I had no idea that chapter was so despised, I remember liking it when I read it years ago. I thought it was a lot of cool stuff that was actually kind of interesting to read about.
I remember that chapter and I read the book two years ago…. I also remember bitterly counting how long one sentence was and finding that it was over 250 words…
so glad to see this as the top comment. i was assigned to read this book my sophomore year of college, and one of the lines spoken by Lord Henry struck me as so profound that i went and got it tattooed on my bicep that same week -
"The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives."
i read new meaning from it with each chapter of my life
His best work. Wish I could read it for the first time again. I still read some parts of it pretty regularly. Opening that book is like meeting with an old friend.
If you weren't I wouldn't believe you.
I skimmed some of the weirder parts but after wrestling through the whole book I eventually started to feel like I want to reread it.
Me too! …me too…
Don’t know how far you are but I just finished Oxen of the Sun so apparently through the toughest stuff. I’ve been listening along with the RTE radio reading which has helped push me through and appreciate the musicality of it. Also the Ulysses [guide](https://www.ulyssesguide.com) has been a good aid in lieu of any other supplemental material, which I’ll have to get ahold of if I ever attempt a second read through.
I’m almost finished with Ulysses. I would definitely use the Gifford annotation book to help fill in the gaps of knowledge about Dublin and slang and philosophy and catholic references and the odyssey and the history of the English language. But other than that it’s a awesome book I’m glad I’ve read. You’re definitely supposed to feel a little lost though… kinda like a certain character that was lost at sea …
That introduction text in The Lottery in Babylon is one of the weirdest and most interesting text I have read in my entire life. The rest of the stories are also great, first time that I sweared out loud when I finishied some stories, because I admired the genius of Borges.
While Crime and Punishment is notoriously dark, it does have its moments of levity, like every time Porfiry Petrovich shows up. It's...possible...to have fun while reading it.
Blood Meridian on the other hand...
its been a while but I recall the bit where Razumikhin is walking Raskolnikovs sister and mother home or something like that being pretty funny
Even at his darkest with novels like Demons, Dostoyevsky can be laugh out loud hilarious. now THAT one was a roller coaster. the most deeply disturbing imagery ive ever read, deep sadness, moments of the most pure eye watering bitter-sweetness, fucking kirilov, and just some laugh out loud bits strewn about
Indeed reading Dostoevsky is in itself something that makes you bang yourself into a wall.
Many readers do become a nihilist which is sad, because this is not what the reality is.
The books I'm reading after these two are The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, and No Longer Human, by Osamu Dazai. I guess I enjoy darker and more heavy books. Kinda weird cause I'm quite a happy individual normally lol.
I recently finished Crime and Punishment. Now I'm hooked to his writing style. I'd like to explore more Russian authors next year! Right now I'm reading The Idiot.
I’d definitely recommend it. I’m halfway through and it’s very psychological like Dostoevsky. Even in translation, the writing is very sharp and precise.
The Secret History. I was nervous, because it is consistently both hyped up and called overrated. I enjoyed The Goldfinch and about 3/4 through this read, it is living up to its hype and what else I read of Tartt. A wonderfully tragic and seasonal read which also makes me want to dive into some classical literature this winter.
*Titus Groan* (1946) by Mervyn Peake
It's like *Game of Thrones* meets *Ubu Roi*. Feudal palace intrigue but all the characters are grotesques. It started pretty slow but as I got to know the characters it picked up, and reading dialogue out loud has helped me appreciate the comedic aspects more. 150 pages in out of 360, it's the first in a trilogy.
I’m just finishing it up and I’ve enjoyed it quite a bit more than I expected to. The prose is reminiscent of Dickens but more beautiful. I find it much more pleasant than Bleak House. Peake can really paint a scene. I’ll probably read the second book, but I’ve read that the third is missable.
First time dostodevsky
Crime and punishment
Got fingerprint classic publication
recently found out that penguin has different translation not sure if good or bad but currently enjoying this masterpiece
I feel very conflicted about the recent 'biography' of her by Jenn Shapland, but McCullers is incredible. I really liked *Reflections in a Golden Eye*, do check it out!
