/lit/ - Literature

>>19119154
I'm reading that too. I'm at the part where Julien starts at the seminary. I like it.

>>19119165
I just started it, read first few chapters. Not super into it but hey, only few chapters.

Read like 100 pages today, might finish it tonight we'll see.

illuminating read, dont agree or feel the same way jung does about everything but its helping me to understand systems inside myself.

This thread

>>19119381
Have you seen the Kubrick film? Is so is it worth reading the book?

>>19119154
Fathers and sons

>>19119154
Reading a collection of Ezra Pound's poetry. He's pretty fucking good.

20k leagues under the sea

>>19119398
I read it first, I liked the movie but Peter Sellers character isn't really like that in the books.

Crime and Punishment

>>19119154
Lord of the Flies.
I'm on the 4 chapter, but I feel uninterested. Is it worth finishing? Will there be any plot twist or something tragic?

Hemingway
Short Stories

>>19119154
Augustine and Kant are for school. The rest is a vibe. It's all a vibe

>>19119398
The movies and the book are too different to compare. The book is fucking amazing.

How come this isn’t talked about here more. Very political and existential and a pretty good page-Turner as well

>>19119154
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Reading this in between jtteotn/death on credit

>>19119154
call of the crocodile

>>19119154
I got this to read but haven't started it yet. Are you enjoying it?

I'm at chapter 10 of la-bas
its supposed to be a dark novel about old sacrificial paganism, but the past several chapters have been about the protag having secret love cadoodle with some bitch. I'm coming close to dropping it

>>19119154
Le Boys Club by Martine Delvaux. I'm halfway through, it's not bad. Next up is maybe the latest Thomas Piketty.

>>19119154
Sea Garden by HD
The Ode Less Traveled by Stephen Fry
Trying to into poetry in general

>>19119689
It gets tragic and you may as well finish it. Personally I found it boring.

>>19119154
ah, you know. this and that

reading Hamsun in order, got this and the sequel before Growth of the Soil. It's fun watching how his writing develops.

I was finding it pretty dull at first, all domestic scenes with no incident, I don't just mean action, there was hardly any emotional incident either, the characters all seemed to be milling around repeating the same things. But halfway through it gets really good. Now that it's got my interest I'm reading a lot faster.

On a history kick

>>19119154
Pic related. I have read the main part, now I'm doing the exercises in the appendix.

>>19119154
>>19115680

>>19121732
Is it actually beneficial?

>>19119419
The Penguin Edition of «Early Writings»? Or another one? I've thinking of reading some of his poetry, but don't want to start with his «Cantos». Any recs?

I love the need of different civilizations to show that they are descendants of the Trojans

>>19121438
Ok, thanks. I will finish it.

>>19119154
Herman Hesse - Siddhartha. The eceleb making a video about it made it really easy to get a free ass copy kek.

Finished reading today

>>19119381
I just finished reading Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki. I keep hearing that it's similar to Lolita. Is this true? If so, I want to start another book so I won't get bored of the same themes

Not that good

>>19121732
autistic

>>19121778
It's the 2010 New Directions edition. It has a little bit of everything in it, including selections from Cathay and the Cantos, but it's mostly his earlier work.

>>19119154
Dream of the Red Chamber, Book 1. I don't know who the fuck is who.

Reading out of order reading the Algernon Blackwood story first

>>19122437
Thank you!

>>19119154
Flame and Shadow by SaraTeasdale
Nice life affirming poems, pretty ironic that she an heroed

>>19121950

Pic related currently. It's okay so far, an is fitting since I was just in Sicily on vacation and I generally like books about aristocrats.

Finished Turgenev's Fathers and Sons on my trip, recommend it.

It's amazing wtf

The first third of this doorstopper is an absolute page turner. I'm in the very middle, where the Count is visiting Paris, and all the set-up going on is a bit of a slog.
Luckily Dumas knows how to write a good drama.
I'm also reading Morrison's translation of Chaucer.

Pic related. Got about 50 pages left but thinking about dropping it as I get through maybe 15 pages in an hour. Haven't touched it in a few days and I can't remember anything that happened after the long descriptions of hell, which were great. Does it get better or should I drop it and read The Red And The Black instead?

>>19119154
That book has one of the best endings maybe ever

>>19119154
It's even better than his finished works bros.

