(urth) What are you reading?

[Marc Aramini]

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 12, 2014, at 6:26 AM, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, Urthlings. What are you reading these days?  I haven't been reading much Wolfe lately, so nothing is fresh enough in my mind to participate in some of the other ongoing discussions.
> 
> I am working my way through the Harvard Classics.  I just finished the fourth volume, the complete poems in English by John Milton.  Paradise Lost was a treat, as was Franklin's autobiography in the first volume and the New Atlantis by Bacon in the third, which is an old favorite of mine from my philosophy major days.
> 
> I've also recently read The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch, which was excellent, and The City of Dreaming Books by Moers, which was great, silly fun.  I also read the first 50 pages of Lookout Cartridge by McElroy and decided to put it back on the shelf for the time being.  It wasn't particularly bad, it was just entirely unsuccessful in grabbing my attention within a reasonable amount of time, together with being written in a very disjointed, unique style.  I will probably get back to it in the near future.
> 
> Anyway, I am getting back on a Wolfe kick today by finishing the latter half of The Island of Doctor Death, and Other Stories, and Other Stories. Looking forward to it!
> _______________________________________________

Haven't read much lately but in the middle of Musil's Man of No Qualities, in about the fifth volume of Sturgeon's collected stories, Mishima's Forbidden Colors (Mishima's philosophy always interested me), Bolano's 2666 which seems to me at its heart kind of a Twin Peaks urban fantasy.  Surprised it got any literary attention. McElroy has always been one of those authors I feel I should like but in execution he seems rather boring.  At least you have to pay attention when you read him. 

My Peace write up is "done" but it is missing a connection I know that is lurking, between the devils of hell with misplaced limbs who are one with their victims and the carnival people and the dog boy whom Weer's father will take hunting in a dream and languishes across Weer's leg as he thinks of his picnic with Margeret Lorn, so I am waiting on that final edit to post it.  After that I will be on Forleson.  I have not abandoned my project but I have to be in the right frame of mind to do quality work on it. 

Clearly island of doctor death and other stories is Wolfe's best collection.  


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20140312/3bd4e550/attachment-0004.htm>