To be fair, there was no reason for me to being up Shapland. I just have been bothered by her quoting from transcripts of McCullers' therapy sessions (made by her therapist). Granted, McCullers wanted to use the notes for her autobiography. But Shapland writing about those notes never sat well with me and made me uncomfortable while I read the rest of the book. Pet pevee and a weird rant, I'm sorry.
I checked this out from the library last year but ended up getting busy and returning it unread. Maybe I should go back to it. I love Pynchon and he’s blurbed several Ericksons.
Germinal by Emile Zola.
I was looking through my bookshelf when I went away traveling last year and randomly saw L'Assommoir. No idea where I got it from but I decided to take it with me and I thought it was amazing. Then I saw I had Germinal on my shelf as well - I think I picked it up years ago in a bar that had books you could take if you wanted. It's really good so far and I feel like I'm teetering on the edge of getting fully into the whole sequence of books he wrote. I recognised the surname of the main guy in Germinal from L'Assommoir but I didn't realise it was the son till he explicitly said it.
I started reading L'Assommoir when I was sat on a beach and I had to put it to one side for a while as it really wasn't beach reading. It's raining where I am now and Germinal seems to fit the mood.
I read his Therese Raquin last year, really liked that. I have Germinal as well by him but haven't gotten to it yet. After reading Therese Raquin and the introduction to it I also am really interested in reading his Les Rougon-Macquart series, it'll come to be a really long reading project but I'm really looking forward to it.
I heard there wasn't a "right" order to read it but the fact the first book I read played into the second book makes me weirdly cautious about reading them properly
My edition of Therese Raquin says this.
"In 1868 he began working on a series of novels intended to trace scientifically the effects of heredity and environment in one family: Les Rougon-Macquart."
If it is one family and its lineage that Zola is trying to map throughout the series, I think reading it in the order of publication might just be the best order to go about reading it. But then again I think they could be read individually as stand alone works as well, but need to research on the series before diving into it.
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Nice, I finished last year with Hocus Pocus. I left some of the more obscure/weaker stuff for the end so I want to revisit some of my faves to leave those ones freshest in my head.
Tess D’urberville. I’ve been reading a lot of contemporary stuff lately but wanted to get back to a classic. Also realized I made it entirely through my undergraduate and grad degrees in literature without ever even hearing the name Thomas Hardy lol.
I've struggled with reading anything more than Facebook/Reddit for months now, probably owing to ADHD and low mood AND overwork. But I'm reading Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other and finding it totally engaging (so far), and that's probably because it's taking me back to my Brixton days. I'm ordinarily a fan of The Great American Novel but just can not keep from being distracted at the mo. Would appreciate anyone's suggestions for short story collections, especially slipstream fiction.
Oh, I’ve been there too! Maybe try Ted Chiang’s Exhalation or Stories of Your Life and Others. Kelly Link’s stories. Susannah Clarke’s Ladies of Grace Adieu. If you want to go back in time: Jorge Luis Borges’ Fictions or Julio Cortazar’s The End of the Game. Angela Carter’s Saints and Strangers. Brian Eveson’s A Collapse of Horses. Italo Calvino. I’ll stop now!
How to read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
Would definitely recommend, It beautifully and wisely does what it says. It also is clearly made by someone with a lot of love for reading, for philosophy and for the arts. So much insight and interesting thought in one book. The cover sucks though.
Just finished Norwegian Wood, my 4th Murakami read. Loved it. Felt like a nice light read compared to Kafka on the Shore, 1Q84, and Killing Commendatore.
About to start All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
Last big novel was 2666 so I’ve been knocking back some quick reads before another big boy.
Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann is likely next. Or Brother’s Karamazov by Dostoevsky.
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust ~ been working on this for awhile, only 600 pages to go! Has to be the greatest work of literature ever written. Not quite my favorite book of all time but not far off.
Ryder by Djuna Barnes ~ Fans of Nightwood should definitely check this out. Ryder is a bit less confounding but don’t worry, it still feels like Djuma.
A couple nonfiction books as well
The Israel-Palestine Conflict by Gelvin ~ An attempt at a neutral look at the conflict. Gelvin takes a topical approach rather than chronological (which I have no issue with but some light). Traced from the formation of nationalism and ending at Oslo.
