What Do You Think if Christo and Jean Claudeã¢ââ¢s Art Named Surrounded Island ?
Sunday, August 08, 2004
"Literary recycling of this nature is as much about a savvy sense of marketing opportunities as it is about a literature coming of historic period. The point at which out-of-print works are canonised in sleeky and prefaced new editions is the juncture at which commercial publishing decisions and informed literary evaluation meet. But such a meeting of the commercial and the artful motive remains dependent on fairly arbitrary and happenstance decisions ofttimes based on selective considerations of taste. "
Getting onto the A-list
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Books and Contemporary Authors I've Read & Loved - Abridged Version:
(Absolute favourites marked with bold)
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid'southward Tale, Alias Grace.
Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory, The Bridge
Pat Barker: Regeneration, The Eye In The Door, The Ghost Road
Erna Brodber: Myal
A.S. Byatt: Possession, The Virgin in the Garden, A Whistling Woman
Jonathan Coe: What A Split up!, The House of Slumber
Michael Cunningham: A Domicile At The Cease of the Globe, The Hours
Jasper Fforde
Alasdair Gray: Lanark, 1982 Janine, Unlikely Stories, Mostly, Poor Things
Keri Hulme: the bone people
Guy Gavriel Kay: Tigana
David Lodge: The Rummidge Trilogy
Jamie O'Neill: At Swim, Two Boys
Arturo Perez-Reverte: The Dumas Club, The Flemish region Panel
Philip Pullman: His Nighttime Materials Trilogy
Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry
Other than gimmicky authors, I've read and enjoyed: Lord Byron (esp. Don Juan), Thomas Carlyle, Hart Crane, Allen Curnow, HD, John Donne, T.S. Eliot, Eastward.M. Forster, Heinrich Heine, James Joyce (The Dead is sheer perfection), John Keats, Tom Kristensen, D. H. Lawrence, Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Alexander Pope, Ezra Pound (esp. early stuff like "Lustra", "Personae", "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" and as well the Malatesta Cantos), Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Alexander Trocchi (Young Adam is amazing), Emil Aarestrup..
Midweek, April 14, 2004
Eight Formative Books
1. Margaret Mahy - The ChangeoverAt the age of xiv, I found it difficult to relate to near of the books I was reading. The Young Adult books I read depicted a teenage life filled with drugs, teenage pregnancies and parents divorcing. Huh? When I picked up Mahy's
book, I suddenly found a heroine with which I could identify - Laura Chant was strong, stubborn and a touch autonomously from everybody else - and the plot was filled with supernatural elements, an interesting backdrop (New Zealand!) and this mysterious, academic, dysfunctional guy Sorenson Carlisle who quoted Lewis Carroll and read Regency romances in lodge to connect with his mother. I kept borrowing this book from the local library and somewhen ended upwards buying it in English as soon as I got to London. Non merely did it spawned a lifelong fascination with New Zealand - and I simply had to photograph the road sign maxim "Paraparaumu 3 miles" when I was in NZ - and not only did it land me a lifelong crush on Sorry Carlisle, but information technology too injected a lifelong love for books that mix realism and supernatural elements seamlessly. I still re-read The Changeover every summer and force friends to read information technology likewise.
2. C.S. Lewis - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
I loved the Narnia series - apart from The Magician's Nephew and that one well-nigh the equus caballus and the boy. I loved the talking animals, the scary monsters and the fearless children. It was not until I reached adulthood that I looked back and realised information technology was all a Christian allegory with a demeaning view of women. But the Narnia series brought me to the Dragonlance series (oh, Raistlin!) and, of course, to Tolkien. Furthermore, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe gave me all the wonderfully geeky friends I have present: immersed in fantasy novels, I began throwing polygon die and met lots of keen people - and I probably would never have read a unmarried Choose Your Own Chance.. book or read any Guy Gavriel Kay, Ursula LeGuin, or Marion Zimmer Bradley, if it hadn't been for C.S. Lewis.
three. Johan Fjord Jensen - Den Ny Kritik
An 1960s Danish book on New Criticism. I picked it up for 50p at a book fair and, past hazard, this book became my introduction to literary theory as a whole. I call up sitting outside in the summer of 1996 and not agreement a give-and-take, only to pick information technology upward 3 months later and thinking it all terribly lucid. Information technology is not all that informative, well-written or annihilation, but it became my gateway into the insane (and somewhat inane) world of textual materiality, reader-response theory, decentralised structures and all that jazz.
