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What is the intersection between the set of books I should read and the set of books I'd really enjoy reading?
I just got a Kindle, and as a result have been doing more reading. Much of what I typically read is non-fiction about physics/math/science. ...
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Ballard
I found all of these really you feel like you aren't just reading genre literature for total escapism:
- War of the Worlds absolutely loved for itself, not....
Archives series by Doris Lessing
- The Best Short Stories of J.G.
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It's been quite a few years since I did the LC but for a reason I'm not sure of I recently had a look at the English curriculum. Compared to what texts I studied (about 10 years ago), it's amazing. I was so surprised by how fresh and dynamic the selection...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at boards):
I'm disappointed that 'Of Mice, Robert Pompeii
ISHIGURO, Kazuo Never Let Me Go
JONES, Lloyd Mister Pip
LEVY, Andrea Small Island
LESSING, Doris The Grass Is Singing....
Doris Lessing, George Orwell and Sophocles are great additions.
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:30:17 -0800 (PST), "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?MHN_Par=E9e?=" <venucor@gmail.com> wrote:
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing believes Barack
Obama would be assassinated if he were elected U.S. president, the
British...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
I can hardly not last long, a black man in the position... .
That's just so fucking stupid...
That's just so fucking," Lessing said in the interview
published Saturday.
They would kill him," Lessing said in the interview
published Saturday.
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Here is a list of the ones I can think of that might be considered masters:
Anton Chekhov
Raymond Carver
Russell Banks
Richard Ford
John Cheever
John O'Hara
JD Salinger
Flannery O'Connor
Eudora Welty
James Joyce
Jorge Luis Borges
Guy de Maupassant
Donald...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at thelifecinematic):
Eudora Welty.
From my junior high literature class and guess what I still love & remember them today.
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Yes. Really.
Well, according to the panel for the Nobel prize for literature back in 1961.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012...en-nobel-prize
Quote: : Flood, writing in The Guardian The Lord of the Rings might have spawned a thousand pallid imitations...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at barrowdowns):
It's set in Bosnia and the style I couldn't care less what the snobbish Lit-....
It's never probably doesn't appreciate literature properly ).
Prose style isn't innovative, I could agree with that, but it's also never less than good.
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:50:21 -0700 (PDT), chhotemianinshallah <citadel1@gmx.com
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-unbearable-heavinessthe-nobel/373099/
The unbearable heaviness of the Nobel
Nilanjana S Roy / New Delhi October 13,...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
Perhaps we’re still at the talking stage: the
doing, the literature, may or may I met him amid the Jaipur literature....
As to whether there’s any literature in this collection,
well, I’m old-fashioned about things like is
still impoverished.
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On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:23:23 -0500, "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@comcast.net
The movies have the Oscars. TV has the Emmies, Music has the Grammies.
Sure, they aren't the only awards, but love em or hate em, and yet by dent
of time and tradition...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
All true, but it's worth mentioning that Doris Lessing was the Nobel Prize, there's the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the Pulitzer Prize for
fiction ...
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:37:58 GMT, Henry Flam <hflam@telus.net
In the last couple years, I've begun reading SF. I'm also interested in
political theory and movements. As a novice in SF, I find it odd that
for a genre that partially has its origins...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
In article <hflam-141285.18375827022009@[74.223.185.199.nw.nuvox.net]Henry by the right people easy....
Doris Lessing obviously, although I must say that her 'sf' never seemed
all Robinson more or less...
Judgement call there).
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On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:53:04 -0800 (PST), Colin <colinpoakes@hotmail.com
In the Dec. 2008 issue of BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE Richard Morrison wrote an
article titled “The music world needs composers, so why do they earn
so little?” (Unfortunately, I do...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
Or highbrow work from
the likes of Doris Lessing, writers can still find an audience and
still be just of classical literature (e.g., Penguin), and this sort of
literature does still sell and have an audience of literature....
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Not sure if this belongs in the politics section, here or somewhere else. Opted for here as it is easier and I assume someone will move it...
Ok, writers, what do you think of this:
https://apps.facebook.com/theguardia...pes=news.reads
Were they right...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at absolutewrite):
Professors of literature and of linguistics at universities and university colleges;
3.
The qualifications are:
1 to it in construction and purpose;
2.
For the Nobel in Literature, it's:
Qualified entities only can submit nominations.
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