Books, books and books

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'Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared)' - Franz Kafka.

This is easier than posting in the reading thread in the main forum.

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'The Prodigy' - Hermann Hesse.

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'Demian' - Hermann Hesse.

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'Narcissus and Goldmund' - Hermann Hesse.

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'South Of No North' - Charles Bukowski.

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'Hot Water Music' - Charles Bukowski.

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'Midnight Mass' - Paul Bowles.

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'The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor' - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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'Strange Pilgrims' - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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'Star of the Unborn' - Franz Werfel.

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'Gargantua And Pantagruel' - Francois Rabelais.

Beruthiel

Only a suggestion, but I think you should say what you think of the books you read. I tend to lurk and look for recommendations...

AJG

Sorry its pretty just a personal log for myself. I've no problem discussing anything I've read with anyone. But I won't be reviewing any of the books I've read unless I'm specifically asked about a title. I use this forum because its easier to plot out what I've been reading than using the thread in the main forum.

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'The City Of Words' - Alberto Manguel.

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'Angelo' - Jean Giono.

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'Collected Poems' - Samuel Beckett.

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'Leaf Storm' - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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'White Fang And The Call Of The Wild' - Jack London.

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'The Gambler, Bobok and A Nasty Story' - Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

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'Madame Bovary' - Gustave Flaubert.

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'Urien's Voyage' - Andre Gide.

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'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass' - Lewis Carroll.

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'Netochka Nezvanova' - Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

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'The Village of Stepanchikovo' - Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

cautioner

Thoughts on Bukowski?

AJG

He's a pretty good read if your looking for something quick and filled with dark humour. I've read all of his novels and most of his short stories and would say that 'Post Office' and 'Ham On Rye' would be the places to start with him.

cautioner

You're the second person to tell me Bukowski's a pretty good read, the first being Isaac Brock, lead singer of Modest Mouse. Yeah, I think I'll check him out. Thanks for the recommendations.

AJG

'Occasional, Critical, And Political Writing' - James Joyce.

ZorbaTehZ

You've a very fine taste in literature if I may say so.
I'de b interested to know what you thought of

'The Village of Stepanchikovo' - Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

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'The Village of Stepanchikovo' actually surprised me. Its Dostoevsky's one attempt at writing a novel in a completely humourous vein. Although all his work has at least some humour in it in Stepanchikovo it is prevalent throughout. I really enjoyed it and of all his works I've read it ranks up there with 'Notes from Underground' and 'Crime and Punishment'.

Over the coming year I intend to read his main major works that I've been putting off mainly due to their length as I feel they would require a fair amount of concentration to get through (namely The House of the Dead, The Idiot, The Devils and The Brothers Karamazov). Then I can round up the novels in English translation which are not in wider circulation eg. The Insulted and Humiliated, The Raw Youth etc.

I feel then I might be able to give you a more accurate opinion of where Stepanchikovo fits in the wider scheme of his work.

By the way Madser I'm not sure if you've posted that in the wrong thread or your trying to make a comment. Could you delete it or amend it?

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'Children of the Albatross' - Anais Nin.

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'Journal of a Wife' - Anais Nin.

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'Disjecta' - Samuel Beckett.

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'Beyond Good And Evil' - Friedrich Nietzsche.

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I was debating starting 'Don Quixote' but decided instead on Dostoyevsky's 'The House of the Dead'.

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AJG wrote: »

I was debating starting 'Don Quixote' but decided instead on Dostoyevsky's 'The House of the Dead'.

Good Choice! Some excellent characters in this book. Although it gave me nightmares .

didn't know you could get it on it's own though, the only copy of it I could find was coupled with 'Poor Folk'.

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'Wuthering Heights' - Emily Bronte.

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Going to try and read a few plays for a bit so I thought I'd start with Ibsen's 'A Doll's House'.

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'The Playboy of the Western World' - J M Synge.

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'Philadelphia, Here I Come!' - Brian Friel.

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'Dancing at Lughnasa' - Brian Friel.

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'Waiting For Godot' - Samuel Beckett.

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Back to the novels: 'As I Lay Dying' - William Faulkner.

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'The Plumed Serpent' - D.H. Lawrence.

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'The Radetzky March' - Joseph Roth.

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'Confession of a Murderer' - Joseph Roth.

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'The Insulted And Injured' - Fyodor Dostoevsky.

bukman

have you read Steppingwolf by Hess
his best in my opinion.

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I have but for me I'd rank it third after 'Narcissus and Goldmund' and 'Journey to the East'. I haven't read a bad one by him though and I've probably read seven or eight of his. He's definitely one of the best writers of the twentieth century.

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have you read Steppingwolf by Hess
his best in my opinion.

Oh I loved this one

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'The Idiot' - Fyodor Dostoevsky.