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Geneva Bible


And Beowulf and Gulliver's Travels and The Great Gatsby

Beowulf rules. Go to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to keep it medieval after that, or maybe Tristan and Isolde.

I'm currently reading Wuthering Heights and Anna Karenina. And I need to start Robinson Crusoe this week.
I've never read any Voltaire, it seems like it would be cool.
I've read Dante though, he'd be almost the anti-Voltaire, I suspect?

Currently reading Moby Dick. It's good, although occasionally a bit dry with the in-depth discussions of whaling and whales.

monkeydancer wrote:Currently reading Moby Dick. It's good, although occasionally a bit dry with the in-depth discussions of whaling and whales.

Yeah, that shit goes on for a while. It's interesting, from a maritime-history point of view, but puts the goddamn brakes on the satanic-death-whale hunting.

Yeah, I like it for the interest, but I'd quite like to rush through the mad whale hunt too. I think I'm getting close to where they encounter Moby Dick because I'm quite far through, so maybe it picks up the pace there.

The middle part of Moby Dick is death. Thank every god you've ever thought about that people learned to footnote in fiction.

I need to start something new. I was reading Nietzche's The antichrist, but I lost interest part way through. I should finish it. The only other book I've been reading a little is... Uhm... Fifty Shades of Grey...

Clovis the Crawfish, motherfuckers.

MSUsousaphone wrote:Clovis the Crawfish, motherfuckers.

Psh.
The Story About Ping all day son, ALL DAY.

Faith of the Fallen. For the millionth time.

Anton Voyls Fortgang.

That is the german version of La disparaition by Georges Perec. Perec wrote that book apparently because he was betting that he could do it. It is a novel written in french without the use of the letter e. Meaning he only used words that did not contain said letter. Some looney actually managed to translate that thing into german. Without using the letter e and while retaining the sense of the novel. I am deeply impressed and until now it is a fun read. Really makes the language sound different, especially because that is the most common letter we use in german.

Also still on David Harvey and listening to Roberto Bolaños The Savage Detectives on my iPhone...

The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
Diggin' it.

kbithecrowing wrote:The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
Diggin' it.

Aw man. Aw man.
Maybe my favorite book. I also thoroughly enjoyed Blood Meridian, same dude. Took a bit to get used to his writing style, but duuuuuuuude.

Also this is da bess: http://yelpingwithcormac.tumblr.com/

My one line summary of The Road is, it's the best zombie novel ever, but without zombies.

Well, I guess cannibals are sort of zombies. I think zombies are an archetype for humans so monstrous, we'd prefer not to acknowledge their humanity anymore. Once you start humanizing the zombies again, they become much more frightening. The Road has distilled the essence of the zombie apocalypse genre.

The Road is some crazy stuff. I was simultaneously fascinated and horrified at the ideas in it.
Don't get me wrong, it is a great book. But the reality in it is kind of terrifying. Like it could happen one day. And that's kind of scary to me.