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Books You Plan to Read in 2022
Do you have a reading list for the year? This is mine (half of them were on my reading list last year, so I doubt I'll get through them all!!):
John Higgs: Blake Yuval Harari: Sapiens P G Wodehouse: Thankyou Jeeves Thom Gunn: Collected Poems Alan Watts: The Way of Zen Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (can't think of the author's name) Patrick Fermor: Mani Basho: The Narrow Road to the Deep North Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain Herman Hesse: The Glass Bead Game Audiobook of Stephen Fry reading Sherlock Holmes Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (even though I have literature degree, I've never read a word by Austen, so thought I'd better give her a go) Harold Bloom: Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles and also The Western Canon Nabokov: The Luzhin Defence and Sebastian Knight Primo Levi: The Wrench Stephen Fry: Making History Edward St Aubyn's latest novel (can't think of the name) John Gribbin: The Seven Pillars of Science Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker Paul Nurse: What is Life? Tom Stoppard: Arcadia A. C. Grayling: History of Philosophy and The Limits of Knowledge Anthony Burgess: Earthly Powers I'm going to try and read more of a mix this year, both fiction and non-fiction. For fiction, I'm following Harold Bloom's reading list. But I also want to read more popular science. I'm really bad at science, and very ignorant, so it's a bit of a struggle, but the older I get the more it interests me. Must also get back into audiobooks. It's a great way to plough through the classics - stuff like Dickens, Hardy, Woolf, H G Wells's Time Machine, etc. Actually, it would be interesting to put up a list of films people plan to watch and CDs they plan to buy (do people still buy CDs??). I want to re-watch Blade Runner, and also the new version with Ryan Gosling. And I must get a DVD boxset of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard plays. Final plan is to start listening to vinyl, beginning with all the early Pink Floyd albums (the Syd Barret era). |
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Stephen Fry: Mythos
D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love Clive James: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin Merlin Sheldrake: Entangled Life Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall Nessa Carey: The Epigenetics Revolution Kay Redfield Jamison: An Unquiet Mind (Just started it. Very interesting and gut-wrenching account of a life lived under the shadow of mental illness. She's a fascinating person, someone with a science background who also writes knowledgeably about Byron, Virginia Woolf, and so on.) Ishiguro: Klara and the Sun Michel Houellebecq: Serotonin I agree with the OP about audiobooks. I ought to listen to them more. My sister bought me Stephen Fry's Troy on CD, so I'll probably begin with that. |
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I still buy CDs.
I've already read one book, The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman. I actually think you'd enjoy this one Moksha. I'd also like to read The Trans Issue by Shon Faye, and Bob Mortimer's autobiography the name of which escapes me. |
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Btw, please, please, please buy your books from bookshops, not online. It would be so horrible if bookshops began closing down.
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^ I'm more concerned about libraries.
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^ Some people really like kebab shops
Anyway, what do you plan to read this year? |
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Ooh I like this thread. I've been thinking of rebooting a book club some point after I move. Me and my two friends did it through Discord together!
It will be based more around fantasy series though. I'll post my reply when I am free! |
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So many great books, so little time! Aside from dipping into lots of textbooks/reference works, the following might be a halfway realistic goal:
Sydpolen. Den norske sydpolsfærd med Fram 1910–1912 (Amundsen) Historical Linguistics (Campbell) Grundriss der germanischen Philologie (Paul) Four Thousand Weeks. Time and How to Use it (Burkeman) The Little Book of Stoicism (Salzgeber) Sprog på Grænsen/Grenzsprachen (Weinreich/Ipsen) Die Varusschlacht (Moosbauer) Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love (Booth) The War of the Worlds (Wells) The Word Hoard: Daily Life in Old English (Videen) How Dead Languages Work (George) Geschichte Schleswig-Holsteins (Bohn) Germanerne. Mytene, historien, språket (Janson) Kontrastsprache Niederländisch – Ein neuer Weg zum Niederländischen auf der Grundlage der germanischen Sprachverwandtschaft (Arntz/Wilmots) Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) Het Achterhuis (Frank) Bob de Straatkat (Bowen) How to Improve at Chess (Ke) Niederdeutsch. Fünf Vorträge zur Einführung (Various) |
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Has anyone ever set themselves a reading challenge? During lockdown, a lot of people I know, both online and in real life, decided to read War and Peace, Hawking’s Brief History of Time, all of Dickens’ novels, or the complete works of Shakespeare, etc. I wonder how many actually stuck to it? I planned to read the complete works of Virginia Woolf, but only managed one and a half novels before depression wiped me out.
If AI replaces most jobs, and we all end up on a universal basic income with nothing to do, what reading challenge will you set yourself? |
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The only writers whose complete works I’d like to read are Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy and Kurt Vonnegut. I like Dickens, but I don’t think I could manage all his novels. |
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It would be interesting to read Caesar's accounts of the Gallic Wars and Tacitus' Germania in the original, though, as well as M. Aurelius. Why not learn it self-didactically, Moksha? There's nowt stopping you |
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I’ve always regretted not doing classics at university. What I’d really love is to read Ancient Greek. I’ve always wanted to translate bits of The Odyssey, and the odd bit of Plato. I actually have a pile of teach yourself Ancient Greek books at home...but, well, it’s just so goddam hard!! Ugghh, curse my feeble brain!! |
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^ That's in medieval Italian, rather than the modern language. Well, better textbooks are being written in Italian, for some reason, on Germanic linguistics and early Germanic culture than in any Germanic language. I recently bought 3 such Italian books and one day plan to read them. Also, it would just be a change to learn a language outside of the Germanic family.
You've got a decent brain, Moksha. I bet with the right resources and approach you could learn to read Ancient Greek. |
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The first third is a little slow, but it picks up well after that. Helps if youre interested in Russian/European history too. |
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I guess at the time it was written these issues were very important in Russia, and with Russia being rather backward when it came to things like Agrarian matters, Serfdom etc, maybe Tolstoy was trying to push more enlightened thinking on the subject through his characters? |
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I don't know whether that story is true (probably not), but 19th century Russia was unbelievable. Studying 19th, and even early 20th century Russian history is like peering into a giant time capsule. That is pretty much what Europe must have been like in around 1200 - landowners who regarded the farm labourers as, basically, property. |
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The 'Serf' issue features in a lot of Russian Literature of the 19th Century by the likes of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol etc, and I think most of these authors saw it as an embarrassment, and it rarely features in a good light in those novels. Similar to the way that Charles Dickens also campaigned aginst things like Debtors Prisons, Poor Factory Conditions, the archaic practices of The Courts Of Chancery etc. He used his stories to highlight the injustices of these sort of things, and was highly effective in doing so. |
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The problem with reading lists is that I keep adding new books (which I know I'll never read).
Has anyone ever read Stanislaw Lem's Solaris? I heard someone rave about it on a podcast. I also want to read Douglas Adam's A Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Actually, I might get it on audiobook. I also bought a couple of secondhand books today, which I've added to the "I'll never around to reading them" list: Yuval Harari's Homo Deus, which looks fascinating, and Stephen Fry's Making History. |
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You are all so learned, it puts me to shame. Sent from my SM-A202F using Tapatalk |
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