What are you reading?

[Anonymous No.13520276]

Post and boast.

[Anonymous No.13520303]

>>13520276
The Handmaids Tale
It's better than I was expecting.

[Anonymous No.13520449]

Myth of Sisyphos
On earth we're briefe gorgeous

[Anonymous No.13520460]

Imajica currently. Trying to get myself to read every day. This is my first Clive Barker work I've read so I don't know if it's a good place to start, but I've been loving it so far.

[Anonymous No.13520480]

After the struggle of the first section, which for me at points was almost incomprehensible, nearing 400 pages in I'm finding that I'm following it a lot more than I was. Of course, there are still points which go over my head, but that's Pynchon.

Regarding this edition (pictured) which I know is /lit/'s least favoured of the bunch, I've found the text very clear and no printing issues at all thus far.

[Anonymous No.13520487]

This.
Honestly not as bad as the reviews but I just cant wait to finish it

[Anonymous No.13520512]

kant critique of pure reason

[Anonymous No.13521013]

>>13520276
this looks interesting, is it any good?

[Anonymous No.13521064]

Summa Theologica

[Anonymous No.13521125]

Reading this at the moment. Can’t wait to get it finished so I can tuck into either;

flowers for algenon
siddhartha
do androids dream of electric sheep

[Anonymous No.13521133]

>>13520487
It looks thicc, worth it?

[Anonymous No.13521147]

Words from the prow by Karkavitsas
Some nice sea stories

[Anonymous No.13521188]

>>13521133
no
>meh story
>lolbertarianism
read it anyway , tho

[Anonymous No.13521206]

Currently reading this. I think after I might finish LOTR which I left off at The Fellowship of the Ring.

[Anonymous No.13521288]

[Anonymous No.13523004]

>>13520276
God damn this fucking book, I have to read it for the final course of my degree which kicks off in five days

[Anonymous No.13523025]

>>13521013
you can find a pdf with shitty formatting with a quick google search

[Anonymous No.13523038]

Read the Count of Monte Cristo in Spanish.

[Anonymous No.13523263]

>>13521125
normie

[Anonymous No.13523276]

>>13521133

[Anonymous No.13523321]

I'm finally reading through this.
It's quite good, because Hamilton is somewhat lyrical, focusing on narrative summary derived from the source texts. But that's also why it's a poor reference text.

[Anonymous No.13523945]

The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz-Levy is pretty good, finished it a while ago tho. Currently finishing up a nonfiction on Stalingrad and reading mother night concurrently

[Anonymous No.13523973]

>>13520276
Was big idiot and got the penguins classic edition with a translation by C. V Rheu.

Kinda awful translation but the jist of the book was good and teared up when Patroclus died. Only read parts of it in high school and am excited to read a better translation next year fagals or idk. Any suggestions for better translations?

[Anonymous No.13523988]

Currently reading Anna Karenina for the second time

It's a wonderful book, I've paid a lot more attention to characters like Karenin and Dolly this time and really came to like both of them.

[Anonymous No.13524038]

>>13521288
Nice. Loved the latter two books much more but Ye Wenjie’s story is neat and Luo Jing is obviously based

[Anonymous No.13524041]

The Count of Monte Cristo
it's pure kino

[Anonymous No.13524334]

>>13521013
It's pretty solid, one of the only books that helped me understand what the fuck Althusser was going on about.
>>13523004
Your degree must be pretty easy, I did it in Year Two...

[Anonymous No.13524878]

Finished reading this just now but planning to reread it since I'm pretty dumb and have to go through things several times to understand it. Ive enjoyed it so far though

[Anonymous No.13524924]

>>13521188
If you deal with a lot of libertarian types, it'll help you understand their narcissism and worldview.

[Anonymous No.13524932]

About half way through. Enjoying it.

[Anonymous No.13524937]

I only read Nietzschean literature.

[Anonymous No.13524942]

>>13523321
It's garbage lol

[Anonymous No.13524953]

>>13524937

[Anonymous No.13525358]

>>13520480
Yeah I have that edition too and never had any issues with it.

[Anonymous No.13525558]

reading this atm. deep shit.

[Anonymous No.13525733]

>>13523276
Rand’s titles are probably the only good parts of her books. Makes me wonder if she picked them herself.

[Anonymous No.13525826]

>>13520276
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
i'm nearly finished and unsure what to make of it, although i've been eating more cheese spread sandwiches than usual recently

[Anonymous No.13526754]

The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell.

My thoughts so far are unironically that the Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

[Anonymous No.13526761]

>>13523973
Fagles, Lattimore, Fitzgerald
Maybe Pope

[Anonymous No.13526781]

>>13520276
the mass psychology of fascism and the soft machine

[Anonymous No.13526792]

>>13520276
This thread desu

[Anonymous No.13527214]

Carrie, by Stephen King
It's a meh at best, but I'm going through some shitty days and it helps with the escapism. Plus, I'm reading a translation (the book isn't mine), which make it even worse.

[Anonymous No.13527709]

>>13523263
Following the lit sticky you elitist cunt

You are the hipsters of this board

[Anonymous No.13527733]

>>13524038
>Luo Ji
Fucking Luo Ji man. He should have used the lightspeed ship to get the fuck outa there and then find immortality. In the next universe, he should then have created a dojo for immortal warriors.

[Anonymous No.13527738]

>>13524041
If you haven't read it, you should not be browsing /lit/.

[Anonymous No.13527750]

>>13523276
>Tumblr
fuck off, rand deserves to be associated with better places than that shithole

[Anonymous No.13527759]

>>13523973
What’s wrong with penguins classic translation?

[Anonymous No.13527817]

currently reading 2666. good so far, but not my favorite bolano.

>>13525733
her husband picked it. she wrote a 3-line exchange about atlas shrugging, he thought it was neat, and the title is a simpler rephrase of those 3 lines.

[Anonymous No.13527847]

I'm finishing Proust's In Search of Time Lost. It was a beautiful ride :')

[Anonymous No.13527874]

Best American Stories 1986, edited by Raymond Carver. Not reading in order because the stories are alphebetized by author, but so far I've read "Gryphon" by Charles Baxter and "Health" by Joy Williams, both are really wonderful stories. It's got one by Munro which I haven't read yet but am looking forward to, I really love her.

[Anonymous No.13527883]

>>13523276
I never understood this misconception. Atlas holds up the sky, not the earth. And if I'm not mistaken, according to Homer, Poseidon holds up the earth. (By earth here, we mean land above water, not a globe.)

[Anonymous No.13527890]

>>13523321
I hear this is good for the writer as well, what with plot development, symbols, archetypes, etc. Do you see this as being the case?

[Anonymous No.13527896]

>>13521125
Only part I enjoyed about 451 is the head honcho of the firemen shitting on minorities and blaming them for the future they were in. Pretty prophetic, if you ask me. I don't think Bradbury is very talented or smart, but he ended up writing one of the most relevant novels as of late.

[Anonymous No.13528864]

>>13520276

[Anonymous No.13528881]

>>13528864
no boasting but it is an excellent book so far & i think the first one i've ever read with bits about wanking

[Anonymous No.13528886]

no boasting but it is an excellent book so far & i think the first one i've ever read with bits about wanking

[Anonymous No.13528895]

>>13527883
it's easier to represent it as him holding the earth