2023 Week One Checkup!

[Anonymous No.21502776]

The first week of 2023 is over /lit/! What did you read? What are you reading this week? For me, it's:

Last week:
>Genesis
>Christmas at Thompson Hall; Trollope
>An Introduction to Mathematics [incomplete]; Alfred North Whitehead

This week:
>Exodus
>The Intellectual Life; A.G. Sertillanges
>The Art of Bookbinding; Joseph Zaehnsdorf

[Anonymous No.21502789]

Last week:
1984

This week:
The Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy

[Anonymous No.21502792]

>>21502776
First chapter of Stoner and the first tract of Plotinus as per the reading group.
But I'm really trying to write these days.

[Anonymous No.21502808]

>>21502792
What are you writing?

[Anonymous No.21502827]

>>21502808
Whatever it is, when it's done I will be heralded as the voice of the millennial generation. Pic semi-related>>21502792

[Anonymous No.21503519]

>>21502776
Been lazy
>Sailor(...) Sea (Mishima)
>Dorian Gray (Wilde)
Almost finished the Mishima.

[Anonymous No.21503588]

Federico García Lorca - Gypsy Ballads
Rainer Maria Rilke - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Denis de Rougemont - Love in the Western World

[Anonymous No.21503618]

This Week: Principia and Antony and Cleopatra

Last Week: Men are from Mars women are from Venus

[Anonymous No.21504461]

>>21503618
Have you read Coriolanus? I wanted to read at least five of Shakespeare's works this year, and I was considering:

>Hamlet
>A Midsummer Night's Dream
>King Lear
>Julius Caesar
>Coriolanus

but I wasn't sure about the last one.

>>21503588
I only even recognize two of your authors, know nothing about any of those works.

>>21503519
I like Wilde, but last I tried I couldn't get into Mishima for some reason. It was a long time ago. Should I give it another go? Did you enjoy it?

[Anonymous No.21504568]

>>21504461
I started with Patriotism and liked it a lot. But his suicide fetish in that one is almost too much even though it makes the whole thing what it is.
I finished Sailor earlier and, simply put, it's a nice story. His prose really draws you in, even in translation. I'm not caring much for Dorian Gray though. It's just kind of dry for me. Also upsetting that the footnotes tell me how much was edited out. I'd think that an edition to restore his stricken text would be better to read.
Captcha: x8gay

[Anonymous No.21504572]

I'm currently reading pic related

[Anonymous No.21504672]

>>21504568
Okay, interesting. I may add a Mishima to my list for the year once I've finished the rest. I'm with you on Dorian Grey, actually - I just didn't want to say in case you were loving it. I've avoided the work for that reason (lol, captcha confirmed), but I loved The Importance of Being Earnest and one other of his I can't recall much about anymore.

[Anonymous No.21504699]

Finished Brideshead Revisited and trying to finish Memoirs of Hadrian in French. Not my native language so its slow going but enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.21504747]

>>21504568
>I finished Sailor earlier and, simply put, it's a nice story
What? It's a harrowing story and I was at the edge of my seat for the last chapter.

>>21502776
>The first week of 2023 is over /lit/! What did you read? What are you reading this week?
I started The Claw of the Conciliator last week, but I wasn't able to finish it. I have about 60 pages left so I'll probably finish it Tuesday night.
I'll fill the rest of the week with something short. I was thinking either No Longer Human or One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich to alternate from SF.

[Anonymous No.21504777]

>>21504747
Nice as in I liked it. I also was saying "oh god oh fuck" to myself for the entire last bit. I'm not the best at using appropriate vocabulary all the time. For lack of better terms, I wrote nice as a way to reflect my thoughts on my enjoyment of it, not as a representation of the materials and themes.

[Anonymous No.21504786]

Last week:
LLPSI

This week:
LLPSI
Plotinus

I've devoted at least 2 hours to Latin daily. Sometimes 3; I have to keep going.

[Anonymous No.21504789]

>Journey to the End of the Night, Celine
>Understanding Media, McLuhan

[Anonymous No.21505170]

>>21504789
How do you like Celine? The title sounds saturated with romance. Would it be unendurable to a modest robot like me, whose emotions are as passing winds in a field - felt and not seen by any?

[Anonymous No.21505364]

Other than some poems, I read Aristophanes' Frogs, and I'm currently reading his Clouds.
Did Nietzsche just rip off his Birth of Tragedy wholesale from this guy?

[Anonymous No.21505419]

>>21502776
People here read?

