/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9641371]

>age
>location
>current book you're reading, etc., etc.

[Anonymous No.9641382]

>>9641371
21, just turned.
Bedroom, US Capital
Farenheight 451, really sucked me in. I'm having heart complications so I hope I don't go before I finish it - or after for that matter. It's good, makes me want to read more.

[Anonymous No.9641421]

>26
>New York
> Mythology by Edith Hamilton and War & War by Laszlo K-------

[Anonymous No.9641439]

>24
>Northern Illinois
>Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

Been really hooked on books featuring Cryptography since I started watching Mr. Robot, and read Cryptonomicon.

[Anonymous No.9641458]

22
United Kingdom
Mythology by Edith Hamilton

[Anonymous No.9641477]

>26
>Sweden
>Religio Medici & Urne-Buriall by Sir Thomas Browne

[Anonymous No.9641490]

25
US
Across the Common

[Anonymous No.9641494]

>20
>Italy
>pic related

I genuinely don't know how most people feel about it but I think it's an interesting read.

[Anonymous No.9641508]

>>9641382
Hope your ticker keeps on ticking anon

[Anonymous No.9641511]

>>9641458
HEy me 2

[Anonymous No.9641523]

>>9641371
>Ohio
>18
>Antifragile

[Anonymous No.9641526]

>Ohio
>15
>Brave New World

[Anonymous No.9641537]

Boston, 18, Moby Dick ( I love all the obscure allusions that I then have to look up, You end up learning a lot.)

[Anonymous No.9641540]

>23
>Scotland
>Ulysses (alongside Rosen's The Romantic Generation for some light relief)
Decided it was time to tackle the meme trilogy.

[Anonymous No.9641559]

>25
>California
>The Light is the Darkness

About done with it and I think I'll start on Cold In July or some other Lansdale novel next.

[Anonymous No.9641591]

23
Bellevue Nebraska
After Dark by Murakami

[Anonymous No.9641606]

>>9641511

what do you think of it

[Anonymous No.9641609]

>>9641526
You're me anon

[Anonymous No.9641656]

>25
>Omaha, NE (previously Los Angeles)
>The Pale King

>>9641591
Hey fellow Nebraskanon.

I recently moved to Omaha to work as a high school history teacher. We should hang out some time.

[Anonymous No.9641684]

>23
>DC
>Dead Souls

Gogol's brilliant.

[Anonymous No.9641713]

>>9641371
>25
>California

I only read my own novels

[Anonymous No.9641714]

>>9641371

>28
>Istanbul
>Within A Budding Grove

[Anonymous No.9641717]

>>9641526
be careful i got banned for pretending to be underage b8

[Anonymous No.9641723]

>>9641717
i don't wanna sound suspicious but does claiming to be underage get you a permaban or just a temporary one?

[Anonymous No.9641728]

>>9641371
21

New Brunswick

John A. MacDonald: His Life, Our Times

[Anonymous No.9641732]

>18
>missouri
>the man in the high castle
heard there was a show about it, is it any good?

[Anonymous No.9641756]

>>9641656
Okay, meet me at For the Love of Foodtruck tomorrow at around 11am.

[Anonymous No.9641759]

>>9641723
i got a month long one but i appealed it

[Anonymous No.9641763]

>18.
>Currently and temporarily residing in US.
>A Random Walk Down Wall Street, The Stand, The Rise of Germany 1939-1941

[Anonymous No.9641772]

>18
>brazil
>lucio's confession

[Anonymous No.9641773]

>>9641421
>doing international baccalaureate

its a waste of time m8 just take AP

[Anonymous No.9641788]

23
New Hampshire
The Pale King(while also slowly reading The Recognitions)

Really enjoying both so far

[Anonymous No.9641800]

>26
>nz
>nothing remotely literary, see pic related

[Anonymous No.9641810]

18
southern New Hampshire, USA
The Master and Margarita. I really don't know what to say when people ask me what I'm reading and they wanna know what it's about.

