My Winter 2003 Semester Reading

Submitted by listology47 on Thu, 06/05/2003 - 04:30
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  • Women's Literature 2
  • The Communist Manifesto
  • Utopia (excerpts)
  • Herland
  • Woman on the Edge of Time
  • The Wanderground (out of print)
  • The Handmaid's Tale
  • Canadian Dramatic Literature
  • The Art of War
  • Fortune and Men's Eyes
  • Perfect Pie
  • Les Belles Soeurs
  • The Good Life
  • Leaving Home
  • Midlife
  • Doc
  • The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
  • The Rez Sisters
  • Goodnight Desdemona (Goodmorning Juilet)
  • Fiction 2
  • The Puglist at Rest
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • Frankenstein
  • A Fringe of Leaves (out of print)
  • The Fifth Child
  • At Swim-Two-Birds
Author Comments: 

Also was to read The Dispossessed in Women's Lit. 2 but I couldn't get myself past the first 35 pages. Way to science-y for this mind.

I highly recommend The Wanderground and The Fringe of Leaves if you can just hold out until about page 150...cuz then it gets extremely fast moving.

AJDaGreat06/05/2003

How did you like "At Swim-Two-Birds"? I heard it was hilarious but it also sounds pretty confusing. Is it?

listology4706/05/2003

It takes awhile to get into the book but I found that it certainly was amusing. It is not in the standard book format...and I think the book is from the 1930's so it was before its time in terms of style and format.
Apparently the author of it wrote several books...apparently The Third Policeman is more hilarious than At-Swim-Two-Birds.

professor06/06/2003

I read 'The Third Policeman' and 'The Dalkey Archive' many years ago, and they are amusing, but very surreal. Do not attempt Flann O'Brien if you do not appreciate the surreal - ala David Lynch.

The Third Policeman is the better of the two. I have not read At Swim-Two-Birds.

ash_campbell02/10/2004

Wow! Did you actually get through the Communist Manifest? I don't think I could make it without falling asleep.

Robinson Crusoe, on the other hand, is a childhood fave of mine.

lbangs02/10/2004

Have you tried the Communist Manifesto? If not, you might be surprised how short and easy to read it is.

If so, economics probably isn't your bag; that work is as stirring (and, possibly, easy) as the field gets.

It is also perhaps the finest modern propaganda piece I know of.

Robinson Crusoe is a very delightful novel (not to mention one of the earliest).

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs