The 'What are you reading at the moment' thread

[Norroen Dyrd]

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.

[Eltee]

A Folly of Princes, book II of the Stewart Trilogy by Nigel Tranter.

[Hadrianus]

Just finished:

Salo - Marquis De Sade

The epitome of sadism written by the most depraved genius to ever walk this earth. And if you think I am being hyperbolic, then just read it for yourself

I challenge you to find a book more grotesque than Salo.

[nyk45]

I just finished (by which I mean over a month ago) The Gambler by Dostoyevsky. Loved it.

I've got Ivanhoe to read now, and I'll definitely get on it at some point.

[Venger]

Books found in Morrowind, either from the Lore section or directly from the game, but mostly those pertaining to the Dunmeri people. And holy cow there is a lot of material on the subject!

[dorian2]

Just finished The Dirt, Motley Crue Bio. Was a very entertaining band, even though I cannot stand their music. I'm much more into Progressive stuff like Opeth, Rush, and Dimmu Borgir. Yes, I think Dimmu Borgir is very progressive!

[AddictedtoMorrowind]

I'm reading Moby Dick.

[CobaltLink]

The Interrogator by Glenn L. Carle.

[Norroen Dyrd]

Just started In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

[Per]

Robert Wilson - The Hidden Assassins

[Norroen Dyrd]

Ulysses by James Joyce.

[Hadrianus]

Ulysses by James Joyce.

It's a chore. For me at least I found it easy to read, but only in a sense of grasping the surface of the text, all the historical allusions really just went way over my head

What do you think of it?

[Norroen Dyrd]

Ulysses by James Joyce.

It's a chore. For me at least I found it easy to read, but only in a sense of grasping the surface of the text, all the historical allusions really just went way over my head

What do you think of it?

I read it with the commentaries, so that all the allusions to Joyce's own life, the events in contemporary Ireland, subtle quotations from other works - what is termed to be intertextuality - and, of course, the parallels with Homer become clear. I recognize some of the allusions without having to consult the commentaries, but they are still quite helpful. It is very exciting to understand what the author implies. Today I am going to have a lecture about it at the University; really looking forward to it.

[MARS]

Finished A Clash of Kings. Going to read Isenhart by Holgar Karsten Schmidt, a new German novel about a sort of "medieval detective".

[Eltee]

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

[Hadrianus]

Ulysses by James Joyce.

It's a chore. For me at least I found it easy to read, but only in a sense of grasping the surface of the text, all the historical allusions really just went way over my head

What do you think of it?

I read it with the commentaries, so that all the allusions to Joyce's own life, the events in contemporary Ireland, subtle quotations from other works - what is termed to be intertextuality - and, of course, the parallels with Homer become clear. I recognize some of the allusions without having to consult the commentaries, but they are still quite helpful. It is very exciting to understand what the author implies. Today I am going to have a lecture about it at the University; really looking forward to it.

I've wanted to get the annotated version for a better understanding I've heard it's much easier to follow. But I bet it was a breeze for you anyway.

[Venger]

Halo: the Cole Protocol and the halo wiki Finally managed to learn what Halo 3 is about and what Arbiter's name is.

[mulder]

I've finished Les Miserables by Hugo, now I'm moving to The Sorrows of Young Werther. The Romantic Period has some good books.

[Norroen Dyrd]

I've finished Les Miserables by Hugo, now I'm moving to The Sorrows of Young Werther. The Romantic Period has some good books.

Oh, you've turned to reading Goethe. I shouldn't wonder if Faust is one of the next items on the list. That's a very good reading programme!
Speaking of Werther, at the peak of its popularity the book triggered off an immense wave of suicides, making Goethe himself feel rather uncomfortable - and for a long time afterwards, it was fashionable to be all melancholy and 'suffering'.
But then again, going about sulking at the cruel world is typical of Romanticism - not that I have anything against it.

[Avron the S'wit]

I am about 20 pages from the end of Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano. The suspense! The emotion! The satire! Vonnegut is such a master of American, nay, contemporary literature, I don't know how anyone doesn't bother to read him. All of his books are brilliant!

[AddictedtoMorrowind]

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

War and Peace? Seriously?

[Hadrianus]

I am about 20 pages from the end of Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano. The suspense! The emotion! The satire! Vonnegut is such a master of American, nay, contemporary literature, I don't know how anyone doesn't bother to read him. All of his books are brilliant!

I read Cat's Cradle Twas a nice read, I didn't regret reading it.

[Eltee]

War and Peace. Yup.
School.

[Avron the S'wit]

I read Cat's Cradle Twas a nice read, I didn't regret reading it.

Cat's Cradle was my favorite one...but I think Player Piano almost nixed that position. It was just so darn witty. I bet you would like that one, too.

I think now I will read Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby. I liked his collaboration with Ben Folds so it is only fitting!

[Leilah]

I'm reading Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. I'm catching up on all the prescribed reading I skipped when I should've done it.