ooh that one's on my list too and I have a really lovely ancient hardback of it
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 27 November 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
I have a fear that I'm done with big books: I just don't have the, I don't know, gumption, wherewithal, desire to tackle them. Even something like *A Place of Greater Safety* glares at me from the shelf. Hoping it's a phase.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 27 November 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
I need a separate thread for 'Literary masterpieces you have lying about the place that you're sure you're beyond attempting'.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 27 November 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
I've just bought the mirror and the light, all 900 pages of it, and I want to re-read the first two first but idk man it's a lot.
― ledge, Sunday, 27 November 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
Nowadays I try to read a literary classic every few months, and spend the rest of my time on fantasy/horror/sci-fi.
― jmm, Sunday, 27 November 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
Basically my exact reading habits at age 15.
― jmm, Sunday, 27 November 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
The Golden Age of ILB iirc
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 November 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
My answer is Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 27 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 27 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink
I read it all the way two years ago after thinking I would just dip in and out of it as its not a narrative. It's probably best as a dipping in book.
Penguin are reissuing it as a paperback next year.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 27 November 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
Was wondering last night about difference between "sadness" and "melancholy" (also between sadness and melancholy, re words/actual experience). And thinking that Burton's book drew from connotations of his time, like with humours---what say yall about any of that, book incl. or aside===?
― dow, Sunday, 27 November 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
I'd meant to maybe look it up today, but this thread appeared first.
― dow, Sunday, 27 November 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link