/lit/ - Literature

>>18613377
I couldn't appreciate Against Nature.

>>18613377
Checked
I need to check out some Keats
Currently on a Tolkien binge

>>18613408
Unlucky fella, I only started it yesterday, and although it's basically just been 40 pages worth of interior design and slagging off Roman writers, I can already tell I'll probably really like this one.

Not exactly sure what I'm doing reading this but a friend recommended it

>>18613377
I appreciate your use of Nadsat. It tickles me Gulliver in just the right way.

To answer your question, I haven't really been reading anything lately, but I started to read The Ginza Rba yesterday. It's the Mandaean (a Middle Eastern gnostic religion) holy book.

Now that I think of it, I should put on some Ludwig van.

>>18613469
I had a big, veiny, thick decadent boner and Against Nature killed it. Maybe my expectations were simply to high.

This a stack thread? Here's mine

>>18613601
Begads no! This is strictly a post your current bookie-wookies my chums thread, as has clearly been stated and certainly not a stack thread for you to present your worthless clutter in you dozy mare

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>>18613801
Get owned by the verbose retard

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>>18613408
Some of the descriptive tangents can go on a little too long but I really loved that book. Will definitely have to read it again.

>>18613520
Lucky you, with your Ludwig Van. I went to the warble shop yesterday and asked to listen to Mozarts 'Jupiter' symphony and he put on 'Prauge'

>>18614156
https://twitter.com/mjgw
>M𝕒rcus Gilroy-W𝕒re #AntiFascist
also:
>Christopher Hitchens

I'm really getting into Samuel Beckett.
>>18613601
How is Richard Brautigan? I want to read more writers from the Pacific Northwest.

>>18614546
>Only reading books by authors you agree with.

Get a load of this pseud.

Also what's wring with Hitchens? Too Reddit? Guy was entertaining as fuck.

Rereading trout fishing in america on days i drink, because a buzz augments the experience in a unique way.
Reading the 1st book in the usa trilogy sober and its incredible.
Finished the 2nd section of robert walser's berlin stories on work lunches. It's a great book. I'd argue it's religious in the same way joyce was. The tiniest events take on massive importance. The difference is they are just super pleasant stories. Helps me find meaning in my wage slaving manual labour job.

>>18613377
just bought this yesterday.

>>18614891
I love me some brautigan. It's worth it if you pay attention and close read it rather than just surface level read

>>18614891
Brautigan is great. Unlike >>18615415 i think his writing is hilarious, fun and evocative enough to enjoy on the surface level if you aren't getting it. Particularly trout fishing in america. What a fucking fun read.

>>18615519
I was just addressing that a lot of people think his stuff is borderline nonsense because they only skim the surface of it. If anon is reasonably smart, they'll get it on the first read. Brautigan easily filters people

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>>18615541
Ohhhh yeah that makes sense. I tend to get the general idea of brautigan before the specifics. Trout fishing in america as the ideal, rural american life being slowly overtaken by technology, then achievable through technology and trade in that hilarious scene at the store late in the book, you know what i mean.
In watermelon sugar being about a huper-focus on memory and truth leading to nihilism when really we should all just stfu and live in our ridiculous world and talk about how nice the meatloaf is.

It is nonsense. But good nonsense literature employs nonsense by making ideas literal. If somebody is too humourless and focused on "getting it" they should gtfo brautigans novels.

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>>18615602
Thank you for the thoughts, "Good nonsense" seems like something I would enjoy. I will read him soon.

>>18613377
Currently halfway through this — really enjoying it so far.

>>18615595
Mary Renault is comfy

I usually lose focus reading two books at once, but I think having a German one for study and an English one for leisure will make it easier.

Btw has anyone heard anything about their nyrb sale orders? I placed mine on Monday and haven't heard anything back besides the order confirmation.

>>18615894
I placed an order on Friday that only shipped today. NYRB takes its time with the orders, especially so during sales.

>>18615981
Ok cool. Assuming it's actually shipped from NY, I shouldn't have to wait too long at least.

>>18613377
I am going to cum in your bum and you are gonna lookie like a cum cookie

>>18615736
If you like the beats, you'll hate him.
If you like the idea of the beats and early hemingway, you'll love him.

>>18615736
Get a bindup of his novels. Here's a good 40% of maybe the longest chapter in trout fishing in america

Really enjoying fathers and crows

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>>18614156
Airport bookstore tier

>>18616219
Good thing I don't like the beats, like reading about the beats for non-literary reasons, and haven't read Hemingway.
>>18616259
I unironically liked reading this.

