/lit/ - Literature

I'm currently reading:
Les Misérables (the five tomes), which is breaking my heart
A Lovecraft short stories collection I was gifted on christmas
And I'm about to try this week's novella from /sffg/ >>14557343

Robert Lipsey - Price and Quantity Trends in the Foreign Trade of the United States
Clive Granger and Oskar Morgenstern - Predictability of Stock Market Prices
Nicole Oresme - Configurationibus qualitatum et motuum
Jeremy Bentham - The Principles of Morals and Legislation

In that order. :3

u guys already read alotta books wow

>>14559205
Nicholson Baker - A Box of Matches
Tove Jameson - The Summer Book
Gerard Reve - The Evenings
Currently reading a thousand-page history of the Balkans by one Misha Glenny
The first three are pretty short and easy reads. The history book is long, but a breeze. So not terribly impressed by my own progress so far.

The former two are pretty short

>>14559205
Nicholson Baker - A Box of Matches
Tove Jameson - The Summer Book
Gerard Reve - The Evenings

Currently reading a thousand-page history of the Balkans by one Misha Glenny.

The first three are pretty short and easy reads. The history book is long, but a breeze. So not terribly impressed by my own progress so far.

>>14559198
Augustus and Child of God.

>>14559223
you too can read and make the board a non shit place

>>14559245
that's a very cute house senpai, i wish i had one

>>14559208
>>14559245
nice
i suppose you guys will do more than a hundred books by the end of the year?

animal farm, nicked a copy from the bookstore at some new ugly mall. weird book, im starting to think it wasn't just about animals
art of war, mate lent me a copy. i got drunk and read it out loud to myself while doing random balancing poses n tai chi shit or whatever. it was fun.

the dharma bums as well been good, haven't finished it but it was very cosy to read yesterday on a park bench in the sun with a cat purring at my feet and mescaline in my brain.
also been reading "the neuroscience of meditation" or some shit, some tweaker was telling me all about it and emailed me a pdf of it. vaguely interesting but a bit too self helpy

All of the surviving plays of Aeschylus (including december if i’m honest), now i’m in the middle of Hobbes’ Leviathan.

Orestia was really special to read. Especially the Fagles translation.

His smaller plays had great symbolism and imagery in them. It’s unfortunate there’s hardly a good translator for them. There were a few times I felt the translations of them lacking.

>>14559256
>i suppose you guys will do more than a hundred books by the end of the year?
Pffffft hahahaah FUCK no. The last three consecutive years I have set my goal at 20 books per year and have hit that exact goal every single year (except last year it was 21 books).

Albeit I am in a better position coming into this new year to be reading more books, but I do think I’ll be right around target at 30 books for the year. That’s my estimate. :3

>>14559198
Houellebecq - Elementary particles
starting with John Williams - Stoner

>>14559271
ah ok that's weird because at this rythm you'd be doing 52 easily, and you could reach 100 at long as you don't get stuck

>>14559274
>Houellebecq
how did you find it
i have the issue that he's a boomer, so everything he has a problem with, he tries to pin on the 1968 liberalist movement (not in the US sense of the word)
when i think all the issues could come from the resistance to the 1968 movement.

>>14559289
>when i think all the issues could come from the resistance to the 1968 movement.
So you're a faggot on HRT? lmao

ill probably start reading in a few months

>>14559301
>So you're a faggot on HRT? lmao
Patriarchy makes it so that you're culturally expected to make the first step, to win more money, to be physically fit, etc.

If women weren't scared of men, they wouldn't be afraid to make the first step towards a timid guy, or an incel such as yourself.

It's important to talk about this if you're going to read Houellebecq (I did). His hatred is misdirected.

Goethe- Elective affinities
Gogol- Stories from Petersburg
Sciascia- The day of the owl

I'm reading another book from Sciascia and In research of lost time, i hope I'll finish it for the end of the year

>>14559312
>i-i-incel!
This is how I know I hit the nail on the head lmao

>>14559198
Dubliners

Portrait of an artist as a young man

The Unknown God: Negative Theology in the Platonic Tradition : Plato to Eriugena

Algis Uždavinys - Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism

I have been reading the most i have in awhile not sure if can keep it up though but its been calming.

>>14559314
?
I've been living with a beautiful and faithful girl for 5 years now.
I was always celibate until this.
I was and still am fascinated by the r9k, then the incel movement.
But I never got mad at women or at freedom for my misery; that's where Houellebecq and Elliot Rodgers are retarded.
Do you want to talk about book or do you just want to keep bumping?

>>14559314
>In research of lost time
Nice. I don't want to read it this year because I'll already have read Les Misérables which is huge, but respect.

>>14559328
>its been calming
Yes that's what I like about reading. I tried to watch movies or to listen to music, but eventually I found that it was a waste of time. I also tried FM radio again, it's comfy.

