/lit/ - Literature

>24
>UK
>Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey

Not too far in but it's pretty good. Disorienting to begin with but it's settled down to a nice flow now.

>27
>Nevada
>Notes From the Underground

This nigga is looking at the glass half empty.

>24
>UK
>John Dies at the End

I'm enjoying the absurdist humour but the plot is quite hard to follow, every time I pick it up I think how the fuck did it get to this point.
It just gets more and more bizarre.

>20
>Germany
>Red Harvest

I like it, although the prose it minimal at best.

70
Manhattan
Mein Kampf. Lots of interesting ideas in this book. It's a good book. Actually, I'm not reading it but my assistant is reading it for me. He says it's a good book. Great book.

>18
>long island
>the picture of Dorian Gray

Very good, actually. Prose is excellent and the themes are clear and expressive since the first page.

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>20
>France but I live in NYC
>Sous le soleil de Satan
Literally just started it, can't say yet

>>8748627
>23
>Florida
>Beloved

It's damn good but holy shit can she get carried away with redundant analogies and similes. The book could have a third shaved off and it would have the same effect.


>>8748851
I have never read any Wilder because his work struck me as having Purple Prose but that mght be because I his gay as portraits. How would you describe his writing in Dorian Grey?

>>8748627
>18
>Lawrence, KS
>Book of Disquiet
>Couldn't say, Might be Love, Gil Orlovitz
>Collected stories of Breece DJ Pancake

Book of Disquiet seems like its going to be 500 pages of melancholic musings. But it's interesting to see Pessoa's thought process and the way he views things.

Orlovitz is a hell of a poet. I may try and find one of his novels here soon.

Pancake is one of the best post WWII short story writers IMO. I think Trilobites is my favorite. His style has a way of going from concise and grounded in once sentence to fluid and almost metaphysical in the next.

>>8748627
>21
>Germany
>blood Meridian

It's fucking great. Great athmosphere!
>Tried to read it in englisch
>read 30 pages
>dropped it and bought a translation
I never had that Problem before but it was just too much for me.

>>8748997
What's the most difficult book in English that you've read?

>23
>America desu
>notes

The beginning half reads somewhat like a philosophy text written by a neet. I find myself relating to some of the points but not others. His writing style makes it feel like we're communicating and I really enjoy it, even if the character seems like he would shoot up a school in the current year.

>>8748846
Fantastically underrated

>18
>Phoenix AZ
>The Stranger
Decided to become /lit/ so I've started reading the essentials, and I'm loving it so far.

>>8748846
good one

>>8748971
The writing is pretty purple, you're not wrong in that, but it's the type of flowery prose that makes you smile a bit at the use of language combined with the characters' witticisms. Very warm and Spring-like in his style, if that vague seasonal comparison makes any sense to you. Definitely a fan.

A lot of times, though, there's pages of dialogue discussing a bit of philosophy until the last sentence, which suddenly moves along the discussion to an actual plot point, but that doesn't necessarily bother me personally. Might be an irritant for you, doe, my brutha

Would you recommend Beloved? Never heard of it before your post

>20
>burger
>A confederacy of Dunces

>21
>Australia
>War & Peace

The first volume was a bit mediocre but I've enjoyed the second one so far.

>>8748846

>>8748627
22
philly
paradise lost

just finished part.. 9? where the fruit was eaten. absolutely beautiful. really spoke to me about the nature of man and of woman. knowing that milton was a protestant and not a catholic made me wonder when protestantism turned so radically textual and permissive. the implications w/r/t sex were eye-opening for sure.

>21
>Massachusettes
>Middlemarch

I'm reading it for uni, and I never engage with stuff for uni the way I do for regular reading, but I'm surprised at how good some parts of it are. I'm taking a long bus ride tomorrow and Im gonna start "Nothing like the Sun." Hopefully finish it this weekend.

>>8748627
>27 (today actually)
>Minnesnowta
>Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Freedman

>>8749701
Happy birthday anon!

>>8748627
>27
>providence
>ego

>>8749701
Happy birthday, bud. May you be /lit/ forever

>23
>Vancouver
>No Longer Human
>my diary desu
Even the suicide attempt matches up

>23
>Illinois
>Norm MacDonald
Just finished. Pleb tier I know but he's funny . It was not a memoir just a long joke. Starting Murakami Pinball/wind tom .

19
Ecuador
Why Nations Fail.
Interesting. It has interesting ideas. I like these kind of books because i read them very fast compared to fiction. Evn being in english doesn´t slow me

>27
>Bulgaria
>"Josephine Mutzenbacher, the story of a Viennise whore as told by her"
Pretty good so far, more explicit than Fanny Hill but a bit more in the two headed eagle (Germanic) way old fashioned

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>>>8748780 (You)
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Huh?

>>8750052, >>8748866

Explain yourself retard, not
everyone here is on your level of idiotism

>>8748851
https://discord.gg/kWHpZXY join this discord

>>8750060
I haven't finished the book but the man seems to be like you, full of hate and malice.

>>8749305
That sounds alright, I like Poe and Lovecraft and Machen and Lawrence so I think I would enjoy Dorian. As for Beloved I dont know if you would like it or not, it's pretty heavy handed on slavery and The White Man being the devil but it's written very well and jumps around in time in a nice way, there is magical realism but it's not off putting and it can be really graphic and violent at times.

>>8748846
kek, hello mr President.

>23
>Philly
>Naked Lunch

It's pretty good, control theme is really well realized. Shits vile though and I was getting dirty looks reading it on the train.

