Rob’s Comments (group member since Oct 03, 2015)

Rob’s comments from the Classics Without All the Class group.

Hi Kadijah,
How do you "remove yourself" from the group? Im cruising around the group site and the web site and can't figure it out. : (
Thanks,
Rob

Haven't read Brave New World, although I've read quite a bit of Huxley, I'm curious about it now. I'm reading A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess right now, and evidently Brave New World was one of the books that inspired it. Clockwork isn't easy to read either with its own invented language, but worth it.

I enjoyed Defoe, and have also read Roxanna and the Journal of the plague year. I have tried several times since high school to get through Ulysses by Joyce. Never made it. At this point I have read so many digests, readers aides, and textual companions for the novel, that I know it's plot its course through the day, the characters, their adultery, their drinking holes, and who Joyce based the characters on as well as the resolution.
I think it odd I'm so familiar with a text I actually haven't read. It's embarrassing to admit you haven't read this text if you were an English major.

I agree Atwood is excellent. "surfacing" is a gem from her early career no one much mentions anymore. I also love Robertson Davies. Great writer Colorful depictions of academic and clerical life. Musing sbout Art and the life of the artist.

Yes! I agree! Lonesome Dove is a fantastic book. Larry McMurtry is not only a fantastic writer, he's a huge book geek! He ended up opening his own book store. His non fiction writing, essays, and reviews are also great.

36, that surprised me.