Blogcritics Comments on Bookworm Rebellion

Comment by Amrita on Bookworm Rebellion

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:51:19 EDT

Katie - I think I'd like Far from the Madding Crowd. Its just that I can't make myself take that final plunge. I don't have a problem with the prose. Just the image :) Dawn - thanks! I guess I'd have flunked it then :) You just hit upon why I love fiction in all its forms - coz a story is never completely culture specific. You can always relate.

Comment by Dawn on Bookworm Rebellion

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:45:02 EDT

What a great post. Despite our separation by many an ocean, your childhood experience closely matched my own. It's a good thing you didn't go to school in states, Old Man And The Sea was required reading. Nancy Drew though, I read them all!

Comment by Katie McNeill on Bookworm Rebellion

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:12:35 EDT

'Far From the Madding Crowd' isn't bad. It is a little hard to read because Hardy is very wordy, not Jane Austen wordy, something WAY past that. But worth the read, it's a good book.

Comment by Amrita on Bookworm Rebellion

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:42:21 EDT

Natalie - really? Thank you! Thanks for the suggestions, Dyrkness, I've read two of those: Confederacy of the Dunces and Jude the Obscure. the Proust and the Sartre I will buy and put on my bookshelf for my mother to view. They can join Simone de Beauvoir, another one of Ma's favorites. Rodney - so he did, thanks for pointing it out. Now you know just how much attention I was paying to it :)

Comment by Rodney Welch on Bookworm Rebellion

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:24:31 EDT

John Ford did not direct The Old Man and the Sea. It was directed by John Sturges, with an uncredited assist from Fred Zinnemann and Henry King.

Comment by dyrkness on Bookworm Rebellion

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:04:03 EDT

To read in a couple of years:"Remembrance of Things Past" by Marcel Proust- Just to brag that you've done it. "Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole- If you want a huge laugh. "Jude the Obscure"by Thomas Hardy- If you like Hardy. Buy a copy of "Being and Nothingness" by Jean Paul Sartre-You'll never read it ,but your mother WILL be impressed.

Comment by Natalie Bennett on Bookworm Rebellion

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:21:43 EDT

This article has been selected for syndication to Advance.net , which is affiliated with newspapers around the United States, and to Boston.com. Nice work!