Inglourious Snarkers

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stvpourciau said:
O.O !!!!

Vous me fait chier encore et encore!!!! o.O ( in a friendly way of course)

You should have no trouble picking up a copy of "Les Fluers du Mal" in Belgium.

Do you read in French as well as in that Germanic speak or just that God forsaken Dutch?
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As I said, I don't like poets that much and I'm generally not that fond of French writers either. Balzac, never really did it for me. Camus is one of the only ones I really like to read.

Dutch is of course the easiest for me to read since it's my mother tongue (Well, Flemish actually but that's pretty much Dutch that sounds better, like a New Yorker would have an opinion on the Scottish and vice versa, lol). English or French lit isn't too difficult for me to read, but it tires me a bit quicker because I have to concentrate more. German,... well let's just say I can read and understand it a bit but I'd like to improve my knowledge a lot.

james terrio said:
Me, too. Depressing as hell, though.

Which brings us to Camus and Sartre... good gravy. That stuff will make ya want to eat a bullet.

I never claimed to be a poet!
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Now that you say it, I should re-read The Plague. Good book is good.
 
stvpourciau said:
Oh, oh ; so now you have something to say about Jean-Paul Sartre?

Where's WW?? We need a busse topic.. IMA get crazy in here
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I'll not speak about Sartre or Camus, indeed that could turn political real fast. Most French conversations do. ;)
 
stvpourciau said:
Oh, oh ; so now you have something to say about Jean-Paul Sartre?
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Yeah, I do, actually. He was undeniably brilliant, but terminally ill with optical rectalis... that weird disease where the nerve from your eye gets crossed with the nerve from your nether regions, and it makes everything look like poop.
 
Galeocerdoshark said:
Now that you say it, I should re-read The Plague. Good book is good.
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Start it in a good mood, and don't have too much booze or weapons handy.

On the other hand, whip up a good dose of "The Bell Jar" while you're at it... if you can muddle through that without taking steel-to-wrist, you're really onto something.

LeeBower said:
ahh, a student of the classics.. ;)
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Sabbath, Dio, Maiden, Priest... y'know :D Then I discovered punk rock and stuff got really weird...
 
Wanna talk about a verbose author ? How about L. Ron Hubbard It took him like 1300 pages to write battlefield earth which could have been done about 500 pages less, and really well..lol
Never trust a religion written by a fiction writer.
I read War and Peace in high school, just to say I had pretty much. Took Biblical lit, when I didnt need a lit credit, because im a masochist.
I LOVE to read, but mostly anymore fantasy or sci fi. I did read a lot of the classics as a younger man, but when you read Lovecraft, Frank Herbert and Anne Mcaffery at 8 years old, you get weird tastes in literature.
 
I finally tackled "Moby Dick" a few months ago. Took some doing but I got through it and admit it was a fun ride. I'm going to get to the classics soon, some Mark Twain as mentioned before and I want to read Slaughterhouse Five too.
 
NathanJ said:
I finally tackled "Moby Dick" a few months ago. Took some doing but I got through it and admit it was a fun ride. I'm going to get to the classics soon, some Mark Twain as mentioned before and I want to read Slaughterhouse Five too.
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Opening line always stuck with me.
 
daizee said:
*LOL*
How about Saint-Exupery?
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Now, Le Petit Prince, that is quite honestly absolutely genius. How could I forget that? Only re-read it this year. Really, one of the strangest, but most emotional short stories I've ever read. The feelings I had at the end of that book were quite diverse and... just can't explain it.
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Fast reads that are a lot of fun. Edgar Rice Burroughs, The creator of Tarzan, and the Princess of Mars series. LOVE his stuff. The Warlord Comic book was based on his work.
 
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