Whats everyone reading

[wktf]

TDK, I loved American Gods, though I read it many, many years ago. I may have to pick it up again.

I agree with you completely regarding his Sandman work.

[The Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by wktf

TDK, I loved American Gods, though I read it many, many years ago. I may have to pick it up again.

I agree with you completely regarding his Sandman work.

I am like 80 pages in with American Gods novel and there are alot of things from the Norse Mythology in it. I am really enjoying it.

It looks like Gaiman born in the wrong century where there is a strong investigative journalism and many people are really super sensitive about perverts.

I mean rape wasn't even a crime in 19th century. Don't get me wrong, i am not saying what he did is right, but it is extreme to not let a guy write any books anymore because he is a pervert. As far as i can see perverts make good writers. If you don't want to read him, don't read him. You can put him in prison as well, but if the guy wants to keep on writing in prison or something, no one will publish him because he is a pervert... This is too extreme. I mean they even publish Hitler, but Neil Gaiman is a no no now because he is a pervert... This is too extreme.

[wktf]

My wife and I read “The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver and loved it. What a fantastic book! We later learned it was a runner up for the Pulitzer in literature.

Her subsequent book, “Demon Copperhead,” won the Pulitzer. So we were pretty excited to read that but then learned that it’s a modern retelling of Dickens’ “David Copperfield.” Even though reading David Copperfield isn’t required to understand Demon Copperhead we decided to read that first.

The only Dickens I’d read before was “Great Expectations,” which I read a few decades ago and loved. “David Copperfield” also was an outstanding and poignant book.

Having then read “David Copperfield” we were ready to read Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize winning retelling of it, “Demon Copperhead.” It was fun to suss out all the parallels and connections to Dickens’ work, and the book certainly didn’t disappoint. Different but every bit as powerful as her “The Poisonwood Bible.”

All three books highly recommended.

[The Dark Knight]

David Copperfield ! So you started to read the classics, wktf. Nice.

I want to read David Copperfield someday, but as far as i heard the English that Dickens use in his novels are alot different than today's English and to be able to read it, you need to learn that kind of English of that era.

I am too lazy for that. lol So if i read it someday, i will read it in Turkish for sure. lol

[wktf]

Originally Posted by The Dark Knight

David Copperfield ! So you started to read the classics, wktf. Nice.

I want to read David Copperfield someday, but as far as i heard the English that Dickens use in his novels are alot different than today's English and to be able to read it, you need to learn that kind of English of that era.

I am too lazy for that. lol So if i read it someday, i will read it in Turkish for sure. lol

TDK, thanks, but I was a literature major in college 40 years ago, but read classics in high school before that, so was reading classics long before recently picking up David Copperfield.

While the English is different, it was written in 1850, it’s not that different. It’s certainly more accessible than Shakespeare is today.