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What books are you plebs reading?

>> No.8312000

Your diary desu

>> No.8312015

>>8312000
Awful choice.

>> No.8312035

>>8311989
Portrait
Loving Joyce's style so far.

>> No.8312048

Volume II of Gibbon.
Alaric is about to absolutely BTFO Rome

>> No.8312057

>>8311989
The plague.

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>>8311989
Pic related. Also Perennial Philosophy by Huxley and Mario Puzo's The Godfather in my vehicle.

>> No.8312080

Borges complete fiction

>> No.8312088

>>8311989
Complete Stories of Kafka. On Description of a Struggle right now

>> No.8312090

Going to finish Moby Dick tonight

>> No.8312093

>>8312035
Just wait for Ulysses

Currently on The Slynx

Fiancé just got me the J R reprint so that'll be next

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Chekhov and other essasy by Shestov.

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Pic related, on part 1, chapter 4 atm.

It's hilarious, but it's definitely a poor man's Pynchon.

>> No.8312173

>>8312057
Nice. What part are you at? I have had for three weeks and can't bring myself to finish it.

>> No.8312186

>>8311989
On the last chapter of "The selfish gene"

I like to read stuff that matters by people who understand it.

>> No.8312191

Homeric hymns and apocrypha

>> No.8312195

>>8311989
fear and trembling. Abraham was a pretty cool dude

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Confessions by St. Augistine
Foundations of Human Knowledge & Three Dialogues by Berkeley
Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Shiff
This is your Brain on Music, by Daniel Levitin

So far I'd recommend all of them. The latter is the easier to read and very interesting, I'd recommend it to everyone.

>> No.8312226

Allport; personality.
Lindsey Marvell; TMT an interdisciplinary approach.

>> No.8312247

I'm currently reading sense and sensibility. Jane Austen's prose has such depth and grace, I cannot stop reading her

>> No.8312277

Just finished A Very Short Introduction to the French Revolution and it was fucking great. Which was a surprise because the only other book I'd read in that series, on the Russian Revolution, was shit. But this one was fantastic, perhaps the most informative 100 pages I've ever read.

I'm also read Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia. It's cool, but nowhere near as good as Glittering Images.

Also on the final book of the Corem trilogy, which is super dope.

Kind of stalled on Moby Dick but I plan to get back to it soon. It's as good as everyone says.

Also reading on and off in very short bits Plus by McElroy. It's ... interesting. Hasn't taken off yet, but I'm not far.

I also started Portrait of the Artist (damn is it good) and I Am A Strange Loop (not doing much for me yet) and Titus Groan (ditto).

Oh and I'm technically still reading The Bible, though that's been very off and on for like two years now. Left off at the start of Isaiah.

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this bro. it's a hell of a ride.

>> No.8312292

Salem's Lot by Stephen King

>> No.8312315

My dad gifted me all of his first edition Tom Clancy novels. So currently reading Patriot Games.

>> No.8312321

Moby Dick

>>8312289
ive wanted to read this for a while now

>> No.8312476

>>8312315
I'm sorry.

>> No.8312537

>>8311989
Morchen's "Macht und Herrschaft im Denken von Heidegger und Adorno".
It's even drier and more convoluted than his prior work, but it still somehow gets the points across. Which is a small miracle in and of itself, mind.

>> No.8312565

Harry Pottr 3 and Azkabans Prisoner
pretty goods but not as good as #2

>> No.8312575

>>8312186
>stuff that matters
spook'd

>> No.8312638

Breakfast with Lucian by Goerdie Greig
Biography on Lucian Freud, pretty entertaining so far.

>> No.8312646

Against Nature by Huysmans

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>>8311989

in the penal colony by franz kafka

check these dubliners by james joyce

>> No.8312676

J R, then Tristram Shandy, and Gargantua and Pantagruel. you know, pleb shit.

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>> No.8312715

Europe Central by William T Vollmann.
Blow Up by Julio Cortazar.
Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams.
Laughter of the Sphynx by Michael Palmer.
Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay.

