/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22263086]

What book are you currently reading?

[Anonymous No.22263112]

>>22263086
Does your thread count?

[Anonymous No.22263125]

The Broom Of The System by David F. Wallace.

[Anonymous No.22263217]

>>22263086
>book
what?
I only read before bed to help me fall asleep, right now I'm shitposting on 4channel and reading your thread
Last night I was reading The Golden Bough which I plan to read more of tonight. Shit puts me to sleep in 5 mins

[Anonymous No.22263251]

>>22263086
The Turner Diaries, again

[Anonymous No.22263252]

Random fanfics

[Anonymous No.22263260]

>>22263086
Plato's dialogues and fanfics. I was thinking of getting the Tartar Steppe but I already have so much shit I need to get through.

[Anonymous No.22263291]

>>22263086
A Sportsman’s Notebook - Turgenev

[Anonymous No.22263381]

I’m reading every fold on my woman’s body and studying every strand of hair that flows from her head.

[Anonymous No.22263387]

Blood Meridian (re-read)
The Sound and the Fury (re-read)
Epigraph - Gordon Lish (re-read and one of my favorite/funniest books of all time)
Dubliners

[Anonymous No.22263388]

>>22263086
Steppenwolf. It’s pretty good

[Anonymous No.22263403]

Solenoid, only just started

[Anonymous No.22263426]

ulysses.
reading for the 3rd time

[Anonymous No.22263431]

>>22263426
w or w/o annotations?

[Anonymous No.22263436]

>>22263426
I'm on my fourth. It's good isn't it?

[Anonymous No.22263442]

Elective Affinities by Goethe

[Anonymous No.22263447]

>>22263086
all of them
next thread

[Anonymous No.22263459]

>>22263086
Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems

[Anonymous No.22263477]

>>22263436
Yes.
It's a while since since my last time and it is just as great as I remember. Or greater, actually, everytime something new pops up that I let slip previously.
It's my favorite novel by far.

>>22263431
The first two times I read on my own, no notes.
This time around I always have this on my phone so whenever needed I go to it.
https://www.joyceproject.com/
I don't look up every single thing otherwise I'd be reading more notes than the actual work.
I don't think notes are really 'necessary' to enjoy it, at least not to a certain level, because even without notes you can follow quite well what is going on.
Some really do add a lot of context and useful information, others are more like trivias: who the character is based on, where specifically a certain scene takes place,

[Anonymous No.22263504]

>>22263125
David Foster Wallace was a Chaucerian fraud of the highest order and the only thing preserving his memory is the vile slobber of his gooner corpse fuckers dripping from his rigor mortis. Sloppy prose and masturbatory footnotes that end up being nothing but a shitty pastiche of titanic postmodern novels. Not very sincere! Rot, rot, rot. His overly manicured sweaty sadboi-bandana personality foreshadowed the kind of PR meticulousness and saavy he claimed to disparage. A fraud in and out. He died far too late. I shit on his grave.

[Anonymous No.22263506]

A fire upon the deep. I'm on a bit of a sci fi binge at the moment

[Anonymous No.22263521]

>>22263504
Yeah I'm thinking of dropping the book. Happy?

[Anonymous No.22263528]

>>22263086
Wittgenstein's Mistress

[Anonymous No.22263543]

havent read for two years at this point, this board is just less insufferable than the rest
also more fun to argue with you retards as well

[Anonymous No.22263548]

>>22263086
Currently reading Herodotus. I reached Book VII last night, and it only just then occured to me that it probably would've been a good idea to have taken notes up to this point so that I can keep track of all these different characters and events better. Oh well.

[Anonymous No.22263557]

Angela's Ashes. It's just okay

[Anonymous No.22263568]

I'm currently reading some John Barth novels and he strikes me as a massive influence on DFW.

[Anonymous No.22263577]

>>22263568
Agreed. That sort of academical writing like of Barth or De Lillo does appear in DFW's works.

[Anonymous No.22263581]

>>22263521
You will have made a wise decision.

[Anonymous No.22263583]

Hamlet
The Screwtape Letters

[Anonymous No.22263603]

Defeating Eurabia by Fjordman

[Anonymous No.22263646]

>>22263568
Fucking love Sot Weed Factor, but I'm not super into his other books I've read (Giles Goat Boy and Lost in the Funhouse).
Currently reading Fall of Hyperion, fuck yeah I love this kind of sci fi shit, feels kinda Dune-ish at times, but not so damn weird.

