anybody read anything by d.h. lawerence. lately he has been coming up on a lot of books i've been reading and i never read anything by him. supposed to be good. writes about women and love i think....
Malibooty likes mexican erotica.
hahahah. apparently. then i probably won't read it. but they mentioned it in a beautiful mind so i thought to read it. then he was mentioned in our english book. so then i'll have to look through it. but then again they did ban alice in wonderland. did you know that alice in wonderland was actually written by a mathmatician that worked at oxford to entertain his friend's daughter.
i did not know that. quite interesting. i've been meaning to read that book and the Oz books. the books are always far more strange and detailed than the movies. the hardest part is putting out of my mind the familiar images that i've seen in the movies. i like to imagine the books descriptions without that bit of prejuduice.
the wonderland books are good but you HAVE to read the oz books. i've read them all maybe 5 times each. the patchwork girl, the tin man, the emerald city of oz, the scarecrow of oz, are all sooooo good.
one to derfintely reccommend reading is the pathwork girl of oz. maybe i liked it cuz i was a girl but if i remember correctly this is the one with the shaggy man and the ABSOLUTE BEST oz book in my opinion. look for the shaggy man. he shall be your guiding light.
always do
i just finished rereading alice in wonderland. the forward contained some enlightening information about reverend charles dodgson (lewis carol). alice liddell and her sisters were real people, but its doubtful his intentions were altogether innocent.
he was a mathematician and logician who glorified illogic and non sequitur; he was a conservative professor and clergyman who was friends with the Bohemians; he wrote books for children filled with images of violence and brutality; and, while professing a prudish, innocent view of childhood, he took photographs of prepububescent girls in the nude
wow. he's not well. he's a decent writer though!
absolutely! also, i think with alice you wont have a problem dimissing any disney-esque thoughts bc the actual story is so dark. i would like to read an annotated version someday bc i know im missing some of the references. im reading through the looking glass next. its even darker. i havent read it in about 5 years, i think.
i really like throught the looking glass. if you watch the real life alice in wonderland that was on abc a few years ago, it is very much the story of through the looking glass. and with all the chess pieces.
isn't j.m. barrie (author of peter pan) supposed to have been a pedophile to little boys? there was rumors of it but never proven fact.....something like that.
yeah. charles dodgson held the head of mathematics chair at oxford, same position as Isaac Newton, and Stephen Hawking. And he wrote a lot on mathematical logic, and logic puzzles. I've got one of his books at home.
yeah but imagine you are this really famous important proffessor and all you're remembered for is this child's story that you wrote and its not even in your name.
I think thats why he used a pen name, because he wanted to seperate his professional writings from his fiction. And both names were pretty famous during his time, and lots of people read Alice in Wonderland, but not as many read his work on mathematical logic.
yeah but what do most normal people in society know? They know lewis carroll. and does he exist?no.