4. Jacob Korg - Language in Mod Literature: Innovation & Experiment
The showtime I read which emphasised how language shapes our way of perceiving meaning and how modernist literature experimented with language forms and usage in society to depict the Mod World. Information technology sounds and then basic now that I'm typing this, merely this book was a real eye-opener for me. I even tried to runway down a used re-create so I could own it. Alas.
five. John Baxter - A Pound of Newspaper
I bought this a few weeks ago, just it transformed my world in a few hundred pages. It is the memoir of a book collector and is filled with anecdotes well-nigh dust jackets, starting time editions and swain book junkies. Reading it was similar discovering that identify for which you lot never knew yous had been searching. All of a sudden everything fabricated sense and I immediately logged on to eBay to search for those hardback editions. I also looked at my bookshelves and decided what books would course the backbone of my collection and what books I could discard without a pang in my heart.
half dozen. E.M. Forster - A Room With A View
The commencement real book I always read in English - that is, it was not abridged, fabricated easier to read for 'learners' or anything. Information technology was the start 'straight into the vein' book in English I read and I think savouring every unmarried word. I had already seen the film several times, only nothing could match the actual prose (thus this book also launched my 'No, I haven't seen the pic, but I've read the book' quirk). Present Forster's prose does not strike me as particularly lyrical, merely I loved his sentence structure and use of words before I could
name what it was I loved. A Room With A View led me to read Forster'due south Maurice (which led to those other things which for several reasons we shall non mention, to paraphrase Rufus Wainwright), but much more than importantly it made me read every bit many books in English language as I could possibly find. And that led to a University degree in English.
vii. Shane Weller (ed.) - Great Love Poems
It is a sparse volume - 113 pages, actually - issued by Dover Publications, which prints very inexpensive paperback editions of great literature. I bought this anthology for 95p in 1992 and it was my introduction to English poetry. Information technology has all the archetype stuff: Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, John Donne, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron etc. And where did that led me? Well, I'g a bonafide poetry nut nowadays and know most of the poems contained in this anthology past middle. If there was a fire and I could only rescue one book, I'd go for this one although it is a cheesy paperback with modernised spelling. Afterward all, this book features my teenaged self's handwritten notations to my favourite poems and I'k pleased to encounter that I withal dear the same poems that I did more than than a decade agone.
viii. Dorothy L. Sayers - Murder Must Advertise
I don't know about you, only I'thousand surrounded past Sherlock Holmes fans (non to mention a few Miss Marple devotees) and I've always been much fonder of Lord Peter Wimsey, his beloved Harriet and the unflappable butler Bunter. I'm not certain, but I think that reading Dorothy L. Sayers started my lifelong dearest of Chesterfield sofas, cricket-playing men and women sipping lemonade. All that pre-Not bad War gentility stuff mixed with a expert dash of murderous intent and Donne-quoting men with stiff upper lips. Every yr I dress up in Laura Ashley-esque clothes and sell dwelling produce at the Anglican church fete - and I fully blame Sayers for enjoying myself so much.
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Wed, February 11, 2004
That 100 Things thing - equally inspired by Jens.
#1: I'g 5'6", but people oftentimes recollect I'm shorter.
#2: Green plants dearest me. I attempt to kill them off, but they love me then much that they refuse to die on me. Pesky things.
#3: I once had pink hair. It was during my ironic stage.
#4: I was 19 when I was drunk for the very first time.
#five: I recently bought my ain flat which I'm doing upwardly inspired past Bauhaus. Er, the architects, not the band.
#6: I've had two bouts of Lyme's Illness. I hope it's not a recurrent thing.
#seven: The closest thing I have to a father lives in New Zealand.