[Anonymous No.22263690]

O fantasma de Canterville by Oscar Wilde

[Anonymous No.22263887]

My own shitty book I'm constantly editing.

[Anonymous No.22263897]

>>22263086
Thus Chuck Fuck Zarathustra Sneed

[Anonymous No.22263903]

Crisis of Western Philosophy. Finally bit the bullet and just bought it on kindle since I couldn't find anything on libgen.

[Anonymous No.22263916]

>>22263086
Wild Swans

[Anonymous No.22263923]

>>22263086
the idiot

[Anonymous No.22263926]

>>22263086
Keats’ letters
The I-Ching
Nijinsky’s diary

[Anonymous No.22263936]

>>22263903

[Anonymous No.22263939]

>>22263887
YGMI

[Anonymous No.22263951]

>>22263936
What site is that. I've been using libgen.is

[Anonymous No.22263958]

>>22263086
The Dark Road by Ma Jian. It's well written but incredibly depressing. More so because the dark events are based on real life accounts of peasants under the Communist regime during the early days of the one child policy. I'm still reading it but while I have a hard time putting it down I feel sad and angry after reading it. Probably the most dehumanizing book I've read in a long while.

[Anonymous No.22263964]

>>22263936
>>22263951
Anna's Archives.

[Anonymous No.22264013]

Currently reading Molloy, Don Quixote, and flipping through Celan’s poems and Kafka’s diaries.
>>22263426
It’s been years since I reread this but I remember certain passages or descriptions every once in a while.

[Anonymous No.22264107]

>>22263477
I read it with Ulysses Annotated by Don Gifford and it never felt tedious having two books open at once. I loved it.

[Anonymous No.22264282]

Just finished up Papillon after nearly three weeks and started pic related tonight.
Fairly short so hopefully I can knock it out over the weekend.

[Anonymous No.22264287]

>>22263086
>Generally, however, the person who does not match the societal norm of appearance is virtually powerless to move from his or her allotted role and overthrow the negative judgement of others, because appearance is virtually a constant, and far more difficult to alter or disguise than unacceptable behaviour.
>In a very real sense, therefore, the disfigured individual is ascribed the deviant role, and is excluded from acceptance by society. He or she lacks the basic currency required to belong to the group, in this case normal appearance, and has little chance of ever resuming a fully accepted place within the community.
- The Social Consequences of Facial Disfigurement, Michael J. Hughes

[Anonymous No.22264305]

Just started reading Blood Meridian

I finished The Road recently & wanted to try poppa mac's other books but I gave up 1/4 of the way through The Passenger

[Anonymous No.22264316]

>>22263086
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Jung

Also I'm like 200 pages into The Magus but it's starting to seem pretty contrived and from what I've heard it only gets more "chaotic." Think I might drop it

[Anonymous No.22264344]

The Salt Line - Youval Shimoni.
Only about 100 pages in, but it's bretty gud so far. I don't remember how the author came onto my radar at all, but I'm glad he did.

[Anonymous No.22264414]

finally reading confessions of a mask. i've read a bumch of mishima so i probably should have read this one sooner. it's not his best (patriotism is his best) but it is very informative.

[Anonymous No.22264476]

>>22263291
Great book. The living relic is a great story.

[Anonymous No.22264480]

sevastopol sketches

[Anonymous No.22264483]

>>22264316
I too am reading the Magus. But I’m only on chapter 9. I like it so far. He describes being in live very well.

[Anonymous No.22264756]

>>22263086
V.
Also I'm currently studying the complete works of W. R. Bion

[Anonymous No.22265645]

Tolstoy's Confession
Always interesting to see how much he accomplishes with such a simple style. Contradictory and fascinating man. His thoughts on the meaning on life can resonate with everyone with just a little bit of introspection.
Maybe I will read his Diaries next.

[Anonymous No.22265663]

Currently reading Suttree. I love it.

[Anonymous No.22265695]

>>22263086
Currently reading Thinner by Richard Bachman and The Eyes of the dragon by Stephen King

[Anonymous No.22266056]

[Anonymous No.22266079]

The stories are incredibly odd (which is to be expected, I guess).

[Anonymous No.22266987]

Omega Minor by Paul Verhaeghen

[Anonymous No.22266993]

Words of Radiance (good)
Storm Front(Dresden Files) (good)
The Three-Body Problem (trash)
The Neon Rain (good)

[Anonymous No.22267002]

>>22263086
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Heidt

[Anonymous No.22267016]

The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
Ex Ponto by Ivo Andrić

[Anonymous No.22267025]

Omega Minor by Paul Verhaeghen

[Anonymous No.22267035]

Heights of despair by Cioran

[Anonymous No.22267071]

>>22266987
is that one of those werewold smut books?

