/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9210265]

>age
>location
>what are you currently reading and how do you like it

[Anonymous No.9210285]

24 Maryland

On Conics book III, Apollonius
Progress and Poverty book VI, George

Book III of On Conics is by far the most complex, difficult thing I've ever read.

George is just verbose a la Mill.

[Anonymous No.9210286]

22

Eastern Seaboard

The Domination Trilogy by S.M. Stirling. Quite

[Anonymous No.9210302]

nearly 20
new zealand
the sound & the fury

it's curious. it started off as a disappointment but it's getting very interesting.

[Anonymous No.9210313]

25
toronto
babylon's ashes

p cool, i like the whole volatile chess board that's the solar system
i'm used to holden being insufferable
show bobbie a shit & that's for sure
kind of sick of space though, maybe I shouldn't have dived into it right after red rising trilogy

[Anonymous No.9210317]

109 years old
OPs house
OPs diary
Its very cringy and it seems that he likes to describe himself as a gigantic faggot

Nice try fbi

[Anonymous No.9210323]

>age
27

>location
Small town in Florida

>what are you currently reading and how do you like it
Heller - Something Happened
Just started but its also a reread so I know its a phenomenal book, easily his best. It takes much of the style of Catch-22 but with much more sophistication, and satirizes the mundane life of the typical middle-class American.

William Rhoden - The Forty Million Dollar Slave
Also just started and its about what I imagined so far. There are some interesting sports history anecdotes I was unaware of, and mostly cheap, poorly articulated attacks against the lack of diversity in positions of power in the sports industry. I'll keep at it for a bit, but if I'm being honest I will probably end up dropping it for the next non-fiction on my list, Howard Gardener's Frames of Mind.

[Anonymous No.9210330]

21 TX

"The Ego and His Own". I really like it, but i now get upset when I see spook memes being an used wrong.

[Anonymous No.9210336]

22

why does this matter

harrius potter - latin translation of HP, trying to practice language. It's fine, but the vocab frustrates me because it's so different from classical

also

Borges' Labyrinths. Really comfy. Would recommend. Like a less fun, more intellectual Calvino so far.

[Anonymous No.9210342]

22
NY, USA
Anna Karenin (inb4 "entry level" etc.)
I dig it. As soon as you think Tolstoi is portraying a character with sympathy, the arch-snarkiness comes down like a million ton shit-hammer. Reading it, I feel a strange mixture of elation and contempt

[Anonymous No.9210364]

>>9210265
19
Bavaria
Kafka

[Anonymous No.9210377]

20

ATL GA

Portrait of the Artist as a young man

Next Level

[Anonymous No.9210379]

20
sweden
Just finished submission, starting notes from the underground tomorrow

[Anonymous No.9210380]

>>9210330

What's the difference between De Sade and Stirner's philosophy in your opinion?

[Anonymous No.9210388]

22
Germany
Magic Mountain by Mann when I'm home and have tmie to dive into it, also Notes from Underground when I'm on the way somewhere, I love both

[Anonymous No.9210404]

>>9210364
Was liest du von Kafka?

[Anonymous No.9210420]

23
Iowa
Tropic of Cancer - It's pretty funny. I enjoy it.
The Elementary forms of Religious Life - I'm supposed to be reading Suicide for another class, but I found this to be more interesting.

[Anonymous No.9210440]

26
Sweden
The Knight by Gene Wolfe
finished re-reading the Count of Monte Cristo a few days ago.

[Anonymous No.9210447]

>>9210404
>Die Verwandlung

Heut Abend erst angefangen.
Noch nie was von Kafka bisher gelesen.

[Nately's whore No.9210459]

>>9210323
>Heller - Something Happened
I only ever read Catch 22 and haven't heared any good about his other work.
Do you like it?
Would you recommend it?

[Anonymous No.9210485]

23
NY
Dürrenmatt and just about to start Potestas Clavium from Shestov.

[Anonymous No.9210555]

>>9210265
26
East
The Rhetoric of Fiction - Wayne Booth

I'm barely ankle deep in the first chapter, so it's hard to say how I feel about it. Before that I read Prose's Reading Like a Writer and Gardner's The Art of Fiction, both interesting perspectives on what makes stories successful.

[Anonymous No.9210566]

22
Nova Scotia
The Middle Ages - Johannes Fried
Great revisionist history.

[Anonymous No.9210570]

>22
>DC
>Three Early Stories by J.D. Salinger

[Anonymous No.9210579]

19
Ohio
Slaughterhouse 5
Just started it and like it so far. Just read cats cradle and really liked that.

[Anonymous No.9210580]

>>9210459
I find it to be terrific. It is a bit more of a "demanding" read, with a higher vocabulary and much more convoluted diction, but it is well worth the effort in my opinion.

I would also highly recommend his Picture This. It is a very different kind of book. It is largely narrated by the Aristotle in the Rembrandt's painting now known as Aristotle Contemplates a Bust of Homer while Rembrandt is painting it. You are taken back and forth between the golden ages of Greece, Holland, and the U.S., while Heller satorizes things like war, democracy, and capitalism.