My current reads:
Knut Hamsun-Hunger
Have 100 pages left
Then i will try his nobelprize winning book and maybe schopenhauer afterwards.

>>14559256
I tend to count number of pages rather then books. Or better still, stop counting altogether and read as much as I like.

>>14559424
i like this anon. i guess some people like to have a goal number of books but at the end of the day you shouldn't be reading just to become well read you should be reading at a comfortable pace and only when you desire. besides, a good book should be providing you with enough to unpack to last awhile, the real reading isn't done rushedly straight from the pages, but rather during reflective moments on the bus or at work when you think about the bits you really liked

>>14559424
>>14559452
I agree completely, but before I got goodreads, I was only readin four or four books a year.
Last year I did sixty, and I feel all the better for it.
When I don't read, I just browse the net.

>>14559312
>if you're going to read Houellebecq (I did)
Sounds like you misread the book. His criticism is really that the market economy dynamic entered the sphere of relationships between men on women.

>>14559198
- The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- On Time & Water by Andri Snær
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Existentialism Is A Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

Currently reading
- Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser
- Object-Oriented Ontology by Graham Harman

>>14559274
I wish I could read Stoner again for the first time.
>>14559308
What's holding you back?

Tis the year of re-reading. I also started re-reading Joseph and His Brothers yesterday.

>>14559467
Isn't that from his other book? Elementary particles as far as I remember is focused on the French hippy 1968 movement.
The free market comparison you're giving now is from the other book, of which the.gif is often posted here (or at least the quote of "the girlfriends that didn't happen").
And the idea of this quote is really not the impression he gives when he's in interviews. His main focus is the 1968 movement, like many of his baby boomer peers currently famous in France.

>>14559472
sounds comfy

>>14559469
>>>14559308
>What's holding you back?
He has to post on /lit/

>>14559472
>I also started re-reading Joseph and His Brothers yesterday.
Nice. I'm reading The Magic Mountain right now (fantastic book), but I've been looking for that one; it doesn't seem to be in print in my language at all (sadly, I don't know german).

>>14559198
The Melancholy of Resistance
The Little Prince
Six stories by Guy de Maupassant
Currently reading
Quincas Borba
About the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
Encyclopedia of the Dead

>>14559466
the only thing that makes me read faster i s when im excited to read something else. i don't let myself have more then one fiction and one non fiction going at once or I'll forget books

>>14559469
It annoys me that I immediately recognised that pic is from the Wikipedia page on schizoid personality disorder.

>>14559198
Confessions - St Augustine
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima

>>14559250
Nice. But you need something more light-hearted now, and less American. Say, some Calvino.
Or, if you want to stay your burger course, get Train Dreams by Denis Johnson.

>>14559424
>stop counting altogether and read as much as I like
This is best. I usually don't remember how many I have read and have to check the shelves and ereader

Bloom - Against Empathy
Brecht - Baal
Brecht - Drums in the Night
Brecht - In the Jungle of Cities
Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Murakami - After the Quake

>>14559335
Never got into radio any stations you'd recommend.

>>14559312
Aaaaaaaaand...thread derailed for good. Nice fucking job, fags.

>>14559531
You're just derailing it even more by drawing attention to it.

>>14559482
>Isn't that from his other book? Elementary particles as far as I remember is focused on the French hippy 1968 movement.

It's in both. In The Elementary Particles the idea is that the 68 principles actually brought hyper-individualism instead of the communal life that was promised. My objection to your point is just that I did not read him as arguing for patriarchy. Here is one quote:
>It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in the historical rise of individualism. As the lovely word "household" suggests, the couple and the family would be the last bastion of primitive communism in liberal society. The sexual revolution was to destroy these intermediary communities, the last to separate the individual from the market.

>>14559531
Nothing's making it impossible to post what you've read and what you think of the others' reads, senpai.
It's saturday, have some internet fun.

>>14559528
I listen to my country's "cultural music", which is some lame classical and operas.
They also have a hard on for
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Henry
who basically invented musique concrète fifty years ago (see futurama intro)
I really like Pierre Henry. I saw an interview of him, with sequences where he walks in the streets and compliments people on the sound of their walk, lol.

Basically, tune in for some musique that you can tune out of.

Sorry if anyone here actually likes classical music btw, lmao.

>>14559528 not him but i just want to talk about radio stations
listen to local radio, its endearingly homely and low budget, i like the way they talk about local events and stuff, makes me feel like i know the city. a local radio station i listen to is very cosy and i get excited when certain presenters are on. one of thems an absolute lad who makes a bunch of /mu/ jokes while hosting the top 10 countdown. they also play alotta good music, its called radioactive. although im sure it'd be far less novel to people not from this city and it always plays house music on Saturday nights anyway

>>14559469
Nice choices and great pace. Hope you can keep it up. Not that it's a race, as previous anons have pointed out.
> On Time & Water
Haven't heard of that one, but I like the title.