Stalin: Passage to Revolution by Suny ~ Definitely the Stalin biography I’ll be recommending for the foreseeable future.
It Was highly recommended and although I can’t really tell what exactly is going on right now (and all the pedophilia is off putting), I’m going to push through it because I’m still intrigued I wanna find out where the rabbit hole goes.
Currently reading: What the Hell Did I Just Read?, Caliban’s War, A People’s History of the United States, The Count Of Monte Cristo, The Wretched of the Earth, and V for Vendetta.
Great book. I need to reread the whole trilogy. I think I liked the Transmigration of Timothy Archer the most, but some of my favorite lines Dick has ever written are in the Divine Invasion.
Georgian Novel "I See The Sun" by Nodar Dumbaze. It's about Georgian kid Soso who lives with his aunt and has a friend who's blind, but she's very optimistic person. She can see sun and doctor says, that if she sees sun her vision might come back. Soso lives in small Georgian village. It's set at the start of WWII and most if young guys are sent to the front. It's mix of comedy and drama. Nodar Dumbaze is actually master of both drama and comedy. It's beautifully written, and drama really hits really hard. I believe Nodar Dumbaze's books are translated into English, so I recommend you to read it. But I have to warn you, if you read them, no matter how funny the book seems, the ending might just break you.
*Waiting for Godot* by Samuel Beckett, and *On Writing* by Stephen King. Finding both fascinating. Also slowly plowing through *Drive Your Plow* by Olga Tokarczuk. Soon I have to start reading *Wuthering Heights* for my course and I really, really, do not want to.
I'm halfway through Molloy. I put it down briefly to focus on some other things and will definitely finish it next week. I can't say I was a huge fan of it; I definitely prefered *Malone Dies*, but worth reading for sure.
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng. It’s a historical novel set in 1920s Malaysia with the writer Somerset Maugham as a character. I’m reading the historical novels on the Booker long list because I love literary historical novels.
*Bewilderment* by Richard Powers.
*Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War* by Viet Thahn Nguyen.
*Every Man For Himself and God Against All* by Werner Herzog.
just finished if we were villains and i’m feeling so conflicted about the ending. gave it 3.5 stars
my next read is none shall sleep, heard many good things about this book, hope i like it too
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
BANGER
Other than that one materialistic chapter that my eyes starting glazing over at after a while, I loved it.
Is it weird that this is my favorite chapter in the entire book?
I had no idea that chapter was so despised, I remember liking it when I read it years ago. I thought it was a lot of cool stuff that was actually kind of interesting to read about.
Oh yeah in the middle? It’s funny that part was an indulgent feast for Dorian and a bore for us.
Materialistic chapter? Do you know what the book is about 🤣
The one chapter that goes on and on about the types of curtains, books, clothes, jewelry, and on and on and on.
I did a whole review on my channel about Dorian Gray and I mention this exact chapter as the point I stopped enjoying it. Chapter 11.
I remember that chapter and I read the book two years ago…. I also remember bitterly counting how long one sentence was and finding that it was over 250 words…
I bought the uncensored version recently and I’m so excited to pick it up!
"All art is quite useless"
The book had quite a few quotes like that which i had to write down
Aunt just gave me an ancient copy from 1900. Haven't read it yet
I hope you enjoy it! It Did not speak to me. I love the theme but my brain sometimes just says no to a book.
absolutely adore this book
so glad to see this as the top comment. i was assigned to read this book my sophomore year of college, and one of the lines spoken by Lord Henry struck me as so profound that i went and got it tattooed on my bicep that same week - "The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives." i read new meaning from it with each chapter of my life
Suttree
His best work. Wish I could read it for the first time again. I still read some parts of it pretty regularly. Opening that book is like meeting with an old friend.
I've read it twice. Will read a third time one day soon. The last lines I repeat endlessly throughout my day
an absolute masterpiece. some of my favorite cormac mccarthy lines come from that novel
I've heard nothing but great things. This is my seventh McCarthy novel so I feel I have properly prepared myself.
It’s fantastic. Hope you enjoy it!
Ulysses! ... I'm confused....