19

Southeast Louisiana, USA

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

its amazing. i guess you could say the story is samey, but the books flawless. ranking as my favorite alongside the likes of White Noise and Stoner.

>18
>US
>The Hobbit
I'd have gotten around to reading it a lot sooner if my first copy hadn't disappeared. Anyway, pretty good so far. It seems a lot easier to read than most fantasy novels somehow. I'm only about 15 or so pages into it.

>>8748627
>18
>California
>The Name of the Rose

I'm loving the theological arguments, ranks in my favorites already. The b story of the burning of Michael funneling into Abo's deflowering sold it

30
Massachusetts
Vanity Fair

Reminds me of Dickens but with more polish and a lower ceiling.

>22
>VA
>Crime and Punishment

I'm not meme'n when I say this is the best book I've ever read.

>>8750365
that's the magnus opus of burroughs, there's no racional tought in all the book, but all the words, they're just dark poetry of the unconscious of his mind. i fuckin love that old dead bastard

>>8748851
Someone on Long Island other than me browses /lit/. It kind of depresses me to know we'll never know each other and have a nice literary discussion in real life.

>>8750412
eco is a fuckin asshole, that book is a shitty story with a lot of semiotics

>>8748627
>3
>The world
>The Cat in The Hat

>19
>argentina
>los suicidas by antonio di benedetto
>the birth of tragedy from the spirit of music

i finish the first, i think it's the best novelist from my country, the way he writes it's just fuckin weird and the plot of the book is like a masked existencialism
im 30 pages from finishing the second, i dont understand fully some parts but i understand the basic, have to read it again after reading more of the greeks

>18
>California
>The Road and Perelandra
I don't really like Perelandra, but the Road is fantastic.

>>8750736
which country has better writers, Argentina or Chile?

>17
>Oklahoma
>Education of a wandering man

Pretty good, I like the adventure of it so far. Louie really read a fuck ton.

>>8748627
>two and twenty
>Terra
>Eternal Meme

It's actually quite an ounce or two more entergaging than I suspected, though I do think the maximalist style, while uniquely enjoyable, does reflect a certain "quick intelligence he [nearly] squanders on an insatiable need to advance some impression of himself," to use Wallace's own words. The cleverly packed prose makes me giggle and occasionally say 'hey, haven't thought of that,' but it hardly seems to me to be a work of incandescent brilliance as so many readers care to claim (out of what I suspect primarily to be a cognitive dissonant need to justify the reading of such a megalithic doorstopper—"I devoted so much time to this literarily virtuosic sophisticatedly sesquipedalian tome that it must be a work of genius!"

>>8750762
>asking a dude from argentina
i wonder what the answer will be

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>17

>>8750786
you sound like a pseud. no wonder you enjoy it

>>8750762
definitely argentina, without counting the more known writers(cortazar, borges, girondo, etc), there are lots more of under writers that if they had recognition would be worldwide acclaimed
chile has some good writers but they're all 7/10 and nothing more

osvaldo lamborghini (argentina) is the best poet i ever read

>>8750698
stranger things have happened, friend /anon/

where are you from specifically, if you don't feel out of sorts answering that?

>18
>Seattle
>Catch22
Its good

>>8750803

Well—and I don't enjoy admitting this—but I actually empathize with the guy in all his puffed-up pretension and noticed quite a few commonalities with him, such as using an above-average though relatively atmospherically low wit to essentially just show-off, displaying style with little or no substance. And your post just goes to show how immediately evident that is in the way I write.

That being said, while no genius, I'm probably smarter than you ;)

>>8750799
well, i think im being objective on this, not just because im from there, i know some writers from chile and they're shitty in mi opinion

>>8750835
i dont doubt youre smart. im sure you are. the problem is that you are greatly overestimating how much smarter than average you really are

>>8750818
Brookhaven

>>8748627
>16
>Balkans
>Critique of Esthetics by Kant and Germinal by Émile Zola,maybe later this week I will hop on some work of Flaubert other than Madamme Bovary

>>8750854
Sick. Also from Suffolk County.

Shirley, over here.

>18
>California
>Inherent Vice
Just started today. It's good but definitely "pynchon-lite" and I keep getting a sinking feeling that I could just be watching the big lebowski

>19
>Canada
>Moby Dick

I actually like it a lot. I've gotten rather into spirituality in the past year and this book is rife with it. I was partially inspired to read it because it was referenced in Illuminatus!

The whale biology chapter was unpleasant though

>>8750872
Just passed through Shirley the other day. Very nice county park over there.

>20
>New York, upstate
>Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
I'm about halfway through, really delightful prose. The characters and the setting are bone-chilling. The plot of the thing can be a little hard to follow but I don't think it's terribly essential to enjoying it.
>Irimias and Petrina threatening to bomb everyone at that bar
kek'd

>>8750883
did you see the movie?
i think the book must be worthwhile

>>8750847
I mean, that might be true, but what does it matter? Sure it could make seem like a smug douche, but the thing is that I honestly do try (though unsuccessfully at times, such as in this case with you (though I really was just saying so in finite jest ayy lmao)) to avoid assuming upon meeting someone that I'm smarter than them unless I have an immediate reason for doing so, which would make it not really an assumption. I also try to avoid comparing myself with others, in intelligence or any other capacity, because that way of thinking is not only impractical but fucking toxic. I also am happy to admit whenever I think someone is simply smarter than me because that means I'll grow intellectually by hearing a new perspective straight from the horse's mouth. Anyway, I don't really know why I'm saying this—you're probably not interested at all. I guess it's mainly for my sake.

