/lit/ - Literature

stokoe's high life

>>22366145
nothing. i finished the beautiful and the damned 2 days ago. then i started to read the man without qualities yesterday but instead i've been refreshing /lit/ the whole day.

>>22366145
続ける力―仕事・勉強で成功する王道
Written by a Japanese lawyer, the title roughly translates to The Power of Continuing: The Noble Path to Success in Work and Study

I'm not a frog.

Portrait of the artist as a young man
The picture of dorian gray

I have a feeling that dorian gray appeals to women more because I find it pretty unappealing. Best part has been the theatre scene.

Pretty good so far

Call Of the Crocodile

2666

frank hennig klimadämmerung, the so called energy transformation is a huge scam. never vote green.

>>22366186
How do you not like lord Henry? Unless you do, but I assume you don’t.
Portrait of an artist is pretty good. Honestly the story itself is a bit dull but Joyce’s best prose even shows up here occasionally. Still doesn’t hold a candle to Ulysses

Lol

>>22366145

>>22366145
The Bible. Making my way through the New Testament, almost done all of Saint Paul's Epistles. It's been interesting learning about what life was like for the early Church, the issues they were struggling with, the theological matters they were debating about, and St. Paul's arguments for certain doctrines. After I finish up the NT I'll probably take a break and then go on to read the Old Testament, breaking it up into chunks.

>>22366166
Man your fed minder was have sent your file to the next level.

>>22366256
Which translation?

Hopscotch

>>22366256
OT is a drag

>>22366276
NAB. Wanna get a Douay-Rheims one day
>>22366284
That's why I figured I'd break it up into chunks. I've gotten through almost all of the first five books before but that was a couple years ago.

>>22366273
>Man your fed minder was have sent your file to the next level.
........what?

The Technological Society

Crime and Punishment. First read ever, about 150 pages in. I didn't like it at first with the bleakness and exposition but it's grown on me.

>>22366145
Edmund Wilson and George Steiner. Have also been rereading Proust for a while and it will continue for a while

>>22366176
>french
>not a fag
citation needed

>>22366366
I'm reading in frog language, but I'm not a frog, dude.

>>22366232
I like his personality but I don't agree with what he says.
The dinner scene in portrait was hilarious and beautifully written. Also, I see that Catholic school hasn't changed much since the book was written.

>>22366377
>i only let him blow me i didn’t blow him so i’m not gay

Thank god I'm not a murican reading always the same five meme authors in the only language I know.

>>22366145
Madame Bovary. It’s great, but, I mean… It doesn’t touch the Russians.

Confessions of Saint Augustine. It's a lot comfier than I thought it would be

>>22366417
I think a lot more authors get read than posted here. Little incentive to start threads that aren’t part of the /lit/ meme team

>>22366400
Okay so I don’t agree with him either half the time but for me that just makes him an even greater comic relief, and maybe you feel similarly. Yeah the dinner scene was great. I love cybil as a character too

>>22366578
Shit I just realized you meant the dinner scene in the Joyce book, still agree. Sorry trynna rush reply on my break

Runaway Horses by Mishima

Norwegian Wood. First Murakami, I like it but I didn’t expect it to be as slice of life. Everyone also talks more poetically in a way that sometimes seems forced, but I enjoy the prose enough to shrug it off.
>>22366583
Is it a Mishima to start with? I don’t know where to start with him but I want to read him soon. I have Sun and Steel on my Kindle but I want to read his fiction specifically.

I am reading Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Tolstoy and French for Reading by Karl C Sandberg

I make time for a Stoner and Blood Meridian chapter a day and at night I read Van Gogh's Letters

Stoner is amazing, I thought the "perfect novel" thing was just a meme but it really is not

Empty box and zeroth Maria, I like it.
>inb4 light novels
Yeah, so what?

>>22366581
Yeah, should have specified. That impressed me more than the dorian gray dinner scene although both were interesting.

