Reading roundup of catching up
I haven't done a reading roundup in so long, and I think it's because I hit a patch where I don't want to talk about books at proper length, with quotes and stuff -- this happens to me occasionally. So, an abridged version, but I'm happy to talk about any of these with you in more detail -- more than happy!
35. D.M.Cornish, Factotum -- This is ( Read more... )
35. D.M.Cornish, Factotum -- This is ( Read more... )
Adam Rex, whom I never would have known of if not for westerosorting is a very fun author, but I don't think the other two books of his I've read live up to The True Meaning of Smekday, which was the first one I read. It's a kidlit book, but I think I enjoyed it more than my kids (and they both loved it, too). It's very quotable, and the girl-meets-alien feel of it pushes many of the same buttons for me, I think, as Tajna tretej planety, and I dunno, it's just very funny.
It was a great experience reading the book with you (hint: we should do it more often *wink wink*)
Ditto! :D (Please feel free to make me read some more classics I've neglected ;)
ghost story about kids (orphans?) in a haunted house, and one of them is left alone in the streets and traumatized by the end of the book - and the Big Reveal is that he later gets picked by Cathy's father and supposedly grows up to be Heathcliff
Interesting! That would explain the ghost fixation, yep. Although I do feel like there's enough in the beginning of WH to explain Heathcliff's trauma. I mean, he is still an awful, reprehensible person, which I think he must've been born with, but I had no trouble understanding why he would hate Hindley and Edgar/Isabella and be terribly jealous for Cathy, only how he could possibly think that taking his revenge on their children was an OK way to deal with those emotions.
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How did you get to know Adam Rex from our community?) And I'm tempted to look for that тайна третьей планеты-style book, I loved Кир Булычев with all my heart *excite*
Ah, classics - there is just so much I haven't read that my choices are numerous XD Is there any book you've been planning to read but never got to? I haven't read any Dickens, and I've been thinking of maybe trying either Pickwick Papers (which I have at home and I think I will like,the book being humourous and all) or Tale of Two Cities (which I've seen quotes with zeal by many a YA author including but not limited to CC)...
In Heathcliff's case, I think he has a very limited idea of causality, which makes him persevere with his stupid revenge to the extend where it loses all reason. Без тормозов, как говорят;)
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How did you get to know Adam Rex from our community?)
Not personally, alas ;) But strangerface (on of the most active Starks in past games, though she's not on LJ much anymore) was a big fan of the book and it was through her that I heard about it and decided I had to read it :)
I've only read Oliver Twist by Dickens (because they made me), oh, wait, and David Copperfield in Russian, too, I think? I'm not a big fan but I have been wanting to read more of him, to either confirm my impression or to find something by him I do like. Pickwick Papers and Two Cities were the two I was considering, so if you're game, I am too. (But I don't expect to enjoy it :P)
Без тормозов is a good description for Heathcliff! I'm not sure I would ascribe it to a limited idea of causality or something else, but I definitely do think he's emphatically not all right in the head in *some* way to be pushing it to these degrees...
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I have read a total of zero Dickens, so basically all my assumptions are guesstimations:) But I'll let you know when the mood to read classic strikes (or tbh, когда меня совесть окончательно заест XD) so that our misery can have company =P
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Sounds good to me! ;)
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