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| Aiheet | | viestiä | Viimeinen viesti | | | 50 Book Challenge : Zero's 2009 Challenge | | 188 | zanix, sunnuntai 1:33am |  |
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Stasia, glad to see you followed the bread crumbs to here.
FlossieT, That reminds me, I have yet to finish Wood's How Fiction Works. I started it but put it aside after about the third eyeroll. I'm not sure why but I put him in the literary reductionism camp. More enthralled by the minute ... I finished How Fiction Works by James Wood yesterday. Not having studied literature since A levels, I found it accessible and interesting. ... my Club Read 2009 or 75 Book Challenge threads! (Perfectly understandable, with Belletrista as a result.) Also, I started How Fiction Works over a year ago and have made zero progress.
... during a period some time ago when they never seemed to work. Just got out of the habit.
>I'm dithering with How Fiction Works by James Wood, but not dithering enough to put it on my reading list. . . 12 - finished 6/14/2009
Title: How Fiction Works
Author: James Wood This lovely bit from James Wood's HOW FICTION WORKS:
"Is there a way in which all of us are fictional characters, parented by life and written by ourselves?"
I haven't read How Fiction Works, but I always try and check out his reviews, usually in the New Yorker. Nothing wrong with an erudite, enthusiastic reviewer.
Glad you enjoyed my Cantos review. I'm fast approaching the end of both Fulgrim and Portrait of a Lady Then I can FINALLY get to ... Your CANTOS review was a hoot, pal. Keep it up!
Here's a critique of another book I know you've read, James Wood's HOW FICTION WORKS. Directly from my book journal (volume 3):
"I was fully prepared to despise this book. Mr. Wood, after all, is no big fan of three writers I absolutely ... ... 05/08/09
142. Adam Bede by George Eliot 05/09/09
143. Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare 05/09/09
144. How Fiction Works by James Wood 05/10/09
145. Anthem by Ayn Rand 05/10/09 144. How Fiction Works by James Wood 05/10/09
145. Anthem by Ayn Rand 05/10/09 ... Rebecca Notebook by Daphne Du Maurier (14 August)
4. The Writer on her Work edited by Janet Sternburg (7 October)
5. How Fiction Works by James Wood (10 October)
6. Writers Revealed by Rosemary Hartill (25 November)
7. Journal of a Novel by John Steinbeck (5 December)
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9.
... the passage of time sure gets confusing as you get older:
The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks
Animal Farm, George Orwell
How Fiction Works, James Wood
Mary Stuart, Friedrich Schiller
No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
Reading like a Writer, Francine Prose
Tiger at the Gates, J ... http://bit.ly/zKHgP
I discovered this article in the Financial Times while reading James Wood's How Fiction Works. It's an article about police officers in Mexico City reading to become 'better citizens'. It's from 2006 so no doubt others have already read it.
Christopher ... I've spent some time in Istanbul, so also very much appreciate his writing on that wonderful city.
Working on finishing How Fiction Works by James Wood, Embracing Defeat , a history of Postwar Japan by John Dower, and slowly working my way through Borges Collected Fictions and The Anchor ... H. Nonfiction that doesn't fit elsewhere...
3. How Fiction Works by James Wood
I have mixed feelings about this one. It was worth my time since it gave me quite a few authors to look up and reminded me why I love some of my favorites, but there were also so many allusions to books that ... 24g. How Fiction Works by James Wood
I have mixed feelings about this one. It was worth my time since it gave me quite a few authors to look up and reminded me why I love some of my favorites, but there were also so many allusions to books that I sometimes felt left out of the Wood's ... ... recently; he was kind enough to send me copies of his first novel, Drawers & Booths and an ARC of his upcoming follow up, Fiction (what's with the Touchstones auto'ing "How Fiction Works" when I input Fiction? -- oh well -- to review. Extremely eccentric writer, Ara 13, funny and original ... EX: MISC*
1. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian {5/6}
2. How Fiction Works by James Wood {5/10}
3. Watchmen by Alan Moore ill. by Dave Gibbons {5/25}
4. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell {5/27}
5. Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies {6/18}
6. Leaven of Malice by Robertson D ... ... Jr.
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Final Cut Pro HD for Dummies by Helmut Kobler
How Fiction Works by James Wood
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Introducing the Enlightenment by Lloyd Spencer and Andrzej Krauze
Common Sense, The Ri ... #77 How Fiction Works by James Wood
short dissection of the elements of fiction - some history of the development of the novel and requisite character, narrative voice, dialogue, etc.
mildly interesting
As for The Golden Notebook - I wanted so badly to love it but honestly, I simply ... ... a little quicker.