[Anonymous No.9641812]

>22
>Ireland
>Moby Dick and the Corpus Hermeticum

I'm really enjoying these books

[Anonymous No.9641816]

>>9641523
>>9641537
>>9641732
>>9641763
>>9641772
>>9641810
is this a meme or are all of you actually 18?

[Anonymous No.9641823]

>>9641816
I'm actually 18

[visible sage No.9641831]

>>9641371

>>>9641715

dude

[Anonymous No.9641846]

>>9641816

i'm not kidding

[Anonymous No.9641925]

>>9641810
What's New England like, Senpai?

>t. someone who wants to move there

[Anonymous No.9641934]

>>9641816
well, i'm a cute little girl, just like everyone else here

[Anonymous No.9642010]

>21
>South Carolina
>Argonautica
It's good, but there is a reason it's not Widely discussed.

[Anonymous No.9642038]

>>9641371
>18
>Maryland
>Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

[Anonymous No.9642040]

>>9641816
yes 4 reals

[Anonymous No.9642043]

>>9641371
>18
>Argentina
>Lolita

[Anonymous No.9642046]

>>9642038
>>9642043
omg twins

[Anonymous No.9642049]

>>9641371
>27
>Florida
>Phaedo
I'm making my way through Plato ever so slowly, and quite frankly I really enjoy his works so far.

[Anonymous No.9642059]

>>9641714
Don't you mean Tsargrad?

[Anonymous No.9642060]

>21
>Brazil
>The Trial

[Anonymous No.9642064]

>25
>Montevideo, Uruguay
>Baudelaire by Sartre; Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche by C. Middleton (ed)

[Anonymous No.9642074]

>31
>Texas
>"The Plague" by Albert Camus

[Anonymous No.9642077]

>>9641371
22
Toronto
Man's Search for Meaning and Nixonland

[Anonymous No.9642101]

>>9642074
>wizard detected

[Anonymous No.9642123]

>>9641371
20
Kent
The Canterbury Tales.
Just started the squires tale so nearly finished.

[Anonymous No.9642132]

21
Chetwynd, British columbia
Walden

[Anonymous No.9642135]

>>9641371
19

Udall, Kansas

The pushcart prize 2000

[Anonymous No.9642139]

>31
>Melbourne
>The Mayor of Casterbride

[Anonymous No.9642159]

>>9641371
20
Australia
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald, I'm literally 2 pages in so I can't tell yet. Hopefully it's good, I read Vertigo last year but I didn't understand it at the time. I recently read Candide which was top notch

[Anonymous No.9642191]

>>9641371
20
New York
The Crying lot of 49

[Anonymous No.9642206]

>>9642191
im reading this now too. es a tricky one

>26
>chicago burbs

[Anonymous No.9642218]

>lets not acknowledge his crushingly real point: we're scared enough to make threats

[Anonymous No.9642225]

>>9642206
>chicongo

[Anonymous No.9642278]

26
Asheville, NC
Seveneves - Stephenson

[Anonymous No.9642287]

>>9641773
Wtf are you talking about

[Anonymous No.9642291]

24
South Texas
The Angels are the Reapers

[Anonymous No.9642298]

>>9641371
20
Norway
Japan - A concise history by Milton W. Meyer

[Anonymous No.9642300]

>23
Canada (Quebec)
Non Serviam

[The First Jamal No.9642327]

>23
>Liverpool
>Guards Guards!
I have yet to evolve fully to the non fiction side.
Must complete Discworld first.

[Anonymous No.9642379]

27
Houston, Texas area
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov

[Anonymous No.9642396]

>>9641371
18
NH
I'm rereading A Clockwork Orange and I'm struggling through my first readthrough of Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.9642419]

22
Sydney
Count of Monte Cristo

[Anonymous No.9642425]

26
Brisbane, Australia
The Iliad

[Anonymous No.9642488]

>>9641371
18, New york, dark tower by stephen king

[Anonymous No.9642512]

>>9641732
The next one on my list, how are you liking it so far?

