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Daisy Miller was alright, now I am reading Washing Square and I keep confusing it with the Age of Innocence and thinking of Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder as the characters, which is screwing things up.
— Mar 16, 2011 08:39PM
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Turn of the Screw--did he really like this? It's so...fun! This can't be the same guy.
— Apr 10, 2011 11:50AM
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Okay, I think I will skip ahead to Turn of the Screw and consider my education in the short works of Henry James complete.
— Apr 08, 2011 02:36PM
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Kind of liked Washington Square. Definitely into Aspern Papers.
— Mar 31, 2011 04:11PM
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Ashamed to say i have never read James. I am reading Daisy Miller first. Because it's the first one in the book.
— Mar 12, 2011 03:52PM
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I have a friend who danced on his grave. Poor lamb.
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I am reminded, while reading this, how all the people I knew in grad school who were into James were insufferable "writer" types. Like, it was all about the craft and not the content. He's kind of a judgy little shite, isn't he? It's like less sympathetic Wharton (who I love).
Dad was super into James in grad school...bwahaha. He also had a thing for the 18Th C I just don't get. I think he liked James's oral quality.
But yeah, James fans are a little loony.
But yeah, James fans are a little loony.
Yeah, I don't hate it or anything, the writing is of course good, but there's just this twinge of pettiness about his descriptions that I don't love. I can see being into the "Long 18th Century"--there's some good (and ZOMFG WEIRD) shit there.
True, but Johnson? Barf.
I think what I don't like about 18C is the poetry, even though yeah, lots of ZOMFG weird to go around, and sometimes i like that. Give me the Romantics any day of the week.
I think what I don't like about 18C is the poetry, even though yeah, lots of ZOMFG weird to go around, and sometimes i like that. Give me the Romantics any day of the week.
