What is /lit/ currently reading?

[Anonymous No.6665268]

Not gonna lie, I'm a sucker for Lovecraft.

[Anonymous No.6665277]

>>6665268

[Anonymous No.6665284]

[Anonymous No.6665307]

[Anonymous No.6665311]

>>6665268
We could be bros.

[Anonymous No.6665353]

>>6665311
Shit, i want to read that but the cover... i cant read that in the bus.

[Anonymous No.6665377]

>>6665353
Come on, don't sorry about that. 's not like someone would notice really. Read it, it's pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.6665384]

>>6665284

Hey, me too. He is kind of a pretentious mother fucker, isn't he?

[Anonymous No.6665397]

[Anonymous No.6665400]

>>6665384
Suits me just fine.

[Anonymous No.6665402]

[Anonymous No.6665403]

>>6665284
I just started this book too. I kind of agree with >>6665277. I'm sure he would lurk /lit/.

[Anonymous No.6665406]

>>6665268
>be a sucker for lovecraft
>buy this
>instantly love it because the horror elements seem very similar to lovecrafts
>find out the authors were close friends

[Anonymous No.6665430]

>>6665397
I found the first book to be quite interesting but it get's really amazing in the second book deadhouse gates. I couldn't put it down for days.

[Anonymous No.6665431]

Come at me
When I'm done this, I'm going for some Iron Druid Chronicles

[Anonymous No.6665454]

>>6665431
What's this. Looks cool.

[Anonymous No.6665460]

i used to use the old captchas for names for my fantasy writing, this new picture captcha is ridiculous

>reading this btw

[Anonymous No.6665527]

>>6665406

Fun fact: The Conan canon and the Cthulu Mythos take place in the same fictional universe.

[Anonymous No.6665557]

Cycling between these gems.

[Anonymous No.6665596]

>>6665268
yeah so is every other pleb on here

[Anonymous No.6665923]

>>6665596
is love craft pleb? I'm a pleb so I wouldn't know.

[Anonymous No.6665942]

>>6665557
I've read Dostoevsky's most notable works in order so far (Notes->C&P->The Idiot) and I want to read Demons, but I already have Brtoher's K and I really wanna read it. Do you think I should hold out til I've read Demons or just say fuck it?

[Anonymous No.6665951]

I'm finishing Ulysses, reading a collection of satyric essays by Swift and sort of orbiting a brazilian book called Um Copo de Cólera, by Raduan Nassar.

[Anonymous No.6665965]

>>6665268
Isn't that just short stories? Seems pretentious, fad like.

[Anonymous No.6665970]

>>6665923
it depends if you think pessimism is plebeian. to me it isnt.

[Anonymous No.6665982]

>>6665965
Yup.. lit isn't for me.. I love reading, but you all seem like pretentious people who walk with sticks up your butt...

[Anonymous No.6665983]

>>6665982
all puffed up and ephemeral bitch GTFO

[Anonymous No.6665997]

>>6665268
About to finish ocean at the end of the lane by Gaiman. I hate it, but it's so short I can't not finish it.

Current backlog, help me decide /lit/
Paradise Lost
Master and Margarita
Flow my fears the policeman said - PKD
East of Eden

[Anonymous No.6666013]

>>6665970
how is a mindset plebeian or patrician. even so you would think the archetypical "patrician" would be nihilistic and a fucking downer.

anyway I just started reading lovecraft. I don't know how to describe his writing style but it's intriguing and the whole ancient gods shit really appeals to me

is there any /lit/ recommended patrician horror?

[Anonymous No.6666020]

>>6666013
algernon blackwood
william hope hodgson

[Anonymous No.6666034]

>>6665431
What a dry fucking title for a fantasy book... looks cool though.

[Anonymous No.6666060]

Started Infinite Jest today, not as dense as I thought, although I do need to look up words here or there. Am I right in observing that his writing style is consciously unaesthetic, or is he just pretentious? Or both?

[Anonymous No.6666064]

>>6665997
Just finished Flow My Tears, fucking skip it. My first and last by him.

