/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13935714]

What are you currently reading lads?

[Anonymous No.13935726]

Zeno's Conscience

Not very impressed to be honest

[Anonymous No.13935808]

Don Quixote
Only just started it today

[Anonymous No.13935813]

Moby Dick
On page 430
Hope to finish by Sunday

[Anonymous No.13935837]

>>13935726
quit

[Anonymous No.13935875]

Pensees

[Anonymous No.13935883]

Thomas Carlyle's commentary on the French Revolution

[Anonymous No.13935940]

Alexis de Tocqueville...
which i'm sure most Americans have read.

[Anonymous No.13935972]

>>13935714
Penis pussies and panties

[Anonymous No.13935980]

The one, the only, Moby Dick. Dare I ask, what am I in for lads?

[Anonymous No.13935981]

>>13935972
The panty trilogy

[Anonymous No.13935983]

>>13935940
Boring

I’m an American and I’m reading real literature like Dhalgren

[Anonymous No.13935990]

>>13935983
Delany should be in a mental hospital

[Anonymous No.13935995]

>>13935980
The greatest most sublime novel in the history of American literature. It requires a lot from it’s reader, both in intuition and sensing, but an even moderately dedicated modern reader should come to enjoy the first two thirds and ending of the book.

[Anonymous No.13936007]

Mason and Dixon and The Middle Sea. I do the fictionnon fictionduality

[Anonymous No.13936014]

La société du spectacle. First two chapters are pretty good and a ~easy~ read, but I'm struggling a bit on the third, mostly because I haven't read Das Capital yet or anything by Hegel, but google is helping me, so it's ok.

[Anonymous No.13936019]

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

What the fuck is this? Page 35 and I don't get shit it's like reading the bible for the future

[Anonymous No.13936059]

>>13936019
That's the vibe, bro.

[Anonymous No.13936067]

>>13935883
how is it? I just finished Sartor Resartus.

[Anonymous No.13936077]

Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals for university

[Anonymous No.13936092]

50 pages left in The Rings of Saturn by Sebald. It’s been a phenomenal and dense read full of lots of detours into researching Sebald’s references. I feel like it’ll be a lifelong friend that I return to visit with from time to time to see what more I can learn and what more I understand. At the very least, I wanna give it a couple months and come back and read it without consistently interrupting Sebald’s lovely prose to dive into understanding what he’s talking about. Up next is something a bit lighter, Snow Country by Kawabata, which I should get started on tonight or tomorrow depending on when I decide to go out.

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[Anonymous No.13936112]

Franny and zooey, someone one here recommended it for Infp personality. I know that test is a fucking hoax but its simplicity has a certain usefulness

[Anonymous No.13936113]

>>13936092
Really liked the part about Fitzgerald translating the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayym and his unrequited man crush on that married guy

[Anonymous No.13936126]

I’m only 1/4 through it but it’s quite good.

[Anonymous No.13936134]

Life of Pi, it ia enjoyable and it describes events in a way that make me feel something.

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>>13936019
i readed it three times and just in the last one i understood 2/3 of the book

[Anonymous No.13936300]

>>13936113
Yeah, the Fitzgerald and Conrad parts have been my favorite so far. Also really struck by the bit about the military research island and the sailors reading room (really struck me how much Handler plucked out of this book to inform some setpieces in Series of Unfortunate Events, which I loved as a kid)

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>>13935837
Already finished it since I made that post. Much like Zeno Cosini I am unable to quit bad things

[Anonymous No.13936414]

>>13935714
J R by William Gaddis

[Anonymous No.13936428]

>>13935714
The Count of Monte Cristo, dead halfway through
Dracula, been chipping away at it for months. Having trouble building interest
Consider the Lobster by DFW. Surprised by how funny it's been. Maybe it's all in Infinite Jest but I don't see how people can think he's pretentious if this is how he always writes.

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>>13936428
>And to clarify I mean to say "dead halfway through" as "I am in the literal middle of the book" not "I hate this book after reading the first half".

