Now, more than ever, this is a book that needs to be read. Continue reading
Archive for The Brothers Karamazov
My Favorite Book
Posted in Reading with tags Anna Karenina, Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, The Brothers Karamazov on November 22, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle
I referred to the Time list of the best books ever written some weeks ago. I’ve been thinking about it since, and the list has probably destroyed my interest in ‘best of’ lists for ever after. Which may prove to be a good thing. But what it did raise to my attention was the ludicrous inclusion of The Great Gatsby – I mean, give me a break. I’m not saying Fitzgerald isn’t good, but Dosteyevsky has done turds that dwarf Gatsby. Continue reading
Share this:
Madame Bovary
Posted in Reading with tags Dostoyevsky, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Middlemarch, The Brothers Karamazov, Tolstoy on October 10, 2010 by Jarrod BoyleTime Magazine ranked the ten greatest novels of all time thus:
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Continue reading
Share this:
The Lost Art of Reading
Posted in Reading with tags Anna Karenina, Charlie Parker, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Henry Fielding, Herman Melville, Jean Genet, Moby Dick, Rodney Hall, Shakespeare, The Brothers Karamazov, The Scarlet and the Black, Tolstoy, Tom Jones, War and Peace, Wynton Marsalis on September 4, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle
The Lost Art of Reading
This entry takes its title from Rodney Hall’s keynote address at the 2010 Byron Bay Writer’s Festival. I had hoped to begin with a link to the lecture which I believe the ABC filmed and will eventually upload onto youtube. While googling, I found this interview, which is a really interesting introduction to the man.
http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2010/04/27/feature-rodney-hall-author-of-popeye-never-told-you-answers-ten-terrifying-questions/ Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 