Last thing I've read is Goncharov's Oblomov. That is the life of a 19th century /b/-tard landowner.Next thing is the U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos because it is the favourite book of my boss.
>>24749497I'm working in something between a publisher and a print shop. The printing machines there cost more than I'm gonna make in my lifetime.
>LastThe Man who was Thursday, Chesterton>CurrentNostalgia, CărtărescuIn Defence of Sanity, a compilation of Chesterton's essays
>>24749485>Last:Roadside Picnic - Arkady and Boris StrugatskyFathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev>Current:The Illiad (re-read) - Fagles tr. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
Finished American Candy and Other Essays by Alexander Theroux.Now reading Florida Palms by Joe Pan.
I've been reading mostly horror/weird fic short stories lately since I've been studying for my life insurance cert and haven't had much time for long-form literature. The last thing I finished was The Dweller in Darkness by August Derleth – that was a 30 page novelette. The last BOOK I completed was The Time Machine, I think, but that was on audio. Currently I'm picking my way through a book called Killing Hope which is about evil shit the CIA got up to in other countries during the Cold War. It's overall pretty interesting, but the writing is something to be desired haha. I thought the cover was really kino. My next book I'm thinking will be Between Two Fires.
>>24749485I'm in the book for some dark misanthrist poetry, so the last one I've read was the Book of Jade by David Park Barnitz, which I loved, but only for the imagination, while the form was average to bad.I'm currently savouring that absolute masterpiece that is the Luzumiyat.Al Ma'arri would have been my favourite poet if only there was a complete translation of his works.Probably going to read Simulacra by Airea Matthews next.If someone has something along those lines, I'm open to recs.
>>24751309>bookMood*Now that's a freudian slip.
>LastFranz Kafka - The Trial Hermann Ungar - The Maimed >Current Ágota Kristóf - The NotebookFrank Herbert - Dune
>>24749485>lastDemons, Dostoevsky. Dropped it out of boredom>currentGravity's Rainbow. Love it
>>24749485i red 48 pages last night of Godel, Esher, Bach and am enjoying it
>>24749485>last readThe Makioka SistersI'm drunk and I'm going to look like a fucking faggot for saying this, but I'll say it anyway. Tanizaki originally, after reading his essay on aesthetics and the diary of mad old man, came of as a sort of inappropriate old uncle who would just belt out something outrageous, but after reading this I came to the conclusion that he really has a worldly sort of empathy about him. As an author, I ended up liking him in a way that I never think about authors of. Very good book. >Reading right nowNothing, really. I like to give myself a time to digest what I've finished before continuing on with something new. Probably The Gate by Soseki or just random poems until I feel like trying something new. I wouldn't consider myself a big japoid fan but like half of my bookshelf is japanese at this point. Fucking slants.
>>24749485>lastLeopardi, Prosas morales [Operette morali]. "Life is pointless" explained by someone with a profound intellect and wit. >currentDevoto, Los nacionalistas [The Nationalists],Wilson, The Outsider,Houellebecq, The Map and the Territory,Pizarnik, Extracción de la piedra de la locura [Extracting the Stone of Madness].