>>18616343
Yeah, i thought that chapter was pretty funny and uplifting.

Trying GR for the third time, wish me luck. I and Thou is much better than I expected, and the Tractatus is exactly what I expected.
>>18613408
I couldn’t either; it was suffocating. I loved a single scene in which he goes to a pub and it rains.

>>18614891
based beckett bro

>>18613994
>>18616729
I loved Against Nature, when I read it I considered it the high point of stylistics, and unparalleled descriptive work. I still hold it in high regard.

>>18613377
You should also get Keats' letters.

>>18613782
instructions for an explosive belt?

>>18614546
Imagine being in favour of fascism.

>>18617681
>favour

On vacation right now, so I took only two: Liber Novus by C. G. Jung and a polish "new dynamic" translation of the New Testament (the best translation I have read so far).
>>18613377
>Sklepy cynamonowe
Great pick, anon.

>>18617754
Cheers boss, been reading one every night before I go to sleep. Read Pan yesterday, definitely one of my favourites so far, though every story is exceptionally good in its own way.

get out of my way, plebs

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>>18618023
>german covers

Untergang des Abendlandes

I have little to no understanding of mathematics per se, but it's all starting to come together and make sense.

>>18619445
We have a poster from Tierra del Fuego.

Here's my stack
Dont mind me lol I'm just taking a rest hehe

>>18616729
>Trying GR for the third time
Is it really that hard?

>>18615894
As a German it somehow always makes me very happy to see someone learn German. Makes me all fuzzy inside, thanks anon.

>>18619432
I only ever read the introduction of that book. Is there actually a lot of maths in there???

>>18619491
Lying is not cool.

>>18613377
Got these recently, shop assistant said they were an English Lit student and that I had nice taste :^) Pathetic enough to cheer me up for a few hours

>>18615602
>It is nonsense. But good nonsense literature employs nonsense by making ideas literal. If somebody is too humourless and focused on "getting it" they should gtfo brautigans novels.
True. He does write nonsense lit to some degree, but it isn't that nonsensical. Like an anon said of pynchon, he's meant to be read by the unclenched.

bump

Today completing read and reread of
>1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project, Peter W. Wood
>The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson
and reattempting
>A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine
and for the next 2 days
>Alien: 1: Covenant Origins, Alan Dean Foster (retry)
>Investing in Your 20s and 30s for Dummies: 3rd Edition, Eric Tyson
>Robert Hunter: 10 - Hunting Evil, Chris Carter

>>18619445
If you like James then check out Religions, Values and Peak-Experiences by Maslow

>>18615227
I'm reading Kerl Mercks rn, shut up libshit
>>18617681
You know what liberals mean when they say «fascist», don't you fag?

>>18623515
Which leads me to my stack.
Currently reading the white book which is on all Greek Tragedy at the same time as Oresteia. Then I'll read Marx's "1844 Manuscripts" , followed by Sowell's "Marxism" (online). Finally, I have to finish Borges but the book itself is essays, so I don't need to read it all in one go.

>>18623566
Forgot pic

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>>18620865
nice one

>>18620600
The first chapter mostly. Although it isn't about mathematics in the general sense. He describes the different modes and attitudes that different cultures had towards their pursuit of knowledge. It's mostly conceptual. For example when describing the difference between hellenic and western mathematics he explains that the hellenes saw mathematics as something plastic, entirely built for and focused on things like distance and area, very point-focused. Whereas western maths are built on a foundation of relationships, functions and derivatives, way more process-focused.

He goes way more in depth, referencing arabic and indian models as well. But all that is just to lay the foundation for his later explanations and serve to show how a culture's mathematics are dependent on and go hand in hand with a culture's philosophy, art, politics, etcetc.

>>18620865
nice

>>18613601
Boring.

>>18614156
This is just sad. Cut yourself more and deeper

>>18616272
What is it about anon-kun?

>>18616272
Vollmann is great. Good shit.

>>18620584
Glad I could bring you some joy anon. Thank you for your encouraging words. My grandpa and the majority of my ancestors came from Germany and there's so much great German lit, so I'm very happy to be on this path. Still got a ways to go before I can tackle Goethe.

>>18623570
>Inquirições
fucking european portuguese
Nice books, anyway

>>18618023
Didn't they include the "von" in his name just because he wrote it before he got ennobled? Lol, that's kinda autistic.

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>>18614546
>fascist
>frogposter

I bet you say kek in real life