[The cats No.6666096]

>>6666060
You just aren't very far and want to have hot opinions is all. It starts getting really good after the 20 page, super detailed walk-to-smoke-crack.

[Anonymous No.6666147]

Is this any good? About to start reading it

[Anonymous No.6666150]

>>6665527
nuh uh, you're yanking my chain right now.

[Anonymous No.6666153]

>>6666150
gross

[Anonymous No.6666240]

>>6665268
Great stuff.

[Anonymous No.6666249]

I feel a little manipulated. In recent "post your shelves/room" threads people saw and commended me for having a Evgeny Morozov book and Punk Fiction; so I read the latter and now reading the former. They're really good though.

[Anonymous No.6666288]

>>6665268

Midnight's Children, it's alright but I don't really see what makes it so controversial.

[Anonymous No.6666318]

>>6665527
I heard once that the main agitator of the hyborian age was an old ones servant but i thought it was bullshit.


I would not be surprised if HP came up with the idea of the Hyborian age himself, because that is such a "him" idea.
And entire epoc of time that got lost from history somehow. . .

[Anonymous No.6666327]

Bruno Schulz

[Anonymous No.6666332]

>>6666060
you know in a study done at trinity college to try and screen babies for conditions they set a photo of the babies mother on one hand and a copy of infinite jest on the other; and, but so [sic] babies who reached for the book -- here still being infinite jest -- were found to be within a 97.4% likelihood of having autism.

[Anonymous No.6666336]

>>6665268
About to finish the Iliad; Fagles rendering is easy to read, but I think his style is not exactly poetic. He also has employs some questionable idiomatic phrases such as "being buried in style." I think I might pick up Pope's supposedly less accurate but more regal version later.

>>6665557
I love that Republic cover. I actually bought that version back when I was about 13 with some friends; I'm not sure why, but I think the cover is what I found alluring about it. I ended up dropping it in a puddle riding back on my bike in early March. I still read it, although I didn't really understand any of it at that age.

Just recently picked up the Hackett edition, so I hope I will understand it better now that I'm ten years older.

[Anonymous No.6666393]

>>6665527
No they don't. Just because Lovecraft convinced Howard and his other penpals to insert Cthulhu-esque monsters and name-drop HPL things in a few of their stories doesn't mean they take place in a coherently thought-out reality. Hell, Lovecraft's own stories are rarely so consistent.

[Anonymous No.6666419]

>>6665268
Infinite Jest (at home)
Ulysses (outside of home but not in transit)
Laughter in the Dark (on the train)

[Anonymous No.6666440]

>>6665997
East of Eden ! Trust me you want to read that as soon as you can. Fantastic read

[Anonymous No.6666452]

>>6665268
Just bought this too Anon. Seems I can't have enough Lovecraft anthologies

[Anonymous No.6666552]

>>6666393
I've only read Call of Cthulu. Is there any other stories that are especially good?

Also I'm reading pic related and loving it.

[Anonymous No.6666561]

>>6666555
RARE PEPE GET!

[Anonymous No.6666580]

>>6666552
Dexter Ward, Mountains, Insmouth, Shadow out of Time are all great but are novellas and his best works

Short story wise, Color out of space, Dunwich horror, Whisperer in Darkness, Herbert West and the rats in the walls are all great.

[Anonymous No.6666607]

Bought it on a whim. One of those
>I would like to know more about X
>Buy book about X
>Hope for the best
things.

[Anonymous No.6666727]

>>6666580

Dagon is also good for something so short, really leaves an impression on you.

[Anonymous No.6667052]

>>6665268
War and Peace. Loving it so far.

[Anonymous No.6667057]

>>6665268
War and Peace. Loving it so far.

[Anonymous No.6667086]

>>6665268
jumping between lovecraft and H.G. Wells anthologies.

[Anonymous No.6667141]

>>6665268
Shit OP i just got this last week! I haven't started it yet but will soon.

[Anonymous No.6667188]

Re-reading Grapes of Wrath. When I was younger I thought it was a total snore, but this time I'm actually liking it a lot. Maybe I've grown to be more boring.

[Anonymous No.6667212]

>>6667057
>LP&M
>pocket

Not even once.

Try to get either Cosac or 34's translation, and avoid LP&M from now on on any occasion you can, even for their national, untranslated texts, since the rumour is that they don't pay translators or designers.

Also, their books are shit who barely last a second reading.

[Anonymous No.6667213]

>>6667141
That edition is dreadful. You wasted your money

[Anonymous No.6667220]

>>6667057
Also, is that one of Faber unipen copies?

Really dude, spent less money on vidya and more money on stuff like good translations and propper pens.

[Anonymous No.6667221]

Twilight of the Idols by Nietzsche and Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard

[Anonymous No.6667321]

>>6667213
What do you mean?

[Anonymous No.6667341]

>>6667213
it's not that bad

[Anonymous No.6667701]

>>6665527
Thats a misinterpretation by fans. All of Lovecrafts Weird Tales Magazine pen pals reference each other in their stories.
They aren't all in the same universe either. Hell Lovecrafts Haunter of the Dark story is one massive reference to a friend's short story

[Anonymous No.6667714]

>>6666580
Erich Zahn, Cats of Ulthar, that one about the human gods hiding on a mountain, Dream Quest and its Silver Key sequels, the Outsider, the Festival, any story about Randolph Carter

[Anonymous No.6667720]

>>6666727
Yeah its the best story to start with imo

[Anonymous No.6667725]

>>6665268

I'm reading The Martian.

[Anonymous No.6667851]

Just started this. Not exactly uplifitng.. I have read a few depressing books consecutively now and think I might leave this for later.

[Anonymous No.6667937]

>>6667851
I got Don Quixote yesterday, is it a little more upbeat?

[Anonymous No.6668028]

slowly becoming one of my favourite novels

[Anonymous No.6668049]

Libra by Don Delillo. It's ok. I wish I hadn't gotten halfway through it, as now I feel obliged to finish it.

[Anonymous No.6668081]

>>6667937
Very.

[Anonymous No.6668478]

Death on the Installment Plan. Finished Journey to the End of Night not long ago. It was much better. Celine himself said that if he didn't need the money, he never would have written anything after Journey.

[Anonymous No.6668708]

>>6667212
I didn't know that. I was trying to get the Cosac's translation but it was so fucking expensive. I don't think LP&M is that bad though, I have an English version of WaP on my kindle and I usually compare some passages just to be sure. But yeah, there are some mistakes in this translation indeed. Maybe I'll get Cosac's one next year to reread it. At least I already have their Anna Karenina translation.

[Anonymous No.6668787]

I've got around 70 pages left.

It's not as good as the two previous novels, The Crossing being clearly the best.

John Grady is an stubborn fucker. You would have thought he learned his lesson after All The Pretty Horses, like Billy. Billy learned a whole lot in The Crossing and became a complete based zen-like figure of not giving a shit.

I'm sensing they are both in for a bad ending though... I wish John would just pack his shit and leave and forget about everything and go ride horses in Montana. Fucking Mexishits ruining his life over and over.

[Anonymous No.6669371]

>>6665406
Very jelly, i want to read conan too.
>>6665997
I hated it too. But i felt i have the duty to buy his books, since i got his comics from torrent.
>>6666607
Make a review when you finish it

I just finished works by Flaubert, and started reading pic

[Anonymous No.6669471]

Its pretty good.

[Anonymous No.6670070]

I got The Picture of Dorian Gray for a trip I'm going to, but read the whole thing today accidentally.
Right now I'm reading collection of Robert Walser's writings

[Anonymous No.6670510]

>>6667725

I just don't see the appeal. The main character tries too hard to be funny and its way too full of uninteresting science. I ended up getting a refund for it after reading about 20%.

With that said, the movie trailer looks great.

[Anonymous No.6670544]

>>6665268
where should i start with lovecraft? Im reading The king in yellow right now and it started good but now in the last 100 pages its just dull/confusing. I heard lovecraft really gives off that timely eerie aura in his works.

