tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204105968727279482.post4319740683569200923..comments2013-05-03T18:55:56.886-07:00Comments on Jacob Jake: The 3 significant booksJacob I. McMillanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04974235974263161961noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204105968727279482.post-42162582883263861392012-05-17T14:29:37.124-07:002012-05-17T14:29:37.124-07:00I can't decide so I'm naming 2 of my favor...I can't decide so I'm naming 2 of my favorites. You got 3, I see no problem with my taking 2. :)<br /><br />1) The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde<br />Jr. High School <br />My introduction to Oscar Wilde began when my brother was reading the play for an English class and couldn't find a quote and so enlisted help from his younger brother/slave to find the quote. (this was of course before we had the internet). I read the play and fell in love with it, both the humor and the use of the English language Wilde so masterfully employed. I didn't know writing could do what Wilde did, that he could be so funny, so true, and sound so lyrical. He became my favorite writer and the reason I still wish to be a playwright. <br /><br />2) May I feel said he - E.E. Cummings<br />High school<br />I was somewhat friends with the writing teacher at high school, being on the literary magazine staff and friends with her son. I showed her some of my poetry and she said it reminded her a lot of E.E. Cummings. I rented a book of his poetry at the library and hated it. I was shocked that she thought I was like this indulgent drivel. A few years later I was wandering around a bookstore (one of my greatest pleasures I unfortunately don't do anymore due to the recent decline in both bookstores and free time) and saw a book with a poem of E.E. Cummings accompanied by paintings by Marc Chagall, one of my favorite painters. (though that's a list for another day). I read the poem and it was like the eyes of my eyes were opened and I "got" poetry. I became a poetry and E.E. Cummings fanatic and for the next near-decade I tried to be a poet. The poem in question, while chiefly about adultery, I think is much more than that and instead or at least in addition to that, it is about the difference in the way both sexes approach love, sex and intimacy.Austinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10598091900973893234noreply@blogger.com