#viii: I play RPG. I tend to play big men with huge weapons. How very Freudian.
#9: I'm non very emotional and get in a terrible state if I'thou forced to confront my feelings. I'm far improve at working through things intellectually.
#10: I have a thing for office supplies. I have spent a lot of coin on various pencils, pens, staplers and sheets of paper.
#11: I've sported grey hairs since age 16.
#12: I'g an excellent cook.
#13: I'thousand an ENTP
#xiv: I have worked for a magazine focusing specifically on computer games.
#fifteen: I'm a lousy housekeeper. I tend to lose interest halfway through any job I'm supposed to exist doing.
#xvi: I desire to motion to New Zealand one day and grow sometime by the sea.
#17: I'm very detail about how I fold the empty milk containers.
#xviii: I've lived in United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland in a number of places.
#xix: My books are alphabetised and so sorted by the publication date nether each author.
#20: I know "Married To The Mob" (1988 motion picture starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Modine) by heart. I've seen it 40+ times.
#21: I grew up watching MGM musicals on Sundays. I tin can still go weepy at the thought of "Gigi" and I worship film musicals.
#22: I've sung with Neil Finn.
#23: And danced on stage with Tim Finn.
#24: In that location is one thing I'm worse at than housework: math.
#25: It takes a lot to piss me off. When I finally get angry, I get very, very, very aroused. Hint: never apologise to me more than once if I'thousand angry.
#26: I paint non-figurative paintings. People claim to similar them.
#27: I've never been offered drugs - even at huge outdoors music festivals. Sometimes I wonder about this wholesome image I must be projecting.
#28: I've never lived on my own - I've ever shared my infinite with others.
#29: I started an amateur theatrical company in Copenhagen in 1995 together with six of my closest friends. We staged 5 productions before endmost shop in 1999 due to "creative differences". We have begun talking again now.
#thirty: I look similar Monica Lewinsky. An indie/intellectual Monica.
#31: I've never understood the entreatment of Friends. I want to bitch-slap every single member of its bandage.
#32: Politically I lean heavily towards the Left. Certain parts of Middle America would probably telephone call me a raving Commie. I prefer to phone call myself a liberal Leftist.
#33: I associate places and people with music. Ask me about the places I've lived and I'll tell you exactly what pieces of music jump to heed.
#34: I am terrified of spiders.
#35: I now live in a posh area of Copenhagen, which this wee white trash daughter finds very unsettling.
#36: I used to be pierced. Note the past tense.
#37: I have no tattoos.
#38: I was 15 years old before I owned a pair of jeans.
#39: If my neighbours annoy me by playing crap music in the heart of the night, I get up early on, put on an opera CD and turn up the book. If I'1000 actually mean, I put on my Belgian advanced rock CDs. I'thou often very mean.
#40: Gin & Tonic, baby. It'due south my poison.
#41: I own around 200 vinyl records - mainly teen pop from the late 1980s. The horror.
#42: My favourite shoes are a pair of knee-loftier black leather boots from the 1960s.
#43: I do not smoke, except when I'm drunk, under a lot of stress or in need of backbone.
#44: The start music video I remember was Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Have It". I was intrigued past the male lead singer Dee Snider'southward make-up. I think this explains a lot.
#45: I'1000 nuts about typography and fonts. I collect fonts and used to do a lot of calligraphy.
#46: I'one thousand allergic to pistachio nuts if I eat more than than a pound in less than thirty minutes.
#47: I taught myself to read when I was four.
#48: When I was 19, I decided to be anti-mode and just wore second-hand clothes, which I altered myself. This was also when dark-green Doctor Martens went with everything.. even silverish-and-black 1970s brawl gowns.
#49: I'm not very comfy talking on the phone.
#fifty: I dislike direct sunlight - aye, yeah, I've heard the vampire joke a lot of times.
#51: I'one thousand opposed to monarchy.
#52: I used to teach ickle firsties at University. It was a great job. No students ever showed for that Monday morn class, but I still got paid.
#53: I've had an anti-prose stage.
#54: I own effectually 2500 books.
