/lit/ - Literature

21, Los Angeles

Reading the Lime Twig, its pretty cool so far I guess. Liked Hawkes short stories a little more I think.

>>8129787
24-26 (i can't ever remember
murica midwest
The Recognitions
it's really good, famalam.

69
ur moms house
my diary it's a masterpiece 2bh

>18
>Tennessee
>The Fountainhead. It sucks. Thank God I'm almost done with it.

>>8129794
How do you not know your age?

>>8129809
i just don't ever remember, after the 20th i just forgot and stopped giving a shit.

19, UK, A History of Philosophy Vol 6

>>8129787
22 Portland

Samuel Beckett's Molloy. It's okay I guess.

>>8129787

>23
>Florida
>Myth of Sisyphus

Really liking it so far. It's gotten me interested in absurdism in general and is making me want to read some Kierkegaard.

>>8129787
25
NYC
The Recognitions and it's great. A top 5 book for sure. As much of a tryhard fag as Otto is, I'm sort of starting to feel sorry for him now that I'm on part 3. He basically got what he deserved, but Willie G. is just relentlessly fucking brutal with his characters.

18/f
Cali
Lolita. It's good. It gives me . . . ideas.

>16 t b h
>NJ
>Gravity's Rainbow, good so far

>>8129787
18, eden prairie

American psycho
It's ok, but it needs more action. Nothing happens in the first 100 pages

>>8129833
hey it's my drunk buddy. how are you drunk buddy?

>>8129787
>23
> The West
> LOTR The Two Towers
It's a pretty good book, unsurprisingly.

>>8129851
The build up is worth it

>>8129816
dude, seriously congrats. that seems like one of the most difficult spooks to rid yourself of. did you just forget what year you were born? erased it?

21
Oregon
"Platform" by Michel Houellebecq

It's pretty dark, funny, and honest.

>>8129854
Sober today, but pretty good, you?

>>8129816
Check your license anon.
Also I don't believe you.

22, mexico
Metaphysics

I like how confident Aristotle is about his superiority. Especially over Plato

>21
>DC
>Atlas Shrugged

I like it.

>>8129861
no, i remember my birthdate, but i just don't do the math. i figure it's really not a big deal, i usually just say i'm 25, and be done with it. no one really cares when they ask. it's probably just an apathetic thing. the only thing i worry about lately is not reading enough, i'm a dreadfully easily distracted guy.
>>8129864
heh, not bad, not bad. that guy tryin to call you out for bein what gaddis lampooned, i was thinking about that and realized that even gaddis himself was being lampooned if you take it seriously enough, i dunno.

>>8129845
This never works dude. Stop posting it.

>>8129787
19
Wausau, Wisconsin
Milkbottle H. Really weird but really good.

>>8129801
Spring Hill fag here. What city are you in?

>>8129867
i used to tell people i was 23 until my fiance was alongside me and pushed me, saying "hee hee anon, you're older than that". i was genuinely confused for a moment, years don't make any sense anymore. everything blends all together and i just forget. I don't do the mental math to make sure how old i am, either.

>25
>SoCal
>Jorge Luis Borges Collected Fictions

>21
>Italy, Venice

Reading/re-reading The Social Contract and Democracy in America for a course.

Torn on my next leisure book tho. Have to decide between:

>Sword and Citadel: The Second Half of the New Sun - Wolfe
>The Place of Dead Roads / The Western Lands - Burroughs
>The Gay Science - Nietzsche
>Spinoza: Practical Philosophy - Deleuze

Recs?

22
Utah
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Having trouble reading it desu I'm not a huge fan of the writing

>>8129892
Murfreesboro

>30
>Florida
>The White Goddess - Robert Graves
It's fucking fascinating and a bit spooky for personal reasons

18
Texas
The Power of Myth
have yet to find my bliss

>>8129927
Eww

>>8129879
He did lampoon himself, yes. Both as Otto, who shares some blatant autobiographical similarities with him, as the various depressive alcoholic frat boy ad-men you see towards the end, and even more directly as "Willie" who's constantly told he's writing for a small audience.

When it comes to satirical writing, I think you have to be willing to be the joke in order to tell it to some extent, otherwise it's just self-righteousness.

>>8129987
>Shitty roads
>Shitty library
>Shitty traffic
>Shitty people
>MTSU
What's not to like?

19
MN/WI
Alternating between "MacDiarmid - Poetry of the Self" and the Collected Poems of Robert Browning. I browse more books while at it.

32
NC
House.of Leaves

s'cool

>mfw itt

>17
>Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
>Faust, Part Two

I often feel etheral when not struggling to understand it. I feel more amazed by Goethe than the book itself, man was a genious.

>26
>New Zealand

War & Peace: The Temple of Dawn, Tender is the Night, and Bloom's Western Canon and Shakespeare.

War & Peace is super comfy. Enjoying Temple of Dawn more than most Mishima. Tender is the Night is perhaps one of the comfiest things I have ever read. Bloom's books, while having a lot I disagree with still contain plenty of interesting and insightful criticisms.

