Which book are you reading now? Volume XI

[NedimNapoleon]

But isn't that rather like reading Márquez in any language other than Spanish? Or Shakespeare (with a few notable exceptions) in any language other than English? I mean what's the point?

In other news - I finished A History of the German Language. Now I'm off to pick up Barbarian Migrations from the library.

I know but Im not really fluent in German.

EDIT; @holyking i knew that one

 

[Joecoolyo]

I started a classic, The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Meh, I'm reading that now for a lit class, and I'm finding that it tends to drag on a lot for such a short novel.

 

[Mango Elephant]

I really enjoyed The Scarlet Letter.

Spoiler alert!

Spoiler :

It's an "A".

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

A little less than halfway through Frank Tipton's A History of Modern Germany. Started to pick up now that it's the First World War. Focuses more on trends and patterns than events and anecdotes. Wish it was more balanced in that regard, but I'm still learning and being entertained.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

The thread on smoking prompted me to put in a little advertisement for a brilliant book.

"The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" by Allen Carr. Genius.

 

[Masada]

Marx: A Very Short Introduction - Peter Singer: Well written.
The House of the Sleeping Beauties - Yasunari Kawabata: Weird, loving weird. Otherwise well written.
Jesus Wars - John Phillip Jenkins: Check the full title for luls. Book on the Christological debates that "ended" with the Council of Chalcedon. It was mediocre. Structure was all over the place, author kept feeling the need to make "it" relevant to the now, it isn't, and kind of, sorta, sucked at explaining the differences between the positions. I learned stuff but not as much as I had hoped.

I'm now reading a bunch of works by Bart D. Ehrman: "Misquoting Jesus", "Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Case for Jesus of Nazareth" and "Jesus Interrupted". I began on the latter and have found the style refreshing and the content interesting so I picked up the other two to keep me busy between Southeast Asian stuff.

EDIT: I'm also rereading McVey's classic: "The Rise of Indonesian Communism".

 

[Leoreth]

But isn't that rather like reading Márquez in any language other than Spanish? Or Shakespeare (with a few notable exceptions) in any language other than English? I mean what's the point?

There are some German scholars who seriously think that Shakespeare is better in Schiller's translation. I like to think these people are deliberately parodied in Star Trek VI.

 

[sophie]

There are some German scholars who seriously think that Shakespeare is better in Schiller's translation. I like to think these people are deliberately parodied in Star Trek VI.

the Schiller translation is one of those notable exceptions

 

[King Kalmah]

The major works of Nietzsche are what I'm currently reading....

 

[Smellincoffee]

I just finished Germany: Unraveling an Enigma by Greg Nees, which explores German culture. I think it is written largely for American businessmen, because a fair portion of it is given over to the German social market system and business culture. The entire text was fascinating, though.

Next...well, I have another book on Germany (Five Germanys I Have Known, which I'm planning on reading before 3 October. I may start it later this week, though, as I'm in the middle of Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash.

 

[holy king]

the prague cemetery by umberto eco.

awesomely detailed and well thought out.

 

[Verarde]

Picked up The Screwtape Letters again. I think I'll enjoy it more this time around, since it's not an assignment.
Also Dune Messiah, and the Circle series by Ted Dekker.

 

[_random_]

You had the Screwtape Letters as an assignment?

 

[Verarde]

In my freshman year, yeah. And I was right, I am enjoying it a lot more.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Bill Clinton - Back to Work
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games

Depending on how I'm feeling.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

Im about to start "Eugénie Grandet" - Honoré de Balzac, Im in my Romanticism phase.

 

[_random_]

In my freshman year, yeah. And I was right, I am enjoying it a lot more.

It's a good read, but it's a bit of a curious school read. Unless you were homeschooled back then?

 

[Arakhor]

The Last English King by Julian Rathbone, referred to by one reviewer as an Anglo-Saxon I, Claudius.

 

[Traitorfish]

The Last English King by Julian Rathbone, referred to by one reviewer as an Anglo-Saxon I, Claudius.

I read that a while back. Good, although the phrase "came like a whale" still haunts me.

 

[Ajidica]

I read that a while back. Good, although the phrase "came like a whale" still haunts me.

Is that referring to what the dark corner of my brain is leading me to think?