What are you guys reading?

I loved Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying, but when I visited his home in Hampstead Heath, I felt a little disillusioned by how well-off he actually was.

In reality, I suppose this just goes to further prove his talent with writing.

 

Does anyone here like Bukowski?

 

Yep, a fair deal.

Does anyone in here like Nabokov? Checkov? Bulgakov? Hemingway? Whitman?

 

Unfortunately I haven't read any of those Rubin. I am an uncultured swine.

Perhaps you could recommend some reading.

 

Wow, I visited there last year, I wish I knew that Orwell had lived there. I don't particularly think there is anything wrong with being well off. It is not wealth that he was opposed to, but the conservatism and ignorance that tends to come with it.

 

I have to say that I'm not a big fan of Hemmingway but the one Bulgakhov novel I've read was superb. I presume I don't have to elaborate as to which one it was.

From the russian literature I've read, I also like Alexahnder Solzhenitsyn's A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. Simple and Perfect.

 

You and me both bud. The only books I read are usually all about money. Or people with money. Or what people with money do with their money that makes them money. Or....you get the picture.

 

Nabokov - Lolita , Invitation to a Beheading, The Defense, and Pale Fire.
Chekov - Three Sisters and other plays
Bulgakov - Master and Margarita
Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea
Whitman - Ehh... anything. There are a couple of good anthologies such as Leaves of Grass

 

Bukowski is AWSOME i was reading Women but someone snakey caked my copy.

 

True, but it's quite easy to look at the wealthy objectively rather than jealously, when your poverty is self-inflicted. Don't get me wrong, I don't think it takes much from his writing.

 

Like Rich Dad, Poor Dad, that sort of thing?

I have always admired people with such a healthy attitude towards money.

I have a pathetic phobia of it and can only read books that are wishy washy and anti society.

 

I loved Chekhov's Cherry Orchard. I had th pleasure of re-reading it this year when a friend had to study it for college and wanted somebody to discuss it with.

 

Good call. Actually two of the books I just finished were from that series. I will probably buy a couple of more. Specifically: Rich Dad's "Other Peoples Money" <--my FAVORITE subject.

I've never been afraid of not having money because I grew up not having money. We didn't go without very often, but we worked off hot dogs, macaronie, eggs, and bread in different combinations for many years. My problem has always been the exact opposite. Telling myself, "Meh. It's just money. I get more on Friday".

 

man, i hated A Farewell to Arms. but thats probably because of the teacher i had when we were assigned to read it. fucking old hag.

i should give it another chance. i did enjoy For whom the bell tolls though

 

I have met a lot of interesting people into the "rich dad" books.....eg. a prostitute, a korean backpacker i met in malaysia and a bunch of malaysians, some crazy lady that tried to sign me up for a pyramid scheme.

Whats the premise? Its all about attitude isn't it?

And I have the same problem as you.....I spend money like a mofo because "its only money, I get more on Tuesday". I admittedly love having money, especially good money that just comes back every damn week. I just could never read a book on it or devote any major amount of effort into getting it because I would feel repulsed at myself...

Money is a warming sun that will burn you if you get too close.

 

Whitman is as close to Christ as your gonna get in modern times
Right now I am reading a condensed version of Richard Francis Burton's English translation of the One Thousand and One Nights collections. Specifically, I stopped about a 1/4 of the way into The City of Brass. Just finished Sinbad's voyages (completley awesome) and The Angel of Death With the Proud Man and the Devout Man (my favorite from what I've ever read).
Wish I was reading José Ortega y Gasset's La rebelión de las masas, but I am assuming God will not allow it because every time I go to a bookstore and ask for it, people look at me like Im insane. Does the book even exist, anyone? :tongue:

 

I'm sure in Spanish you can find it, or maybe online. Back in Santo Domingo the street that was in the corner of my apt was Ortega y Gasset, named after him

 

I used to have it in English, Matt let me borrow it. But I never saw it again!

 

ohh I remember that, I was there when that happened. Didnt you forget to take it with you?

 

I think that was another of his books, I think I asked him for Revolt but he was like "I lost it" and so he handed me another one and we forgot it. And member we went to the books store down there and they didnt have it either? Other books by him they had though