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Re: white_elephant
Thank you very much for this encouragement!!!
posted by
Matie
on October 27, 2007 at 1:40 PM
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Re: le_divorcee
Now that you say it, I think so too. But I'll keep reading Dante because he has a fun way of telling stories.
posted by
Matie
on October 27, 2007 at 1:39 PM
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Re: brian76
I feel the same. Too intricate. If you as a reader don't want to be mindwhammied by his writing then it's ok LOL.
posted by
Matie
on October 27, 2007 at 1:38 PM
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Re: .Dave.
Wow. The original from 1922?
You have such a treasure.
posted by
Matie
on October 27, 2007 at 1:36 PM
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Re: richinstore
I'm sure you'll love it. It has plenty of those references and it's pretty easy to get, really.
posted by
Matie
on October 27, 2007 at 1:36 PM
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Re: TAPS
I actually think that was the teacher's way to get me off.
posted by
Matie
on October 27, 2007 at 1:35 PM
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Matie
sorry to hear you're going through hell!!!
.... never read Dante's book ~ whatever's the reason behind your teacher's proposal, don't let it discourage you one bit!!!!!!!!!! .... Teachers can be wrong too! .... you'll probably grow up to be a better writer than her!
posted by
White_Elephant
on October 27, 2007 at 2:15 AM
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Then whoever has read those books should automatically become a good writer
it sounds like a matter of opinion...
posted by
le_divorcee
on October 25, 2007 at 7:22 AM
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well
Don't take too seriously this advices. If you ask another teacher he/she will probably tell two different books as basic. As myself I read only about 20 pages of Ulysses and I felt that this book was not written for me. Then I read some of Finnigan's Wake and I'm quite sure the Joyce not the writer for me.
posted by
Brian76
on October 25, 2007 at 2:48 AM
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"I'm still in hell"
Funny statement.
I'd like to read both too. I got hold of the 1922 text of Ulysses recently. Gawd knows how it differs, but that's the one sitting on my shelf. Just need a couple of spare months...
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on October 25, 2007 at 1:41 AM
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Matie,
I love to read it and other stories about ancient greece.
posted by
richinstore
on October 24, 2007 at 5:03 PM
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Matie
I guess that I'll never be a really good writer because I have not read them en toto and do not intend to.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 24, 2007 at 4:44 PM
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