Call of the Crocodile

>>22366145
Short Breaks in Mordor by Peter Hitchens
War and War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

>>22366145

A Vision by Yeats
Parallel Movement of the Hands by Ashbery

also finishing up Moby-Dick, which is an absolute GOAT

>>22366284

The Hebrew scripture is incredibly rich and mystical, layered with meaning that is still be uncovered to this day. There are lessons beyond the surface level stories, which are often symbolic and metaphorical. It's always a shame when otherwise intelligent people see the scripture as simply a surface level collection of stories, yet are able to search for deeper themes in secular literature.

This is the most glaring intellectual flaw of the "new atheist" movement, which claims the ideoligical fathers of zionism such as Theodore Herzl and David Ben-Gurion. You would think such celebrated intellectuals were capable of reading the Bible beyond the level of a child, but it is that immature intellectual pride and arrogance that blocks faith and understanding.

>>22366872
Why even mention the new atheist movement? Isn't it pretty insignificant or is it because they are the main critics right now?

>>22366872

>Layered with meaning that is still being* uncovered to this day.

6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But, as it is written,

“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”—

10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

1 Corinthians 2:6-14

>>22366877

The zionists are killing my Christian brothers and sisters in Palestine right now. These ideas have shaped our present reality.

>>22366891
How does that answer my question?

>>22366145
Was reading Heart of Darkness but I got filtered so hard

>>22366903

>Isn't it pretty insignificant

I gave you the significance

My people are being killed by godless oppressors

And it is pride and arrogance that leads them to reject faith and the Torah

In the Hebrew scripture, this happens over and over again, and when they do not repent, judgment arrives

>>22366924

That's my last word here

>>22366924
You don’t have a people because your faith isn’t in your race, it’s in christkikery

>>22366318
>Good sir. That list that you posted surely must have sent the federal agent tasked with monitoring your activity to the next level.

>>22366401
I have unironically had a negro of the homosexual persuasion try to connive me with this same rhetoric.

86

The Great Gatsby.

I am relatively new to reading and I learned three new words already.

>>22366145
Brother by Ania Ahlborn. Next is either the Troop by Nick Cutter, Johnny Got His Gun, or Blood Meridian.

>>22366617
Runaway Horses is the second part of the Sea of Fertility tetralogy, so start with Spring Snow if you want to read that.

>>22366200
what's this about?

>>22366850
>War and War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

How far into it are you and what do you think of it? I read it a long time ago when I totally lacked the conceptual framework to get what he was trying to do, and I haven’t really revisited it enough to feel like I get it in any meaningful way, but I found it very compelling and interesting.

Anéantir

The Passenger by McCarthy

Only 35 pages in and very impressed. Giggled a few times already which is unusual for McCarthy

Lovecraft - Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
Moritz - Götterlehre

This!

>>22366657
No it was pretty clear upon actually fully reading. Plus picture and portrait are so similar at first glance. Anyway yeah the Joyce one is def better for it but I still love hearing lord Henry argue with the women. And yeah catholic is as catholic does, I have mixed feelings on the church as I grew up in it.have you read any other Joyce yet?

>>22367059
chad schooner captain dunks on some virgin for 300 pages

>>22367118
No. Why do you think I'm reading these two books? I'm a novice. I want to read Dubliners and Ulysses.

>>22367132
based

>>22366145
I am currently reading the Steppenwolf.

Georg Feuersteins Gita

>>22366256
I tried reading the Bible but I do better by reading random books out of it than reading it in order

To answer OP On Religion by Friedrich Schleiermacher

>>22366166
This is not a good list of literature anon, I'm sorry

>>22366417
Which Americans do you know personally?

>>22367015
Nice :)

>>22366145
I haven't had the ability to sit down and read seriously, hence the shameful percentages.

>>22366145
Dead Souls

I've noticed that most french book covers are incredibly dull and boring

>>22366145
Peasants by Reymont

>>22366145
I'm currently listening to The Outsider by Stephen King, after this, I'm gonna physically read The Funhouse by Dean Koontz.

>>22366145
The Technological Society by Ellul
Critiques of "the capitalist machine" by writers who aren't all in on the Marxist kool-aid are always kino.

Aside from scripture study, have been studying war books, incredibly powerful and practical works.

Today, I read that Võ Nguyên Giáp taught himself the art of war, even studied the American Revolution.

Here is a brief list reading list I've compiled, am reading, have read, or will read. None of these are fiction novels.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Fry the Brain by John West
Invisible Armies by Max Boot
On War by Carl von Clausewitz
Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevera
On Protracted War by Mao Zedong
On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Zedong
Guerrilla Air Defense by James Crabtree
TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook
FM 4-25.11 First Aid: Army First Aid Field Manual

These are mainly focused on guerrilla warfare, which is my main interest for practical reasons.

To this list, I will add books on American military history, modern conventional war, and US military doctrine.

These eight books and two manuals are not very long, I'm writing my own book with the help of converted spies.

Outside of war, have been doing practical reading on cybersecurity and long range precision shooting as well.

Am returning to the cybersecurity profession and am organizing my own commercial hunting operations.

These are lucrative professions that involve intelligence gathering and utilizing advanced weaponry.

Non-fiction books are incredibly useful, taught myself financial economics by studying textbooks.

This was enough for a salary on Wall Street, but I quit over a disagreement on war profiteering.

Right now, my profession is to write books and articles, but am moving on to a different life.

>>22367460

>that is my last word here

If only, wanted to share my reading list.

I'd recommend the Art of War to anyone honestly.

It's not just about war, it's about discipline and self-control.

>>22367059
A shipwrecked ‘gentleman’ is rescued at sea by a ship of seal hunters captained by the brutal but highly intelligent Wolf Larsen
Hijinks ensue

>>22366145
Stoner

the waves, by virginia woolf

>>22367351
That's how it should be. Let the text speak for itself. I don't need some junior designer's ugly Adobe project on the front.

das boot. just ending whorehaus chapter

nearly finished its better than the first book in the series would recommend

>>22367460
As a fellow war enthusiast I appreciate your book recommendations. Some of them look worth checking out.

synthetic philosophy of contemporary mathematics
limited inc a b c
and vakil's algebraic geometry

>>22367198
shucks

Blood Meridian.
Not that impressed so far. Feels like it's trying too hard and being grotesque for the sake of being grotesque.

>>22366920
How do you get filtered by that? It reads so easy.

Notes from the Underground and The Double. Going to read some more short stories by Dostojevski before all his longer and more famous works.

>>22366145
Children of Dune. I've been going through the series in preparation for Dune Part 2 coming out.

The Fellowship of the Ring
To Kill a Mockingbird

Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky. I am just 250 pages in but I recommend it

>>22366145
I finished Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus today, and now I'm onto Plato's The Republic

Salughterhouse-Five
The whole time travel thingy did make me dizzy, but the book's been enjoyable. At first I thought I didn't get it, and now I just see it as a silly story of some dude writing about some dude who was a soldier, orno-whatever the fuck doctor, an animal in a zoo, etc.

So it goes.

gothic violence

>>22366145
I like to read books anons write. so far I'm reading animated amphetamines. Pretty funny at times but also pretty pretentious at other times. Also the paper back is really big for some reason. So far my favorite part is that it has a reference to dashcons ball pit in it which the part its in fucking killed me.

Crime and Punishment
A Court of Mist and Fury

>>22366145
the denial of death and the conspiracy against the human race. I'm not feeling too good.

The house of doors

>>22366145
The cattle killing by john edgar wideman

>>22366145
Les Cent-Jours ou l'esprit de sacrifice
Les Miserables

>>22367413
The right wing critique of capitalism comes from a place of genuine concern and not merely "but I want that!"

>>22368209
Not sure about the trying too hard, but the "grotesque for the sake of being grotesque" is precisely what the book is getting at

Ashamed to admit that I had yet to read Joyce. Currently going through Dubliners and enjoying it.

>>22366872
>The Hebrew scripture is incredibly rich and mystical, layered with meaning that is still be uncovered to this day. There are lessons beyond the surface level stories, which are often symbolic and metaphorical.
There is also the Qabalistic aspect, which anti-Semite Christfags on /lit/ prefer to ignore.

>>22366200
Second time I've seen this book mentioned on /lit/ tonight.
Only read his short stories, but they are beyond based. Gotta add this to my reading list too ...