>>14559548
Ah then if he clearly points to the free market, it went under my radar.

>>14559198
So far my reading has been extremist literature, occult texts, some of a teach yourself a language book, and my college textbooks. Anyone got any "normal" recommendations? I hate lying, but I want to be able to give a normal response when someone asks what I've read this year. Is Nietzsche normal enough?

A lot of lesbian wank novellas. I'm trying to cut down on my porn

>>14559568
>lesbian wank novellas
interesting
is it cute like yuri or just hardcore and empty

>>14559559
my dude
local radios are so comfy
the national one i'm listening to is culture focused, so it has the same comfy feeling. they interview people about stuff you're never dive into
last time they had a scientist who explained who they put microphones on oysters and other stuff, and how these animals can actually hear starfishes and be afraid of them.
he also explained that human noise (boats) can ruin their environment, and overall health, from the fear

I HOPE YOU GUYS ASKED FOR YOUR FATHER'S RADIO, OR IT WILL DISINTEGRATE

how is it that so many anons on /lit/ read so much and yet discuss none of it?

- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Foucault"
- A chapter from Erich Fromm, Marx's Concept of Man
- Communist Program, "The Legacy of the Shah"
- Marx Myths and Legends, "The Myth of Marx’s Economic Determinism"
- Cyril Smith, "What Was Marx Trying to Do?"
- GegenStandpunkt, "Women in capitalism"
- Several books from The Illiad
- Several chapters from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (in my fourth language)
- Three articles from "Il Partito Comunista", no. 398
- A chapter from Howard Nicholas, Marx's Theory of Price and its Modern Rivals
- 2/3 of W. F. Haug, "On the Need for a New English Translation of Marx's 'Capital'"
- My notes on Bruce Fink, A Clinical Introduction to Freud
- My notes on Karl Marx, "Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League (March)"
- My notes on Friedrich Engels, "The Communists and Karl Heinzen"
- My notes on "The Communist Party", no. 16
- My notes on Programme Communiste, "Gramsci, the 'Ordine Nuovo' and 'Il Soviet' - Part I"
- My notes on Marxistische Gruppe, "The 10 Most Popular Dogmas of Critical Theory"

>>14559580
we have too many philosophy threads, no space to discuss novellas, and there's cyberbullying if you do
goodread challenge readers are generally laidback, so i like to make these threads

>>14559520
Thanks anon, that's not a bad suggestion. I still haven't read The Complete Cosmicomics or If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Calvino, they're just resting on my bookshelf. Might go with either one of those, or maybe read the last of the Pirx tales I've still yet to read by Stanislaw Lem. But I will definitely choose something light-hearted for my next book.

i was going to read a book but then i got high

>>14559520
Oh, and thanks for the tip on Train Dreams, haven't heard that one before. Will check it out!

>>14559596
I do must of my reading high.

>>14559562
I've gotten a lot of reading done due to the fact I haven't been to sleep recently so I just read a lot instead, mainly due to the weather we've been having recently.
On Time & Water is an Icelandic book that was published recently so I wouldn't be suprised that you haven't heard of it. It's a book about the environmental crisis. It tries to explain it in a poetic and understandable way and it does it pretty well.

>>14559579
Nah, it's cute wholesome stuff mostly

>>14559599
do you remember much of what you read?

>>14559289
He is memed around here so i have it a try, not knowing exactly what to expect. Didnt liked the book, ist kinda similar to his todays appearance. It is deppresive, dark, tries too much to be blackpilled and controversive.
>>14559469
Really comfy prose

I'm currently reading "How to read a book" by Mortimer J. Adler, really enjoying it so far (I'm new to reading obviously)

>>14559648
Yes. I've developed quite the tolerance so I don't get completely whacked when I smoke nowadays, and my memory retention seems fine.

>>14559659
smoking and reading is goat, fuck im gonna pack one boyys.
sometimes when im manic as i /need/ to smoke to read

>>14559659
I'm jealous. I smoked in my late teens and my memory's never been the same.

I was attempting to read Hamlet's Mill, but I don't think I'm going to make it, bros.

-Dracula (Bram Stoker)
-Dream of winter (Fitzgerald)
-Boy in darkness (Mervyn Peake)
-The garden god (Forrest Reid)
-The exploits of Moominpapa
-Moominland Widwinter
-Catcher in the Rye (reread)
-The castle (Kafka)

Currently halfway of Notes from the Underground and Moominsummer madness

>>14559753
moomins are top cozy anon
when i was 14 or so my auntie made fun of me for reading "girl books"
the world building really captured my imagination

Lord of the Rings
In the Buddha's Words
Dear Leader
The Strange Death of Europe
Atomised

Currently reading Platform, On the Nature of the Gods, and I'm slowly picking away at Living Dharma by Jack Kornfield. I'm planning to focus on Cicero this year and maybe reread the stoics after.