>> No.8312724

>>8311989

Slaughterhouse-Five

>> No.8312750

joyce's portrait, the holy bible, and "philosophies of art and beauty"

>> No.8312768

>>8312093
It's on my to read list at this very moment. Few things ahead of it including a reread of Dubliners

>> No.8312784

>>8312173
Just start chapter 2

>> No.8312936

>>8311989
American Psycho

>> No.8312945

>>8311989
Star Wars: Hard Contact

>> No.8312998

>>8311989

Moby Dick, about 150 pages in.

>> No.8313000

>>8311989
La Peste.

>> No.8313108

>>8312945
leave

>> No.8313111

>>8311989
marryat's dutchman
I feel like a kid lol.

>> No.8313122

>>8311989
Siddhartha. I just finished Infinite Jest, Tao Te Ching and watching the Big Lebowski

>> No.8313131

a brief history of seven killings and harold bloom's how to read.

reading makes me feel stupid a lot.

>> No.8313140

>>8312080
First time? I envy you.

>> No.8313152

>>8312191
How's that compare with the two main poems? Does 'Homeric' here mean 'by' or 'in the style of'?

>> No.8313163

>>8313122
>watching the Big Lebowski
Have you watched PTA's Inherent Vice?

>> No.8313176

>>8311989
The plays of Aeschylus. I've still got Prometheus Bound and the intro and I'll be moving on to the next curly-bearded, empty-eyed, pale-skinned dead white guy.

>> No.8313191

>>8313163
I wanna read the book first, I have it coming in the mail soon. I can finish Siddhartha fast (and can tell it is highly re-readable, it's brilliant, beautiful writing). Inherent Vice would be my first Pynchon novel

>> No.8313269

inherent vice

>> No.8313283

>>8313131
Brief History is great. Once you get an idea of all the characters (characterization is one of the strongest aspects of the novel, if not the strongest) it becomes pretty easy.

>> No.8313292

>>8311989
Infinite Jest 24 pages in. In the conversationalist part is the conversationalist trying to sound like he's smart I can't tell what the fuck is going on in this scene senpai.

>> No.8313388

>>8313292
Only like 5 chapters in right now but that first chapter from Sir Arthur was great. Barry seems like a total hypocrite shit head who we are just supposed to hate so I'm curious to see what comes of that.

>> No.8313395

Why does Harold Bloom aways look like he is holding in a fart?

>> No.8313404

Why does Harold Bloom always look like he is holding in a fart?

>> No.8313411

I'm going through all of Shakespeare. Haven't gotten to any of his major works like Hamlet, Macbeth, etc., yet, but what I've read so far has been pretty good. Romeo and Juliet was really nice, and I'm surprised that people find it so polarizing.

Before continuing on with the plays I'm going to read Venus and Adonis and his sonnets, and maybe the other big poems he did if I feel like it now, but either way I'll get to them eventually.

>> No.8313546

>>8313395
>>8313404
Hey dumb pleb, what books are you reading?

>> No.8313577

>>8312095
I can't find anything by Shestov anywhere. Where did you get it?

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>>8311989
I will betray my homeland سأخون وطني :Muhammad al-Maghut

>> No.8313605

Having just read A Brief History of Ancient Greece I've now moved onto Hamilton's Mythology. I have this worry that twenty one is too late an age to reap a significant reward from serious reading. I'm enjoying it though so there's that.

>> No.8313760

>>8312715
How is Vollmann?

>> No.8313770

Flowers for Algernon

>> No.8314470

V.

>> No.8314476

the Koran (allah akbar edition)

>> No.8314515

Infinite Jest. @ page 200.

Every book I read after this is going to feel like a breeze.

>>8313292

There's a chapter about a guy who is addicted to weed around the start of the book I really liked.

>> No.8314519

>>8312000
nice digits spicy sam

anyway I'm reading Inherent Vice

>> No.8314521

>>8313760
Superb

>> No.8314524

>>8311989
Gorilla Mindset. Afterwards gonna read Mr. Mercedes and Don Quijote.