>>22367159
I hope you did the background reading, anon ...

>>22366145
I, Claudius (or is it Clavdivs?).
Speaking as an amateur classicist, this is the most gripping page-turner I've read in years.

>>22366145
Amber Waves by Catherine Zabinski, it's on the history of wheat and it's impact on human history.

Pride and Prejudice. My first time. Keep your eyes open for a shitpost thead when I finish it.

>>22366937
Log off bro

>>22370027
Don't be too harsh. It's pretty funny by chick-lit standards.

>>22366145
Hygiene and the Assassin

>>22369383
wont that make you feel worse

>>22366145
Read 86% of it.

>>22370178
Ask me how I know you're using an e-reader.

>>22366145
Bronze Age Mindset
pretty tame. also obvious yellow peril zionism, 0 mentions of JQ

>>22370167
yeah it's making it a lot worse. like digging into an open wound. I also just read Whatever by Houellebecq which was unnervingly relatable and depressing.

>>22366891
Your brown brothers and sisters
Don't be shy, say the whole truth

>>22370181
E-readers are actually really good.
>free books
>can pick the font
>can pick the font size, margin size etc.
>easier to get lost in the text since there are no visual indicators of progress if you just hide them
>can read on your side in bed and the page you're on is always in the comfy position
The future is now, old man.

>>22366145
Currently reading The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.

>>22368828
Reading Sirens of Titan and Breakfast of Champions adds a little bit extra to the story. Reading them isn't necessary, but made it a bit more enjoyable for me. I really enjoyed those books on their own as well.

>>22370201
>not amassing a personal library as a physical monument to your soul
You can't furnish a room with e-readers.

>>22370235
>soul
I think you mean your ego, anon; but yes, I do both.

>>22370235
look upon my personal library, ye pseuds, and seeth.

Reading my first meme trilogy book, Infinite Jest.
Only just started but I love some storylines while not caring much for others. mostly has to do with how it's written. The Arab medical attache being an example of annoyingly written.

>>22370243
I'm a Jungfag, and I absolutely mean my soul.

>>22369899
Yeah not a fan

>>22366145
Almost done with it, liked it a whole lot more than I expected.

language, metaphysics and death. it's been a while since I've read any sort of philosophical work, so it's been slow going.

>>22366200
The 1941 film version is pretty good.

proust 2 and honestly it's kinda annoying. i enjoyed proust 1 when i read it like ten years ago, but idk if it's cuz i'm older or it's just not as good as the first one, but sometimes it really feels like purple prose and his little "insights" and kinda mid. i'm not that far though so it will probably get better. can't wait to get it over with though so i can read sot-weed factor when the dalkey archives version drops in september since it appears to be out of print atm.

Catch-22

>>22371022
Why would anyone watch a movie that old?

>>22371122

>>22371129
Sure bro it's totally normal to watch movies released over 30 years ago

Gravity's Rainbow and I'm actually enjoying it. Didn't think that I'd be into it.

>>22371133
It is for non-tiktok brained zoomers. You wouldn't understand

>>22371122
Because old movies can be good

>>22366145
I'm reading two books.
>The Rifles by William T. Vollmann
>Schrader on Schrader

>>22366145
Your diary desu

>>22366145
The millenium saga, pretty decent. I am sure anos would hate them cause they are about a small woman outsmarting and beating the shit out of a bunch of white dudes.
I have found angry commets of incels mad about the book in normie social media. i cant imagine how butthurt an average 4channer could get

>>22371753
Lisbeth had a hard life

On book 3

>>22371713
It was made for the tiktok brained zoomers equivalent of that era. You are not special.

>>22371122
The capeshit generation, ladies and gentlemen.

>>22370178
This has been sitting on my shelf forever but I can't bring myself to start it. I enjoyed Crime and Punishment though so hopefully I get to it soon

>>22366145
Nothing. I hit a wall with reading after smashing Moby Dick, Crime and Punishment and a shitload of other books over the span of a few months. Nothing is drawing me in at the moment, it sucks.