[Anonymous No.21505433]

>>21505419
Yes! Join us! *begins chant* ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

[Anonymous No.21505445]

>>21505170
Celine will shower you in bile, you'll like it (nta)

[Anonymous No.21505475]

>>21502776
This graphic novel about a dominatrix who works in Berlin. The art is pretty good and the parts about her work and bdsm are really interesting, but towards the end she gets a bit preachy about sex worker rights. Overall a 4/5

[Anonymous No.21505489]

>>21502776
Last week:
>The Old Capital
>Kusamakura
>To the Lighthouse

This week:
>The Scarlet Letter
>Re-read of Hamlet
>Journal of the Plague Year

[Anonymous No.21505497]

>>21502776
I read ~200 chapters of a 2700 chapter xanxia novel
I also read book 1 of the 5 rings

[Anonymous No.21505513]

>>21505433
what animal is that?

[Anonymous No.21505535]

>>21502776
Last week:
>Ubik
>Fellowship of the Ring

This week:
>Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
>The Two Towers

Also slowly working my way through the fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason, but last year was such an intense philosophy reading year that I'm taking a few weeks to read fiction

[Anonymous No.21505538]

>>21504461
I think one has to read through the Sea of Fertility tetralogy to really make a decision whether Mishima sits with them or not.

[Anonymous No.21505544]

>>21502776
First 2 Sherlock Holmes books so far. Going through the short stories now.

[Anonymous No.21505551]

The Sound and the Fury
1984

[Anonymous No.21505552]

>>21505551
Currently reading about James Cook

[Anonymous No.21505744]

death of Ivan Ilych
Iliade

[Anonymous No.21506129]

>>21505513
A bat

[Anonymous No.21506246]

>>21502776
I've been working through thucydides. Hopefully I'll finish The Passenger this week as well.

[Anonymous No.21506434]

>>21502776
Finishing Confederacy of Dunces and queuing up Dandelion Wine by Bradbury next.

[Anonymous No.21506623]

Last week I read Incest by de Sade, The Programme of the NSDAP by Feder, The Last Days of the Romanovs by Wilton, and A History of Central Banking by Goodson.
This week I'll read The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoy, Nana by Zola, and whatever else I feel like reading.

[Anonymous No.21508144]

bump

[Anonymous No.21509240]

>>21504568
>>21504672
After reading a few more chapters, I'm finding the plot to Dorian Gray a bit interesting now. I'm watching the dlow burn and premise actually take place versus just establishing setting in the first bits, so it's getting better at least. I don't really care for the fag implications though, I'm just annoyed it was censored so much because there's such a discrepancy between what Wilde had struck by the editor versus what made it in.

[Anonymous No.21509289]

Decameron by Boccaccio
A King Alone by Giono

Those are my current books, I don’t keep track of what I read in a year. I just finish one book and pick another up. No need to keep track of progress

[Anonymous No.21509351]

For my Irish language studies I have read:
>Genesis 1 and 2 in Gaelic
>A History of the Irish Language
>Séadna

I am going to read:
>Genesis 3 and 4 in Gaelic
>Séadna

For other reading:
>Rereading Finnegan's Wake
>I have looked at Confederacy of Dunces just because everyone's been talking about it today

I am going to read:
>Bukowski, to see if I actually like him or just some clips I've heard narrated

[Anonymous No.21509358]

>>21505364
Nietzsche ripped off a lot of people. It's usually better to read them and not Nietzsche's druggie whining

[Anonymous No.21509473]

>>21509240
I see. Well, perhaps I'll even give it a chance one day. I generally enjoy ENFP works, even when I strongly disagree with the author on points of contention.

[Anonymous No.21509476]

>>21509351
Bro...You're so cool! I am extremely curious about Irish Gaelic, but I hadn't even considered what Scripture would sound like in it! Freaking awesome!

[Anonymous No.21509478]

>>21509351
Why are people so fucking smart? I wish I went to a good college and studied something cool like this.

[Anonymous No.21509486]

>>21509289
How do like Boccaccio? I had considered putting Decameron on my list for the year. I make a list, generally meant to be finished in about six months, and use it more of as a loose guide line to ensure I keep reading what I should. My list is about 40 books this year, but Zaehndorf's Bookbinding was already straying from it a bit.

[Anonymous No.21510635]

>>21509476
Don't know if this is sarcasm, but thanks. It's a beautiful language with 1,500 years of history behind it, and if you got Irish ancestry then I highly encourage learning it. It's under threat, so I see it as an ethnic duty to preserve and pass it on to my kids.

