CCS Book Club 2.0

[KittiesKorner]

I know there was a thread about this but I can't find it.

*settles in with some Chablis and some decadent chocolate and cat***

I'm reading "Hitler's Furies" about the women who helped perpetrate genocide on the Eastern Front. Them bitches were crazy. What are you reading?

 

[Tjodalv]

I generally read the classics, I was on a big Russian "golden age" kick for a while (Tolstoy, Gogol, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, etc.); and I just finished up a collection of short stories by Kafka the other day. A bit ago I read works by a bunch of German Romantic writers (Goethe, Fichte, and Hoffmann primarily). I think next up I'm going to get to work on some of Dickens' more solemn novels. I read Great Expectations a couple years ago so I think A Tale of Two Cities and Bleak House are on the list to read next.

 

[KittiesKorner]

If you like the Russian lit you should check out Andrei Bely's "Petersburg", Benedikt Erofeev's "Moskva Petyushki" (transliterated), Yuri Olesha's "Envy" (Ukrainian but close enough), Nabokov's "Despair", and, of course, Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita". Also Lermontov's "A Hero for Our Time". Daniil Kharms is Gogolesque

 

[1COBearsfan]

Whew, some heavy reading up in here.

I'm starting a science fiction series right now. The first book is called "The Companions" by R.A. Salvatore. I alternate between science fiction and some classics or heavy reads.

 

[KittiesKorner]

I have been wanting to get through Phillip K Dick's bibliography once and for all lately. Grad school kind of put me off fiction altogether, but when I do want to read fiction these days, it's science fiction.

Speaking of, I highly recommend Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris". Better than the Tarkovsky movie (or the Clooney movie lol).

non-fiction-wise, for any ww2 buffs out there, you can't go wrong with Antony Beevor or Max Hastings

 

[HeHateMe]

Holy shit you guys are well read. ive only read dostoyevski and gogol as far as russians and that was years ago. Any norman mailer fans out there? Never read but inhereted a bunch from my asshole dad.

 

[HeHateMe]

Pkdickz is pretty awesome. He was a methhead so that shit is en vogue.

 

[KittiesKorner]

Holy shit you guys are well read. ive only read dostoyevski and gogol as far as russians and that was years ago. Any norman mailer fans out there? Never read but inhereted a bunch from my asshole dad.

never read mailer-- he always seemed like a choad. Raymond Carver is good. Robert Coover too, especially "Spanking the Maid". Donald Barthelme

 

[HeHateMe]

Fwiw, if there could be a club and we chose a text to commit to a two week read, my wife might have a multiple if it meant me winning a book. She hates me for not being literary. Its not even funny. she hates me for not reading anymore.

 

[HeHateMe]

never read mailer-- he always seemed like a choad. Raymond Carver is good. Robert Coover too, especially "Spanking the Maid". Donald Barthelme

Carver was the second anthology i have to tackle.

 

[KittiesKorner]

I am trying to start one, mr. hateme! Pick a book, just please don't pick Mailer's "the White Negro"

 

[HeHateMe]

I am trying to start one, mr. hateme! Pick a book, just please don't pick Mailer's "the White Negro"

help me narrow it down, i actually have a canon style library and am looking at books i havent read. Shit is depressing. Paul auster? Graham greene? Heller? Hesse? Thats a shelf i havent touched...

 

[HeHateMe]

Oh shit. Anthony burgess tremor of intent. Heard that shit was gud.

 

[KittiesKorner]

Okau tremor of intent it is

 

[KittiesKorner]

help me narrow it down, i actually have a canon style library and am looking at books i havent read. Shit is depressing. Paul auster? Graham greene? Heller? Hesse? Thats a shelf i havent touched...

I hate paul auster. Read heinrich boll's the clown after we have all discussed tremor of intent

 

[HeHateMe]

Just checked my library. Tremor of intent is not available immediately, rare book...

 

[HeHateMe]

Maybe something more accesable?

 

[KittiesKorner]

Let's put it to a vote


[cricketz]

But seriously they reissued it

 

[HeHateMe]

My phone misspelled words for me lol. I can't spell. so what book are we gonna read?

 

[KittiesKorner]

I suggest "A Tomb for Boris Davidovich" by Danilo Kis.

Or "Tremor of Intent".