45. Late last evening, I finished my book group's latest selection (we met on it last Tuesday), How Fiction Works by James Wood. After I got past the first section, the book began to draw me in. Quite interesting, mostly enjoyable, and made me want to read some of ... How Fiction Works: 194 pages
4599 + 194 = 4793
15540 - 4793 = 10747 pages left.
How Fiction Works was a bit difficult to understand for a Norwegian, but by using some time on it you'll learn very much about fiction and how to read it.
Interesting, especially the chapters "Character" ... ... Lucky Shopping Manual (320)
252. Traffic - Tom Vanderbilt (402)
253. African Grey Parrots- Paul Paradise (93)
254. How Fiction Works - James Wood (265)
255. The Monster of Florence - Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi (322)
256. Indexed - Jessica Hagy (96)
257. Stuff White People Li ... ... continent, The Middle Ages and the Black Death (cf. Kristin Lavransdatter)
And after a break I'll continue reading How Fiction Works by James Wood. Approx. 80 pages to go. ... by Haruki Murakami
47. The Price of Everything by Russell Roberts
48. When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale
49. How Fiction Works by James Wood
50. Fade to Blonde by Max Phillips
51. The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
52. McSweeney's 28
53. The Witches of Eastwick by Joh ... ... Eco, God's Own Country by Ross Raisin, which made the longlist for the 2008 Guardian First Book Award, and How Fiction Works by James Wood. I'll start Agamemnon's Daughter by Ismail Kadare today. I'm still working on How Fiction Works by James Wood and The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine by Sherwin B. Nuland. I'll probably wait to read The Clothes on Their Backs and The Northern Clemency, the two 20 ... ... makes medicine a rewarding career.
I'll start The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant next, and resume reading How Fiction Works by James Wood. Just got How fiction Works by James Wood my favorite critic. Looking forward to reading it. ... Prize longlisted novels I've read so far. Later this week I'll start A Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh. I've started How Fiction Works by James Wood, and I'm sporadically reading The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine by Sherwin B. Nuland. ... I'll see which one sticks . . .
Libraries in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson -- reading this on the subway
How Fiction Works by James Wood -- needs more concentration than I seem to have right now
Shush! Growing Up Jewish under Stalin by Emil Draitser -- just picked ... ... Chris Offutt's The Good Brother, and Joe Sacco's Notes from a Defeatist. I'll probably read James Wood's How Fiction Works tomorrow afternoon. ... the T to Harvard Square, went to the Harvard Book Store for the first time (great store!), and bought the following:
1. How Fiction Works by James Wood
2. Karnak Cafe by Naguib Mahfouz
3. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
4. The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine Review of James Wood's new How Fiction Works here. ...
'Mysteries' by Knut Hamsun (in English and Norwegian: 'Mysterier' (reread)).
'Knut Hamsuns Mysterier' by Gregory Nybø
How Fiction Works by James Wood
and
David Copperfield
and the book mentioned in #39 ... o.
Currently reading:
David Copperfield (in English)
Growth of the Soil (in English and Norwegian: Markens grøde)
How Fiction works by James Wood (in English), non-fiction
To kill a Mockingbird (in Norwegian: Drep ikke en sangfugl)
Leaves of Grass (in Norwegian: Gresstrå), ... I'm reading The vision of Buddha and How Fiction Works, too. ... Lullaby, The Bad Lands, The Coming of the Kid, Apaches, Separations, The Art and Craft of Novel Writing and How Fiction Works. ... >
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
How Fiction Works
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