Post what you are reading at the moment or the most recent book you have read.
For me, it's 'Darkness at Noon' - Arthur Koestler
Currently reading
Kayden Myers
Bentley Lee
difficulties with girls. the only sequel amis ever wrote i think.
David Campbell
René, Chateaubriand. I'm having a hard time even if it's like 30 pages. Chateaubriand has all the downsides of Rousseau (purple prose of a crybaby), while being an annoying Christian.
How's Darkness at noon? Some user said it was awesome, I might read it soon.
Jaxon Nguyen
Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
Just started Act 2, it's absolutely amazing so far. I really didn't expect to love Shakespeare this much, but here I am.
Daniel Cooper
Not OP, but the Koestler is the best account I've read of that self-condemnation in the purge phenomenon and a good example of what fiction can do that a work of history, with the best will, never will be able to.
Colton Jones
>How's Darkness at noon? Some user said it was awesome, I might read it soon.
It's great, read it last year. Really good historical fiction.
Kayden Perry
American Pastoral. Started off hating it and I have 20 pages left and now I'm sad it's over. Was skeptical of Roth but I'm extremely impressed
Josiah Lee
Just finished Beauty and sadness by Kawabata , and it lives up to the name. The ending hits hard and is my favourite form the works of Kawabata I have read, it's a bit more straight forward than the others and more emotionaly impactful.
Julian Hernandez
What did you loved so much about this particular play?
I love Shakespeare above all toher writers and was thinking on writing a comedy myself, yet I always thought that most of Shakespeare comedies were not very good when the point was funny writing and jokes. Some of his comedies have great poetry (A Midsummer Night Dream, The Tempest), but as for being funny...I don't think they are that good on that aspect.
It's interesting to me to see someone new to Shakespeare liking him by reading Twelfth Night. I honestly thought that this play was goigng to work better with Shakespeare lovers like myself. Nice to see you liked it, though.
Landon Harris
A comedy is the Shakespearian sense, as it draws from the Greek idea, does not neccessarily mean a funny or humourous story as it does in a modern context. It simply meant a happy story with a generally positive atmosphere, as opposed to a tragedy, which is a sad story with a generally negative atmosphere.
Grayson Nguyen
I'm re-reading War and Peace, taking notes from interesting details and making a summary of all the scenes (for example, the first scene is in the soiree of Anna Scherer, the second scene is in the house of Prince Andrei, the third scene is the orgy in the house of Anatole, etc.) and a micro summary of each chapter.
I want to learn how to plot epic novels and how to handle multiple plot-lines and character-archs.
Pic related is the Portuguese-Language edition I'm using. First time I read the translation was made from the French version, so I certainly lost even more than I'm losing now.
Ayden Peterson
Yes, I know that. But when he tries to me witty and smart-funny I think that he hits far away from the target (something rare for Shakespeare)
Oliver Roberts
>orgy scene
I don't remember that being an orgy. I thought it was just people getting drunk and doing some stupid shit. Is that translation misguided or am I simply remembering incorrectly? I read it ages ago so it could very well be the latter.
Jaxson Moore
>I don't remember that being an orgy. I thought it was just people getting drunk and doing some stupid shit. Is that translation misguided or am I simply remembering incorrectly?
No, you're right. I used the wrong word. After the party they go to a brothel (people call the girls "actresses"), but the brothel scene is not portrayed, and there is nothing sexual in the drinking party scene. It moslty concerns Dolokhov's bet about drinking a whole bottle of rum sitting in the window.
Easton Powell
I finally started reading Oblomov. Liking it a lot especially Goncharov's descriptions. The main character, Illya, reminds me a lot of Bernard Black from Black Books especially his living condition. I've already laughed a few times during his exchanges with Zahar in the beginning.
I read it a few months ago too and I highly recommend it.
Aaron Miller
>you will never get wasted with your bros and tie a policeman to a bear
Adam Thompson
Collection of his essays on tennis, I read most of them years ago in old publications but honestly forgotten most of them. Pretty good desu
Chase Wright
it's enjoyable, definitely worth a read
Ethan Roberts
Ramon Diaz Eterovic - Angeles y Solitarios (German translation)
Not bad if you like crime time shit, even though he's obviously a pinko faggot.
Easton Foster
I'm hoping this is as good as Under The Net. Iris Murdoch seems to have been a prolific writer so I am sure the quality varies.
Do you prefer his essays or stories?
Adam Gonzalez
I haven't read that one, but I think other peak Murdoch is Sacred and Profane Love Machine, The Nice and the Good and The Bell. She's definitely inconsistent though, and kind of repetitive inside the sphere of the good stuff.
Caleb Mitchell
>Sacred and Profane Love Machine, The Nice and the Good and The Bell
Thanks for the recommendations.
Nathaniel Scott
Nabokov's Lolita.
Ian Gutierrez
Where do I start with Murdoch? She seems cool but all I have is The Black Prince on my shelf.
Matthew Walker
This is an okay choice, good to avoid spoilers for once. I found it funny for sure. It's one of the more character based ones, more life experience than the philosophical angle. I like how it has a real mood shift over the course of the book.
The standard advice will always be Under the Net though, it's one of the best debut novels, has a bunch of her tropes/archetypes and a really sprightly opening section. And a good dog is in it.
Lincoln Watson
Cooper Carter
This little fella right here, looking for a change in my life for once, read the first two twice, trying to read the inner message within Carlos's journey
Lincoln Smith
I've read The Master of Go by Kawabata because I knew he was Mishima's mentor, but I didn't love it, I couldn't quite get it.
Would you recommend Beauy and sadness to me ?
Hunter Allen
Yes, from the 3 works I read snow country, thousand cranes and it. I liked it best.
It's much more straight forward than the highly acclaimed snow country and not so foreign and thousands cranes. And it's a tragic love story.
Brandon Jenkins
I've nearly finished. It's taken me a month to get through and has ruined my goal of reading 52 books this year. I love and hate it.
Connor Cox
I never read.