[Anonymous No.22267079]

>>22266987
is that one of those werewolf smut books?

[Anonymous No.22267088]

Day of the Caesars - Simon Scarrow
I’m needing a good book or series on Napoleon. Not historical fiction if possible but fine if it’s historically accurate enough. Something fun to read rather than an academic thesis. Any recommendations?

[Anonymous No.22267097]

The Well Wrought Urn - Cleanth Brooks

[Anonymous No.22267153]

Omega Minor by Paul Verhaeghen

[Anonymous No.22267169]

Titus Groan

[Anonymous No.22267174]

>>22267025
>>22267079
>>22267153
So, is it one of the few great books of our century?

[Anonymous No.22267188]

>>22263086
Archaeology book on Mycenae
I have Beyond Good & Evil scheduled next although I already know what it says

[Anonymous No.22267231]

>>22263251

[Anonymous No.22267259]

>>22263086
devil in the white city °°erik larson

[Anonymous No.22267275]

>>22266993
If you can get past the first 3 books in The Dresden Files then you're in for a good time.

[Anonymous No.22267285]

[Anonymous No.22267287]

>>22267079
I don’t know how to describe it, so here’s what it sez (Dalkey Archive Press) on the back cover (long read):
“Berlin, Spring of 1995. While a group of neo-Nazis are preparing an anniversary bash of disastrous proportions, an old physics professor returns to Potsdam to atone for his sins, an Italian postdoc designs an experiment that will determine the fate of the universe, and, in a room in La Charité, a Holocaust survivor tells his tale to the willing ear of a young psychologist. Who is that talking cat, why do ghosts of SS soldiers roam the city, and what is Speer’s favorite actress up to? Moving back and forth between the main stages of the past century—Berlin united and divided, Boston, Los Alamos, Auschwitz—Omega Minor is a novel of big ideas, a tale of survival of the soul cast in a whirlwind plot that is in turns smart, inquisitive, funny, violent, nutty, pornographic, moving, deeply compassionate, and profoundly moral. Or not. Do scars ever heal? Can history be transcended? And will love, for once, save the world? Welcome to Omega Minor, where nothing is ever what it seems and nothing ever ends.”
I thought the first 3 pages were funny, sex from a sperm’s point-of-view. Good writing, but I don’t know where it’s heading. Guess I’ll keep reading to find out. Apologies to the 2 other entries. Computer acting squirrelly.

[Anonymous No.22267922]

>>22267287
This sounds very much like a book I've been trying to write for the last 2 years, except I can't get the right words out in the right order. The blurb sounds like the usual marketing, "Novel of the Century!!!" The first few pages previewed makes this sound like a lot of pornography and navel gazing, as if the narrator could conceive of nothing bigger than themselves or sex. I'm no prude, I don't flinch at sex scenes in movies and I think frank sexual encounters in books are completely natural when it makes sense for the plot (I really like how economical Pynchon is with sex in GR, "but they're fucking now," being one of the passages I remember most).
This book feels like a lot of that verbose, turgid, overly sentimental prose that I used to write when I was in my early- and mid-twenties. Hell, even Tristram Shandy is preoccupied with sex and his birth, but at least he doesn't harp on it long enough for it to become dull.

[Anonymous No.22268821]

>>22267922
I understand what you are saying. Omega Minor was mentioned some time ago here on /lit/ (I forget in what context), so I thought I would give it a try because it sounded interesting. I'm going to finish it to find what the fuss was all about. I've read a lot of literature over the course of my life, maybe too much, but I am drawn to the European writers these days because the state of modern American literature is really depressing. And because I saw it mentioned in /lit/ a month or two ago, I’ve got The Garden of Seven Twilights by Miquel de Palol sitting on my table now as the next one I am going to read. I’m a glutton for punishment.

[Anonymous No.22268954]

>>22263086
Reading Genesis right now. Besides the creation story it's really boring.
Someone recommend me a fun book from the Bible. I've already read Ecclesiastes, Revelations, and Kings.

[Anonymous No.22268978]

>>22264013
Good taste, I think you'd like Unamuno

[Anonymous No.22269006]

>>22263086
Red Harvest.
I can see why this stuff was so popular.

