tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post2606872949690437987..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: The Wuthering Expectations Year in ReviewAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-74540358919319595962014-12-16T03:20:00.036-06:002014-12-16T03:20:00.036-06:00Right. I see.
Right. I see. <br />Hai Di Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02230670162621139739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-67948282530865981272014-12-15T08:56:05.214-06:002014-12-15T08:56:05.214-06:00Di, yes I do. Almost all of my reading in the pas...Di, yes I do. Almost all of my reading in the past several years has been post-1850, though, so there has not been much scope for new discovery. <br /><br />Of course there are a number of strong competitors for the title. But I do not think anyone matches Gogol's inventiveness and imaginative power, not even Dickens, not in a single novel. Not in a single novel pre-<i>Bleak House</i>. Lots of qualifiers there.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-17559094212348821182014-12-15T03:18:07.791-06:002014-12-15T03:18:07.791-06:00Now, 6 years later, do you still think Dead Souls ...Now, 6 years later, do you still think <i>Dead Souls</i> the Greatest Novel of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century or have you changed your mind? <br />Just curious. Hai Di Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02230670162621139739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-4523316152610699572013-01-08T10:37:02.223-06:002013-01-08T10:37:02.223-06:00I do not believe Dombey and Son to be better than ...I do not believe <i>Dombey and Son</i> to be better than <i>Bleak House</i>, but you can certainly see Dickens moving in a <i>Bleak House</i>-ish direction.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-36947669440280129002013-01-08T10:27:40.708-06:002013-01-08T10:27:40.708-06:00Dombey and Son better than Bleak House? I guess th...Dombey and Son better than Bleak House? I guess this is one for my de-Humiliation list. I would be very exciting if she's right!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-91756314492092020832009-01-19T19:29:00.000-06:002009-01-19T19:29:00.000-06:00Good luck getting to weird, lovely Wuthering Heigh...Good luck getting to weird, lovely <EM>Wuthering Heights</EM>. I'm currently slowly rading Emily Brontë's weird, lovely poetry.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-35627574951495085712009-01-19T13:09:00.000-06:002009-01-19T13:09:00.000-06:00I find very little Common about your reading.I hop...I find very little Common about your reading.<BR/><BR/>I hope to finally make it through Wuthering Heights this year. I'm embarrassed that I've never made it through it before. I suppose it was just not the right time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-62336616540518566362009-01-05T17:17:00.000-06:002009-01-05T17:17:00.000-06:00I suppose many people guess that Gogol-the-writer ...I suppose many people guess that Gogol-the-writer is just a fiction.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-508012948867205502009-01-05T13:26:00.000-06:002009-01-05T13:26:00.000-06:00Even in the movie version of "The Namesake", the c...Even in the movie version of "The Namesake", the connections between Gogol the character and Gogol the writer are emphasized-- rather startling for a mainstream American production to assume the audience would know something of Gogol. I can only guess that the book relies largely on Gogol allusions.Sparkling Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10899640164757220074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-18595404897678204662008-12-28T19:31:00.000-06:002008-12-28T19:31:00.000-06:00Right, "The Namesake" has a character named after ...Right, "The Namesake" has a character named after Gogol. I haven't read it, and I don't know the relevance. Maybe he loses his overcoat, or his nose. It's a good, vigorous name, anyway.<BR/><BR/>I'll read <EM>Dombey and Son</EM> for myself soon and get to the bottom of this "better than <EM>Bleak House</EM>" business.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-62014925012924634262008-12-23T05:19:00.000-06:002008-12-23T05:19:00.000-06:00Dead Souls goes to the top of my TBR pile right aw...Dead Souls goes to the top of my TBR pile right away. I'll add to my humiliation the fact that I've only just read any Gogol at all and that I'd no idea he wrote a novel. <BR/><BR/>But "better than Bleak House"!!!<BR/><BR/>Not possible.