What are you reading

>what are you reading
>what are your thoughts on it so far

Only 3 chapters in. Prose is flat and he has the vocabulary/prose of a 9th grader in a creative writing class. Other than that, I'm enjoying it so far. Seems more like an ideas guy than a writer.

His archaic vocabulary finally clicked for me, I almost never have to check the dictionary anymore.
It's fucking incredible.

Federalist Papers: Hamilton's rhetoric is great but he does gloss over and leave unaddressed certain valid points in order to ram home, again and again, his political project. What makes it readable is that the same project is considered quickly from multiple angles which cohere well, so that the text (the collected papers, essays) never really bores and regularly changes gears.

I'm moving into the big Madison chunk in the middle just now. I think it's partly that I was tired today but also I was just stuck on Madison's prose and barely moved a page or two while nodding off (reading during work breaks). My initial take is that Hamilton just reads better by today's standards but we'll have to see how the rest of Madison fares.

Stalled out in the middle of Songs of Maldoror, taking notes as I finish a verse which has made it a bit more tedious hence the stalling-out. I know who "Lohengrin" is, but I want to know who the (mythic?) characters "Leman, Lombano, Holzer" are: Norse/Germanic/other mythos? Google is no help.

How long did that take to happen, user? I’m proud of you for reading Shakeybake.

>How long did that take to happen, user?
Six plays (the great tragedies, Titus Andronicus and The Tempest). I also read A Midsummer Night's Dream translated into my first language.
Tbh I think that the plays might be varying in difficulty and I'm just imagining my improvement. The last play I read before JC was King Lear, which was a pretty thorny experience for me. In the meantime I haven't really improved my English at all, yet JC is much easier to read. The Tempest could confuse me a lot as well.

By the way, which are his essential comedies, not counting the two that I have already read?

House of leaves

I haven't picked it up in a month. I was at the chapter that ended with the bookcase and the interest couldn't compete with other things.

wealth of nations. I like it and I'm getting through it really quickly which is good.

the art of the deal spanish translation
life altering, challenging
espcially because i only speak one language, german

Being and Time

It's very well written, and it has a lot of well thought out concepts. No book has left me questioning my entire being as much as this one, however I can't read a lot at one time due to it also being the most dense philosophy I've ever read.