>18
>Slovenia
>War and Peace, Tolstoy

I have no idea what to expect, but i like it so far

>>8748627
>27
>Ohio, US
>Brothers Karamazov

Not as good as i thought it would be, but I'm about 3/4 in and it's starting to get good I guess.

>>8750941
Maybe you got your hopes to high, anon. What were you expecting?

>18 as of yesterday
>Wyoming, Illinois
>Encyclopaedia Brittanica, vol. 13

I find it to be a delightful repository of information that has delivered me innumerable and excitingly newfangled expansions to my ever evolving worldview.

>>8748627
>31
>Texas
>Paper Tiger
>it's entertaining but only half way through

>>8750923
>I just say what I think is a "smart people" book
LOL, I don't believe you are reading that shit book for a second. How do I know? Two chapters in and you would have stopped reading that garbage.

>>8748997
Great book, but as an American myself I can tell you it's a little hard to read because he uses words that no one on earth fucking uses anymore.

>>8750959
>he uses words that no one on earth fucking uses anymore.

Kek. Can you give any examples?

>>8750946
I don't know. It's the best book ever written according to /lit/. Maybe you need to be a Christian to truly appreciate it. Im at the part where Dmitri gets v& at the inn.

>>8750982
Post a spoiler alert, you fucking faggot.

>>8750972
I can't remember specifics, but many on this list.

https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/260613

And then I remember I also googled words that didn't even have definitions anywhere, they just brought up excerpts of Blood Meridian.

>>8750990
Hardly a spoiler. Someone about to read it wouldn't know what the fuck I'm talking about and the description on the back of the book gives that much away anyway.

>>8751012
hardly a spoiler old chap! they wouldnt know what i was talking about anyway unless i used the rest of this sentence to further clarify exactly what i was fucking talking about.

>>8750700
The fuck is this even supposed to mean?

>>8751017
Are you off of your medication again?

>>8751029
actually yes.

>>8751017
>says title of book
>gives a very important part away
>not a spoiler
LOL idiot.

>>8748627
>20
>Vancouver, Canada
>The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Never really read much non-fiction, but I think I might start. Super interesting and pretty broad, but I can see how many would be opposed to a journalist writing history vs. a historian. However I find it super comfy and well written, nice to learn a little bit after an intense day of study/work
Downsides: swastika on cover attracts a lot of unwanted attention of public transit, also at 1500+ pages it's pretty demanding

>>8751047
>LOL
how to give away how much of a faggot you are in 3 letters

>>8750883
Movie made me reconsider everything
Although it was a chore at times to watch, I would phase out and it would become beautiful and meditative

>>8751053
Thanks for proving you were wrong by trying to move the goal post.
>he hates memes
>senpai
>bro
>bruh
>100
>:^)
>SJW
>hahaha
>kek
>constanza.jpg
>triggered

>34
>texas
>lone star: the story of texas and the texans

Still reading this as it a bit of a doorstopper. Good shit though and very informative. Fehrenbach keeps most of it moving quickly and lively.

>>8750958
>being this much of a contrarian

23
Calgary
1984
Well I just finished it today and thought it was great. Pretty much an essay by Orwell masked in a novel.

>age
18

>location
California

>current book
The Book Of The New Sun

This is my first actual book that isn't young adult and stuff other than The Hobbit. I like it a lot. My brain kinda skips the random philosophical parts and i dont understand many of the words but i know how to infer and I like when it reminds me that it is Sci-Fi and not Fantasy.

>24
>China
>Don Juan

Guys this is literally the best work in English that I've read. I feel toward Byron as I've felt toward women I've dated in the past. His mastery over the language is indubitable and totally inspirational. To offer a plot, amusement, and philosophy not only in verse, but rhyme is simply genius. I've never felt such adoration and love for a writer as I feel for Byron. I am halfway done and I almost tremble at the thought of having to separate from him. I don't know what I'll do without him.

Pic related, one of the many stanzas I've collected.

>>8751501

>30
>Notts, UK
>Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson
>fantasy escapism, halfway through, decent enough so far

>>8748627
>24
>Germany
>The Count of Monte Cristo
>Eh it's okay so far

>>8751527
Sorry, I guess my phone thought that to send it upside-down from China would translate to a normal picture.

>22
>Germany, (I am american tho)
>Finished Consider the Lobster today, starting White Noise

>>8748997
I didn't care for Blood Meridian but I just don't like McCarthy. No Country for Old Men was better as a movie

>>8748760
incredibly underrated book, one of my favorites.

>24
>Frogland
>Don Quixote

About 75% through. Call me a pleb but honestly it's kinda boring and I look forward to finishing it.

>18
>Iran
>Never Let Me

It's shit

> 22
> Kentucky
> In search of a new book to start atm

>18
>Iran
>Never Let Me Go

It's shit

>>8748627
>20
>brazil
>the odissey

enjoying it, really enjoying it, pages turn really fast

>23
>Finland
>Huck Finn

its decent so far

>>8751714
Whereabouts Brazil are you from? I spent a couple months there last summer

>>8748627
>25
>California
>At Swim-Two-Birds

>>8751715
Except for the ending Huck Finn is a good book. I wasn't blown away but there was nothing to hate about it. Twain was not a deep thinker but he had a great wit if that makes sense.

20
North Dakota
Confederacy of Dunces

I love it, but it's also a far superior version of the short story I wrote on high school I've been expanding, so it's time to move on to some other project I guess.

