Ah, Soseki! Have you read Kokoro? That was my first Soseki. If you have any interest in Japanese youth literature (of about 20 years ago, admittedly) I recommend Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami. It was touted as the Japanese Clockwork orange. It wasn't quite that good, but still very interesting and worth a look.
Recent (worthwhile) reading: Wilson by David Mamet (intentionally confounding, but worth the effort - quite hilarious) Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by Gilbert Sorrentino Americana by Don Delillo Life Turns Man Up and Down: High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English - African Market Literature, edited by Kurt Thometz (This is out of print but still findable - it's too wonderful to describe.) > > From: aliceklar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/07/15 Thu PM 12:22:44 EDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Reading Matters > > i am reading dharma punx - noah levine and middlesex - > jeffery eugenides. plus man and his symbols - jung, a > beginner's guide to constructing the universe - > michael s. schneider. i switch a lot when i get bored > of it. some good ones i liked this year are i am a cat > by natsume soseki as well as botchan. i like the > japanese way of thinking in literature. great sense of > humour > > > --- Ann Klefstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been reading Christopher Logue's really > > fantastic retellings of the > > Iliad, lots sexier than "Troy" by many powers of 10. > > "The Husbands" is one, > > "All Day Permanent Red" the most recent. There are > > more. > > > > Also lately anything by any Roth seems great. Most > > recently Joseph Roth's > > "Radetzky March" and his "Holy Drinker" (may have > > the title askew--) > > > > "The Furies" by Fernanda Eberhardt. > > > > "Butcher's Wife" by Louise Erdrich, not all great > > but w/ great passages. > > > > Of course and always "Trilce" and "Posthumous Poems" > > by Cesar Vallejo. > > > > And a spate of mid-20th century stuff, poems by > > Williams, Olson, Berryman. > > Pound's Cantos. And even some Patchen! Who can be > > skinmeltingly lovely. > > > > And "that sweet man John Clare". Some kind of > > cultural salvation there, if > > only we could get at it--I've got some essays on his > > work if anyone would > > care to read them. Send me offlist message and I'll > > forward, if you wish. > > > > AK > > > > On 7/13/04 2:41 AM, "michael leigh" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I was wondering what the other members of the > > Fluxlist > > > were reading at the moment(besides this e-mail)- > > books > > > especially, that they recommend or they have > > enjoyed > > > reading just lately. > > > I used to read quite a lot but these days I find > > it > > > quite tough going to plough through a novel but > > Hazel > > > enjoyed this book and passed it onto me. It's > > called > > > "The Curious Incident of the Dog In the > > > Night-time(Don't let the long winded title put you > > > off!) by Mark Haddon. Published in the u.k., by > > > Definitions. > > > It's about a 15 year old boy who suffers from > > > Aspergers Syndrome and his quest to find out who > > > killed the neighbours dog. It's quite funny and > > > sometimes quite sad and written in an engaging > > > dead-pan style with helpful diagrams and pictures. > > > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW > > Yahoo! > > > Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express > > yourself > > > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > >
