tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post675244182757544007..comments2024-03-19T21:50:12.583+13:00Comments on The Imaginary Museum: 1913Dr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-63374755480012834422013-12-13T00:05:10.458+13:002013-12-13T00:05:10.458+13:00Jack I have the three Picador books (above withe i...Jack I have the three Picador books (above withe interesting covers)*, but I started reading it from an Auck. library book. I found it strangely fascinating. I became interested in it as Martin Seymour-Smith waxed lyrical about it. <br /><br />But I cant argue on your "cheekiness" as I didn't finish it.<br /><br />Although I disagree about some of his (S-S's) other verdicts he is interesting. <br /><br />Re other mammoth tomes. I loved the start of Proust's huge book but have never even been able to get all his books together in one uniform vol despite owning (part of?) Vol 1 for about 40 years! I loved the start of that for some reason...but it remains largely unread by myself.<br /><br /><br />I don't know that novel 'The Last Summer' by Pasternak but I liked the film Dr. Zhivago with Julie Christie when it came out but later I couldn't read the book itself. But that is interesting re his novella. <br /><br />Some things I've read several times include Pincher Martin by Golding (twice), (much of Shakespeare), some of Ibsen's plays - I read almost all of them, 'Bleak House' by Dickens, and I re-reading 'Robinson Crusoe' (as I wanted to read 'Foe' by Coetzee, also I found an (unexpurgated) version of the film 'A Street Care Named Desire' (the best one with Brando and Vivian Leigh). I've read that play so many times and seen the movie a number of times.<br /><br />One book I cant engage with is 'The Great Gatsby' although I think I read it three times: I'll try again! <br /><br />I want to re-read all the Dickens and others (Conrad, Golding, Hugo, du Maupassant [but not the Romanticism-eroticism as I experienced it of Ryder-Haggard I read as a teenager] and others.<br /><br />The best for the Yuletide and the New Year in case you don't Blog before those events. <br /> <br />*Ive read a few of Pritchett's stories but I also got hold of what I think are his complete essays. Pritchett is considered at least one of the great short story writers.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.com