>>8751089
Hi Hank

>21
>Germany
>Kindred

I really love this book, it is one of the greatest piece of literature that I've ever come across in my live so far.

>>8751677
>21
>Germany
>White Noise

pretty good so far

18
Michigan
Crime and Punishment
The Republic

Crime and Punishment is very compelling and i'm liking the characters alot, especially Razumikhin.

The Republic is interesting, if a little tiring at points. I'm excited to compare it to other philosophy.

>>8748627
>19
>UK
>War and War

It's brilliant. Reminds me of Crime and Punishment.

>>8748627
>26
>Canada
>Sharpe's Siege

I'm not very far into it yet, but as usual with Bernard Cornwell, it's some fantastic historical fiction. I learn something new in just about every one of his books, with the help of checking it online of course just to confirm some things. Best to check multiple sources when accepting something from any form of media as fact.

>21
>Toronto
>All Quiet on the Western Front

I already knew a lot about WWI beforehand, but god damn this has really given me a huge amount of respect for veterans

>>8750958
For the record, i stopped reading at chapter 6

>>8752143
Definitely on my to-read list. I hear amazing things about that book.

>>8752169
It deserves it's praise. it gives an intimate view of the front line soldier that I'd be hard-pressed to find elsewhere

>27
>Canada
>Non fiction history/politics

I have been finding it difficult to read fiction lately. Been leisurely rereading Anna Karenina which is brilliant but I only pick it up once in a while

>>8748627
>20
>US
>The Dead Mountaineer's Inn

I'm having fun.

>>8748627
>23
>London
>history of the pelloponesian war

24
East Anglia

Just finished The House at Pooh Corner, which I landed upon because I was going through one of these threads a few months back (the time delay is because I have a to-read list to get through, of which /lit/ recommendations make up a third) looking for something to read, and someone had posted it.

I loved it. It was beautiful. Cried at the end. I'm in a fragile mood, so I'd have preferred a cheap happy ending.
The naive and innocent language of the characters made the book funnier than any comedic novel I have read.

Christopher Robin is effay.

I really loved it. Bums me out that Milne didn't do more Pooh story books.


Now I'm back scrolling through threads looking for a new book to add to my to-read list.

>27
>Outside Philly
>Neuromancer

Only read the first chapter so far, so too soon to say.

>>8748627
Big fat NIGGUHDICK over petite white jimmies.

>>8748627
>19
>Netherlands
>20,000 leagues under the sea

So far so good.

>>8748627
>27
>Egypt, Alexandria
>stranger in strange land
>The idea of a pure spiritual leader get me right in the feels

>20
>NYC
>Cyberiad

Collection of short stories about two machine makers who well... make some machines. Also the Star Diaries are pretty good.

>20
>Poland
>The Shining

Enjoyable

> 23
> Near Toronto
> The Name of the Rose

Medieval Sherlock Holmes feat. Aristotle. Dope.

>>8751714
South, state of Parana

>>8753191
shit, mean to reply to >>8751722

>>8751694
Where do you live KY friend

>>8748627
>26
>argentina
>the prince by maquiavelo

im on the middle right now, and im enjoying it like hell

>>8748627
>49
>armpit of florida
>rereading Dune for the second time. I was sixteen the first time I read it and now I'm seeing it with a different perspective. Very cool.

>24
>Poland
>Nabokov's Ada, or Ardor
I'd drop it but I want to read everything on lit's top 100 so here I go, I guess

>18
>W a g g a W a g g a
>The Whale

>19
>Brazil
>White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Rereading it because I just broke up and I think I like to suffer

>>8751064
Greeting, reddit.

>20
>México
>Slow learner
I just started to read it

>26
>Charlotte
>The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Just finished it. Pretty meme worthy. Quick read and pretty much bullshit about the death of religion tee bee aitch. Worth the three nights.

>26
>Calgary
>Oblomov

Very comfy and funny.
The part where he falls in love with Olga is particularly comfy. Unfortunately I think I may have oblomovitis.

>>8750881
>The whale biology chapter was unpleasant though
I've gone back and read just this chapter on 2 separate occasions.

>21
>Japan (Canadian living in Japan)
>Richard Rorty's Essays on Heidegger and others. I plan on starting The Woman in the Dunes.

>20
>Philadelphia
>Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Just started it today. Writing style is pretty good, and it's holding my attention well.

>21
>CA
>Picture of Dorian Gray/Jane Eyre
Picture is good, Jane is great.

>>8751695
Worst book. Like watching paint dry.

>15
>Kentucky
>1984
Pretty great, helped get me into /lit/, but I give that credit to Philip K. Dick

>24
>At my computer
>/lit/

It's dry and repetitive, this was a poor purchase.

>>8754673
but muh middlememe

>>8754706
middlememe?

>>8754713
i cant tell if its lit circle jerking or just one unusually high power level sperg. youl see what i mean though

>>8748627
>18
>The Confederate States of America
>Absalom, Absalom!

>>8750948
>such a faggot
>liviing in Illinois
checks out

>>8754673
kek

>25
>Texas
>Examples & Explanations: Contracts 6th edition
I guess its better than a case book.

>>8748627
>21
>Israel
>VALIS

It's very good so far. The seventh Dick novel I'm reading.

>21
>Colorado
>Dubliners and also Mason and Dixon

Dubliners is brilliant and probably my favorite joyce worth the reread.

starting mason and dixon for the first time and it's fun and goofy already but sometimes it feels way too stuffed

>>8755118

>34
>Washington
>Steppenwolf

I'm about 40% in and so far I'm enjoying it. The only other Hesse I've read is Siddhartha.