[Anonymous No.22269012]

>>22263086
The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder. A super short novella that I find inspiring and enigmatic. I read it a couple times a year

[Anonymous No.22269025]

>>22268954
Obadiah

[Anonymous No.22269027]

Just finished The Sorrows of Young Werther

[Anonymous No.22269038]

>>22263086
Martin Amis, Money
Peter Sloterdijk, Rage and Time

[Anonymous No.22269114]

>>22263251
Me. I need to stop mentioning the book to women. I have an innate fear/aversion to women. Thanks Mom for not loving me.

[Anonymous No.22269118]

Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd

William Morris - The Wood Beyond the World

[Anonymous No.22269124]

>>22269025
Meh it failed to arise any emotion in me. 1.5 pages of bland Jewish revenge fantasy.. "Then the washobiffites (who descend from the Secobites) will suffer for their father's sin" blah blah blah
I'd like something a little more contemplative like Ecclesiastes.

[Anonymous No.22269137]

Just read The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

It was entertaining but the characters were shallow and the ending was a bit silly. It felt a bit like he didn't plan beyond the first third of the book very well

[Anonymous No.22269157]

Finished a tale of two cities

[Anonymous No.22269175]

>>22263381
god damn itttt IVE NEVER HAD A GF OR SEX AHHH

[Anonymous No.22269176]

>>22268978
>Come up Kinch. Come up, you fearful Jesuit.
>Our Great Sweet Mother.
>Thálatta! Thálatta! The sea! The sea!
>She's beastly dead
>I paid my way
>Ineluctable modality of the visible
>A E I O U
>NOTHUNG!
Unsurprisingly, most of my memories of Ulysses involve Stephen (I read and reread Portrait and Dubliners thinking you could grind your way into writers' great works), but Bloom made a substantial impression on me, an earthly influence that conjured up the mundane in the mythical.

[Anonymous No.22269200]

>>22266056
Jewish trash

[Anonymous No.22269222]

Infinite Jest. I'm on the part where Marathe and Steeply discuss US morals. I really love this book, I've never "connected" with an author as much as DFW. Everything I've read has been immensely sad and visceral. The "useless" sections refelct that overly anxious feeling very well Whether it's remembered or not doesn't matter.

[Anonymous No.22269229]

>>22263086
Inherit the Stars, by James Hogan.
Good one, but its a like watching a black and withe movie if you are not used to, because the phrases he uses, aside of that is fresh.
But I understand this is a series, like Asimov's foundation, and I don't know if read all the others books.

[Anonymous No.22269243]

>>22263086
The Tale of Genji
also just finished As I Lay Dying and have The Sound and the Fury lined up for when I get back into a Faulkner mood

[Anonymous No.22269261]

>>22263086
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

[Anonymous No.22269278]

Cosacks by Tolsoj

[Anonymous No.22269279]

I just read Up At The Villa by Maugham. Solidly entertaining plot and the usual interesting and sympathetic characters you get in most Maugham works. The idea of being in love with an ideal of someone and having that shattered is always great drama, although I found it more effective in The Narrow Corner and The Painted Veil

[Anonymous No.22269293]

>>22263086

The Oblate, by JK Huysmans. It really pisses me off. En Route captured the ambiguous feelings of the modern man towards Catholicism perfectly. You could really feel the torment of the man who is disgusted with modernity, yet unable to fully submit to the almost inhuman demand to give up the world. The sequel is just him being a smug tradlarper who info-dumps exposition on medieval Catholicism to his equally autistic friends at dinner parties, and in church. I'll still read it to the end, just in case it gets better again.

[Anonymous No.22269722]

>>22263086
Re reading Alexander of Macedon by Peter Green and I wish I WOULD JUST STOP. I have way too many books in my TBR to be rereading Limerence fodder. Tge only silver lining is im actually paying attention to all the logistics details and whatnot but im really really not in the spiritual mood for the dry, impersonal historic narration of facts facts facts.

It kills me that Mary Renault could’ve explored the campaign in a fictitious, dramatic way but SHE CHOSE TO WRITE FROM SOME BALLSLESS ANGSTY CATAMITE’s perspective instead. Truly is one of life’s greatest tragedies

[Anonymous No.22269754]

>>22263504
they hated anon because he told the truth

[Anonymous No.22269756]

>>22263086
Da Vinci's Bicycle by Davenport.