[Anonymous No.13936448]

>>13935714
The notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Book of Disquiet

[Anonymous No.13936493]

Slowly chugging through Zizek's First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. I don't feel so hopelessly lost with it because I'm just old enough to remember both 9/11 and the 2008 Great Recession. I know I'll want to keep it and revisit it later, it's pretty decent desu

[Anonymous No.13936511]

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima. I'm really enjoying both. I'm finishing up the Mishima on my train ride home now.

[Anonymous No.13936536]

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. So far it's underwhelming to me.

[Anonymous No.13936540]

>>13935714
Journey to the End of the Night.
He's back in France now so it's a bit slower than it was compared to the beginning, but it's still enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.13936548]

Dune

[Anonymous No.13936559]

>>13936112
I discovered IJ because someone recommend it for INTPs and it's my favorite book so I wouldn't say the method is awful

[Anonymous No.13936562]

>>13936559
INTP squad checking in

[Anonymous No.13936565]

Needed to change things up a bit, so....

[Anonymous No.13936649]

>>13935940
nice

[Anonymous No.13936720]

The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, had to do something simple and dumb after frying my brain on Tolstoy

[Anonymous No.13936725]

>>13936112
what do you mean by 'hoax'? a hoax is saying that something that isn't factual is. mbti doesn't state that's factual. it's a scientific theory

[Anonymous No.13936732]

A Gentleman in Moscow
It's pretty good

[Anonymous No.13936803]

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Just the fact that he was Roman Emperor (arguably the leader of the biggest empire in the world at the time) at the time makes so much more interesting. It would be like Donald Trump writing a philosophy book today.

Apparently he never intended to release it so it allows him to add a much more personal inflection to his philosophy that I don't see a whole lot in other philosophy books. It's very interesting and quite good.

[Anonymous No.13936811]

The Psyche as Sacrament
Satyricon

[Anonymous No.13936817]

>>13935714

Beowulf (Seamus Heaney edition)
Collection of Lenin essays
A bit of poetry from Heaney, Bishop, and Glück on the side as well. Good time.

[Anonymous No.13936819]

>>13936803

Youll enjoy Senecas «letters» too then. It’s basically the big boy version of Meditations (Epicurus too).

>>13935813

My favorite book, hope you enjoy !

[Anonymous No.13936836]

>>13936067
it's good, very angry

[Anonymous No.13936838]

Timeless by R.A. Salvatore

It's ok. I hope the next book, Boundless, is a little more action driven.

[Anonymous No.13936854]

>>13936725
It was, now it's treated like facts in corporate culture, where I am at least

[Anonymous No.13936921]

>>13935726
What didn't you like about it, anon? I have it in my backlog as it looks interesting.

[Anonymous No.13936935]

Accelerando
>>13935813
More like Moby Dicks

[Anonymous No.13936954]

The Red Badge of Courage and Blood Meridian. I dropped Blood Meridian ~100 pages in earlier this year because it was just going no where and only recently got back to it. Feels like it might actually being going somewhere at 160. It feels a lot like The Road in the sense that the main group moves, camps, talks around the campfire and then moves on again tomorrow, but where The Road was very easy to read, Blood Meridian is dense to the point of being laborious. The Red Badge of Courage is pretty good, I dont understand what half the reviews on Goodreads are about, just seems that too many 8th graders got assigned the book and hated for that reason alone.
I also picked up Tribe, Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire and Moby Dick recently. Wondering if I should also pick up Sebastian Junger's other books? He seems somewhat based and cognisant of the benefits offered by the military/militarism. Am I misreading him and projecting or is he just another "war bad" kind of person?

[Anonymous No.13936973]

Middlemarch
Conquest of Mexico by Prescott
Slowly working through Donne’s poems
Two other really shitty books for my history classes

[Anonymous No.13936976]

Excession
The Portable Hannah Arendt

[Anonymous No.13937059]

>>13936112
I like Salinger's prose but have yet to read The Catcher in the Rye since I'm not a burger, and quite frankly, fucking sick of brooding teenagers and their pretentious pseud-ass.

[Anonymous No.13937110]

>>13936019
Just wait until you get to will to power.
Ohboy youre in for a ride.

