English Literature & Books

**CheeseCake** · 27-08-2009, 01:24

Originally Posted by xxMINAxx

I enjoy reading. My writing has improved tenfold during the course of the last year. I'm hoping to start Uni next month to take English Literature. Prose I enjoy but I've fallen for Poetry. Reading poems at face value is one thing but I quite enjoy di-secting poems and trying to discover the many interpretations they can have.

I love how some people just have a way with words. JellyTots for instance, the way she writes is amazing.

Reading is the key tool in regards to developing English Language e.g writing skills*.

Speaking of poetry, there was a time, where I would elude anything in relations to what I now consider, one of the best forms of sentiments. Unless you look beyond what meets the eye, to seek the motive, literature will not be given a fair justification. Look beyond and you will be besieged by the innovation, honestly.

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**xxMINAxx** · 27-08-2009, 01:47

Originally Posted by CheeseCake

Reading is the key tool in regards to developing English Language e.g writing skills*.

Speaking of poetry, there was a time, where I would elude anything in relations to what I now consider, one of the best forms of sentiments. Unless you look beyond what meets the eye, to seek the motive, literature will not be given a fair justification. Look beyond and you will be besieged by the innovation, honestly.

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You're right, I found my writing improved in context of essay writing and so forth through the reading I did. The more you read, the more you gain and somehow I love how it spills out onto paper. And once you read it back it's suprising to yourself. I love those moments!

I loved the discussions that were provoked during my English classes. Not only sharing your view and interpretation but being given a glimpse of someone elses. I love how words can get the cloggs moving within your own mind!

**Guji-Ji** · 27-08-2009, 12:43

Originally Posted by xxMINAxx

You're right, I found my writing improved in context of essay writing and so forth through the reading I did. The more you read, the more you gain and somehow I love how it spills out onto paper. And once you read it back it's suprising to yourself. I love those moments!

I loved the discussions that were provoked during my English classes. Not only sharing your view and interpretation but being given a glimpse of someone elses. I love how words can get the cloggs moving within your own mind!

That's why I loved English in college. Was one of the few lessons when you can feel your mind working because it's not just about reading and remembering but interpreting and thinking about what you're reading. I've gotta reread my anthology sometime soon.

**CheeseCake** · 27-08-2009, 14:29

Originally Posted by Guji-Ji

That's why I loved English in college. Was one of the few lessons when you can feel your mind working because it's not just about reading and remembering but interpreting and thinking about what you're reading. I've gotta reread my anthology sometime soon.

May I add, referring to what you guys have stated above, if you're able to expand upon all that is there, logic no doubt enhances. It's almost illimitable.

**queen bee** · 27-08-2009, 15:36

I've always loved reading. My Aunts have kept poems from when I was younger. I've not written any recently, probably because studies have taken up most of my time. (Poor excuse!) Really...I'm just too thick to put anything stunning and profound in to words at the minute!

I'm not too fussy to be honest. I dislike conceit in choosing what to read. I love my classics, a bit of Wilde, Bronte, etc. Shakespeare of course. I thought It was long and treacherous for GCSE but A Level Eng Lit was brilliant. I enjoy variety. I love the prose of Proust, but I wouldn't want everyone to write like that. I can appreciate and enjoy Mozart or Bruckner, but sometimes I just prefer the simplicity of Erik Satie... or Tupac,

... every form of art is worth indulging in, in my opinion. You can always take something from it.

I don't think we should have specific expectations on what is or isn't good prose. Any 'good' (there's that word again) literature can help your imagination and language skills evolve. It's enrichment of the mind, it's inspiration, an escape. An endless source of knowledge... I can't understand why people take books for granted

I'm currently reading The Alchemy Of Happiness by Imam Al-Ghazi.
I definitely recommend it.

**queen bee** · 27-08-2009, 15:46

Deep down inside, I will always be that little book nerd. Roald Dahl makes me happier than... [skip a huge chunk, and...] I do not include "Twilight" as reading.

...Taken from my own blog. There's that conceit I was talking about. Hah. I make me sick.

**Zero** · 27-08-2009, 16:41

If you are a true literature fan, then you will have read The Pickwick Papers!

**Rab C Nesbit** · 27-08-2009, 17:43

Oh, shit.
Cheeky's mentioned my name, and now I feel the pressure to write something pretentious about my reading habits.

Truth is, I hated reading, words, English etc until I was 16.
My English wasn't even comprehensible until I was in Year 2, and it was only in Year 7 that I learnt that you can get improper and proper English.

My older sister was a Childhood Poet.
She put me to shame.
Pages and pages of rhymes and anecdotes...
She moved onto fictitious stories of a Dog named Lottie,
and eventually autobiographical accounts of how she spent New Years' Eve '94.
She hadn't even seen her 8th birthday.

She was the English Queen, so I shunned it all.

...and I regret it.

Because, it turns out, I love to read.
Obviously, I have so much to read, yet, and haven't touched upon nearly all the books mentioned in this thread.
...but I do love Etymology.
Words are my world. Technically, they're my thought carriers... but I do love them.

As I've been slowly uncovering this reality, my writing has improved.
Gone are the days of trying to rhyme Orange with the Earl of Borange, ahem; poetry and creative writing is not about the order of the words you choose... It is all about the words.
This all means Jack Shit, though, because I waste my time contemplating whether Aliens are invading my city because of the flashes of lights that I see, time to time...

**Rab C Nesbit** · 27-08-2009, 17:44

...and that was my best piece of writing, yet.

I shall have to shove it in my blog, when I remember.

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**Ranj** · 26-10-2009, 12:18

I recommend you read The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. It's been out for a while now but the language itself really intrigued me. For example, the author describes marriage as one year of flames and a lifetime of ashes..

Oh and if you love food, this book will make you drool as you read I think I probably have a few drool marks on a few pages..

but the way he describes the food, its just divine.

**CheeseCake** · 28-10-2009, 21:02

Originally Posted by Ranj

I recommend you read The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. It's been out for a while now but the language itself really intrigued me. For example, the author describes marriage as one year of flames and a lifetime of ashes..

Oh and if you love food, this book will make you drool as you read I think I probably have a few drool marks on a few pages..

but the way he describes the food, its just divine.

I think I may give this one a go, I've had so many recommendations lately, I don't know which one to start off with. Someone mentioned 'Shame', just after I'd finished reading 'Daughters of Shame', read that one, was a good read.

I read three books last month (sadly), and one of which I definately recommend. ' A Prisoner of Tehran', By Marina Nemat.

**suck-my-chitterjuice** · 02-11-2009, 23:33

You flowered oh so briefly, the bees of AP didn't even get a chance to taste the nectar of your mind, let alone pollinate a thread with your ideas. Come back to tell us about your reading adventures.