What Are You Currently Reading?

i just started it hee hee but i sense it may be there for the next few years... luckily its a library book; that might hurry me up a bit...

 

the page before the first chapter of my copy has:

"the cattle are lowing,
the Baby awakes.
But the little Lord Jesus
No crying, He makes."


bizarre, eh?

and if you are wondering (as i'm sure you all are) mine is A Laurel Book, published by Dell Publishing in 1968


*edit*
and i get the award for the oldest copy of Slaughterhouse-five ... unless someone comes and dethrones me (oh wait, that's another thread).

 

i cant' keep track of that many books at once

can i ask what this experiment is? just whether or not you can read it?
apparently my mother read it once. i know she owns a copy and said she'd gotten through it. for me, i have yet to even think of trying.

 

Hmm, doesn't sound like David Irving ... I'm still hunting for my copy, but I think I got it in the 70s.

 

My copy (Virago 1991) doesn't have it ... what's the quote?

 

we should have a thread just for the opening quotes to Slaughterhouse-Five

and no, that wasn't David Irving, it's from the Xmas song "Away In the Manger"

 

"Pale Fire" Vladimir Nabokov

 

pretty much :sweatdrop

 

The End of America - Naomi Wolf

And, The Unconscious God - Viktor E. Frankl.

 

ok, i gave up on war and peace on pg 140...no stamina, me. i did skim the epilogue and there was a profound section about bees and the greater scheme of the universe which is what i will take me as what i learned from tolstoy. :book2:

 

you know there's a shorter version of War and Peace from an earlier manuscript, it's only 800 or so pages long. According to the publishers it's an easier read than the standard edition: "less war, more peace".

http://www.amazon.co.uk/War-Peace-O...2934325?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193133110&sr=1-1

 

well denise-louise, you tried. guess the experiment told you all you were looking to find out


i finally started Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (only been how many months since i bought it). Figured with Halloween coming up, I'd read this first before the Jeff Noon book I picked up.

 

The Iliad - Homer

 

which translation?

 

ta... btw, love your sig, may i add it to my koan collection please? :worthy:

:&pffffhhfff...just found out i am ninny when it comes to serious classics, ha ha

 

sure ... it's a quote from a Donovan song btw.

 

It's Robert Fagles, and an introduction by Bernard Knox. I must say that the introduction is very well written and gives a lot of good insite into Homeric studies. Also, the layout is all in verse, unlike many Homer translations.

It seems like a very good edition compared to Oxford's.

 

Oh it's published by Viking Penguin 1990, by the way.

 

yes I have Fagles' translation too, also his Odyssey.

 

Actually, do you happen to know where I can buy them for cheap? I have both copies, but they're my tutors from college and they're the type of books that need to be on my shelf.