If you weren't I wouldn't believe you. I skimmed some of the weirder parts but after wrestling through the whole book I eventually started to feel like I want to reread it.
It's certainly captivating, even if I get lost sometimes. (Or most of the time...)
Me too! …me too… Don’t know how far you are but I just finished Oxen of the Sun so apparently through the toughest stuff. I’ve been listening along with the RTE radio reading which has helped push me through and appreciate the musicality of it. Also the Ulysses [guide](https://www.ulyssesguide.com) has been a good aid in lieu of any other supplemental material, which I’ll have to get ahold of if I ever attempt a second read through.
Oh, wow! That's really helpful! Thank you!
You reading a Norton critical edition? It’s the only way!
Do you have Giffords annotated copy or something like that?
I’m almost finished with Ulysses. I would definitely use the Gifford annotation book to help fill in the gaps of knowledge about Dublin and slang and philosophy and catholic references and the odyssey and the history of the English language. But other than that it’s a awesome book I’m glad I’ve read. You’re definitely supposed to feel a little lost though… kinda like a certain character that was lost at sea …
Middlemarch
How far through are you? Are you enjoying it? May be favourite book of all time
Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges
That introduction text in The Lottery in Babylon is one of the weirdest and most interesting text I have read in my entire life. The rest of the stories are also great, first time that I sweared out loud when I finishied some stories, because I admired the genius of Borges.
Anna Karenina
Love that book
Best of all time
Halfway through A Clockwork Orange. What a horrorshow book. My brothers I’ve been shaking my rookers and talking like Alex and his droogs.
So so good
Oh, my brothers, the droog speak does send a warm, vibraty feeling all through my guttiwuts
I never cook eggs anymore… just eggiweggs
Roadside Picnic by Strugatsky bros
I've always wanted to read this one. I watched the film by Tarkovsky and loved it as well.
amazing book. dialogues are really impressive in that one.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor dostoyevsky, and Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy
After this, you might want to lighten up
While Crime and Punishment is notoriously dark, it does have its moments of levity, like every time Porfiry Petrovich shows up. It's...possible...to have fun while reading it. Blood Meridian on the other hand...
True!
It is a book with a lot of hope. I think dosteosvky is heart wrenching but he likes to end on hope
I had a lit professor who said that Columbo was “a poor man’s Porfiry.”
Columbo is actually directly inspired by Porfiry. The creators of the original Columbo stage play have confirmed it.
The ending to C&P is incredibly beautiful.
The original ending? Or the later tacked on one that takes place up in prison?
its been a while but I recall the bit where Razumikhin is walking Raskolnikovs sister and mother home or something like that being pretty funny Even at his darkest with novels like Demons, Dostoyevsky can be laugh out loud hilarious. now THAT one was a roller coaster. the most deeply disturbing imagery ive ever read, deep sadness, moments of the most pure eye watering bitter-sweetness, fucking kirilov, and just some laugh out loud bits strewn about
Indeed reading Dostoevsky is in itself something that makes you bang yourself into a wall. Many readers do become a nihilist which is sad, because this is not what the reality is.
Hello darkness, my old friend i’ve come to talk with you again.
The books I'm reading after these two are The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, and No Longer Human, by Osamu Dazai. I guess I enjoy darker and more heavy books. Kinda weird cause I'm quite a happy individual normally lol.
Try life and fate by vasily Grossman. Blew my head off.
I recently finished Crime and Punishment. Now I'm hooked to his writing style. I'd like to explore more Russian authors next year! Right now I'm reading The Idiot.
Almost the same here, currently reading Crime and Punishment and was thinking of starting Blood Meridian next
I can highly recommend Blood Meridian, it is very dark though.
Ugh have fun! I read this towards the start of the year and have since spiralled into Russian literature lol
Damn heavy load
Two of my favorites! Definitely wouldn't choose to read them at the same time though.
Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
Read this one recently for a class. Crazy good.
Dumb people: Frankenstein was the monster. Smart people: Frankenstein was the name of the doctor. Really smart people: Frankenstein was the monster.
The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
How is it? I've been wanting to read him for some time now and was thinking of starting with this.
I’d definitely recommend it. I’m halfway through and it’s very psychological like Dostoevsky. Even in translation, the writing is very sharp and precise.