>>8130022
26 here, whats it like being 4 years older?

22, Massachusetts, finished To the Lighthouse about an hour ago. It was alright. Woolf can turn a pretty phrase, but I can't help wondering what the fucking point was.

>>8129787
>age
Just turned 24 last week

>location
Connecticut

>current book you're reading, and how do you like it
Read 'After Dark' by Murakami over the weekend. Kind of a fun read, I guess. Gonna start Double Idemnity next.

18, NY. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. It's pretty good I guess.

19
Dominican Republic

Dr. Zhivago, Its good.

>age
20

>location
Brazil

>current book you're reading, and how do you like it
The KJV and the Greeks. Read Criton today, enjoyed it.

>>8130094
>26
>32
>4 years older
???
This and that guy who's too "apathetic" to subtract his birth date from the current year.
Can litfags just not into maths or what?

>>8129787
>22 (had to think)
>California central coast

>JR -- William Gaddis
Halfway through. Extremely referential and dense, occasionally (rarely) at the expense of aesthetics. 8/10 narrative descriptions are beautiful, the rest tend too much towards endless strings of similes and adjectives. Tends toward snippets of absurdity, and I wait in constant anticipation for these moments: they really are the highlights.

>The Peregrine -- J.A. Baker
Fantastic. Worth every gram of praise. Wonderfully poetic despite tendency to reuse descriptors with relative frequency--I found it only added to cohesion. And yet, the technical section was even more beautiful to me (although I am only halfway through). It just had such a sense of bottled passion, trembling in desperation to pop and slice the eyes of any reader with less than complete sorrowful empathy with these beautiful birds. There is so much hope and joy in me that peregrines continue on in America.

>Don Quixote -- Cervantes
GET ME OUT OF THIS FUCKING INN AND BACK INTO THE SHENANIGANS, MIGUEL

>>8130174
hey, don't attack me, i just don't care enough.

>>8129851
>the best kind of throat fucking!

>>8130143
>Dominican Republic
lmao must be sad to live in a literal shithole

>>8130081
Underage

19

Norman, OK

Fusion Heart

It's decent space opera

19
Buenos Aires
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I'm on chapter 6 now, unsurprisingly loving it, and I say unsurprisingly because having already read some excerpts from an essay the author wrote on Kafka I already knew we had much in common in terms of interests. It even made me take an interest in the history of the Czech Republic which I thought was impossible.

I also started Grande Sertão because I thought it would greatly help me in the process of learning Portuguese, but it's secondary at best for now.

23
Meath, Ireland
The Beginning of Infinity and it's awesome

How's that book you mentioned 3 years ago going?

>>8130226
>actually reading gasautist's YA drivel
Absolutely haram.

Though I wouldn't be surprised if you were gasautist himself trying to promote it.

24
Wellington, NZ
Just finished Giovanni's Room, onto Europe Central (what in God's name have i got myself into e hoa?)

>>8130299
in your pic, what is meant by "disciplinary critique"

>>8129787
22, Tennessee

Just started "The Killer Angels," only on page 20 but so far its not bad

>>8130006
You're only 90 minutes from Cookeville though

>>8130195

Why do you have to try and bring other people down for things they can't control?

>>8130278
Have you read it? It's a little "Hero with a 1000 faces" for me, but it's not bad.

20
Chile
The dream of heroes, from Bioy Casares. I started recently.

>>8130435
No, obviously not. But I've seen him posting shit about it for months on end and it sounded like the worst thing anyone here has ever talked about writing.

33
San Diego
The Unconsoled (Ishiguro). I am liking it so far, though it is very unlike his other works.

>>8129787
>18
>Russia, St. Petersburg
>"V.". Fun but perhaps too much fun, hard to take any "deep" passages seriously. I liked GR more.

>>8129787
>18
>Georgia, U.S
>The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

>>8130463
From Russia, reading American lit.
>>8130467
From America, reading Russian lit.

Both 18. Pretty cool

>>8130455
Not that it's the "end all definition" of literature, but it's already getting good reviews on Amazon and goodreads.
I'm only about halfway through and so far it's what I expected, but it's going to need a really good ending to warrant my attention for more books.

>>8129787
just turned 21. canada. Bloody Chamber + shorts by Angela Carter,, and A Supposedly Fun Cuck by DFW....my vocabulary is expanding a lot. getting tired of seeing shit like "prothalamion" and "catafalque" on every page tho desu

>>8130455
Shit. Forgot to ask what you're reading.

30
cordoba, arg
azul...

22
Ohio
The Bible

24
California
Being & Time, which I like a lot, it's much better than Being & Nothingness.

>>8129795
>12
>his parent's basement
>game of thrones

>>8130499
In The Heart of The Heart of The Country by William H. Gass. I'm only a couple of pages into the first story so I have no opinion so far.

>>8130587
Nice.

