What are you currently reading?

[SimonNZ]

I remember The Vanity Of Duluoz being my favorite Kerouac, back when I read near all of them in a binge.

TD: finished:



started:

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I wrote a paper about that book freshman year of college  Haven't read it since. You liking it?

I used to like the book a lot when I was young, but I have a mixed feeling about it now. The writing is very good. But the story is a little slow, if not boring. Overall, still fun read with many names of Jazz greats like Bird, Stan Kenton, etc.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Thomas Mann: The Clown.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Baudelaire: poems.

[foxandpeng]

Picked up Shostakovich: A Life Remembered by Elizabeth Wilson yesterday for £2.49. Not the next on my list to read, but soon...

[milk]

Four months after starting it, I finished it. I can see a bit of Frederic in myself -- that's not good!

I liked that book. Though I can't remember it.

Started:

I liked that book. Though I can't remember it.

I'm really enjoying this. Hope I remember it!

[SimonNZ]

Started:

[vers la flamme]

I found The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy at the park today, and I read it. Could not make heads or tails of it whatsoever. One of the oddest books I've ever read.



Any fans of hers here? I was unfamiliar with her name.

[Artem]

I checked my goodreads and apparently I read her Sweet Days of Discipline two years ago. I remember nothing of it.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Richard Nixon: Leaders.

[Mandryka]

It's good!

[vers la flamme]

Trying again with Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita



Made it about 50 pages in and stopped back in the fall; now I'm about 100 pages in and enjoying it a lot more this time. Nabokov's writing style is so rich and decadent. The subject matter is absolutely sick and twisted, and the protagonist freaks me the fuck out, but I suppose that's the point. The prose is amazing. I would like to eventually try and read everything Nabokov ever wrote; even though some of it is challenging, I'm quite drawn to his style.

[Artem]

It's good!

This appears to be available in English language. Wishlisted now.

[Artem]

Trying again with Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita



Made it about 50 pages in and stopped back in the fall; now I'm about 100 pages in and enjoying it a lot more this time. Nabokov's writing style is so rich and decadent. The subject matter is absolutely sick and twisted, and the protagonist freaks me the fuck out, but I suppose that's the point. The prose is amazing. I would like to eventually try and read everything Nabokov ever wrote; even though some of it is challenging, I'm quite drawn to his style.

Reading everything by Nabokov is a very enjoyable journey. It's clunky at first with his Russian and emigrant novels, but it's smooth sailing after he arrives to the States.

[Mandryka]

This appears to be available in English language. Wishlisted now.

It is a sort of companion piece to his book on Flaubert, Les règles de l'art.

[Artem]

That looks interesting too. Thank you.

[SimonNZ]

Started



Even more interesting than I was expecting for being highly critical of all aspects of the prize.

[ritter]

Starting André Gide's Les Faux-monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters).

[Artem]

Several books that I finished recently.

[SimonNZ]

Starting André Gide's Les Faux-monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters).

That was a book I greatly admired when I was in my early 20s. I keep meaning to read it again.

The handful of Gife works I read after it were never able to match it, with the exception of his journals.