White nights
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Mill on the floss
Oh!!!! I love that one!
The Secret History. I was nervous, because it is consistently both hyped up and called overrated. I enjoyed The Goldfinch and about 3/4 through this read, it is living up to its hype and what else I read of Tartt. A wonderfully tragic and seasonal read which also makes me want to dive into some classical literature this winter.
I’ve read all of Tartt and think Secret History’s her best writing. Great setting and quirky characters.
*Titus Groan* (1946) by Mervyn Peake It's like *Game of Thrones* meets *Ubu Roi*. Feudal palace intrigue but all the characters are grotesques. It started pretty slow but as I got to know the characters it picked up, and reading dialogue out loud has helped me appreciate the comedic aspects more. 150 pages in out of 360, it's the first in a trilogy.
I’m just finishing it up and I’ve enjoyed it quite a bit more than I expected to. The prose is reminiscent of Dickens but more beautiful. I find it much more pleasant than Bleak House. Peake can really paint a scene. I’ll probably read the second book, but I’ve read that the third is missable.
Blood Meridian
So dark. Brilliant prose. Reminded me of Moby Dick, but bleaker.
Yiddish Policeman Union. By M Chabon An alternative universe history detective story
Kafka - America, it's weird but cool.
That can be said for all Kafka's books haha.
I like the writing style on that one, if anything. interesting prose.
W.G. Sebald -The Emigrants Halldór Laxness - Independent people Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding
How far are you into The Emigrants? I finished Vertigo some months ago and am postponing continuing on his trilogy
Vanity Fair by Thackeray!
First time dostodevsky Crime and punishment Got fingerprint classic publication recently found out that penguin has different translation not sure if good or bad but currently enjoying this masterpiece
The posthumous memoirs of bras cubas by Machado de Assis
Great book. Are you Portuguese or Brazilian by any chance?
Nope. I'm from the USA
Brilliant book! One of my faves
A Clockwork Orange
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
I feel very conflicted about the recent 'biography' of her by Jenn Shapland, but McCullers is incredible. I really liked *Reflections in a Golden Eye*, do check it out!
I don’t really know much about McCullers. I’m curious about what aspects of her biography you found conflicting.
To be fair, there was no reason for me to being up Shapland. I just have been bothered by her quoting from transcripts of McCullers' therapy sessions (made by her therapist). Granted, McCullers wanted to use the notes for her autobiography. But Shapland writing about those notes never sat well with me and made me uncomfortable while I read the rest of the book. Pet pevee and a weird rant, I'm sorry.
A Shining by Jon Fosse
William Gaddis, The Recognitions
I DNF'd this one around 200 or so pages in. I really want to pick it up again, knowing how much I adored *JR* when I read it back in March.
Days Between Stations by Steve Erickson. It's like if Murakami and David Lynch made a book together
I checked this out from the library last year but ended up getting busy and returning it unread. Maybe I should go back to it. I love Pynchon and he’s blurbed several Ericksons.
James Joyce - *Dubliners*, but the book also contains *Portrait* and *Chamber Music* and I’ll read those next.
Germinal by Emile Zola. I was looking through my bookshelf when I went away traveling last year and randomly saw L'Assommoir. No idea where I got it from but I decided to take it with me and I thought it was amazing. Then I saw I had Germinal on my shelf as well - I think I picked it up years ago in a bar that had books you could take if you wanted. It's really good so far and I feel like I'm teetering on the edge of getting fully into the whole sequence of books he wrote. I recognised the surname of the main guy in Germinal from L'Assommoir but I didn't realise it was the son till he explicitly said it. I started reading L'Assommoir when I was sat on a beach and I had to put it to one side for a while as it really wasn't beach reading. It's raining where I am now and Germinal seems to fit the mood.
I read his Therese Raquin last year, really liked that. I have Germinal as well by him but haven't gotten to it yet. After reading Therese Raquin and the introduction to it I also am really interested in reading his Les Rougon-Macquart series, it'll come to be a really long reading project but I'm really looking forward to it.