22
Oklahoma
Treasure Island

It's ok, but I saw Treasure Planet way back when I was a kid, so I keep expecting goddamn solarsurfers and cyborgs and space pirates.

>>8130299
Doesn't e hoa mean hello? How does it make sense in regard to the sentence?

>>8129787
19
USA
V., It's pretty great. First Pynchon I've read and I'm really enjoying him overall. The chapter about the death camp was disturbing as fuck, and quite jarring to be honest, but Pynchon's prose is incredible.

>>8129936
>>8130460
>>8130503
gramps

>20
>Colombia
>The catcher in the rye

I started today and am at chapter 8, I know it's just starting but I still don't get all the razzle dazzle about it. The book is real comfy and I've found the character relatable, so far seems mandatory lit class read back in high school tier tho.

>10
>Australia
>Captain Underpants, Goosebumps and anything written by Andy Griffiths

>23
>London
>Consolations of Philosophy

>>8130630
I just read it at 25 and it felt like a waste of time up until the last chapter. Not that it had some profound resolution, it just wrapped up the theme nicely and the writing is cozy.
>posting selfies on /lit/
>having shit taste in music

>>8130627

>thinking 30 is old

wew lad you're gonna have a rude awakening

> ???
> Costa Rica.
> Ligth in ugust: It's pretty good, i like the crazy religious people who kill and insult other religious people, it's funny.

23, Missouri

Been reading Thus Spoke Tharathustra, but I've only been able to read in chunks. It's pretty good, but most of my time is spent drawing or working so I don't often have time to binge on it.

>>8130713
'Zarathustra' my bad. I need to go to bed.

>>8129787

>23
>Indianapolis
>Consider the Lobster. DFW is a master of the English language, more so than any author I've read (note that I have yet to read many authors). But I'm excited to finish it, as then I'm beginning The Crying of Lot 49.

21
NYC (Bronx)
Fordlandia
>tfw only person who reads in the whole Bronx

25
Houston
Red Dragon
I like it.

>>8129787
>18
>Florida
>Brave new world, its the second book that Ive gotten into, im starting with easier reads, Im loving it to be honest, its very fast paced, and isnt pretentious

>>8130589
I haven't read enough to say anything about the contents themselves, but the cover is pretty I guess. It's the NYRB edition.

>>8129787
Quit data-mining.

23
Flo-rida
Just finished The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, wondering what to start next.

>>8130819
D-do you really think they're doing that? I mean I did find it suspicious that I suddenly saw an influx of Gaddis books where there'd previously only been two at this one barnes and noble recently...

27
Los Angeles
Letters from a Stoic - Seneca, it's a bit gay but still good.

>>8130834
Hardboiled wonderland is bretty dank.

22
Mexico
The castle by Kafka

21
Brazil
Carrie

Don't have an opinion yet, i'm literally at the first page. I've finished up Fight club earlier today though, it was enjoyable.

>age
24
>location
wisconsin
>current book you're reading, and how do you like it
"how to be gay" by david halperin. it's been very helpful and informative

>>8129787
>18
>South Carolina
>Elements of Chemistry
It's pretty good, if you like old textbooks. (1937)

>>8129787
25
bay area
gravity's rainbow, 9/10 would meme again

25
DFW, TX
Augusts by John Williams. I like the epistolary format.

>>8130954
gravity's rainbow is my favorite meme.

>>8130961
Augustus*

>>8129787
16
Dubliners

>>8130961
>DFW, TX

>>8130312
an interpretation that comes from a specific post-structural praxis essentially
>>8130616
it means friend friend

>18
> California
> The grapes of wrath
> I love it because I visited the place it takes place in not too long ago

>21
>Western Australia
>Crime and Punishment
>Quite a lot

>>8130936
I like you.

Also, are trannies as big a deal in Brazil as the internet makes them out to be?

>22
>Indiana
>The Recognitions
Probably the most theologically rich novel I've read. Really challenging, and some scenes are a pain to get through, but overall it's extraordinary. Some of the finest prose from an American author that I've encountered. 250 pages to go.

22
Ireland
The Way Of Men

Interesting so far.

22
Finland
Sandalwood Death

I wouldn't have known that a competition between two men at whose beard will sink fastest into a vat of water could be written so engagingly.

26
Berlin
Nothing, I pick up books but can't stick with them lately. Last one was... Hunger, which I enjoyed quite a lot.

>>8129787

36

Bucharest, Romanistan

The Golden Ass. Very funny and more boner-inducing than I had been prepared for. A light and saucy read that I recommend for when you want something easy, but still be able to boast you're reading one of the classics of ancient literature.

Oldest in thread so far, btw. And yes, it's still possible to get boners at this age.

>>8129787
28
Los Angeles
Not reading anything at the moment.

>>8131163
have you been reading for a long time?

25.
Humiliated and Insulted.
The Prince is an absolute madman.

>>8131182
Oh I'm from Canada. Fogot to say that.

23
Somewhere
A Feast for Crows. I've been reading this god forsaken thing for 6 months. I read the first three books in less time than that. That's how much of a chore this one is. Fucking Martin..

