What are you reading?

[croatoan]

Just came in the mail.

[Macro]

My past two books:



Almost done with:

[docus]

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Been reading this:

[Blindness by Jose Saramago]

I think it's kind of awful, to be honest. Probably won't end up finishing it.

I also found it aw[e]ful, in the sense that it inspired awe - one of the most powerful books I've ever read.

[tajdon]

I just started reading James Rollins' Black Order. Though I am not really a fan of action/thriller novels (it was a gift last Christmas), I do find it quite good.


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[Czx]

Currently ending The Spring to Come by Stefan Zeromski for school. In polish of course. Loving it. I personally love how he led the love plot. And the description of the youth and revolution that Cezary goes trough is amazing.

[Johngd]

Reading @university

[laughed]

[MJRH]

Thanks to those folks who brought up Robert Walser a little while ago, I'd never heard of him.

Joseph recalled certain times in his life when buying a new necktie or a stiff English hat had sent him into a frenzy. Half a year before, he had experienced just such a hat scenario. It had been a quite good normal hat of moderate height, the sort that "better" gentlemen are in the habit of wearing. Joseph, however, felt nothing but distrust for this hat. A thousand times he placed it upon his head, standing before the mirror, only to set it back on the table. Then he moved three steps away from this charming eyesore and observed it the way an outpost observes the enemy. Nothing about it was in any way objectionable. Hereupon he hung the hat up on its nail, and there too it appeared quite innocuous. He tried putting it on his head again--oh horror! It seemed bent on trying to split him in two from top to bottom. He felt as if his very personality had become a bleary, caustic, bisected version of itself. He went out onto the street, and found himself reeling like a despicable drunkard--he felt lost. Stepping into a place of refreshment, he took off his hat: saved! Yes, that had been the hat scenario. He had also experienced collar scenarios in his lifetime, as well as coat and shoe scenarios.

[Faust]

Finished The Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and now in the middle of



Both collections are really fantastic - can't recommend them enough.

[Umami]

Persian Boy by Mary Renault

[galia]

yeah, enjoyed consider the obster a lot as well, easy to read and fun

[Czx]

Currently reading Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz for Polish class. Quite an interesting read. Very much so in terms of style and the language used.

[een]

[Czx]

Well we do have many things to be proud about in terms of literature, that's for sure :) It is a very hard language to learn when it's not native though, from what I heard that is. And it would take much to learn to be able to challenge writing from the late XIX and XX (especially). Still I encourage to, rarely have I been let down by our literature and Polish is an amazingly beautiful language in right hands, one of the most poetic ones if you ask me.

[asdf123]

Finished The Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and now in the middle of



Both collections are really fantastic - can't recommend them enough.

I was just planning to get my hands on those, lol!

one of my favorites. i wish i could read polish because i know i'm missing out on great things.

i recently finished cosmos as well, which i may have liked even more than ferdydurke. a stick, a bird, a slithering lip, a trash heap, a finger poked in a priest's mouth.. all coming together.. kind of..

i really hope danuta borchardt is working on new translations of the diaries into english.

Try Trans-Atlantyk.
I'm still quite amazed how much Gombrowicz is appreciated in countries besides Poland. Don't get me wrong - he's a great writer but there are lots more influential and interesting writers in polish literature besides him, it all might be due to the fact that polish is near to untranslatable.