[Anonymous No.6670574]

>>6665268
The Iliad. Just read the Gospel according to Matthew also.

[Anonymous No.6670871]

>>6666552
Jude is fantastic, especially if you've read a bunch of standard Victorian fare to get ready for the system shock. Aside from Gissing and maybe de Quincy, late Hardy is really out of left field.
HPL has tons of interesting work, but what specifically you'll like best depends on your taste. I really enjoy his dreamlands work, and some folks hate them.

[Anonymous No.6670942]

>>6667851
Im portuguese, and thats not a fernando pessoa original, he only wrote "Mensagem", thats a post mortem

[Anonymous No.6670957]

My cousin lent it to me


Pls no spoil

[Anonymous No.6670967]

>>6665268
Currently have on the go:

Mason & Dixon - Pynchon
Farewell, My Lovely - Chandler
Edmund Burke, Vol. 1 - F. P. Lock
Paul's Epistle to the Romans

[Anonymous No.6670977]

>>6668787
>Mexishits ruining his life over and over.
sigh

[Anonymous No.6670984]

>>6665268
George Saunders, 'CivilWarLand in Bad Decline'

It's great.

[Anonymous No.6671133]

>>6665268
I really wish i bought the hard cover for this book. Some fucking she-cunt broke a cap on my bottle and spilled protein shake all over it.

[Anonymous No.6671324]

Never read Lovecraft before. What's the best collection and edition to get me going?

[Anonymous No.6671579]

>>6665268
I'm plodding through A Farewell to Arms, slow at times but I can't not enjoy Hemingway's writing style; I both love it and loath it. I'm also reading The Outsider by Albert Camus which is okay, never read Camus before but it's alright; nothing great. I got Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin in the post this morning, then I'll probably read Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon or Ivanhoe by Walter Scott.

[Anonymous No.6671589]

>>6665923
Lovecraft is glorified genre fiction.

[Anonymous No.6671609]

This shit is a huge mess but its so entertaining I can't stop reading it. Definitely prefer Less than Zero and Lunar Park (the only others by him I've read) but I am having fun reading this and the writing quality does improve in the second part.

[Anonymous No.6671623]

>Ender's Game movie coming out
>people say the book is good
>can't be bothered to wait for movie, read book, it's glorious
>movie comes out I go through a dozen vomit bags
>Edge of Tomorrow movie coming out
>people say the book is good
>can't be bothered to wait for movie, read book, it's glorious
>movie comes out it's ok, but not quite as good as book
>The Martian movie coming out
>people say the book is good

And that's how I just finished The Martian. So worth it.

[Anonymous No.6671649]

>>6671609
the second part narrates narcissism in a more interesting way than American Psycho does, imo. I dig this book way more than a lot of BEE stuff. good taste, anon.

[Anonymous No.6671665]

Stephen King - It
Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo

[Anonymous No.6671721]

>>6671665
Just a reminder that "It" is about nothing at all and is long as fuck.

[Anonymous No.6671734]

>>6670957
There are dinosaurs.

[Anonymous No.6671738]

>>6671721
Just started, so i have no idea of what to expect.

[Anonymous No.6671741]

Just finished the introduction to Heidegger's Being and Time. Dense, but I've read other stuff by him, so I'm somewhat comfortable with reading him. However, pic-related just showed up in the mail, so I think I'm going to go over to that for now (might help with B&T a bit as well).

[Anonymous No.6671744]

>>6671741
Hmm, the picture didn't go up the first time.

[Anonymous No.6671745]

about 200 pages in. meh

[Anonymous No.6671803]

>>6671744
just read some analytic too so you can balance out your pretentious assholery and not sound too much like a cock when you talk about either.

[Anonymous No.6671838]

>>6671745
yeah. doesn't get any better either. makes for a good paperweight though

[Anonymous No.6671861]

Bounced between books and finally settled on this.

Next up is La Modification by Michel Butor, then maybe something by Nabokov.

