What are you currently reading?

[Kullervo]

Freud - Psychopathology of Everyday Life

[Philoctetes]

After reading 134 pages into Faber; I've found the style just all to much for me. It's boring, drawn out, and flat. I suppose it has modeled itself well. So I am setting it aside for a later date, and moving on to another book.

Which is:
Manservant and Maidservant by Compton-Burnett

[Henk]

I'm reading this pair in a very slowly pace, so it will take years to complete. It's about the dark side of human, fascism as called by the authors, and how to deal with it. I probably will tell more about the content later.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I'm reading this pair in a very slowly pace, so it will take years to complete. It's about the dark side of human, fascism as called by the authors, and how to deal with it. I probably will tell more about the content later.

Two classic works of modern philosophy I still have to read...

[Philoctetes]

I'm reading this pair in a very slowly pace, so it will take years to complete. It's about the dark side of human, fascism as called by the authors, and how to deal with it. I probably will tell more about the content later.

You'll not be bored with those at all. Though their verbosity can be quite trite.

[orbital]

I've heard so much about this trilogy that I am now curious to read 
as soon as an English language e-book version is available that is 

[DavidRoss]

Two classic works of modern philosophy I still have to read...

Philosophy?

[Philoctetes]

Philosophy?

The poster did add the moniker 'modern'. So that should be noted.

[karlhenning]

Guattari? Wasn't that a movie scored by Henry Mancini?

[rockerreds]

The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss

[Lilas Pastia]

After a 34 page preface to the collected works of Nietzsche and in the middle of a 24 page introduction to Le Gai savoir, I'm about to embark on my first reading of anything by a german philosopher (except a Kant Critique I read in high school). The preface positioned Nitzsche's works in the continuity - and discontinuity - of Leibniz and Schopenhauer. I understood a goodish portion of it. But I find the language (not Nietzsche's, I'm not there yet - it starts in 10 pages)  extraordinarily alien to the Common Man's lingo. I really wonder if all those professeurs and academicians are interested in communicating with the layman 

[Philoctetes]

After a 34 page preface to the collected works of Nietzsche and in the middle of a 24 page introduction to Le Gai savoir, I'm about to embark on my first reading of anything by a german philosopher (except a Kant Critique I read in high school). The preface positioned Nitzsche's works in the continuity - and discontinuity - of Leibniz and Schopenhauer. I understood a goodish portion of it. But I find the language (not Nietzsche's, I'm not there yet - it starts in 10 pages)  extraordinarily alien to the Common Man's lingo. I really wonder if all those professeurs and academicians are interested in communicating with the layman 

They aren't.

[Bogey]

Guattari? Wasn't that a movie scored by Henry Mancini?

LOL, Karl!

From the director that gave us Rio Bravo and The Big Sleep, Mr. Howard Hawks:

[Kullervo]

They aren't.

I'm still looking for a copy of Continental Philosophy for Dummies...

[PSmith08]

I'm reading this pair in a very slowly pace, so it will take years to complete. It's about the dark side of human, fascism as called by the authors, and how to deal with it. I probably will tell more about the content later.

I actually preferred the duo's work on Kafka - Kafka: Pour une Littérature Mineure - though that might merely have been because I had some basic familiarity with the subject matter. Of course, I really don't have the deep background in (roughly) contemporary philosophy to make anything approximating a reasonable critique of Capitalism and Schizophrenia.

[M forever]

Freud - Psychopathology of Everyday Life

You don't really need to read that - if you frequent this forum regularly, you will encounter most of that.

[Kullervo]

You don't really need to read that - if you frequent this forum regularly, you will encounter most of that.

It's psycho-pathology, not psychopath-ology.

[Novi]

It's psycho-pathology, not psychopath-ology.

LOL that's great. Thanks for a laugh on a rotten day .

[mozartsneighbor]

Thomas Bernhard -- Extinction
Highly strung, hyperbolic, sarcastic, ranting, corrosive. This guy definitely has a voice of his own. I have never seen anyone hate his own country so much (Austria -- where I live by the way, that is what prompted me to read this).
But overall, well worth reading. A surprisingly funny ending.

[orbital]

Highly affected by Proust's depiction of "love" in Swann's Way, I wanted to continue reading other notable authors' take on the subject, and for many at the top of the heap was Albert Cohen's Belle Du Seigneur. But, unable to procure an English e-book version, I thought I might as well read The only convincing love story of our century