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I would grant it's better than bestseller stuff for the writing quality alone, but that doesn't mean much. Most bestsellers don't have a purpose other than entertaining. I don't necessarily think you need to look into what literature's purpose is, I surely don't expect everyone to, but I...

I am Gandalf....but I don't want to kill the Balrog I want to be the Balrog!!!!! :(

Lol, paradoxically, to allow the reader purpose.

Quotes from Virginia Woolf from journals and such.... "Yesterday I finished the first part of To the Lighthouse, and today began the second. I cannot make it out--here is the most difficult abstract piece of writing--I have to give an empty house, no people's characters, the passage of time...

Yes, it's from To the Lighthouse . Before you read her it is important to vaguely understand her purpose. In effect, to make people create a story themselves. It is a fatal mistake to try and figure out what Woolf meant. She doesn't write with any intention, any implicit purpose other than...

"...how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach." -Virginia Woolf

Ouch :eek: Now is getting a chuckle out of us really worth paying for that comment? :rolleyes:

Aim carefully, wouldn't want to ruin all the good meat. Dibs on a thigh.....

SH5 or Gatsby.....definately Vonnegut if I have to pick one author.

Thx....I"ll look into that....

I know I work at B&N. What's fun is going over there and asking them if they are old enough to be in that section....great fun to see their faces :D Trying to stay away from stuff like Gossip girl, Charmed, or Alias.....NO FLUFF!! Ok , maybe semi-acceptable.....but gossip girl?? :eek:

I could use some help deciding a couple of books to buy my cousin for christmas. -16 years old -Female -Pretty intelligent for her age Open to suggestions, since I don't know what it is like to be a teenage female, was hoping for some help. Although, I would like to avoid fluff...

It might be more my age group. Perhaps the aplicability has fallen and therefore the recognition. I'm not sure, I just know that not all that many people in college with me right now have ever read a line of writing by him. I"m 22 by the way....

"Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life, and attain deliverance in disturbances". "If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are."

I"m not sure about this. My experience has been that once you fulfill a desire, a new one takes its place. We never seem to be able to be content by filling a singular desire, at least not while immersing ourself in a desire.

I did recommend it, although on a personal note I completely and utterly disagree with almost everything it says. And isn't the, "saying yes to a moment is saying yes to all of existence" derived from the theory they propose that the universe will play itself out over and over again. The...

Think so? ;) No charmers in your lives?

Huge fan of Moby Dick ....

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn I'm not sure how well he is recognized in Europe, but his name I have found is almost unknown here in America. Barnes and Noble barely has any of his work, and the books we do carry, are modeled for only one at a time. So for Americans, a hidden treasure if you enjoy...

Mixed up my threads, meant to put this post in underrated......