#55: My favourite ice cream flavour is kokosnoot.
#56: I own no Stephen King books. I've read ii and was decidedly underwhelmed.
#57: When I was 14, I decided to read every single book in the Western Canon before I turned xv. I fabricated it through Plato'southward "The Democracy" ('a jolly skilful sci-fic yarn'), "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" before getting stuck ten chapters into "War & Peace". That was the finish of it, really.
#58: I've read Tolstoy in Russian.
#59: And Thomas Mann in German.
#sixty: I can't stand Mozart.
#61: My favourite painter is Kasimir Malevich
#62: And I'm such a Star Wars geek.
#63: I never read manuals. I believe in intuition and poking well-nigh.
#64: I'm told my olfactory organ is "stubborn", whatever that means.
#65: I'thou the beginning in my family to attend university.
#66: I was also the first to graduate from Loftier School.
#67: I'm i/16th part Jewish.
#68: I was once reported to the Ministry of Pedagogy because I played truant constantly when I was in master schoolhouse. Effectually the aforementioned time I was besides moved upwardly one year. Go effigy.
#69: I tin't fall asleep in bluish bed linen or in a bluish room.
#70: I own an awful lot of handbags.
#71: The police have manhandled me during a protest march.
#72: The 1 thing I'd relieve during a fire would be a blimp toy dog called Vaks. I've had him since I was three years erstwhile.
#73: I made quite good pocket money as a teen making outfits for kids' Barbie dolls. I nonetheless have three books filled with patterns.
#74: I tin put a diaper on a grown human using merely one manus.
#75: I do not know how to drive a car.
#76: Only I can make you lot a tailored jacket complete with lining.
#77: I have difficulties eating anything within the first hour of existence awake. I may every bit hungry as heck, merely I can't squeeze anything down.
#78: On the other hand, I become very grumpy if I exercise not get any caffeine within the starting time thirty minutes of waking up.
#79: My favourite perfume is Burberry'south "London" scent. Information technology's horrifically expensive.
#lxxx: I speak English with a very British accent - mingled with either a bear on of Kiwi or Scottish brogue depending on my level of intoxication.
#81: I am a member of a political party.
#82: I'yard good at networking. Some might even phone call it my greatest skill.
#83: The all-time night on town I've ever had was in Dunfermline, Scotland completely sober and in the company of three women all old enough to be my Mum.
#84: I do not similar scented tea or fruit teas.
#85: I couldn't swim until I was 22.
#86: Tinka is actually my long-fourth dimension nickname - not my given name.
#87: Originally I was going to exist called Eva, Gertrud or Nikoline. I ended up with one of the most common names in Kingdom of denmark instead. I'chiliad pretty happy to have escaped "Gertrud".
#88: I've seen Radiohead play to a crowd of 200 disinterested people. I also caught Placebo, The Flaming Lips and The Cardigans before they made information technology unto MTV.
#89: I admit to have a serious boyband thing. Heck, I tin tell them autonomously.
#90: I take a friend who is named after a Bowie album.
#91: I own no dance or techno CDs.
#92: A Lord Byron fridge magnet adorns my kitchen. He's right adjacent to my Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon fridge magnet. Information technology makes perfect sense in my head.
#93: I used to collect moose teddy bears. Really I *didn't* just all my friends thought it was a hoot ownership moose teddy bears as presents. I still have no idea why, only they carried on for about two years.
#94: I'yard quite into yoga - minus the entire New Historic period spiritual part of it.
#95: My hands are very, very small.
#96: Most of my clothes are blackness. It'southward because I'm such an aristocratic intellectual. Plus I cannot get my mind around matching clothes right later I get out of bed.
#97: I've never broken any bones.
#98: Never ever bear upon my lower dorsum without warning me.
#99: At school I've merely been given detention one time. I asked a substitute teacher to make his reading of a children's book a touch more exciting - and so offered to practice the chore for him, in case he wanted an early java break. I was nine years one-time and a horribly precocious child.
#100: I own a purple cycle on which I cheerfully combat the traffic mayhem of cardinal Copenhagen.