>>21509478
Don't know if this is sarcasm either, but I'll treat it as genuine. Truth is you don't need a university to read this stuff, a lot of it you should be able to get acces to. Youtube has plenty of ripped audiobooks, there's pirated ebooks that you can get, and even just stuff in the public domain is free for you. You don't need to pay tuition for anything that's worthwhile, most people try to preserve and distribute great literature. Very glad to see you so enthusiastic about reading though, more power to you.

[Anonymous No.21510642]

>>21509486
Delightful is the best way I can describe it. Just a bunch of 2-15 page short stories, many of them involving schemes to get laid, and many of them hilarious. It’s an easy read. I like the message of the book to about finding joy, laughter, etc during bad times

[Anonymous No.21511182]

>>21502776
Would like to finish Stirner this week.

[Anonymous No.21512152]

I finished Melville’s Piazza Tales yesterday and just started The House of Seven Gables

[Anonymous No.21512236]

>>21510635
Not sarcasm. I'm not Irish - a mere 2% or so, but I fell for the Irish myths, poets, and music in my early teen years. I've had Irish Gaelic in the back of my mind since then. I read Scripture nearly every day, so the idea of reading the Bible in Gaelic just seems awesome. I'm OP, btw.

>>21510642
Wow, interesting. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't that.

[Anonymous No.21512799]

Genesis
Exodus
Island - Richard Laymon
Dangerous Liaisons - Frenchie
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty - Anne Rice
Dragon Tears - Dean Koontz

Upcoming;

Dreading Leviticus again
Parsival
Byron's poems and letters
Either some Spooksville or Narnia... or both

Have question;

Where to start with good/reasonable translations of Youxia poetry?

[Anonymous No.21512804]

>>21510642

Good to know, the Decameron is on my list for the year. Made a start on the Book of Disquiet, too.

[Anonymous No.21512819]

>>21509351

Bukowski has some exhilarating work. And terrible shit. You don't get to choose, but it's worth it, it's truly worth it.

[Anonymous No.21513832]

>>21512799
You're voracious aren't you! I'd never heard the term Youxia. It sounds very interesting. I'm also going to be beginning Leviticus again this week. I should be on it already. I'm a tad behind on my schedule I've given myself. I'm trying to read 10 chapters of scripture a day, so as to finish the entire Bible in around three months, freeing up more time for other works. This will be the second time I've read it through completely, but certain portions I've read many, many times. I enjoy Leviticus, but I can see why it might be a slog for some.

[Anonymous No.21513853]

>>21509289
Just wanted to add that I’m 50 pages into A King Alone and it is..interesting. Weird but interesting. So far I think I like it. Reminds me of Murakami in rural 1840’s France. Kind of horror. Kind of detective genre. Very surreal. I don’t know where it’s going but it has left an impression so far. Still enjoying Boccaccio as well. A great mood improver.

[Anonymous No.21514137]

>>21509473
The author is literally a massive faggot and I can see some of the characters oozing his shitty cringey viewpoints. The story is entertaining to me thus far though.

[Anonymous No.21514151]

Last week:
Seratonin by Houellebecq - 10/10 book and I don't care what anyone says, best description of depression I have ever read.
Day of the Oprichnik - fairly mediocre, might be more poignant to read this in a few decades as a product of its time rather than now.

This week:
Fear and Trembling - Tried reading it before but was not in the mood for something heavy, seems like a good read but Kierkegaard appears to a bit over-sentimental.

[Anonymous No.21514160]

Do people that are not in college really read more than one book at a time? why...?

[Anonymous No.21514170]

>>21513853
>Murakami in rural 1840s France
I'm so in.

[Anonymous No.21514171]

>>21514160
Variety. I usually don’t have more than 2 going at a time though

[Anonymous No.21514174]

>>21514160
Most of /lit/ (me excluded) are mentally ill so I wouldn't doubt it

[Anonymous No.21514175]

>>21514160
I read more than one book at a time while I was in college, brah. Curiosity provokes, and not only that, genre/author switching can be like having different meals in a day, or flavors of drink in a night. I can read Chaucer for a few hours, grow tired of poetry for the moment, and switch to an essay collection, for example.

[Anonymous No.21514179]

>>21514175
So you switch books like a child...?

[Anonymous No.21514199]

>>21514179
What a retarded take, and an ironically childish provocation. As if all children behave identically.

[Anonymous No.21514714]

>>21513832

I try. Good luck with your study. Last time, I was taking detailed notes, whereas now I'm just reading and letting things wash over me, taking brief notes on things that strike me, that I want to pursue further, or just questions and ideas that form, so I'm hoping to have a better time with it. I've also given myself the year to finish it.