>>19119154
It has been an interesting read since I mainly read classics, but PoMo /lit/ has interested me. Also, since I'm religious, being exposed to foreign interpretive methods has been rather fun and has benefitted me in discussion and such.

Read about a hundred pages.

earlier I finished reading Gilda Trillim, it was very good. Now I'm reading The Ice Palace by Vesaas.

>>19122670
It really is.

>>19123186
Just finish it. What I got from it was more the emotional and mental impressions of Stephen rather than the plot.

>>19121776
You would have to decide for yourself. Personally, I found it useful.

>>19123186
I didn't like it either. I think you should trust your gut and drop it and try it again in the distant future. Have you ever read something that you mostly hated for 50 pages or so and suddenly found yourself enjoying immensely soon after? I doubt it. Drop it.

For my Victorian Novels class

>>19122687
How come translation of Chaucer?

The foundation.

>>19121918
read it in Russian. And how can anyone not like the Pilate and Ga-Nozri chapters..?

>>19124748
I just ordered this. How is it?

>>19124685
I hated this. Dropped it after a few chapters. Won't bother with Asimov again now.

750/1000

Finnish translation

Actually just finished it.

Just recently finished War and Peace edition pic related. I cried for a moment after finishing this piece.

>>19119154
talk with my Goodreads

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/96839695-anonymous-dude

>>19125416
10/10?

Bolano's The Savage Detectives

>>19125048
I read other books from him before, I robot, Caves of steel and The naked sun. I liked these 3.
I finished the foundation just now and I didn't like it as much, maybe because I expected mucho more since a lot of people say it's amazing.
Im gonna start the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley now. Hope it's good.

>>19124810
Do people dislike those chapters? I loved them.

>>19122684
Is this worth starting?
>>19125449
This is the copy I own, and my group starts it in a few weeks. Was this edition an enjoyable read?

Madame Bovary

k

>>19127086
ate my image lets try again

Principles - ray dalio

>>19121458
What has your favorite Hamsun been so far? I really loved Mysteries and Pan when I studied him in undergrad

tale of two cities

is any other dickens worth checking out?

>>19119154
Divine Comedy, just finished Purgatorio about to start Paradiso.

>>19122684
surprisingly a very good translation, too bad the other volumes have different translators, Penguin fucked up on that one.

>>19119154
wuthering heights. Doesn't REALLY live up to the hype but hey

they're called poems but they're more like surreal short stories. i'm enjoying a lot

Celine's Death on Credit

the testament of mary

>>19127589
How fo you like it? I found it a bit meandering at some parts, but very good overall

Bleeding edge by Thomas Pynchon. The most tedious book I have read this entire year. It's so boring, so much worse than Against the Day and V.

>>19127167
All of his novels worth it really except maybe Hard times and Barnaby rudge. From his novellas, just read a christmas carol

child of god. but i am tired as fuck right now and i'm not really enjoying it.

>>19119201
First chapter is the slowest because it follows that XIX century french naturalistic description. After that it becomes a censored MILF and Tsundere fest.

>>19121918
The Wes Anderson of literature. Bulgakhov wrote far better stuff.

Blood Meridian.

Decent enough look on changing social/sexual norms and evolution of marriage.

>>19119154
not sure if I like it yet. not that far in yet, just started it a few days ago.

>>19128095
still reading this. it's boring as fuck.

>>19128426
i downloaded this. it could either be good or really gay going by the reviews.

>>19119154
Infinite Jest
The Managerial Revolution (audiobook)

>>19119154
I plan to read the charterhouse of parmesan soonish, any thoughts on it if you've read it?

reading this

>>19121798
Loved that book. Are you reading it in conjunction with Burckhardt's book on the Renaissance for their antipodal points of view?

>>19119154
Inherent Vice

>>19119154
Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse. Medizinische Monatsschrift für Seelenkunde II. Jahrgang 1912 Heft 12 September

The Master and Margarita. Just finished Heart of a Dog

in the land of pain - daudet

it sucks. the introduction by barnes was good though.

>>19125048
>>19125901
I really don't get what anybody sees in Foundation. It was such a slog. I kept waiting for something, anything, significant to happen. Instead it was just a bunch of scenes that set up... nothing. Absolutely nothing. Then the book just ends. What the fuck? I can't believe I finished it.

