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by **godisinthesilences** on Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:44 pm

just finished Wild Mountain Thyme by Rosamund Pilcher

by **Astronaut** on Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:27 pm

godisinthesilences wrote:hee hee... well i don't like harry potter books either... HA HA

Nope! Me neither!

I'm currently engaging with W B Yeats - Selected Poems. Here's a quick one for ya:

The Four Ages of Man (1935):
He with body waged a fight,
But body won; it walks upright.

Then he struggled with the heart;
Innocence and peace depart.

Then he struggled with the mind;
His proud heart he left behind.

Now his wars on God begin;
At stroke of Midnight God shall win.

:-D

by **Simonp** on Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:46 am

I'm currently reading this book. Sylvian said he once he read it and I thought I'd pick a copy up. Its about one woman's spiritual relationship with her guru. An incredible story.

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by **godisinthesilences** on Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:59 am

Simonp wrote:I'm currently reading this book. Sylvian said he once he read it and I thought I'd pick a copy up. Its about one woman's spiritual relationship with her guru. An incredible story.

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Hey thanks for that.... looks good! I finished Shree Maa's autobiography last winter and think I will read it again. It is an amazing book.

by **tallulahtaurus** on Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:12 pm

I normally read about 5 books at once due to my atrocious attention span although at the moment it's only 3.

Prick up your Ears which is John Lahr's book about Joe Orton/Kenneth Halliwell. I've read two pages of Billy Budd by Herman Melville purely because of the Morrissey song, oh and the fact that I got the book for 50p.

I also got from the library a rather interesting book called Policing Desires which is a book that criticises the media's reaction to Aids and pornography in the late Eighties. There is so much in this that makes me think.

I will confess to not being a fan of fiction reading either as a rule, although I have read and passionately love the Portrait of Dorian Gray. I also adore Brideshead Revisited - which is why I am muchly dismayed at the prospective film version because the makers have sexxed up all that delicacy.

I need to read more and quicker I have hardly read any of the classics, I paused over the Illiad in the book store and then decided it would be too hard for me to understand. I don't know how comes I am such a dunce I am reasonably educated...

Apologies for the essay

by **godisinthesilences** on Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:04 pm

The Portrait of Dorian Gray is a favourite of mine.

by **tallulahtaurus** on Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:58 pm

godisinthesilences wrote:The Portrait of Dorian Gray is a favourite of mine.

It's sheer genius and nothing less but then again I am inclined to have that grandiose opinion towards literally everything I like...lol

by **lastgoldstar** on Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:46 am

godisinthesilences wrote:The Portrait of Dorian Gray is a favourite of mine.

I've become convinced that there's a portrait of me somewhere in my attic that's only becoming more attractive... :smt108

But yeah, I'm a fan of the book as well.

by **Chet** on Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:44 am

just impossible as a Sylvian fan not to adore that book.

by **Melaszka** on Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:57 am

tallulahtaurus wrote:I need to read more and quicker I have hardly read any of the classics, I paused over the Illiad in the book store and then decided it would be too hard for me to understand. I don't know how comes I am such a dunce I am reasonably educated...

You're not a dunce at all. I studied English to MA level and used to teach it to sixth-formers, and I still find myself not bothering with tons of "classics" because they're hard to get into or I don't understand them (I know I would probably understand them if I put the effort in, but I'm basically a very lazy person and can't be ***ed). I've never read the Iliad either (despite starting it several times and reading about a page)and know I probably should - I loved the Aeneid when I did it for 'A' level and everyone keeps telling me it's just the Tesco Value version of Homer.

I think a lot of modern literature is overrated, as well. It really peeves me when authors actually try to pass off the fact they couldn't be bothered to make up a decent plot as an advantage, by claiming it's "character-driven" or has an "experimental narrative", and snobbishly dismiss plot-driven books as lowbrow. Edit: I've just read back through the thread and am worried people might think this was intended as a snide comment about Woolf. It isn't. I have no problem with authors who really are experimental and character-driven.

Oops, I'm really sorry for the essay.

Last book read:"The Smile of a Ghost" by Phil Rickman. Part of a bonkers series about a female Anglican exorcist who goes round accidentally solving murders. I love it!

by **godisinthesilences** on Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:03 am

I tend to read mostly 19th century english literature if i'm going to read books for a story.... Rosamund Pilcher just sort of resonates with me and her books are some of the few modern books i read. It is to give my mind a wee break from intellect and stimulates my visualization brain since she is quite descriptive.

My favourite book of all time is Jane Eyre and second is Wuthering Heights. Yeah yeah... i'm a romantic (in the darkest of senses hee hee).

by **Melaszka** on Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:39 pm

godisinthesilences wrote:I tend to read mostly 19th century english literature if i'm going to read books for a story.... Rosamund Pilcher just sort of resonates with me and her books are some of the few modern books i read. It is to give my mind a wee break from intellect and stimulates my visualization brain since she is quite descriptive.

My favourite book of all time is Jane Eyre and second is Wuthering Heights. Yeah yeah... i'm a romantic (in the darkest of senses hee hee).

I'm with you all the way on 19th century novels in general and Jane Eyre in particular. I also love Thomas Hardy and Wilkie Collins. But that's what I mean - the 19th century was about the last time authors who told a thumping good story weren't dismissed as pulp.

I've never read any Rosamund Pilcher, but I know loads of people who love her.

by **godisinthesilences** on Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:42 pm

i like a good story that can make me laugh, cry or ache... those are my criteria. I hate reading things where i sit there and go "i don't get it... am i supposed to get it?" I read enough intellectual and spiritual material that when i read something for a story i don't want to not get it.

by **Melaszka** on Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:50 pm

godisinthesilences wrote:i like a good story that can make me laugh, cry or ache... those are my criteria. I hate reading things where i sit there and go "i don't get it... am i supposed to get it?" I read enough intellectual and spiritual material that when i read something for a story i don't want to not get it.

I share those criteria. Having said that, I think my taste in literature was shaped by a childhood saturated in Enid Blyton...

by **godisinthesilences** on Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:11 pm

i didn't start reading great literature till university... no one turned me onto it before then. Oh wait no i did take a great science fiction class in high school... read some great stuff in that class that was 20th century. Very thought provoking for a young mind... On the beachbeing one of my favourites from the class.

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