…but Hans Diller is alive

A complete list of all the books I've read in my reading club

Roughly every other month, I meet with my friends Morten, Mikkel, Klaus, and Jeff to discuss a book we've read. And maybe have a beer. We have a reading club called "…men Hans Diller lever" (eng.: "…but Hans Diller is alive").

The name comes from a piece of graffiti at KUA, the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen, where all students and teachers have a collective crush on Michel Foucault. Someone wrote, with huge letters in front of the entrance, "FOUCAULT IS GAY". Later, "IS" was edited to "WAS" to clarify that he had died, and even later someone added "MEN HANS DILLER LEVER", which is both a dull joke ("hans diller" means "his penis" in Danish) and a reference to the little-known German classical scholar and historian Hans Diller. That's meta-humanity-humour for ya.

These are the books we've read. For sorting reasons, dates are written as yyyy/mm/dd. Country codes follow FIFA's country codes.

We also rated them on a scale from 0 to 5. The ratings shows the mean and spread (standard deviation, i.e. how much we agreed/disagreed on the rating).

Photo credit: daamcrew 4.

Date	Author	Country	Title	Year	Pages	Stars	Spread
2022.06.02	Jennifer Egan	USA	A Visit from the Goon Squad	2010	293	(currently reading)
2022.03.09	Hans Kirk	DEN	De ny tider	1939	211	3.2	±0.5
2022.01.08	Lone Frank	DEN	Størst af alt	2020	292	3.3	±0.7
2021.10.29	Jack Kerouac	USA	On the Road	1957	285	2.9	±1.1
2021.08.14	Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa	ITA	The Leopard	1958	247	2.7	±0.8
2021.06.12	William Golding	ENG	Lord of the Flies	1954	196	3.1	±0.9
2021.04.03	Ray Bradbury	USA	The Martian Chronicles	1950	192	3.2	±0.8
2021.04.03	Alistair MacLean	SCO	Where Eagles Dare	1967	166	2.9	±0.7
2021.01.30	Vladimir Nabokov	USA	Lolita	1955	307	4.1	±0.4
2020.11.21	Halldór Laxness	ISL	Salka Valka	1931	373	3.0	±0.6
2020.09.18	Laurence Sterne	ENG	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman	1759	588	2.7	±0.6
2020.05.30	José Saramago	POR	Blindness	1995	284	4.1	±0.4
2020.04.04	Iain M. Banks	SCO	The Wasp Factory	1984	232	4.0	±0.0
2020.02.11	Arto Paasilinna	FIN	The Year of the Hare	1975	183	3.5	±0.8
2019.12.27	Siri Hustvedt	USA	The Blazing World	2014	434	3.8	±0.5
2019.10.26	Isaac Asimov	USA	Caves of Steel	1953	214	1.7	±0.2
2019.08.09	Sophus Helle og Morten Søndergaard (overs.)	SUM	Gilgamesh	-2100	140	3.8	±0.8
2019.05.11	Brett Easton Ellis	USA	Less than zero	1985	163	2.8	±0.7
2019.02.08	F. Scott Fitzgerald	USA	The Great Gatsby	1925	171	2.6	±1.0
2018.11.24	Günther Grass	GER	The Tin Drum	1959	555	1.5	±0.9
2018.08.24	Peter Adolphsen	DEN	Rynkekneppesygen	2017	245	3.6	±0.2
2018.06.02	Ourselves	DEN	We wrote our own short stories	2018	018	5.0	±0.0
2018.04.07	Svend Aage Madsen	DEN	Between Heaven and Earth	1990	208	4.1	±0.2
2018.02.17	Louis-Ferdinand Céline	FRA	Death on Credit	1936	508	4.9	±0.2
2017.12.15	Karen Blixen	DEN	Seven Gothic Tales	1934	500	2.3	±0.8
2017.10.06	Erich Maria Remarque	GER	All Quiet on the Western Front	1929	202	4.3	±0.2
2017.07.18	Jens Blendstrup	DEN	Slagterkoner og Bagerenker	2016	418	4.2	±0.2
2017.04.08	Jan Sonnergaard	DEN	Radiator and other short stories	1997	221	3.8	±0.7
2017.02.10	H. P. Lovecraft	USA	The Call of Cthulhu and other short stories	1928	117	4.0	±1.0
2016.11.19	John le Carré	ENG	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	1963	225	2.2	±0.2
2016.08.26	Peter Madsen	DEN	The Book of Job (comic book version)	-450	104	1.0	±0.4
2016.08.26	Virginia Woolf	ENG	To the Lighthouse	1927	210	2.5	±0.4
2016.07.10	Aksel Sandemose	DEN	A Fugitive Crosses his Tracks	1933	425	4.0	±1.0
2016.05.14	Morten Pape	DEN	Planen	2015	557	4.3	±0.4
2016.02.19	Orhan Pamuk	TUR	The White Castle	1985	160	3.6	±0.2
2015.12.05	Thomas Pynchon	USA	Bleeding Edge	2013	519	0.4	±0.2
2015.10.10	Dan Turèll	DEN	Vangede Billeder	1975	193	3.6	±0.4
2015.08.28	Harper Lee	USA	To Kill a Mocking Bird	1960	307	3.2	±0.2
2015.05.14	Michel Houellebecq	FRA	The Map and the Territory	2010	312	4.5	±0.3
2015.03.13	Joseph Conrad	POL	Heart of Darkness	1899	128	2.9	±0.5
2015.01.30	Fjodor Dostojevskij	RUS	Notes from Underground	1864	166	4.3	±0.4
2014.12.06	Charles Dickens	ENG	A Tale of Two Cities	1859	440	2.9	±0.4
2014.09.27	Gabriel García Marquéz	COL	One Hundred Years of Solitude	1967	308	2.5	±0.6
2014.06.21	Knut Hamsun	NOR	Hunger	1890	108	4.5	±0.3
2014.06.21	Lewis Carroll	ENG	Alice In Wonderland	1865	140	3.4	±0.5
2014.04.17	John Steinbeck	USA	East Of Eden	1952	579	4.0	±0.0
2014.03.22	Ernest Hemingway	USA	The Old Man and the Sea	1952	112	3.0	±0.0

Our general enthusiasm for the books we've read has been distributed as follows:

Morten:	3.4 ±1.1
Mikkel:	3.2 ±1.2
Jeff:	3.1 ±1.4
Klaus:	3.3 ±0.0
Peter:	3.5 ±1.0