What are you reading right now and what will you read next?
Currently reading: The Iliad
Next: Blood Meridian
What are you reading right now and what will you read next?
Currently reading: The Iliad
Next: Blood Meridian
now: flannery o'connor the complete stories
next: portrait of the artist as a young man
Crime & Punishment. I'm probably going to start reading Dubliners as well.
Next I think I'm going to read Mrs. Dalloway.
Dead Souls. I'll probably start reading Heart of a Dog next.
this.
next up is J R now that it's back in print
currently reading Moby Dick
I left Dubliners half finished so I'll pick that up again, then continue onto Portrait.
currently: Moby Dick
next: The Old Man And The Boy
Just finished catch 22
Dubliners next
currently: The Trial by F.Kafka
next: To Kill a Mockingbird
this
then life a user's manual
Critique of Pure Reason, just barely keeping up with it. I think I need something like Pride and Prejudice after this.
Just finished : This Great Unknowing by Denise Levertov
Reading now: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Next: I got some zen poetry books coming in so I'll start reading those
I just started on that exact edition of the Illiad last night myself, OP.
After (well, more simultaneously with it) I've got Seneca's letters, I try to read one or two a day.
How is it? No spoilers....
Also what shoes are those lol
The God Delusion
Next is finish Gravity's Rainbow
Just finished: Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
Currently at a standstill with book 9 of the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan because no money.
Therefore: The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli
Up next: The Alchemist
lmao you are a fucking faggot
Currently reading: The Iliad
Next: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
reading the last chapter right now senpai
hope you're not a woman, you could never understand that book
Now: The Passion According to G. H.
Next: Beowulf
Salt: A history of the world
I'm reading White Noise right now, since I've never read anything 'Post-Modern', figure I'd start with the grandfather to IJ, from what I've heard. Like it half way through.
And then White Teeth, because I had watched some Zadie Smith interviews and readings, and she's a QT and seems smurt.
both from the library
Is it possible to jump right into the illiad or do you need any specific knowledge of the time period?
You do need some historical knowledge to be able to fully flesh out its universe in your head, but I think that if you jump into it (like I did) and you don't like it, reading all that history first is not likely to help.
Now: The Sound of Waves, by Yukio Mishima
Then: The Truce, by Mario Benedetti.
Both in Spanish. Pic slightly unrelated.
Now: Leaves of Grass
Next: The Belief Destiny
*tips trilby*
Now: Just finished the Enchiridion of Epictetus (I had no idea it was so short)
Next: On Aging by Seneca
Now: in shadow of young girls in flowers
Next: count of montecristo or mody dick
now: White Noise by Don DeLillo
next: Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Current: The odyssey
Next: Childhood's End or In Cold Blood
the sound and the fury
as I lay dying
Prev: First and Last Men
Curr: Jane Eyre
Next: Star Maker
Currently reading Shakespeare's King Lear. (I plan on re-watching Kurosawa's Ran in its 4k restoration form afterwards).
After King Lear, I'm leaning towards reading My Struggle Book 1 by Knausgaard. I want to see what all the fuss is about.
Read On Old Age by Cicero after Seneca, too
Currently reading:
>Dune
>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
>Lonesome Traveler
Next:
>more PKD I guess. Any suggestions?
Now: American Psycho by Bret Easton
Next: Either The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde or 1984 by George Orwell
it's good. those are new Balance 600c
Now: Hamlet (Shakespeare), The Divine Comedy (Dante), The Absent Structure (Umberto Eco), Anabasis (Xenophon) and El Señor Presidente (Asturias).
Next: Ulysses (Joyce) and whatever I feel like
Now: Finnegans Wake
Next: Finnegans Wake
Read Homage to Catalonia or his essays, he was much better at non-fiction.
Currently Reading: Atlas Shrugged
Next: The Aboriginal land inquiry of 1984
Now: The Dispossessed and After Virtue
Not sure, maybe Origins of totalitarianism
are you gonna read legacy of totalitarianism after that?
I don't think so, I have enough memes for now
Now: The Pursuit of Glory
Next: Very unsure. Looking for interesting fiction, maybe A Brief History of Seven Killings
Reading Marcuse's Negations and Ligotti's Conspiracy
Probably going to read 2666 next
Hey I'm also reading the Divine Comedy. How are you liking it? And how's El señor presidente? I've only read El papa verde by Asturias
Next: Mason and Dixon probably
Is it back in print? no way.
>Not reading The Odyssey after The Illiad followed by Aeschylus and Sophocles.
I don't think so. I got that at a used book store in my city. $12. most expensive book I've ever purchased. dude said it's been sitting on the shelf for years lmao.
Currently East of Eden, next Blindness
>Now: Don Quixote
>Next: I dunno only like 100 pages into Don Quixote, but I'll probably read another book at the same time from my shelf
now they're about 55 bucks. I got a dalkey edition a while back. It's nice to know I won't have to buy it now!