/lit/ - Literature

just finished Storm of Steel

Da Count Uh Monte Cristo

Atomised

>>13661709
Good book. When I read it I didn't realize that the horrible mother is Houellebecqs actual mother.

>>13661725
She commented and said if he put her in a book again she’d put her foot up his ass, narcissism and self weakness at its peak.

>>13661669
War and Peace

The Age of Innocence, it's pretty good so far. The story reminds me of certain arcs in War & Peace since it's drama between aristocrats.

The Book Of Disquietude aka Livro do Desassossego

The Iliad

Just started Anna Karenina today. Bretty gud if you ask me. Much different from War and Peace

>>13661742
I’ve been meaning to read it. Enjoyed The House of Mirth.

I am currently finishing Julien Gracq's Le rivage des Syrtes (The Opposing Shore)

Balzac dad goriot

The Advaita Tradition in Indian Philosophy - Sharma

>>13661768
Wrong pic

>>13661683
This thread is for the books you're reading, not the ones you read.

My copy just arrived

I had never heard of Albert Cossery, but some anon recommended his “proud beggars” in a /lazylit/ thread. I really enjoyed that, Laziness in the Fertile Valley, and now I’m reading picrel

Whoops, too lazy to attach picture apparently

African Kaiser. One of the most enjoyable non fiction I've ever read

It's pretty good, im growing plum trees and figs atm.

whatever who hit dubs tell me to

>>13661768
The Opposing Shore is one of my top 10

>>13661669
Nothing, because schizoaffective has eaten my brain and all I can do is refresh twitter over and over again for hot boomer takes

>>13661669
Dale Carnagie

moby dick
the divine comedy
how to be yourself

Eugenie Grandet.

Ulysses--Sirens episode. I've heard the hype for this book for years and its truly hasn't prepared me for just how good it is.

>>13662192
Moby dick is fucking amazing. Slow by modern standards but there are so many sublime moments

>>13662323
My favourite chapter is the one written in questions and answers, I advise you look forward to that

>>13662323
I read the whole thing and understood between 5-10% of it

I just finished Heart of Darkness and started The Crying of Lot 49 (my first Pynchon) and The Disaster Artist, really enjoying both so far. Also been reading The Book Of Disquiet for several months because I use it as a bedside book to read a few pages from now and then, if I wanted to finish it I would have ages ago but it's probably my favourite book ever and I want it to last.

>>13661669

>>13661687
just finished that, now reading the three musketeers again.

>>13661983
my diary desu

>>13661669
The Illiad
great bedtime reading

>>13661669
red book jung, almost done with it

>>13661669
I just finished The Picture of Dorian Gray and in the middle of reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra. But I'm having trouble keeping up with the latter and now I'm deciding whether or not to drop that and read another book (specifically, Watership Down).

>>13661669
Leve's Suicide

Bible, Iliad, Divine Comedy, Modern Times by Paul Johnson, Moby dick, In Search of Lost Time, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Leviathan, The Republic, The Idiot, Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass... Bad ADHD anons

>>13662676
Zarathustra makes more sense within context. I put it on audiotape in the car kek

Self Analysis by L Ron Hubbard

>>13661669
Currently reading:
Gravity’s Rainbow
Memoirs of Hadrian
Epictetus’ Selected Discourses
Oliver Twist
The Divine Comedy

>>13662764
>Memoirs of Hadrian
Underrated by /lit/

the divine comedy(a canto during my morning BM)
Don Quixote-on hiatus until I get a better translation for part two, though I may take it to work.
at night I mostly read about plants and ecosystem restoration. today much about controlling invasive species I am dealing with.. I also spent a lot of time browsing a fungal field guide. right now im reading about the controversial concept 'ecosystem health' and how it relates to public policy.
I have severe adhd so im a gregarious and ephemeral reader.

Software by Rudy Rucker

>>13662335
He is reduced to a singularity by man's rationality (is how I interpret it). God-tier chapter, easily the best I've ever read. And his return, and his falling asleep... holy shit I've never felt so many things and so few things all at once. I want to cry just thinking about it. Going to go reread it now.

Prashna Upanishad

The Scar Boys.
Right now it's pretty bad desu.

>>13662643
This book almost sent me into a psychotic episode

The cloud of unknowing.
Gonna have to reread since i often lose the meaning in the archaic English.

The Dwarf by Par Lagerkvist

>>13661669
Daphnis and Chloe
Der Waldgang by Jünger

The Handmaid Tale

>>13663417
Tell me more? This is the only book I can read at home but I have to light candles

>>13661836
Enlighten me anon. What is the deal with figs? I don't understand

>>13661669
currently got into reading after a long dry spell of not wanting to read. I've been reading spring snow by Yukio Mishima and its pretty good so far.

History of the 1844 Derby

Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments, then on to the Concluding Unscientific Postscript

>>13661983
Girl, Wash Your Face - Rachel Hollis

borges xue barthelme

>>13661983
mallarmé un coup de dés

>>13661669
nothing im depresse af

Guns Germs Steel. Halfway thru. Somebody give me critiques of it, ive been looking for counterpoints

>>13661756
Its a great read.. converted me
to tolstoy

I got fatigued a quarter of the way in and put it down, but its a genuinely great book. I personally love the descriptions of life in that time, the particular details. I will return soon enough

>>13661669
Method and truth, but I'm getting a bit tired of reading it. at least it's an easier read than Hegel and Heidegger, otherwise I would have dropped it long ago considering it's 800 pages

i love seeing the stupid fucking shit people read here

>>13661669
A new model of the universe by P. Ouspensky

>>13664012
As opposed to....?

>>13661669
The Picture of Dorian Gray

>>13661669
Cinema textbooks and erotica
I lose interest in everything else :(