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The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers.

I tell you guys, it's all in the culture :D and perhaps also in the book choices. I tend to be drawn to authors who use page-length sentences and little dialogue, where toughts are mixed with prose, so punctuation marks are beginning to seem odd to me. So things that annoy me: Italics...

I'm partial to anonynous, omniscient third person narrators who seem to be part of the story but really aren't.

Quotation marks are a cultural thing. Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Irish literature use the dash to separate the dialogue from the prose. José Saramago is the only writer I know who doesn't use punctuation marks to do it, he just starts a dialogue sentence with a capital letter, and I...

I think I'm rather young to start re-reading novels. At best, I like to re-read specific passages or sentences from time to time. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, easily the greatest books ever written, is the only exception; I read it regularly.

I think at one time Jude Law was going to play young Lecter. My dream has faded :( Who is Gaspard Ulliel?

Should I infer Miss Ayn Rand is pretty popular in the states? Aspects of the Novel, by E. M. Forster, that's the only one I've read. This is a good non-fiction guide, though; some titles here have picked my interest.

Give in to the Otter side!

The young, beautous Madsen in Dune didn't resemble anything at all with young Gillian. I guess 40-year-old Madsen resembles even less :D although she has aged with grace.

What a ridiculous book jacket! Even comics are better advertised nowadays. You know, if at this point in life you're just writing for the next movie adaptation, you might as well just write it as a screenplay. Imdb.com already had a page for a Hannibal Lecter movie prequel (with the better...

I just watched Little Miss Sunshine yesterday, and I don't think I've seen such a good movie since February, when Brokeback Mountain premiered in Portugal. This is really funny, emotional stuff! Has anyone else seen it? I get the feeling it's an indie, so it's probably not popular. But it's...

Beaver 42%: Makes lists Serious Precise Likes facts Reads all instructions Organized I will do the best I can Practical Also: Lion 17% Golden Retriever 31% Otter 11%

Interesting that everyone chose to read the longer Paradise Lost instead of the rather short Inferno. It usually works the opposite :D

Well, I knew a priori the famous The Da Vinci Code was drab, and that's what I said to everyone who came to me to singing praises about this novel. Some people, understandably upset over this snobbish position, diplomatically suggested I should read it before criticising it. But I had no...

Lovecraft is frustrating. He's not a particularly good writer, but his imagination was unique. I love his weird ideas about Dark Gods, strange dimensions, weird dreams, the Necronomicon, etc., but to get access to the juicy stuff I have to trudge through endless, boring, badly-written prose...

A book set in Lisbon. I should get it just to see how he portrays my birthplace :D Lisbon in 1942 was a heaven for political refugees and jewish people. Even though those were the years of the dictator Salazar, Portugal had a lax policy of granting visas to anyone fleeing from the Nazis.

Wuthering Heights: I'm prejudiced against 19th century fiction general, especially Victorian, humourless tripe (i.e. Charles Dickens). But I had to read it for my English Literature class in college, and ended up loving it. Heathcliff was the clincher, of course. Dostoevsky: I never expected...

Are you just reading Inferno?

Unsurprisingly, the Portuguese publisher that holds the rights to Pamuk's books here is about to print two more books by him, including Snow. I'm really curious to read something by him.

For all the people who do good in the name of God (rather hypocrite to me) there are those who do good for the sake of doing good (which has a lot more honesty and virtue to it) I can't dispute that, for I have witnessed that myself. I can only regret that people need such rituals and...