>27, Amsterdam

>My Struggle #2 - A Man in Love

I just read the first 50 pages and it is not as pleasant as rhe first part, since so far it only deals with having very young children and the extremely annoying situations that they create (theme park, birthday parties). I read an interesting comment on the idea that our environment shapes us vs. the author's position that we are born unique, but our experiences make us all the same.

I will have to keep on reading. The prose is fantastic, and shows how modern-day life can be described in literature.

>>8129787
>>age
18
>>location
Germany
>>current book you're reading, and how do you like it
On the Plurality of Worlds by David Lewis
I don't "like" things.

21
Germany
American psycho
I'm not sure, it's well written, but the vibes that are coming from it are kinda down putting.
The subliminal hints of what is reality and what not are quite enjoyable, the personalitys on the other hand are contradicting to my nature.

20
Vienna
Either-Or
I think I'm in love.

25

The holy Land

The Iliad

>>8129787
21, Iowa

Reading Ulysses for the first time. Enjoying it, but I think I liked Portrait and Dubliners better. This opinion may change as I am only about one third done with it.

>>8129824
Molloy is my favorite of Beckett's novels

>>8129917
Stick with it, the ending is pretty neat.

>>8131204
>the idea that our environment shapes us vs. the author's position that we are born unique, but our experiences make us all the same.
How is that not the same thing?

>>8129787
>20
>Orlando
>A History of Western Philosophy

Trying to become ANALytic

Also it's scary to see so many Floridians here

I meant "the idea that our experiences make us unique"

>>8130094
Will be 32 next week. Feels like I'm scared to go skatevoarding because if I fuck myself up my wife and kids will be upset from hunger.

Basically, the moment you realize that you are responsible for people you love who need you, the world becomes more important than your imagination and its pretty disappointing. That aside, everything is pretty good.

Special note, the confidence you get at 30 to deal with other men in life of older ages is empowering. Women want your dick more when they see your ring. Also nice.

But your pic is relevant. I'm losing touch. I'm lookint at teens and thinking, "what the fuck are they into these days? Why are they wearing that bullshit. Why's this 18 year old dressed like a movie star but walks around looking shy?"

>24
>Mozambique
>Last Exit to Brooklyn

Meh. A bit dark for my taste, but I'd be lying if I didn't enjoy watching terrible people experience terrible things. I strangely feel sorry for many of the characters, though.

>19
>Australia ( we're full)
>Meditations on Violence - Sgt Rory Miller
Enjoying it alot so far, has made me question my assumptions on the world.

32
England
Elmore Leonard short stories and they're fucking great

>>8130174
maths =/= arithmetic

22
Virginia Beach, VA
Gravity's Rainbow

I'm on part 3 now. The novel just keeps getting better and better. Slothrop was pretty much the only American with a speaking role up to this point so I'd almost forgotten about them but since he's gotten into Germany they keep showing up and they're all hilarious.

18, Stockholm
Cities of the plain
Pretty good so far, i feel like this is the first volume where i can see the humour clearly.

20, Portland

The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left. I mean, so far it's reading like internal party memoranda, but I have to admit its points are pretty ironclad.

27
Middle of QLD, Australia
Petersburg tales, nikolai gogol

>>8131130
Read Manthropology other 22 year old Irish guy.
I honestly think the Ways of Men is Nietzsche for stupid people
Manthropology is basically a book about how much superior people were in ancient times

21, Porto.
Journey to the End of the Night.
The contrast between Destouches's miserable life and his sour satires of people and their reactions to the war is very interesting. Céline's writing is also well-structured and realistic.

>>8131020
Similar to Germany and scat.

>>8129914
La Gaia Scienza diocan

>>8129917
>22
>not a fan of hemingway's writing

rare 2bh

>>8129787
>23
>maryland
>Ivanhoe

archaic english is cool when weed

>>8129787
20
España
Pale Fire. Not his best, but mind blowing and thoroughly entertaining.

>20
>pnw
>the bell jar, i like it a lot, top tier female protagonist

>>8131290
This is morphing into a feel thread

20

Germany

Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frisst.., by Hans Fallada.

It's great.

>>8131563
>wife and kids

Congratulations you fell for the meme.

>>8131290
>wife and kids

Congratulations you fell for the meme.

>20
>Sweden
> The God Delusion. He dumb, real dumb.

19
España/Spain
Volverás a Región, by Juan Benet. Pretty good so far, dank prose. It reads like a Spanish Faulkner desu.
>>8131559
Where u at?

>18
>nyc
>Giovanni's Room & it's good

>24
>Hungary
>The Bible

Mixed, sometimes great other times I'm just wondering what the fuck am I reading but it's interesting for sure.

>>8131581
M A D R I D
A
D
R
I
D

¿Tú?

¿Merece la pena Benet? Si te digo la verdad trago muy poco la literatura española, cosa que me da muchísima pena :( Amo a Miró, Lorca me agrada y poco más.

