<p>Methinks we can boost the intellectual atmosphere of HSL, as TCBH would endorse, by so doing.</p>
<p>Again, hijacking is always welcome</p>
<p>I liked Faulkner before I had to write a 20 page analytical paper on his various writings this year. But maybe that’s just because I started writing it the night before it was due.</p>
<p>I am ADDICTED to Arthur Conan Doyle at the moment.</p>
<p>Sherlock Holmes = God.</p>
<p>I’ve read some Sherlock Holmes. I just remember the one with the five “orange pips” lol</p>
<p>^^ I loved Quentin as a character, and I was so sad when I found out that he was only in The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!</p>
<p>No. No one.</p>
<p>I like Faulkner okay, but I didn’t enjoy reading Proust</p>
<p>Don’t like Faulkner, he is too loquacious for me. (An addict of numerous modifiers!!!)
I’ve read only the first book of Remembrance of Things Past, Moncrieff’s translation of course; haven’t yet sensed anything melodious or beautiful in it-maybe it’s because of my untrained ears, or that the beauty is lost when his prose is translated into English. :p</p>
<p>I am most into **John Galsworthy. *His works, both essays and novels, are simply irresistible. * The Forsyte Saga the tv series is already an unprecedented masterpiece, but the original book is even better I have to admit. Not many gifted writers can be so accomplished as Galsworthy in writing novels. Gee, that delicate and debonair style!!</p>
<p>Go Galsworthy!!!</p>
<p>I remember reading the entire unabridged sherlock holmes anthology in 5th grade in a day. For some book report that was due the next day. -_-</p>
<p>It was pretty interesting. Don’t remember much from it though. </p>
<p>I think I had a phase where I was pretty obsessed with detective novels/mysteries. So I read the entire Hardy Boys collection in a week. I also read the entire collection of Agatha Christie novels during that time. Don’t remember anything plot-wise either. -_-</p>
<p>That was back when I read anything. Now I don’t read fiction all that much. If only I was into classical literature. Except I’m not.</p>
<p>So did you say we could hijack this thread?
I propose we discuss the irrationality of life.</p>
<p>I like Faulkner. Never read Proust.</p>
<p>On Proust, he is the only author whom I’ve read to effectively link his world to my world, both through eloquently describing his feelings and by alluding over and over again to the great works of art and literature with which he was familiar. Also, I seem to be a lot like him and as a result it’s almost as if I am reading a story about myself.</p>
<p>^whoa, your familiarity with Proust seems to me an indication that you are one of the leisured class. </p>
<p>I personally think his books have a, sometimes alarmingly, morbid scent.</p>
<p>He makes a lot of mistakes (as the character). Pretty much any time he sees Albertine or Gilberte he does something unpalatable and then is depressing about it, but he is also lulzy some times, like in his treatment (as a writer) of Bloch</p>
<p>I think that the main thing that I can relate to with Proust is that he has definite dreams that are humble but that he is still unsuccessful in achieving and that his expectations for certain situations are often too high, and that he has to come to terms with that on a regular basis, and that’s something I share with him, so I’m kind of curious to see how it turns out in the seventh book (I’m only finished with Within a Budding Grove currently)</p>
<p>As for Faulkner, I love all of the fatal flaws in each of his otherwise sturdy characters that stem fundamentally from on character: the selfish and absent hypochondriac mother in The Sound and the Fury and the commandeering ambitions of Thomas Sutpen in Absalom, Absalom!</p>