The Forgotten Books (1 Viewer)

[coraline]

Are there any books you have had forever but never read ?
I have a few that taunt me every time I go to my bookshelf but they never get chosen.

Its time to read these guys I think, they've been neglected too long.
So what will I read first ?

Don Quixote
The Brothers Karamazov
Tender is the Night
The Satanic Verses
American Pastoral - Roth
The Blackwater Lightship - Colm Toibin
Survival in Auschwitz - Levi

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Are there any books you have had forever but never read ?
I have a few that taunt me every time I go to my bookshelf but they never get chosen.

Its time to read these guys I think, they've been neglected too long.
So what will I read first ?

Don Quixote
The Brothers Karamazov
Tender is the Night
The Satanic Verses
American Pastoral - Roth
The Blackwater Lightship - Colm Toibin
Survival in Auschwitz - Levi

Don Quixote isn't the best.
Tender is The Night is decent.
Blackwater Lightship is pretty dull.

Not read the rest.

 

[ICUH8N]

two dozen at least. Within sight as I type this:
camera lucida
the metaphysical club
globalization and its discontents
that really important book about national socialism and german dictatorship by karl dietrich bracher (sorry, too dark to make out title)
ancient book about literary criticism - provenance unclear
UBIK
the latest Asterix

*sigh

 

[La La]

The Divine Comedy.

also have tried to read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. I've been trying for six years. It's like reading mud. I know I should give up, but I really want to 'get' Kant, and it's the occasional moments of clarity that make me think I can trudge through the rest.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i have a load too. staring down at me right now are :

the gate - Fran[SIZE=-1]çois Bizot (i did start this one twice...)
memoirs of my nervous illness - Daniel Paul Schreber
fury - salman rushdie
the burning tigris: a history of the armenian genocide - peter balakian
the scramble for africa - thomas pakenham
love in the time of cholera - gabriel garcia marquez
phenomenology of perception - maurice merleau-ponty (i may never read this...)
Bertrand russel the ghost of madness 1921 - 1970 - ray monk (not reading this before i read the first volume)
all the pretty horses - cormack mccarthy
hemlock and after - angus wilson
the middle age of mrs eliot - angus wilson
the confessions of a justified sinner - james hogg
the golden apples of the sun - ray bradbury

i didnt realise i had so many books yet to read... i have also a stash of brian aldiss books i got last week which i cant wait to read.
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[paula]

also have tried to read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. I've been trying for six years. It's like reading mud. I know I should give up, but I really want to 'get' Kant, and it's the occasional moments of clarity that make me think I can trudge through the rest.

same here. i've read a few chapters for college and i understand them but reading more is daunting. howard caygill's kant dictionary is helpful though.

 

[Bellatrix]

Kant, Descartes, Foucault = all gathering dust on my shelves

I think I got about two-thirds of the way through Tender Is The Night before deciding that I hated literally every character in the book.

I also have a couple of Turgenevs that glare at me Slavicly whenever I'm doing something of which they disapprove. Such as patently not reading them. And generally being frivolous.

 

[BC]

kant's "...pure reason" was an absolute nightmare to wade through, and i'm not sure it was worth it. descartes is awful, i thought (and therefore it is), really irritating... pages and pages of "wax is liquid when hot, and solid when cold, how then can it be not two things, but one?". aargh. not in any way worth "meditating" on. foucault, though, is excellent and well worth reading.

 

[therealjohnny]

I've tried a couple of times to get into Chuck Palahniuks 'A Diary'


I've also never finished Art Spiegelmans 'Maus'


one day ...maybe.....

 

[BC]

I've tried a couple of times to get into Chuck Palahniuks 'A Diary'

thats been sitting on my shelves of unread books. the only ones of his that i have read were "choke" and "fight club", which were entertaining, but aside from his remarkable attention to detail with regards to particular subjects, i'm not getting what all the fuss is about.

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

books are for faggots

 

[La La]

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love in the time of cholera - gabriel garcia marquez

this has been sitting on my shelf for ages. tell ya what, why dont we start reading it then have some kind of internet book club discussion?

phenomenology of perception - maurice merleau-ponty (i may never read this...)

i found it so-so.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

this has been sitting on my shelf for ages. tell ya what, why dont we start reading it then have some kind of internet book club discussion?

yeah ok so - i want to finish "White Bicyles" by Joe Boyd first. Its very good. i wish i was a cool young man like him. i suspect loadsa people here would enjoy this book.

