tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post3127764751482505273..comments2024-03-20T19:40:58.078-05:00Comments on The OF Blog: Readings some 15 years agoLarry Nolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16001420558511460998noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-25576453384357398652011-10-14T16:32:44.763-05:002011-10-14T16:32:44.763-05:00I find Dickens quite empty (I am, however, going t...I find Dickens quite empty (I am, however, going to give Bleak House a chance). I find Jane Austen (and also the Brontes) the emptiest. The German romantics (Goethe, Heine, Hölderlin) really kick things off. Read The Sorrows of Young Werther, Hyperion, and Germany: A Winter's Tale, etc. etc. Everyone should read all of the poetry by these three writers.Spinozanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-45939038575805017342011-01-28T18:37:43.999-06:002011-01-28T18:37:43.999-06:00Adam,
Virtually none of the books I listed are re...Adam,<br /><br />Virtually none of the books I listed are required reading in most American high schools, but I could see where more would be included in UK schools.<br /><br />Ben,<br /><br />The MA has to be worth <i>something</i>, right?<br /><br />Hélène,<br /><br />That certainly was a depressing read, I'll admit.<br /><br />Interesting that Dumas is not often taught there. I guess it's considered too close to pulp fictions and penny dreadfuls for those who devise the curricula there?<br /><br />Derrick,<br /><br />I wonder how many would have pegged me as having read all of Austen's work without being required to do so? :PLarry Nolenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001420558511460998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-44383534305279415022011-01-28T17:58:03.342-06:002011-01-28T17:58:03.342-06:00Hurray for Dickens and Austen!Hurray for Dickens and Austen!Bookerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15889198370808653959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-26372406303084375812011-01-27T12:02:39.046-06:002011-01-27T12:02:39.046-06:00Cousin Bette made me despair !
It seems Dumas is ...Cousin Bette made me despair !<br /><br />It seems Dumas is very much appreciated in USA but he is not very much studied in France. I had to read Balzac, Stendhal, Zola in highschool but Dumas was never mentionned. Snobbish, I'm afraid.Hélènenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-76665208835095300052011-01-27T08:49:16.818-06:002011-01-27T08:49:16.818-06:00Masters students! Always showing up us Bachelors.Masters students! Always showing up us Bachelors.Ben Godbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15450579203940093977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-15895220014149501862011-01-27T02:30:01.811-06:002011-01-27T02:30:01.811-06:00I don't think that the list is that unusual at...I don't think that the list is that unusual at all. By that time (I was 17 fifteen years ago) I had read seven of the books on your list (though I always preferred DUBLINERS to Joyce's other work, a point of contention at the time between myself and a friend who preferred ULYSSES) and an awful lot of them a were required reading on any standard high school, college or university English course (in the UK at the time anyway).Adam Whiteheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11383677312079611311noreply@blogger.com