What are you reading?

[swiftpacer]

Rereading Dan Brown's Inferno.

[Faust]

I'm reading 8th book(the one about their children), not 7th. Ofc i've read 7th a long time ago :D

Oh, the play? It was a huge disappointment.

[GucciAmen]

Some recent reads, all highly recommended.

Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe

Classic Southern Gothic, similar to Faulkner. Very interesting to read after Kerouac, especially works like Big Sur, as Wolfe's literature influenced him in his "spontaneous" writing style.

A Death in Venice - Thomas Mann

Nice short work, reminded me of Lolita with all the obsession going on. Would definitely recommend reading Magic Mountain if you enjoy this.

Lost Illusions - Honore de Balzac

Just fucking great, all I'm going to say. Reading Eugenie Grandet now.

The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Full of feeling (Fyodor was a gambler himself), much like Brothers Karamazov and C/P, but more compact.

[LilL.FASH]

Reading Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, its particularly hilarious.

[Sufi]

I've been stuck on The Castle for over a year now. Some parts of this book are indeed alluring and somewhat haunting; however, majority of this book just seems to drag on. Maybe it's my attention span but I'm often putting this book down after every 10 pages or so.

Also recently finished The Flowers of Evil. Beautiful work of poetry by Baudelaire, goes great with James Blake's The Colour in Anything playing in the background.

[Faust]

Some recent reads, all highly recommended.

Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe

Classic Southern Gothic, similar to Faulkner. Very interesting to read after Kerouac, especially works like Big Sur, as Wolfe's literature influenced him in his "spontaneous" writing style.

A Death in Venice - Thomas Mann

Nice short work, reminded me of Lolita with all the obsession going on. Would definitely recommend reading Magic Mountain if you enjoy this.

Lost Illusions - Honore de Balzac

Just fucking great, all I'm going to say. Reading Eugenie Grandet now.

The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Full of feeling (Fyodor was a gambler himself), much like Brothers Karamazov and C/P, but more compact.

Did you see the recent film, "Genius"?

[Faust]

I've been stuck on The Castle for over a year now. Some parts of this book are indeed alluring and somewhat haunting; however, majority of this book just seems to drag on. Maybe it's my attention span but I'm often putting this book down after every 10 pages or so.

Also recently finished The Flowers of Evil. Beautiful work of poetry by Baudelaire, goes great with James Blake's The Colour in Anything playing in the background.

Yes, it is. It's meant to drag on. That's the point. Like life...

[monster]

The Illuminatus! by Robert Anton Wilson and Atrocity exhibition by Ballard - brilliant madness

[GucciAmen]

Reading Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, its particularly hilarious.

I just read his other work, Scoop - wasn't expecting it to be so funny, definitely recommend it for the insights on 19th C. international journalism as well.

Faust

I have not! Looks like a great companion to the novel, I'll check it out, thanks.

[LilL.FASH]

GucciAmen

Thanks, I'll give it a read. Decline and Fall is somewhat relatable, having survived a Welsh prep school and all of the personalities within that system.

[Monoral]

I am currently re-reading Society Of The Spectacle by Guy Debord

Got reminded of it by Childish Gambino music video This is America.

[Faust]

I am currently re-reading Society Of The Spectacle by Guy Debord

Got reminded of it by Childish Gambino music video This is America.

Follow up with Simulacra and Simulation and you've got contemporary culture, FASHION INCLUDED, pat down.

I've been thinking about that video, and how impotent art has become compared to what we simply see on the news. Who needs Childish Gambino to tell us that this is America, when we can turn on the CNN?

[Monoral]

Follow up with Simulacra and Simulation and you've got contemporary culture, FASHION INCLUDED, pat down.

I've been thinking about that video, and how impotent art has become compared to what we simply see on the news. Who needs Childish Gambino to tell us that this is America, when we can turn on the CNN?

I have purchase Simulacra and Simulation, I will read it as soon as i'm finish with Society of the Spectacle.
Thank you for the tip

[szabó]

+1 to anything by Baudrillard. McLuhan is a more relevant read than Debord, nowadays, though.

Mark Fisher's The Weird and the Eerie - amongst other things, a great response to the characterizations of Lovecraft's work by Houellebecq and others (Also very accessible as a work of literary criticism). Also, Paul Morand's Tendres stocks. I hear Ezra Pound did a translation of it - I wonder how that reads.

[Fuuma]

How would you rate Mark Fisher's work?