Friday, February 06, 2004
100 movies. As seen at Charlotte's. Y'all know the drill; seen = bold, italics = must see every bit before long as poss, *=gave upward/fell asleep/guests came over
i. Godfather, The (1972)
2. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
iii. Godfather: Part Ii, The (1974)
iv. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)
v. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)
six. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) (my favourite of the 3)
7. Casablanca (1942)
viii. Schindler's List (1993)
9. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
10. Star Wars (1977)
11. Citizen Kane (1941)
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo'south Nest (1975)
thirteen. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Flop (1964)
fourteen. Rear Window (1954)
15. Star Wars: Episode Five - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
17. Memento (2000)
eighteen. Usual Suspects, The (1995)
19. Lurid Fiction (1994)
20. North past Northwest (1959)
21. 12 Angry Men (1957)
22. Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) (loathed this 1)
23. Psycho (1960)
24. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
25. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) *
26. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
27. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
28. Goodfellas (1990)
29. American Beauty (1999)
30. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
31. Vertigo (1958)
32. Matrix, The (1999)
33. Apocalypse Now (1979)
34. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
35. Pianist, The (2002)
36. C'era una volta il Due west (1968)
37. Third Human, The (1949)
38. Some Like Information technology Hot (1959)
39. Taxi Driver (1976)*
40. Paths of Glory (1957)
41. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
42. Fight Club (1999) (loathed this ane as well)
43. Boot, Das (1981)
44. Double Indemnity (1944)*
45. L.A. Confidential (1997)
46. Chinatown (1974)
47. Singin' in the Rain (1952) (Gene Kelly! Yay!)
48. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
49. M (1931)
50. Requiem for a Dream (2000) (Never e'er going to see this one again)
51. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
52. All Well-nigh Eve (1950)
53. Cidade de Deus (2002)
54. Se7en (1995)
55. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
56. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
57. Raging Bull (1980)
58. Rashômon (1950)
59. Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
sixty. Sting, The (1973)
61. Alien (1979)
62. American History X (1998) (No idea why this is and then highly ranked)
63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
64. Léon (1994)
65. Vita è bella, La (1997) (I not simply loathe this 1, I detest information technology. Passionately)
66. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) (fantastic)
67. Touch of Evil (1958)
68. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)*
69. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
70. Bully Escape, The (1963)
71. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
72. Clockwork Orangish, A (1971)
73. Wo hu cang long (2000)
74. Modern Times (1936)
75. Amadeus (1984)
76. Ran (1985)
77. On the Waterfront (1954)
78. Annie Hall (1977)
79. Jaws (1975)
80. Braveheart (1995) (Grrrrr..)
81. High Noon (1952)
82. Apartment, The (1960)
83. Fargo (1996)
84. Aliens (1986)
85. Sixth Sense, The (1999)
86. Shining, The (1980)
87. Strangers on a Train (1951)
88. Blade Runner (1982)
89. Urban center (1927)
90. Duck Soup (1933)
91. Finding Nemo (2003)
92. Donnie Darko (2001)
93. General, The (1927)
94. Princess Bride, The (1987)
95. Metropolis Lights (1931)
96. Toy Story 2 (1999)
97. Kill Beak: Vol. 1 (2003)
98. Dandy Dictator, The (1940)
99. Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
100. Notorious (1946)
A very, very gars-ish list. And whilst the elevation l is generally okay, the latter function of information technology contains some questionable, faddish films. IMHO.
