Member: Cien

Welcome to LT, cien. I am sure you are going to have a good time. I liked reading your reviews. They seem very open and honest. What more can you ask? I wish more people would post personal reviews of books; it's fascinating to mull over different opinions.
Cheers, Kevin (dylanwolf)

posted by dylanwolf at 5:48 am (EST) on Mar 3, 2007

oh, and what kind of writing? just curious.

posted by ifjuly at 1:36 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2007

that was very kind of you. what's your favorite book in your collection?

and yeah, the coetzee just bowled me over. he was like saramago--i knew i had to get around to reading him one of these days, because everything was conspiring to get me to--the formal recognition, friends pushing me, the way their names kept coming up based on stuff i already liked--but i just kept resisting out of laziness and contrarian tendency, i guess. but wow! yes. he shot right up there. i can't wait to read disgrace, and want to read his essays too. oh, and i'm like you--once i've read a great book by someone new to me, i scoop up all i can by them, even stuff i've no idea about. ha.

posted by ifjuly at 1:36 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2007

Hey. Have just read your review of Disgrace after discussing it in the 'Geeks Who Love the Classics' group, and I think you are spot on. The stubbornness of the characters, particularly, is one of the things that really stood out about the book for me; a 'false' or 'foolish' nobility as you so eloquently put it. This, coupled with the fascinating father-daughter relationship and the bleak imagery makes it, for me at least, a brilliant novel. I'm just glad someone else loved it as much as I did, and was able to better articulate how I felt about it!

Oh, and good luck with the writing project that you mentioned on another thread!

posted by balzac at 7:00 pm (EST) on Feb 17, 2007