[Anonymous No.9210595]

>>9210580
>>9210459

Oh, but I wouldn't recommend Closing Time, his sequel to Catch-22. It isn't the worsr thing I've ever read, and it does even have some moments I really enjoyed, but it felt like a cheap attempt to cash in on the Catch-22 fame in his old age.

[Anonymous No.9210622]

20
Colorado
Les Miserables

Pretty good so far. Just finished the section on Waterloo.

[Nately's whore No.9210640]

>>9210580
>Aristotle Contemplates a Bust of Homer

That is a very interesting painting

Thanks for the pretty in depth answer.

>>9210595
Yeah, only one I heard I really shouldn't even consider reading at all by Heller.

[Anonymous No.9210645]

24
Commiefornia
The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury

I'm only about 4 stories in but I'm enjoying it.
Short story collections I've noticed can be a really entertaining affair.

[Anonymous No.9210649]

>25
>Central VA
>Too Like The Lightning by Ada Palmer

It's amazing. It's like future history. It's set in 2400 in a utopian society of elected communities but they're all obsessed with Voltaire and Aristotle and Diderot. It's written in an 18th century style and the genders are super weird and there's a priest class that has to counsel without one religion but rather all and there's a murderer and political intrigue and and and

It's incredible. Written by a historian, too.

[Anonymous No.9210686]

>>9210265
>19
>literal Siberia
>Miller's Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics
Fuck the greeks meme, big dogs maintain their opinions relevant and sound. Toss the Plato and read this shit instead.

[Nately's whore No.9210702]

>>9210686

Is Siberia beautiful in the Summer?

[Anonymous No.9210720]

>>9210702
Nah, it's much prettier in the winter.

[Anonymous No.9210721]

23
Cambridge
The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai - Only 65 pages in but I like it a lot so far. Not as powerful as Seiobo There Below but it's very interesting and at least more cohesive than Seiobo There Below was. More of a novel than a collection of thematically connected prose pieces. So far, anyway.
The Unsubscriber by Bill Knott - He's a very clever poet and pretty pessimistic, which I like in poetry, but for some reason I haven't really clicked with him yet.
Selected Poems by Frank O'Hara - I love Frank O'Hara. I've read Lunch Poems and Meditations in an Emergency so much of this book is familiar to me but I can read him over and over. It's excellent.
New & Selected Poems by Thomas Lux. I had this recommended to me about two days before Thomas Lux died by a personal friend of his. It's excellent, Lux manages to write about anything other than himself (for the most part) while still evoking emotion, something I think many contemporary poets fail to do today (or all they do is write about themselves).
The Dreamsongs by John Berryman - Good lord, what a book. Berryman is right up there with Frank O'Hara for me. Funny, sad, bizarre, and sometimes impenetrable.

I finished Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya two days ago and would recommend it. Think Thomas Bernhard but more vulgar and from El Salvador (and not as good of a prose stylist, but to expect anyone to match Bernhard is, I think, foolish).

[Anonymous No.9210724]

>>9210579
make sure to read Sirens of Titan

[Anonymous No.9210728]

>>9210724
btw
>26
>Chicago
>Lies my teacher told me
pretty good. a little bland coming from a person who mostly reads fiction

[Anonymous No.9210729]

78
Otah Gunga
Dragon Drive volume 2

[Anonymous No.9210730]

1999
west coast
was reading siddhartha, but dropped it to play morrowind

[Anonymous No.9210732]

>>9210379
>sweden
>submission

poetry

[Anonymous No.9210734]

>26
>4chan
>Fanged Noumena
>Hyperstition terminates barren realities; the Machine is necessary in all possible worlds, all lines converge at singularity, QED, anselm was right
>ΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩ

[Anonymous No.9210741]

28
oakland ca
celine - north

get on my lvl

[Anonymous No.9210761]

>>9210377
O shit m8, I'm 19 from Atlanta and Portrait is one of my favorites. Do you go to school here? I'm at Tech

Currently reading The 42nd Parallel. I'm a fan, it's very comfy. Like a more communist Steinbeck that flits back and forth between multiple stories with different types of writing thrown in in short bursts between chapters.

[Anonymous No.9210769]

>20.
>Australia.
>Blood Meridian.

It's shit.

[Anonymous No.9210901]

>18
>New Hampshire
>Just finished the Road, just started Wild Sheep Chase
I loved most of the Road, not a huge fan of the ending. No opinion on Wild Sheep Chase, considering I'm 30 pages in.

[Anonymous No.9211282]

>>9210721

[Anonymous No.9211391]

23
Brasil
The Garden of Eden, by Ernest Hemingway

[Anonymous No.9211399]

>>9210265
23
Canada
Just finished resurrection by Tolstoy. Loved it. Made the whole prison system seem useless.

>Pic very much related.

[Anonymous No.9211474]

25
SoCal
Don Quixote, Moby Dick, The Recognitions, Rabelais, a lot of Shakespeare. Spring is usually the season when I reread my favourite books.

>>9210761
I feel, no: I know Did Passos was criminally underrated and glossed-over for the whole second-half of the 20th century. Such a shame, he made a big splash and then tossed aside by the greats that followed.

[Anonymous No.9211476]

>>9210265
>18
>houston
>story of the eye - bataille

im nearing the end and my god is it evil in the best ways possible. very interesting exploration of sexual taboos and crazy enough to get a reaction out of me. wish it was longer

[Anonymous No.9211484]

>>9211282
I wouldn't even call myself cultured, I just read more than what's memed around here.

[Anonymous No.9211905]

>Age
20
>Location
Sweden
>Reading
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It's a pretty enjoyable read, very fast paced.

[Anonymous No.9212097]

>>9210302
>nearly 20


Only a teen would add nearly. Trust me, your best days are behind you.

[Anonymous No.9212104]

>>9210323

I live in florida. Want to hang out?

[Anonymous No.9212779]

19
New York
Physics by Aristotle. After 314 pages of slogging through his logic, an exploration into the philosophical principles of nature is a welcome reprieve. It's definitely not as outmoded as the title might suggest. There are times when it's even beautiful.

[Anonymous No.9213051]

>>9210265
24
UK, West Yorkshire
Aristotle's Poetics.

It's pretty insightful in tragic plays and offers some accessible advice as to the best ways to create a play. A useful little guideline for a budding writer.

[Anonymous No.9213082]

>31
>Forlí ( Italy)
>Infinite jest
I hope reading this could permit me to get my shit togheter

[Anonymous No.9213097]

>>9210721
Are you SURE you're not me?

[Anonymous No.9213102]

>>9210265
>25
>NY
>Ulysses
I love it. It's insane how much depth he puts into what is an 18-hour time period. It makes me think more closely about my day, live more in the present moment, really take everything in. The prose are beautiful too. I think the hazy "plot" is pretty emblematic about the spontaneity that many people live with throughout their day.

[Anonymous No.9213141]

>>9210265
24
Somewhere in Canada

Foucaults Pendulum by Umberto Eco
I'm having fun with it, good debrief, for my Robert Anton Wilson phase. The way the book devolves from followable narrative to schizo rambling as the book progressing is my favorite part

[Anonymous No.9213155]

>>9210379
>Sweden
>just finished Submission

[Anonymous No.9213181]

>>9210721
HEY GUYS SO FIRST OF ALL LET ME SAY THAT I'M FROM CAMBRIDGE, MKAY, AND SECOND OF ALL I JUST LURRRV READING *HOLDS UP BOOK* HEEHE. SO THESE ARE THE SEVERAL BOOKS I'M READING AT THE MOMENT (AT THE SAME TIME HEHE!) SO GUYS IF YOU COULD JUST REPLY AND VALIDATE MY OH SO INTELLIGENT SELF (HOOHOO) I'D REALLY APPRECIATE IT *SNAPS SUSPENDERS*

[Anonymous No.9213218]

>>9210379
>sweden
>submission

not a novel set in the future for you is it, anon?

>>9210734
my nigga

[Anonymous No.9213275]

>23
>yurop
>Road To Wigan Pier
>its dank m8

[Anonymous No.9213294]

>>9213155
>>9213218
Kek. Sorry I'm not red-pilled just yet boys.

[Anonymous No.9213340]

18
Midwest(collage town,not in hicksville)
The metamorphosis by Kafka
Really enjoyed it, can't wait to write my paper on it

[Anonymous No.9213472]

18
sweden malmö
rilke book of hours
it's brilliant, nothing like it

[Anonymous No.9213515]

>>9210447
Guter Anfang, wenn es dir gefällt dann ließ den Prozeß

[Anonymous No.9213549]

>>9213181
You seem a bit rustled.

[Anonymous No.9213610]

18
Mexico
The Elementary Particles

Pretty much everything about it, i see a lot of myself in both Bruno and Michel, the time jumps are neatly done, the way Houellebecq starts writing about physics and chem and rambles about the evolution of morals in socity through the latter half of the XX century is a nice gimmick, don't mind the sex stuff, i don't see why it was controversial at any time, it is pretty tame.

[Anonymous No.9213627]

28
UK
the great transformation

[Anonymous No.9213632]

>>9210265
18 Illinois
Starting cambridges three volume collection of Descartes.
I've dabbled with philosophy for a year now, and have decided to thoroughly study the subject, starting with the distinction between ancient and modern philosophy. I'm hoping to finish the likes of Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, Berkeley, and Locke before the next school year begins. For those knowledgeable on the topic- any tips for retaining knowledge? Efficiency is not a necessity; I want to understand these men and their works, in their entirety- as having read brief abstracts hitherto has led me to an area of frustration.