[Anonymous No.6671896]

>>6665268

Do people who like Lovecraft understand what a huge racist he was? If you're down with that, whatever that's your issue, but you gotta at least see that's what's going on

[Anonymous No.6672898]

>>6665268
Is it bad to read Anna Karenina if I'm trying to get over a girl?

[Anonymous No.6673082]

>>6671734
>implying the dinosaurs aren't analogies to phalli

[Anonymous No.6673093]

>>6672898
It really is. There is one part that is the cutest passage in all of western literature. In your context it might make you want to kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.6673121]

>>6671896
Lol

Better not read anything written by anyone from the past incase they make you feel bad feelies

[Anonymous No.6673133]

>>6671896
>>6673121

all jokes aside people who refuse to read books due to the author's mindset rather than quality of their literature are just awful

[Anonymous No.6673173]

>>6670977
Don't be a cunt, cunt.

[Anonymous No.6673177]

>>6671896
lowqualitybait.jpg

[Anonymous No.6673222]

>>6671741

Its all fucked because I kind of believe what Wittgenstein says about what 'language does' in PI but B&T also seems to make alot of sense (though spends pretty much the whole book using words weirdly and trusting that the things he describes can just some how resonate.

What do?

[Anonymous No.6673228]

about halfway through this

[Anonymous No.6673251]

>>6673228

Is it good? The blurb on the back made it sound like a fun dinner party, that drew me in pushed me away in = measure.

How non-Stephen Fry is the chat?

[Anonymous No.6673255]

>>6673251
>in = measure
>How non-Stephen Fry is the chat?

Not that guy, but I don't even know why you're pretending to have standards.

[Anonymous No.6673259]

>>6673251
It's a good read, although if you've studied Wittgenstein you probably know a lot of the biographical bits already. It's well written and goes into a good deal of detail about the people who were present for the incident and what their relationships to each other were, and ties it in somewhat to the philosophical debate between Wittgenstein and Popper without getting too technical.

>>6673255
I am that guy and I didn't understand either of those phrases

[Anonymous No.6673270]

>>6673255

Me neither really.

What I mean is, I don't want to start reading the book as though a kindly uncle is relaying a massive anicdote. I can handle some dry dry ontology.

[Anonymous No.6673273]

>>6673270
It's more on the side of dry ontology than kindly uncle

[Anonymous No.6673276]

>>6673259

Are you American? Is equal measure not a phrase there? Do you not know who Stephen Fry is?

Pic related

[Anonymous No.6673292]

>>6665942
Personally, I loved the Brothers K, so I'd just say fuck it. But I've also never read Demons.

[Anonymous No.6673300]

>>6673273

Thanks for guidance.

Sounds pretty chill.

[Anonymous No.6673306]

>>6665353
You are not implying that a faggot unicorn cover makes you look more normal than an artistic erotica picture, are you?

[Anonymous No.6673459]

>>6665268

[Anonymous No.6673857]

War and Peace by Tolstoy
Sculpting in Time by Tarkovsky

[Anonymous No.6674029]

>>6667213
Why? Cover looks pretty at least.

Btw, if one wants to read and own all of Lovecraft's stories, what's the best way to go about it? Just buy those huge Necronomicon and Eldritch Tales compendiums?

[Anonymous No.6674035]

>>6666332
Dank

[Anonymous No.6674042]

>>6666332
Obviously this didn't happen but I found this
>Until recently, autism spectrum disorders (ASD) were viewed as a relatively rare condition. Increased awareness and recognition has led to increased diagnostic rates and now the prevalence of ASD is thought to be relatively common, affecting about 1/150 people in the population
Dunbar's number is 150, the size of a village. 1 in 150 has ASD, is that the village idiot?

[Anonymous No.6674043]

Labor and Monopoly Capitalism: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman

[Anonymous No.6674045]

[Anonymous No.6674428]

I haven't picked up a book outside my field of study in 4 years.

[Anonymous No.6675442]

>>6674045
How is it?

[Anonymous No.6675647]

>>6671896
buttmad half-caste detected

[Anonymous No.6675737]

>>6674428
Is your field of study literature?

