That is more or less my impression of Sloterdijk (I tire of the Nietzschean pose very quickly), but I haven't read enough to feel secure in that judgment--I think the Spheres trilogy is supposed to represent his most sustained work?
I don't have many set reading plans for 2015, and for various practical reasons my reading practices are likely to be less manic than they were this year, but I'd like to read Elena Ferrante's Naples novels, more of Ingeborg Bachmann, more of Ann Quin, and get around to reading Sybil Lamb and Ryka Aoki's recent novels (I've Got a Time Bomb and He Mele a Hilo - A Hilo Song, respectively); I'd also like to finally get started on The Man Without Qualities.
― one way street, Saturday, 20 December 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
http://www.themillions.com/2015/01/most-anticipated-the-great-2015-book-preview.html
― johnny crunch, Monday, 5 January 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman
TW: short fictions, disturbances
― jmm, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 13:20 (nine years ago) link
I've stockpiled a ton of cheap used books that I haven't read yet, all of which piqué my curiosity. No doubt I'll read at least 1/3 of them. Maybe 1/2. I wish I had a deeper pool of non-fiction to draw on, though. I have plenty of histories on the shelf, but very little else in the way of non-fic.
― earthface, windface and fireface (Aimless), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
might finish all the books i told people i read but actually read half of or skimmed last year
― flopson, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
I will read some Philip Roth this year
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Thursday, 8 January 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
and some more Pynchon if possible
Austen bio stuff. I hope. And letters. What's the definitive Austen biography? Does it exist?
― abcfsk, Thursday, 8 January 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
xxp what roth u thinking abt?
i v recently read 'my life as a man' and am currently reading 'operation shylock' - would rec both, shylock is def a step diff than most of his oeuvre
― johnny crunch, Friday, 9 January 2015 03:33 (nine years ago) link
ive never read any of his books before so i dont know really. one of the more well known ones perhaps - portnoys complaint, american pastoral. im open to suggestions.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, 9 January 2015 04:03 (nine years ago) link
american pastoral is a great one, and prob a good 1 to start w/
― johnny crunch, Friday, 9 January 2015 04:17 (nine years ago) link
actually 'critique' is turning out to be pretty damn sharp so far, 60 pages in. and reliably hilarious.
― j., Sunday, 8 March 2015 21:00 (nine years ago) link
This is my 2015 reading list halfway thru the year. never kept a list before as the year went on but i thought to compare to what I was thinking at the beginning and to my surprise actually I am sorta following it: De Sade, Winkler and Nerval.
Basically I've spent lotsa time reading female modern writers. Biggest score was Ginzburg and Lispector, Hilda Hilst is a heck of a voice, read more from Rhys, Spark, Highsmith. Revisited Woolf and Duras. etc. etc.
Kurt Tucholsky - Castle Grispholm: A Summer StoryJean Rhys - Good Morning, MidnightElsa Morante - Arturo's IslandWolfgang Borchett - A Man Outside (Play)Josef Winkler - Natura MortaMichele Bernstein - The NightClarice Lispector - Agua VivaGerard de Nerval - Selected WritingsJoan Mellen - In the Realm of the senses Clarice Lispector - The Passion According to G.HPushkin - The Captain's DaughterClarice Lispector - Breath of LifePaul Valery - Monsieur TesteMuriel Spark - Memento MoriRene Daumal - A Night of Serious Drinking
Margerite Duras - The Rapture of Lol V. SteinNatalia Ginzburg - Valentino and SagittariusMuriel Spark - Ballad of Peckham RyeNadine Gordimer - Burger's DaughterHerman Melville - The Confidence ManPatricia Highsmith - Little Tales of MisogynyMargerite Duras - Emily L.Natalia Ginzburg - Little VirtuesNatalia Ginzburg - Family SayingsFrank Wedekind - The Lulu PlaysNatalia Ginzburg - Voices in the EveningVirginia Woolf - Mrs DallowayMarlen Haushofer - The WallAssia Djebar - Seven Stories*
Marguerite Yourcenar - Memoirs of HadrianVictor Serge - Midnight in the CenturyVirginia Woolf - Street Haunting and Other EssaysMarguerite Yourcenar - Mishima: A Vision of the VoidRoberto Bolano - Between Parnthesis: Essays, Articles and Speeches 1998-2003Hilda Hilst - With my Dog's Eyes (novella)Joseph Roth - PerlefterLouis-Ferdinand Celine - NormanceHalldor Laxness - Independent People*Enrique Villa-Matas - Bartleby & Co.Joseph Roth - Flight Without EndAlejandro Zambra - Ways of Going HomeJung - Flying SaucersLeskov - Selected TalesMarquis De Sade - 120 Days of Sodom
Tanizaki - The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto's MotherThe Existential Imagination - From de Sade to SartreIngeborg Bachmann - Three Paths to the LakeJuan Jose Saer - La GrandeAll Dogs are Blue - Rodrigo De Souza Leao
* Didn't finish
Poetry:
Wallace Stevens - SelectedNazim Hikmet - Selected Nicanor Parra - Poems and Anti-poemsYannis Ritsos - Diaries of ExileCavafy - CompleteBaudelaire - Flowers of EvilApollinaire - SelectedRovert Lowell - SelectedThe Penguin Book of Russian PoetryRoberto Bolano - Romantic DogsFrancois Villon - SelectedDante - Inferno (tr. Steve Ellis)Gunter Grass - SelectedRimbaud - Complete
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 June 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
Not trying to see that
― Give 'Em Enough Rope Mother (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 June 2015 21:37 (eight years ago) link
I'm making a concerted effort to get the Highsmiths I haven't yet read: there are 4 novels and a couple of shorts collections I've never seen in a bookshop, but Virago seems to be republishing them in January in the UK.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Sunday, 21 June 2015 08:51 (eight years ago) link
Day of the Peacock book on men's fashion between 63 & 73 which should arrive this week.
Every book I've bought this year. Be pretty ambitious i've bought quite a lot. Especially need to get through the Wolf Halls.Don't think I've done too badly in the amount of books read so far. Probably more than the average person in the street I'd guess?But stilk not Master & Margarita which was in my initial post. & speed of purchase far outstrips speed of reading. But can't resist an interesting looking charity shop find.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 21 June 2015 09:09 (eight years ago) link