>>8755147
hehe xd

>>8750101
Reading isn't for you. Watch more TV, you'll have an easier time understanding the characters.

>>8755147
ROFL

>>8755147
memes aside fuck off right now

>>8755285
Get the fuck out my thread, faggot.

>>8755298
ok

>28
>CA
>Hitch-22
I need to become this man. How to get into Oxford and into being British... Gotta start drinking Johnny Walker Black

>>8755147
krk

>>8748627
>18
>Australia
>A Confederacy of Dunces. Eh, it's pretty good. Comfy and easy to read after a busy school year.

>>8751695
>Not reading the Koran

>>8750946
you are talking full nonsense now. Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov, are superb works of literature.
literally the basis of of modern western existentialism

>>8753530
One of the reasons why I don't want to kill myself. Looking forward to seeing what changes the world will experience in the future, and my new perspective on things, including things I've already experienced. That feel of nostalgia when you watch an old movie that was a favourite a decade or two ago, or particularly a video game that was played a lot when you were a kid. 33 years... so the last time you read Dune was in 1983 or so, yeah? Fucking Hell, there was barely even any video games out then! Certainly not the Nintendo Entertainment System, perhaps Atari 2600 was out by then? Ought to have been.

Now look at what we've got; games with photorealistic graphics, complex physics engines, some shooting games with things like adjustable sights, bullet drop, ammo weight, individual mags instead of an ammo pool, shaky aim if you try to shoot while out of breath, etc. Almost like taking a trip out to the shooting range, except you know, it might be WWII or something. Imagine all the things you'd have missed if you got particularly angsty and depressed when you were a teen, killed yourself, and ended up missing the last 3 decades. Nope! I want to ride this out and see what shit is going to be like in 2050!!! Take care of yourself, and you might still be around as well! Medicine is always improving; it's certainly far from impossible for you to make it to your 80s!

>>8754571
Awesome, what's it like over in Asia, fellow Canuck?

>25
>Norway
>Madame Bovary and In The Twilight

Just started on Madame Bovary, but so far so good

Chekhov is a fucking master though, don't think I've ever read a better collection of short stories. The people he portrays are all so real and intriguing.

>18
>Australia
>Perfume
im really enjoying it, its a great read

>19
>UK
>The Count of Monte Cristo
Makes me regret not getting into reading until my late teens, honestly. Too much of a pleb right now to give a proper answer but it's really good so far.

>>8750914
You write like a fag man, shut up

>>8755271
How's life in the clock tower?

>>8755884
I'm not him, but I'm not sure if I've ever heard that saying before. What's its source/meaning, if you don't mind me asking?

>>8748627
Gross image, OP.
>23
>Florida
>Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
I think it's a brilliant, well-written book, but it's very viscerally uncomfortable to read. Time is moving backward and so every action and dialogue in the entire book is told backward, end to beginning.

>>8748972
Ahh! Another Breece D'J Pancake fan! Easily the most underrated 20th-c. short story writer. I wish he hadn't an hero'd :(

>25
>Indiana
>Broom of the System

This is the first DFW work I've read that doesn't occasionally make me roll my eyes and wonder how this guy got so far up his own asshole. It's more overtly humorous than his short stories I've read. I like it.

>>8750881
How did you feel about the whales in the history of Western art chapter?

>>8752562
Which township?

>>8749583
A lot of that is particular to Milton. He was something of a radical in many respects.

>18

>Kansas

>Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault


>>8748972
Hey same, are you at KU? Going from a public library to a uni library has been life-changing.

>18
>Florida
>physics and philosophy

>inb4 gtfo /sci/
Its really great, i've always tought of physics as the most wholesome science. It's the science that tries to explain the world, what's beyond, and our mere existence.
This book is not an exception, if you read thoroughly i promise a lot "oh shit" moments.
If any of you guys are interested in this kind of stuff i recomend checking it out.

>>8748627
>21
>Texas
>Phenomenology of Spirit
It's like sandpaper for my eyes.

25
Eire
At swim two birds - Flann O Brien

Gymnastics for your imagination at times

>>8756841
I'm 25 and I just finished that, wanna cyber?
>Gymnastics for your imagination
Pretty much this desu

>>8756012
It's a fucking sausage, mate. What's so gross about it?

>>8748627
>24
>ny
>dubliners and portrait of the artist as a young man (they're together in the same B&N classics book). i'm enjoying it although i'm pretty entry level.

>>8757093
Neither of those are difficult. They're really enjoyable to read and I'm glad you're happy. Ulysses was a book that I really liked but I dread rereading it, I've read Dubliners 3 times.

>27
>Glasgow, Scotland
>Book of Saki's Short Stories

Pretty comfy desu.

>>8748627
>22
>Germany
>.Hack://AI Buster
It´s an amusing read

23
California
finishing death of a salesman and moving on to 1984

>20
>Magdeburg, Germany
>Foundation
Pretty dope.

>>8757337
>>8757347
Wer ist das besten deutsche schrieber?

>20
>Indianapolis
>Myth of Sisyphus. It is very good but some of the prose feels like it was translated poorly.

>>8757480
Was meinst du damit?

>>8757480
Goethe. I've heard that Günter Grass is good, but haven't read anything by him.

>>8757505
>Günther Grass
Don't bother. Read Thomas Mann, Musil, Rilke instead.

>>8757510
Buddenbrooks is probably the most boring book I've ever tried to read, is his other stuff better?