>>14559789
Glad you enjoyed them when you were young, must have been a beautiful experience :) They are a delightful read for the winter season, looking forward to reread them in a few years

>>14559500
Nigga you speak English just get it in English. James Woods translation reads extremely well, it's very smooth and feels quick to read. Once I was well-engrossed in it I was reading up to 40pg/hour and the adventure just flew by. Whether that's on account of Mann's incredible ability to take the read by the hand and guide them through the story, or the translation in particular, I couldn't tell you, but it definitely feels like a great translation to me. It costs about $30-40 though, which some people might feel pretty high as an upfront cost, but considering it's technically a tetralogy and you'll get it in this GOAT Everyman's Library sewn binding with acid-free paper and ribbon bookmark, I think it's a great price.

Ship of Fools by Carlson
Gonna finish Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris today

I have finished a text of Karl Kraus published in French under the title “Je n’ai aucune idée sur Hitler”, which was apparently taken from his book “Dritte Walpurgisnacht”.

I am currently reading:
Simone Weil’s Réflexions sur les causes de la liberté et de l’oppression sociale
Georges Bataille - Les larmes d’Eros
Daniel Cordier - Alias Caracalla
Patrick Buisson - La cause du peuple

Bertrand Russel - Problems of Philosophy (50%)

Just started reading books this year after a long time, when will I be able to devour them quickly like you guys?

>>14559926
philosophy is slower to read
and you have to actually open the book, that way you'll be a reader in no time

>>14559708
Haven't smoked at all this year though, gonna wait a few more weeks and then only do it a couple times a week

>>14559720
Never did start smoking until I was in my 20's, that probably helps a bit

>>14559926
It's not as much about reading quickly as it is reading consistently. I've read about 1800 pages this month, or 100 a day on average. Do you read for 30 minutes? 1 hour? 2 hours? I read an hour before work and maybe two after, and maybe 4-5 on my days off if I'm super into a book. I'd put my average pace at 30 pages an hour. But then I read primarily fiction which is easier to read than phil by far.

>>14559926
All you have to do is drop out of society. It's worth it.

>>14559545
Your are right anon, and I take my words back. Thread derailment: averted. Thread comfy levels: climbing steadily. Keep it up, lads.

>>14560016
Thanks anon. Hopefully you'll have a nice and comfy weekend of reading ahead of you.

>>14559753
>>14559802
>>14559902
How do you do it? I wish I had the brain power.
>>14560008
It helps, but even so, my spongy brain can't keep it up for more than 50 pages a day on a very good day. And I've halfway dropped out of society, but here there are no support nets like in the first world. You drop out fully, you become a bum, that's it. Not much reading then.
>Why do you waste time on fourchin then, based retard?
Yes, I know. I have the brainpower for THAT, sure I do.

>>14560046
I'm not any of those you quoted but in my view all you have to do to be able to read as much as them is to be persistent. You just have to read and keep reading, and your reading speed will increase. Try maybe setting a goal for yourself to read maybe 30 pages a day. Once you've been reading 30 pages a day for some time it will become easy and you'll be able to read more each day.

>>14560046
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIW5jBrrsS0 This video might help you if you want to read more. I know it's long but it's worth it.

Just finished A Scanner Darkly. Went in fairly blind and ended up very satisfied. I've never read anything that dealt with paranoia and losing your grip on reality as well as this book did. Watched the movie right after and thought it was ok but not very effective. Gonna read more PKD asap. If you've got any recommendations let me know.

>>14559198
read thus spoke zarathustra again, some lovecraft (reading shadow over innsmouth now) and I plan to read kant next. I wanted to start with greeks, but I think our school library only has schopenhauer, neet, kant and h*gel

>>14559198
I read Epic Win for Anonymous lol
and now I’m about 15% of the way through the Hunchback of Notre Dame, which I’m loving so far.

>>14559205
Les Mis is in the top 4 I’ve ever read, up there with Shogun, Crime and Punishment and IJ.

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

>>14559198

I've finished reading Sword of Destiny(an anthology of short stories set in the Witcher unverse), Death Note Black Editions 2 and 3. Currently reading Blood of Elves, another Witcher book, still reading Micronesian Legends and Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems, as well as Nine Lives: Making the Impossible Possible.

Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Boetie and Under Western Eyes by Conrad

read lord of the flies, halfway through we, probably gonna read gravity's rainbow after

>>14559656
Reading a book on reading books. You're new to reading and are browsing a literature forum. The fuck is wrong with you. Reading isn't hard you retard.

>>14559581
Congratulations on being the worst poster on /lit/

>>14560765
this is my friend who was in the Marines favorite book, I hope you enjoy it as much as he did

>>14560788
I'm not seeing a butterfly where Anonymous should be though

>>14559198
Plato's: The Republic, Phaedo, Cratylus, Ion.
Currently reading Euthydemus and studying Latin.

