What are you reading?

[monkeybanana4 1732]

Finished reading All the President's Men. Considering the current political climate (especially in the US), I thought it was an enlightening book to read.

[Sana 4]

Re-reading '1984' still just as chilling as ever, the idea of your own family giving you in still creeps me out.

[Paraph 826]

Leo Tolstoy's War & Peace 

[Azaeroe 40]

Structure and Qur'anic Interpretation

 

Then, Greek history, Homer, a Roman architectural text, Roman history, Italian history, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, Petrarch biography, D'Annunzio biography, novels by D'Annunzio, Virgil's song of Aeneas, other Latin poets and non-Homeric Greek poets, such as Sappho and Nonnos.

Edited October 20, 2018 by Azaeroe

[Jigsaw9 6783]

Reading Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima currently, and struggling with it a bit, lol. The protagonist is an asshat and not much exciting happened throughout the first 100 pages but I'll try to finish it.

[Visutox 188]

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

 

Halfway through my reading and loving it so far!

[platy 3018]

Started reading Pet Sematary, by Stephen King. Excited! 

 

 

[Azaeroe 40]

9 hours ago, Jigsaw9 said:

Reading Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima currently, and struggling with it a bit, lol. The protagonist is an asshat and not much exciting happened throughout the first 100 pages but I'll try to finish it.

I found the lawyer interesting and the part about how modern Japanese law was formed - out of an amalgamation of Vedic and Roman law. As for the asshat comment, did you mean the protagonist's pretending to have visited a geisha? Also, do you plan on reading the whole of the tetralogy? I did not.

[Jigsaw9 6783]

50 minutes ago, Azaeroe said:

I found the lawyer interesting and the part about how modern Japanese law was formed - out of an amalgamation of Vedic and Roman law. As for the asshat comment, did you mean the protagonist's pretending to have visited a geisha? Also, do you plan on reading the whole of the tetralogy? I did not.

I think it might just be that his whole way of thinking (or more like over-thinking things) irritates me. The geisha thing is a good example of that too, heh. Otherwise there are some really beautiful passages and interesting thoughts in the novel so far, but maybe it's just not my pace. I don't think I'll ever read the rest of the tetralogy, unless I somehow get to like the book more by the end... we'll see.  

[Tokage 5930]

A Tree or a Person or a Wall: Stories by Matt Bell, a short story collection full of rather dark and weird stuff. I can honestly say that occasionally the stories have been kinda hit and miss, but in general there are a lot of interesting ideas in this one. Recommended for anyone who enjoys their fiction weird, dark or a bit bleak.

[Azaeroe 40]

Been composing sonnets, not reading.

[Jigsaw9 6783]

...aaand of course I didn't have patience to finish Spring Snow, so stopped reading like 1/3 of the way through. No thanks.

 

Currently re-reading Aliens: Rogue by Sandy Schofield. Pure silly sci-fi/horror pulp, just what I need right now.

[Azaeroe 40]

eliade

Edited November 16, 2018 by Azaeroe

[Azaeroe 40]

moravagine

Edited November 16, 2018 by Azaeroe

[Azaeroe 40]

Was re-stalling Eliot's Dante essay.

 

Going to stall meme Figgis and swipe some verse crit.

[Azaeroe 40]

blake bio

 

also have a lec on him in Jan

[Azaeroe 40]

T R A K L

 

(bio)

 

(in German)

[Azaeroe 40]

David Crystal, The Stories of English (London, 2004)

[Azaeroe 40]

gaudeamus

[Azaeroe 40]

book of the dead

[Jigsaw9 6783]

Currently slowly getting through a Hungarian edition of H. P. Lovecraft's 'complete works' (well, more or less complete), volume one. They gathered his writings together based on overall themes, so it's pretty interesting to read it this way, as opposed to a chronological order. I think I've read about half of his more popular oeuvre over the years but it's good to re-read and to have it collected like this.

 

I'm also reading Dorian by Will Self, which is a modern reimagining of the classic Oscar Wilde novel, transported into the 1980s and 1990s. I don't remember much of the particulars of the original but this one's supposed to follow it pretty closely, plotwise. As for the style, it's pretty easy to read and has some fun wittiness, but still not at the level of Wilde's of course. Not bad so far, tho nothing spectacular.

[Azaeroe 40]

d'annunzio bio

[Azaeroe 40]

Lady Gregory's Complete Irish Mythology

[Azaeroe 40]

pound

[Azaeroe 40]

speak mnemosyne

 

then maybe chaucer, nesbit and coburn bios.

Edited December 7, 2018 by Azaeroe