>>8757480
Rilke for sure

>>8756247
yup

oliver hall

>>8748627
>28
>Sweden
>CELL by Stephen King

I've read it before. Mostly rereading it for my essay.

> 30
> UK
> Swan Song

It's ok. Not what I wanted

>>8757500
I want to know who are the best, most renown German writers are.

How would I ask that correctly in German?

>>8757597
Wer sind die besten deutschen Autoren/Schriftsteller/Dichter (pick one)

>>8757614
Genau

>>age
26
>>location
GTA, Ontario
>>current book you're reading and how do you like it

Preacher Book One - pretty good desu

>>8748627
>20
>Switzerland
>Brothers Karamazov

Always avoided reading it, but now that I got into it, I really can't remember why.

>20
>England
>'Strictly English', by Simon Heffer. It is most enlightening.

>>8748627
>22
>lolita
>i expected it to be a meme book but its actually quite beautiful

>>8757878
also halifax ns but im american from CO

>>8757880
Huh, a Yank in Canadaland, eh? How are ya liking it here? Also, out of curiosity, is there any smut in the novel Lolita or is the sex merely referenced in passing, or is it possibly not even that and it's just a more-or-less 'romantic' love as apposed to 'sexual/physical' love?

>>8757959
Canadaland is pretty cool
Mostly nice people desu
didn't have to pay a dude in white coat to touch my balls when i found a lump
shit was free
wew
University costs about the same but its a better school with a better reputation
>hows lolita?
Its got both smut (although just barely) and romantic elements
I must confess though its in a very romantic style of prose so even the smut dosent seem all that bad
the concepts are still smut lol

>>8750400
It is easier, it is geared towards kids, it just happens to be good enough that not only kids read it.

>19
>California
>Slaughterhouse 5

enjoying it. wanted to read cause vonnegut is a cool last name

I have just started Steppenwolf. I think it's alright, although I like Siddhartha and Narcissus and Goldmund more.

>27
>Germany
>Collected Poems by Walt Whitman (some are boring lists, while others really connect with me)
>Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (more fun to read, but you can see its age in some places; still very good if you like stuff like Ready Player One by Ernest Cline or Daemon by Daniel Suarez)

Why is everybody always 'reading' Notes from Underground? You can finish it in like 3 hours max

26
Newfoundland Canada
Dialectic of Enlightenment

Good so far, extremely pertinent for 21st century scientism criticism as well as why we don't progress on morally linear grounds

Also reading some Blake poetry and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I like quite a bit

>>8755992
>>8755884

22
UK
Heart of dog

It's pretty good so far but I'm only one chapter in.

>>8748627

>23
>Mexico
>Post Office Girl by Zweig
>The Third Lie by Agota Kristof

I don't know about the Zweig one yet cause I just started (I read a novella by him last night, about a librarian Jew named Jakob Mendel who ends up in concentration camp, was pretty good), and The Third Lie is good so far, it's the last part of a trilogy about two brothers, Claus and Lucas, during the last years of WWII in Hungary.

At first I thought Agota Kristof was another way to spell Agatha Christie but it's someone else, really good writer, with a simple but beautiful style (she originally wrote in French).

>>8759198

I read this like two months ago. Pretty good and funny, I enjoyed it more than Master and Margarita, t b h.

>>8748627
>19
>France/Germany
>The Idiot
Absolutely incredible. It is my first Russian and I already want to read more

>>8757819
Reading my first Dostoevsky (or Dostoyevsky, anyone know why we use the first one generally?), also not sure why it took me this long to get into him. If you've read Tolstoy or the other Russians, how does Dosto compare?

>>8759205

I envy you. I already read all his work, I wish I could read Brothers Karamazov or White Nights for the first time again.

>>8759210
Do you think there is a best order to read him in? I picked up The Idiot almost by accident (it was the only decent book in the local English bookstore), but now I think I'll read him chronologically.

>>8759217

I didn't read him in any particular order but sounds like a good idea. I suggest you read Crime and Punishment next, though. And maybe his short stories.

I also recommend you to read Chekhov, one of my favorite Russian authors besides Dosto.

>26
>Sweden
>Solaris

this book is packed with sci-fi nonsense isn't it

>>8748627
>26
>Portugal
>Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

To be frank, after years of almost drowning myself in existentialist and post modern works, this book is making me feel great.

>>8759279
should just watch the movie friendo

>20
>Spain
>Modern moral philosophy - WD Hudson. Pretty cool.
>Die Ursache - Bernhard (spanish translation). Sick, as every Bernhard novel.
>The theatre of Dyonisus in Athens - A Pickard-Cambridge. Quite boring, I'm reading it for a college task tho.

>>8748627
>27
>Novosibirsk, Russia
>The Three Musketeers. I'm really enjoying it so far.

>>8757998
Sounds cool. Free ball touching is best ball touching.

>>8759182
I still don't know what "How's life in the clock tower" means.

>>8757097
thx man. i'm enjoying the prose

>>8757574
Only Stephen king book I read. I liked it. Dunno why lit gets so damn pretentious

>>8759207
Dostoevsky has long monologues and characters breaking into insane ramblings and hallucinations.

Tolstoy is more natural in dialogue and flow.

Of the two I like Dostoevsky more, although I've only read two Tolsloy novels and I didn't like them very much. Tolstoy seemed to invoke titillation at human suffering which put me off while Dostoevsky was angry, sad, and hopeful at our vices. Tolstoy creeped me out.

>>8759175
>You can finish it in like 3 hours max

>>8759225
>Chekhov

Can you tell us more about him, mate? I've never heard of him before.

