What are you currently reading?

[uritotti]

Albert Camus - Reflections on the Guillotine

I read 'the stranger' by Camus last year, a great piece of bleak existentialist writing. I tried to read Sartre but the guy just talks in circles and never seems to get to the point.

In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked..."

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Me, I have read almost everything that Camus & Sartre wrote and I really love them both.

[rationalism]

Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

i read it a few years ago, and i still go back to it to just read a chapter or two every now and then


about catch 22, try reading analysises about it (on wikipedia for instance) and you will probably see it in another light.

@ oblioblioblio, i'll definitly check gogol out even though it seems a bit imposing at a distance. After i've finished tropic of the cancer that is....

Is a great book! I cannot believe sometimes that it talk about stuff I think are the same way.
Also Im reading:

Orwell - 1984

[oblioblioblio]

@ oblioblioblio, i'll definitly check gogol out even though it seems a bit imposing at a distance. After i've finished tropic of the cancer that is....

mm 'Dead Souls' is a bit of a mission just cos of it's ambitiousness, but I find Gogol's writing style to be quite welcoming & easy going, so relatively it's ok I think. His short stories are pretty light in their content though (well, more concise and less sprawling, at least)... 'the Overcoat' is a really beauitiful little tale I think.

[be~~]

In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked..."

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Me, I have read almost everything that Camus & Sartre wrote and I really love them both.

that's interesting, i never knew that.

[bleepbleep]

Currently reading "norwegian wood" by Haruki Murakami. Alittle more "grounded" than some of his other books but probably one of my favourite murakami books so far.

[inesb]

The Zap Gun - Philip K dck

would u recommend it? i read "ubik" some time ago and really liked it.

pk rules !

ontopic: just finished The wind-up bird chronicle by murakami,
very lynchean (as in david lynch) atmospheeres, good read.

[clubfoot]

Currently reading "norwegian wood" by Haruki Murakami. Alittle more "grounded" than some of his other books but probably one of my favourite murakami books so far.

I think that's the one I was reading, but stopped. I don't like his writing style. Way too descriptive - everything is too perfect in it. No-one gets annoyed, accidents don't happen, buses aren't late. It's like some idyllic TV-advert set. Hmm, not for me I guess.

[Atheory]

Currently reading "norwegian wood" by Haruki Murakami. Alittle more "grounded" than some of his other books but probably one of my favourite murakami books so far.

I think that's the one I was reading, but stopped. I don't like his writing style. Way too descriptive - everything is too perfect in it. No-one gets annoyed, accidents don't happen, buses aren't late. It's like some idyllic TV-advert set. Hmm, not for me I guess.

yeah, wasn't really into it either. I mean its obviously a good book and stuff but it left me a bit cold.


as for up thread and camus/existentialism. you could argue a really strong case that camus and sarte (less so) are existentialist. The word isn't as loaded as it was in the 1940's and sometimes people are cautious about being labeled this or reduced to that.