>> No.8314525

>>8311989
infinite jest @ page 578 and the collected poems of yeats (my first real poetry book) for contrast

>> No.8314580

Reading Gatsby again, it's been years, and yknow most of the characters feel familiar not because I know them but because they seem like people who'd be alive today

Nick is a cynic who lives in his own head, Gatsby is an immature moron who places the pussy on a pedestal, daisy is a superficial, selfish and flightly bitch who can't engage with her true motivations because she's always focused on how the world sees her etc etc

Yes people like this have existed all through history but in the context of our current socio-political goat fuck they seem more vivid and relevant than ever. I hope someone agrees

>> No.8314585

>>8313605
Oh god Holden you're such a faggot

>> No.8314629

>>8313770
Hahaha

>> No.8314633

>>8313163
Inherent Vice was a very underwhelming film. I haven't read the book--maybe it was untranslatable source material.

>> No.8314639

>>8314633
The film Nice Guys feels a lot more like reading IV did than watching the IV film.
It's based on a book too but I haven't read it.

>> No.8314645

About halfway through Ulysses. Started V. and Blood Meridian on the side.

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>>8311989

Finished Stoner yesterday, now reading Portrait of Dorian Gray

>> No.8314732

>>8311989
Curiosity by Ian Leslie, and some short stories by Flannery O'Connor.

>> No.8314740

>>8314722
How accepted is this pic? I don't want to go following advice that's bullshit

>> No.8314781

>>8313605
I'm 36 and started reading at 33. I have been rewarded by reading every single day since I started.

>> No.8314811

>>8314781
how did you manage to hold off for so long?

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>>8314645

>> No.8314859

>>8314740
just read

>> No.8314938

>>8314740
Stoner was a 10/10
Dorian Gray has been good so far too. Cant speak for the rest though

>> No.8315131

>>8313152
It's the Loeb collection of all known works attributed to Homer -- whether accurate or not.
In particular I enjoy the various hymns to the gods including Aphrodite and Dionysus. These usually preceded larger works that are now lost to time.

Homeric simply implies in the style of or attributed to -- Homer. It was a worthwhile purchase as I understand it influenced a number of later writers to include Pound and Yeats.

>> No.8315162

>>8314859
wat

>> No.8315334

>>8314781
That's really good to hear. I knew I was just being a faggot.

>> No.8315360

The Pale King by DFW

>> No.8315394

>>8314811
I just didn't know what literature was and what it could do. I guess I'm not very smart, tb quite h.

>> No.8315410

>>8315131
Thanks. Do you happen to know who's translation it is? I hear those Loeb's are expensive. Maybe I can filch an ebook from somewhere.

>> No.8315454

>>8311989
Thucydides' Histories

>> No.8315487

Fahrenheit 451

>> No.8315552

>Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
Just started reading, trying to be open minded to what he has to say

>IJ
meme'd hard on this one

>> No.8315555

>>8315410
martin l west

paid 24 dollars on amazon

>> No.8315558

>>8313292
I'm about 300 pages in. I feel the same way about certain parts, but some do hit home though desu

>> No.8315584

>>8313292
On my first read it was hard for me to see a bigger picture while retaining some of the earlier passages. ~200 pages in you'll get a grasp of characters, and you can flip back and skim and kind of piece things together. On my recent reread of IJ I enjoyed it even more.
>>8314515
Oh hell yeah. And a year later when you reread IJ, it's going to read even easier.
>>8313605
21 here too. Nah man, it's not too late.
>>8314476
Why are you reading it? I finished the bible a couple months ago and I'm interested in the Quran. Can you or anyone else recommend how to go about it?
>>8314580
I definitely have to reread Gatsby soon, because I feel like a dumbass for not remembering everything about it.
>>8315360
How do you like it? How much of DFW have you read? I've only read IJ and Brief Interviews. I've loved them both but I've put him off for later.

>> No.8315646

>>8315584
I only started it a short while ago so I'm too far in but I'm liking it a lot, the opening in particular is beautifully written.

I've read Brief Interviews, and about half of IJ, I liked the former but at the time couldn't get into the latter. Though I feel like giving it another shot now. I've also read bits of his non-fiction, Consider the Lobster being the highlight for me.