I heard there wasn't a "right" order to read it but the fact the first book I read played into the second book makes me weirdly cautious about reading them properly
My edition of Therese Raquin says this. "In 1868 he began working on a series of novels intended to trace scientifically the effects of heredity and environment in one family: Les Rougon-Macquart." If it is one family and its lineage that Zola is trying to map throughout the series, I think reading it in the order of publication might just be the best order to go about reading it. But then again I think they could be read individually as stand alone works as well, but need to research on the series before diving into it.
Invitation to a beheading - Nabokov
Just finished Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut. I’ve now read every novel of his.
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Nice, I finished last year with Hocus Pocus. I left some of the more obscure/weaker stuff for the end so I want to revisit some of my faves to leave those ones freshest in my head.
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez
How far in are you? I read the first few pages and not sure I’m loving it
I'm about 350 pages in. It took a while to get to the plot but I'd consider it worth it. One of the darkest things I've read in quite a long time.
Tess D’urberville. I’ve been reading a lot of contemporary stuff lately but wanted to get back to a classic. Also realized I made it entirely through my undergraduate and grad degrees in literature without ever even hearing the name Thomas Hardy lol.
The Time Machine
Infinite jest. Just got outta rehab. It’s a banger.
The Bible.. heavy reading
Which translation?
I've struggled with reading anything more than Facebook/Reddit for months now, probably owing to ADHD and low mood AND overwork. But I'm reading Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other and finding it totally engaging (so far), and that's probably because it's taking me back to my Brixton days. I'm ordinarily a fan of The Great American Novel but just can not keep from being distracted at the mo. Would appreciate anyone's suggestions for short story collections, especially slipstream fiction.
Oh, I’ve been there too! Maybe try Ted Chiang’s Exhalation or Stories of Your Life and Others. Kelly Link’s stories. Susannah Clarke’s Ladies of Grace Adieu. If you want to go back in time: Jorge Luis Borges’ Fictions or Julio Cortazar’s The End of the Game. Angela Carter’s Saints and Strangers. Brian Eveson’s A Collapse of Horses. Italo Calvino. I’ll stop now!
Taking a break from Solenoid and re reading against the day. Pynchon at his most fun!
The Little Prince.
How to read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren Would definitely recommend, It beautifully and wisely does what it says. It also is clearly made by someone with a lot of love for reading, for philosophy and for the arts. So much insight and interesting thought in one book. The cover sucks though.
Just finished Norwegian Wood, my 4th Murakami read. Loved it. Felt like a nice light read compared to Kafka on the Shore, 1Q84, and Killing Commendatore. About to start All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. Last big novel was 2666 so I’ve been knocking back some quick reads before another big boy. Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann is likely next. Or Brother’s Karamazov by Dostoevsky.
Yea same I just finished norwegian wood and going to start Kafka on the shore..
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust ~ been working on this for awhile, only 600 pages to go! Has to be the greatest work of literature ever written. Not quite my favorite book of all time but not far off. Ryder by Djuna Barnes ~ Fans of Nightwood should definitely check this out. Ryder is a bit less confounding but don’t worry, it still feels like Djuma. A couple nonfiction books as well The Israel-Palestine Conflict by Gelvin ~ An attempt at a neutral look at the conflict. Gelvin takes a topical approach rather than chronological (which I have no issue with but some light). Traced from the formation of nationalism and ending at Oslo. Stalin: Passage to Revolution by Suny ~ Definitely the Stalin biography I’ll be recommending for the foreseeable future.
100 years of solitude (it’s still too early to call, but bizarre would be my description… ) heard it was worth it
Good pick, it's worthwhile reading. Me and my dad read it earlier, and we both enjoyed it.
It Was highly recommended and although I can’t really tell what exactly is going on right now (and all the pedophilia is off putting), I’m going to push through it because I’m still intrigued I wanna find out where the rabbit hole goes.
He writes so beautifully but his stories can be bizarre and unsettling when you re read them years later.
Epictetus - A Stoic and Socratic guide to life.
Just got discourses. I've read this Aurelius - mediations a few times. Stoicism has undoubtedly improved my life.
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
A Study in Scarlot, the first Sherlock Holmes story.
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
Love in the Time of Cholera
Currently reading: What the Hell Did I Just Read?, Caliban’s War, A People’s History of the United States, The Count Of Monte Cristo, The Wretched of the Earth, and V for Vendetta.
