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June 11, 2005
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I have just returned from the used bookstore! While I wasn't able to find a copy of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises or a sturdy old edition of Albert Camus's The Plague for my dad, I did leave with a few worthy (I hope) titles. Per Jax's recommendation (apparently The White Bone, featured in the latest Scary-Crayon book review, put her in mind of it), I snagged a copy of Richard Adams's Watership Down, as well as its sequel, Tales From Watership Down, by the same author. In addition to these, Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen and The Stranger by Albert Camus comprised the fiction that I bought during today's visit. Add to these a collection of critical essays on Kafka and his work, a book on learning basic to intermediate German, and a German-English dictionary, and the list of today's print purchases is complete. As the latter two purchases may suggest, I plan to teach myself a bit of German. Rah.

I also started reading Achilles by Elizabeth Cook yesterday -- good stuff so far. Way better than Troy. I should finish it on Monday, at which point I'll either start in on The Stranger or Andre Gide's The Immoralist. Haven't decided yet.

Off to watch more "Street Fighter II: V" episodes and then do a bit of drawing and writing for these books o' mine. Ja ne.

-posted by Wes | 5:30 pm | Comments (6)
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  • Mickey says:
    June 11, 2005 at 9:57 pm

    Ahhh. The summer book reserve! I've got one now of epic proportions - including the next book on deck, No Exit and Three Other Plays. But you already knew about that one. Good luck with learning the German. I'm very, very impressed you're going to teach yourself a language! =)

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  • Greg says:
    June 11, 2005 at 10:26 pm

    I'm only familiar with the film version of Watership Down, but it creeped the royal fuck out of me as a kid.

    As long as we're suggesting books, may I suggest "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey? I stand by my opinion that the book is better than the movie, and the movie is the BEST MOVIE HOLLYWOOD EVER MADE!!!

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  • Wes says:
    June 11, 2005 at 11:30 pm

    Mickey: Thanks for the support! Though my (less than urgent) desire to learn German isn't really as noble as it seems -- one of the motivations behind it is that most of the graduate programs to which I would apply (despite my apparent lack of interest in academia) require one to demonstrate proficiency in a foreign language in order to graduate -- and, since I hate jumping through hoops because other people tell me to, I'd rather go into a program like that with the skill already under my belt. And if I never decide to go into graduate study at all, at least I'll know what the hell half these goth songs are saying! 😉 (And if I die, at least I'll be able to converse with Hitler in his native tongue...)

    Greg: I'll keep an eye out for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in subsequent visits.

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  • Becky says:
    June 12, 2005 at 1:30 am

    You don't have a high bar set to be better than Troy as that was one of hte biggest disappointments -- ever!

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  • Review the World says:
    June 12, 2005 at 3:17 am

    Wes.

    Ethan Hawke has wrote two books that I really enjoyed, titled Ash Wednesday and The Hottest State. I think you'd rather enjoy them, too..

    And I did see a film version of The White Bone, but it was a '84 porno so I don't think there's any connection? I kid, I kid.. later!

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  • Mickey says:
    June 12, 2005 at 4:58 am

    May I suggest Microserfs by Douglas Coupland? One of my favorites from my 27th year.

    Oohh, the language requirement: one big reason I have not, nor will I likely ever apply to grad school. I have absolutely no apptitude for learning languages.

    And I fear I may suffer from the same lack of apptitude in spelling because I really think apptitude is not spelled correctly, and I've now misspelled it three times. I'm too lazy to look it up.

    Screw it. If I can't spell worth a damn, I'm going to bed. =)

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