Books you read in '08

[Duncan]

2008 is mostly detective novels for me. a lot of which i don't even care to remember or write the title down.

So does this mean you read all those plus a bunch more that you're just not listing? Because...damn.

[lovejuice]

So does this mean you read all those plus a bunch more that you're just not listing? Because...damn.

in fact yes, although detective novels are very easy to consume. i can read a christie's in a few sittings, and finish it within a day.

[Duncan]

in fact yes, although detective novels are very easy to consume. i can read a christie's in a few sittings, and finish it within a day.

Well, like I said...damn. Also, welcome back.

[thefourthwall]

sorry to burst your bubble, but like melville, my field is actually science. :P

Hmm. A double edged sword...

1. I feel extra ashamed about my list, which is nowhere near yours, and will not be posted--if someone not in my field reads more of it than me

BUT 2. I am rather excited that you are not in this field because that means next year when I'm on the contemporary British fiction market, I will not be competing with you!

[SirNewt]

Atmospheric Disturbances (Galchen)
Unaccustomed Earth (Lahiri)
White Nights (Dostoevsky)
At the Mountains of Madness (Lovecraft)
The Aleph (Borges)
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Diaz)
Brave New World (Huxley)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig)
The Way of the World (Suskind)
Moby Dick (Melleville)
Tao Te Ching (Lao Tse)
Out of the Silent Planet (Lewis)
The Wind in the Willows (Grahame)
Les Miserables (Hugo)

Books I spent considerable time with

I Ching(Willem/Baynes)
The Gulag Archipelago Volume II(Solzhenitsyn)

planned reading for 09

The Golden Compass
The Illyad
The Road
2666
The Divine Comedy (ok at least inferno, Mandlebaum translation for sure his metamorphoses of ovid translation was brilliant)
The Death of Ivan Illyach
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
The Divinity Student
Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamozov

poetry in 09

I don't know: my obsession with Four Quartets continues. Maybe I'll finish memorizing it in 09. Then I can move on.

[thefourthwall]

Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamozov

I like Crime and Punishment better.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I like Crime and Punishment better.

That's two of us, though really, you can't go wrong with either.

[Melville]

I like Crime and Punishment better.

Karamazov>Notes from Underground>Crime and Punishment>pretty much everything else. As far as narrative structure goes, Crime and Punishment is much better, but the breadth and depth of the themes and characters explored in Karamazov can't be beat.

[lovejuice]

i actually like the idiot more than c&p. haven't read brother k., but will do eventually. the possessed is d.'s only novel that i find underwhelming.

[thefourthwall]

That's two of us, though really, you can't go wrong with either.

True true. The Brothers Karamazov is certainly excellent.

[SirNewt]

Karamazov>Notes from Underground>Crime and Punishment>pretty much everything else. As far as narrative structure goes, Crime and Punishment is much better, but the breadth and depth of the themes and characters explored in Karamazov can't be beat.

I've a copy of that I'll be getting to this year as well actually.

EDIT: And of course I'll be rereading some Borges. How could I not?