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Literary theory says that postmodernist literature brought back the story, that nowadays a good writer is the one who manages to write good quality literature, with no compromise to the value of the writing, and appeal to the general public at the same time, by writing a captivating story...

I always do that.While reading a book, I google the name of the author and read interviews with him/her, get information from the official web page, find out more about the way in which that book was written or about some characters in the book, especially if the book is based on historical...

Heart of Darkness, definitely, it bored me and I had to read it several times for some exams.:confused:

I read it a few years ago but I have it in my bookcase and I can leaf through it to remember, I'd like us to discuss it, I like Fitzgerald's books in general and I know this one is the closest to his biography and to Keats. Do you know there are rumours that Zelda, his wife, wrote or at least...

Too much paperwork today and I'm not sure that what I'm writing is ok, it might need some changes later.:blink:

I've just borrowed a book about everyday life in the second half of the 19th century, quite thick and full of history but very interesting.My reading is quite slow though as I'm very busy at work so it's good that the book is not from the library, but from a friend of mine.:innocent:

I looooved Middlesex, the way the story is built over periods of time, generations and different spaces, from Greece to Detroit, the irony and humour, the images, everything in the book is so well written.:) I'm glad you mentioned Eugenides, Libra!

I usually watch a film twice or three times if I like it but here's the list of the films that I would see hundreds of times: Amadeus The Remains of the Day Thelma&Louise American Beauty Amelie

I'm on Japanese literature right now:)I was a bit confused what to read next and a friend recommended Japanese authors; I had read a lot of Murakami, I strongly recommend him, especially Norwegian Wood Now I'm reading Kawabata and I enjoy his book, planning to read Mishima. I also recommend...

I'm in 1960s Japan watching a young prostitute sleeping in Kawabata's Sleeping Beauties, a strange but interesting story in which men are only allowed to watch beautiful young girls sleeping.

I love this writer, especially for his style and for the music in his prose, the images and the amazing metaphors that make you feel the air of Russian winters. I read The Music of a Life about a pianist who runs away during the war, Human Love, The Woman who Waited and others. Well, these...

David Lodge's Author, author is about Henry James,it's a novel about Henry James' struggle as a playwright, he wasn't very successful with contemporary audience.Other writers appear in the novel as I remember, including Oscar Wilde. And Fowles-The French Leutenant's Woman, the author himself...

When I read a book I usually hold a pencil in my hand, it's a habit I got from university when I always took notes for exams. Now I usually mark and take notes of passages that I like for different reasons-images, ideas, humour.When I read a book for my studies I always take notes.

even if holidays make me really lazy, I like roller-blading early in the morning when the air is cool and the streets are almost empty:whistling:

What an interesting idea!! There are so many characters I would like to have dinner with.Now, the first that comes to my mind is Miss Kenton in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the DayThat would be a neatly arranged dinner if Stevens, the butler, was invited too.:)

I've never read Gone with the Wind, I guess it's because of the movie, it made the story so well known that I just refused to read the book even if I usually read books after seeing the films which are based on them.:innocent:

I liked The Bell Jar and I find her poetry good but rather difficult, I didn't want to get any Plath subjects in my exams when I was a student.:D I think Gwenyth Paltrow played the role of Sylvia Plath in a film called Sylvia, about her life and her relationship with Ted.

I like book titles that are names of women, they are short and can't be forgotten and they somehow make you feel the book has a name, not a title.I once made a contest with my friends, who could come up with the most women names which are book titles. Emma, Tess d'Urberville, Madame Bovary...

David Lodge has a fine sense of humour, his books, especially Changing Places, really make you smile.I also enjoyed Zadie Smith's humour, especially in White Teeth, the book made me laugh and read some passages aloud to my friends.:)

Wonderful pictures, Sybarite!Did you take them yourself?:)