>>14559245
I read the Mezzanine this year!
Actually wanted to get aBoM because it seemed like a really comfy book.

L'étranger - Albert Camus
Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Murakami

>Lord of the Flies (re-read, still sucks)
>The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
>Lucky Us by Amy Bloom
>A Room Of One's Own
>Othello

Next up is H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds.

>>14559258
For what it's worth, anon, Animal Farm is an allegory... about Stalin-era USSR.

>>14560795

Your friend was a Marine during the Trump administration?

>>14561276
nah he went to Iraq in like 2003 or 2004. so it was even worse, Bush.

>the old man and the sea
>the metamorphosis
>the sun also rises

>currently reading a farewell to arms
But my NEETdom is ending in a couple days. 23 and going back to community college

>>14561345
Based. hope he torched some ragheads lol

>>14561361
Good luck abandoning NEETdom anon. It'll be hard but once you're out you'll see life in a different and better way.

>>14561396
he did indeed. he also told me, when he was really drunk, that he beat the shit out of some dude at a traffic stop because he had the same name as his girlfriend (Ali/Allie) and he “didn’t rate having that name.”
I told him “congratulations that guy is gonna raise his son to be a terrorist because of you”
we had a good laugh, but I wasn’t kidding

>>14561423
Incredibly based, I would love to treat your friend to a beer and a big, bloody steak

>do androids dream of electric sheep?
>cuerpos de carbón
>gwendy's button box

>>14561361
Good luck anon. What are you going to study?

>>14561490
It’s my 5th year of CC (on and off)
Last semester of prereqs for nursing. After this I have no excuse to start nursing school. Nervous but also excited

>>14559198
Franco's Foreign Legion.

Also I'm now reading The Myth of Andalusian Paradise.

I'm on a Spanish binge it seems.

>>14559198
Freud's Mass Psychology book
Half of Crime and Punishment

>>14561630
which half?

>>14561636
kek

>>14561636
The crime half desu

>>14561662
Did you get to the part where Rodya reks the old hag?

>>14560902
A lot of it "happens" in the winter, in an old house in Maine, in front of a log fire. So yes. There is a pet duck and thoughts on the meaning of life. It reminded me of Sebald a bit, and David Markson. How was Mezzanine?

Finishing up Soseki's I Am A Cat. Nice and light and makes me laugh. It does ramble on a bit, though.

Thought I wanted to read American Psycho, but maybe I'll watch the movie instead.

I started Ulysses in December but I finished it this year. Then I read Lathe of Heaven as a little treat.

Now I'm reading Discipline and Punish.

>>14562035
I actually liked the movie more. The book is overrated.

>>14562571
I hear he has a funny inner narrative while he's killing people in the book. I hear it's fucking foul, but hilarious.

>>14562616
Entirely possible that a lot of it went over my head, but I found most of it extremely dull and the gruesome parts unnecessary.

So far I've just read Eco's The Name of the Rose and the first one and a half volumes of Knausgaard's autobiography.

What is Property?, by Proudho
Currently reading The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz.

>>14562571
>>14562616
>>14562035

The movie is better than the book, so forget reading the book and just stick with the movie.

>>14559198
Environmental Ethics: A very short introduction
Siddhartha
Reading stoner now.
Way behind my goal for the year already :(

I haven't finished a book this year but I've been reading Elements of the Philosophy of Right and just started the Castle. I also reread the book of Job if you feel like counting that.

>>14559198
Beyond Good and Evil
Ecce Homo
Goedel's Proof (I can't get enough mathematics in my life.)

>>14563110
How's Knausgaard treating you?

>>14564340

I think I even remember from a literature class in college that the professor said that the author of Fight Club thought the Fight Club movie was better than the book. So yeah, there are some instances when the movies are better than the book.

Just finished Perfect State by Branderson. There wasn't any xp-ing, nor was there a solid group of friends having adventures. :-(

Time of the Hero
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
The Bad Girl
The Green House
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
In Praise of the Stepmother

I have been on a huge Mario Vargas Llosa binge, I will now read Death in the Andes and The Feast of the Goat and after that I will read some other authors like Rushdie.

Finished Candide, it was rather boring.

>>14566223
>Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
>The Bad Girl
>The Green House
How were these? I have them all and I'm considering reading one of them next. I read the Feast of the Goat a couple years ago and it was great, truly a horrific book.

3 of Friedebert Tuglas's novels
Definitely Maybe (A Billion Years Before the End of the World)
am reading Roadside Picnic right now

>>14566396
>Roadside Picnic
i did too
good book but don't waste your time on the movie

So far I’ve read:

Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life, by McPhee

The Overcoat by Gogol

Angel’s Ashes by McCourt

Ward 6 and Other Stories by Chekhov

Currently reading Hunger by Hamsun

On deck: Confessions by Rousseau and The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoy

>>14559336
I’m in the same boat. 100 pages left of Hunger and Growth of the Soil has me intrigued. I already bought a two volume hardcover edition of it, but I won’t read it till probably March.

