i'm one of those people that is quite out of touch with trends in literature, which is rather ironic if you consider the fact that i am a writer. i have not read lord of the rings, or lord of the flies. other books i have not read - the da vinci code, the celestine prophecy, the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. any of the harry potter books. the satanic verses. and countless others. there have been many times where i have felt very self concious and inadequate in public conversations when people start sprouting literature references i have no idea about, but i hide it well. i now wonder how long i will be able to do this for. a lot of the reading that one would expect me to have encountered by now i just didn't get introduced to due to my education, and the fact that i was quite possibly more interested in making mischief than increasing my word power in my high school years. i went to high school in fiji and read little outside the school syllabus - which included the old man and the sea and the catcher in the rye. for pleasure i read trixie belden, sweet valley high, the ramona series, nancy drew, and when i was in primary school, pretty much any enid blyton i could get my hands on. not a widely varied list really, until i came to melbourne and took up some literature units at uni. seeing as i will eventally be exposed for the not-very-well-read-writer that i am, i thought i'd out myself here before it had the potential to get ugly. paranoid? me?
you know it.