[Anonymous No.9213785]

>>9210265
23
Portsmouth, England

Working my way through a collection of Oscar Wilde scripts atm, pretty funny way to kill an evening

[Anonymous No.9213798]

>>9210265
21
USA
Just finished Dante's purgatory, is it even worth readin paradise, I'm not feeling it

[Anonymous No.9213863]

>>9213798
>he doesn't like the purgatorio

c'mon man. it's not worth reading if you aren't going to get anything out of it.

[Anonymous No.9213868]

19

Chile

Just got a collection of short stories by Julio Cortázar, on an Anon's recommendation.

[Anonymous No.9213878]

18
Ireland

Gulliver's travels (reppin the home boy Swift)

[Anonymous No.9213896]

>>9213181
wew

[Anonymous No.9214504]

>22
>Desolate rural America
>Hunger by Knut Hamsun
It's pretty good, I find the main character interesting. He reminds me of someone out of a Dostoevsky novel.

[Anonymous No.9214512]

>>9210420
Whoa. Another Iowan on /lit/. Weird.

[Anonymous No.9214571]

16
Spain
Hopscotch by Cortázar. Gonna start to read some short stories to really get into short fiction.

[Anonymous No.9214615]

24
Budapest, Hungary
Reading Submission by Michel Houellebecq, about 100 pages in and enjoying it a lot.

[Anonymous No.9214648]

26

Italy

Kerouac's "On The Road". I feel it aged badly, I feel I'd have liked it if I was 26 the year my father was born. Now it's like the book is just namedropping cities and constantly introducing new female character to fuck the protagonist and then go away.

I just don't get it. Hope it gets better.

[Anonymous No.9214668]

>>9210769
killself

[Anonymous No.9214683]

>>9210265
18
Pennsylvania
Life of Johnson by Boswell
Pretty good

[Anonymous No.9214702]

>>9210265
29- East Midlands, UK

I'm reading the Stephen King short story collection, Bazaar of Bad Dreams.

It's mixed. The Dune and Ur are great stories, but some are bang average and some more are just dogshit.

I'm finding "The world is horrible and then you die" stories to be less appealing as I get older. Mostly because it's true and I don't like being reminded of the fact.

[Anonymous No.9214707]

>>9210640
>Yeah, only one I heard I really shouldn't even consider reading at all by Heller

I mean, like I said it isn't the work book ever, but it does seem a bit forced and like a return to the more gimmick-dependent style of Catch-22 rather than what he did in later works. It really does have some fantastic parts. It wouldn't be a total waste of time to read it, but I certainly wouldn't make it a priority, either.

[Anonymous No.9214715]

24
Kansas

The Slavs in European History by Francis Dvornik.

It's very detailed on slavic history, their early beginnings to the rise of the Bohemian empire, Poland; the rise of Bulgaria and Serbia etc. It's very technical and lengthy. I'm only on the early beginnings of Muscovy in the 13th and 14th centuries.

[Anonymous No.9214738]

>>9210645
Only short story I've read of his is The Pedestrian. I really enjoyed it. Which stories have you read and would you recommend them?

[Anonymous No.9214746]

>>9214702
Hey
22 fellow east midlands bro
Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.9214753]

>>9212104
Where in Florida are you?

[Anonymous No.9214804]

22
Croatia
Myths from Mesopotamia

I've only just started it, so can't really say much. Interesting how some Greek and biblical figures seem to be based on Sumerian ones, though.

[Anonymous No.9215011]

23
Scotland
Death and the Penguin

[Anonymous No.9215296]

>>9210265
18 Ohio
Manifesting Minds: A Review of Psychedelics in Science, Medicine, Sex and Spirituality

[Anonymous No.9215321]

>>9214804
really fires those synapses doesn't it

[Anonymous No.9215380]

18
New England
White Noise
Heinrich is fucking annoying

[Anonymous No.9215444]

>>9210265

22 Prairies Canada
Crime and Punishment
Really the first Russian lit I've read, also the first crime/thriller book too. It's pretty interesting so far about 200pgs in. I like Raskolnikov's insights, it's kinda funny.

[Anonymous No.9215448]

22
Melbourne, Aus

>Night Soul and Other Stories (McElroy)
Pretty good so far. Not mind-blowing like his novels, but nice enough to just dip my feet back in between other reads. Not a recommended starting point.
> 4 3 2 1 (Auster)
The first 'chapter' completely sucked me in, and I had tears in my eyes, but as the narrative strands have become further fragmented and distended, it's becoming difficult to keep track of which Ferguson is in which life; it's becoming harder to stay as invested. Will be curious to see if this risky maneuver pays off.
> The Ark Codex (Calamari Press)
I have no clue what's going on, but the words sound good, and the images look good. Transmedial poetry this be.
> The Dream Songs (Berryman)
No 'song' has really got stuck in my head yet, but they've been fun so far. Remarkably readable. Through lunch breaks, Berryman's made the last few workdays quite tolerable.
> Complete Poems (cummings)
Fuckin' A this is the most entertaining thing to read aloud that I've read aloud in a long-ass time. I feel like a schizophrenic chorus when I'm squeezing asides into vertically mangled words half a page long, and it's great.
> A (Zukofsky)
Difficult and trying, but some of the best poetic moments I've experienced in my life have been in this work. I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I get to the 24th canto; was hoping I would be able to find a recording somewhere, but no luck so far...

[Anonymous No.9215486]

>20
>US, NJ
>Annals & Histories by Tacitus
It's aight, the sections on Nero are pretty neat.

[Anonymous No.9215715]

>>9215448
Dreamsongs are excellent my man, song 14 is fantastic

[Anonymous No.9215727]

24

New Hampshire

The Dharma Bums

It's pretty good, desu. It's like listening to the drunken ramblings of a friend.

[Anonymous No.9216644]

>>9210265
26 M/San Diego/ Reading 'The Hummingbird's Daughter' by Luis Alberto Urrea, as well as 'The Sellout' by Paul Beatty.

Am I a basic bae lit?

[Anonymous No.9216659]

18
US, OK
Divine Comedy

My first time going through it. Very interesting. My edition has Dore's engravings so I like it even more.

Also, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

It is good, don't get me wrong, but it's getting tiresome. But maybe I just need to read it all the way through. Currently around the 120pg range.

[Anonymous No.9216669]

>22
>BR?
>The Running Man by Stephen King (Audiobook)
I make my driving hours useful by reading audiobooks, but I feel like I have to listen to simple writing like Stephen King, or I'll feel like I'm losing something.
>Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Just started it but it feels like I'm in for a nice experience. I had to choose a book to read from my unread stack because I was robbed and they took my kindle, where I was reading Silence and Neuromancer.

[Anonymous No.9216780]

18
SoCal
Augustus by John Williams

It is very good.

[Anonymous No.9216796]

>>9212097
>only a teen could be nearly 20
damn caught me out

[Anonymous No.9216922]

> 22
> Ohio
> Temple of the Golden Pavilion

It's one of the best books I've read in a while. I feel like reading it is making me a better writer

[Anonymous No.9216953]

19

UK

Ulysses
Though a pole college dropout working for 9,45 an hour, been to NL aswell.

[Anonymous No.9216969]

Holy jumping fucking shitballs, /lit/ is truly a kids-only board. That explains so much.

>135
>The Bible
>It's good

[Anonymous No.9216975]

>>9214571
>16
Shhhh. Gotta be 18 to post here, amigo.
Delete this!

Aunque no recuerdo ningún caso reciente de underage-banned que de verdad fueran baneados por decir que eran menores de 18...

[Anonymous No.9217162]

18

Romania

Pretty much nothing atm but I am doing /lit/ related things like writing a novel.

[Anonymous No.9217176]

>>9210265
>26
>Howl's Moving Castle
I fucking love it. I'll fight anybody.

>mfw the german edition costs 40€ used

[Anonymous No.9217183]

23
piss ass arizona
Kevin O'Shark Tanks Cold Hard Truth: On Business and Money

Im not learning anything of value so far but I am learning about how his mom got robbed at gun point and didnt want to give up the car cause her dad would be pissed so thats fun.

[Anonymous No.9217190]

18

Poland

Crime and Punishment

I love it, Raskolnikov is a cool guy
<inb4 memestoyevsky

[Anonymous No.9217220]

>>9214504
I am 23, Russia, and reading Hunger as well. It also reminded me of Dostoevsky. Pretty well-written, yet I couldn't stick onto the plot at first.

[Anonymous No.9217333]

>18
>Conrad, Typhoon
I can't get enough of this seaman shit lads, no homo

[Anonymous No.9217339]

>>9217190
ur not intended to think of raskol as a cool guy m8

[Anonymous No.9217342]

21, Toronto.

For class I'm reading My Antonia by Willa Carther (prose narrative) and Natasha & Other Stories by David Bezmogis (short stories). I'm through the first four stories in Natasha, and they're descent so far, nothing special. My Antonia is p. boring, but it might get good later. Not really that into bildungsroman.

[Anonymous No.9217346]

>>9217342
>descent

ignore pls.

[Anonymous No.9217349]

>>9210265
21
Turkey
Physics (Aristotle)

can't understand shit. not because of philosophical terms. just translation is shit.

[Anonymous No.9217354]

>>9213878
Nice my man, I think Gulliver's travels is underrated for what it is

[Anonymous No.9217364]

>>9210265
>20
>Aus
>pic related
It's pretty interesting so far. De Maistre seems like a fun guy.

[Anonymous No.9217376]

>>9217190
raskol is a retard.
>muh murder

if you can't kill someone, why are you trying in the first place?

>>9215444
same to you

>>9214804
>Mesopotamia
you can ask me anything about sumerians pal.

>>9215448
6 fucking books at the same time?

[Anonymous No.9217382]

>>9210265
>19
>Russia
>Harry Potter series
trying to learn english

[Anonymous No.9217392]

21
Northern Italy
Cornelius Nepos- Lives of Eminent Commanders (in latin)
It makes me feel bad. I'm not envying these men (I'm way too concerned about ethics to live such a life), yet these accounts show me how uneventful and pathetic my life has been. To know that Hannibal actually lived and walked on this Earth boggles my mind.

[Anonymous No.9217450]

>21
>Scotland
>A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Non-fiction answers are ok right? I'm enjoying it

[Anonymous No.9217479]

>>9217376
Is Atra-hasis the same character as Prometheus?

[Anonymous No.9217587]

>>9217479
what makes you think that? i mean i hear him about being Noah, but... I don't think so.

[Anonymous No.9217601]

>>9217587
Atra-hasis = Extra Wise
Prometheus = Forethought

Some suggest it's an approximate Greek translation

[Anonymous No.9217603]

>>9217601
wel, some people are retards.

[Anonymous No.9217605]

>>9217603
Extremely inappropriate.

[Anonymous No.9217613]

>>9217605
it is.

[Anonymous No.9219427]

>19
>Brazil
>Crime and Punishment, liking it very much so far but I began reading not too long ago

[Anonymous No.9219442]

23 years old

Omaha Nebraska

V. By Pynchon and I love it. Reminds me of Cronenberg's Naked Lunch.

Also reading Don Quixote, about 60 percent into it, but getting really burnt out from the constant retardation of both Don Quixote and Sancho.

[Anonymous No.9219623]

>>9217376
> 6 books at the same fucking time?
3 are poetry, 1 is basically poetry, 1 is short stories, and the 1 novel is fragmentary enough that it might as well be short stories. I wouldnt do any more than 3 novels at once.

[Anonymous No.9219629]

>>9219623
*fucking books

[Anonymous No.9219832]

20
brazil
Chopin's funeral

[Anonymous No.9221203]

bump

[Anonymous No.9221603]

>>9213632
start with the fact that you aren't as smart as you think you are and that will allow you to absorb more knowledge instead of deflecting it

[Anonymous No.9221614]

>19
>Delaware, in Hospital
>Lundeys critique on postmodernism, blooms western canon, Freuds interpretation of dreams, and the dictionary

[Anonymous No.9221693]

>>9210265
33
Charlotte NC
The hungry caterpillar

[Anonymous No.9221737]

21
Edinburgh
Labyrinths

[Anonymous No.9221747]

>>9210265
24, UK, Surrey

The Adversary - Julian May

It's OK, I'm more reading it so I can leave the series alone forever than because I actually want to read it. Peaked at the end of book 2, and it's been boring ever since.

[Anonymous No.9221767]

33 hereford england
american pastoral by philip roth
it's ok, i'm reading it for my book group

[Anonymous No.9221792]

>22
>Brazil
>Agnes Grey

And yes I'm a faggot

[Anonymous No.9221852]

23
Zambia
The Poisonwood Bible
it feels super relevant, pretty good

[Anonymous No.9222222]

>>9221852
Hey I'm reading it too. Good prose

[Anonymous No.9222243]

25
South Korea
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
It's very good, learning alot

[Anonymous No.9222249]

>>9222222
waste of digits, apologize to me

[Anonymous No.9222250]

>>9222222

Horey shit. . .

[Anonymous No.9222251]

>>9222222
Wasted fucking SIXTHS

[Anonymous No.9222256]

>>9222222
2 much 2s 2 ignore 2bh

[Anonymous No.9222257]

>>9222222
Poisonwood bible confirmed for lit canon

[Anonymous No.9222259]

>>9219623
>including poetry books in the reply to this thread
you're either a pseud or a retard

[Anonymous No.9222375]

>>9222243
you should read Monumentum Ancyranum
too

[Anonymous No.9222440]

18
New Orleans
The odyssey, the great gatsby, and A Confederacy of dunces

The great gatsby is for school and I like it but I'm struggling to find time to finish the other two between baseball, work, and going out with my friends

[Anonymous No.9223149]

>22
>Sweden
>A Random Walk Down Wall Street

[Anonymous No.9223661]

>>9213472
have you ever seen knausgaard around town?

>>9210769
fuck you, dumbass kangaroo poster

>>9222440
i'm jealous: getting to read a confederacy of dunces in new orleans must be a fantastic experience.

[Anonymous No.9223751]

>22
>VA
>Tortilla Flat

[Anonymous No.9223929]

Why is everyone so young?

Do I honestly share a board with a bunch of kids coming just out of their teens?

[Anonymous No.9224277]

>age
20

>location
Mobile, Alabama

>what are you currently reading and how do you like it
American Psycho. It's pretty good. I've already seen the movie but I just wanted something easy to read.

[Anonymous No.9224420]

24
Italy
Zeno's Coscience, quite enjoyable

[Anonymous No.9224423]

>>9223929
No, you share a whole website with a bunch of kids coming just out of their teens.

[Anonymous No.9224441]

21
Casablanca, Morocco
Sapiens: Brief History of Mankind

[Anonymous No.9225205]

>19

>California

>Dubliners

It's so fucking good. I'm guessing I'm to read Portrait and Ulysses after? I can't wait.

[Anonymous No.9225691]

>>9225205
my man, i like araby and the other story about the sailor or whatever. evaline?

[Anonymous No.9225769]

24
Illinois
Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover

The writing in this is exceptional! Especially for a Star Wars novel.

[Anonymous No.9226043]

>>9223929
I'm in my 40s
>Pacific NW
>The Anatomy of Story, Against the Day

[Anonymous No.9226053]

[Anonymous No.9226057]

>>9225691
Eveline. It's my second favorite so far after A Little Cloud.

[Anonymous No.9226095]

>27
>washington
>blood meridian

It's pretty good. Really violent. Unsettling in parts. Easy to read, great prose.

[Anonymous No.9226139]

57
Miami
Nothing rn, plan to start Silence this week.
I like it just fine.

[Anonymous No.9226158]

>Age
20
>Location
São Paulo, Brasil.
>What are you currently reading and how do you like it.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.
I think, until now, the first volume was the best
(I don't write often, sorry for bad english).

[Anonymous No.9226170]

>Age
23
>Location
Toronto, Canada
>Reading
Roman Tales. It's good, except every story ends too neatly.

[Anonymous No.9226208]

>>9210265
21
Melbourne
Pathways to Bliss by Joseph Campbell

I like it

[Anonymous No.9226317]

32
TN
The Secret Teachings of All Ages by M.P. Hall

Mark Booth I think did a condensed version of it without a lot of the spice but I still like it. It's 750pgs and in 6x9 format. Reads like a textbook more than anything. 7/10

[Anonymous No.9226349]

18
Melbourne
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Have learned some new things. The language is more antiquated than I expected even though it's only written in the 1940s. I guess I need to read more

[Anonymous No.9226360]

>>9211399
Is he very new agey?

[Anonymous No.9226363]

does anyone in chicago want an autistic friend

[Anonymous No.9226494]

>18
>Penang, MY
>Dubliners

>>9225205
Reading the Oxford World's Classics introduction to Dubliners has made me appreciate his genius even more - the hemiplegia and the epiphanies; the 'four aspects'; the tranches de vie; how all of them are 'real' and 'symbolic' and the same time. Sheer brilliance. Love it.

[Anonymous No.9226576]

20, Pennsylvania (innawoods)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
It's beautifully written but I feel like I only understand about half.

[Anonymous No.9226585]

20

South Carolina

Essays in Idleness and Hōjōki

Pretty good, only read Hōjōki so far though. Feels a bit like Walden but in Medieval Japan.

[Anonymous No.9226696]

25
chicago
The Anome
I've just started it and had no time to form an opinion. I'm getting tired of Vance, as I've just read about a dozen of his books in a row. I liked the Dying Earth and Lyonesse stuff, but his spacefaring scifi is all kind of shallow and same-ish. If this doesn't grab me I'm probably going to start reading someone else.

[Anonymous No.9226756]

>>9210265
24 seattle
10 Years in Japan
Grew's a cool dude, Japan deserved the nukes

[Anonymous No.9226827]

19

Texas

Art of War and Other Classics of Eastern Thought

66 pages deep. It's a real eye opener and helps me understand where a lot of mistakes were made in battles through out history. Overall good read so far.

[Anonymous No.9227015]

24.
Brooklyn.
The Tears of Eros.

I could imagine hanging out with Bataille while he shows me all these old cave paintings of erections and that's pretty comfy.

[Anonymous No.9227030]

>>9210265
27
Finland
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
looking to go up the list of Penguin's "Great Ideas" classics, 'cause I'm a brainlet

[Anonymous No.9227053]

14/f/cali
/lit/
it's shit

[Anonymous No.9227071]

>>9226756
大賛成

[Anonymous No.9227119]

>>9214753
Central

[Anonymous No.9227123]

>>9210265
22
Sweden
Locke: End of All Evil

Short and Comprehensive

[Anonymous No.9227139]

29
south-western Germany
the collected non-fiction of Borges, it's very good. Also assorted secondary literature on the interface between biology and the mind-body problem, on empirio-criticism / -monism (Mach, Bogdanov, Lenin), on Uexküll and the concept of Umwelt (and biosemiotics) as well as the history of materialism (la Mettrie and others). Most of it is pretty good, although the chain of coherence in the Russian discussion of 'Machism' is less strong than one might think. Also of course the discussion of consciousness in biology is generally marred by a lack of understanding about the heart of the mind-body problem (which lies in subjective experience, not in a systems advanced behaviour and engagement with its environment).

[Anonymous No.9227170]

>>9210265
>20
>Central Europe
>Kafka Process (2nd time)
Makes me think a lot. I like it.

[Anonymous No.9227202]

19
turkey
just finished the overcoat. pretty good. i liked the tone of the narrator especially. although i didn't really undestand the ending (the very ending, where another ghost is mentioned)

[Anonymous No.9229024]

>>9210265
20
Berlin
Ulysses

There's this one old prof at my med school who has two phds - one in medicine and one in philosophy.
He has read the whole western canon and is a published author himself.
I'm trying to hard impress him somehow and make him my mentor.

