THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Billy Rygar on December 14, 2007, 03:29:01 PM
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And am going to start reading it after I finish The Golden Compass (so I can piss off my Christian sister by discussing its atheist themes in front of her kids). is there anything particularly useful I should know/study up on before I begin?
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You must be an awesome uncle.
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Why be a dad when you can be a fun uncle :bow
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You must be an awesome uncle.
bonus points - he's white too!
no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy STOP :punch
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I read that "bring my dong home" :-\
my Pale Fire is ready for pickup from the LIBRARY!! omg the library. looks like I'm the beardiest man in the thread
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is there anything particularly useful I should know/study up on before I begin?
Hmmm, not that I can think of, really.
If you haven't already, for someone that knows ab it about lit, I would recommend going in as clean as possible without reading too much about the book until after you finish it. I said to read the wiki before, but if you haven't by now, then it would probably be best if you didn't. lest it sully your first interpretation.
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a bit about lit, sorry missed a space there.
I mean you know a bit about poetry, and you know a bit about literary criticism, which are the only two fields of background that I think are important. And in the end, neither are really all that important. It's not a very difficult book to read.
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i was reading nabokov's translation of eugene onegin earlier this year, with its immense and idiosyncratic commentary, and it occurred to me that pale fire was a kind of self-parody. i actually think he wrote it shortly afterwards. not that you need to go hunt down his onegin -- it just provides an interesting perspective. anyway, pale fire is probably my favorite novel from the last...call it 80 years. if it is a novel
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Oh wow, I never knew about Eugene Onegin. From the description, I can see why you've come to that conclusion in regards to Pale Fire. I am interested now. I'm going to have to check that out! That sounds really interesting.