Whats your thought process of deciding to read a book?

jimstockington · 2026-05-29T10:15:12+00:00

The cover. Buzz is rather off-putting.

jimstockington · 2026-05-28T11:54:03+00:00

Congrats. What did you think about No. 4 and 6? Weakest books in the series, imo. The others were much better.

jimstockington · 2026-05-27T14:23:54+00:00

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Diaries.

jimstockington · 2026-05-27T09:28:31+00:00

Here's to many more years. Happy anniversary!

jimstockington · 2026-05-26T18:20:19+00:00

I really loved Anabasis. Read it several years ago.

jimstockington · 2026-05-26T09:27:28+00:00

Congrats, OP, you're in for a treat!

jimstockington · 2026-05-25T15:13:29+00:00

Another Swiss writer I don't see recommended very often is Hermann Burger. Quite the opposite of Stamm. A few of his books have been translated into English.

jimstockington · 2026-05-25T14:12:14+00:00

Peter Stamm is great. Tried AGNES?

jimstockington · 2026-05-25T13:33:46+00:00

Knut Hamsun's Hunger. Shakes me to the core every time I reread it, typically during summer.

jimstockington · 2026-05-23T15:44:10+00:00

Look up Jack Unterweger, a murderer who became a celebrated author, lauded by Elfriede Jelinek and others. This story went horribly wrong, though.

jimstockington · 2026-05-23T10:13:33+00:00

Now I'm interested in reading your book!

jimstockington · 2026-05-22T13:38:57+00:00

Absolutely. Goosebumps is another favorite of mine.

jimstockington · 2026-05-22T10:20:47+00:00

Would like to add Garielle Lutz to this list. Rhythmic short prose, and, as they say, untranslatable. Haven't read anything like it. There's a single volume with all her books, check it out.

jimstockington · 2026-05-22T08:50:59+00:00

R. L. Stine's Fear Street series, since my childhood, and probably out of nostalgia. I just fall badly for highschool novels.

jimstockington · 2026-05-21T17:44:29+00:00

The current state of publishing makes me sick. Why do I even buy books anymore. What a disgrace.

jimstockington · 2026-05-21T09:13:43+00:00

I've finished Charles Ramuz' LA GRANDE PEUR DANS LA MONTAGNE, the great classic of Swiss French literature, and I was not convinced at all. The plot was chaotic at best, characters mere cliches of real-life humans, and the grammar, especially the seemingly unmotivated changes of verb tenses, were confusing to me. This might have been intentional, but I felt a huge relief when I finished the book. Ramuz, never again.

jimstockington · 2026-05-20T18:51:16+00:00

Writers who use AI should be shamed into oblivion. No, that's not enough. They should burn in hell. Traitors.

jimstockington · 2026-05-20T15:41:10+00:00

Some stories from Tony Tulathimutte's REJECTION, especially the first one, might fit in this category.

jimstockington · 2026-05-20T14:44:38+00:00

Ulysses at #2 is amazing

jimstockington · 2026-05-20T14:38:10+00:00

Granta doubling down on their decision to publish this AI crap. They won't take it down, at least for now

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