Reading resolutions for 2013.

[affy18]

Again, useless lists because it's hard to keep up with these resolutions. Life gets in the way.

I'm planning to read three behemoths throughout the entire year interspersed with smaller reads:

- Moby-Dick (Herman Melville): I hope to finally be able to tackle this.
- The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann): I read the first 15 pages or so and couldn't continue. Hopefully I will read this THIS year.
- The World as Will and Representation (Arthur Schopenhauer): I bought it last year and think will read it sometime during fall or so, I hope.

PS: Oh, and also a re-read of The New Testament (at least two gospels + Paul's letters). I read Genesis a couple of months ago but don't feel the motivation to go through all of the Old Testament. It's too big a commitment.

[Bean]

I made it halfway through Moby-Dick two years ago! Which felt like an accomplishment to me. My reading choices sort of blow with the wind, so I can't even make resolutions in good conscience.

[affy18]

I made it halfway through Moby-Dick two years ago! Which felt like an accomplishment to me. My reading choices sort of blow with the wind, so I can't even make resolutions in good conscience.

I read the first few pages during the summer and I loved what I read but it was SO not a summer read.

I hope to read it sometime this spring.

[crazyfists3600]

I was planning on three big ones this year too!

Les Miserables/Victor Hugo
Against the Day/Thomas Pynchon
Moby Dick/Herman Melville

My dad actually just gave me his copy of Moby Dick last month. He told me to read it, so now I have to.

[haqyunus]

affy, I am curious to know that why couldn't you continue Magic Mountain? It is not that difficult book to read, specially at the surface level. One can find stuff of general interest (drama, humor, tragedy, passion, culture) too, relatable material even if one doesn't delve into it is actual historical, political or philosophical contexts/meanings. It is certainly not as accessible as Buddenbrooks (somebody please make a lavish period piece movie of it ) but it is not hard like some other authors (at least not till towards the end.)

[Jali]

Stendhal: The red and the black
Dickens: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, The old curiosity shop, David Copperfield
Collins: The moonstone,The woman in white
Hugo: Les misérables
Maurier: Jamaica Inn
Lawrence: Women in love
I bought these books last year, I hope this year I can read all of them.

[affy18]

affy, I am curious to know that why couldn't you continue Magic Mountain? It is not that difficult book to read, specially at the surface level. One can find stuff of general interest (drama, humor, tragedy, passion, culture) too, relatable material even if one doesn't delve into it is actual historical, political or philosophical contexts/meanings. It is certainly not as accessible as Buddenbrooks (somebody please make a lavish period piece movie of it ) but it is not hard like some other authors (at least not till towards the end.)

I didn't continue The Magic Mountain because I couldn't commit to it at the moment; certainly not due to its content. Actually, the first few pages were very involving and fascinating. I WILL read it this year, though.

[dlong5665]

I just nee to read more.

But I do hope to takle two or three classics along the lines of Anna Karenina or Jane Eyre. Plus I am finally going to dive into the wonderful world (and mind) of Stephen King.

[crazyfists3600]

Jane Eyre is marvelous!

[Mmelissa]

Stendhal: The red and the black
Dickens: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, The old curiosity shop, David Copperfield
Collins: The moonstone,The woman in white
Hugo: Les misérables
Maurier: Jamaica Inn
Lawrence: Women in love
I bought these books last year, I hope this year I can read all of them.

I've been meaning to re-read these two. I went through a Wilkie Collins thing in high school, he's such a weird, wonderful writer.

My personal resolutions are to do the 50 books written by poc challenge again (I already did it once before and it introduced me to some great writers like Maya Angelou (read her complete autobiographical series), Edward P. Jones, Helen Oyeyemi and Eileen Chang). I also want to read more books that I already own (I have something like 40 which are languishing on my shelf, unread) and more re-reading. How all these things will work with each other will be...interesting.

[Eduardo Zuckerberg]

Basically I just want to get through and enjoy as much of my Goodreads to-read list as much as possible. But I'm most looking forward to tackling Wolf Hall, A Confederacy of Dunces, Ragtime, Middlemarch and the two Collins novels mentioned above.

I don't think I'll ever get through finishing Atlas Shrugged though.

[Jeff Beachnau]

This past year I've read a bunch of the classics, so I'm hoping to keep it up. Here are some of my plans for this year

Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
It - Stephen King

[Aurelius]

As every year, stick to non-fiction (mostly, I need to finish a book I started while on vacation), except on vacations.

[jb]

Non-fiction for the win!

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre
Patrick J. Geary, The Myth of Nations
Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks

[Aldo]

Last year I read 11 books -by far my best ever- and this year break my record again, so at least 12 books. I want to continue reading the basics of the Latin American Boom and some Joyce. So:

- Vargas Llosa: La ciudad y los Perros
- Cortázar: Rayuela
- Rulfo: El llano en llamas
- Homer: Odyssey
- Joyce: Ulysses

Plus some architecture texts on Luis Barragán and Burle Marx.

[Rage Colored Glasses]

Read a book. Any book.

[crazyfists3600]

Read a book. Any book.

LOL

I read 25 last year, so my goal this year is 30. I've already read 5 (two Chabon's and three Harry Hole novels) so I'd say I'm off to a good start. My only fear is that Les Miserables is going to cripple a lot of my time, considering that it is SO EFFING LONG.