Hey there! You can call me Naut. This is my website!

Favourite novels I've ever read:

1. Crime and punishment by Dostoyevsky
2. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
3. No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
4. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
5. The Stranger by Albert Camus (my goat)

Favourite non-fiction books

1. Planta Sapiens by Paco Calvo
2. The Communist Manifesto (I'm not a communist, but it's very thought-provoking)
3. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
4. lowkey couldn't finish Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" but I'll get through it
5. Lichenopedia

Books I have started but not finished!

(I feel a bit ashamed)

• Childhood, boyhood, youth - Tolstoy (too boring)
• Candide by Voltaire

(found it unreadable, weird parody of the fairytale style that Voltaire's time period must have known, I should try it again)

• The last man / Le dernier homme by Albert Camus

Learning French vocab hurts my brain but i'm getting there

• Dante's Inferno (halfway through)

Dante is goated, but I feel like I need to sit back and spend a few hours to understand each canto. Also I wish I spoke Italian so I could read the original, translations often feel unnatural

• The Odyssey

Honestly I think it's just not my thing. I know the general story already because it's a couple thousand years old. I would have prefered something about the philosophers of ancient Greece to the pantheon of gods, but I impulsively bought a copy of The Odyssey because it was only like £2. Not sure I'll ever read it unless I get a friend who's super into ancient Greece. (A lot of people are, I blame Percy Jackson)

September: The Karamazov Brothers

While visiting Amsterdam over the weekend (the rain was torrential and constant, ceasing only to catch it's breath before beating down on the city like a boxer). As my family and I made our leisurely, puzzled promenade towards the Mocco museum in this dismal weather, a bookshop caught my eye. Granted every bookshop is of interest to me, but this one in particular I found rather comical because it was named in offenssibly large white letters "The American Bookstore". I was itching to visit a bookstore for two reasons; soaked parents lost in a new city are poor company and my only reading material was The Last Man by Albert Camus which was beginning to bore me. While I laud myself for being able to read in french

Now for some book reviews...

OSAMU DAZAI: NO LONGER HUMAN