>>8759175
That book took me a month and six wine bottles to finish, not sure if it was worth it

>>8759175
If it's available why read anything else?

>>8748627
>22
>Argentina
>Blood Meridian

bretty gud XD, I love the descriptions of the scenery and the always present apocalyptic feel it has, I hate having to look up so many fucking words tho

>>8759910
He's a short story writer and playwright. Known for his quite, deeply aesthetic slice of life stories. Sort of like Carver but better. Sort of like Kawabata without the Japaneseness. 10/10 author, a favourite, totally recommend.

>22
>Indiana, US
>Siddhartha

I like it.

>>8760010
>totally recommend.

I'll look into him, mate. Can you suggest specific works that I should consider, though?

>18
>Canada
>East of Eden
Really enjoying it. I've lived on a farm all my life so it's real comfy reading.

>>8760038
Most of his Novellas are great. His four great plays are great (obviously) and there are decent stagings on youtube. It's too hard to really recommend individual short stories because they are, well so short. Some of them are less than a page. Mileage may vary with some of the short stories, which think this is inevitable for a short story writer, but just get stuck in with a collection.

>28
>Czech Republic
>Count Zero by William Gibson

Felt like more cyberpunk after rereading Neuromancer earlier. So far I'm getting it.

>22
>Mexico City
>The Meaning of Shakespeare, by Harold Goddard

Not really reading it completely, just the chapters of the plays I have read. Right now I'm reading the Measure for Measure essay. I'ts quite good, and though I don't agree with some of Goddard's interpretations on the play, it is thought-provoking and sheds light on the play.

In general, I really recommend reading Goddard's essays on Shakespeare. I particularly liked the one on The Merchant of Venice, but the rest of them are also excellent pieces of criticism. Sometimes it is even better than Bloom's The Invention of the Human, though Goddard other times gives a better interpretation and arguments than Bloom.

>18
>Southern Germany
>Ficciones by Borges
It's outstandingly brilliant but too much of his writing at once makes me dizzy and anxious.

>26
>Ireland
>Listening to the honourable schoolboy by Le Carre because I just want to listen to something simple while I toil
>reading the cinema of mamoru oshii by cavallaro cause I love his work, read Stray Dog by Brian ruh before this.

Never finished reading On another man's wound and nees to get back into it but feels like a chore after so long

>19
>Israel
>Underground by Murakami, The ego and its own by Stirner

Underground is because I'm trying to learn about new religious movements, it's an interesting read so far.

The ego and its own is because of the memes.
I won't lie about it, I saw the memes, I read the wiki and it seemed interesting, half way through it and it's actually pretty great.

>>8750914
holy shit shut the fuck up. Your justifications are proof of how unintelligent you are.

>>8751064
wew...

>>8748627
>21
>CZ
>crime and punishment
its shit

>17/youngfag
>UK
>Napoleon the Great

>22
>Glasgow
>Physics

>>8760361
>its shit

What? I disagree. So far I've read The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Notes from the Underground, and A Gentle Spirit; Crime and Punishment has been my favorite so far.

>>8755200
Almost done with this. Found Peter Camenzind at a used store the other day, anyone read that?

>>8760537
It's his first novel I believe, good stuff. I read Under The Wheel this week, his second novel. It was surprisingly depressing, it's about a young boy slowly being crushed by school and the pressure of his parent until he drowns himself . A great read.

>>8748627
>24
>California
>Brothers Karamazov

only about one hundred pages into it, so I can't form a proper opinion about it.

i fucking hate it and i'm bored to tears. the only reason i'm forcing myself to read it is because i'm trying to get through the /lit/ top 100 chart. before you start calling me a weak pleb, i've read Moby Dick and plenty of other 900+ page books, which i thoroughly enjoyed.

>>8760577
Going through something you don't like just to satisfy some Internet sanhedrin of pseuds is the most blatant sign of plebbery.

>23
>Spain
>"Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning"
It's a great book and fairly easy to read. Problem is that it's one of the first books that I'm actually reading in English, so I'm reading it slower than I usually do. It gets really frustrating at times and only makes me want to read other books coming down the conveyor (I really want to read "The Neuromancer" and "The Man in the High Castle"). Far from being a problem of fluency with the language, what I feel is that my reading is inefficient and awkward.

Still, I highly recommend the book. For future reference I'll try to read English literature in it's mother, I'll tacke the challenge again.

>TL;DR Anon sucks at inglish, likes the book and recs it

>>8748627
>24
>Barcelona, Spain
>Notre Damme du Fleur, Jean Genet

Just because his writing is absolute delicate and its full of gifts for the reader. Impregnating me with his prisms of beauty.
Also i am hetero.

>>8760618
>impregnating me with prisms of beauty
>also i am hetero
I have bad news for you anon.

>>8760240
i know that feel, just read more until you face him without your role as a reader, he plays with that.

>20
>France
>Aurélien by Louis Aragon

>>8760618
Cheers, compatriota.
¿No lo estarás leyendo en francés? Si es cierto, mucha suerte con eso ¿has leído algún libro en inglés que te haya gustado de sobremanera por el hecho de pertenecer a esa lengua?

De momento no encuentro ningún aliciente real a leer en inglés (vale, la belleza de las sutilezas lingüísticas no se diluye blablabla). Sólo leo publicaciones científicas (obviamente, es la lengua franca) y libros sin traducción (véase >>8760609).

Un saludo y que los dioses de la lectura te sonrían

>>8760622
sense of beauty is not a sexual orientatio -though it can be a bit gay i admit-.