[Anonymous No.9642539]

21
Argentina
Ender The Xenocide - Orson Scott Card. Is full of strict religious bullshit logic and it's pissing me off.

[Anonymous No.9642595]

>24
>Stockton, CA
>Gravity's Rainbow

[Anonymous No.9642628]

>21
>Myrtle Beach, SC
Currently have a rotation of Moby Dick; Meditations-Aurelius; Literature Class-Julio Cortazar

[Anonymous No.9642650]

>>9641371
18
Puerto Rico
Just finished The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. I'm going to move on to The Wizard of Oz now.

[Anonymous No.9642766]

>20
>Cambridge Ma
>The Master and Margarita
It's good, but I'm not totally sure why it was reccomended so strongly by a friend. But I did just get to the introduction of the master so hopefully it picks up a little.

Any take on this book?

[Anonymous No.9642861]

>20
>Michigan
>The Symposium

[Anonymous No.9642880]

>>9642766
Bulgakov is overrated. Russian surrealism as a whole and hell I'd say the entire literary output of the surrealists is worth shrugging off. It was a fad.

[Anonymous No.9642904]

>>9641371
19
Jew York
The Sun Also Rises

The first chapter or so that I've read has been thoroughly unimpressive.

[Anonymous No.9642933]

>>9641371
>18
>fuck off most ill say is mid west.
>a clockwork orange, the fountain head, and animal farm.

[Anonymous No.9642946]

21, Puerto Rico, reading the first mistborn book totally blind, so far really good but im still thinking on Dune

[Anonymous No.9642967]

>>9641371
>20
>somewhere on the East Coast, fuck off nsa
>Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned, quality of the stories seems to have dropped about midway through the book

[Anonymous No.9643093]

21
Germany
Girl with Curious Hair

So far I really only liked the first two stories, and the one about Lyndon.
Currently reading "My Appearance."

[Anonymous No.9643095]

>>9641371
Nice data-mining thread

[Anonymous No.9643100]

>15
>Italy
>That little wonder in pic related

[Anonymous No.9643136]

>>9641371
>22
>North Eastern Illinois
>Pic

[Anonymous No.9643143]

>>9641371
>24
>Louisiana
>Dune - Frank Herbert

[Anonymous No.9643163]

>>9641371
>24
>Canterbury
>Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton.

[Anonymous No.9643195]

>18
>Vancouver
>The Trial

[Anonymous No.9643221]

>25
>bakersfield
>You gotta have Wa.
book about a former major league pitcher going to japan to play in the jap league so he can come out of retirement

[Anonymous No.9643222]

>>9641812
fuck off ameriboo

[Anonymous No.9643227]

>>9642049
have you tried the history of philosophy podcast or book. I liked that guys commentary on plato

[Anonymous No.9643229]

>>9642595
the heat are a meme team

[Anonymous No.9643347]

>23
>Romania
>Catch-22 (in English)

[Anonymous No.9643487]

18
Illinois
Crime and Punishment

[Anonymous No.9643822]

21
England
Crime And Punishment
Really enjoying it so far, surprisingly easy and exciting to read. This is my first Dostoyevsky, what should I read next from him?

[Anonymous No.9643843]

>>9641816
I am 18.
>>9641925
New England is really cool. There's a lot of history and for sure some really beautiful spots. Why do you want to move here?

[Anonymous No.9643848]

>19
>Toronto
>Reflections of the Revolution in France by Burke
>England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock by Jon Savage

[Anonymous No.9643869]

Germany
22
The Alchemist, havent started yet but i will today

[Anonymous No.9643874]

>>9641714
>Occupied territory.

[Anonymous No.9643875]

>21
>Australia
>A Plato Reader. Just started The Republic after finishing seven of Plato's other dialogues.

Rly makes u think.

