Favourite novelist:
Haruki Murakami
why?
A novel that mentions other novels in a way that makes you want to read them is a good novel
Runner up:
J.D. Salinger
Favourite essayist:
C.S. Lewis
Runner up:
Sedaris / Joseph Brodsky - can't decide
Favourite poet:
T.S. Eliot
Only read The Waste Land and The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock, enough to fall in love with his style. First time I read him I was 19 and thought he was trying too hard. Second time I read him when I was 20 and thought it was lovely imagery but was too obtuse / didn't make much sense. Third time I read him I was 21 and everything changed
Runner up:
Frank O'Hara
favourite novel:
the Catcher in the Rye
runner up:
I don't read many novels
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d'aww manga
horimiya
d'aww anime
toradora / ano natsu de matteiru
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The advertisement of a man - the cleverer you become the greater your capacity for (self )deception --- the ability of writing to edit a...
I said I wasn't impressed by 1Q84, but have you read Kafka by the shore? I'm working my way through that one now
ReplyDeletenot yet, i read like 5 pages of Kafka in an MPH a year ago - eager to get my hands on a copy. how'd you like it so far?
ReplyDeleteI'm a little scared to touch 1Q84, partly because i am a super slow reader and it will take me about 10 years to get through all three books, but also because i suspect it is like the wind up bird chronicles, which was as frustrating as trying to read a rubick's cube and gave me an existential kick in the balls at the end
i really like his short stories though - they never feel like 'work'
ReplyDeleteIt's better than 1Q84: better pacing (not as meandering as 1Q84) while being just as surreal. Maybe it's my short attention span.
ReplyDeleteBut my sister has been forcing me to read fullmetal alchemist, so culture can wait-