My top 10 books so far
My reading journey is taking on a whole new dimension, so this list reflects the time up to recently
1. The works of Cioran - all 11 of his books that i have are like one big book, and i'd LOVE a giant edition of them all, a wish i had before getting a kindle, only 8 are in eBook format.
2. The works of Nietzsche - the guy that shook me up, and awoke me from my evangelical slumber
3. The works of Kierkegaard - he can be funny and complex, he's a cosmos unto himself, amazing guy.
4. The works of Shestov - he synthesizes and reacts to Nietzsche and Kierkegaard that Cioran does, but here in favor of belief. Drier than Cioran too, but his aphoristic book All Things Are Possible is superb!!!
5. The works of Robert Walser - the finest writer of prose i've ever read, and this is in translation.
6. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil - i've never finished this unfinished novel yet, but from what i have read, it's cemented into the faves, funny and deep.
7. The Rebel - Albert Camus - my copy is so marked up, Albert was like speaking to me when noone else was, i loved it.
8. Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire - more than most a translation of Baudelaire is looked down on, but it's so iconic and great, i also put alongside him via a Henry Miller essay Lautreamont and Rimbaud as the 3 dark poets as unto say the synoptic gospel writers. Holy in a blasphemous way.
9. Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky - the gold standard for this kind of thing, Nietzsche liked it too!!!
10. Essays - Montaigne - the type of thing one pleasantly lives with.
honorable mentions - Pessoa's Book of Disquiet / Max Stirner's The Ego and It's Own / Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time
1. The works of Cioran - all 11 of his books that i have are like one big book, and i'd LOVE a giant edition of them all, a wish i had before getting a kindle, only 8 are in eBook format.
2. The works of Nietzsche - the guy that shook me up, and awoke me from my evangelical slumber
3. The works of Kierkegaard - he can be funny and complex, he's a cosmos unto himself, amazing guy.
4. The works of Shestov - he synthesizes and reacts to Nietzsche and Kierkegaard that Cioran does, but here in favor of belief. Drier than Cioran too, but his aphoristic book All Things Are Possible is superb!!!
5. The works of Robert Walser - the finest writer of prose i've ever read, and this is in translation.
6. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil - i've never finished this unfinished novel yet, but from what i have read, it's cemented into the faves, funny and deep.
7. The Rebel - Albert Camus - my copy is so marked up, Albert was like speaking to me when noone else was, i loved it.
8. Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire - more than most a translation of Baudelaire is looked down on, but it's so iconic and great, i also put alongside him via a Henry Miller essay Lautreamont and Rimbaud as the 3 dark poets as unto say the synoptic gospel writers. Holy in a blasphemous way.
9. Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky - the gold standard for this kind of thing, Nietzsche liked it too!!!
10. Essays - Montaigne - the type of thing one pleasantly lives with.
honorable mentions - Pessoa's Book of Disquiet / Max Stirner's The Ego and It's Own / Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time