>> No.8315653

*not too far in

>> No.8315900

>>8312292
>Salem's Lot by Stephen King

I have very fond memories of staying up past my bedtime to read this book, with a flashlight, under my covers. Scared me shitless.

>> No.8315926

Plato's The Republic

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>> No.8315932

Dune
Pretty lit so far

>> No.8315933

The path to the spider's nest
Calvino is really hit or miss for me but this one seems good so far.

>> No.8315936

>>8311989
the illiad, the mongols, the tempest, introduction to philosophy

>> No.8316036

Ulysses

>> No.8316063

The Reader (Der Vorleser)
One of my favourite books ever

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I have been "reading" Infinite Jest since early February

>> No.8316092

>>8314938

I found Dorian Gray to be rather shallow and pedantic.

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>>8316092
Leddit is that way

>> No.8316119

>>8316076
Started it early January, just reach page 300. Why do I even bother ?

>> No.8316273

>>8316092
Mhmmm yes, shallow and pedantic

>> No.8316392

>>8316076
>>8316119

>the people i converse with on a literature discussion board can't finish infinite jest in 6 months

why am i here

>> No.8316452

reading V. again because I found an old translation on my bookshelf and wanted to check if it's as good as the original

>> No.8316538

>>8311989
at swim-two-birds, and it is fucking hilarious. don't know what it is, but something about joyce and o'brien get me to laugh out loud in a way that no one else can. if you have recommendations for something similar, i'm all ears.

a friend said to read brautigan, but i found both his poetry and "trout fishing" middling, although somewhat intriguing.

kafka and dostoyevsky get me to chuckle, but it's always mixed with a cry or a sigh.

>>8312277
glittering images is next on my backlog, and my wife is reading moby-dick. how does it compare to sexual personae? also, have you read GEB?

>> No.8316545

>>8313191
although you have to make up your own mind, i would say to not bother with IV, the book or the film. i say this as a big fan of PTA and pynchon.

>> No.8316557

>>8312099
Thought it was really comfy, but didn't get the Pynchon vibe, more like a not retarded Kerouac.

Currently reading Gravity's Rainbow.

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>>8313577
My university library had some of his books. I also was able to buy a hardcover of All Things are Possible for 5 bucks online from an amazon seller. If you google his name you can read him for free on a website that has all his shit. Some pdfs are online too. Hope that helps you. I don't think he has been in print in english since the 70s.

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>>8311989
Blood's Merlinian

>> No.8316591

>>8316557
So am I. How far are you?

I'm 600 pages in and about the hit Part IV. I don't know what's happening anymore. That pig scene cool but I don't know what's happening.

>> No.8316598

>>8316591
Just started it, like 50 pages in.
So far it's much more coherent than V. was in the start, which surprised me as /lit/s led me to believe GR is a more difficult read. I guess it will get fucked soon enough.

>> No.8316939

>>8312035

I have like 30 pages left.

I'm loving it but I've never stalled so much in between pages. One paragraph of Portrait gets me all shaken, contemplative and exhausted.

Plan on reading The Odyssey and Hamlet then jumping into Ulysses after this.

>> No.8317021

120 days of Sodom, about halfway through the "second house". A lot of people take their freedom to openly question the Church for granted.

>> No.8317030

>>8311989
The Birds, The Frogs, & The Mosquitoes

>> No.8317073

>>8311989
One Hundred Years of Solitude.

>> No.8318723

Blood Meridian

>> No.8318728

>>8315454
>>8315552
My brotha's

>> No.8318743

>>8316557
I haven't read Kerouc nor plan to do so, but I have read Pynchon and Fariña's definitely got that American counterculture vibe to him. The flow of the narration is very similar to Crying of Lot 49, although it is certainly more straightforward and lacks the many layers of meaning that Pynchon's novels have.

>> No.8318784

>>8317030
>The Birds, The Frogs, & The Mosquitoes
You mean Wasps, right? Are you talking about Aristophanes' comedies?

>> No.8318817

Dispatches

>> No.8319168

Brothers Karamazov

>>8311989
btw, which ones are Bloom's essential works?
Please enlighten me, patrician OP

>> No.8319435

a friend of mine is making me read through a novel called 'the Virgin diaries' not really enjoying it much thusfar. has anyone here read it, does it become better later on?

he spoke of it rather lavishly but maybe he's just a pleb.

