The Self-Updating Devious Journal Entry
A funky fantastic journal entry that will update itself whenever I get some writing done. Awesome, eh? Anyway, here's a list with the things I've been doing:
Update on Life
A thought just struck me. Would you want me to post small reviews of every book I've read? Many of them are really good reads, and I always feel I'm more motivated to read something when someone has recommended it to me, or it has a reputation.
Any interest? If so, I'd gladly do it. If not, I'd rather spend my time on something else!
EncyclopaediaThe Sassanid and Eastern Roman Empires: 224 - 651 CE Unfinished
Critique'sFinished
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Cappuccino TranslationsTranslations of ~HollyMyCoolCat's incredible Cappuccino series. Links to the originals can be found in the Author's Notes of the translations.
[link] Cappuccino 1
[link] Cappuccino 2
[link] Cappuccino 4
[link] Cappuccino 5
[link] Cappuccino 7
= Actively writing = Temporarily on hold. Will continue as soon as possible.
= I don't see much happening here any time soon.
= Finished.Also, any requests will be considered.
Reading List
English Literature
Lucky Jim, Amis In the Country of Last Things, Auster England, England, Barnes Circles of Deceit, Bawdes Herzog, Bellow The Thirty-nine Steps, Buchan The Power-House, Buchan/
A Clockwork Orange, Burgess The Kingdom of the Wicked, Burgess The Woman in White, Collins American Psycho, Ellis The Crimson Petal and the White, Faber The Gate of Angels, Fitzgerald The Collector, Fowles Memoirs of a Geisha, Golden/ Lord of the Flies, Golding Rites of Passage, Golding I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Green Brighton Rock, Greene The Honorary Consul, Greene The Return of the Native, Hardy Silence of the Lambs, Harris The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne Catch 22, Heller/ A Farewell To Arms, Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway/ The Bone People, Hulme Brave New World, Huxley Island, Huxley Fear of Flying, Jong Ulysses, Joyce Finnegans' Wake, Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce How Late it was, How Late, Kelman One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey The Plumed Serpent, Lawrence/ The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Marlowe/ Life of Pi, Martel The Butcher Boy, McCabe Paradise Lost, Milton Number 9 Dream, Mitchell Cloud Atlas, Mitchell Paradise, Morrison The Good Apprentice, Murdoch Under the Eye of the Clock, Nolan Foxfire, Confessions of a Girl Gang, Oates 1984, Orwell Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Pirsig I Am the Clay, Potok The Plot Against America, Roth The Satanic Verses, Rushdie Midnight's Children, Rushdie/ The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger Macbeth, Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare Hamlet, Shakespeare Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stevenson Treasure Island, Stevenson The Secret History, Tartt The Silmarillion, Tolkien The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien Beowulf, Unknown/ The Picture of Dorian Gray, WildeRead/Reading/Unread: 13/0/49
Dutch Literature
/ Het huis van de moskee, Abdolah/ Een Dag in Gent, Brusselmans (Flemish)/ De Verwondering, Claus (Flemish)/ Iskander, Couperus/ Villa des Roses, Elsschot (Flemish)/ Het woud der verwachting, Haasse/ Au Pair, Hermans Nooit meer slapen, Hermans/ Een schitterend gebrek, Japin/ De klopgeest, Komrij/ Lucifer, Palmen/ Trekkerswee, Totius (Afrikaans)/ Godverdomse dagen op een godverdomse bol, Verhulst (Flemish) Ivoren Wachters, Vestdijk (Flemish)/ Turks Fruit, WolkersRead/Reading/Unread: 4/1/10
German Literature (translated)
Faust, Goethe Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, Goethe Der Process, Kafka Die Verwandlung, Kafka In der Strafkolonie, Kafka Das Schloss, Kafka Amerika, Kafka The Antichrist, Nietzsche Human, All too Human, Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra, NietzscheRead/Reading/Unread: 0/0/10
French literature (translated)
À la recherche du temps perdu, Proust La Nausée, Sartre Les chemins de la liberté, SartreRead/Readin/Unread: 0/0/3
Italian literature (translated)
