/lit/ - Literature

kek I noticed this. The faggot is obviously a pleb.

I'm sad that the filtered fool was too lazy to do a third and fourth thread with the other covers.

Being and Time (realized I had not read nearly enough philosophy beforehand to comprehend it; too young)
Anna Karenina (got bored because too young and the person I was reading it with stopped reading, ruining the incentive)
In Search of Lost Time (also too young and boyish, got to volume 4 and realized I hadnt been paying attention and had no idea what was going on. Found it tedious, effeminate, bourgeois, too much information about drawing rooms and slippers and tea time for a teenage boy)

Ulysses. Really liked circe and Penelope, found bloom to be tolerable, but was bored to tears by anything pertaining dedalus. It got more tolerable after reading portrait of the artist but only slightly

Also blood meridian isn't really good

If I didn't finish naked lunch was a I filtered? Am I allowed to not like it and not have been filtered?

>>16643890
t. filtered

>>16643897
That's not how it works anon. You are obliged to dislike everything reddit and anything you otherwise dislike has pleb filtered you

>>16643804
Ulysses

This

>>16643924
17 years etc etc

>>16644035
17 years in the making?

>>16644044
he spent 17 years writing it you should spend 17 years reading it

>>16643804
Nothing yet. Maybe Catch 22, that's the only book I remember not finishing.

>>16643804
I thought Evola was just alright. I'm sure evolafags will say I was filtered.

fourfold root

>>16643804
I've heard its a common sentiment, but The Scarlet Letter was so fucking boring. I've read other writers from that time and have always enjoyed them, but The Scarlet Letter was just too much prose for so little plot.

>The Magic Mountain
Oh good, they’re going for another walk. Oh good they’re having another meal.
>The Man Without Qualities
let’s discuss the jubilee plans again
>An American Tragedy
Three pages in and zzzzzzz

I really enjoyed East of Eden but I’ve started it several time and haven’t finished it. It’s probably my favorite novel that I’ve never finished.

Bros K unfortunately. I know this will sound as a cheap excuse, but I bought the shittiest edition on Earth, that had a font size that was wayyy too small. I'll try again next month with the ebook.

>>16644307
Stop following me dumbcunt. As proof, your initials are AR.

I’m floundering in To the Lighthouse right now while I liked Mrs. Dalloway and Orlando.

>>16644057
Im glad that im not the only one who can't get through it. I pick it up again like every other year and enjoy it a fair bit but I always lose interest

Faust part 2. Just became a boring bloated mess after a while.

>>16644582
Bitch you have my number. If you want to say something to me, text me on whatsapp

>>16644708
>whatsapp
Fuck off normie

>>16644708
>whatsapp

Boys, we have two thirdworld retards here.

I got filtered two years ago by Madame Bovary. In the time since then I've read great things about Flaubert and his ouvre, to the point I'm ashamed of giving up on it before even reaching 100 pages. I'm looking forward to read it, I think I'm a different reader (and person) now.
Before that, I remember as a teen finding The Crying of Lot 49 at the library and the symbol on the cover really sparked my attention, so I gave it a try. I couldn't make sense of anything, and I got frustrated because I though I was an idiot (whitout knowing anything about Pynchon, since it's not really that famous in my country), and I left it at like page 50. Maybe I was an idiot after all, but I think that since then I've developed an appreciation for the absurd. It would definitely be different now.

I think people shouldn't be so defensive when pointed out that they have been "filtered". Part of growing as a reader is understanding that it's an art on itself, and it requires time, dedication and practice. Just understand that you (and anybody) has limitis.

>>16644307
In my opinion, you did well. It's no use forcing yourself through a shitty edition. Better wait and get yourself a better experience.

I don't know why, but for some reason Borges always went right the fuck over my head. I've tried over and over again, and while I don't doubt for a second that he's one of the greatest writers of short fiction in history, I just get intimidated every time.

"Filtered' is a meme to excuse bad, convoluted writing.

>>16644790
Don't take it too seriously. I spend many years afraid of him (people have such big opinions!) and then when I finally read it I laughed my ass off you like you wouldn't believe.
Read it as satire, and don't think too hard about metaphysics, and maths, and of all that. That comes later. For Jorge Luis, literature was meant to be a joy, he wrote so people could laugh with him.
Don't trust in the people that talk about Borges without a smile in their faces.

Read "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins". There is one of his tricks: a seemingly logical premise turns grotesque when taken to its limits, while keeping a serious tone that makes you wonder if is "fiction" or an "essay", blurring the lines of reality. If you can't see the funny in that short story just don't bother with him.

>>16643804
My mom speaks german and I was reading Gaddis's The Tunnel and first twenty pages maybe a boy is introduced by saying a repetitive phrase in german to our main character, I was like mom what does "repetitive german phrase mean"
and she's like "what is the context?"
and I'm like "it's a kid saying it to a man"
and she's like "he's saying "Do me! Do me! Do me!" what the fuck are you reading"

So I had to stop reading it around the house and haven't had the chance to pick it up since moving out.

>>16644582
Wtf anon you got me there!! That's rite I'm Astley, Rick and you've been rickrolled!!

>>16644754
Thanks anon, I can't possibly let my man Fjodor down, I ain't giving up on him

>>16643804
i don't understand people who don't "get" Blood Meridian.

its the most unsubtle book I have ever read. how can you read the Judge's speech on warfare and not feel like you're staring into the void?

>>16643804
>WHAT?!!! You don't like my grimdark cowboy book you must be stoopid
Spotted the 13yo burger

>>16643804
any philosophy LMAO

Synthesis on the objective and subjective

>>16644102
Reading ride the Tiger and Im straining myself to not get filtered. I may return to it after I do some more studying and maybe after I read some of his other works

>>16645365
Yeah I agree. Very straight forward book

>>16644749
Better than using facebook messenger.

>>16644982
Kek I am dying here. Imagine having to explain to your mother Lolita

>>16643804
I can't make it past the retard part. Tried four times.

>>16643890
It’s not

>>16646008
There are 3 time periods in the first section so pay attention to who is with Benji to figure out which section is in which period.This book is like a puzzle and as soon as you’be read the entire thing, it’ll make more sense and you’ll want to go back and reread the Benji part

Why are there six Cormack McCarthy threads all up at the same time all of of which not using the word “McCarthy” so they can’t be filtered?

>>16645989
yeah pretty funny in retrospect
Good reminder to pick up the tunnel