Showing posts with label iPod. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Madame Bovary by Flaubert

The Eleanor Marx-Aveling translation.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe

I can see the influence of Goethe on Schopenhauer with this.

Rather enjoyable emo literature.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche

Nice, entertaining diatribe against Christianity, read while hanging out with 7th-Day-Adventist Indonesians on the south coast of Java.

Liza of Lambeth by Somerset Maugham

As generally happens when reading the full complement of a favourite author's works, the highs of initial brilliance are replaced by the lows of missteps.

This was Maugham's first novel, and though the trademark sympathy for fun-loving people is apparent, it's pretty ordinary.

Is this the only Maugham novel written in the third person?

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hilariously, devilishly, morosely good.

I think of Nick Cave as the musical embodiment of Dostoyevsky -- depressing, but funny.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Seriously, how did this ever become the great American novel? How could this interest anyone over ten years of age? I suppose the sympathetic depiction of African Americans is much less powerful these days, but even when concessions are made for that, I still can't get past the simple language and harebrained schemes that made it impossible for me to enjoy.

A huge disappointment.