To-do List this Holidays!
Franz Kafka, The Trial
Albert Camus, Myth of Sissyphus
Albert Camus, The Stranger
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Vicotr Hugo, Les Miserables
James Joyce, Ulysses
Roger Scruton, History of Modern Philosophy
Jimmy Carter, Palestinan Peace not Apartheid
Romance of the Three Kingdom
Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Benedict Anderson, The Imagined Community
Isaiah Berlin, Political Ideas in the Romantic Age
Hannah Arendt, Promise of Politics
Paul Roberts, The End of Food
Carl Jung, Essays on Contemporary Events – The Psychology of Nazism
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
*waves* i’m happy to say that i’ve read two of the above: carter’s and anderson’s. let me know how the rest go. is woolf the feminist writer?
u read anderson!!! tell me ab it.. i read this cacique democracy in philippines before. He’s gt wondeful prose! =)) And yea.. tt’s her!
*grins* i read it as part of my coursework and had to do some research on it too. I’ve prob got a third of the book photocopied (probably broke some copyright law there). Anderson’s a ‘hot’ post-modernist historian specialising in SEA stuff, in particular for his interpretation of the ‘nation’ and what is ‘nationalism’. Him and Hobbsbawm (‘Inventing Traditions’) are the 2 u shld look into reading. Anderson’s particularly into Indonesia, and i U’ll prob want to take a look at Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’ as well.
Btw, are you looking to read former CCP Gen. Sec. Zhao Ziyang’s memoir, ‘Prisoner of the State’? Apparently it’s just been published earlier this mth. I’m quite intrigued by it after reading a snippet in the newspapers.
Heyy Loris, thanks for the detailed description there.. I will look the three writers up! Have you written a paper on him? If so, do let me take a look at it! =)
I would be interested to read that Zhao Ziyang’s memoir too, he is quite a figure in chinese politics. I have this other memoir on Mao Zedong that quite ‘evilly’ depicted him in pretty negative light. Is this ZZY memoir a little of an alternative construction too?
If you’re up for reading Ulysses soon, we’re putting together an online collective to start reading it on Bloomsday (June 16th). Our site’s here…http://wanderingrox.wordpress.com.