All the books you've never read

James Joyce- Ulysses, never read it. ...you?

Jamaica Inn

The Bible

James Joyce- Ulysses, never read it. ...you?

Tried 3 times. Gave up each time. Also have never read Paradise Lost.

I have a 2.1 in Eng Lit.

Tried 3 times. Gave up each time. Also have never read Paradise Lost.

I have a 2.1 in Eng Lit.

That's where you went wrong, you lazy twat.

A little more application would have got you a respectable result...

Escort Readers Wives Christmas Edition (The one with Platini's XXXX in it)

well I got a First in Adventure Recreation, (which is sociology mixed with outdoor sports) and that book defies me again and again,
no need for knocking a 2.1 Platini, unless you know him of course....

Get with the programme. I live in Norfolk with my widowed mother, remember?

And 7 cats, don't forget the cats!

He doesn't know me. And to be fair he's right(ish).

I think it was more that my dissertation was on dialogism in rap music.

I couldn't work Milton into it. Or work Joyce out.

sorry my mistake,

Escort Readers Wives Christmas Edition (The one with Platini's XX XXXX in it)

He doesn't know me. And to be fair he's right(ish).

I think it was more that my dissertation was on dialogism in rap music.

I couldn't work Milton Keynes into it. Or work Joyce out.

What the fcuk has Milton Keynes got to do with it?

What the fcuk has Milton Keynes got to do with it?

That was my conclusion.

I didn't read much Keynes either.

@Goodhead-accentual meter in hip hop and all that? scansion and all that? sounds worth reading.

Currently doing a MA English Lit and never read a bronte.

Go aks Sheffield Uni library. It was more about sampling / reinterpretation really though.

In my defence Sheffield Uni also had an anti canon policy at the time - my 1st lecture was all about that. The other thing they said was that lectures / tutorials from day 1 onward were optional.

Happy days.

@Platini - the aks is deliberate.

Go aks Sheffield Uni library. It was more about sampling / reinterpretation really though.

In my defence Sheffield Uni also had an anti canon policy at the time - my 1st lecture was all about that. The other thing they said was that lectures / tutorials from day 1 onward were optional.

Happy days.

@Platini - the aks is deliberate.

Sheffield Uni. The home of the Fairground Studies Archive.

Quite interesting, to tell the truth.

http://www.nfa.dept.shef.ac.uk

Sheffield Uni. The home of the Fairground Studies Archive.

Quite interesting, to tell the truth.

http://www.nfa.dept.shef.ac.uk

Aaah - that would explain all the gypsies.

Aaah - that would explain all the gypsies.

Swings and roundabouts...

Kant - Critique of pure reason.

I keep trying. And failing.

EDIT: Would help if I got the title right.

I too have never read a Bronte, or a Harry Potter, or a Dan Brown, or a James Patterson. I haven't read any celebrity autobiographies, nor any Chaucer. I skipped The Kite Runner, Brick Lane, On Beauty; every Paul Auster since Travels in the Scriptorium, every Grisham since The Runaway Jury, every McEwan since Saturday. I ought to have read more poetry. I've started Ulysses twice and never finished. I've not read the Bible or the Koran. I haven't read a Guinness Book of Records since 1990. I still haven't read Catch 22. I didn't read Plato's Meno but wrote an OK paper on it. I never read Enid Blyton. I haven't read Don Quixote or Pilgrim's Progress. There's a book I was given by the author that I still haven't read. I should've read To The Lighthouse, In Cold Blood and Lady Chatterley's Lover, but haven't. And I've only ever read one book, cover to cover, in a foreign language.

good post Tomasito, because in this game you discover as much about friends as you would asking what they have read.

Kant - Theory of pure reason.

I keep trying.

You must mean Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'.

It's one of the greatest books ever, but there are better and worse bits in it. You don't necessarily have to read all of it to derive value from it, or read all of it with the same degree of attention. Try to start with the Transcendental Aesthetic--conveniently also the first main part of the book. I'd recommend using Henry Allison's 'Kant's Transcendental Idealism' as a commentary to start with. (Not because Allison is definitive or simple, but because he is one of the most sympathetic and charitable commentators. There are also very critical/uncharitable assessments that make valuable points, but I think that it's always important to read such works in a charitable light first.)

I didn't read Plato's Meno but wrote an OK paper on it.

You missed out--but it's not easy to appreciate the value of Platonic dialogues unless the critical mass of having read several has built and you understand the connections (much as they're heavily disputed, of course, even the order of the dialogues, but then, just about everything in academia is).

Shouldn't you be over in the 'Books I have Read' thread?

You must mean Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'.

It's one of the greatest books ever, but there are better and worse bits in it. You don't have to read all of it. Try to start with the Transcendental Aesthetic--conveniently also the first main part of the book. I'd recommend using Henry Allison's 'Kant's Transcendental Idealism' as a commentary to start with. (Not because Allison is definitive or simple, but because he is one of the most sympathetic and charitable commentators. There are also very critical/uncharitable assessments that make valuable points, but I think that it's always important to read such works in a charitable light first.)

I'd hoped no one had noticed and I had edited the title before I was caught out.
I really should just sit down and have a proper go. I just keep getting caught up in the plethora of other stuff I need to read. Foucault, Agamben (my hero), (the man of the moment) Zizek (Pillock), (the man of the last moment) Rancier (Pillock) and so on. Thus I keep delaying and pushing Kant back... Oh the tourment of being young and not having read as much, and thus know as much, about theory as one would like.

But I'll remember that and look up Allison next time I have a at Kant.