Mephistopheles wrote:Now it's Crime and Punishment and Notre-Dame de Paris, but I look forward to reading The Death of Ivan Illych. Classics are very fun to read, indeed.
I very much agree with you.
Reading
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. I recall having to read a large amount of Hardy's poems for school awhile back; they were all fairly dreary but I do remember one thing: the narrator was seated at some wintery pond with a wife, perhaps, and the whole scene was painted as very desolate and dead. The narrator and wife/whomever no longer cared for one another, and the narrator says something along the lines of, 'Your smile was alive enough to die.'
That needs to be embroidered on a pillow.
Anyway. :D Also rereading
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard, which I heartily, very much so, recommend to anyone, especially if they like meta-fiction.
Also, @ Tonksie if you return to this topic, what's he done to mythology? It's always discouraging when authors err more on the side of 'mistaken' than on 'artistic license'.
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