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narcasseRegarding this non-rant: I retract all my leniency. Your English is just not as good as you think it is.
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lesliaisons1782 has begun with the preamble to the novel. Les Liaisons Dangereuses in untranslated French is going to be interesting since I’ve previously read the Penguin Classics translation. There’s also some small similarity of sentiment to American Psycho which is an equally charming read.
“In the end it all came down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.”
- Choderlos de Laclos “Les Liaisons Dangereuse”
“Everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer - all of it was wrong, without any final purpose. All it came down to was: die or adapt.”
- Bret Easton Ellis “American Psycho”
It’s such a shame that the American Psycho film just seemed to be a cut and paste of random scenes from the novel. It was funny enough but lost much of the overall impact really.
In other news,
lesliaisons1782 has begun with the preamble to the novel. Les Liaisons Dangereuses in untranslated French is going to be interesting since I’ve previously read the Penguin Classics translation. There’s also some small similarity of sentiment to American Psycho which is an equally charming read.“In the end it all came down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.”
- Choderlos de Laclos “Les Liaisons Dangereuse”
“Everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer - all of it was wrong, without any final purpose. All it came down to was: die or adapt.”
- Bret Easton Ellis “American Psycho”
It’s such a shame that the American Psycho film just seemed to be a cut and paste of random scenes from the novel. It was funny enough but lost much of the overall impact really.
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Oh, come now...
Date: 2006-08-01 04:18 am (UTC)You can't be a horrible person. A German sprouting PolSci, yes, but most definitely not a horrible person.^_^And thank you very much - I've now some books to add to my summer reading list (which more or less had three lone items on it).
Re: Oh, come now...
Date: 2006-08-04 12:17 am (UTC)Occasionally there seems to be the suggestion that those are really the same thing.Glad to be of service then. I feel that I ought to find something else of note to recommend really but I can’t quite think of anything as momentous as the former two. Goodbye to Berlin is good and Orlando is one of those things that people gush over until they realise that it’s pretty much Vita Sackville-West fanfiction, though that really makes it rather more fun I’ve always thought.
How about an anti-rec then? Buddenbrooks is supposedly absolutely hideous to read though I’ve never tried it myself. On the other hand, I was always rather fond of his Doktor Faustus...