[Anonymous No.6675754]

>>6675737
nah it's EU law

[Anonymous No.6675756]

>>6675754
fuck det er noget lort

det skal bare afskaffes hurtigst muligt

[Anonymous No.6675772]

>>6665406
I've read a few, but I want that edition. I think there's matching Lovecraft & Poe volumes too.

[Anonymous No.6675776]

>>6665406
>R.E.Howard
wasnt that the guy who made scienteology

[Anonymous No.6675785]

>>6674045
This is an amazing book.

[Anonymous No.6675887]

>>6675785
Don't really browse /lit/ that much and I couldn't find a request thread, so this one seems like the most appropriate.
I can't find for the life of me a decent or any download at all for the book "The Waste Books" by Georg Lichtenberg and the Eino Friberg version of "Kalevala". Any help would be welcome.
I've already searched on IRC.

[Anonymous No.6675891]

>>6675887
Didn't mean to reply, sorry.

[Anonymous No.6676252]

It's a good introduction to stoicism but I find the anecdotes more interesting than the author's explanations for them. I'm probably going to drop it.

[Anonymous No.6676255]

I'm reading War and Peace for the first time and really enjoying it.

[Anonymous No.6677042]

>>6671896
fuck off, SJW

[Anonymous No.6677433]

First Murakami, picked it up because I'm obsessed with spanish magical realism and had heard it compared to the genre, good so far but not so much magical realism, like a more realist kafka, not bad at all though, about halfway through now

[Anonymous No.6677441]

>>6665268

[Anonymous No.6677760]

[Anonymous No.6677966]

>>6675776
Thats Ron Howard he was in Grease.

[Anonymous No.6677975]

[Anonymous No.6677983]

>>6677760
>need to wear an entire albatross as a necklace intensifies

[Anonymous No.6678133]

Usually read 1 fact,1 fiction so

Currently
John Kenneth Galbraith - The Affluent Society
&
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle

Next

Robert Caro - The Power Broker
&
Paul Bowles - The Spider's House

[Anonymous No.6678142]

struggling through Vineland atm
I believe the adversity is worth it!

[Anonymous No.6678182]

Kadare is one of the greatest literary minds of the past 50 years.

[Anonymous No.6679063]

David Copperfield

[The cats No.6679743]

Finishing White Teeth. I do like it but the occaisional "men/the british amirite lolxD" is a bit irritating, because that's about the amount of finesse put into certain moments; but at least she paints all the characters and cultures as imperfect and flawed. Still reads like DFW fanfiction.

[Anonymous No.6679861]

>>6665268

Which of Lovecraft's stories actually have tentacles?

[Anonymous No.6680822]

Gordon Pask, An Approach to Cybernetics
Edward Smith, Effects-Based Operations

[Anonymous No.6681624]

>>6666013
Some of my weird fiction collection.

[Anonymous No.6682603]

Favorite author and role model.

[Anonymous No.6682697]

>>6681624
I get horny whenever I see those Gollancz

[Anonymous No.6682754]

>>6678182

He used to be one of my favourite writers but then I stopped reading him after I couldn't get into Broken April. Definitely a great writer I need to revisit. I just finished reading Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula Le Guin.

[Anonymous No.6682770]

Reading this right now. It is one of the best books I have ever read. I'm also just over half way through Crime and Punishment but the philosophical dialogues are just exhausting (just read that part where they discuss the article Raskolnikov wrote), had to take a break.

[Anonymous No.6683760]

Just got this in the mail

[Anonymous No.6683780]

reading the plague tbh

[Anonymous No.6683850]

I've heard it was really good and it's made by the writter of Sandman so I was hooked to the idea

[Anonymous No.6683857]

Only just started but bretty good so far.

[Anonymous No.6683891]

Alternating between the Name of the Rose and A is for Alibi. So far the former is, unsurprisingly, better. I just picked Alibi up because I was sick and couldn't handle much with my Benadryl brain.

[Anonymous No.6683893]

>>6683780
Is it good? Have just read the Stranger and I really liked it.

[Anonymous No.6683905]

>>6665268
Giving Houellebecq a try.