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Booklist meme; beneath is a 200-volume listing of BBC'due south Top Books. Copy the listing, and bold the ones yous've read, italicize the ones you desire to read next. (and those I began reading, but never finished are marked with a *)
1.The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky way, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Burn down, JK Rowling
six. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Iv, George Orwell
ix. The Panthera leo, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
thirteen. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks*
fourteen. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Piffling Women, Louisa May Alcott
xix. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
twenty. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy*
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Rock, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot*
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Chalice, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez*
33. The Pillars Of The World, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens*
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Isle, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Boondocks Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Downwardly, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Oversupply, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Hush-hush Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth*
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Aureate
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Skilful Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Nighttime Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones'south Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce (currently reading it)
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens*
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake*
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Affections, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New Earth, Aldous Huxley*
88. Cold Condolement Subcontract, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
ninety. On The Road, Jack Kerouac*
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho* (I loathe this book)
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Beloved In The Fourth dimension Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie*
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome G. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Manufactory, Iain Banks
109. The Twenty-four hours Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Cloak-and-dagger Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Film Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The 24-hour interval Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Off-white, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. Firm Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Human being, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Regal, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Xxx-9 Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Repose On The Western Front end, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Light-green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian*
150. Skeleton Cardinal, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. Ane Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Run up, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Vocal, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World Co-ordinate To Garp, John Irving (dreadful)
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Tardily, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. Thousand. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte'due south Web, East. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco*
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh*
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Existence, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. One thousand. Wells*
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Futurity King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
"Whatsoever disposition of printing cloth which, whatever the intention, has the effect of coming betwixt writer and reader is wrong."
- Stanley Morison: "First Principles of Typography", 1936
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2002
Tuesday, Oct 22, 2002
Back in academia. Doing well. Feeling skilful.
+ The American Printing History Association: Links to Online Resource and Other Organizations
+ The Virtual Museum of Printing-Press
+ Serif: The Magazine of Type & Typography
+ Printing: Renaissance & Reformation - An Showroom for History 101: European Civlization I
"Everything yous take experienced and are experiencing .. is made of i matter"
"Atoms," said Lanark.
"No. Impress. Some worlds are made of atoms, just yours is made of tiny marks marching in groovy lines, like armies in insects, across pages and pages and pages of white paper."
- Alasdair Gray: Lanark (1981)
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Blogger Inside continued from Afar Lord's day
#3: Have you ever come upon a phrase that suddenly made you laugh, or shout, or cry? What was it, and where did you find it?
Oh yeah. And this is why I go on commonplace books. I have four notebooks filled with quotations, phrases and brusk poems. I discover these everywhere: newspapers, books, song lyrics..
# 4: My sympathies on recently losing your great grandmother. Fifty-fifty with the distance you 2 adult subsequently in life, you audio as if you really love her, and will really miss her. What is your most cherished memory of Lily?
It changes every solar day. Correct now information technology was her sudden bursts of laughter. She did not express mirth very often, just when she did, it was e'er infectious.
#5: Your written English is more skillful and precise than that of many native speakers I've encountered! How long have you known English, or studied it? What other languages (aside from your native Danish) do you speak, read, or write?
I've studied English at various levels since I was 11 - which makes information technology 15 years. I've also lived in English language-speaking countries. I read Swedish, Norwegian, some Icelandic and Faroese, basic Dutch, easy High german and very, very, very basic Russian. I know enough Latin to pass myself off as well-educated and I tin e'er try to decipher Ancient Greek. I tin can guess my way through some French and make a quasi-educated guess at Spanish. I take a long-standing interest in Indo-European philology then I attempt to use my knowledge of that whenever I run into a language.
#6: Tagging dorsum to the language question again: do you also keep a blog in Danish, or only the two primarily in English language? I am a linguist by training, and I'm interested in learning why multilingual people, especially anylanguage/English language multilingual people, will choose to keep an online journal in primarily in their secondary language rather than their primary.
No. I tried to keep a journal in Danish, but I lost involvement afterward two days. I suppose I view blogging as a relaxed extension of my 'academic beingness' - and my 'academic being' speaks, reads and writes English language. It is my 'trade language'. I also read all my serious, loftier-brow bookish books in English - even if they are written by Danes.
#7: Hurrah, another bibliophile! When did you lot develop your passion for reading?
I taught myself to read the local newspaper when I was four. I took information technology from there, really.
#eight: You're in some interesting discussions with other bloggers nigh the warp and weft of blogs and their attendant comments. Are these discussions centralized anywhere? I would exist fascinated to read them all ane day, with my coffee mug nigh to hand (and I think other bloggers would be interested also, even if our weblog voices are pretty casual.)
