a long time ago, if that counts. :D The two I'm currently trying to finish though, are Goodbye to Berlin, and A Room of One's Own. The former I figure shouldn't be too hard; it inspired my to go watch Caberet after all.
And if you're starting to wonder if I finished a book at all during my first year, I did read Hamlet (though that I'd done for my A-Levels), and The Things The Carried. Typical though, that the one book I could turn up at my seminar with a proper knowlege of what was going off (I recognised the post modern style from reading The Handmaid's Tale for A-Level), and the seminar was cancelled.
I think there's one or two books I haven't mentioned, but I figure everyone can do without me rambling on about the books I didn't finish reading while at uni.;)