MarieLouise said:

They were probably books by P G Wodehouse.

My english teacher told me to check them n
they are very funny indeed.

His work often centers around Jeeves the
butler

Oh Mach, how I would love to finger through your stacks



great selection of books there. it's topics that interest
me a lot, but I simply haven't had the time to really get
into the theme since I'm always hopping from one sort of
theme to the next and there's simply too much out there
that interests me

BTW, Isten, do you read Saramago in English?

I read all English books in English, French books in French, have read some Márquez and Lorca in Spanish as well (that was hard!). But Saramago, I read in Dutch, until my Portuguese is fluent enough... Do you really read English translations?

My collection of De Sade's work is in English though, but that's because it was very cheap (tien Belgische franken).

IstenSzek said:

Woodhouse, that's the one ideed.

MarieLouise said:

yup, 95% of the time I read English authors in English
but I find that other foreign authors, like Saramago &
others are much better translated into English than if
they are translated into Dutch.

I've read most of Saramago's work (except the ones that
deal with the more historic Portugese themes) in English
except for "Blindeness" which I read in Dutch.

He's quickly become one of my fav writers as well. His
books just unfold so wonderfully and you finish them
without even noticing you've already read through 100s
of pages.

I would love to be able to read the Russian classics in
Russian, which is why I started a course in Russian at
the university of Maastricht. But I had to take a break
from that until next year, sadly.

Reading authors in their native language is always such
a treat. Translations can be good, but are never quite
as good as the original, are they!

shit, i forgot that I have to go and pick up some
office supplies. about an hour ago lol.

leave me some pics for when I return folks

IstenSzek said:

here are a few more to choose from

Mach said:

"Ecstatic Body Postures"

Here's is mine...

2the9s said:

ok, so, the right bookcase, the middle shelf
the 17th book from the left

the one with the pink ends and the middle
back in white.

that's a volume of poetry by faber and faber
isn't it?

by whom?

i used to have Sylvia Plath's collected works
but it had blue ends.

you've got me curious now.

that's sad, I know, but true

"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories." -- Walter Benjamin

and what exactly is that you're trying to hide behind your Ezra Pound
on the left side of the fourth shelve in the right bookcase?

IstenSzek said:

That's a collection of Auden's poems. "The English Auden." I forget the years (I'm not home right now), 1926-39 or something.

You recognize that Faber imprint!

It's funny, I actually pulled that book down last night...

There was a piece on the Times on Sunday about Auden's translation of one of Dag Hammerskjold's last books. They say he took some liberties with it.

IstenSzek said:

2the9s said:

why, yes, I do

2the9s said:

I thought as much the moment I saw it

2the9s said:

shausler said:

shausler said:

Right now I'm reading...

Turn The Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco by Peter Shapiro.

Up next...

In Search of Pretty Young Black Men by Stanley Bennett Clay

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IstenSzek said:

can we get a shot of the cds?

shausler said:

no. i'd have to crawl in a hole of shame if i did

You people have so neat bookshelves

couldn't show you mine
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Hey, 9s, here's a book for ya!

2the9s said:

looks like you've got lots of poetry...

btw, did e.e.cummings write that much ? that's a huge book you've got over there. My first acquaintance with him was the plum-poem, and from that you would say he didn't use that much words...

MarieLouise said:

Yeah, he wrote a lot of pages, but there's also a lot of white space in them!

The one just next to the big Cummings Collected Poems volume is a very rare novel that he wrote (a signed copy!), That's my most valuable book.

The plum poem is William Carlos Williams! Ask CarrieMPLS!

JediMaster said:

Your geekdom is jealous of mine!










[Edited 5/25/05 17:45pm]

On the night of my bachelorette party, after the standard eat/drink/and hit a number of clubs wearing phallic symbols, my group ended up in a bar downtown, and I talked to some dude about shakespeare, hemingway, etc. for two hours. That was the best part of the night!

Books

yeah, I am a geek.