Umbrella_Viking
Umbrella_Viking t1_jczxzww wrote
Reply to Where to Start with Kazuo Ishiguro by edward_radical
I just finished reading The Remains of the Day so I’m really getting a kick out of these replies.
Umbrella_Viking t1_j6mj88p wrote
Reply to comment by Omgwtf1001 in The letters of T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale that were kept sealed from 1956 to 2020 have been released for free online by RunDNA
My brain will not allow me to conceptualize a person with that name existing during any other time period than the 18th century. I don’t know why, it’s just got such a colonial ring to it.
Umbrella_Viking t1_j6joz9c wrote
Reply to The letters of T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale that were kept sealed from 1956 to 2020 have been released for free online by RunDNA
Does he use a lot of intertextual references, I.e, copying multiple lines of someone else’s work, like he does in The Waste Land? Allusions are allusions but, dude, lifting like, line after line….
Umbrella_Viking t1_ixqjx29 wrote
Reply to I love The Catcher in the Rye by zak_zman
Good luck with this opinion around these parts.
Umbrella_Viking t1_iu3y6p9 wrote
Reply to "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath by salon_i
Amazing book, very insightful portrait of living with depression.
Umbrella_Viking t1_jdv8w2p wrote
Reply to comment by TheGoldenDog in This sub's most popular posts regarding Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist are negative... I loved it! by benspaperclip
I’ve read both. The Alchemist is fine.
It’s funny everyone around here trashes a book for being simplistic in its message then go on to praise To Kill a Mockingbird as though that author doesn’t hit you with themes using a cudgel.
The message doesn’t have to be hidden and esoteric and require a companion manual (Weisenberger’s Gravity’s Rainbow companion is excellent - I dare say it’s a must or the multiple references per page fly over your head) to understand.