Poor Imp

I know this a bloody year old - but it's such a good read. It’s dusty and dark, filled with murky substances that were once imaginative sprites, and now just ...

I've never read The Brother's Karamozov but I'd like to - assuming I can get my parents to schlep me to the book store. I've read something by Chekov, but ...

Yes -- but good grades/marks don't prove or imply necassarily a good education. Some of the smartest people I know were school dropouts. Bill Gates dropped out of university.

I'm all for Fyodor Dostoyevsky over all other Russians. Solzhenitsyn for me, all day long. Solzhenitsyn - a close second. :wink: But Chekhov's short stories are intriguing - and Aleksander ...

I loved the complexity, too, and I totally hated that the russians talked french. (But this may have something to do with the fact that I love the russians and ...

Well, I can't with any veracity claim to be normal, I'm afraid - but writers and storytellers - who can tell? It's a wandering, weird bunch. I have read Tolstoy ...

An intriguing beginning...you've already raised string of questions in my mind. It's was pleasant also, to read something not flooded in small structural mistakes. You've a good sense of the ...

Jorge Luis Borges - a collection of all his short fiction, translated unfortunately - but my spanish isn't really up to the task of taking on his prose. Lottery of ...

A honour of Nate. Could he, perhaps, also be fencing - and his second could be a pig? ~_^

Oh, somewhat kidding Mattie. I do know that there's a difference in accent... ^_^

Personally, I hate "pet names". They annoy me to the fullest extent. Often when I read, I get stuck on that word so I'm like, hating that the writer used ...

Thanks for the thoughts, both of you. Crysi -- Thanks especially for the specifics. ...I was rather worried when I read it over that Lis might have come out...off-balanced in ...

It seems somewhat rushed as far as events and plot go... But I can't tell! The format makes it nigh on impossible to read. Try to paragraph it and separate ...

This was a very compelling read - disconnect, dissonant - and yet in structure intentionally allowing all to flow together. I certainly can't make any comments as to traditional form. ...

Imitation is the best way to learn. Children do it when they learn to speak, walk, think. Human beings learn by repetition for the most part. The more you mimic ...