[Anonymous No.6684185]

>>6666393
I got return to lankmar randomly from a second hand book store, is it worth reading and should I read them in order?

[Anonymous No.6684244]

These two, slightly related

[Anonymous No.6684251]

alias grace by margaret atwood and the melancholy of resistance by laszlo krasznahorkai

[Anonymous No.6684305]

>>6683905
How are you liking it so far? I'm interested in giving it a try.

[Anonymous No.6684308]

Lovecraft is shit and overrated.

[Anonymous No.6685700]

>>6684185
Nah, jump in. They were written to stand alone fairly well, like Elric and Conan stories. Enjoy!

[Anonymous No.6685717]

Actually my first Gene Wolfe novel. Liking it so far, though I wonder how all the loose ends abruptly shifted away from in the first part of the book will be solved.

[Anonymous No.6685720]

Pride and Prejudice

[Anonymous No.6686002]

[Anonymous No.6686011]

>>6686002

better not be the abridged version you fucking slave

[Anonymous No.6686021]

>>6686011
No way, dude. I'm 800 pages in with about 450 left to go.

[Anonymous No.6686049]

How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman
not as much nationalist breastbeating as you'd think. As a muh heritage Scottish-American, this disappoints me.

[Anonymous No.6686137]

>>6665268
I picked it up because of all the hype, but the imagery and beautiful prose can only go so far. Do Americans realize that they're the only ones who think cowboys are cool?

[Anonymous No.6686171]

>>6686137
The western theme is barely even relevant to the story. its not hard to look past it

[Anonymous No.6686201]

>>6668787
should i look into other mccarthy books if I enjoyed Blood Meridian? Curious if they are on the same level

[Anonymous No.6686213]

Re-reading some Moorcock that i read as a teen.

[Anonymous No.6686235]

>>6686137
If the only thing you've taken away from Blood Meridian so far is "this is a book about cowboys," then you are profoundly retarded.

[Anonymous No.6686257]

>>6686201
I liked no country almost as much as blood, it's thematically deep but less obvious

[Anonymous No.6686258]

>>6686137
First off: cowboys are cool, but only if you're an American.
Second: It's not about cowboys.

[Anonymous No.6686292]

>>6665397
>>6665430
Is this series worth buying or should I just pirate the PDF version? I don't want to spend at least $100 on a fantasy series unless it's awesome.

[Anonymous No.6686374]

>>6686201
The border trilogy is very good, but they need to be read in order. The Crossing is stunning.

Suttree is a masterpiece, though very different to his other stuff.

No Country for Old Men is like Blood Meridian Lite.

[Anonymous No.6686889]

>>6665997
Read East of Eden, I just finished it and it was fucking great

I'm gonna read pic related next for a nice quick read.

Not sure what to read after that:
Mason and Dixon
A confederacy of Dunces
Oblomov
Los Detectives Salvajes
or some random classic American lit

[Anonymous No.6686895]

never studied it in high school like many people did, so I'm giving it a whirl.

[Anonymous No.6686954]

>>6671803
As if analytic fags are not generally the more pretentious and condescending of the two.

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>>6686889
I went and read a few chapters of Been Down so Long just now and it's so good

Extremely lyrical and flowing but also strangely funny

[Anonymous No.6688905]

My favourite day of the year: the last Sunday of the local school Book Fair. I just filled up my wine-box with 40 books for $10 flat (some for other family members).

[Anonymous No.6689377]

>>6674029
bump

[Anonymous No.6690843]

>>6688905
So what are you actually reading?

[Anonymous No.6691637]

>>6690843
At the moment, Deathless by Cathrynne Valente, Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels, and Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories.

[Anonymous No.6691764]

>>6673228

Haven't read Wittgenstein and Popper (yet). Should I purchase this book? It looks promising as introduction to the two.

[Anonymous No.6691773]

>>6674043

Isn't this book outdated?

[Anonymous No.6692015]

>>6665268
Third time re-reading A Storm of Storms tbh

[Anonymous No.6692033]

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice