What Book Are You Currently Reading?

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Finally, finally, finally got round to Austerlitz (by W.G. Sebald, that is)

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C.P. Snow, Corridors of Power. The things you find at fleamarkets... first Penguin imprint, 1966. Prize marked as 6 Shillings on the backcover.

I have found that the likes of Snow and Anthony Powell make great escapist reading.

EDIT: Where did you find the picture in your sig? I believe it's from a Flemish Television show (Man Bijt Hond), no?

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Quite a bit of Thomas Bernhard. (Frost, Old Masters, Wittgenstein's Nephew)

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Jameson's a pretty cool guy, I'll grant you that.

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Just finished The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch.

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What are you surprised at? Surely an Arkansas republican can't be expected to spend his days with much different fare.

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Still, you'll agree it's hardly a surprising book to read for anyone with that specific profile.

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Followed up with To Kill A Mockingbird. I sense that one ought to disapprove of it but I'm a sappy romantic so I just loved it.

Would you be surprised if I told you that I don't like To Kill A Mockingbird?

It's a very long time now since I read fiction.

HP.

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Gide's Les Faux-Monnayeurs. I'm very taken by it. I will try to obtain a copy of Les Caves du Vatican, which I'm told is quite delightfully grotesque, next.

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Just finished reading all the way through Gadamer's Wahrheit und Methode and Georges Poulet's L'Espace Proustien (lacking the time needed to tackle Etudes sur le Temps Humain but have been reading on and off in Metamorphoses du Cercle for the last few weeks). I'm also gearing up to perhaps have a go at Derrida's L'écriture et la différence, although I might just have to wrestle myself through Sperber & Wilson's Relevance first.

For fun, I've just finished J.G. Farrell's Troubles (which was meh) and am currently some 150 pages deep into Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, which is really quite purple and weirdly enjoyable at the same time.

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Just finished Genette's Figures III and I.A. Richards' Practical Criticism, moved on to De Man's Allegories of Reading and re-reading some Flannery O'Connor on the side. Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Française lies waiting next to my bed.