What are you currently reading?

[Ten thumbs]

Just finished an old classic: Caleb Williams by William Godwin.
This is a somewhat grueling psychological novel but it is nevertheless riveting - an early form of crime and punishment. Godwin was Mary Shelley's father.
Now reading 'The Sorrows of Werther', Goethe |(in translation).

[CD]

Henri Bergson - An Introduction to Metaphysics

[MN Dave]

One story in and yes it's good.

This was excellent. Highly recommended.

[Brian]

In the early goings, 30 pages of swimming against the current.  The story seems interesting, but I'm just having difficulty with the writing style!  

Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sounds like you've got the wrong translation, my friend. Is it Constance Garnett? Her translation stinks. Pick up Pevear and Volokhonsky. I couldn't get through C&P until I picked up P&V's translation - and then I couldn't put it down!! If you've got someone other than P&V, it's well worth the wait and money to put down the book and go buy their version.

One of my favorite books, though it's not as amazing as the Brothers K.

[ChamberNut]

Sounds like you've got the wrong translation, my friend. Is it Constance Garnett? Her translation stinks. Pick up Pevear and Volokhonsky. I couldn't get through C&P until I picked up P&V's translation - and then I couldn't put it down!! If you've got someone other than P&V, it's well worth the wait and money to put down the book and go buy their version.

One of my favorite books, though it's not as amazing as the Brothers K.

Yes, I have the one translated by Constance Garnett! 

Starting to get better and getting used to the language more now........I'm into it now, so I think I'll just keep going. 

[Brian]

Yes, I have the one translated by Constance Garnett! 

Thought so.    She was known for Anglicizing Dostoevsky's sentence structures and high-class-ifying his slang. But if you get through, well, awesome, and you'll have something to look forward to on the second read 

[CD]

Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy

My posts here are becoming increasingly Papagenoesque 

[Brian]

My posts here are becoming increasingly Papagenoesque 

Eh, you haven't faked your own death yet. 

[DavidW]

Eh, you haven't faked your own death yet. 

Or made your own student film about eros.

[MN Dave]

I was dead.

I got better.

[CD]

I was dead.

I got better.

The Bionic Dave

[SonicMan46]

I was dead.   I got better.

Yes, resurrection must be a glorious experience - looking forward to my own! 

[lisa needs braces]

Just finished:
It reminded me why I like Irving.

I read this back in May and highly enjoyed it.

That's a horrible book cover though.

[lisa needs braces]

[MN Dave]

Excellent!

[secondwind]

Just started this in the afternoon (there are some advantages to being home from work with a cold!).  I liked Gilead very much.  Robinson is an incredible prose stylist.

[MN Dave]

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[Florestan]

Jean-Francois Revel - The Useless Knowledge (La Conaissance inutile)

This is rapidly becoming one of my favorite books. A stylish yet devastating critique of the post-WWII leftist ideologies.

[val]

JOSÉ ANTONIO MARINA:    "Ética para Náufragos"

I didn't now this Spanish author, but this book is very refreshing. In a colloquial style, an unpretentious perspective of moral and ethics, and a very good refutation of moral relativism.

[Florestan]

JOSÉ ANTONIO MARINA:    "Ética para Náufragos"

I didn't now this Spanish author, but this book is very refreshing. In a colloquial style, an unpretentious perspective of moral and ethics, and a very good refutation of moral relativism.

Sounds interesting.