>>19119154

>>19129684
lmao I dropped if after a few chapters. All the chapters felt like the same thing and the characters were cardboard cutouts. I'd just finished the trilogy of The Three Body Problem, which I enjoyed, and it mentions Foundation a few times so I thought okay let's go. But it was shit.

>>19129690
This is on my list and his other one, The Ninth...something.

>>19129847
The Ninth Configuration. That’s next for me. Apparently an underrated book and movie. Part of Blatty’s faith trilogy (Exorcist/Ninth/Exorcist 3).

brother of sleep - robert schneider

it's supposed to be like perfume. it does have similarities.

>>19123186
I read this 4 years ago and struggled through it. The last two chapters are really formidable. At the time I didn’t like it but I appreciated how it made Ulysses more readable (which is a way more enjoyable book). I’m currently reread portrait of the artist and I’m blown away by how much easier it is on second reading, plus all the depth that I missed originally. The other anon was right about it being more of an emotional impression than a story per se, but I would recommend sticking it out to the end unless you’re certain you’ll never revisit any of Joyce’s work

hellenica by xenophon

Halfway through this, very easy read. Like a Japanese Lolita. Though was written before Lolita

>>19130751
I read this ten years ago and felt so stupid at the end of it I was miserable for some time. It felt completely beyond me. I never revisited it.

>>19129690
this one was unexpectedly good. way over what you'd expect from a genre horror book, essentially. the movie is a classic, but it doesn't do the book good in all its subtleties and tight-boiling degradation of characters.

>>19119154
Pretty sure this was the peak of the Western Canon and its all been downhill since

Capitalist Realism. Yes, the shilling worked.

Animal Farm

>>19130738
Is that any good? I’m thinking of reading Homo Faber next but wanted to wait until I got more practice on graded readers.

>post the book I'm reading
>anon (you)s me with spoilers
not falling for this again

>>19130858
Homo faber is amazing. I read that in school (in Germany). My favorite book I read in school by far. I've only read about 20 pages of Stiller so far, so I can't say a lot, but it seems promising.

>>19130881
based

>>19130867
you die at the end

>>19130867
>again

read Killing Commendatore last week, not read Murakami in years. as usual the writing itself was addictively great, and certainly there were things i loved. but overall on completion it felt a bit... unsatisfying as a whole?
it was smart how as soon as i finished it i went back and reread the prologue and skimmed the first chapter with a new understanding, but "smart" doesn't mean good or satisfying. ended up feeling like i was missing another 300 pages or something. the end with the protagonist leaving the mountain and returning to his wife felt rushed and out of nowhere.

a lot of personal interpretation i took from it was the male midlife crisis. being able to look back on a productive adult life/career and forward to comfortable retirement - or not. having a stable family of your own, a wife and child - or not. and the death of the father, becoming a man on your own. but in the end thats mostly an internal struggle and you go right back to living, all the same.

I read a bit past part 2 of Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky until dropping it out of annoyance at the rambling. Are his other books like this too?

>>19130798
movies never do the book justice.

>>19119154
Faust, 70 pages so far

Strangely took me an entire year to finally make the plunge. I’m lovin’ it.

The Odyssey translated by T.E. Lawrence (Shaw)

>>19119154
Just finished.

>>19132265
Based

>>19119154

>>19132265
I read it a few months back. I didn’t expect it to go in the direction it did. I was kind of mislead about it thinking it was abnormal horror book. More like Lovecraft than anything.

>>19132335
*Correction* “a normal”

Abnormal is a pretty good way of putting it though

>>19130867
only shit books can be spoiled

Not really enjoying it. It seems to lack something that is in even the least impressive of his novels.

>>19119398
The film is a fundamentally different experience. Nabokov himself had some problems with how it differed and wrote his own screenplay as a response. That is worth a read while the film is still fresh in your mind.

Reading pic related and another one of his books along with Kapital, and after those I have 16 fiction books all lined up to read.

I only read genre fiction

>>19119154
moonchild by A. Crowley
fun read tbqh

>>19119154
about half way through this. blindsight is definitely more competently written but this is still really enjoyable

>>19119388
I’m reading Memories, Dreams, Reflections

>>19130561
i got distracted by this and read crow with no mouth by ikkyu, barn owl by jim crumley, and several books of illustrations by gustave doré. they were all excellent. i'll finish brother tonight.

John's gospel

>>19132301
>Starting with the Greeks but not starting in Greek.