[Anonymous No.13937187]

>>13936540
I find Journey to be a novel primarily in 2 parts, and each of them does each part well but they are distinctly different, which often affects the perception of readers when they expect the entire book to be of one style, and in typical Celine fashion he has no reason to oblige us with such. The first part is the picaresque novel / Heart of Darkness riff par excellence, where the heart is actually the city of Detroit's car manufacturing industry, where the criticism of that mode of life is less of a political one and more of a proto-existentialist / expressionist scream to the universe, the second is Robinson's (and by extension Ferdinand's) modern Greek strategy of moral apathy, spiritual ennui, and sexual demise, where each action directly compounds upon the other but located within one city instead of on the world stage

[Anonymous No.13937258]

>>13935726
It’s fine, yeah. Not great. As a Man Grows Older is better.

[Anonymous No.13937294]

I’m nearly done with an H.P. Lovecraft collection. I am currently on Dreams in the Witch-House

[Anonymous No.13937327]

Jean Edward Smith's "Eisenhower in War and Peace"

[Anonymous No.13937345]

i'm currently reading Pale Fire. It's certainly more than I expected.

[Anonymous No.13937360]

Kind of funny, but kind of sad. Let's say Rushdie is to fiction as Colbert is to comedy. He used to be great at it, but he has become obsessed with the whole Orange Man Bad/SJW thing and can't get out of it. He sure hates wypipo.

[Anonymous No.13937426]

Almost half way through Plato's Complete Works without taking a break with another book. I really need a gap now though.
Taking recs from any era.

[Anonymous No.13937434]

>>13937426
My completely random recommendation is Raymond Carver's Where I'm Calling From

[Anonymous No.13937448]

>>13935714
The gambler sucked and was only written to pay off debt to a casino. Fyodor sold out

[Anonymous No.13937449]

I'm reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It's a cyberpunk novel set in California in the future. The main character, Hiro Protagonist, has two Nipponese swords, which he uses because they are more effective weapons than a gun. It's very good so far, three or four chapters in.

[Anonymous No.13937456]

What book should I start Murakami with?

[protaganist !!PHaCjs3L2MW No.13937457]

>>13937449
PS, I have a name now.

[Anonymous No.13937458]

>>13937456
Ideally you shouldn't start at all, but if you insist read Hard-Boiled Wonderland and then his short stories

[Anonymous No.13937464]

>>13935714

[Anonymous No.13937466]

I have like 50 pages left in Gravity's Rainbow. It's pretty dope so far. I'll have to read it again some day to get more out of it.

[Anonymous No.13937471]

>>13937456
Wind-up Bird if you want to read the magic realism style Murakami
Norwegian Wood if you want slice of life romance style Murakami

[Anonymous No.13937474]

Dune so I can be ready for based Denis Villenueve's movie

[protaganist !!PHaCjs3L2MW No.13937484]

>>13937466
>>13937449
On the back of my copy of Snow Crash a review says it's "Like a Pinecone novel with the brakes removed"

[Anonymous No.13937519]

It's pretty good

[Anonymous No.13937681]

>>13935980
hella lot of detours about the intricacies of whaling

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>>13937360
Haven't read any Rushdie in a while but i remember his later sorties beginning to take their own irony seriously. Or maybe more accurately having this modern brand of sincere irony where everything, no matter how fully meant, is said with a wink and a nod as to always keep open the backdoor or of ironic detachment and plausible deniability.

[Anonymous No.13937721]

My dreadful Neuroscience textbook. Only one more week though, then I'll have time again and will probably read some Henry James.

[Anonymous No.13937767]

>>13935714
The third dunk and egg novella because I’m a pleb

[Anonymous No.13937782]

A storm of swords

[Anonymous No.13937784]

The Collected Works of Aeschylus. There's only seven extant, and so far I've read The Persians, The Suppliant Maidens, The Seven Against Thebes, and Agamemnon. I have read the Orestia before, but none of the rest of his works. Going from Euripides back to this old man is a hell of a shock. Now I understand why Arisophanes joked about him being repetitively. The Persians is maybe a hundred line play repeated ten times.

