tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post4544695896058007705..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: "Look at his books, Grace... I doubt if he ever reads." - some contrasting books in The Last Chronicle of BarsetAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-29898085073851172322013-08-03T19:43:50.350-05:002013-08-03T19:43:50.350-05:00That is almost too good, in all kinds of ways. Cr...That is almost too good, in all kinds of ways. Crawley does, for example, hate one kind of vulgar crowd, yet embraces another, the working poor of his parish.<br /><br />Stevenson is an amazing essayist. After gorging on Stevenson a couple of years ago, I concluded that he was a better as an essayist than as a fiction writer, setting aside <i>Jekyll & Hyde</i>, although why would I want to do that?Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-82890537288057582622013-08-03T19:04:53.551-05:002013-08-03T19:04:53.551-05:00I haven't read The Last Chronicle of Barset, s...I haven't read The Last Chronicle of Barset, so I cannot know for sure how relevant this is. But the first ode on Horace's third book of Carmina begins:<br /><br />I hate the vulgar crowd, and keep them away:<br />Please do shut up: I'm a priest of the Muses,<br />And sing songs never heard before<br />for young women and young boys.<br /><br />Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.<br />favete linguis: carmina non prius<br />audita Musarum sacerdos<br />virginibus puerisque canto.<br /><br />R L Stevenson borrowed the Virginibus Puerisque as a title for his essays.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-14201125145587615552013-07-28T22:27:47.277-05:002013-07-28T22:27:47.277-05:00James - me too, me too. Sometimes they help with ...James - me too, me too. Sometimes they help with the book, sometimes they are just books for me.<br /><br />The book-related stuff in <i>Our Mutual Friend</i> Is wonderful. Those books on the history of famous misers - those are apparently real! How strange.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-18651921991197993452013-07-28T13:20:44.607-05:002013-07-28T13:20:44.607-05:00I've have been guilty of making reading lists ...I've have been guilty of making reading lists based on the books mentioned in other books. I found some very good reading doing that. <br /><br />I also like the idea of using a library to help develop a character. I admit, if I came to visit you I would look over the books on your bookshelves and make conclusions about you based on what I found there. Gilt edged books that have never been opened. I mean, really!<br /><br />You also have me thinking that it's been ages since I read anything by Trollope. He used to be regular summer reading for me. Maybe I'll try a series in the new year...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06906212382849291562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-27085790997772347592013-07-28T08:19:22.510-05:002013-07-28T08:19:22.510-05:00When a book or books are mentioned with a narrativ...When a book or books are mentioned with a narrative I take notice too. I just finished Charles Dickens's A Mutual Friend which has a fair number of references to books whose meaning I am pondering.<br /><br />I would guess that the list of books that you mention here would have some relevance.Brian Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15139559400312336791noreply@blogger.com