>>8131246
lel kike

>soon I will be 20
>france
>Within a budding grove, proust

I like the parts where he talks about muh feels and minuscule movements of the mind and the intricacies of remembrance and childhood.
I don't like the parts where he spouts names and talks about what is and isn't convenient and why some guy should or shouldn't wed some girl.

>>8131262
Because in Case A you are born possessing the qualities of X but are forced to become Y while in Case B you are born without qualities but eventually become Y

>tfw now older than the average on /lit/

Can you guys p-please stop reading books so I can retain my sense of superiority. Thanks.

>>8131593
Naaah, Oviedo. Queda bastante lejos.
Ya te digo, de momento me está gustando. Tengo leído poco menos que la mitad. El estilo de Benet, aquí por lo menos, me recuerda bastante a Absalón, Absalón!: la trama, siendo mínima, no se desarrolla linealmente, sino que se va construyendo a través de reflexiones, recuerdos y narraciones de los personajes y del propio autor, muchas veces aisladas entre sí. Benet tiene muy buena prosa (aunque a veces hay que retroceder una página o dos hasta el principio de la frase), así que la lectura se hace muy disfrutable si le echas ganas.

22
Finland
Gravitys Rainbow, A Journey to the End of the Night, The Book of Disquiet, A Confederacy of Dunces
Great books. GR is a bit rough but his prose is indeed incredible.

>18
>Ireland
>Guerrilla Days in Ireland
enjoying reading about the mortality of the eternal anglo

>>8131607
Aah, ya veo. Me forzaré a leer cosas en español durante el verano, a ver cómo va la cosa.

21
Melbourne Australia
A Silent Cry - Oe

very dark reading. i liked a personal matter but the voice in this is a lot more tragic

>>8131020
nah, atleast in my state. Im from the south of brazil, which is made by the 3 most conservative and white (most polish/german immigrants stood south) states in the country, in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, though, trannies might be a big thing

>>8131635
What about old nazis? You still got any of those in hiding?
any of them also trannies

>>8131262
Sorry, I posted very quickly. This is the fragment I was referring to.

>>8131596
Not a Jew

>>8131643
Nice try, kikerino.

>>8131593
>>8131607
Leed a Chirbes.

>24
>Sweden
>The Silmarillion (2nd time)

I love Tolkien's writing style, I've been binging his books for a while now

>24
>Lithuania
> "Bleak House" - Charles Dickens. Witty, thought provoking, and long. It takes a while to get into it, but if you stick around, it gets quite good. Personally, I think it's his best work.
> "Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases" - David P. Houghton. Voting behavior, actions of people, etc., etc., ect. If you're not into politics, economics, human behavior, and psychology: fuck that noise, you'll be bored to death (I personally love it: educational AF).

>>8131580
Care to elaborate, I was thinking about picking it up, worth it?

>>8131646
What if I'm Palestinian

>>8131656
Well that's even worse tbqh.

>>8131647
Alguna recomendación específica?

>22
>yurop
> Greek Myths - Robert Graves
who the fuck are all these people why is everybody having so much children stop fucking damn greek gods

>>8129787
23, Indonesia

Reading David Copperfield. So this nigga is going to fall in love with every nice girl he meets, right?

I'm loving it so far. Dickens delivers once again.

>23
>Lithuania
>DeLillo's "White Noise"
Just started the 3rd section, so far, so good. Can't actually state an opinion on how it's one of the most important books of 20th c., but some passages are downright hilarious. Strongly relating to Heinrich

>>8131666
Well I'm neither
What are afraid of?
I'm literally reading western classics (which kikes have contributed to very much btw) your culture is safe
Good luck with racism though

>>8131650
Personally, I think Great Expectations is his best work, at least from what I've read.

>>8131667
En la orilla, Crematorio y La caída de Madrid

>23
>Germany
>Schopenhauer: Über die Freiheit des menschlichen Willens

Can't say I don't like it. Not because his solution seems new or original to me but because of the way he explains the problem and his stringent progress of arguments, thoughts and his cynical criticism towards other thinkers and of his time people in general.

>>8131638
lol i dont think so, although there is an old legend that hitler was hiding in brazil xD

but there are 'neonazis' even in the more nigger regions of brazil

>>8131705
Hmmmmm, I don't know why, but for some reason I like "Bleak House" better. Maybe it's because I enjoyed the way he mocked the judicial system and high society (but mocking the well off is part of everyone one of his books). Can't really argue with you, since I haven't read everyone of them.

>>8131667
Nenhuma recomendação para sua pessoa, boludo.

20
Romania
Just finished ,,One flew over the cuckoos nest",great book,love how he described the Chiefs madness

>>8131726
>mocking high society

Oh, just you wait until the ending.

I like GE better because it's a fascinating tragic journey of Pip. Bleak House is like a combination of stories.

Also, Biddy & Estella > Esther & Ada

>>8131729
Eu sou desolado.