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06906212382849291562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-22848372229921017372008-12-22T16:11:00.000-06:002008-12-22T16:11:00.000-06:00Have you read "The Namesake"? Just watching the m...Have you read "The Namesake"? Just watching the movie version made me long to have read more Gogol. My humiliation comes from having not read On the Origin of Species. Alas, someday.Sparkling Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10899640164757220074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-2849635469616019762008-12-19T11:46:00.000-06:002008-12-19T11:46:00.000-06:00Why is it so entertaining to read other people's l...Why is it so entertaining to read other people's lists of books, read or unread? It fires the imagination, somehow.<BR/><BR/>So, verbivore, I saw your Plan, Year 3, list, and was for some reason delighted that I had already read everything on it - everything that was not, you might be able to guess, philosophy, of which I have read, of course, none.<BR/><BR/>Maybe I should re-emphazise that the David Lodge Humiliation game is just for fun, and, yes, Jon Faith, very much relative. I suppose it may be sort of humiliating for an American Lit prof to have never read, say, <EM>Walden</EM>, but even Professional Readers can't read eveything, much less we poor Amateurs. Life is long, yet life is short.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, yeah, <EM>Dead Souls</EM>, everyone read <EM>Dead Souls</EM>! And <EM>Vanity Fair</EM>, and <EM>Eugénie Grandet</EM>, and...Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-16533081586662891842008-12-19T08:26:00.000-06:002008-12-19T08:26:00.000-06:00What a great year! You mention all kinds of books...What a great year! You mention all kinds of books I've never read and may have to get to, including Dead Souls. That would be my de-humiliation, I suppose. What a wonderful term.Rebecca H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10825532162727473112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-2414941879558455182008-12-19T01:53:00.000-06:002008-12-19T01:53:00.000-06:00I've got Vanity Fair and Adam Bede lined up for 20...I've got Vanity Fair and Adam Bede lined up for 2009, as well as stopped by the Balzac section last night in the book big store in Lausanne - came home with Père Goriot and Le Colonel Chabert (plus I've already got Eugéine Grandet) I think that will do nicely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-54780649145508564012008-12-18T19:48:00.000-06:002008-12-18T19:48:00.000-06:00Humiliation remains relative. I finished Crime and...Humiliation remains relative. I finished Crime and Punishment this year, having seldom previously bothered to qualify my reading of such. I so enjoyed the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation that I am ready to depart for rereads of Anna Karenina and War and Peace. <BR/><BR/>I was tempted to reread Dead Souls just before the recent election: it remains in my truck.jon faithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375593165985428533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-43482449904405396142008-12-18T16:32:00.000-06:002008-12-18T16:32:00.000-06:00Dombey and Son better than Bleak House! That's not...<EM>Dombey and Son</EM> better than <EM>Bleak House</EM>! That's not possible!<BR/><BR/>Good luck to those youngsters, or whoever they are, reading our, or at least my, <EM>Hamlet</EM> notes.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-32577396091798942142008-12-18T11:49:00.000-06:002008-12-18T11:49:00.000-06:00My pleasure. I really enjoyed sharing our reading ...My pleasure. I really enjoyed sharing our reading experience together. And I should tell you that our thoughts are being read. The Hamlet posts, as I've come to discover via a new Wordpress stats widget I'm experimenting with, are among the most popular on my site!<BR/><BR/>Hope your holidays are very happy! Look forward to visiting your part of the world, possibly sometime next year -- and taking a ton of photos of bookstores. <BR/><BR/>NBNigelBealehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06094387597632333192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-61912087653209496582008-12-18T09:25:00.000-06:002008-12-18T09:25:00.000-06:00I will totally agree with you on Dead Souls, at le...I will totally agree with you on <EM>Dead Souls</EM>, at least as far as I have read. Although my boyfriend's mom told me the other day she had just read <EM>Dombey and Son</EM> after being told it was better than <EM>Bleak House</EM>. I said, "That's not possible!" She said, "That's what I said, but it was." So. Who knows. It's on my list for early next year now though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com