A question for Swedish dead-donkeys

malfeitor · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2004 10:39 am **Post subject:**

Bonnie_Parker wrote:

I know I will !! Thx

So you're from Sweden too ? Damn, there's a real unsuspected community of dead donkeys up there

there's a lot of sick twisted minds up here :-)

Hope you'll have a great time !

rtm1981 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2004 11:24 am **Post subject:**

a frenchie studying English Lit??

This is GREAT

Or maybe this isn't such a big thing and I've juist been brainwashed by stories of french people from english history :oops:

hehehe...

What's your favorite author Bonnie?

Some of mine (not in any order of preference):
Edgar A. Poe
John Donne
Percy Bysshe Shelley
LoveCraft (to horror fanatics - Kicks Stephen King's ass!!)
John Milton
Dickens (of course)
And a TON of others... these might not even be my real favorites :wacky:

hehe. But Love em at least

My favorite shotstory: "Hill Like White Elephants" of Hemmingway (although mostly, can't stand him, as an author or a man [fucking brute] )

Favorite fantasy author(s): Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind.

Bonnie_Parker · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2004 1:49 pm **Post subject:**

There are many authors I like ... Some of my favorites :
William Faulkner
Oscar Wilde
Edgar A. Poe
Virginia Woolf
T.S. Eliot
J.D Salinger
F.S. Fitzgerald
Thomas DeQuincey

More contemporary ones:
Graham Swift
Paul Auster
Don De Lillo
Arthur Miller

I also love Angela Carter's works. Actually, she is one of the very few authors I've read most of the books (and she's written quite a lot). The thesis I'm working on (which is at last almost finished) is about one of her collection of short-stories, 'Fireworks' from 1974. It's such a complex work, a bit depressing to read when you're a woman, but to me it's a bible :wacky:

I also got much impressed by her essay 'The Sadeian Woman' from 1975 in which she explains that the Marquis De Sade was a misunderstood feminist pornographer ! Loved that.

My others all-time favorites books are 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Wilde, and 'Sanctuary' by Faulkner.

As for the short-stories, probably 'A perfect day for bananfish' by Salinger and 'the Lady of the House of Love' by Carter.

I don't read fantasy, but I love Gothic literature.

Hadesia · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2004 2:04 pm **Post subject:**

Bonnie_Parker wrote:

I'll be studying English Literature. Can't wait to be there. I'll move by mid-August, hope that won't be too late for that music festival

As you seem to know the town, here is another question : what about movie theatres in there? 'Cause when I was living in ?rebro, apart from FilmStaden, there was only a small -yet great- arty cinema. But unfortunately I understood that was pretty rare in Sweden. I'm so used to going to the cinema very often, I hope I'll be able to keep that rhythm :wacky:

There is of course a couple of mainstream movie theatres in Falun. As you wrote them arty/independent cinemas are rare but Falun is a town with loads of culture etc. I would be surprised if there isn't some kind of filmclub or something present at the museum or liberary. I do have a small hunch that i've seen an add about that but I'm not sure. There is also the Maxim theatre in Borl?nge (a 15min bus ride from Falun) a kind of semi independent cinema. And we do have northen europe's only cinema museum here in S?ter.

Bonnie_Parker · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2004 2:07 pm **Post subject:**

Thx for the info

I keep all that in mind for when I am there !

rtm1981 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2004 2:34 pm **Post subject:**

The Marquis De Sade rules

In my opinion, he was one sick little puppy though.. hehehe.. Hate the fact that they banned his books..
And "A portrait of Dorian Gray" is also one of my favorites :-)

I don't read much contemporary though :-/
We share these as ones we like:
William Faulkner
Oscar Wilde
T.S. Eliot
J.D Salinger
(and of course Poe)

I was also much impressed with Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"..
I forgot to mention Shakespeare, Longfellow (one of my absolute favorites), Chaucer and Spenser..
I've always been more interested in literature from year 800 - 1900. Haven't had much interest in newer literature..

Well, I'll stop now before we get thrown out of the horror forum

Oh.. and i've never heard of Angela Carter :oops:

Bonnie_Parker · **Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2004 3:03 pm **Post subject:**

rtm1981 wrote:

Well, I'll stop now before we get thrown out of the horror forum

Don't you dare you people :twisted:

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2004 4:53 pm **Post subject:**

I've done a sweepstake at work for Euro 2004, and got Sweden :mrgreen:

John_Doe · **Posted:** Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:35 am **Post subject:**

what's your favorite Poe story then? Mine might be the 'Tell-tale heart'

As for the scandinavian women, they look fine, but are waaaay too bitchy!
Once you go Thai, you'll never look back. =)

PS: Denmark ain't that great for p2p. About 1 year ago there were alot of people getting insane fines for using Kazaa & Edonkey.

rtm1981 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 14, 2004 10:47 pm **Post subject:**

my favorite poem is of course (heh.) "The Raven"..
But story? hmmm... *thinks*
Got to be either "The Fall of the House of Usher" or "The Mask of the Red Death" :mrgreen:

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