6 responses to “Books I read 2002 – 2011”

1. erik
   January 14th, 2012, 15:52

   My list 2011

   The man who loved children – Christina
   Stead
   Proust in love – William Carter
   Some prefer nettles – Tanizaki
   Eline Vere – Louis Couperus
   Duizend kraanvogels – Kawabata
   Reena Spaulings – Bernadette Corporation
   Salvation army – Abdellah Taia
   Book of Scotlands – Momus
   Diary of an innocent – Tony Duvert
   Dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde – Stevenson
   Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
   The great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
   Labor problems in West Africa – Roper
   The beggar’s opera – John Gay
   A Russian schoolboy – Aksakov
   The Fall – Albert Camus
   The voyages of Sinbad
   Two adolescents – Alberto Moravia
   Confessions of an English opium eater – De Quincey
   The bafut beagles – Gerald Durrell
   Two Spanish picaresque novels
   Psychogeography – Coverly
   Blood and oil in the Orient – Essad Bey
   Boys and sex – Wardell Pomeroy
   Alone desperate and going nowhere – Paul Haworth
   Floral art from Japan (Japan tourist bureau)
   Les Enfants terribles – Jean Cocteau

2. Karl
   January 15th, 2012, 0:52

   Interesting list, though I have only read two of its books (Mann and Kawabata). So… how was Boys and sex?

3. aljoshka
   January 21st, 2012, 3:56

   I read Maskerad last summer and I really liked it. I was expecting to see it mentioned on one of your blogs or in Destroyer, but I can’t remember that it was.

   Les Enfants terribles is another one I really like. Even the Melville film is brilliant, despite it having the roles of Paul and Elisabeth played by 30-year-olds.

4. Karl
   January 21st, 2012, 4:00

   It was a mere coincident that I read Maskerad – a friend at Stoopendaal’s publishing house gave it to me cause he thought I’d like it. And I did.

5. erik
   January 29th, 2012, 10:46

   Boys and sex was written by a colleage of Dr. Kinlsey, as is basicaally a sexual education manual written for teenage boys, topics include homosexuality and masturbation, and petting. The emphasis is much on to look at sexuality as something normal and guilt-free (but not free from society, sex is not outside society).

6. erik
   January 29th, 2012, 10:49

   recommendations from my list would include Duvert (!), Les enfants terribles, and Agostino (one of the two adolescwents by Alberto Moravia. Suprised you have not yet come across them.

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