>> No.8319439

>>8319435
the virgin suicides?

>> No.8319445

>>8319439
ah yes that was it.

>> No.8319454

>>8319168
The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy

>> No.8319457

The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

>> No.8319724

>>8316392
desu I have been relatively busy the entire time I've been "reading" it and I don't post here at all as much as I used to.

It sounds weird but if I have pot I smoke and chill out at the end of the day after I've done everything I need to do. I can't (or don't enjoy) read high, so if I have pot I basically don't read.

>> No.8320027

Currently reading Inherent Vice. It's my least favourite Pynchon by far (have only read GR, M&D, V., TCOL49, and BE, though); it just feels so hollow, like he identified his formula and copied it and added a bunch of distractions in the form of decent jokes. The best part has been the part about mysterious surfer disappearances/reappearances.

Also reading the Koran on and off. It's so scattered, quite unlike the Bible, it's hard to read for an extended period of time. Like, in the very first book or section or whatever it jumps around from telling stories to setting down laws and then back to how stupid nonbelievers are, and so on.

>> No.8320583

The Trial because I'm a pleb who reads at half the speed of the average person and I'm trying to improve. This is only the third book I've read so far.

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Currently reading Herodotus' Histories (Vol 3).

>> No.8320760

The Night In Question by Tobias Wolff.

>> No.8320780

>>8319457
How fun is it? I want to read it but I'm and idiot and demand to be entertained constantly.

>> No.8320842

I'm reading the catcher in the rye right now. It's okay. I just wish that there was a comfier book to read, one that I could feel more engrossed in with it's subject matter. Whether it be something really eye opening that makes me look at my own life in a different way, or one that has sort of subject matter that I could really relate to. Other than that, which I have no idea how I could even begin to define, it would be cool if there was a book that had a shy and timid, gay and kinky main character, who goes on a weird adventure or something, or has weird stuff happen to him.

I just wanna read something that's really trippy, like you know how when you're laying on the floor listening to a really long droning album or something? I want that in book form, I want something philosophical and meditative that I feel I can become more one with, you know what I mean? Being an atheist, and having a deep seated hatred of religion for most of my life now, I can say that I am very much a spiritual person, except not in the sense that most people think of spiritual; I don't believe in the supernatural and I'm a positivist, and that supernatural bullshit is just for people who have no interest in understanding the world through reason, and don't realize that if you're not trying to understand the world through reason then you're really just making shit up and all your ideas are absolutely worthless, especially if you're just basing it out of some fucking book, and for morals.

No, I'm not looking for religion, and doing something someone else tells me to regardless of whether or not it's right, I'm interested in waking up and feeling whole, and feeling like I am me, and I exist in this universe and I feel comfortable with that. Maybe I'm just a hedonist to you then, in that sense, but to be honest everyone's perception of what spirituality and what the world actually is is so fucked up, sometimes I feel like the only intelligent people in the entire world are me an other atheists like me.

>> No.8320859

Guns, Germs, and Steel

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>>8311989
The Origins of Order, by Stuart Kauffman

Tip-top-tier, if you are intersted in this stuff do read it

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This POS.

>> No.8321156

>>8311989
Discipline and Punish
Does anyone here read philosophy? inb4 /his/

>> No.8321159

>>8319168
pay attention to the smell when people die

>> No.8321162

The Process. My mom bought it for me.

>> No.8321207

>>8321156
Yup, I usually read of few philosophy books or collections a year.

>> No.8321233

The Pacific War: 1941-1945 by John Costello

>> No.8321810

>>8311989
For Whom the Bell Tolls and Heart of Darkness

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pretty good so far

>> No.8322186

>>8322163
I read this last summer.
I quite enjoyed it, albeit, boring at times.

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>> No.8322345

Eugene Onegin and Petersburg in Russian, the Iliad translated and Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost is so fucking based holy shit. Also short prose by Beckett, Barthelme and Gass but they sort of on the back burner. Beckett's first short story that ends 'they found her stroking his wild dead hair' was amazing though. I prefer late Gass to Pederson Kid era Gass but it's still cool. Barely read any of Barthelme, I liked that he had pathos for a pomo dude tho.

>> No.8322348

>>8322341
Just read this a little while ago, really enjoyed it. It's written a lot more conventionally than most of Pynchon's works so I guess it was a little disappointing, but that was my fault for setting a faulty expectation.

>> No.8322374

Walser's Jakob von Gunten and Virilio's Open Sky. Slowing down on the latter, it's very interesting but at times it feels like he's more interested in suggestive expressions than he is in developing a line of thought. The former is very very good, as you all probably know.

>> No.8322377

>>8311989
just finished count of monte cristo. any recs?

>> No.8322380

I'm reading "Going Dark" by Linda Nagata. It's like Neuromancer meets The Forever War, can't understand a damn thing they're saying and it's so cool that you don't want to.

>> No.8322394

>>8312715
what's the deal with the last two? like the first three, but never heard of those guys before

>> No.8323612

>>8320780
It's surprisingly easy to read, he's very compelling.

>> No.8323676

>>8311989
reading demons right now
kirillov a qt
i wanna fugg his bp

>> No.8323851

>>8311989
The Great Gatsby.
Hating it so far.

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less than 100 pages to go on One Hundred Years of Solitude. it's so fucking good, i'm torn as to whether i go on to read Love In the Time of Cholera or tackle something else from my backlog.
help me, /lit/
>love in the time of cholera
>fathers and sons
>the sound and the fury
>master and margerita
>more kafka
>more bible
>more greeks

>> No.8325005

>>8314519
Hey, I just read it a while ago. How are you liking it?

Im reading Blood Meridian

>> No.8325098

Wanna hear some real pleb shit? Just started Ready Player One today and it reads like it was written by a high school t bh. After that I'm gonna read dune and infinite jest. Can you tell I'm /new/?

>> No.8325123

i just started crying lot by pynchon. my first pynchon. i read the first 10 pages a few days ago. today i went to the park and re-read them.

>> No.8325140

>>8319445
its not very good. just watch the movie. the cinematography is well done.

>> No.8325449

>>8322345
>Barthelme, I liked that he had pathos for a pomo dude

Yeah, I sometimes feel like he's the only postmodernist who wasn't really a postmodernist.

>> No.8325454

>>8325098
man the jump from dune to infinite jest is like

just read ender's game or hyperion or something lordy lordy

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>>8325454
I'll read what I want buster

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8325519

Crime & Punishment
Start reminded me a lot of the first couple pages of Hunger by Knut Hamsun. Starving and behind on rent.exe

>> No.8325623

Cryptonomicon.
It's interesting as fuck

>> No.8325645

dirty snow
hard rain falling
>finished in the cafe of lost youth and butcher's crossing yesterday

>> No.8325661

>>8311989
Finishing up the latest Dresden files book. The first books were a bit abrasive. I though /lit/ had bilked me when I saw it on the recommended list. These gems were hidden covertly as cheap paperbacks. They've engendered happiness within me.

>> No.8325876

Am currently reading Visions of Cody and I can't really get into it desu. I am an European and until now (first 1/5 of the book) there are like 10 US place/territory references per page in avarage

>> No.8325889

>>8311989
THE GENERATION OF 19218

>> No.8325907

2666! just finished the first section and its great so far. its not what i had expected it to be at all

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Dubliners by James Joyce

So far I am not sure what makes James Joyce so good but im a pleb so what do I know.

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Anyone else hated this novel and found it unbearably boring for the most part?

>> No.8325995

>>8325926
Helps if you know lots about early 20th century Ireland while reading Dubliners. But the praise is mostly for how Joyce portrays his characters in such a real way, and Dublin too
also there are some mad feels desu

>> No.8326190

Currently reading The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara. Iz güd.

>> No.8326204

Jungle

>> No.8326213

>>8325995
Plan to read it soon, myself. What should I know about that period, then? Thanks senpai

>> No.8326309

>>8325950
I read it recently and enjoyed it. One of my favorite scenes was near the end when Jay is holding his night vigil for Daisy outside of Tom/Daisy's house to watch over her and "protect her," but she's already back in Tom's arms. There is Jay though, hopeful and stalwart, assuming his love is on the same page as him.

>> No.8326321

>>8322394
Last two are poets.
Michael Palmer is a try hard wanker from the New York School... Only bought his book because New Directions just put it out but most of it is garbage.
Aracelis Girmay is a Latin and African American poet. Actually pretty good. Not great, but good. Frankly reading it to get pussy.

>> No.8326322

only books from the NYRB catalog, my guy

>> No.8326333

Cloud Atlas and Dance With Dragon (second time)

>> No.8326366

Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy.

I read it when I was 15 and thought it was amazing.

I'm 30 now and it is shit the writing is disgusting. He refers to characters by their surname then switches to referring to them by their full title including their qualifications.

My god what was I thinking

>> No.8326414

>>8320842
Try Catch-22, based on your what you're looking for I think you'd enjoy it.

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>>8326213

Dubliners can be your introduction to the period desu.

If you read through Dubliners then move onto a footnoted copy of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man you'll get a solid basis in what Joyce is talking about since Joyce is talented at chronicling how the generation previous to him actually experienced history. So you can struggle through something like Ivy Day in the Committee Room or the Christmas dinner argument in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, get some leads to follow, wikidive or find some books, then come back to it.

The life of Charles Parnell and an in-depth Catholic theology are two subjects especially worthy of consideration.

>> No.8326508

Gonna start The Big Nowhere tomorrow, maybe Berlin Noir

>> No.8326522

Just finished Catch 22, starting Jurassic Park

>> No.8326523

>>8325926

Also, the stories in Dubliners follow pretty much the same format.

>slice of life in Dublin
>mundane stuff, middle class problems, yadda yadda, getting acclimated to these peoples lives
>EPIPHANY! KABOOM! EVERY FUCKING DETAIL OF EVERY SENTENCE YOU READ JUST CAME TOGETHER! FEELS OVERLOAD! JOYCE IS A GENIUS!

So if what you're reading seems inane at some points have faith because Joyce is actually a very taut storyteller.

>> No.8328102

lolita. i feel dirty

>> No.8328131

>>8328102
Lolita is fucking beautiful and sensual. When you are done reading it, I heartily recomend revisiting it in the future in audiobook form. Really gives a new life to the poetry.

>> No.8328249

>>8316598
The beginning is the easiest part

>> No.8328282

>>8328249
I was afraid of that.
Found V. to be the opposite.
120 pages in and it's still comfy.

>> No.8328485

>>8326523
>EPIPHANY! KABOOM! EVERY FUCKING DETAIL OF EVERY SENTENCE YOU READ JUST CAME TOGETHER! FEELS OVERLOAD! JOYCE IS A GENIUS!
Can you give an example? I read dubliners but found no such thing or maybe I was too pleb

>> No.8328524

>>8312289
good choice my man

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I noticed that you despise Rach here, but come on, 4th Concerto and Rhapsody are bretty gud

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>>8311989
I started reading Kojiki yesterday.
However, it's a Polish version.
So instead of Amaterasu, I have "The one shining on the sky", instead of Ugayafukiaezu I have something along the lines of "Heavenly youngster that relieves all lands, unmatched in happiness, reliably providing eatable ears of grains". It's not exactly translated like that, because it's hard for me to translate it into English from the Polish version. But it's something along those lines. The meaning is pretty much the same.
And I guess that it's supposed to be like this, because giving the reader untranslated names such as Amatsuhitaka-hiko'nakisatake-ugayafukiaezu-no-Mikoto would make one even more confused.

Long story short, I love it. The names are actually amazing. It gets confusing at times, but the names have their charm that makes the book even more enjoyable in my opinion.

>> No.8328635

>>8311989
Dubliners

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Aleister Crowley's short stories. They're not badly written, but Crowley just comes across as an incredibly obnoxious patrician twat.

>> No.8328984

The Master and Margarita

>> No.8329076

Just finished DFW's Good Old Neon. Going on to read Jane Eeyre.