>>14566497
>Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life, by McPhee
tl;dr of it?

I've been quite busy at the start of this year, having been on holiday for a week visiting my father and old friends, whilst also having to finish two essays for my Philosophy lessons.
So far I've been reading through The Brothers Karamazov and am completely in awe at its sprawling and beautiful nature. Currently at around page 540 and eager to finish it. The Grand Inquisitor is a chapter that has been on my mind a lot recently.
I also finished Moorish Spain by Richard Fletcher, as I am to write a book review on it by tomorrow morning for another one of my classes. Excellent little book if anyone has interest in Al-Andalus or Medieval Europe. Completely nostalgia-void look into all the transgressions that occurred during this era.
I'm looking forward to starting Crime & Punishment after TBK, or Moby Dick, can't really choose.

>>14566534
It’s just a biography of Robespierre.

tl;dr: he’s born, mother dies, father leaves him, he’s close with his sister. At 8 he gets sent to Paris to study. He’s precocious and reserved. Completes studies. Becomes a lawyer. Revolution is kicking off. He’s an uncompromising liberal. This makes him popular with the 3rd Estate.

Eventually the Jacobins (his political club) hold a large number of seats in Revolutionary Government. Robespierre, who is on the Committee of Public Safety, ends up becoming a de facto dictator.

He is paranoid about inside conspirators plotting the overthrow of the Revolutionary government. Approves a policy that allows anyone to be jailed and tried for treason on practically any suspicion. The guillotine is running overtime, and numerous members of government have been killed, including Danton, who Robespierre was once friends with.

One day, Robespierre gives a speech implying that he knows of conspirators in government. All the members look around and are terrified because he didn’t specify who and with the law being so open to interpretation, they could all be tried accused for basically anything.

And so they, with Tallien leading the way, decide they’ll kill Robespierre before he can kill them. They have him arrested and jailed.

When they come to get him, he is somehow shot in the jaw, rendering him unable to speak. He’s refused pen and paper.

He’s marched to the guillotine. His bandage is ripped off, his jaw drops and hangs there, and he lets out a horrible cry. They then behead him and throw him in a grave with about 20 other people.

>>14566568
I loved Rebellion, The Grand Inquistor, and Devil

>>14566601
sounds hardcore, i'd be friends with him
thanks

Snow Crash by Stephenson
The Things they Carried by O’Brien
Inherent Vice by Pynchon
Hear the Wind Sing by Murakami

Currently reading US Grant’s Memoirs and Selected Letters and Will Durant’s The Age of Faith which is an audiobook.

Snow Crash and The Things They Carried we’re decent. Fictional war books are kinda miss the mark with me when I can actually read real memoirs. Inherent Bice was my sixth Pynchon, and it was fantastic, way better than Vineland, which I read last year. Hear the Wind Sing was mediocre and too short though.

>>14559208
Put the Latin all you want, you read the Oresme in translation.

Finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami. Now I'm reading some old war memories, but it's written so bad that I'm suffering.

>>14559198
I was reading Walden and mid-book there were pages from the Bean-field chapter and in there place were random pages from Huckleberry Finn.

>>14567100
^ there were missing pages from the Bean-field chapter

I won't lie senpaitachi I really thought people here would read less.
we really need better moderation to keep the posers out

>>14562017
I really enjoyed the novelty of the first half but I quickly grew bored and forced myself to read to the end; even the humor got stake really quickly. However, he has promise and I'm open to try more of his novels. (He also inspired me to try and write something in his style, which didn't last long).

>>14559198
introduction to mathematical philosophy by bertrand russel
down and out in paris and london by george orwell
yeshua buddha by jay g williams
and i reread catcher in the rye by jd saladbar

>>14567140
if you actually believe the people in this thred read as much as they claim to have then you're an idiot

>>14559198
amygdalatropolis
fight club
the pussy

>>14567140
>>14567397
i've only read three books, but i'd have read a lot more if i wasn't so drained from work all the time. i honestly think i'm just gonna get a job at a gas station and just work a couple shifts a week to pay for food. go homeless once the weather warms up. working is such a goddamn waste of time and energy

The last 2 tome of Les Misérables and The Tartar Steppe

Next book The Plague and various other shit I have to read for Uni

Mishima, Yukoi - Patriotism, re-read this one along with a couple of his other short stories to start off the year.
Yoshimoto, Banana - Kitchen
then i got my e-reader and just started churning through books, it just makes it so easy to read.
Yoshimoto, Banana - The Lake
Murakami, Haruki - South of the Border, West of the Sun
Murakami, Haruki - Sputnik Sweetheart
Murakami, Haruki - Killing Commendatore
Murakami, Haruki - After the Quake
Kazuo, Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go

currently reading After Dark by Murakami.

Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Stories of Your Life and Others
Dune
HP Lovecraft complete fiction (fucking trash lol)

>>14567478
You’re a weak, pathetic, loser.

>>14567521
prolific but doesn't it get boring?

>>14567544
boomer brain

>>14567397
why would they lie
at worst they read superficially but I doubt someone would be pathetic enough to not have read them

This year I have read

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The End is Always Near by Dan Carlin
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

And I'm currently reading 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

>>14567584
not yet, i really like the way murakamis books are written, atleast his fiction stuff, i got some other authors lined up but im just riding the wave at the moment so to say.

>>14567544
actually, i'm an incredibly strong, pathetic loser

>>14567591
>why would someone lie on the internet?
are you unironically this naive?

>inb4 they have nothing to gain no "likes" or "karma"
people don't need a reason to lie.

>>14566673
And?

The most novel findings of that book were mathematical. That requires no translation whatsoever. :3

Two Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries (Lawrence Block)
The World of our Fathers (Irving Howe)
im always reading the book of disquiet
Currently reading Sailing to Sarantium (Guy Gavrie Kay)

>>14567478
>working is such a goddamn waste of time and energy
I concur. I dream of a bohemian lifestyle, but the reality (like all realities) would probably suck.

>>14559198
Started the Handmaiden's Tale, but dropped it after 100 pages. Then I read The Prince.

I've read two books so far, kokoro and the sailor who fell from grace with the sea.

>>14559198
The Way of Zen - Alan Watts
The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
I'm halfway through The Inferno and I plan on starting Macbeth soon.
I've promised myself that this year will be the year I read the Meme Trilogy.

>>14559198
Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Create Dangerously
The Last Messiah
About to finish Nietzsche reads Emerson
reading No Longer Human next

>>14559198
rooftops of tehran 9/10
miso soup 8/10 (ryu murakami is a bit of guilty pleasure, swallowed the whole 300 page book in one evening)
the sparrow 7/10
smaller works by de Sade 7/10 (i like the characteristic 18th century french prose of his)
maupassant's stories, a couple of 8/10 (again, comfy old french romanticism)

>>14559198
I've only read 2 but one of them was the Brothers Karamazov. The other one was Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurty, and I'm about to finish Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol today.

>>14567991
those are some thicc ones. are you a NEET?

>>14567798
How did you like Kokoro?
Kokoro is one of the only books to actually make me extremely sad. The love the narrator held for Sensei was admirable. So much so that he left his dying father to reach him. Which made the suicide letter heart wrenching. In the letter it seemed that Sensei always knew he was going to kill himself.

>>14567991
how's dead souls for you? im more fond of Gogol's comfy ukrainian folk and stories (Overcoat, obligatory), but DS is one of the greatest on degradation of humanity and soul. quite symbolic how he burned the tome meant to represent purgatory (DS being Hell) for he saw there's no redemption for the people he wrote about

- How Democracies Die (Levitsky/Ziblatt)
- The Discovery of America (Urs Bitterli)

Currently halfway through The Odyssey

I have been reading min. 25 pages per day for four months now. Often more.

>>14567979
>Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Was this any good? I've been thinking about purchasing a copy.

>>14568024

You must be using a dictionary to look up big words if that's the case.

>>14568008
I am indeed a NEET hahah I'm that one forest anon from that thread a bit ago, so some days I have way too much time on my hands especially at night. I was never a huge reader until I came out here, at least I never devoted much time to it, but I really fell in love with fiction especially Russian /lit/ because it's cozy and consumes up a lot of time!
>>14568023
I like Dead Souls I give it a 7/10. It is the only Gogol I have read, It was mentioned towards the end of BK during the big trial so I wanted to read it. What I really love about it is how Gogol spirals into his own thoughts and musings, I've saved a good amount of quotes that I really enjoyed and it's very well written too- I like how there is that scene when he starts flipping through the pages of names realizing just how many dead souls there were and you can almost feel him start forming some ideas on it, I didn't find it as funny as others say it is (however that's not the reason I read it, I was more or less just expecting that to come along as a side, and I read translations.... so I'm sure much humor was lost in that fact) one part I really laughed at was when the town officials became paranoid of Tchitchikov after the rumors began to set in, and at one point started believing he may be that famous captain who was missing an arm and leg, who had asked compensation from the government, and then after a good 6 pages of delving into that captain's story one man pointed out he wasnt missing an arm or leg hahahahaha.

>>14559198
Currently reading pic related.

Reading Roosh V's Game
Also Flannery O'Connor's complete stories
Read Chekov's complete plays recently.

Usually i'm reading one "main" book, almost always self help, and some fiction here and there

>>14562552
how did you read ulysses, did you use annotations and guides? did you read Portrait and Dubliners beforehand? how about a review of hamlet and odyessey? also what was the daily time commitment needed to really "absorb" it, im curious.