[Anonymous No.9229045]

>>9227202
Maybe it's some kind of eternal return.
Do you remember the way Akakijs overcoat got robbed? I think these guys were ghosts, too.

[Anonymous No.9229050]

>>9229024

[Anonymous No.9229059]

27
Maryland
Proof reading my suicide note

[Anonymous No.9230480]

18
Japan
Reading is for nerds but Joshiraku is my favorite manga and anime

[Anonymous No.9230619]

>no one responded to my post yet
Fuck you guys you fucking assholes go fuck yourselves sideways, idiots. Morons, I am going to fucking destroy your lives. You're lucky you don't know me in real life.

[Anonymous No.9230831]

22
North Carolina
I took a break in the middle of Infinite Jest to read Notes from Underground and a different translation of The Metamorphosis.

[Anonymous No.9230854]

I'm assuming everyone saying they're 18 is lying.

[Anonymous No.9230992]

>>9210265
27 California
That Hideous Strength; tis good.

[Anonymous No.9231414]

21
Auburn, Alabama
Spring Snow. I like it a lot.

[Anonymous No.9231453]

>>9210265
>20
>Africa
>Meditation

[Anonymous No.9231469]

>>9227202
>overcoat
o hangi kitap lan?

[Anonymous No.9231523]

>>9231469
palto

[Anonymous No.9231597]

25
Austria
War andpiece from tolstoi
Next will be platon the republic
Just started to read again last book i read was some harry potter book 10 years ago.i hope reading protects me from falling back to my unhealthy videogame playing.(10-12 hours a day)

[Anonymous No.9231602]

20
Australia
Blood meridian
The imagery of the landscapes is great, I just haven't been connected or interested at all in the plot.

[Anonymous No.9231607]

>19
>Africa
>On the Road

It's alright so far I guess, not mad about it.

[Anonymous No.9231634]

22
Slovenia
Proust

Is great, proust is god

[Anonymous No.9231636]

21
Shanghai subway
Nothing, I am too depressed.

[Anonymous No.9231642]

>>9212097
>your best days are behind you
Pleb

[Anonymous No.9231651]

>>9213632
What the other guy said. You're probably not ready to go balls deep into philosophy, namely because you wont understand what they're saying.
>start with the greeks
But leave aristotle for last

[Anonymous No.9231659]

18
Finnegan's Wake
I like it, knew it would be right up my allen since I LOVE everything avant-garde. He is truly like the Godard or Dali of literature.

[Anonymous No.9231681]

>>9231523
burada hikayeler ve şiirler kitap olarak sayılmıyor.

[Anonymous No.9231690]

>>9210265
18
Pennsylvania
House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky (English translation)

I'm almost finished. I like his writing style but the actual content can be bone dry at times. Poor Folks is combined with this novel in this edition so I'm hoping that that is a little better.

[Anonymous No.9232044]

31
Scotland
World War Z
Very good book can see why they tried to make a film but the book is just sooooo much better and no amount of brad Pitt will change that.

[Anonymous No.9232146]

>>9210265
>21
>Australia
>Less than zero - Breast Eatin Eyeless
>this is gaaarbaaaaaaaaaage

[Anonymous No.9232188]

>>9215448
I'm in Melbourne come let me mug you

[Anonymous No.9232220]

30
Slovakia
I always read one book of fiction and one of non-fiction.
Dune
-Surprisingly good. I thought I couldn't connect with it because I got to read it too late, but I find it intriguing.
Manufacturing Consent (Chomsky)
-Surprisingly bad.

[Anonymous No.9232265]

19
Lithuania
Dostojevsky's Crime and Punishment
I fucking hate it, to hard for an illiterate like me. The problem is that I have to read it because of an assigment.

[Anonymous No.9232273]

>>9231681
OP "kitap" (roman?) sormamış, ne okuyosun demiş. hem /lit/in çobanı mısın mq :D

[Anonymous No.9232329]

>>9231659
Pfffffffffffff

[Anonymous No.9232393]

>>9213141
Finished Foucault, starting Gravity's Rainbow now. It's a real page turner; unless it has a brick wall in the middle I see myself finishing it in a week.

[Anonymous No.9232424]

29
USA in Santiago, Chile
Pic

[Anonymous No.9232431]

>>9232393
It'll get a bit difficult as you keep going but yeah, it's a really fun book to read. I wouldn't rush through it, though. It's a book to savor.

[Anonymous No.9232438]

20
Singapore

Norwegian Wood
Reading it again to see how my feelings have changed since the last time.

[Anonymous No.9232452]

18
Toronto
Currently reading a few things. Firstly reading, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K. Dick. It's very enjoyable so far. Its good to watch the movie Blade Runner first to supplement the imagination.

Also reading, "The Third Reich at War" by Richard J. Evans. Also very good, especially if you're interested in the Second World War.