The Syndicate

Golden wrote:

thellama73 wrote:She was never seen again.

I hope you just mean, in your class.

Sloonei wrote:That's encouraging. I've spent the last 6 months absorbing everything Joseph Campbell ever said, and he mentions Joyce as one of his favorite writers a lot so I'm motivated to get through it. I could have probably picked something more accessible to start, but where's the fun in that? Also Ulysses is all I've got.

Sloonei wrote:I got through three chapters of Ulysses, but each was more difficult to grasp than the last. I figured I could delay my confusion by getting reacquainted with the allusions.

Sloonei wrote:I started reading Ulysses, but felt like it had been too long since I last read The Odyssey, and then remembered I never finished The Iliad when I picked it up a few years ago. I've spent the weekend diving into Homer so that I can finally introduce myself to Joyce later.

G-Man wrote:

Still working on the dictionary. Here's my latest update. It's been almost a month since I read a page but I'm determined to finish the dang thing this year. I'm currently in the early pages of letter S.

Vompatti wrote:

Vompatti wrote:In this moment I'm reading The Magical Revival by Kenneth Grant.

This book doesn't have much structure or coherent argumentation k

Also less extraterrestrial sex magick than I expected

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Ricochet wrote:Struggling to even pick up Alex Shteyngart's Absurdistan the past weeks. I only ever failed to finish a few books in my life, but maybe I should reconsider in this case and read some Rimbaud instead.

Still struggling.

God damn this book.

Sloonei wrote:I need help, Syndicate! I just got back from a wonderful two week vacation during which I did no reading at all. Before I left, I had just finished book 6 of Paradise Lost. While I was on vacation, however, I found in a book store "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" by JRR Tolkien, and obscure piece of nerdity that I've been wanting to get my hands on for a number of years. It's a lovely day outside and something needs to be read. Do I continue with Milton, or do I indulge in my Tolkien excitement?

Spacedaisy wrote:Good question, I don't think I have read a lot of fiction in the second person voice so I don't know how I feel about it...

Spacedaisy wrote:Just realized I never answer Bea's question! It is hard to put my finger on the why. I think perhaps because I feel like the author is forcing a connection on me perhaps, or that by writing in the first person I feel like I should be putting myself as the reader into that character's shoes, but I don't even know them yet. I much prefer third person narrative, though obviously it is not make or break for me, it just runs a greater risk of losing my interest because it takes me longer to get into the first person narrative.

S~V~S wrote:

bea wrote:@ daisy - that's odd to me that you don't enjoy books in the first person so much as books in the third person. I know most writers make the decision to write in the first person because a) they are telling THAT character's story and b) because it does tend to draw in the wider audience. People tend to like things that are written in "I" and "me" because they can replace their own selves in "I" and "me." I'd love to hear more about what it is about books written that way that make it more difficult for you to enjoy. Even if it's a soley personal thing.

I find this odd, becasue I also dislike first person narrative, it seems limiting. I tend to dislike things written in the "I" because it is making presumptions about my viewpoint; I tend to automatically disagree with first person protagonists becasue i am curmudgeony that way.

Taste is so very personal.

Vompatti wrote:Also Transcendental Magic by Eliphas Levi.