What are you reading?

[Macro]

sometimes we all day dream about becoming a judge penitent...

E recommended this one to me. Fantastic book, my favorite Camus novel... still rings horribly true today as a portrait of contemporary consciousness.

Currently taking a break from Beat-era literature and reading ORLANDO (Virginia Woolf) after revisiting THE GREAT GATSBY. Then, back to Selby Jr. with REQUIEM.

[eleven crows]

just finished invisble cities by italo calvino after eating it slowly - what i imagine is the best fashion for this.

how does one man have so much imagination? the venice thing notwithstanding, the application to comparison of modern cities and living is incredibly relevant.

[mrbeuys]

Just started reading this... great and easy read, lovely insights well told and researched.

[Faust]

You would probably like Guy Trebay's articles, MrB - poking mild fun at the super rich at the art/antique fairs had become a sort of a specialty for him - although I would prefer he would return to writing about fashion more.

Glad you liked The Fall, D.

[theseasonofmist]

Just finished Love of Worker Bees - Alexandra Kollontai. Fantastic and frustrating illustration of relationships/women's roles and economics.
Just started The Idiot - Dostoyevsky.

[Johngd]

E recommended this one to me. Fantastic book, my favorite Camus novel... still rings horribly true today as a portrait of contemporary consciousness.

Currently taking a break from Beat-era literature and reading ORLANDO (Virginia Woolf) after revisiting THE GREAT GATSBY. Then, back to Selby Jr. with REQUIEM.

Also need to read The great Gatsby again. Think it was pretty lame when I read it

Just finished Love of Worker Bees - Alexandra Kollontai. Fantastic and frustrating illustration of relationships/women's roles and economics.
Just started The Idiot - Dostoyevsky.

YEEES

[Macro]

just finished invisble cities by italo calvino after eating it slowly - what i imagine is the best fashion for this.

how does one man have so much imagination? the venice thing notwithstanding, the application to comparison of modern cities and living is incredibly relevant.

I LOVE Calvino. Have you read IF ON A WINTERS NIGHT A TRAVELER...? Genius storytelling techniques. He was a true Chameleon.

[Stijn]

[Magic1]

Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, vol 1.

and on the side, Nietzsche, The Gay Science

[eleven crows]

I LOVE Calvino. Have you read IF ON A WINTERS NIGHT A TRAVELER...? Genius storytelling techniques. He was a true Chameleon.

it was the first of his works i read and it is brilliant. that narrative hits you at first and you're kind of "uh..." and then a few chapters later i'm hooked. those snippets of story were all so inticing that i lamented when each one ended knowing there was no more.

the baron in the trees, the cloven viscount, and the non-existent knight were good too. baron felt strained in portions, but knight was so good. like a mini don quixote tale with actual fantasy in place of insanity.

[tc99m]

Letters to a Young Doctor, Richard Selzer

[trentk]

Magic1 - you may like listening to Alexander Scriabin. Some of his pieces strike me as Nietzsche in musical form (which isn't too surprising, given that Scriabin was a mystic Nietzschean).

[Philipppp]

business economics and about amarone wines.

[Faust]

Mmmm, orgasms

[liberty_of_style]

Oscar Wilde The Letters