>>14569856
me too senpai, i'm about to finish tome 2
how did you like fantine

>>14569222
>hahah I'm that one forest anon from that thread a bit ago
dude it's an honor to have a bold ex-OP in my humble thread

I'm going through the Rover by Aphra Behn right now, it's not really my niche but I'm close to finishing it anyways

>>14559198
Good Omens and The Diary of Satan. I've been focusing on videogames and comics, I read too much last year and neglected other hobbies.

>>14559205
Based Macquart.

This sentence is what I'm reading:
>They will be an integrant part of a living whole that would not be complete without them, any more than they would be complete without it.
Does this sentence sound awkward to you?

Sadegh Hedayat - The Blind Owl
about halfway through The Epic of Gilgamesh
Just started Nadja by Andre Breton tonight.

Haven't read a lot lately. Been busy writing music

>>14559198
The Divine comedy and the Jurassic park. I'm halfway through the republic

>>14559198
Finished the Return of the King, now reading Stoner and unwinding before bed with Musashi.

>>14570695
sounds comfy except the republic which is cringe

>>14570820
Yeah I'm finding that out. Why does Socrates think that a highly censored Orwellian state is the perfect state? What a fucking retard. Unless he'll pull off some shenanigans in the end saying he was trolling all along.

>>14570850>>14570820

read alan blooms essay, youre a midwit

>>14569873

"Reading Roosh V's Game"

Dude, that isn't literature. Flannery O'Connor and Anton Checkov are literature. So it would be best to drop Roosh V.

>>14561462
>do androids dream of electric sheep?
What did you think of it? It was my first read this year and my first PKD. It seemed sort of haphazard to me and I noticed some plotholes, but I found it a lot of fun and enjoyed the weird theological stuff.

>>14571015
I will do that as soon as I am done with the book

>>14559198
How to read a book
creative and critical thinking
The Iliad
A short story every day
An essay every other day

>>14569222
based. humor in dead souls is very subtle at parts, you must have extensive knowledge in russian history and culture of that time period, but it's enjoyable even if you know none. i recommend Overcoat, it's maybe 35 pages long, one of the best short stories i've read, on par with Chekhov

havent been reading as much as i should, concentrating more on consolidating my exercise routine atm, i've only read the ddeath of Ivan Il'ic and reading LSD, my problem child at the moment desu senpai

>>14559198
Finished Moby dick a few days after new years
Communist Manifesto
Rereading Genealogy of morals now
Im in a small town in New Zealand at the moment, there's only one bookstore and it's dogshit. Hopefully I'll be able to find a KJV tomorrow. Really want to read hitler though I'm afraid if I order a copy I'll be flagged on some sort of watchlist desu

Currently on page 470
Of Heredotus’ Histories. It’s the only thing I’ve read this year. 120 pages left. Honestly classical books take ages to read.

>>14571890
is ok senpai you got it

started about midway december,
read foundation part 2
foundation part 3
the hobbit,
now 220 pages into zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance,
also 100 pages into way of kings part 2, but its so bad i stopped reading it

>>14559469
What do you think about the Harman book?

>>14571947
you chained the foundations?
I prefer to read one of a series, then soothing else, etc

>>14571953
sorry i ment to write foudnation 2, hobbit, then foundation 3, but was just trying to type it as quick as possible lol, but i do find the books really interesting non the less

>>14571963
yes I liked the first but I don't know if I could have read the three back to back
I still have the rest to read

Beren and Lúthien and pic related.
Currently reading The Fall of Gondolin, as well as Beloved and Purple Hibiscus for classes.

>>14559198
practical zen
siddhartha
we
when
crime and punishment
frankenstein
and currently halfway through hocus pocus

>>14559198
Industral Society and its future - Kaczynski
Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique - Michel Tournier
Across the plains - Robert Louis Stevenson
La Cathédrale - Huysmans
Alma - JMG Le Clézio

In that order

>>14573333
>Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique - Michel Tournier
how is it? is it like a revisited story?
in which case you must want to want this year novel of the académie française, since it's a remake of the incas vs Europe

>>14559198
I'm currently reading Falling, by G J Brown

Top tier literature, I'm surprised he hasn't been discovered yet

>>14559506
What did you think about Quincas Borba and Encyclopedia of the Dead anon? Have been curious about those books.

>>14564678
Really enjoying. Even the narration of banal daily life experiences are gripping. In recent pages some really nice medititations on memory and the loss of meaning in adult life vs childhood. I probably would have found the neuroticism a lot more endearing ten years ago, though.

I finished pic related, and then moved onto Solomon Kane since I'd never read it. Definitely prefer Conan to Solomon Kane.

>>14573788

Isn't that the real life villain that Niccolo Machiavelli worships or at least speak so positively of in his work, the Prince? I've read The Prince over and over and have yet to actually use anything from that book. I've even written some notes in it, but the lessons just don't stick.