It is one of his best, IMHO. Go get a copy!

Kazuo Ishiguro – The Buried Knight — Snakes Alive

The Buried Giant, surely? (It's on my list.)

Books I read recently:

Ivan Bunin - Stories and novellas
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice and other stories
JM Coetzee - Waiting for the Barbarians
Dino Buzzati - The Tartar Steppe
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Olga Tokarczuk - The Books of Jacob - just started. This one will take a while...

Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy — Pantagruel

A great read, but gloomier even than Tess, in its own way.

It is only through the conversation of man with man that ideas come into existence. Two human beings are as necessary for the generation of the human mind as they are for the human body
~Feuerbach

Interesting introductory quote; I'd agree with this: Consciousness is essentially interactive. — Pantagruel

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Yeah, the Buried Giant. I don't know why I typed it that way. It's alright, but I'm leaving it aside for now to finish some other stuff.

Japanese literature:

Seven Japanese tales by Junichiro Tanizaki.
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
Sputnik, sweetheart by Murakami.
A personal matter by Kenzaburo Oe

But specially dedicated to Kawabata Yasunari:

• The dancing girl of Izu
  Koto
  The house of sleeping beauties
  Snow country.

Sputnik, sweetheart by Murakami. — javi2541997

I read "1Q85" and really enjoyed it. Almost a fantasy but not quite. Is it magical realism? It scrambled up my mind. I keep thinking I'll read more of his work, but when I take a look, I find myself unready to jump back in to such an odd world. I'm sure I will eventually.

It is similar but with some different tones. I think the magical realism of "Sputnik, sweetheart" is not close enough to 1Q84. Nevertheless! It has that Murakami atmosphere that you can check in most of the books: loneliness, random grils out of nowhere, Metaphysic conversations, nostalgia, etc...

It is similar but with some different tones. I think the magical realism of "Sputnik, sweetheart" is not close enough to 1Q84. Nevertheless! It has that Murakami atmosphere that you can check in most of the books: loneliness, random grils out of nowhere, Metaphysic conversations, nostalgia, etc... — javi2541997

I'll add it to my list. Maybe this will give me the impetus I need to read some more Murakami.

Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon.

Go, Dog. Go!

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Peter Kropotkin
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, Susan Brownmiller

Samsa in Love. Unforgettable.

On the Reproduction of Capitalism by Louis Althusser

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Enjoy.

Quite hard but beautiful language.

160 pages in and I'm finding it totally absorbing and enjoyable.

Currently re-reading

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

An Inquiry into the Good, Kitaro Nishida.

Love and St. Augustine, Hannah Arendt.

The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt.

Currently reading

Lots of stuff by Kierkegaard: The Present Age, The Sickness Unto Death, On the Concept of Irony, Attack Upon Christendom, Fear and Trembling along with his early journals. I’ve also been reading up on Thomism too, namely Orthodox Readings of Aquinas by Marcus Plested and Person and Act by John Paul II.

Lots of stuff by Kierkegaard: The Present Age, The Sickness Unto Death, On the Concept of Irony, Attack Upon Christendom, Fear and Trembling — Dermot Griffin

You would enjoy it :up:

A History of God - Karen Armstrong (thanks @Wayfarer)
Rogue Moon - Algis Budrys (thanks @Srap Tasmaner)

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Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge, James Robert Brown
The Radiance of Being: Dimensions of Cosmic Christianity, Stratford Caldecott

The Radiance of Being: Dimensions of Cosmic Christianity, Stratford Caldecott — Wayfarer

This sounds fascinating.

His is a touching story, lifelong seeker turned Catholic convert who died prematurely from cancer. Eclectic outlook and a very good writer. (He was born 5 weeks after me :fear: )

February reading

When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves, S. Nadler & L. Shapiro

Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy — Pantagruel

A haunting and desolate novel. Don't read it if you are feeling low...

When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves, S. Nadler & L. Shapiro — 180 Proof

It looks like so interesting. I going to check it out and put it on my next readings.

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No kidding!

Eric Mielants - The Origins of Capitalism and the "Rise of the West"
Colin Moores - The Making of Bourgeois Europe: Absolutism, Revolution, and the Rise of Capitalism in England, France and Germany

To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers

The Philosophical Writings of Descartes Volumes I-II

sounds good lemme know your thoughts