>>19119154

Golden ass
The road into the open
The netenyahus

I'll be honest, the golden ass is more entertaining than the other books. Based Romans.

This shit made me not want to eat sugar or drink caffeine

>>19131211
Idk, I finished the Idiot and I'm currently reading The Brothers Karamazov. I can say for sure that both books had their boring parts where I wanted to drop them both, but after finishing (The Idiot for example) I said to myself: "No regrets finishing this." With TBK I actually stopped reading it for 3 weeks but I picked it up again and can't stop reading. These ARE philosophical novels/short stores after all...

>>19119154
Im maybe like 80 pages into it right now. His style is taking some time to get used to,

Just started with this. I need to research lyric ballads and long form poetry of the like so I'd love some suggestions.

Just bought this, what is even this size? Is this version good because I read in public sometimes I might get self conscious

Kizumonogatari
I swear I'll read a real book next, I promise!

My trash Japanese Light Novels

For the longest time I couldn't get into this book and left it unread. This time around I'm starting to enjoy it. Funny how things change.

About 40% through this. Enjoying it, though it seems to be even more entrenched in Russian soap-opera drama than even Dosto's other books (which I don't mind but can be tiring at times).

>>19124801
>>19125075
How do you like it? BK is currently my favorite book of all time though I'll confess to not being very well-read yet.

>>19131211
Part 1 of Notes has a lot of philosophical ramblings from the Underground Man. Part 2 begins dealing with more actual events/actions in the UM's life, and is easier for most to get through.
It's a short book and Part 2 is very good imo, I'd recommend sticking through it.

>>19135481
It's good, it was pretty boring at the beginning but it got so much better. Also, The Idiot is great. Especially Part 1.

>>19135325
I'd get the multi volume editions.

>>19135332
lol anon. I get it. I was reading Hyouka translation last week. Good stuff.

>>19135551
I mean the little guy not the big one, I want books that can be used as weapons or at least to stop a bullet

>>19119154
I’ve mostly been rereading books this year. Right now I’m on a major Kafka kick despite hating him a few years ago and being unable to finish his books. Right now I’m reading The Trial for the 3rd time this year as it’s become one of my favorites

the branch will not break - james wright

i'll read books of poetry that gets lots of praise and awards and i feel fuck all and hate reading them and then every so often one just speaks to me, like this one

>>19134728
So am I, found the first couple chapters a bit of a slog but now I'm up to where he's working with Freud and it's getting better

>>19131211
no, notes being a sort of rambling stream of consciousness is somewhat unique and not really something you will find in his novels

>>19119154
Elementary particles
dunno how I'm supposed to like it

Fans of Bruno Schulz and Nabokov should look into Kis.

>>19136414
>Kis
more like kys, if you can't write Kiš

It's a book about dream exploration and symbolism that I randomly found at my school library. I don't know how they'd even get this book, it seems like the type of thing you'd get out of an ad in the back of a new-age magazine from 1975. It's the most hippie thing I've ever read. Only about 30 pages of it are an actual dream handbook, the rest is a very long annotated bibliography about different books concerning dreams with brief summaries and excerpts.

>>19136428
Calm down, you nerd.

Re-reading Pynchon's V.
Mondaugen's Story might be my favourite bit of Pinecone's writing.

My copy of Bleak House just arrived in the mail and this bitch is HUGE, the same size as my hardcover edition of Mason & Dixon (another doorstopper currently on my list; I wasn't going to read it at first but then somebody got me a hardcover as a gift), pic rel isn't my picture but gives an idea of how fucking thick this book is, a literal paperback brick
I've never read a doorstopper before, the only book I've read of similar length is Lonesome Dove and it doesn't have a shit ton of characters or overlapping complicated plots or deep themes, so I'm excited to jump right in

>>19119154
This is great plus rereading book of disquiet.

>>19136795
Is it good so far?

>>19122687
This is still my favorite work of fiction apart from Moby Dick. Currently reading pic rel.

>>19119154
Just quit 550 pages into edgar Allan poes collection. Shit was boring

>>19135325
That's a beautiful cover, where did you get it?

>>19134818
Read the gospels recently. On chapter 10 of Acts but taking a break to read Origen On Prayer.

