>>24693613 (OP)
Last month I read
100 Poems from the Japanese - Rexroth
The rats in the walls - Lovecraft
Animal Farm - Orwell
Five Decembers - James Kestrel
Macbeth - Shakespeare
This month I'm planning to read
As I lay Dying - almost halfway through
Last Days of Socrates(Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
All Quiet on the western front
The turn of the screw
Lolita
King Lear
>>24693655
Do you think Animal Farm is worth reading? I had read some of Orwells short stories and they were great and all but I did not really enjoy nineteeneightyfool.
I thoroughly enjoyed Faulkner when I read him in grad school, great choice. >>24693662
Im planning on reading Name of the Rose this month! Maybe foucaults pendulum even, if I can keep focused >>24693663
Not /lit/ as it could be. Sabahattin is obvious peak, you could maybe look at Oğuz Atay (the disconnected). Sometimes likened to a turkish wallace (I have my own disagreements on that) Id also say Orhan Pamuk but everyone else probably told you that. The /lit/test it gets is esoteric underground literature most of which isn't translated or translated very poorly.
>>24693673 >Do you think Animal Farm is worth reading?
It's pretty short, I am not a literary critic to say whether it's worth or not. I liked it. It's plainly obvious that it's a satire on stalinist russia, like there's no nuance but I enjoyed it so YMMV. >I thoroughly enjoyed Faulkner when I read him in grad school, great choice.
Actually read TSATF last year and making my way through him
I will stake 60% of my donor kebab cart's liquidity on the fact that you are Turkish, and that this is the first serious month of reading in your entire life.
>>24693694
Hey man i read dfw that is a long hanging fruit of a bet there. Also not to be pedantic but its spelled "d(o/ö)ner" unless you are making some sort of an (organ) donor (?) type of failed joke.
>>24693613 (OP)
In August I read (I was on vacation, so I had a lot of free time):
Brothers Karamazov
Anna Karenina
Apology (Plato)
Mount Athos, the Call From Sleep (Erhart Kästner)
The Harz Journey (Heine)
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
My belief (Hermann Hesse)
Confessions of a Mask
The House of the Dead (Dostoevsky)
Paradise Lost
Master and Margarita
Roßhalde (Hesse)
Knulp (Hesse)
Gertrud (Hesse)
Daphnis and Chloe
We (Zamyatin)
Home of the Gentry (Turgenev)
The Temptation of St. Anthony (Flaubert)
Deborah Levy - The Man Who Saw Everything
David Harsent - Fire Songs
Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking
Sean Borodale - Bee Journal
Halldór Laxness - Under the Glacier
Don Paterson - Rain
Basil Bunting - Complete Poems
Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde
John Burnside - The Myth of the Twin
Elizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy Barton
Douglas Dunn - Elegies
Annie Ernaux - Exteriors
Walter de la Mare - Selected Poems
Robert Lowell - The Old Glory
Best: Blonde, Myth of the Twin
Worst: Under the Glacier, Walter de la Mare
Still angry about how shit Walter de la Mare is. Gloopy post victorian formalist shite
>>24693613 (OP)
All library books so no photo.
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Designing Australia's cities: Culture, commerce, and the city beautiful by Robert Freestone
Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss
An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
>>24693739
So joyce carol oates really is as good as the normalfags make her out to be? Her stuff always seemed fluffy from afar, but that's on me for being a judgemental cunt
>>24693749
It’s the only thing of hers I’ve read, no idea what her hit rate is (who does lol).
But Blonde was kino. It’s not a celeb bio, it’s a modernist literary novel whose main character happens to Monroe (and is mostly imaginary). More about how childhood neglect and sexual abuse pan out over an adult life than about fame and Hollywood.
>>24693613 (OP)
Things Fall Apart, Achebe
The Mexican War, Otis A. Singletary
Master of War, Benson Bobrick
Grant, Jean Edward Smith
Memoirs, U. S. Grant
Embattled Rebel, James McPherson
Lee, Douglas Southall Freeman
>>24693673
Name of the Rose was really fantastic, thoughtful work that focused heavily on the power of rhetoric and reasoning. If you've read any medieval theology, it'll probably be even more fun. As an ESL speaker, it was certainly a bit of a struggle at times with long, poetic sequences of descriptions, littered with phrases like "chryselephantine diptych," winding passages about ecclesiastic ornaments and relics, but I really loved the history and real people spread across the pages. I have Foucault's Pendulum on my shelf, but haven't read it yet. So many books, so little time (and focus.)
Working my way through an abridged 1 volume edition of Declined and Fall of the Roman Empire. Contantinople has fallen to the Turkish horde. Now it’s naught but papal squabbling.