[Anonymous No.13937834]

>>13936562
what's your favourite book, or top 3?

[Anonymous No.13937857]

Brave new world. Only now I realised that I hate fantasy and a lacking of philosophical themes

[Anonymous No.13937866]

>>13935714
Bible

[Anonymous No.13937871]

>picked up st.augustine confessions
worth a read?

[Anonymous No.13937906]

Count Zero. Pretty good dsytopian sci fi. I enjoy Gibson.

[Anonymous No.13937926]

[Anonymous No.13938016]

Elantris
the more classics I read the less I enjoy fantasy books, which I used to swallow in one weekend. Now when I read them the writing feels kinda empty and soulless.

[Anonymous No.13938027]

>>13935714
A Confederacy of Dunces and Classic Locked-Room Mysteries.

[Anonymous No.13938286]

To Kill a Mockingbird

[Anonymous No.13938304]

The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea

[Anonymous No.13938316]

Pedro Paramo

[Anonymous No.13938326]

Le Rouge et le Noir

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>>13935714
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, plus a book with small stories of things that happened from around the world, such as the time Stalin robbed a bank.

[Anonymous No.13938433]

finished Empty Space by Harrison today
not sure what will I start next, maybe Lonesome Dove

[Anonymous No.13938439]

[Anonymous No.13938441]

Currently reading ego and his own by your boi striner

[Anonymous No.13938447]

Hesiod's Theogony.

[Anonymous No.13938458]

>>13935714
why yes, i do own a 576p collection of short stories by Milorad Pavic.

[Anonymous No.13938491]

>>13938326
I read that a few weeks ago. A truly great piece of storytelling

[Anonymous No.13938511]

>>13935714
Recently finished Good Men by Pérez Reverte. Right now I'm reading Discourse on Metaphysics by Leibniz and after will read Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima

[Anonymous No.13938520]

>>13938304
I really enjoyed that one, have fun.

I've been a lazy cunt lately so haven't been doing much reading but am currently reading a collection of Melville's short stories. His prose is god tier.

[Anonymous No.13938524]

Enjoying it a bit too much, but the best love story I've read so far.

[Anonymous No.13938539]

>>13938433
what did you think of it? I have been meaning to start the kefahuchi series

[Anonymous No.13938596]

I really wanted to see what historical materialism looked like on practise

[Anonymous No.13938626]

I'm following the /lit/ poetry guide and reading The Ode Less Travelled then afterwards going to start with the Greeks.

[Anonymous No.13938635]

>>13938539
felt a bit like roadside picnic/stalker zone in space
I found it to be a harder read than your average sci-fi novel, though, partly because he had some scientific explanations that could've been technobabble for all I know, I'm ignorant in the physics department and it wasn't as easy to make a mental picture of what is supposed to be happening at times, but that might have been the point, I'm not sure about that
other than that, I really enjoyed the story and some of the characters, I recommend it and I think reading the whole trilogy will help make more sense of it

[Anonymous No.13938646]

hitting close in an abstract way

[Anonymous No.13938703]

History of the Peloponnesian War and the Upanishads.

I haven't been reading as much as I did in the past. When I was in high school, I found I had a lot of time to read classics (I read Dumas and Tolstoy mainly), but in the last few years, I've had a really tough time getting into a book, despite having accumulated many. I think it might have to do with my mental illness, but do you guys have any tips on getting back into the habit? It just feels like a slog to start any book, even if the material is interesting.

[Anonymous No.13938803]

Blue of Noon
State and Revolution

[Anonymous No.13938860]

>>13937871
Yes, certainly.

[Anonymous No.13938867]

The Essays, which I dearly recommend to all of you, lads.

[Anonymous No.13938877]

>>13935714
>tfw just picked up forty classical vinyls and twenty old books from a university library drive
Lads, should I read Fuentes' Terra Nostra or Kipling's Kim first?

[Anonymous No.13938910]

Dainty's Inferno (John Ciardi translation)
Currently at the river of blood part. It's alright.

[Anonymous No.13938918]

I’m currently reading some beaner literature by Horacio Quiroga “Tales of Love, Madness and Death” would recommend it to anyone who wants to read what’s equivalent to literary shock value.