>>22372886
You are 24, dumbass

>>22372803
Anyone have thoughts on this series?

churchills war volume 1 by david irving

>>22366145

>>22372920
Too much heavy reading cloys the palate.
Try something lighter, like Wodehouse, or some escapist historical novel.

>>22366160
based
>>22366145
blood meridian

>>22372933
I'm 53, but so good-looking that your mistake is forgivable.

>>22373062
Yeah, I tried all that. I just can't find the sweet spot right now, fuck it

>>22368219
love me some Maupassant

>>22373069
You wish, retard

>>22373117
Ooh, burn.

>>22373126
>i'm good looking
>surely that will show them

>>22373163
53 yo anon made a light hearted joke
you sound like a bitter joke of a person
he wins

book =)

I am writing my master's thesis on Ulysses so I have spent the summer wading through secondary literature on it. Currently plowing through this thing. It's almost 500 pages long and it's not exactly light reading. I'm making headway, though.

>>22373212
I wrote my master's thesis on my research developing novel metal oxide nanocomposites but I guess doing a master's in literature where you are basically writing a long book report is cool too.

Das Kapital volume 1

>>22373242
It's not so bad, my thesis advisor believes I may have a bit of an original approach to the last couple of chapters of the book. He thinks that if I do a good job I might even be able to get it published, which would be a nice feather in my cap.

>>22373117
>>22373163
cringe

>>22373176
>>22373265
Samefagging

>>22370178
I'm also reading this and I want to drop it. I'm at the Kirillovich, the prosecutor's speech and it's so boring now. The best parts have already been read.

>>22373249
nice, anon. we believe in you

>>22373266

>>22373266
>doesn't know how to detect samefags
Oh dear.

bout to pick up Ulysses for the first time

Darkness Weaves by Karl Wagner

>>22373547
Bend your knees, not your back.

Steps by Jerzy Kosinski. Is it true he was a plagiarist or was that some journo nonsense? Enjoying the book, seems like he must've been a loathsome guy regardless.

>>22366145
The New Testament (with Psalms and Proverbs). It's great to finally embrace the underpinning of my faith

>>22366273
ascended ESL

>>22367754
So true! Wish more publishers understood this. I think that Penguin Classics and Oxford World's Classics do a nice job of this.

Comfy

>>22373562
>first chapter
>dead mother trauma
Yup this is some heavy shit

>>22366273
>>22366318
>>22374065
Gigakek

Endurance: Shackletonʼs Incredible Voyage

Finished Friday by Heinlein. Spoiler: she's a hoe.
Need a new audiobook.

>>22366276
>>22366295
Virgil is the only legitimate translation.

>>22366276
>>22366295
The Vulgate is the only legitimate translation.

can you recommend me some books on real life stories dealing with radiation and stuff like that? e.g. chernobyl or los alamos' demon core. i need more like this

Cow Country by Adrien Jones Pearson.

A Clockwork Orange

brigade, a personal matter, and gypsy breynton

>>22366617
start with confessions of a mask. you'll recognize a lot of events that occur in it in the books you read later, like the visit to the brothel in temple of the golden pavilion.

