books, grades, projects, etc.

[ursula]

I don't have to take the linear analysis prelim, which fills me with unutterable joy.

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I went to Lionhearts this weekend; this leaves me with ever-multiplying craft projects (and possibly a translation project, and even more documentation to write up).

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I borrow the following from sartorias and greythistle:

1. Name a book you love no matter what anyone says.
2. Name a book you loathe no matter what anyone says.
3. Name a book you think is undeservedly obscure.
4. Name a book you think is undeservedly famous.
5. Name a book you think you ought to read.
6. Name a book you think I ought to read.

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okay, it's an excuse to avoid work...

[reasie.livejournal.com]

1. I, Robot
2. Frankenstien - no offense to Mary S. It is a slave to its time period.
3. Canticle for Leibowitz
4. *$#@%! Davinci Code -Die you over-hyped piece of tripe!
5. The Once and Future King - to see what the fuss is about
6. Muriel Spark's Liotering with Intent! Have I pimped this book enough?

Oh, and horray for inutterable joy!

[flammifera.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on avoiding the prelim! That is Very Impressive. :)

Hmm, this sounds fun, but it´s the sort of thing where I can never think of my answer under pressure. I shall try, however.
1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling (HP has been on my mind lately ;)
2. Walden, Thoreau (or Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, I loathe them the same way)
3. The Sword Bearer, John White (some Christian fantasy I liked when I was younger ::shrug:: first thing I thought of)
4. Iberia, James Michener (developing a passionate hatred for this)
5. Federalist Papers
6. Jews of Perpignan, Emery (hee hee. OK, only thought of it because of the interest you´ve taken in my research -- and this is pretty much what my research will turn out to be like, and the fact that probably any fantasy or sci-fi I´ve read, you´ve read)

[alsoelsewhere.livejournal.com]

#. Title (Author) [comment]

1. Ring (Baxter) [Ridiculously hard sci-fi. Baxter's ambition makes up for--well, everything (and that's a lot!).]
2. Moonchild (Crowley) [this book seems to have one good line in it, unfortunately that line is horribly out of place and cribbed directly from Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat.]
3. Housekeeping (Robinson) [Dare I call it "gentle, yet firm"? This one felt a bit heavy-handed in places, but was nonetheless graceful.]
4. Slaughterhouse 5 (Vonnegut) [I was swarmed by Vonnegut as a child and ever since have had a slight allergy.]
5. Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Kundera) [I keep a long annotated list of things I plan on reading, and the order is constantly shifting. Kundera is at the moment the most highly recommended, which seems to me more in the spirit of the next question.]
6. The Cat Inside (Burroughs) [Burroughs takes a break from writing addiction, sex, ritualized murder, and any conjunctive permutation thereof to write about kittens.]

[ursula]

I read Unbearable Lightness of Being a year or so ago. It was well-written, but I got the sense that Kundera and I are temperamentally or philosophically at odds. In particular, slanted though his vision of True Love is, he's still writing about True Love, and a flavour thereof that I find essentially unappealing. I'm meaning to write this up in more detail once I force myself to finish Jonathan Carroll's White Apples, which has the same problems in higher relief.