What are you reading?

[braus]

Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy)

3/5 - I liked it (but I might say that it was more like a 2.5/5, but im sticking with whole numbers)

There were some nice moments of prose, mostly due to rhyming, but the novel was written for children, unlike Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz, which could be more easily enjoyed as an adult. Peter Pan is a true children's novel and was written as though Barrie had a mother or father reading to their child at their bedside in mind. I was disappointed with most of the novel because I assumed that it would have more of the master strokes that Alice in Wonderland did, or that it would have the innocent earnestness of The Wizard of Oz, but I don't think that it had much of either. But I did like the ending.

I'll be reading Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens next but won't review it, unless it's something spectacular. If it is then I'll just edit this post with that review.

 

[MagicHour]

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okjustfinishedthisbook. It's good, but not exactly what I thought it would be. The author isn't trying to discuss Freud, Adler or Jung in depth (understanding them thoroughly would require much more reading), he makes corrections and insights to round out the picture of these three men. Some takeaways

• Freud is the most important intellectual figure since Nietzsche
• Nietzsche is an important psychologist who prefigured Freud
• Freud was not dogmatic or materialist
• Freud did not excommunicate Adler or Jung
• Jung really wanted to break with Freud and brought it about himself, Freud was very fair
• Jung and Adler did not know themselves very well
• Jung and Adler did not significantly contribute to psychology

 

[MagicHour]

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Reading this next instead of the first two volumes of the series because Kaufmann recommends it.

 

[braus]

reading before dracula

 

[Slerk]

"slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension. Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master. Obey!"

this bitch wants to be raped (by me?) so bad
Frankenstein is smut

 

[psi]

today i read the Confession of St. Patrick... a masterpiece...

 

[ultright]

Just watched the documentary Radical Wolfe and so am re-reading all of Tom Wolfe's stuff, including Bonfire of the Vanities.

 

[braus]

Aminta

3/5 - I liked it

Torquato Tasso was obviously a great poet, so the play was very enjoyable to read even in translation. But I didn't really care for the story and it didn't spark my imagination, which is an important factor for me. I should read Jerusalem Delivered. Also, I think his verse improved as the play went on, orrr maybe I just got more into it, idk.

 

[braus]

readang i love anthropomorphic mice and rats

 

[resu]

Aminta

3/5 - I liked it

Torquato Tasso was obviously a great poet, so the play was very enjoyable to read even in translation. But I didn't really care for the story and it didn't spark my imagination, which is an important factor for me. I should read Jerusalem Delivered. Also, I think his verse improved as the play went on, orrr maybe I just got more into it, idk.

3/5
It's been a while since I read it, but I thought it better than that. I do enjoy pastoral poetry a lot, though. Aminta is the Comus to Tasso's Paradise Lost, but Jerusalem Delivered is even better than Paradise Lost. Milton admired Tasso as well and in his own epic often borrowed from him. I should also say, when Milton wasn't reading the original, he used Fairfax's translation, which is one of the few translations in our language that is itself literature. There aren't decent reprints that I know of, but it's worth looking over alongside one of the modern translations.