Science of logic

>>22371126
Where did Land get this from? How did he get into it?
"No message should inhere in the length of a word, excepting only the broad pragmatic trend to the shortening of commonly used terms. It is immediately obvious why this exception has no pertinence to the case in question here, unless stretched to a point (for instance, expecting the smaller numerals to exhibit the greatest lexical attrition) where it is straightforwardly contradicted by the actuality of the phenomenon.
So, proceeding to the ‘analysis’ – PN of the English numeral names: zero=4, one=3, two=3, three=5, four=4, five=4, six=3, seven=5, eight=5, nine=4. Is there a pattern here? Several levels of apparent noise, noise, and pseudo-pattern can be expected to entangle themselves in this result, depending on the subsequent analytical procedures employed.
To restrict this discussion to the most evident secondary result, not only is there a demonstrable pattern, but this pattern complies with the single defining feature of the Numogram2 – the five Syzygies emerging from 9-sum twinning of the decimal numerals:3 5:4, 6:3, 7:2, 8:1, 9:0.
In the shape most likely to impress common reason (entirely independent of numogrammatic commitments) this demonstration takes the form: zero + nine = one + eight = two + seven = three + six = four + five – revealing perfect numerolexic-arithmetical, PN-‘qabbalistic’ consistency.
The approximate probability of this pattern emerging ‘by chance’ is 1/243, if it is assumed that each decimal digit (0-9) is equiprobably allotted an English name of three, four, or five letter length, with 8-sum zygosys as the principle of synthesis. 7-sum or 9-sum zygosys are inconsistent with any five or three letter number-names respectively, and thus complicate probabilistic analysis beyond the scope of this demonstration (although if everything is conceded to the most elaborate conceivable objections of common reason, the probability of this phenomenon representing an accident of noise remains comfortably below 1/100).
Partisans of common reason can take some comfort from the octozygonic disturbance of the (novazygonic) Numogrammatic reference. How did nine become eight (or vice versa)? Lemurophiliac numogrammaticists are likely to counter such queries with elementary qabbala (since digital cumulation and reduction bridges the ‘lesser abyss’ in two steps, 8 = 36 = 9, as diagrammed by the 8th Gate connecting Zn-8 to Zn-9).

III. AGAINST NUMEROLOGY
Consider first an extraordinarily direct numerological manifesto:
When the qualitative aspects are included in our conception of numbers, they become more than simple quantities 1, 2, 3, 4; they acquire an archetypal character as Unity, Opposition, Conjunction, Completion. They are then analogous to more familiar [Jungian] archetypes … "

>>22377175
What part of this rabbit hole is fictional and what not? Where to draw the line?
https://pastebin.com/P3rVFrue

haven't read a book since middle school when i had to finish that book report (im 28 now)
can't stand reading, i can never concentrate
audiobooks sped up are alright tho

Faerie Queene book 4, Henry V, Man of Law's Tale, Deuteronomy.

>>22366145
Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel

the road by cormac mccarthy and angela's ashes

>>22366145
Augustus - John Williams
Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Haiku

Flowers for Algernon. I'm about 1/3 of the way in and I really don't know how much more to this story there could be. It really feels like it's almost at a climax already. (Charlie just took Alice to the concert and started freaking out about boners.)

Farsa de la Costanza

>>22366176
based anon , im also learning french, on my 48th book now. Cant wait to see how my french will be after i read 50 or 100 more books.

>>22367754
Fair enough, especially since some designers don't even try to correspond with the book's themes and moods. But the problem with Folio editions is not only that they're ugly but also very cheap and not enjoyable to read. When i first got a penguin editions book I was amazed at how the book was much more qualitative, bigger size, higher quality pages, smooth covers etc

>>22372920
Lmao you went from c&p to moby dick thats retarded you should've went notes from the underground then moby dick now that sounds kino, a book over 500 pages needs dedication

Picked this up today, enjoying it so far

Will definitely check out his other works

I have just started The Escape Room by Megan Goldin

>>22366145
Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel

Dune by Frank Herbert, I've heard mixed things (great impact but outdated was the general idea) but I'm loving it so far.

House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
and Essential Math for Data Science by Thomas Nield

>>22366145
Define "reading"

>>22366145
3 relatively small ones
Easton Ellis's White (finished The Shards late last week)
Sloterdijk's Rage and Time
Daniel Harris's The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture
Only a chapter out of finishing 1 & 3; just read the first chapter of 2.

>>22366145
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darker_than_Amber

it impressed me.
Short, tight read. Different and enjoyable.
I was *amazed* to "see" the foundation character, upon which so many of my book I had read as a teenager and young adult, were all based on this character.

>>22381398
I *loved* Clive Cussler and his inimitable Dirk Pitt as a teen...
in this book? I see that if I simply took away Dirk Pitt's big money, and big connections?
He would be Travis McGee renamed Dirk Pitt.
I'm an amateur writer for many years, and I am adopting as many of his techniques as I can.

>>22366145
Moby Dick and The Oxford Book of English Verse. Reading both very slowly.

>>22366145
I just started barbarian days

>>22381206
I literally can't

>>22375560
And other stuff like agent orange for example?