What are you reading?

[Faust]

merz, you need to polish your polish.

[galia]

It has. I'm really impatient to get lost in the book

[Servo2000]

Read through Charles Burns' Black Hole for about the fourth time now. An absolute must-read of all recent sequential art* in my opinion.

* graphic novel**

**comic book

[Vanna]

Rereading Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life and just started Notes From Underground.

[AKA*NYC]

Rereading Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life and just started Notes From Underground.

if you find your mind wandering while reading the latter book skip straight to the second part...but don't put it down

[Fade to Black]

Almost at the end of the "Cocksucker Blues" segment of Underworld...it's interesting to watch a writer like DeLillo unravel his insights through his idiosyncratic style, best described by what one review on the front labeled "cerebral pyrotechnics"

That said, for this reason the book is also tough to read on a consistent basis for long stretches in a single sitting. I think with the time I've been on and off this book I already managed to go through the whole of 2666 a few months ago. Still a pretty fantastic and intriguing sprawl of a novel though.

[Vanna]

if you find your mind wandering while reading the latter book skip straight to the second part...but don't put it down

You're being rather cryptic, but I'll remember your advice!

[TarHeart]

The Master and Margarita by Michail Bulgakov.

[mamaboy]

becket on proust....or proust on becket .... something like that

[Faust]

becket on proust....or proust on becket .... something like that

mamaboy, please remove your signature, before i remove you.

[Alesha]

I think goth ninja description now has to include a russian book pocking out of julius bag.

As for me, I am trying to reread Derrida's "Dissemination".


Oh yes my brain is fried...

[galia]

Apparently I'm not in a Maldoror mood, I gave it up and am now reading L'Art Romantique by Baudelaire. It's a collection of literary criticism articles, and it's really great. So far, my favourites are the one about Poe and the one about Flaubert, but evry single page is gold

[Sombre]

Looking for some advice:
I've been thinking about reading more deeply about existentialism and nihilism. Of course the usual suspects Nietzche, Kafka, Kierkegaard, and Dostoyevsky come up. The Metamorphosis would come first because I've read excerpts and am itching to read the whole thing. Then Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Notes from Undergound would probably follow.

The alternative is La Divina Commedia in the original Italian. I haven't practised Italian in some time, and certainly this would be a much more ambitious endeavour than delving into existentialsim and nihlism, but it would definitely help my suffering Italian.

As I get only 3 weeks of summer vacation this year, tackling both is not feasible. Which one should I attempt?

[Fade to Black]

Almost at the end of the "Cocksucker Blues" segment of Underworld...it's interesting to watch a writer like DeLillo unravel his insights through his idiosyncratic style, best described by what one review on the front labeled "cerebral pyrotechnics"

That said, for this reason the book is also tough to read on a consistent basis for long stretches in a single sitting. I think with the time I've been on and off this book I already managed to go through the whole of 2666 a few months ago. Still a pretty fantastic and intriguing sprawl of a novel though.

Finished this today,

On the stretch of the last 100 pages, particular the epilogue, found myself going into a kind of trance where I became unaware of anything else outside the book. Happened to me with my favorites like Immortality and 2666. Whoever reviewer said the novel can do a good fucking job (paraphrase) of getting the human condition was spot on.

[Faust]

Looking for some advice:
I've been thinking about reading more deeply about existentialism and nihilism. Of course the usual suspects Nietzche, Kafka, Kierkegaard, and Dostoyevsky come up. The Metamorphosis would come first because I've read excerpts and am itching to read the whole thing. Then Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Notes from Undergound would probably follow.

The alternative is La Divina Commedia in the original Italian. I haven't practised Italian in some time, and certainly this would be a much more ambitious endeavour than delving into existentialsim and nihlism, but it would definitely help my suffering Italian.

As I get only 3 weeks of summer vacation this year, tackling both is not feasible. Which one should I attempt?

In the summer? None. I'd go for something more epicurean, like Wilde. That "and" in the first sentence is strange. What does existentialism have to do with nihilism?