No, I do not think they are centralised anywhere. Actually, I call back that plays well into an early point I made about near blogs: the de-centralised structure. Mind you, I think y'all could practise worse than head towards Torill and Jill's blogs. They look at blogs from an academic signal of view. And I call back my vox is coincidental likewise!
#9: Speaking of that great substance, java: black? Cream? Saccharide? Regular or decaf? Describe your best java feel, and as well (if you have i) your worst. If y'all were to recommend a coffee potable to a not-coffee coffee drinker (someone who'd never tried it before, not someone who didn't similar coffee) what would yous recommend?
Firstly, I'd like to answer the last question: flat white. A milky, not very sweet bit o'java. Almost a latte, but not quite. It is not quite as agressive a sense of taste. Add syrup to the latte for all I care, but endeavour a flat white offset. Secondly, my best coffee experience is the 1 with Matt. My worst? Microwave-nuked Nescafe.
#10: Folded. Given up the fight. Surrendered to current tech civilization and bought a jail cell phone (me too...I withal feel vaguely like a traitor at times.) What made you finally make up one's mind to go cellular? What one thing volition you never e'er practice with your cell telephone - non ever, under any circumstance, no way, not at all, inconceivable?
I was given my celluar and since I'm moving soon, I'd like a somewhat regular phonenumber so people can keep in contact. A phone call I'd never make with my cell? I take no thought. Except I'd never discuss my honey life on the celluar in public.
Woo. Cheers to Laughing Muse for those.
Thursday, June 06, 2002
Interview with David Lodge (one of my favourite gimmicky novelists):
So every bit ever with writing, the pursuit of some device, like using the Grail legend as a structural principle, suggests things to put in the story which you wouldn't otherwise have thought of. It really begins to dictate the mod level of the story.
The book he talks virtually is - of course - the brilliant Small World.
Friday, May 31, 2002
Links supplied by Des:
A Various Fine art and the Cambridge Leisure Centre:
The appearance of A Various Art created, although slowly, a considerable stir in English poetic circles. It was the adequate face of the underground. It gave the lie to the mainstream myth that the small printing scene consisted only of lumpish primitives, heedless spontaneists, cocky-alienating rock musicians without guitars; it showed a delicacy, reflexivity, and sensitivity which turned on a whole market sector of intellectuals who had given up on mod poetry.
a listing of important poesy anthologies and collections 1959-1995.
John Matthias traces the state of British verse after the aftermath of modernism. It is rather a good article which handles the subject with intendance instead of putting ill-fitting labels upon everybody and sundry.
Saturday, May 25, 2002
Trochee trips from long to curt;
From long to long in solemn sort
Tedious Spondee stalks; strong human foot! yet ill able
Ever to come with Dactyl trisyllable.
Iambics march from short to long; -
With a leap and a bound the soft Anapæsts throng;
1 syllable long, with i short at each side,
Amphibrachys hastes with stately stride; -
Kickoff and last being long, middle brusque, Amphimacer
Strikes his thundering hoofs like a proud high-bred Racer.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Metrical Feet
Versification is a periodical dedicated to prosody. They feature Metrici and Rhythmici: A Chronological List of Ancient and Medieval Theories of Meter among other things. Arnaut & Karkur have a very complete prosody resource. It is warmly recommended. Encounter also the challenge on prosody as presented past L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poesy. Finally, a bones guide to metrics.
Mon, May 20, 2002
The metaphors and rituals of place and time - an introduction to liminality -or Why Christopher Robin wouldn't walk on the cracks
Just as the major calendar boundaries were considered to be times for communication with the Otherworld, then boundaries of place could incite inspiration or enchantment. A seer might seek stimulus at that still-fascinating liminal zone between high and low tide that is neither land nor sea (and which continues to be the called place of pilgrimage for millions of sun worshipping travellers every summer). More than liminal places - even so in the modern mind associated with perceived danger - include caves, wells and paths into forests.
Source: https://6thedition.blogspot.com/
0 Response to "What Do You Think if Christo and Jean Claudeã¢ââ¢s Art Named Surrounded Island ?"
Post a Comment