Posted by Steven
on 15/4/2009, 17:11:43, in reply to "Lolita and what I'm reading now"
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I finished Lolita a few days ago as well, and have watched the lectures. I may listen to them again, because there's a lot of material covered. The guest lecturer's discussion of modernism was very helpful.
I've seen lots of short story anthologies, but I haven't been in the market for one, so I wouldn't know which is the most definitive (if any). Something like those huge "Norton Anthologies" might be a good start, though they would contain plays and poems as well. I had one in college that I wish I'd kept.
I've been reading from the complete collection of Hemingway stories off and on. I guess I've read about a third of them. The Francis Macomber story was the most memorable so far.
Most of my reading time lately has gone to A Suitable Boy. It's really caught my interest, and I may go ahead and try to finish it this month. I'm about halfway through. One drawback, though, is that my left wrist is literally sore from holding it.
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: Hey Steven,
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: I'm ready for Lolita whenever you are.
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: Before reading The Black Tulip , I read the last
: story from Interpreter of Maladies . I enjoyed those
: stories pretty well, and I now feel a bit more
: inclined to read some short stories. I wish there were
: a book of something like the fifty greatest short
: stories - you know, like those books of 500 greatest
: poems. I'd like to read The Nose and The Overcoat
: by Gogol, the two or three best of Chekhov, the two or
: three best of Hemingway, etc. I don't want to buy a
: whole volume of short stories by each author though. A
: lot of them can be found online, but I'm not fond of
: reading long texts on the computer. By the way, this
: brings up the fact that no Hemingway stories have been
: suggested for discussion. As those are mostly very
: short, I probably will read any I can find online if
: one is suggested.
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: My next book, I think, is The Relic by Eca de
: Queiroz. I learned of it from Bloom's Genius .
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