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Reading list for the two months after the 70s list is done:

 

1. Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
2. Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
3. William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
4. Poems by Fernando Pessoa
5. Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Stories
6. Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater
7. Bagavad Gita
8. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
9. Nathaniel West, Miss Lonelyhearts
10. Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
11. Stephen King, On Writing
12. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
13. Eknath Easwaran, A More Ardent Fire
14. Weike Wang, Chemistry
15. Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
16. Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
17. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
18. Jose Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (Pessoa-Connected)
19. Jane Austen, Persuasion

 

Gotta get serious, guys.

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From Dahl's Matilda:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2018/sept/matilda-by-roald-dahl-extract.html

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Over the next six months, under Mrs Phelps’s watchful and compassionate eye, Matilda read the following books:

- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

- Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

- Gone to Earth by Mary Webb

- Kim by Rudyard Kipling

- The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells

- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

- The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley

- Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

- Animal Farm by George Orwell

 

 

How the hell is a 4 year old reading Faulkner? That's more impressive than having psychic abilities.

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1 minute ago, cannastop said:

From Dahl's Matilda:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2018/sept/matilda-by-roald-dahl-extract.html

 

 

How the hell is a 4 year old reading Faulkner? That's more impressive than having psychic abilities.

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‘Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I don’t understand,’ Matilda said to her. ‘Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same. The way he tells it I feel I am right there on the spot watching it all happen.’

 

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i run hot and cold on bergman generally. his films are sort of what everyone thinks of when they make fun of up it's own ass european cinema. well him and godard. it's funny the first two bergman's i saw were Persona and Seventh Seal and i loved both, thought i had found a new fave but everything else i've seen has generally been not my thing. never checked out fanny and alexander/scenes from a marriage which are two that people love. the long runtimes are intimidating when i find some of his 90 minute films a slog.

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