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>come to /lit/
>nobody even mention the books you are currently reading
>don't want to create a thread because you are a lazy fucker
discuss those books that only you want to talk about

>> No.11473065

I recently read Natsume Soseki's Kokoro. It was pleasant, and very traditionally Japanese. I wish I could've been around to see Meiji-era Japan.

>> No.11473075

I'm reading Faust, by Goethe and The Mediocre man, by Jose Ingenieros.

>> No.11473111

I can’t decide which to start. War and Peace or The Magic Mountain?

>> No.11473161

but anon, you just created a thread
the power was within you all along

>> No.11473167
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11473167

Gravity's Rainbow is great

>> No.11473172

Currently reading El Aleph, El Libro de Arena was better desu

>> No.11473198

>>11473161
the idea was to welcome all the lazy anons
>>11473172
I don't like Borges, but his prose is beautiful

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What's the best way to get into dickens I hear he's pretty alright

>> No.11473317

>>11473308
Christmas Carol is comfy

>> No.11473322

Just started reading Beyond Good and Evil. I read Gay science a while ago, but don't remember much from it and skipped a lot of the poems.

What should I know? What should I read next?

Inb4 telling me to read Gay science next

>> No.11473360

>>11473111
I read both this year. W&P has more sublime moments. TMM engages in more intellectual discourse.

>> No.11473381

I'm read The Story of The Stone.
It's kinda hard with all names that show up, but overall is bretty good. I'm chapter and I like how every one so far ends with "...Find out on the next chapter!"

>> No.11473389

i must be banned

>> No.11473416

I've just started with Taleb's Antifragile, he is a little goofy at times, but there is some interesting moments. I do agree with him overall and not to rely heavily on 'expert' and 'professional' knowledge.

>> No.11473425

>>11473065
>I wish I could've been around to see Meiji-era Japan.
Oh yeah the heads left on fence posts were so tranquil.

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>>11473317
thank u fren

>> No.11473473

>>11473046
I just finished "No Longer Human" by Osamu Dazai. It was edgy at times. But overall I enjoyed it and related in some ways, as I struggle with a drinking problem. Socializing has always been difficult as well.

>> No.11473489

>>11473046
Reading The Possessed rn

Only about halfway through but stylistically it pales in comparison to C&P among his other works, although it does have rare moments of thematic excellence

Can really see the influence of Turgenev in this one

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>>11473046
I want some low tier retard shit. Pretty much kid's books except they say fuck occaisionally. I've read everything by George RR Martin and Joe Abercrombie and really enjoyed it. I'm never going to read Ulysses. I like easily digestable fiction.

>> No.11473501

>>11473493
A Canticle for Leibowitz

>> No.11473914

Mythology by Edith Hamilton

I fell for the START WITH THE GREEKS meme
Hopefully it's legit

>> No.11473919

>>11473046
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship

>> No.11473935

>>11473914
It's pretty good. I read it after reading a good bit of the Greeks and still found her writing to be pretty interesting, even when she covered material I was familiar with.

>> No.11473965

I'm two thirds of the way through The Scarlet Letter and the fucking paragraph length sentences are strange to read, did y'all niggas like Nathaniel Hawthorne's prose?

>> No.11474046

Maybe if you stopped posting frogs you'd worry less about fitting in?

Just do it or hop away please.

>> No.11474689

I'm reading The Tartar Steppe and it's pretty depressing

>> No.11474710

>>11473046
Mao II is good.

>> No.11474737

>>11473046
I want to start Fight Club. Is it good, or is it edgy garbage?

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One of the best books I've read and the author is not even famous outside of my (and his) city.

>> No.11475054

>>11474737
palahniuk is a terminally good writer

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>>11474046
what a cringe, guess who's the only one trying to fit in posting this kind of pseud Intelectual critique

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Why is Thomas Bernhard never mentioned on /lit/?

>> No.11475155

>>11474737
I loved it and if someone tells you it's edgy garbage, just ignore them. "Edgy" is just a term that gets used when people can't take darker/more extreme pieces of art serious, so don't let that stop you.

>> No.11475165

>>11473965
Personally I find books from that period to be grating as they go on and on in that long winded fashion. I know it’s just the way things were done and I should look past it but it simply isn’t pleasant to read for me.
But hey man hopefully you enjoy it, lots of people say Hawthorne is one of the great American writers.

>> No.11475175

Really enjoying Soseki's I Am A Cat. A funny, comfy read and just the kind of pick-me-up I needed. I don't know why I haven't explored more Japanese literature outside of Mishima and Murakami.

Just a few pages into Hard-Boiled Wonderland and it already sounds notably different from Murakami's other works. He sounds younger and like he's actually trying. The difference reminds me of Chihuly's early dynamic forms compared to the lazy orbs he makes now.

>> No.11475181

>>11475175
good stuff, i really should finish it