and the not-so-great. do they always get their comeuppance? what are the flavours?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 31 March 2011 09:35 (fourteen years ago)
"Only, he wants to be free, just as other people want a collection of stamps. Freedom, this is his secret garden: a little scheme with himself as sole accomplice...An idle, unresponsive fellow, rather chimerical, but ultimately quite sensible, who has dexterously constructed an undistinguised but solid happiness upon a basis of inertia, and justified himself from time to time on the highest moral grounds. Is that what I am?", asks Mathieu.
― Nult AGL (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 31 March 2011 09:41 (fourteen years ago)
this fuckin guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_Man
no comeuppance - quite an unpleasant read really.
― and the hint of parp (ledge), Thursday, 31 March 2011 15:09 (fourteen years ago)
jesus. the plot sounds uncomfortably nonfictional.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 31 March 2011 15:42 (fourteen years ago)
Molly BloomEmma BovaryGilbert Osmond
― Hey Look More Than Five Years Has Passed And You Have A C (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 March 2011 15:45 (fourteen years ago)
Anna Karenina
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 31 March 2011 15:46 (fourteen years ago)
the history man is enough to make you like lucky jim
― thomp, Thursday, 31 March 2011 16:29 (fourteen years ago)
I've actually got a spare copy of Lucky Jim going if you want one thomp? p&p only.
― GamalielRatsey, Thursday, 31 March 2011 16:30 (fourteen years ago)
ha, thanks but ... i've owned and got rid of at least one copy. maybe two.
― thomp, Thursday, 31 March 2011 16:37 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/john-masters/casanova.htm
amazing book
― Packie Bonner (Local Garda), Friday, 1 April 2011 09:09 (fourteen years ago)
Donleavy, The Ginger Man
― alimosina, Monday, 4 April 2011 21:01 (fourteen years ago)
Casanova's own 12-vol autobiography is also pretty amazing -- fascinating and funny and very well-written.
― You're fucking fired and you know jack shit about horses (James Morrison), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:06 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah, also in a fun translation by Arthur Machen!
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 11:22 (fourteen years ago)
Charles in The French Lieutenant's Woman. Kinda paid for it.
Also Madame de Tourvel from Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Definitely paid for it.
― franny glass, Friday, 8 April 2011 16:51 (fourteen years ago)
King David. He really paid for it.
― Hey Look More Than Five Years Has Passed And You Have A C (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 April 2011 16:55 (fourteen years ago)
Rabbit Angstrom.
― cockroach shakespeare (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 April 2011 17:02 (fourteen years ago)
Don't think he gets a "comeuppance". Don't think he "deserves" one.
― cockroach shakespeare (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 April 2011 17:05 (fourteen years ago)
hester prynne
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Friday, 8 April 2011 17:09 (fourteen years ago)
Bill Clinton.
― Hey Look More Than Five Years Has Passed And You Have A C (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 April 2011 17:13 (fourteen years ago)
helen
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Friday, 8 April 2011 17:26 (fourteen years ago)
"I did not think - I was a battle-ground for the thoughts of many men; rather was I one of those desirable but impotent countries over which the great powers surge back and forth."
Amory Blaine from F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise remains one of my favourite characters.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 May 2011 10:11 (fourteen years ago)