[Anonymous No.13938924]

>>13936428
He's really not that pretentious. He's just autistically sincere, and not everyone can relate to that

[Anonymous No.13939355]

Foucault's Pendulum. The first 200 or so pages weren't that good but the story really picks up afterwards.
I think "The Name of the Rose" is a much better work.

[Anonymous No.13939364]

Reading The Idiot with Moby Dick on deck. It’s the second Russian novel I’ve read and I’m enjoying it much more than Dead Souls

[Anonymous No.13939379]

>>13937721
>neuroscience
based patrician

[Anonymous No.13939399]

>>13939364
The Idiot is a great book, but I still think Dead Souls is way better, even though it's lacking the pathos that The Idiot has.

[Anonymous No.13939401]

>>13939355
Umberto Eco once said that the first 300 pages are only there to filter out the plebs who became aware of him after the unexpected success of The Name Of The Rose and were unable to appreciate his art.

[Anonymous No.13939419]

>>13939401
I can't see his logic since the base of the story is set in the first 300 or so pages (throughout those pages all the little conspiracies and stories appear only for all of them to be connected later on by the main character). Honestly I don't think those pages are bad overall, there are just some (in my opinion) shitty segments, especially the whole segment that takes place in Brazil.

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>>13939399
I’ll read Dead Souls again then. Interestingly, there was a chapter from some children’s book printed 3/4 through my copy.

[Anonymous No.13939641]

1st Samuel
Wondering why we haven't made a movie adaption yet.

[Anonymous No.13939769]

>>13939399
The first half of The Idiot is among the best literature I've ever read. Dead Souls is enjoyable in it's own right but I found the ending dissatisfying and puerile.

[Anonymous No.13939826]

>>13935875
How is it?

[Anonymous No.13939930]

pic related, his ideas are quite interesting especially considering the time it was published. i remain unconvinced by his thought that industry and the labour market could be homogenized across europe though, among other things. still, it's more convincing than most pro-eu arguments i've heard. also, it's hilarous that the cover for a fascist's book looks exactly like the drawings elementary students have to produce en masse to line the hallways.

[Anonymous No.13939957]

Reading Grossman's A writer at war before jumping into Life and Fate.

[Anonymous No.13940006]

>>13935714
Amerika by kafka

[Anonymous No.13940013]

St.Cyril’s On the Unity of Christ

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>>13939769
Well the book wasn't finished after all. Gogol burned most of it so what we're left with is a completely preserved Part 1 and fragments of Part 2 which are inferior to Part 1. It's like Gogol's writing got worse after he became religious, which is pretty interesting.

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>>13935813
Best reading experience of your life coming up. Buckle up.

[Anonymous No.13940058]

>>13939957
Life and Fate is one of the greatest things I've ever read, good luck anon

[Anonymous No.13940121]

>>13935714
Hey, I'm reading penguin classic Crime and Punishment!
About to start part 5.

[Anonymous No.13940128]

>>13940054
I just finished the chapter where Ahab smiths his harpoon and it was pretty epic desu

[Anonymous No.13940144]

>>13940058
Yeah, I kind of spoiled myself already and read the part with his mother's letter. I'm excited to read the rest of it now.

[Anonymous No.13940181]

>>13935714
Napoleon: A life

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>>13936134
This is a fun one

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>>13935714
Just finished reading Agatha Christie's and then there were none.
I feel like I wouldve enjoyed it more had I not seen the twist done in some manga beforehand.
Does /lit/ have a crime thriller chart?

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>>13940199
Don’t you mean “Ten Little Niggers” friend?

[Anonymous No.13940209]

>>13935714
This book. Finished the first part about the Polynesian war and really delivered on what it offers.

[Anonymous No.13940210]

>>13940203
A friend gave me the book, I guess she went for the family friendly title

[Anonymous No.13940221]

>>13935813
the dick is legit

[Anonymous No.13940230]

>>13940199
Check out Crime on the orient express, it's one of Agatha's better works

[Anonymous No.13940236]

>>13940210
I’m just kidding I’m pretty sure that was a very limited edition of the novel.
Great book though. It’s unfortunate that there are virtually no mystery novels that aren’t trash other than that one.

