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PurpleHazel




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  • Posted: 05/04/2020 02:52
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RoundTheBend wrote:
As well as HP.

Also if you are a 15 year old male (or still act like one), you must read the catcher in the rye.

So no age limit for Harry Potter, but you have to have the maturity level of 15-year-old male for Catcher in the Rye? Wink

Catcher in the Rye's great at expressing dissatisfaction with society and humanity. Guess that makes it more timely than ever.
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  • Posted: 05/05/2020 01:09
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RoundTheBend wrote:
As well as HP.


Harry Potter has done more damage to my generation than drugs ever could.
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BARDAMU wrote:
Harry Potter has done more damage to my generation than drugs ever could.


What is it about Harry Potter that's worse than tens of thousands of opioid overdose deaths each year, which have been enough to lower the overall US life expectancy for the first time since 1993? Think
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  • Posted: 05/06/2020 21:24
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RoundTheBend wrote:
I was a German Lit. major and this was more or less the reading list.

There are English translations online for free if interested: Those in bold were my favorite

Early German:
Rothmann – Kleine Geschichte der deutschen Literatur
Gedichte including Carmina Burana (especially Fortuna) and Threanen des Vaterlands
Hildebrandslied
Walter von der Vogelweide: Select Minnesang (Under der linden)
Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzival
Johannes von Tepl: Der Ackermann
Martin Luther: Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen & Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen
Grimmelshausen: Simplicissimus

Rothmann – Kleine Geschichte der deutschen Literatur
Lessing: Emilia Galotti
Lessing: Brief an Nicolai Lessing Texte
Lessing: Hamburgische Dramaturgie Nr. 14 Lessing
Lessing: Hamburgische Dramaturgie, Nr. 46 Lessing
Lessing: Nathan der Weise
Schiller: Die Schaubühne als moralische Anstalt
Schiller: Briefe über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen, Briefe 1 – 6
Schiller: Über das Patherische
Schiller: Maria Stuart
Goethe: Das Märchen
Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
Goethe: Faust I und II
Schubert – Winterreise
Mozart and Schikaneder: Die Zauberflöte

Stuff from East Germany:
Loest: Nikolaikirche
Sparschuh: Der Zimmerspringbrunnen
Braun: Der Wendehals oder Trozdestonichts: Eine Unterhaltung


Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
The Prose and Poetic Edda
Das Nibelungenlied
Williamson: The Longing for Myth in Germany

Kant: Kritik der Urteilskraft
Hölderlin: Hyperion
Novalis: Die Lehrlinge zu Sais
Fichte: Einege Vorlesungen über die Bestimmung des Gelehrten

All Goethe: (sorry for the repeats)
Die Leiden des jungen Werther
Hermann und Dorothea
Faust I
Götz von Berlichingen
Iphigenia auf Tauris
Gedichte
Böhrer: Goethe

Brecht: Die Dreigroschenoper
Christa Wolf: Was belibt
Baldinger: Lebesbeschreibung
Frisch: Geschichte von Isidor
Brecht: Der gute Mensch von Seszuan
Kleist:Erdbebeb in Chili
Brecht: Die unwürdige Greisin
Handke: Die Linkshändige Frau
Reuter: Aphrodite und ihr Dichter
Barthes: Death of the Author
Freud: The Uncanny
M. v. Ebner-Eschenbach: Das Gemeindekind
May Ayim: Nacht Gesang
Bettine von Arnim and Gisela von Arnim Grimm: Das Leben der Hochgräfin Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns
Wolfgang Borchert: Nachts schlafen die Ratten doch
Heinrich Böll: Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral

Also this was a decent overview of literary theory if you are interested in looking at the world through multiple lenses:
https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Experience-Literary-Criticism-Paperback/dp/B004D80JZG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Critical+Experience%3A+Literary+Reading%2C+Writing%2C+And+Criticism&qid=1588399742&sr=8-1




These are good recs, where would be a good starting point if you want to read it in the original german but are only intermediate level?


Anyways I got some Camus & The Charterhouse of Parma I'm attempting to read in the original french, and some nice modern fantasy and books on 15th centuray medieval politics, so plenty filled up for the time being.
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  • Posted: 05/06/2020 21:31
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CryingGameDahlin wrote:


These are good recs, where would be a good starting point if you want to read it in the original german but are only intermediate level?


I'd say Handke's Die Linkshändige Frau might be worth a decent shot depending on your German. This is keeping in mind I think I've only read six of the books on that entire list, but yeah.

Also just learned Handke directed a film adaptation of the book in the 70s and it was actually in competition at Cannes... hadn't a clue.
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Anyone here read any life improvement books lately?

I have been reading the The Road Less Travelled lately which has been very good so far Smile

Perhaps we can start sharing books on this thread over post? Lots of pdfs are online too. I know of a website named Gutenberg which contains many free ones you can read online.
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Anyone got some decent curve-ball sci-fi recs? Got a craving and looking for some when I finish my current books.
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Patman360 wrote:
Anyone got some decent curve-ball sci-fi recs? Got a craving and looking for some when I finish my current books.

I'd be interested to see any too Drool I think the ones I've read, you've probably seen before.

Mythtall wrote:
Anyone here read any life improvement books lately?

I have been reading the The Road Less Travelled lately which has been very good so far Smile

Perhaps we can start sharing books on this thread over post? Lots of pdfs are online too. I know of a website named Gutenberg which contains many free ones you can read online.

depends what angle you are approaching this from (productivity, spiritual etc), but Atomic Habits is the best self-help book I've read recently (going back a but further, I've been through loads).
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Patman360 wrote:
Anyone got some decent curve-ball sci-fi recs? Got a craving and looking for some when I finish my current books.


I don't have a lot of sci-fi books, but I suggest Solaris by Stanislaw Lem.
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  • Posted: 06/13/2020 14:14
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How much Philip K Dick have you read?

He's one of my favorite authors. UBIK is often called his best work, and I would agree.
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