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Outmoded Authors: A Rebours (Against Nature) by J K Huysmans
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A reading challenge for all interested in exploring authors who were kicked out of the "in" crowd. Owning a blog isn't required. Friday, February 29, 2008. A Rebours (Against Nature) by J K Huysmans. In at the last gasp of February (good job it's a leap year! One last Outmoded Authors read and my February My Year of Reading Dangerously book, A Rebours. I picked this for the latter challenge because of the profoundly depressing effect that I found La Bas. Although Des Esseintes is the main character and t...
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Outmoded Authors: That's a wrap!
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A reading challenge for all interested in exploring authors who were kicked out of the "in" crowd. Owning a blog isn't required. Monday, March 3, 2008. Thanks for the interest - see you in six months! Here's a nice treat to go out on. The Quarterly Conversation. Features the article Over and Under. In which the contributors submit their choice of overrated and underrated novels. Richard Grayson. Recommended the two John Galsworthy Forsyte sagas for the "underrated" category. Of our members, Becky. I read...
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Outmoded Authors: The Razor's Edge
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A reading challenge for all interested in exploring authors who were kicked out of the "in" crowd. Owning a blog isn't required. Tuesday, February 12, 2008. By Somerset Maugham is the first Maugham I have ever read. I've had every intention of reading Maugham for years but if it weren't for the Outmoded Author Challenge it could have been many more years before I got around to him. Razor's Edge. Is not a deep, philosophical novel, it's more philosophy lite. As such, it makes the reader contemplative ...
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Outmoded Authors: October 2007
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A reading challenge for all interested in exploring authors who were kicked out of the "in" crowd. Owning a blog isn't required. Wednesday, October 31, 2007. So, I finished Djuna Barnes’s. Here’s a typical passage, a speech from one of the most important characters, the doctor:. Suppose your heart were five feet across in any place, would you break it for a heart no bigger than a mouse’s mute? Tuesday, October 30, 2007. By W Somerset Maugham. She looked grotesque. Philip's heart sank as he stared at ...
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Outmoded Authors: November 2007
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A reading challenge for all interested in exploring authors who were kicked out of the "in" crowd. Owning a blog isn't required. Tuesday, November 27, 2007. The Great Fortune by Olivia Manning. Is the first in Olivia Manning’s. It’s a richly descriptive book of both characters and place. Olivia Manning vividly depicts pre-war Bucharest. In the following scene Guy and Harriet hire a coach to take them out one evening :. 8220;When the trasura stopped at Pavel’s, one of the largest of the open-air res...
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Outmoded Authors: December 2007
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A reading challenge for all interested in exploring authors who were kicked out of the "in" crowd. Owning a blog isn't required. Monday, December 31, 2007. CHESTERTON Essay: A Piece of Chalk. In life, Chesterton really was a jolly, rotund man with a romantic, chivalrous streak—and he really did walk the streets in a cape, with a sword-stick. He committed the crime himself. Chesterton wrote poetry (whose I can't really claim to love), religious texts, including a biography of St Francis of Assisi. He ...
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Outmoded Authors: February 2008
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A reading challenge for all interested in exploring authors who were kicked out of the "in" crowd. Owning a blog isn't required. Friday, February 29, 2008. Somerst Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence. Maugham, W. Somerset. The Moon and Sixpence. New York: Modern Library, 1919. Find yourself thinking, “Ohmigod, I can’t believe that just happened! 8221; as you flip wildly through the pages of what has practically turned into a thriller, so eager are you to find out what’s going to happen next. He also has some...
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Outmoded Authors: January 2008
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A reading challenge for all interested in exploring authors who were kicked out of the "in" crowd. Owning a blog isn't required. Thursday, January 31, 2008. The House in Paris, by Elizabeth Bowen. The House in Paris. New York: Anchor, 2002, c1935. This is the only book I have yet finished for the Outmoded Authors challenge (although I have Italo Svevo's. Or because admitting him into her life means she will have to acknowledge her premarital behaviour? And she did have me anxious about the poor lost soul.
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Outmoded Authors: The Country House by John Galsworthy
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A reading challenge for all interested in exploring authors who were kicked out of the "in" crowd. Owning a blog isn't required. Sunday, November 11, 2007. The Country House by John Galsworthy. I was interested to read something by Galsworthy that wasn’t part of The Forsyte Saga. Which I am also reading, so that I had a comparison. I can’t exactly say that The Country House. It shares one of the themes of the first book of the saga, Man of Property. Gregory ran his hand through his hair. 8220;Two unhappy...