>>19119154

Interesting and depressing

>>19135093
Keats, especially The Eve of St. Agnes
The ancient mariner from your pic related is phenomenal as well.
The prelude if you'd like to see something in blank verse

Someone on /lit/ recommended me this the other day and it just arrived in the mail. Going to start tonight after I finish Dovlatov's "The Suitcase"

>>19133927
based

>>19119154
vous êtes ou mes nègres

>>19119986
>the two books (barely) worth reading are 'for school'
>the two midwit meme books are a 'vibe'
oh, this is all a 'vibe', I'd say

>>19119154
It's so fucking funny

I am alternating between the Gospel of John and knocking off this pillar of the Meme Trilogy. Just got through the first chapter tonight, and read six chapters of John on top of that.

>>19138328
Thanks alot anon, I'll check em out

>>19138959
you should also read LTZ, it's even better

>>19138239
now go listen to Amused to Death by Roger Waters

picrel, peak comfy
>>19132265
More than 100 replies without shilling this nigger. Well, there's still hope for this board
>>19134628
Basado hermano argiebro que quiere tetas

I'm doing it bros, I'm reading a woman!

currently at canto 27 in french
been reading a canto a day

>>19140486
I would read your cantos if you know what I mean

>>19119154
I'm finishing How to Read A Book by Adler and I just started Dandelion WIne.

its turning me gay, but i'm into it.

>>19119154
This thread desu

>>19119154
I just started Quarantine by Greg Egan.

>>19123378
wtf really?

>>19134844
why no caffeine?

Why were Joseph’s brothers such cunts?

About to start This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, it's a pretty short book so after that I'm reading The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. I've been meaning to read that one for a while now and since I have all the other books I can finally give it a go.

Ask the Dust, by John Fante.

This one is particularly good

Reading tropic of cancer and 20k leagues under the sea

>>19131002
the journey was great. the ending was meh.

>>19138952
>(barely) worth reading
What books are (really) worth reading in your mind?

Every thread everyone posts the same dozen books. Do you guys actually fucking read?

>>19122670
I don't read a thing by women

>>19142706
>popular books are read often
shocking

>>19142706
you're probably only noticing the morw popular ones, there's plenty that's been posted you don't see that often
when's the last time you saw >>19127451
discussed for example

>>19119154
just finished moby dick

>>19142807
Who's moby?

>>19142830
he made a couple songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhZnEagfjTQ

>>19128247
how is it so far?

Hegel, by Charles Taylor.

>>19142833
did you know he named himself that because he claims to be a descendant of Melville?

>>19128808
pretty shit so far and I'm over 100 pages in. waiting for it to get good or I might DNF.

>>19142830
some guy who fucked natalie portman

>>19142899
thought Melville liked men desu

>>19142906
probably fathered a child with Queequeg.

>>19142908
light skin cannibal based af

>>19127695
Not his best work, true

>>19140486
I'm at Canto 10. Makes you think about where you are in hell. For me, it's the vestibule or 2nd circle, Lust.

>>19119154
Lord of flies, started today and I'm chap 2

>>19119515
It drags

>>19121913
Comparing a translated japanese novel to something written by Nabokov is pretty retarded, that comparison is made far too commonly.
You should definitely read Lolita, you'll soon forget about Naomi.

10 chapters in, it's as good as the first book, I look forward to the rest of the series

Just finished Cloud Atlas.

>>19138190
Funny desu

>>19119154
Sense and Sensibility, La Sombra del Viento, Maitreyi

>>19119986
Nietzsche is fucking awful. He just spits hot takes one after another, not bothering to elaborate or prove anything.
Was very excited to read Genealogy of Morality and it ended up taking me like a month because of how annoying it was.

>>19119154
Birth of Tragedy. Really makes Neech seem like a Goethe wannabe compared to his other works

I find the absurdity of the book really comical.

>>19122540
what algernon story is it? Im reading the willows currently and im loving it so far

>>19119154
>t. christian
pray for my soul anons, it compels me...

>>19140493
Based

>>19124581
I found this on a used book store and I thought it was about the magician LMAO I'm fucking retarded

>>19135075
I'm also reading it now, I'm about 140 pages in now and it does grow on you. I found early on the landscape description would drag a tad, but now, after presenting a greater variety of landscapes I started to enjoy them.

>>19124801
>>19125075
Same, but I'm only a small way in.
>>19140412
I should go back and finish the Illiad. Probably before I start my greek binge
>>19134628
lel

>>19146014
What about starting your greek binge now?

>>19146111
I wanna finish TBK and dive a bit more into my south american binge