>>8131767
Lol, now you got my hopes way up there. I best not be disappointed. But I like that (a combination of stories, I enjoy the style). Also, I don't get the whole servant/upper class bff thing they have going on: but w/e.

>>8131782
Sinto muito.
With God's help you will conquer your affliction.

>>8129787
>2016 minus current year
>birthplace plus lifetime of movement
>pic related, positively shocking

>>8130134
I´m reading that for the second time right now. Some parts don´t make sense, but still a good read
>30
>Germany

>>8131609
Not even lit can save you from the horrors of maths paper 1 senpai

>>8129787
>23
>Wuerzburg
>The Scarlett Letter for American Literary Studies - course in Uni
>Der Prozess for leisure
>

>>8131803
many kek's

>>8131803
hi tao?

>>8131803

>18
>Aus
>Madame Bovary

>>8129816
YOU CANT MAKE THIS SHIT UP

23
México
Stoner
My Diary desu

>>8131514
Va bene dioporco

>19
>Switzerland
>Don Quijote
Fantastic, I'm sad to see it come to an end.

>>8129787
>20
>Glasgow, Scotland
>Moby Dick, about half way through

It's incredibly dense; as it was to be expected. Some beautiful prose mixed with deep spiritual allusions and sincerely conveyed passion for the subject is what's keeping me into it; the full chapter long meditations on single aspects of the themes are borderline tedious though.

>18
>Poznań, Poland
>In search of lost time, 100 pages in
pretty good, it feels really comfy

>>8131902

>>8129801
My god anon. You've uploaded the same fucking picture at least 4 times now. Its time to stop.

>>8131822
doing foundation level maths pal
be living the NEET life by next month, hope its the paradise you lads told me it would be

> 25
> Malaysia
> Father and Son, by Ivan Turgenev
I hope this classic novel can bring me and my father closer. We almost never hung out, and I miss him.

>>8129787
22, Tokyo

Mason and Dixon

28
Georgia, US
A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge

It's okay. His writing cash be pretty bad but the ideas are interesting.

>>8130006
You just summed up the whole state.

>>8129787
26/M/A, NZ
La Porte Étroit in french to bone up on my grammars n shieet. Alissa is puuling on my heartstrings.

Cet instant décida de ma vie ; je ne puis encore aujourd’hui le remémorer sans angoisse. Sans doute je ne comprenais que bien imparfaitement la cause de la détresse d’Alissa, mais je sentais intensément que cette détresse était beaucoup trop forte pour cette petite âme palpitante, pour ce frêle corps tout secoué de sanglots.

>18
>Connecticut
>Carrion Comfort
>good, but taking me forever because I have a short attention span

>>8129901
WHAT

18, England
>Just finished What Belongs To You by Garth Greenwell
It was a nice read.
>A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Recently had to turn my bookmark into a scrap of paper listing all the characters and various points about them because every time I put the book down I forget a number of tiny details.
>The Night Manager by John le Carré
I haven't really read any espionage-themed novels, but I'm having fun with this one.

>>8129869
nice,
remember to contextualise Socrates as regards contemporary religion.

>>8129845
>like modern liberated womyn read.

>>8130093
>NZ
>Mishima & Tender is th Night
you sound fun, are you in a city? I've been wanting to start up an Inklings group w/ /lit/erati for years.

22
Near Lisbon, Portugal
Catch 22, found it kinda boring at the beginning, it's started getting better now but I ain't having the time to read it

> 27
> Plymouth, MA
> I Am Legend. Thought it would be fairly generic genre shit, but it's actually surprising /lit/.

>>8131989
The neet life in Ireland for people under 26 is 100 Euro a Week. Get a job until you turn 26

>>8132576
I have a disability though

>24
>Arkansas
>Double Helix

Pretty interesting. Gives good perspective on the life of an academic scientist as well as the drama that can be involved with research. Watson has spotty prose/syntax though.

>>8132608
You lucky bastard.
I wish I faked adhd or something when I was a kid.

>>8132622
just claim high functioning autism fám
meet most of the traits anyway

>>8132628
I know this is a cliche on 4chan but my whole family actually are convinced I have autism.
And they don't even know I browse /lit/ /a/ /fit/ and /jp/

>>8132642
>/a/
>/jp/
skip the high functioning part then

>>8132647
Literally not a single person in the world knows I browse /a/ or watch anime. I was joking about /jp/

>>8132657
hiding your power level is the most cruelly untrue meme, it shines through like a sickness

>>8132661
I'm a muscular 6'5 guy though.

>>8132545
I'm in Wellington proper.

>>8132669
i ain't gay nigga

>>8132676
>Implying you could stop me

24
New York
Outlander. I feel like I'm reading one of those Original english manga series from Tokyopop's days. There's exposition and just enough description to set a picture but not roll into purple prose.

Thank you for the book recommendation, Mom.

>>8132674
I'm in Auck, but have buddies down at Otago Medical. I should go down, hit up ReOrientation in july, stay awhile.
can u recommend a book store in welly?

