tungsten_peerts: reading record 2018, Mark II

Here's my thread of endless reading thrills.

1. Brooks, Cleanth - William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country - 01.02.18
   
2. Calinger, Ronald S. - Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment 01.05.18
   
3. Euripides - Suppliant Women, Electra, Heracles - 01.07.17
   
4. Seneca - Epistles, 1 - 65 - 01.13.18
   
5. Baggott, Jim - Higgs: the Invention and Discovery of the 'God Particle' - 01.16.18
   
6. Hendrickson, Paul - Hemingway's Boat - 01.21.18
   
7. Hemingway, Ernest - Death in the Afternoon - 01.28.18
   
8. Euripides - The Trojan Women : Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion - 02.01.18
   
9. Phillips, Jonathan - The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople - 02.02.18
   
10. Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms - 02.06.18
    
11. Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment (tr. Ready) - 02.24.18
    

I'm almost done with Jim Baggott's Higgs: the Invention and Discovery of the 'God Particle'. It's really pretty good. It helps that Baggott is a former scientist.

Hemingway's Boat kinda lured me in and destroyed me. Jeepers.

_Death in the Afternoon_ is kind of an odd choice for a pale, usually-vegetarian, non-violent type like me to read ... I guess. I am lighting on Hemingway lately because I am tired of what I described to my girlfriend as "juiceless" academic writing -- you know, the stuff written in an 'objective' voice that, even if it wasn't written by a committee, at least sounds as though it is trying to not wake up the old person next door.

_A Farewell to Arms_: obviously, I guess, a great book, with gobs of the patented Hemingway magic ... and yet, and yet ... the Catherine character never really came alive for me. She seemed more a somewhat febrile congeries of verbal tics than a fully fleshed-out character. It was also obvious, after a point (though I'd be hard pressed to say what made it so) that she was doomed or, at least, that the couple was doomed. Because I felt this way, the tragedy (or was it pathos?), for me, was muted.

Abandoning this.