Books I've finished this year

Ian M Banks - The Wasp Factory
Ryu Mirukami - In The Miso Soup
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
Oscar Wilfe - The Picture of Dorian Grey
Albert Camus - The Stranger
J D Salilger - Catcher In The Rye
George Orwell - 1984
Herman Hesse - Siddhartha

Attempted but unfinished books

Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea (too confusing and tedious)
J K Huysmans - La Bas (too wordy)
J K Huysmans - A Rebours (too wordy)
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (writing style tedious, literally puts me to sleep)
Dostoyevsky - Notes From Underground (too confusing)

did you ever end up getting around to the world as will and representation?

did you ever end up getting around to the world as will and representation?

yeah, the very first page makes me fall asleep before I can get any further. I read some of his aphorisms though, "on women" is 10/10.

only geeks read books.

Currently reading the great war for civilisation by robert fisk

recommend me a good book to read

Quote from: DisturbedMind883 on August 31, 2016, 04:14:00 PM

recommend me a good book to read

moby dick

I recently ordered a copy of this annotated by Charles N. Feidelson, Jr.. It's supposed to have the best annotations available.

Quote from: Loaf on August 31, 2016, 04:36:46 PM

Quote from: Prehistoric on August 31, 2016, 04:24:26 PM

Quote from: DisturbedMind883 on August 31, 2016, 04:14:00 PM

recommend me a good book to read

moby dick

I recently ordered a copy of this annotated by Charles N. Feidelson, Jr.. It's supposed to have the best annotations available.

never heard of it

It's basically just a copy of moby dick.