27
Canada
The Karamazov brothers

I had to read a bit about existentialism to understand the book better. Going to try and polish off the last 100 pages today. I've been anxious to move onto other books. I've really enjoyed it though, and the trial is so well done. I see it all so vividly. I read Anna Karenina earlier this year and while Tolstoy writes better, Dostoevsky's style is a lot more fun to read.

>>8132727
Pegasus, just off Cuba street. The best book store I've been to in the country. It's expensive for a second hand bookstore but it's well worth it.

21 Lima, Peru

La casa de cartón (The Cardboard House)
it's hilarious the way of living back in 20s and 30s
>inb4 TPOAAAAYM

>22
>Belgium
>Oblomov

>>8129787
19
North Dakota
Reading both The Portrait of Dorian Grey and Slaughterhouse 5 concurrently as an experiment to see how much I'll retain from reading two books at once.

>>8132800
el peruANO durante su niñez....................

19
Spain
El Mundo de Sofía

>>8132823
estudiante de selectividad detectado

22
Northern Ontario
Concepts of Modern Mathematics by Ian Stewart

>>8131938
Nice, someone form my G-Town reading my favourite book. you at Glasgow Uni or what?

>>8132827
sounds breddy dry

>>8132832
nah its breddy gud, im majoring in math so it lays foundations i learned in year one then goes on to what my thesis would be written about

>>8129787
>old
>Finland
>Sven Hassel whole works, currently in Gestapo
>ok

>>8130938
Fag

>>8129787

22, NC
Blood Meridian, been great so far

>>8129787
19
Spain
Ojo por Ojo (An eye for an eye) by Antoni Dalmases

Pretty good book, I always like some modern history

20, Romania
In search of lost time book 2 + John Keats poems

>>8131938
>>8132831
awright, troops?

26
Glasgow
Tess of the D'Ubervilles

>>8131362
>GR

i just finished Beyond the Zero and i am bamboozled more than in the entirety of V... is this normal lad? (it's still quite good)

>23
>Philadelphia
>The Waves by Virginia Woolf
>it's really good, at time a bit confusing, but that's kind of the point I think. prose is often beautiful and the book overall is pretty damn insightful. been reading it for about 4 days hope to finish tomorrow

>>8132823
>>8132873
Where you niggas be?

>>8131173
Sadly, no. This is my third year of reading for pleasure and my first one of starting with the Greeks (I'm not finished with them but I've moved on to this Roman because I knew it would be a light read). I've got a great handicap versus you lot and my health is not so great either but...i-it's not too late, is it?

>>8132878
Seems like a few people form Glasgow are on lit, there's always a few in these threads

>>8132930
And I'm still the oldest guy here. I guess I'll, um, take it as a special honour. Yeah.

I'll go stare at the wall and contemplate my existence now.

>>8132780
thanks familia.

>>8132934
fave bookshop in Glasgow? That Otago Lane bookshop/bombsite is amazing.

21
Chicago
James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small

It's really entertaining. He ventures out of his depth sometimes with his prose, but I just ignore that and enjoy the veterinary episodes.

25
Chicago
Dune, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo

>>8132999
How're you finding Jojo compared to the other parts? Shame about the meh translations.

>>8132999
Really dig Dune. Not feeling VA as much as DiU, but the stands/fights have been cool

33
Venezia
Ulysses
Love it

>>8133009
See >>8133013
The action is great, but the characters are pretty flat. Just got to King Crimson last night, so I'll likely finish it after work today.

Looking forward to all the parts ahead though, even 6 which seems to get more hate than 1 and 5

>>8129787
Age: 23
Location: New Bedford, MA(just call me Ishmael)
Current Book: Conquistador by Buddy Levy

Hernan Cortes was an absolute genius in both the military and diplomatic realms. Truly. A fucking genius and has steel balls, each the size of the Moon.

30
Finland
King Lear

It's been interesting revisiting Lear with all my old notes and musings back from my first year at university doing Elizabethan lit.

>>8133029
Yeah. But apparently japan adores parts 3 and 5 precisely because they are all fights. Part 6 (aka Orange is the new Jojo) is cool. Again leaning into weirder stands. The end of it feels a bit rushed but that's cause Araki's editors rushed him. I'm just on 7. Your body is not ready for how weird it is. Part 4 is the best.

>>8133052
I've only heard good things about 7. The hype is real.

>>8132993
Aye mate I've heard I've heard good things about Voltaire and Rousseau but never actually been down there. I'm not in the West end much really so I mostly use 'stones or amazon

>>8133178
one day we'll have enough Glaswegians for a Lanark thread, anon....one day.

>>8129787
21
Netherlands
Metro 2033 and Fooled by Randomness
They're both pretty good. I was expecting Metro 2033 to be a piece of shit but it's surprisingly good. Fooled by Randomness is great but it has a tendency to make the same point over and over again.

30
UK
Assassin's Apprentice

I like it, feels very Jack Vance.

>>8132549
I've read that a couple of years ago. Wanna meet in Gulbenkian?

