The "What Are You Reading" thread

[Losperman]

-The Great Gatsby (again)
-The Lathe of Heaven (again)
-The Casual Vacancy (when I can)
-A bunch of poetry
-A bunch of comic books
-A bunch of other random stuff for school

[d u m p y]

[OcarinaClock]

herman hesse- siddhartha(again x 2)

[Losperman]

+The Awakening (again)
+The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
+Still a lot of poetry and comic books and random school stuff

[WrenchClock]

Could anyone recommend me any really good contemporary adventure novels? I'm hungry for some page travellin'

[I1I1I1I1I1I1I11111I1I1I1IIIIIII1I1I1I1I11I]

I'm reading The Elegant Universe right now. Getting a head start on physics

[PhantomCatClock]

I am in the process of WGetting this directory and it is looking like it'll be done in time for Christmas.


Naturally, I'm going to go through and delete the non-Public Domain ones because I am a normal Internet-user

[RobClock]

Got myself some British history books; Historia Brittonum, and The History of the Kings of Britain.

[WrenchClock]

Just got a Franz Kafka anthology for my kindle, haven't read Metamorphisis for a while

[DiscoBallClock]

-Catch 22, by Joseph Heller

herman hesse- siddhartha(again x 2)

Just got a Franz Kafka anthology for my kindle, haven't read Metamorphisis for a while

Excellent choices.

[WrenchClock]

Excellent choices.

I like Gregor's reaction to waking up as a giant bug.

I'm going to be late for work!

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[WrenchClock]

I got really anxious reading it back and forward frantically searching for what what the insect thing is supposed to be a metaphor for, since his really underwhelmed reaction led me to believe he wasn't actually a bug or something

[DiscoBallClock]

I got really anxious reading it back and forward frantically searching for what what the insect thing is supposed to be a metaphor for, since his really underwhelmed reaction led me to believe he wasn't actually a bug or something

It's a critique regarding the non-acceptance of Gregor's family to change, or in broader terms, something that isn't familiar. Kafka wants to criticize how someone who once was regarded as family is suddenly ostracizised on account of his change. He's basically saying that Gregor's family's love is bullshit (probably because of his own daddy issues), though that could be extended on a wider scale if you compare the family to society as a whole, since they are so unreceptive to different things.

[WrenchClock]

Aaahhh, I thought it was something like that. The Judgement is all about the father issues too.

[DiscoBallClock]

Aaahhh, I thought it was something like that. The Judgement is all about the father issues too.

A lot of Kafka's work can be traced back to father issues. It's his thing

[WrenchClock]

Is it weird that in "The Judgement" when he mentioned how his bathrobe-wearing father is "still a giant" I thought he was talking about his dad's dick? Some Freud business there, Georg.

[RobClock]

I was interested in giving The Punisher comics a look, and rather than jump into the currently ongoing series, since the comic store had it, I bought this five issue miniseries called Punisher Nightmare. The basic plot was The Punisher vs. some afghan vet with regenerative superpowers. It wasn't exactly awful, but if it's par for the course with the ongoing comics I'm not sure It sold me on the series.

[WrenchClock]

Been creeping through the Kafka anthology really slowly between doing my own writing work, so I've only just arrived at Act III of The Metamorphosis.

I'm really seeing how Kafka projects his own anxieties onto his characters. Samsa's fear of his father trying to kill him and his need to cling onto the human memories in his possessions (the painting) made me feel genuinely upset.

[RobClock]

Grabbed this for $1. Fuck yeah.