 

[Charlie Bucket]

yeah ok so - i want to finish "White Bicyles" by Joe Boyd first. Its very good. i wish i was a cool young man like him. i suspect loadsa people here would enjoy this book.

apparently he had to leave a lot of the juicy stories out due to libel threats? there's a companion album out now too -

1. Crossroads - Clapton, Eric & The Powerhouse
2. Way Back In The 1960's - Incredible String Band
3. Because It Wouldn't Pay - Handle, Johnny
4. Spanish Ladies Medley - Swarbrick, Dave & Martin Carthy/Diz Disley
5. Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd
6. Granny Takes A Trip - Purple Gang (1)
7. She's Gone - Soft Machine
8. If I Had A Ribbon Bow - Fairport Convention
9. Seven Yellow Gypsies - Collins, Shirley
10. Chinese White - Incredible String Band
11. Autopsy - Fairport Convention
12. Deserter - Fairport Convention
13. Poor Boy - Drake, Nick
14. Sea - Fotheringay
15. Flowers Of The Forest - Heron, Mike
16. Come Wind Come Rain - Bunyan, Vashti
17. Primrose Hill - Martyn, John & Beverley
18. Afraid - Nico (1)
19. I Don't Mind - New Nadir
20. Andromeda - McGregor, Chris & Brotherhood Of Breath
21. Church Mouse - Pukwana, Dudu & Spear
22. Way To Blue - Drake, Nick
23. Brazil - Muldaur, Geoff & Maria

altho i'm sure you don't like some of their guitar tones, miss piggy

i'm a hoor for re-reading things to the detriment of reading new stuff...started reading "zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" about 12 years ago and never finished it....

 

[JohnnyRaz]

yeah ok so - i want to finish "White Bicyles" by Joe Boyd first. Its very good. i wish i was a cool young man like him. i suspect loadsa people here would enjoy this book.

sophies choice by john styron; had started and abandoned this years ago but plowing into it at the mo, read about 1/3 of it last night.
dog years by gunther grass; really liked it but abandoned it also.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

altho i'm sure you don't like some of their guitar tones, miss piggy

i just dont like nick drake and vashti bunyan, probably not fotheringay and fairport either- shitest gig ever = fairport convention in dolans warehouse, limerick - 1999. and what the hell is eric clapton doing there? i can imagine joe boyd did have to leave out a few tales... he saw it all it seems.

 

[Charlie Bucket]

gig ever = fairport convention in dolans warehouse, limerick - 1999. and what the hell is eric clapton doing there? i can imagine joe boyd did have to leave out a few tales... he saw it all it seems.

that would been a line up featuring like one original member - a friend saw them round the same time and said it was embarassing!

clappedout & boyd - "He was instrumental in the birth of Cream and spent afternoons seeing Marx Brothers movies with the 19-year-old Eric Clapton."

 

[nlgbbbblth]

yeah ok so - i want to finish "White Bicyles" by Joe Boyd first. Its very good. i wish i was a cool young man like him. i suspect loadsa people here would enjoy this book.

Got it last week and it's joined the backlog. Flicked through it though - looks deadly.

 

[coraline]

The Divine Comedy.

also have tried to read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. I've been trying for six years. It's like reading mud. I know I should give up, but I really want to 'get' Kant, and it's the occasional moments of clarity that make me think I can trudge through the rest.

Ah Kant. All my unread philosophy books are in my parents house where thay cant make me feel guilty....
Hegel nearly destroyed me, I had an elective course on the Phenomenology of Spirit given by a German professor dude with an unintelligible accent, on Friday afternoons.....If my life depended on it I couldn't tell you anything useful about it now.

 

[coraline]

Kant, Descartes, Foucault = all gathering dust on my shelves

I think I got about two-thirds of the way through Tender Is The Night before deciding that I hated literally every character in the book.

I also have a couple of Turgenevs that glare at me Slavicly whenever I'm doing something of which they disapprove. Such as patently not reading them. And generally being frivolous.

I won't pick Tender is the Night so...
I really disliked Gatsby too.