>>8760618
Eres el faragefag?

>>8748627
19
Romania
Don Quijote
I like it.

>>8760651
no, voy a googlear eso xD

>24
>Germany
>Thus spoke Zarathustra + Siddartha (Hermann Hesse)
Siddartha is nice. Might go back and read some other stuff by Nietzsche before I can appreciate Zarathustra.

>>8760667
No te molestes, amic. Slang del hilo espanyol del /int/.

>>8760676
I've been told that in German, Zarathustra and the Bible hold similar structures. Maybe you could read that as well.

>>8760684
Quien va a /int/? wtf

no estoy molesto jej

>>8760712
Read the Bible. There are indeed similarities. The problem doesn't lie in the structure though. It's just very hard for me to understand what he means at face value and what he doesn't. Because it isn't always clearly stated and I differ from Nietzsche quite a bit.

But yeah, thanks for the advice. Might crossread the two a bit.

>>8760552
Haven't read that one, will have to check it out. Thanks. Also, thanks for covering up that spoiler. I didn't read that part.

>>8748627
>18*
>Northern Ireland
>Frankenstein

reading it for school, petty decent. i enjoy the philosophical questions behind it

>>8749543
wonderful

16
India
The doors of perception

>>8760598
when did i say i was trying to satisfy someone?

>>8758025
Makes sense.

>>8760834
Why would you want to fill the box of "I resd the 100 books /lit/ told me to read" even if you dislike some of them? Why do you practically apologize for disliking one of those books and quick yourself to drop the fact that you read some hard books, so you aren't one of dem "weak plebs"? Nigga just read what you like and, even if this shit sounds stupid, be confident with your own opinion.

>19
>Ecuador
>Leaves of grass.
It's been great so far.

>22
>redneck New York
>Moby Dick

Okay so far.

>19
>New Jersey
>Notes from underground
read C&P and The Brothers Karamazov a while ago, the latter being my favorite book out of anything i have ever read. a few pages into NFU and i really like it. One thing I am always cautious of when reading Dostoevsky is not to get caught up into the characters too much as I have a tendency to absorb bits of their personalities. His writing is too strong

>>8757484
Indianapolis bro!

>18
>Florida
>Don Quixote/Ulysseus

>24
>canada
>patriarcha, it's pretty darn neat

it's only like 50 or so pages i think, but i'm reading it on my computer so it's taking forever

21
US
Master and Margarita

Really enjoying it.
Just finished the reunion between the Master and Margarita after Satan's ball. Feels like a good place to stop. Whats in store for me ahead?

>>8762329
>Whats in store for me ahead?

boipucci

>>8760676
Also German here.
Zarathustra has so been my only Nietzsche. I have planned to read more, but just haven't got around to it.
Hesse is probably my favorite German writer. Even used one of his quotes on my wedding invitations.

>>8748846

>21
>Boston
>99 francs by Beigbeder

It's shit. Everything else we've read in this class (Marivaux, Rousseau, Stendhal, Duras) has been decent to god-tier. This one's just irritating.

>>8748627
>17
>MX
>the catcher in the rye.
It started slowly.

>>8750806
cuantos nobel tenés negro envidioso?

Chile has better poets across the board, easily (Huidobro, Nicanor Parra, Neruda, Mistral)

>>8748627
>21
>Midwestern U.S.
>Ovid's Metamorphoses

Liking some of the stories but I find it hard to read one after the other. I'm thinking I'm going to read it as an episodic book and starting a novel to read as well.

21
Brazil
Steppenwolf

About half-read, liking it.
Is the magic theater drugs?

>>8766677
Sim, Teatro Mágico é uma droga

sorry couldn't lose the awful joke

>>8757470
Also Middlemarch now, fucking amazing

>>8748627
>19
>Germany
>The Symposium
I think it's useful.

>>8748627
19
continental croatia
General theory of law and the state and its utterly boring commie liberal bullshit, i should have studied literature or philosophy

19
Brazil
Infinite Jest, i'm liking it

Same guy from >>8760235

I started reading pic related, and holy shit it is incredible.

If you liked Lolita or any other Nabokov but haven't read Speak, Memory, you should do it asap. His meditation on the nature of time and memory on the first chapter is incredible. Even the first paragraph is better to Lolita's.

>>8768127
better than***

>>8748627

>19
>Montréal
>The Favorite Game, Leonard Cohen

dark and poetic, very nice read

>>8748627
>21
>Baltimore MD, USA
>Introduction to Montague Semantics - David Dowty
>& also Number Theory - George Andrews

>>8748627

> 21
> Parana, Brazil
> The Prague Cemetery

It's a enjoyable read.
I had never read anything by Umberto Eco before.
His (or, the translator's) prose is very, very nice to read.

>>8748899
Hello brother, French here too.
J'ai lu "Sous le soleil de Satan": littéralement un de meilleurs livres qui soit / one of the best books there is.
You better be Catholic to really understand/embrace it though.

>21
>Germany
>Dune

About 70 pages in, did not really start off yet, hope it does soon, only heard good things about it

>19
>The Occult by Colin Wilson
It's decent, although the author tends to repeat himself alot, and gives a few too many examples of points he's trying to get across.

>18
>UK
>Heart of Darkness

Literally just started it. Reading it to spite some feminist in my class that said it was awful because it's 'racist'

29
Chicago suburbs
Secret History of the Soul

>19
>UK
>First Love and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev

First real experience with Russian literature, translation seems pretty good. It's beautiful so far. Shame it's relatively short, I don't really want it to end