FF:The Foreign Self PartX - XIII - Page 7

Originally posted by: Sheena_Row

LOL,

I think we should start a book club here, looks like a whole bunch of us are into reading... 😆 This is what brings me to this forum - a wide variety of writers and readers congregated in one place.

I read Tolstoy's AK, in fact - the first time I read I was only 14, I had to re-read a decade later to understand the characters, then I re-read it a few years back and what I deciphered was more to my adult tastes than the previous times. Some books are like that, they grow on you.

I read 'The English Patient' and I loved it, I also read the Waller's 'The Bridges...' and I didn't mind the story, an intellectually bored and romantically starved woman falling with the worldly and well travelled photographer.

As for morality or societal rules there are two sides to the equation.

It was Thoreau who said,
"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." Armana, in your FF, the love they feel between each other is so right, the Indian societal rules are forgotten in an instant. How could some thing so right be wrong?

The flip side of the coin is what Noel Coward said
"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace." If either of them were tied to other people, I would feel a tinge of guilt, but again lot of it really depends on the circumstance and the time period of where the story takes place.

Sorry to jump in to the conversation, but couldn't resist...

Aww...so true, some books you may read when you are very very young, then you rereead them again and you understand them better, yes books do gro on you and rereading them sometimes brings something forwards that we may not have understod then but may understand now.

You know with so many of being such good book lovers, we really should have a book club on the forum to discuss books that we have read, or should read.

Love

Krishna

Originally posted by: sangitadas

Hey you guys are such serious book readers. I dont even know what to talk about?

I mean I do read books but I havent read any of these 😭 apart from Bridges

Sangi I have read all this books Armana mentioned... and they're in indeed very good.... and these three were my favourite till date... I think you should read them, I liked them... alot... but since I grown up I changed my habit ... 😆...

"The Reluctant Widow".... by Georgette Heyer

"The English Patient"... by Michael Ondaatje

"Posession".. by A.S Byatt

Or else you can read the 6 Austen's if you havent read yet all of them ...I mean the compelet Vol... !😃

I hope... that helped... need more books well ... Armana will the best person to ask... since she's the expert of the most well known books...

Jojo

Originally posted by: Sheena_Row

LOL,

I think we should start a book club here, looks like a whole bunch of us are into reading... 😆 This is what brings me to this forum - a wide variety of writers and readers congregated in one place.

I read Tolstoy's AK, in fact - the first time I read I was only 14, I had to re-read a decade later to understand the characters, then I re-read it a few years back and what I deciphered was more to my adult tastes than the previous times. Some books are like that, they grow on you.

absolutely true. except the fact that even in adulthood i just can't connect with the Russian novelists.😕 and i've tried!

I read 'The English Patient' and I loved it, I also read the Waller's 'The Bridges...' and I didn't mind the story, an intellectually bored and romantically starved woman falling with the worldly and well travelled photographer.
yep, while the The English Patient is awesome even upon re-reads, the Bridges, somehow is good only when you are a teenager.

As for morality or societal rules there are two sides to the equation.

It was Thoreau who said,
"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." Armana, in your FF, the love they feel between each other is so right, the Indian societal rules are forgotten in an instant. How could some thing so right be wrong?
precisely, society is for the individuals. and if J&B want to be together they ought to be in a way that they want to be. regardless of whether they perfer or not to socially legitimise their relationship.

The flip side of the coin is what Noel Coward said
"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace." If either of them were tied to other people, I would feel a tinge of guilt, but again lot of it really depends on the circumstance and the time period of where the story takes place.
about the guilt, isn't that precisely the pont explored by Michael Oondatjee and A.S.Byatt? about how meanigless a concept it can become? and yet, how powerful a force.....somewhere all the joys have to be paid for. To Mr. Coward: yes, somewhere the line has to be drawn. The real question, however, is who gets to be the one to draw the line?

Sorry to jump in to the conversation, but couldn't resist...
glad you did jump in. the more the merrier!

Originally posted by: Cordelia

and of course, the universal classic:
How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Awww.....thats one of my all time favourite too. Loved all the others too dear.

Armana, we are all her to help inspire you dear. We cant have one of our verywonderful and excellent writer, uninspired.😃

Will post my fav love, romantic poems later dear.😃

Love

Krishna