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I'm rereading Naked Lunch in a random order.
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a novel about Martin Luther during the time he lived hidden in the Wartburg, wriitten in the German spoken at that time. there is no English translation yet; the book came out only a month ago


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Currently reading Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" to go with the TV series. Weird but interesting.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Currently reading Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" to go with the TV series. Weird but interesting.


I was going to read that one but the darn show came on and ...what the hell I'll just watch the series.
It's interesting but an odd selection of 'gods' that Gaman came up with.
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Besides the boatload of books I'm reading for my certification exam, I also just got the following:

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (this book has the distinction of being the longest book ever written in the English language - close to one million words)

The Vampire Diaries - L. J. Smith

Faery Craft - Emily Carding

Esoteric Empathy - Raven Digitalis
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My reading consists of:

(classical) music scores
Music theory/analysis books
Biographies
Occult books
Scifi novels 
and the odd epic poem, here and there
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Reading Finnegans Wake again. Interesting how time changes one's perception of things.
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Originally posted by Thatfabulousalien Thatfabulousalien wrote:

My reading consists of:

(classical) music scores
Music theory/analysis books
Biographies
Occult books
Scifi novels 
and the odd epic poem, here and there


I used to read music theory books, not so much anymore. I'm curious though - what occult books do you read?

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Reading Finnegans Wake again. Interesting how time changes one's perception of things.


It's one of the things I love about re-reading books. I'm curious to see how my perception of certain things changes.

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I've been on a baseball biography binge of late...
 
 
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

I've been on a baseball biography binge of late...
 
 

Have you read this one? Very entertaining read
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No, I haven't. Thanks for the recommendation! Thumbs Up
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Reading Finnegans Wake again. Interesting how time changes one's perception of things.

One can not really 'read' "Finnegan's Wake"; hundreds of literary buffs of the highest caliber still try to figure it out. There is a quarterly literary journal named "A Wake Newslitter" (no typo), of which Fritz Senn, one of the world's leading Joyce experts in the world, was publisher for many years. In this journal the experts publish their latest discoveries in the book.

Arno Schmidt, a German cult author who was an expert on the book as well and who wrote a very difficult to read book himself, "Zettels Traum" ("Zettel's Dream"; "Zettel" is the name of Shakespeare's character "Bottom" from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in German translation) called it a "niederträchtiges Pasquill" ("scurrilous pasquil").

"riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs". Yeah, whatever.


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Alright then - I'm re-experiencing Finnegans Wake with altogether new findings of my own
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Currently reading Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" to go with the TV series. Weird but interesting.
I was going to read that one but the darn show came on and ...what the hell I'll just watch the series.  It's interesting but an odd selection of 'gods' that Gaman came up with.
Read it years ago, didn't know about the series.   A good read but I never quite got the whole side story about the murders of girls in the town Shadow (was that his name? been a long time) is staying in; what was the significance to the rest of the plot?
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Recent reads:

Kobo Abe - The Woman in the Dunes
Soren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling

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> One can not really 'read' "Finnegan's Wake"
Just because a bunch of academics are too dumb to "read" it doesn't mean that everyone is.
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Read everything James Joyce.  Complicated but rewarding.  Happy early Blooms Day everybody!

I recently reread Woman in the Dunes.  The sand is an amazing setting, character, tone, everything. Haunting allegory.  

I recommend Kristin Lavransdatter by Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset.  Outstanding historical novel written in the early 20's.  Shatteringly poetic, dramatic, historically and ethnologically accurate.


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