what are you reading today?

[sam scott]

[deep_cel]

For my Macro Analysis class: The Age of Diminished Expectations, Paul Krugman

[FUCK]

needs to be balanced out by:

[fallen angels]

time to read birnbaum's translation

[Halifamous]

ugh, foucault and kafka deserve not to be in that list or called structuralists. maybe gibson as well.

I'm lol'in at the foucalt part. He's as guilty as any of that group for inventing the structure-post-structure system, although most people would prefer if he was called post-modern, and he'd probably prefer I fuck off and die before using any of those labels in reference to him.

yesterday i finished Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (fucking loved it; i want to read the nabokov translation now)

It's generally my opinion that Nabakov should not have been allowed to translate anything that wasn't his own work, I'm pretty sure Alfred Kazin tried to get a law passed to that effect.

In any case, I'd be interested to hear what you think of it. I may just be coloured by my hate of all things Nabokov.

Just finished this and it goes straight to the top of my favourites

There are no words for how incredible this book is. Hamsun would be taught alongside the great fathers of modern prose if only he wasn't such a jew-basher (this goes for G K Chesterton too, why sirs, why must you always hate the jews?).

I have read a few of Hamsuns books. Pan and Mysteries were both very good reads and i'm about to start Growth of the soil.

A lesser known but still quite wonderful Hamsun work is "The Wanderer" (it's two short novels, in sequence, usually sold as one volume). I think it's probably the strongest of his entire catalogue. You should give that one a try.

I haven't read mysteries yet, I should probably get to that.

[Gabriel]

this is written in a kind of phonetic/pidgin English

[hermbros]

A People's History of the United States

that shit'll knock you on your ass

[thelaststarfighter]

Finishing up The Boat by Nam Le.A collection of short stories, his first published work. nothing short of incredible. Really spare prose and delicate word choice... loving it.

[Stylish Pilot]

Finished up Watchmen can't wait to see the movie now.

and i'm starting The Best of Oscar Wilde onight.

[Louis]

I read this book in high school a while ago and still love it and keep re reading it.

[lucky_cloud]

I love reading outside on a nice day.

[little ants]

[sam scott]

Halifamous-

There are no words for how incredible this book is. Hamsun would be taught alongside the great fathers of modern prose if only he wasn't such a jew-basher (this goes for G K Chesterton too, why sirs, why must you always hate the jews?).

Hamsun may be guilty of bashing Jews, but Chesterton was completely misunderstood and if you did a little research you would see that he was right in all of his accusations.

Herbros-

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

(Zinn is the man) get on that.

[Yardsale]

almost finished. man, he was a good writer even 25 years ago.

[Guest sneekylyric078]

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

[bbours]

[jyoni]

[jizzimmy]

[jyoni]

^ alot of bathing in that book iirc

[sircheesecake]

Taking not a single english class lately, I am catching up on stuff I want to read.

Next couple weeks worth of books:

[Halifamous]

Halifamous-

There are no words for how incredible this book is. Hamsun would be taught alongside the great fathers of modern prose if only he wasn't such a jew-basher (this goes for G K Chesterton too, why sirs, why must you always hate the jews?).

Hamsun may be guilty of bashing Jews, but Chesterton was completely misunderstood and if you did a little research you would see that he was right in all of his accusations.

Get me that research because I've done mine and he's not as bad as the jews say he is but he's not nearly as good as his apologists think he is.

Understand that I'm not putting them in the same category when it comes to the degree of their anti-semitism, Hamsun visited Nazi germany and loved it. Chesterton may not be at that level, but he still did enough to fuck himself out of mainstream teachability.

[tunesforbears]

[Larry!]

Reading this in my dimly lit dorm room.

Fucking terrified out of my mind.

[Guest]

the end of this book is amazing. fuckin kills me

[le_chic_garcon]

[gas prices kill]

For the millionth time... I love this book.

"Yam is the king of crops."

[pantheist]

wind up bird for the first time.

[breams]

Just finished Taichi Yamada's Strangers yesterday, and despite some of the awkward wording throughout the book I thought it was good.

[jyoni]

This guy really wasn't bad. Sometimes his writing is excellent actually.

[ousta]

Conan is the most awesome and underated hf boo ever read. deep and brillant.