What are you reading?

[james_timothy]

 

[chrisjr]

 

[HORNS]

This book really transcends the world of perfumes into science, the academics and politics of science, and is told like a detective story.

 

[Kid Nickels]

^ hmmm sounds like a good, interesting read. let us know!

 

[VaderDave]

I re-read that last year. I really enjoyed it. I was surprised at how wry/funny some parts were.

EDIT: Sorry, I was talking about Moby Dick. I haven't read the Emperor of Scent book, although it looks interesting.

 

[L'Incandescent]

The Perfect Scent by the same author is also very good. It follows the creation of Hermes Un Jardin sur le Nil and Sarah Jessica Parker Lovely from conception all the way through to production and marketing. It's a very interesting insider's perspective on the fragrance industry.

 

[dragon8]

Grisham's "The Litigators."

 

[erictheobscure]

Re-reading The Faerie Queene. (Yeah, yeah, hurr hurr.)

Would rather not be, but I'm supposed to be writing a chapter on Edmund Spenser at some point.

 

[The Thin Man]



Re-reading The Faerie Queene. (Yeah, yeah, hurr hurr.)

Would rather not be, but I'm supposed to be writing a chapter on Edmund Spenser at some point.

Of all English-major assignments, I found Spenser most difficult to read. In fact, I had to give up, so you have my sympathy. Give me Chaucer, Marlowe, anyone but Spenser.

 

[erictheobscure]



Of all English-major assignments, I found Spenser most difficult to read. In fact, I had to give up, so you have my sympathy. Give me Chaucer, Marlowe, anyone but Spenser.

My dirty secret is that I really don't like Spenser. My erstwhile advisor is one of the greatest Spenserians around, but I never really took a liking to the stuff. I think you're right that he's inaccessible, but it's actually a bit weird when you think about it--he's writing about knights and ladies fighting beasts and pagans and such. I don't even think it's the allegorical apparatus as much as it is his deliberately antiquated spelling. That **** trips people up.

 

[the shah]



Just started this:

good one

 

[The Thin Man]

Of all English-major assignments, I found Spenser most difficult to read. In fact, I had to give up, so you have my sympathy. Give me Chaucer, Marlowe, anyone but Spenser.

My dirty secret is that I really don't like Spenser. My erstwhile advisor is one of the greatest Spenserians around, but I never really took a liking to the stuff. I think you're right that he's inaccessible, but it's actually a bit weird when you think about it--he's writing about knights and ladies fighting beasts and pagans and such. I don't even think it's the allegorical apparatus as much as it is his deliberately antiquated spelling. That **** trips people up.

Yeah, purposeful archaism is a bad move. It's why Tolkien is a terrible writer, at least in Lord of the Rings. And I'm all for the subject matter. Although Spenser knew what he was doing with allegory, while I get a sense that Tolkien really didn't.

 

[The Thin Man]

I'm reading Oedipus the King, translated by Robert Fagles. Just finished Antigone.

 

[Britalian]

A thoughful gift from the girlfriend:
she forgot to include the glasses;-)

 

[Kid Nickels]



A thoughful gift from the girlfriend:
she forgot to include the glasses;-)

^ damnit...now why didn't I think of that! I think at least half of SFers will be buying this!
(I don't have actual stats of those who prefer the breasteses tho'! )