What are you currently reading?

[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.

[André]

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.

Same here. Si le grain ne meurt is fascinating.

[ritter]

Same here. Si le grain ne meurt is fascinating.

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.

Thanks for you comments, gentlemen. I haven't been able to advance much because of lack of time, but so far I'm finding Les Faux-monnayeurs very attractive.

I loved Les Caves du Vatican many years ago, as well as the other Gide (essays, Perséphone, Saül...) I've read, but Les Faux-monnayeurs is viewed by many as the novel to read by this author.

Good evening, Simon and André!

[Florestan]

Isaiah Berlin is one of my favorite political philosophers and this is a most interesting and very illuminating book, especially given the current context. Highly recommended.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Close Up and Personal, Catherine Deneuve.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Isaiah Berlin is one of my favorite political philosophers and this is a most interesting and very illuminating book, especially given the current context. Highly recommended.

Looks interesting. Will get a copy!

[SimonNZ]

Finished:



Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña


Started:

[SimonNZ]

Still going with Vol.1 of Caro's LBj, but also knocked off a couple of quickies:



that second one is "The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused"