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David.Jerome

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How's it going?

I'm looking for a nice book forum to cal home. I've published my first novel, and am excited about it. I look forward to intelligent and fun conversations on this site.
 
Hello, Molly. Love your avatar. And yes, I happened to wander into the promotion forum. :)


Nice to meet you, Peder. Thanks for the welcome.
 
Just whatever you don't, for the love of God and all things holy and not-so-holy, watch the Dutch / Belgian version as the voice-over is horrendous. You have been warned. :)


What sort of books do you read yourself, by the way?
 
Thanks for the warning. And no voice is better than Morgan Freeman's.

There's no particular genre that I'm stuck to as far as reading. I look books with originality, or books not afraid to take chances. I'm the same with movies as well.


The last book I read was called David Wong: John Dies At The End. It was a great read. The author is the creator of Cracked.com. It's a book about the paranormal that's genuinely unique.

Before that, I read a book called Undoing I Do. This book would be considered "chick lit", but it's possibly my favorite book of all time.

I used to read a lot of Robert B. Parker books, who's most famous for his "Spenser" series. I found out after I started reading them, that this series became a TV series as well, in the seventies (called Spenser for Hire). Robert B. Parker writes mostly detective novels, and I loved a lot of them. His books usually have a tough male character.


So basically, I read whatever's good, regardless of genre. But these books should give you an idea of what I like to read.


What about yourself? I'm assuming you like books about nature.
 
About nature? Not so much. I'm a postgrad in Modernist literature, taking the Virginia Woolf course this semester so reading all of her work. Last semester was Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Other reading includes James Joyce, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick (did not enjoy that one at all), China Mieville is up in a few weeks. O and I'm reading Paul Auster's Mr. Vertigo now, it's almost finished and I will move on to Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus, as well as Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (discussion is tomorrow) and Orlando (next week). So yeah, busy reading most of the time. :D
 
Modernist literature...that sounds awesome.

Why does your course select the authors it does? Is it because they have a particular style that you need to learn about? Or is it because of their historical significance? Basically, why those particular authors?

If I'm asking too many questions, I apologize. I just find this very interesting.
 
I get to choose from three or four specialized topics for each semester, I chose Proust and Woolf. The other options were usually more general and featured multiple authors. I wanted to do these to as I believe both are very important to the Modernist style of writing and that I need to have read their works at some point. I thought it would be great to be able to read them and then have one of the department's specialists and other students to discuss the texts with.
 
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