September 2009
1 post
Finished Catcher in the Rye!
I really really enjoyed it. Perculiar and wonderful. Loved the style of writing. Wasn’t overjoyed with the way it finished but I’m no writer so I’m not sure how I would have preferred it.
What should I read next?
August 2009
1 post
Finished Brave New World, starting Catcher in the...
It was much easier to read than 1984. Much more flowing, and the content was like crack to my mind. Both were bloody interesting, but I think BNW will stay with me longer in many ways.
On to Catcher in the Rye now - going through it pretty fast! Nice to have a change of content/style now.
June 2009
2 posts
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Started reading it 2 days ago - keeping up the utopia/dystopia theme…
FINISHED!
It took me WAY too long (I was writing my final papers and moving 16000km across the globe in the mean time… I hope that’s a valid excuse) I finished Nineteen Eighty-Four.
I should have read it long, long ago (as with all the rest on this list, I guess)
Considering tackling Brave New World next.
May 2009
7 posts
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted,...”
– George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four (p. 68)
“It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the...”
– George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four (p. 26)
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know...”
– Emily Dickinson (via endosymbiotic) (via unicornology)
booksbooksbooks!
I’m excited that you’re excited about a) my book idea and b) those books specifically! I shall keep your suggestiongs in mind when I’m picking the next ones to ‘attack’!
It’s a funny thing to ‘force’ myself away from the internet in order to have anything to update this blog about. I think it’s going to be good!
booksbooksbooks:
First of...
Your favourite books!
On the off-chance that anyone will look at this: Are there any books you think should be on that list, and aren’t?
