An Editor on the Comstock Lode by Wells Drury c1936

Volume 4 of this series.. one of my friends is trying to get me into him.

got this today

hell's angels by hst

My AP English class is reading Crime and Punishment, and we read Siddhartha by Hesse earlier.

The other AP teacher is reading Demian. That's funny (in an unfunny way).

He has some good stuff, I love some of his books and poetry, and I always love the down and out vibe you get from his writings. That being said, his stuff is still very hit or miss.

And his paintings are horrible. Same goes for Henry Miller actually.

Wow, everybody's reading such intellekshual stuff. Doesn't anybody besides me read trash anymore?

I'm about to move on to The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming, by the way.

Do you ever wonder if sometimes people read these books just so they can say they are reading/have read them? I'm not accusing anybody here of that, but sometimes I wonder :)

Yes, I used to do that. Especially back in my English major studies days. At the same time, having been through all the "required reading," I have more confidence admitting I mostly enjoy reading junk.

Let me know how this is - I read the bit on the Bhundu Boys the other day and am interested, but was let down by the other Peel-franchise books.

I'm reading Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, which is the most prickish thing a person can do with eyes and the ability to read.

I finished Chuck Palahniuk's Rant which was a great read. Next is Oryx and Crake but I can't seem to get enthusiastic about it.

There is certainly a fair amount of book-reading wankery that goes on (here).

I've just started reading Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes.

 

I've had the book for years but was put off reading it because of the memory of the appalling film.

Just started reading The Ilium by Dan Simmons.

I've never read Hegel myself but I've read enough pre-Hegelian and post-Hegelian philosophy to not want to bother.

I had the same opinion for a long time, but ultimately, if you're studying philosophy, you have to tackle the monster or you ain't worth shit. And there's no monster larger (I have read tractatus as well).

My other answer is: who the fuck are you to think that there's a pre- and post- Hegel? There's no pre- and post-, only sufferance.

And if anyone wants to mention certain analytics they can just fuck a long way off.

I was considering Descartes and Kant epistemology as pre and existentialism and Marxism as post.

Fair enough.

Marxism as post? Please don't follow that route. Wittgenstein, yes, but Marx is not an epistemology (too emotional).

Sorry, I mis-read that - my point still stands, but Sartre is shite, Heidegger entirely co-extensive with Hegel and Kierkegaard doesn't exist without Hegel. Nietzsche maybe, but it seems pointless going for the small fish if you've already accepted Descartes and Kant.

I don't mean Hegel is insignificant, I've just read enough Heidegger and Kierkegaard to have extracted the salient points (i.e. Heideggering Heidegger).

Yeah... it's that thing of taking your own approach. That fat ugly German dialectical cunt needs to be read, to my mind, if only so you can say with confidence that he's a cunt. Same with Adorno, uttery cuntestry.

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I've started Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke. I think I'm going to completely exhaust my local library's entire Clarke collection before I start reading any other author.

andre breton-nadja

I've got a copy of this and have been meaning to read it for ages,any good?.

True, it wouldn't be much of a love of wisdom if I only exposed myself to what I find agreeable.

I just got Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes, and There's a Wocket in My Pocket by Dr. Seuss. Which should I read first?

the beggining is a bit hard to follow, but its a fun read, and after a bit it becomes a bit more coherent ( i think)
i say go for it

I'm going to read The Assistant by Robert Walser next,then Nadja!.

'Two Diaries of the Long Parliament', edited and all by someone called Maija Jansson.

I want to read 2666. Has anyone here read it yet?

I am part way through Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. So far, excellent.

Read Lee's forward to THE EMPTY PAGE anthology, and started thumbing thru COBAIN: UNSEEN.

plato-symposium

I'm going through a textbook for a class my wife took a few years ago that is full of examples of post-modern fiction. There's some crazy shit in there.

I have the Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction from a class, and "crazy shit" is an accurate description.

Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins.