Completed my exams today and then went to the library
The first semestral exams at my school are completed today. Since we have to go back to attending classes tomorrow in preparation for the really important Chinese O' Level exams, my sister and I went to the library to have our good time today.(The library is rather close by to our school, so we could go without any prior planning.)
I borrowed Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, Dante's Inferno (an English translation) and this other book which I'm not too sure I like (and I regret this, there were two other books which I could have picked up, just that I didn't--in favour of this one, but I guess I'll read it anyway). Inferno is the only one which I really planned on reading, and only in the, if I see it and if there's nothing else, and if I don't have to pay for it, I guess I will kind of way. My sister borrowed The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (we are interested since we have just finished East of Eden) and a tiny book of verse by Emily Dickinson (for some strange reason, the library actually sees fit to buy these infuriating "pocket editions" which are really just excuses by publishers to fleece the general public of their hard-earned money, it's often like just forty or fifty pages of books whose copyright has expired for more than a half-century already).
I looked at the Emily Dickinson, it's difficult but beautiful and tends toward swallowing the reader entirely. I keep trying to reccommend books to people, but it doesn't often work. It's rather painful as I really hate seeing people wasting their time and money (and sacrificing a truly astounding number of trees) buying and reading inane books (chick-lit, Tom Clancy--no, I can't say anymore, I don't want even to have traces of such filth here). I hope you find some good books as well, go to your local library if you're free; after all, you do pay taxes for it..why not use it?
Something to start you off:
After Nature---W. G. Sebald (his first literary work, a long poem of sorts, wonderful and strange--a peculiar, enchanting metaphysical musing on the nature of ourselves as men in our lives)
The Great Gatsby---F. Scott Fitzgerald (this is one my sister absolutely raves about)
Autobiography of Red---Anne Carson
Plainwater---Anne Carson
A Dead Man in Deptford---Anthony Burgess, (perhaps) parental guidance required--or keep it stashed hidden in your dirty bedclothes, away from your parents.
and
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde--not too good but witty and laugh-out-loud funny), perhaps?
I borrowed Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, Dante's Inferno (an English translation) and this other book which I'm not too sure I like (and I regret this, there were two other books which I could have picked up, just that I didn't--in favour of this one, but I guess I'll read it anyway). Inferno is the only one which I really planned on reading, and only in the, if I see it and if there's nothing else, and if I don't have to pay for it, I guess I will kind of way. My sister borrowed The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (we are interested since we have just finished East of Eden) and a tiny book of verse by Emily Dickinson (for some strange reason, the library actually sees fit to buy these infuriating "pocket editions" which are really just excuses by publishers to fleece the general public of their hard-earned money, it's often like just forty or fifty pages of books whose copyright has expired for more than a half-century already).
I looked at the Emily Dickinson, it's difficult but beautiful and tends toward swallowing the reader entirely. I keep trying to reccommend books to people, but it doesn't often work. It's rather painful as I really hate seeing people wasting their time and money (and sacrificing a truly astounding number of trees) buying and reading inane books (chick-lit, Tom Clancy--no, I can't say anymore, I don't want even to have traces of such filth here). I hope you find some good books as well, go to your local library if you're free; after all, you do pay taxes for it..why not use it?
Something to start you off:
After Nature---W. G. Sebald (his first literary work, a long poem of sorts, wonderful and strange--a peculiar, enchanting metaphysical musing on the nature of ourselves as men in our lives)
The Great Gatsby---F. Scott Fitzgerald (this is one my sister absolutely raves about)
Autobiography of Red---Anne Carson
Plainwater---Anne Carson
A Dead Man in Deptford---Anthony Burgess, (perhaps) parental guidance required--or keep it stashed hidden in your dirty bedclothes, away from your parents.
and
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde--not too good but witty and laugh-out-loud funny), perhaps?
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