[Anonymous No.22269793]

>>22269278
based, check out hadji murat if you liked the cossacks

[Anonymous No.22269847]

>>22263086
Submission by Houellebecq
Probably best book of 3 I've read from him. Still, it's mid at best. Not going to read more of him

[Anonymous No.22269873]

The Wholeness of Nature. I'm a STEMfag who hasn't really read philosophy before and I'm enjoying a lot even though it's pretty challenging. Bortoft discusses a lot of criticisms of the scientific method I've thought about myself. I bought it on a whim and I'm glad I did

[Anonymous No.22270093]

>>22269293
Never read beyond The Cathedral, which, though interesting, was tough to get through after La Bas and En Route
Wondering now if I skipped a part; it's been awhile!

[Anonymous No.22270484]

>>22263086

[Anonymous No.22270492]

>>22270484
Gross man showing his dumb sock like we're in his house, put a fucking shoe on you overly relaxed hippie cocksucker

[Anonymous No.22270494]

>>2226979
NTA but Hadji Murad is great!

[Anonymous No.22270547]

>>22270492
Sorry, I don't like tracking dirt from outside around my floors

[Anonymous No.22271766]

>>22263086
Sacred and Terrible Air(which is very good) and Girl in a Band(pretty meh so far)

[Anonymous No.22271842]

>>22263086
Pan by Knut Hamsun

[Anonymous No.22271924]

>>22263086
Discovering the Vedas: Origins, Mantras, Rituals, Insights by Frits Staal
it's so good. anyone interested in early india should read it

[Anonymous No.22271928]

>>22263086
LotR The Return of the King
Confederacy of Dunces
The History of Religious Ideas Volume 3
On the Origin of Language by Rousseau

[Anonymous No.22271971]

I don't know how to read

[Anonymous No.22271995]

>>22271842
have you read a lot of hamsun
I've only read growth of the soil and hunger
really liked growth, hunger didn't appeal to me as much
what else of hamsun's is as good as growth of the soil?

[Anonymous No.22272070]

>>22271995
I’ve read 6. Haven’t read Pan in some years and it’s short so I figured I’d take a break from my other read to knock it out. Hamsun was still finding his style in Hunger so probably not best to totally judge him for that. I liked it just fine, and it gave me a Kafka vibe, but I like the others I read more. He can be very depressing though and it’s kind of juxtaposed with a saccharine sweetness. My favorite is Mysteries but that is a little polarizing here. It is a raw, uneven book but there were some parts among my favorites in all literature. The ending makes you rethink the whole book. The only Hamsun I wouldn’t reread is Wayfarers. I found it really bleak and it got to me. I’ve read some really depressing stuff before but that is one of a few books that unsettled me and got under my skin

[Anonymous No.22272385]

>>22263086
St Basil the Great - On the Holy Spirit

[Anonymous No.22272431]

>>22263086
I started reading The Recognitions last month, but I come home from work these days and the last thing I feel like doing is reading.

[Anonymous No.22272446]

>>22263086
Trying to decide between Walter J. Ong - Language As A Hermeneutic and Carl Jung - Man And His Symbols and I can’t decide

https://youtu.be/SUzmlKZgCo8

[Anonymous No.22272451]

>>22272431
The Recognitions is not a book one picks up at the end of a long tiring day of work

[Anonymous No.22272797]

>>22263958
Acknowledging your post. I need to read more Chinese lit and history. Since they’ll be the next great empire in the 21st century, I think we’d all benefit from acclimatizing to their ways and mentalities before it’s too late.
Just my take on the chinks and their skewed morality.

[Anonymous No.22273062]

>>22263086
>reading

[Anonymous No.22273086]

Pnin by Nabokov

[Anonymous No.22273091]

>>22263086
About to reread Don Quixote. This time through a kantian lens

[Anonymous No.22273100]

>>22267275
I already think it's good. And they are so short that I'm already done with the first two. I would be done with three books so far, but i've been busy with work.

[Devil's Heaven - Thomas Adcock No.22273107]

[Anonymous No.22273109]

>>22263086
At the Mountains of Madness. Been enjoying Lovecraft but this one and Call of Cthulhu seem to repeat shit a lot. I've discovered I love cosmic horror though

[Anonymous No.22273118]

>>22263086
Just finished part 1 of Henry IV, getting into part 2 (in addition to reading some Keats and Matthew Arnold on the side). At first I thought it was slow and redundant in parts but once I "got it" I immediately realized it was a work of profound genius.

[Anonymous No.22273121]

>>22265645
Kino cover. Latinxs win again.

[Anonymous No.22273181]

>>22270492
>do americans really?

[Anonymous No.22273240]

>>22263086
Beowulf