[Anonymous No.9643895]

23 / Montana
Evil and The Mask by Fuminori Nakamura

This is kind of meh and with the exception of a few quick parts I've enjoyed, not incredibly remarkable.

[Anonymous No.9644485]

>>9641656
What the fuck, dude? Where were you?

[Anonymous No.9644488]

19 usa
the way of zen

[Anonymous No.9644491]

>>9641772
O final é porra louca.

[Anonymous No.9644950]

17
Alabama
The Upanishads

[Anonymous No.9645034]

>>9643095

That's why you lie in them.

[Anonymous No.9645069]

23
Florida
The Betrothed by Manzoni and Plato Complete Works edited by Cooper (not the whole thing but will read a majority of it)

[Anonymous No.9645077]

24
Philadelphia
I, Claudius

[Anonymous No.9645090]

>18
>One Hundred Years of Solitude
>US (currently visiting Puerto Rico)

[Anonymous No.9645100]

>>9641371
>18
>Louisiana
>Pathways to Bliss by Joseph Campbell

[Anonymous No.9645105]

>33
>england
>my struggle volume 2
it's good, i like him and his style a lot. it's genuinely gripping and i enjoy how unafraid he is to paint himself as something of a dick in the search for truth. and some scenes are very evocative, like the fairground they stop at with the kids and the day gradually passes.

[Anonymous No.9645118]

>>9642049
No, I haven't but I will look into it. Thanks, anon.

[Anonymous No.9645128]

23
Russia
L'École des cadavres by Celine

[Zavier Dion No.9645196]

>I see these cats in my sleep.
>I see these cats in my dreams.
>Why cant the cat on right just my wife?
>Shes always in my wet dreams (the cat on the right), so why cant she do it in my normal dreams?
>They always give me a piece of cake and tea, and when I wake up I have to go pee.
>If god would only knew fate, I would have been the cat on the rights mate...

[Anonymous No.9645201]

>18
>Vienna
>"Mein Katalonien" (Homage To Catalonia)

[Anonymous No.9645209]

>>9641526

>MOOOODS!

[Anonymous No.9645257]

27
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Stories of Sherlock Holme by, Conan Doyle and The Death Colecction by Neil Gaiman.

[Anonymous No.9645341]

>>9641439
>Digital Fortress
waste of time anon. drop it and read somethin good

[Anonymous No.9645344]

>>9641526
15

[Anonymous No.9645352]

>>9641714
>Within A Budding Grove
waste of time amk. meb's 1940'S series or new YKY yayınevi anon?

[Anonymous No.9645355]

>>9641371
25
Dresden
Brothers Karamazov

Thank you for memeing me into this book. I still feel like a pseud though.

[Anonymous No.9645358]

>>9641371
1
infinite jest
antarctica

[Anonymous No.9645363]

>24
>Iceland
I'm trying to read an Icelandic crime novel by a female author. It's like the first Icelandic book I've read for about 3 years, and it's dawning on me that I have a very tenuous grasp of my own fucking language.

[Anonymous No.9645368]

19
Tokat
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

its just schindler's list 2.0. it even got the same dialogs m8. the fuck didnt even tried to chance it.

aynı geyik var. anlayan varsa türkçe açıklayabilirim de ingilizcem yetmiyor amk

[Anonymous No.9645378]

>>9641371
20
Suffolk, England
Letters on England by Voltaire and The Romanovs

[Anonymous No.9645379]

>>9641606
A lot to remember but concise and entertaining.

What about you?

[Anonymous No.9645390]

>>9643347
What is it like in Romania? Does your country still believe it is the continuation of Rome?

I'm not being a dick, I am just curious and I've never had the chance to speak to a Romanian

[Anonymous No.9645394]

>>9645379

The same. Just hit the section about 'The Trojan War'.

[Anonymous No.9645398]

26
Poland
For whom the bell tolls

[Anonymous No.9645409]

>20
>roachistan
>Out of mountains into politics: the kurdish nationalist movement in iraq