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After reading through the stuff on that forum, and then tackling the book again, it made a lot more sense. Thankfully things cleared up a bit more after the first three chapters. With no context, I found the first three chapters really hard to understand. Now I'm into the second part. As you...

Hey, this is useful. I started the book last night, and although I consider myself an intelligent person, it took me two hours to get through 10 pages. A lot of it was flying over my head unless I stopped to think about the ideas and to put them together. The central theme is a bit hard...

Basically it's about an Indian Ocean/South Pacific sea officer who loses his honour by abandoning his boat, but regains his honour eventually. It's a wonderful look at human nature in the face of danger, and at missed opportunity.

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Wow! The only other book I had read by Conrad before this book was Heart of Darkness. I found HOD's prose really thick and the metaphor and double meanings throughout the book overpowering. That didn't keep me from enjoying HOD, though. Reading Lord Jim is pure pleasure. The prose is still...

I'd start with Chronicles and Legends. That's what I did 15 years ago when I was in middle school and started devouring these books.

I kind of cheated (or lied) 'cause I saw the first movie a few years ago, but it really didn't make much sense. Now, having finished the books, I watched the first movie again last night, and really enjoyed it. I watched the second movie this morning, and I'm going to watch the third movie...

I read The Hobbit about ten years ago, but didn't have the momentum to get into the LOTR after that. I'm going to reread The Hobbit I think just because it'll be better with more understanding.

Well, I finished it. I couldn't put it down. I'm glad the ending was gradual, with a lot of stuff happening after the climax.

I'll third it. I wanted to read it for May, but June will do.

Either The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald or The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. Both of these books are long and generous. They are long enough that I couldn't finish them in a single sitting, which drove me nuts because I was so involved with them. But, they were not...

For me, choosing one favorite book is about as useless an idea as choosing a favorite brand of water. I need great books, but most great books are the same in my opinion. My favorite books hit me somewhere deep inside. Some of my favorites are: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance I...

I knew I would like The Lord of the Rings so I bought the books, yet the books have been sitting on my shelf for a long while now. I expected it would be a commitment to read them since the trilogy is so long. I started The Fellowship of the Ring last night, though, and I'm hooked. I should be...

Having finished the book just yesterday, I must say the movie took many liberties. However, I'm glad I saw the movie first, because it gave me a good sense of setting without prejudicing me about characters too much.

No particular reason. It's just that I would be surprised to be talking to a literate person and hear them say they have never read this book because they have been too busy reading James Clavell or Stephen King (no particular disrespect meant to these authors).

Would Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe qualify? Being stuck in a remote mountain village sounds quite utopian to me, but the situation in the book is far from rosy.

What books are a must read for someone interested in literature? I know this is a difficult question, because the easy answer would be to consult your handy guide to the literary canon, but what gets in the canon, eh? I wouldn't be too surprised if someone hadn't read a particular...

Anyone have a good history of English literature to recommend? I read English Literature by Anthony Burgess a while ago, and found it good. The only problems with it were that it is a little bit out of date, it seemed to focus too much on drama (although I recognize it is a part of English...

Then there is Grand in Camus' The Plague who keeps reworking the opening sentence to his novel, but hasn't written anything beyond that.

Donald Sutherland totally cracked me up the whole way through the movie. I can't wait to see how he comes across in the book. I normally hate seeing a movie before I read a book, but in this case the movie seems to have gotten me excited about something I wasn't too keen on reading. Austen...