24
Montreal
Early Greek Philosophy. I like how it includes the context the fragments were gathered from.

27
USA
The Ox-Bow Incident
It's not bad, not terrific. The aspect I like the most is the author's ability to build suspense. His manner of describing charcters and events keeps things from becoming tedious, and makes you appreciate the tension that is building and must be felt amongst the characters. His attempts to discuss different notions of justice (the primary theme of the novel) aren't actually bad, either, but they just don't go very deep and haven't offered much of anything I haven't come across before.
Overall, I would say it's good if you're looking for something more of an interesting, lighter read, probably more ideal for a younger, maybe high-school aged, reader.

>>8132568
I read it a long time ago, but I do remember greatly enjoying it as well. Saying thr book is better than the movie isn't exactly controversial in many cases, but the most recent movie adaptation really is just awful compared to the book.

The version I had (one of those books I "loaned" to someone) also included a number of short stories of his. They aren't anything phenomenal, but they are highly entertaining, too.

24
Germany
Steppenwolf; mildly irritated by the fact that this guy still has a better social life than me and by the realization that I'm probably gonna end up an even bigger and more bitter autist when I reach that age

>>8129787
are u Muslim?

>>8132883

Only other Pynchon I've read was CoL49.

My only suggestion is to keep reading since from what I've gathered Pynchon fucking with you is normal. Imo it goes from being great to awesome around part 2 then even more awesome where I'm at currently (part 3).

>>8129787

23
Neo-Babylon
The Fortress by Mesa Selimovic
I'm a quarter of the way through and it's already more depressing than Death and the Dervish. How much bad luck can one man have and how much more will life shit on Ahmed Shabo?

>>8129787
>17
>Florida
>infinite jest (81 pages in and liking it so far), song of Solomon (reading it for a summer program, writing style is kind of bland but overall it's ok), and Wuthering heights (for summer reading. Don't care a whole lot for it and close reading it is prolonging by suffering).

>24
>Savannah, GA
>Ideas: Thoughts and Inventions from Fire to Freud (Watson). I like it a lot

20, Guayaquil
The demon in the freezer.
I like the way the author tells those history facts.

20
Cleveland
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Many Years of Pilgrimage. Just finished it actually

I enjoyed it deeply but wouldn't quite say I loved it
I love a lot of the things Murakami does (his choice of symbols, his knack for understatement, his ability to make minimal not sound like a bad thing, his tasteful surrealism) but I feel like they might line up better elsewhere in his oeuvre. Something a bit thematically heftier could have been nice too. Still, an enjoyable read.

>>8129787
24, Mexico

Reading Dark Tower V, Wolves of the calla
cause gunslingers, time travel, vortex, ghots vampires and shit

>22, Sweden.
>Muh Struggle Part 4.

Well, frankly it's a tough read. Karl Ove gets in bed with a lot of girls. He goes to parties, dances with girls, talks to them, goes to a football camp and falls in love with a girl, spends his summer vacation partying and kissing girls. Basically, he's quite normal. Me, I had none of that, and the loss of that has dawned upon me lately and it's incredibly depressing. How do people go on well into their '30s with no friends or sucess with romantic partners.

>>8130000
Quads doesn't lie

19
Santa Barbara, CA (Elliott Rodgers shooting was here)
Stoners by John Williams. I like it so far, John Williams seems to sympathize with my emotions.

>>8133904
>How do people go on well into their '30s with no friends or sucess with romantic partners.
By choice.

There's no way that 300 people come to this website.

>24
>NYC
>Return of Tarzan
I unironically love Edgar Rice Burroughs so I'm enjoying the heck out of it

not exactly high lit tho

>>8134091
The prose is fantastic. Williams is great at capturing that feeling of being incredibly passionate about something but being painfully unable to express it adequately.

18 (actually 18 now, though it was fairly recently a lie)

Kansas, USA

Metamorphoses, Humphries translation

Just finished Confessions of a Mask

>>8129787

>Strongly relating to Heinrich

Heinrich is great but to me he would've been more relatable in early high school. I hope you don't prefer his perception to Jack's.

>20
>detroit
>Foundation by Asimov, love this series so much

>>8134117
some of his work is crazy good pulp

>>8134568
>23
>also Detroit
>personal memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, please make it end. i curse my inability to drop a book

AUS
22
Aristotle's Rhetoric, I like it more than his Ethics but I haven't finish either of them

>19
>Adams, TN
>The Grave by Charles L Grant

18
Hue, Vietnam (staying here for 2 months, but I'm from Arizona)
Stoner
It's boring so far desu

>>8134099
There are over 300 replies, but less than 200 different posters in this thread, anon.

>>8130961
nigga i live in dfw too

>>8131367
proust or mccarthy?

if mccarthy you fucked up by missing the humor, the first two are hilarious

22, ATX

The Book of Disquiet

Starting it tomorrow. Deeply depressed. I think it's something I need to read. Sick of putting it off.

>>8134092
That's a hot opinion you have there