Comments on: For inspiration and understanding http://www.coldspaghetti.org/blog/2006/02/09/for-inspiration-and-understanding/ Thaw before reheating. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:03:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cold Spaghetti » Blog Archive » Part of the Main http://www.coldspaghetti.org/blog/2006/02/09/for-inspiration-and-understanding/comment-page-1/#comment-2268 Cold Spaghetti » Blog Archive » Part of the Main Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:17:38 +0000 http://www.coldspaghetti.org/blog/2006/02/09/for-inspiration-and-understanding/#comment-2268 [...] blogged about my own beliefs on these things before; John Donne still says it better than I ever [...] [...] blogged about my own beliefs on these things before; John Donne still says it better than I ever [...]

]]> By: Holly http://www.coldspaghetti.org/blog/2006/02/09/for-inspiration-and-understanding/comment-page-1/#comment-624 Holly Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:51:00 +0000 http://www.coldspaghetti.org/blog/2006/02/09/for-inspiration-and-understanding/#comment-624 Looking back, I think I liked both Faulkner and Fitzgerald. But I think I only read one by each. Hard to remember -- around the end of high school I basically began to steer clear of anything written by a dead white man. Nothing personal, I just felt like all the stories were the same and I was bored. It was reading Richard Wright's Black Boy and especially Native Son which gave me that realization. (Native Son had a tremendous impact on me; I read it the summer before my senior year of high school.) <br/><br/>In recent years, I haven't read much fiction at all. Mostly because of time -- there is so much to read to be on top of things that even in leisure I tend to stick to things related to health, development, globalization... that sort of stuff. So the majority are academic journals and nonfiction books. Considering how stimulating I find the topics, I don't consider it a sacrifice; it is truly a preference these days. I'm especially in love with ethnographies/monographs and will pick up something along these lines before a fiction novel. (The exception are the Harry Potter novels, which I've been enamored with since the publication of Book 2.) Looking back, I think I liked both Faulkner and Fitzgerald. But I think I only read one by each. Hard to remember — around the end of high school I basically began to steer clear of anything written by a dead white man. Nothing personal, I just felt like all the stories were the same and I was bored. It was reading Richard Wright’s Black Boy and especially Native Son which gave me that realization. (Native Son had a tremendous impact on me; I read it the summer before my senior year of high school.)

In recent years, I haven’t read much fiction at all. Mostly because of time — there is so much to read to be on top of things that even in leisure I tend to stick to things related to health, development, globalization… that sort of stuff. So the majority are academic journals and nonfiction books. Considering how stimulating I find the topics, I don’t consider it a sacrifice; it is truly a preference these days. I’m especially in love with ethnographies/monographs and will pick up something along these lines before a fiction novel. (The exception are the Harry Potter novels, which I’ve been enamored with since the publication of Book 2.)

]]> By: eli http://www.coldspaghetti.org/blog/2006/02/09/for-inspiration-and-understanding/comment-page-1/#comment-622 eli Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:11:00 +0000 http://www.coldspaghetti.org/blog/2006/02/09/for-inspiration-and-understanding/#comment-622 If you cannot stand Hemingway, then I ask do you like Fitzgerald or do you like Faulkner? My reasoning is that readers fall into two categories when it comes to American Realists (althougth I would hardly call Fitzgerald a realist). I fall into the Fitzgerald camp simply because I read fiction to escape. Faulkner was difficult because it was written similar to Twain, using a southern voice that was unfamiliar and difficult to me. <br/>However, I love Donne's poem. If you cannot stand Hemingway, then I ask do you like Fitzgerald or do you like Faulkner? My reasoning is that readers fall into two categories when it comes to American Realists (althougth I would hardly call Fitzgerald a realist). I fall into the Fitzgerald camp simply because I read fiction to escape. Faulkner was difficult because it was written similar to Twain, using a southern voice that was unfamiliar and difficult to me.
However, I love Donne’s poem.

]]> By: Violet http://www.coldspaghetti.org/blog/2006/02/09/for-inspiration-and-understanding/comment-page-1/#comment-621 Violet Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:50:00 +0000 http://www.coldspaghetti.org/blog/2006/02/09/for-inspiration-and-understanding/#comment-621 I LOVE John Donne. During my undergrad I memorized a number of his poems. This one is definitely his most famous, but not the most profound. I'm glad to know we have this in common. I LOVE John Donne. During my undergrad I memorized a number of his poems. This one is definitely his most famous, but not the most profound. I’m glad to know we have this in common.

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