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No fair! Not unless you get a job! :p

I think it's rather that he seems to have made his mind up never to write a sentence someone has ever written before... :rolleyes:

I know, that's why I was so unprepared and reading another book... Could be an early export edition I think... A small perk for Swedes ;)

It's here!!! :D :D It's sooo pretty! And soo HUGE! But to be fair, not that huge for a 1085 pages book... :rolleyes: And, curses curses, the book I'm reading now (The people's act of love by James Meek) has turned out to be good, damn it, so I'm going to have to finish it before I can read...

More "much too cute" than funny, and maybe I orginally found it att BAR, but still... Milk for the pussens. *mrkgnao*

Me like :D With that talent for clichés ;) I'm sure you can make a whole book of it! And then let us know - I'm absolutely convinced my boss would love for our bookstore to sell it by the truckload... :rolleyes: *mrkgnao* Footnote for those not knowing the story: A Christian bookstore has...

I'm amazed that it's an author who has no less than four books in print in Swedish :eek: and has already sold quite a bit and is read. I've picked up The black book and am curious about it as soon as I'm finished with Rushdie. It's very promising that the motto of the book is that a book should...

Not while Horace is in charge... he sees criticism as a guideline for "do the exact opposite", I think... (but with the new academy members, who knows what will happen next year... :) ) *mrkgnao* (with paper bag over head, just in case - as a political statement ;) )

Wow, you really like Pynchon, don't you? ;) Couldn't paranoia be a kind of exile? And isn't being a reclusive loon and writing beautifully mad books unlike any others a political statement... of sorts? :rolleyes: *mrkgnao*

Actually, I believe Churchill got it for his autobiography (-ies?). Myself, I've stopped bothering about the Nobel Prize, except professionally (I'm a bookseller). I can't muster any interest in it any more, it's just the same old same old, especially so here in Sweden, because "we" are so...

I have recently finished my first novel – or I should say our first novel, since I and my cousin wrote it together. I can report that the feeling you get upon finishing a novel is a feeling of being The Best. At least when it’s always been your dream to be a writer… We’ve sent it in to a Swedish...

When I read poetry (too seldom! too seldom!) I always find bits I want to be able to recite. Once, I could recite entire Odes of Keats and many many Swedish poems, but am out of practice... however, I might still be able to pull of "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" and Hamlet's soliloquy...

For the record: Prantera's Byron-book was sort of interesting but a bit on the prude and idealistic side; and Nye's was basically a prolonged biographical note in a literary history - pasted together from quotes from B's letters and journals - with some dirty words and a (not so secret) "secret"...

Yeah, I know, but they're a bit too long to sit at the computer to read...

I am in a Lord Byron phase. I started with his own The giaour, an epic poem about, actually, a vampire. Then I read Tom Holland’s The vampyre, in which we learn that Ld B was – well, more correctly is – a vampire himself. After that John Crowley’s Lord Byron’s novel: The evening land, about the...

Have a good time! The only one of two Greek words I know is eleutheria - freedom! :rolleyes: ;) Hope you see a lot of beauties-joys-for-ever, and have a great visit!

I just finished The vampyre: The secret history of Lord Byron by Tom Holland. Bet you didn't know Lord Byron was a vampire? It explains a lot of his extravagant behaviour, I'm sure... The book was good, very gothic/romantic; interesting points added both to the vampyre myth and the Byron...

Oh, I can't believe I forgot to put that on my list! ;) :D :) *mrkgnao*

Oh, that's so sweet of you! :D The positively only reason I haven't tried it out already is that the recipe is for 15-16 people, and since it's parfait you have to eat it all at once... So you have to have a big party, and get it right first time. Of course, I could make it all for me... Hmm...

I agree: what did we do before Wiki? :confused: But let's not forget there's e.g. http://www.bartleby.com and http://www.pantheon.org/ too! (or is it just me who mostly looks things up on mythology and phrase&fable? :rolleyes: ) And have you seen that Wiki has, among many other things...