
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 LifeA 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[link] [link]Pending[link][link][link][link][link][link]
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 ListEnglish 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

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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

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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

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A Farewell To Arms, Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway

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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

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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Marlowe

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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

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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

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The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde
Read/Reading/Unread: 13/0/49
Dutch Literature
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Het huis van de moskee, Abdolah

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Een Dag in Gent, Brusselmans (Flemish)

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De Verwondering, Claus (Flemish)

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Iskander, Couperus

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Villa des Roses, Elsschot (Flemish)

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Het woud der verwachting, Haasse

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Au Pair, Hermans
Nooit meer slapen, Hermans

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Een schitterend gebrek, Japin

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De klopgeest, Komrij

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Lucifer, Palmen

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Trekkerswee, Totius (Afrikaans)

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Godverdomse dagen op een godverdomse bol, Verhulst (Flemish)
Ivoren Wachters, Vestdijk (Flemish)

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Turks Fruit, Wolkers
Read/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, Nietzsche
Read/Reading/Unread: 0/0/10
French literature (translated)
À la recherche du temps perdu, Proust
La Nausée, Sartre
Les chemins de la liberté, Sartre
Read/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, Petrarca
Read/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

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Florentine Codex, de Sahagún
El Cantar de Mio Cid, Unknown
Read/Reading/Unread: 0/0/5
Latin literature (translated/untranslated)
De Bello Gallico, Caesar
Iliad, Homer
Odyssey, Homer
Metamorphosis, Ovid
Read/Reading/Unread: 0/0/4
Other literature (translated)
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Shahnameh, Ferdowsi (Persian)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera (Czech)
Qur'an, Muhammed's companions (Arabic)
Prose Edda, Sturluson (Old Norse)

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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, Ogumefu
Read/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 reading
Likely missed a lot on "Read" and surely missed tons on "Yet to read", but it gives you (and me!) an idea.

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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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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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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