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I just finished notes from the underground by Dostoevsky. I really, really, liked it. Though I had some trouble getting around the translation and then digesting the contents. I felt like I identified with the narrators need for misery a little too much. I think I'm going to keep going with Dostoevsky onward to his other books. I also read Horatio Algers Ragged Dick. I don't really believe the ideas behind the novel, but the main characters name was Dick Hunter, which made my inner adolescent laugh.
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Hoover Dam posted:Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven. First of his books I've read, and I'll be picking up the rest. It's the story of the fundamentalist (i.e. still practicing polygamy) Mormon sects and how they're keeping up the tradition of holding tight to church practices that Joseph Smith and Brigham Young and other church founders all just kinda made up. Jon Krakauer also wrote a book called Into the wild which I loved reading in highschool. I haven't read his other books yet so I can't give you a recomendation, but into the wild rocks.
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Nov 22, 2006 23:52
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This week I read: Timequake by Vonnegut. Even though I love Vonnegut I didn't go nuts over this novel. It admits that it's an amalgam of things Vonnegut wrote and reads like it. explain to me some stories of Kafka I've never read anything written by Kafka before so I decided to pick this up. I thought it, and the explanatory essays, were excellent. I'm going to move onto other short stories by Kafka. The pilgrims progress by John Bunyan. Christian allegory. It wasn't fun to read, but it's been mentioned in so many other novels I've read that I wanted to look at it because I had no idea what it was. Now I know. It was also mentioned in one of the explanatory essays in explain to me some stories of Kafka so I decided that I had to read it. I've decided that next week I'm going to read (attempt to read) Palm sunday and Ovid's metamorphosis.
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