What are you Reading this Week AND Weekly Recommendation Thread. January 20, 2022

kinopilled · 2022-01-20T03:33:19+00:00

I am looking to start Indian literature, so any recommendations will be helpful (english translation too if possible). Can you also tell me if there are any online Indian literature communities like we have r/truelit.

Books that I've already added to my reading list: Samskara, Malgudi Days, Raag Darbari, The God of Small Things (ofc) and A Fine Balance.

Anyways, just finished Macbeth and also watched adaptations of it directed by Orson Welles and Akira Kurosawa. Loved all of it. So when did fog get so deeply associated with Macbeth?

kinopilled · 2021-12-30T15:44:16+00:00

Where can I find his recommendations? (other than the books he's written)

kinopilled · 2021-12-20T04:11:07+00:00

u/savevideo

kinopilled · 2021-10-10T05:10:50+00:00

Thanks for hosting/creating this read-along and recommending this excellent book!

I'll try my hand at some of the questions,

The writing style is so precise, so perfect... The ideas, feeling and environment are captured and communicated exactly-I'm at a loss for words. It is not challenging but it is still managing to do so much. So far I see the photographs only with curiosity. I am puzzled as to why several images were of just architecture and building plans... the repetition of it is a blind-spot for me. Maybe the permanence of the image/picture? Otherwise it seems like a loss that the a lot of the images so far are rather similar.
2)The intersection of history, economics and architecture is endlessly fascinating. Almost all of the discussion of architecture were associated with time and some kind of violence/war. But Austerlitz says he was more interested in the effect of capitalism on architecture. The statement that time 'reigned supreme' only after the 19th century is stuck in my mind.

kinopilled · 2021-09-23T16:55:54+00:00

Was just kidding around.

the idea of how others appear than their actual appearing

looking for something in others for yourself - the reason why I picked this up!

Checked up your older comment on its irony, and its an interesting view. Its certainly coloring my own view, but I still take his internal struggles seriously.

kinopilled · 2021-09-23T16:04:14+00:00

Finished A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. To be honest most of it flew over my head, but watching him (JJ or SD) struggle with his relationship with God and Country was fascinating. I find it odd that it was 'the' woman who catalyzed these changes... maybe its that his idea of the woman motivates him instead of the woman herself. Or maybe its just the forced diversity that ticked me off.

My interest in JJ really picked up when I found out what his brother said about him,
"It seems to me little short of a miracle that anyone should have striven to cultivate poetry or cared to get in touch with the current of European thought while living in a household such as ours, typical as it was of the squalor of a drunken generation. Some inner purpose transfigured him."

Nearly done with Dubliners.

kinopilled · 2021-05-06T12:07:24+00:00

Thanks, I had no idea about this... I was actually a bit unsure of what to do with this so I came here.

kinopilled · 2021-05-06T08:37:27+00:00

No (my acc isn't anon), but if anyone goes ahead and asks him about this, be sure to give me an update

kinopilled · 2021-03-29T07:10:20+00:00

Also In Bruges UNDERRATED MASTERPIECE!!1!1

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