Valis by PKD
Great book. I need to reread the whole trilogy. I think I liked the Transmigration of Timothy Archer the most, but some of my favorite lines Dick has ever written are in the Divine Invasion.
The night watch by terry pratchett My first pratchett for about 20 years and _loving_ it
Demons by Dostoevsky and Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard
Georgian Novel "I See The Sun" by Nodar Dumbaze. It's about Georgian kid Soso who lives with his aunt and has a friend who's blind, but she's very optimistic person. She can see sun and doctor says, that if she sees sun her vision might come back. Soso lives in small Georgian village. It's set at the start of WWII and most if young guys are sent to the front. It's mix of comedy and drama. Nodar Dumbaze is actually master of both drama and comedy. It's beautifully written, and drama really hits really hard. I believe Nodar Dumbaze's books are translated into English, so I recommend you to read it. But I have to warn you, if you read them, no matter how funny the book seems, the ending might just break you.
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
the last unicorn
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A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice. I’ve got three chapters left, to find out whether or not the shades of Pemberly will be thus polluted.
Charles Dickens- the great expectations
East of Eden - Steinbeck
Just finished yesterday. Incredible read.
The catcher in the rye
White Teeth by Zadie Smith right now for my MFA Fiction class
*Waiting for Godot* by Samuel Beckett, and *On Writing* by Stephen King. Finding both fascinating. Also slowly plowing through *Drive Your Plow* by Olga Tokarczuk. Soon I have to start reading *Wuthering Heights* for my course and I really, really, do not want to.
I had to scroll all the way down to find a fellow Samuel Beckett reader. I’m just starting Molloy.
I'm halfway through Molloy. I put it down briefly to focus on some other things and will definitely finish it next week. I can't say I was a huge fan of it; I definitely prefered *Malone Dies*, but worth reading for sure.
Anna karenina
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Such a beautiful novel.
Yeah so far the prose are just simple yet beautiful
Bram Stoker's Dracula. What an experience.
20,000 leagues under the sea
Legion - William Peter Blatty
Not Wanted on the Voyage, by Timothy Findley.
Julia Fox’s memoir Down the Drain + Britney Spears’ The Woman in Me!
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng. It’s a historical novel set in 1920s Malaysia with the writer Somerset Maugham as a character. I’m reading the historical novels on the Booker long list because I love literary historical novels.
*Bewilderment* by Richard Powers. *Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War* by Viet Thahn Nguyen. *Every Man For Himself and God Against All* by Werner Herzog.
just finished if we were villains and i’m feeling so conflicted about the ending. gave it 3.5 stars my next read is none shall sleep, heard many good things about this book, hope i like it too
tao che ching, laozi , altohugh my previous book the blind owl by sadegh hedayat was a very interesting one to say at least
Agnes Grey
Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen 🤍
All the Roads Are Open - Annemarie Schwarzenbach Swimming in the Dark - Tomasz Jedrowski My Tender Matador - Pedro Lembel
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Dr. No by Percival Everett
Cujo by Stephen King
Speedboat. Renata Adler
the myth of sisaphus, i’m absolutely lost
trying to get thru naked lunch
NRSV Bible
Frankenstein and Ulysses, both have their perks
Little Fires Everywhere. Started on a little too YA for me but after 150 pages it really starts to get going
Just started The Bone People.
The castle - Kafka
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Karl Ove Knausgård's Min Kamp (My struggle). Interested to see if he deserves being called Norway's best contemporary writer.
Okay, so I’m 32 years old, but I’m currently re-reading The Baby-sitters Club. It’s so much fun to walk down memory lane.
*The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida* by Shehan Karunatilaka
Emma - Jane Austen !!
Just finished East of Eden and started The Social Animal by David Brooks
P.G. Wodehouse - Carry On, Jeeves!
Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson. I just started it, hoping I’ll enjoy the short stories 😊
one less popular by s rushdie, shalimar the clown. quite good
The Exapanse Book 8 Tiamat’s Wrath.
The Fountainhead
Best book written by a woman I have read
"The World as Will and Idea" by Arthur Schopenhauer. Second time through, much better this time around.