Inferno, The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (English/Mandelbaum) Purgatorio, The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (English/Mandelbaum) Paradiso, The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (English/Mandelbaum) Il Filostrato, Boccaccio Il Decameron, Boccaccio Il deserto dei Tartari, Buzzati Il nome della rosa, Eco Il pendolo di Foucault, Eco Il Principe, Macchiavelli Discorsi, Macchiavelli Xenia, Montale Il Canzoniere, PetrarcaRead/Reading/Unread: 1/0/11
Spanish/Latin American literature (translated)
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, de Cervantes Cien años de soledad, Garcia Marquez El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Garcia Marquez/ Florentine Codex, de Sahagún El Cantar de Mio Cid, UnknownRead/Reading/Unread: 0/0/5
Latin literature (translated/untranslated)
De Bello Gallico, Caesar Iliad, Homer Odyssey, Homer Metamorphosis, OvidRead/Reading/Unread: 0/0/4
Other literature (translated)
/ Shahnameh, Ferdowsi (Persian) The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera (Czech) Qur'an, Muhammed's companions (Arabic) Prose Edda, Sturluson (Old Norse)/ Avesta, Unknown (Avestan) Bible, Unknown (Hebrew) Kalevala. Unknown (Finnish) Poetic Edda, Unknown (Old Norse) Popol Vuh, Unknown (K'ich'e Maya-English/Christenson)Read/Reading/Unread: 0/1/8
Non-fiction
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell Kaffir (Xhosa) Folk Lore, Theal Myths and Legends of the Bantu, Werner Yoruba Legends, OgumefuRead/Reading/Unread: 0/1/3
Total: 18/3/103
= Read = Reading = Yet to read/Need to Re-read = School-related reading (which doesn't mean I don't greatly enjoy them!) = Partially read, but not currently readingLikely missed a lot on "Read" and surely missed tons on "Yet to read", but it gives you (and me!) an idea.
dA Love
Just wanted to thank you for the watch, I really appreciate your support
- Omri
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Enter =bekkia's fantastic "Down with Clichés" contest here: [link] You know you want to. Clichés are our mutual enemy.
Nice reading list.
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And yes, I found the ending to A Farewell to Arms quite humbling myself too. They had a complete relationship at that point. It was very sad, and also a hurl back into the painfully realistic world.
One thing I found so good about A Farewell to Arms is that it doesn't allow you to dream away. At no point does Hemingway dream away, the story is always very real.
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Critic.
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Enter =bekkia's fantastic "Down with Clichés" contest here: [link] You know you want to. Clichés are our mutual enemy.
Anyway, let me know how you enjoyed Ulysses once you tackled it. I'm only on page 40.
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I will. Ulysses is not high on my priorities list, however, since it's pretty hard to find in my country. Our library doesn't have it, for instance. Naturally, the same goes for Finnegans' Wake and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I do really want to read those three books though. I've heard Joyce is a masterful writer.
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Critic.
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Enter =bekkia's fantastic "Down with Clichés" contest here: [link] You know you want to. Clichés are our mutual enemy.
I hope you find some works by Joyce. He's a good one.
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More subtle than 1984. Ugh.
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. . . with opium hidden in your rectum.
"What I make is what I am, I can't live forever." - Marilyn Manson
Shit Happens.
Stop acting like every occurence is beyond your comprehension.
It's more subtle than Brave New World, in many ways more interesting. It doesn't have the same impact, but it does evoke quite a bit of thought, especially on the nature of rebellion
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. . . with opium hidden in your rectum.
"What I make is what I am, I can't live forever." - Marilyn Manson
Shit Happens.
Stop acting like every occurence is beyond your comprehension.
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