Monday, July 13, 2009

Anguish

I am going to tear every hair out from my head if I don't find the opportunity to just sit and read in peace this summer. A list:

CAIN, James M. - "Double Indemnity"
CAIN, James M. - "The Postman Always Rings Twice"
DRESIER, Theodore - "An American Tragedy"
ELLISON, Ralph - "Invisible Man"
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo - "Nature"
FLAUBERT, Gustave - "Madame Bovary"
GOGOL, NIKOLAI - "Dead Souls"
HUXLEY, Aldous - "Pointer Counter Point"
JAMES, Henry - "The Bostonians"
JAMES, Henry - "Turn of the Screw"
JOYCE, James - "Dubliners"
KAFKA, Franz - "Amerkia"
KAFKA, Franz - "The Castle"
LOVECRAFT, H.P. - "Rats in the Walls"
PERRY, Walker - "The Moviegoer"
PYNCHON, Thomas - "Gravity's Rainbow"
TOLSTOY, Leo - "Anna Karenina"
WOOLF, Virginia - "Mrs. Dalloway"
WOOLF, Virginia - "To the Lighthouse"

(Don't mind the format it's listed in. I C+P to make an easier read on Excel.)
Also want to dabble in some more philosophy. A second list:

DESCARTES, Rene - "Discourse on the Method" (reread)
HEIDEGGER, Martin - "Introduction to Metaphysics"
HEIDEGGER, Martin - "Being and Time"
JASPERS, Karl - "Philosophy of Existence"
KANT, Immanuel - "Critiques" (Pure, Practical Reason, and Judgment)
KIERKEGAARD, Soren - "Fear and Trembling"

Understandably, I only have the petty experience of a single Intro to Western Philosophy under my belt (thanks Clarkson), but realizing that that class should have been renamed, "Intro to Greek Philosophy" and I am compelled by my mental taste buds to forgo a return to the happy-go-lucky Greeks and instead revel in the anguish of Modern Philosophy (with the primer of early moderns).

I have also come to terms with this path I take towards superficial intellectualism and consequently, nerddom. And I am perfectly fine with that.

I beg for suggestions to add to this list. Particularly the latter. But the former is OK too.

1 comment:

Kanyin said...

Ambitious reading list. I hope you do get through all of it. Funny story: I read Anna Karenina immediately after reading Madame Bovary and now the library is convinced I'm really into books about adultery, so my automated reading list is always recommending them. The only addition I'd make is Orlando by Virginia Woolf. It's my favorite book of hers; of anything really.