Topic: Reader's Nook

[6pairsofshoes]

Not everything by Pound sucked.  He was an bottom, though.

Congrats on plowing through that.  I'm reading the Aeneid, the Fitzgerald translation.  I'm about 1/3 of the way through.  Poor Dido.

Someone was getting rid of this book so I picked it up thinking I might eventually read it.  I surprised myself.  It's pretty good.  I don't usually sit down with novel sized epic verse, although I read most of the Greek tragedies and several works by Aristophanes.  But drama is different.

Gotta go take this marmalade out of the hot water bath.   I made seville orange and it's about done.  It took hours and hours.  It had better set up right or I'll shoot myself.

[tarascon]

Yes, poor Dido indeed. But she wasn't the only woman similarly treated by the Greek heroes (as I'm sure you know); Odysseus, Jason, Agamemnon, Theseus... pretty much all of them were utter cads.

[6pairsofshoes]

This misogyny wasn't limited to the Greeks.

Try Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth.  Whoa.  Talk about a protagonist destined for the Don'tDateHimGirl.com website... brrrr!!

[tarascon]

And you're correct about Pound--he did write a few nice pieces. But he was an abysmal personality who glommed onto his more talented cronies. There's a reson he isn't really read or studied these days.

Currently reading The Long Ships by Frans Bengtsson.
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2010/06/28/the-fly-leaf-the-long-ships/

[goldshirt*9]

Reading - Aldous Leonard Huxley - Island

[tarascon]

Blake by Peter Ackroyd
http://www.eclectica.org/v1n1/reviews/skea_blake.html

and

Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson
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[tarascon]

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell just finished... am going back to How Milton Works by S. Fish.

[goldshirt*9]

The Paper Magician - Charlie N. Holmberg

[6pairsofshoes]

Just finished Euripides' Orestes.  What a strange play.  It promises to be the usual tragic bloodbath and then a god intervenes and everything turns out ok.  Geez.

[tarascon]

deus ex machina. whose translation?

[6pairsofshoes]

Peck & Nisetich  (Oxford Univ. Press, 1995)  Thank you piratebay

[tarascon]

So... I live in a college town east of Los Angeles and every Sunday morning there's a street market which sells fruit, vegetables, knickknacks and a used book stall.
I just bought:

1. Situation: Documents of Contemporary Art, ed. C. Doherty
2. William Tyndale: A Biography by D. Daniel
3. Trozas by B. Traven
4. The Cheese and the Worms by C. Ginzberg

Not a bad haul for $3

https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/cheese-and-worms

[goldshirt*9]

1. Situation: Documents of Contemporary Art, ed. C. Doherty
2. William Tyndale: A Biography by D. Daniel
3. Trozas by B. Traven
4. The Cheese and the Worms by C. Ginzberg

Your taste in litrature is eclestic.

I have finally obtained the last two books in the "Mythago Wood" series by Robert Holdstock.
So I savouring these.

[tarascon]

Reading The Vorrh. Brian Catling.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/20/the-vorrh-b-catling-review-michael-moorcock

[tarascon]

Now reading Mother of Eden by Chris Beckett.

And my shipment of two books were waiting for me when I came home from work:

1. Finn and Hengest by Tolkien.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/674474.Finn_and_Hengest

2. The Play Called Corpus Christi by V.A. Kolve.
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Play_Called_Corpus_Christi.html?id=iweoAAAAIAAJ

Spoiler (hover to show)

Your taste in literature is eclectic.

It's an indication of my omnivorous curiosity and my mental illness.