[Anonymous No.13940239]

Where does one go after finishing Moby Dick? What to read next?

[Anonymous No.13940312]

>>13935714

Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima

[Anonymous No.13940314]

Recently I have decided to improve my literacy. Started with following list: "Lord of the flies" Golding, "Process" Kafka, 1982 Orwell, "All Quiet on the Western Front" Remarque. Now I am stuck with "To the lighthouse" Woolf, I am literally falling a sleep after 5 pages and can't move on for a week, should I continue? I have read a description and it seemed intriguing.

[Anonymous No.13940318]

>>13940314
* 1984
lol, quick fix

[Anonymous No.13940589]

>>13940037
Hadn't known that beforehand, wish these cunt authors would stop doing that shit

[Anonymous No.13940653]

>>13940314
Virginia Woolf might be better understood in the context of the feminine and modern movements of her time. I'd recommend reading any articles you can find by her or some of her unfinished memoirs ("Sketches of the Past"). Orlando is also one of her less serious and shorter works.

[Anonymous No.13940675]

>>13940653
I read Orlando and that shit still has me confused. It started out normal enough and then became the story of a time travelling tranny

[Anonymous No.13940689]

>>13940589
>cunt
Don't behave like an underage. I do agree that he shouldn't have done that, but things turned out how they turned out. In my opinion he would have been better off if he wasn't friends with that one guy who made him a believer because then his quality of writing wouldn't suffer and he'd finish all the three parts of Dead Souls and publish them. Plus who knows what other masterpieces we would have gotten if he didn't die because of his religious conversion (he took to ascetism and ruined his body so much that he died).

[Anonymous No.13940714]

I have two articles left of Bentham's Defence of Usury, and I am like 1/5th of the way done Posterior Analytics and Nicole Oresme's treatise on the difformities and uniformities of intensities.

I don't read every day these days though, usually it's just on the weekends. Like that's what I read today. And I have a big shopping cart of books I need to buy but I'm in the transitional period between apartments right now. Just kind of trying to pay the bills right now :3

[Anonymous No.13940766]

Just started Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson and I am loving the HARD sci-fi elements. Pretty well using it as a prelude for returning to uni in January.

[Anonymous No.13940811]

>>13940589
He did
He died

[Anonymous No.13940827]

>>13935714
Three chapters in and I'm already kinda on the fence about it. Picked it up in order to balance my usually lefty books with some more right-wing, reactionary thought.
It's written well and entertaining but I would disagree with some of the premises

[Anonymous No.13940833]

>>13935808
what a waste of precious time...

[Anonymous No.13940836]

>>13935714
The sound of waves by Mishima. Liking it so far. Mishima's works, although dark are oddly comfy.

[Anonymous No.13940847]

>>13940827
Try Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality. It's probably a better bridge since he is at least genuinely sympathetic to important left wing ideas.

[Anonymous No.13940912]

>>13940833
Not him, but some people read all of the Game of Thrones books. There are far worse things to spend time on.

[Anonymous No.13940917]

>>13940714
good for you if you enjoy this kind of thing, but honestly books like these just look so fucking dull to me.

[Anonymous No.13940920]

>>13940912
Like what?

[Anonymous No.13940927]

Master and Commander
i just want to sail the seven seas bros.....

[Anonymous No.13940929]

>>13940920
like browsing 4chan and having this interaction with me right now

[Anonymous No.13940930]

>>13935808
Quixote is very funny.

[Anonymous No.13940937]

becomes a giant slog after The Divine Names

[Anonymous No.13940951]

>wake up
>Prussia is still dead
>:(

[Anonymous No.13941012]

Liking it a lot so far, seems to be right up my alley.

[Anonymous No.13941095]

>>13937784
had a similar experience, they really read more like songs because of the nature of earlier greek theatre where the focus is really in the chorus which relies the myth.

[Anonymous No.13941101]

The Consolation of Philosophy

[Anonymous No.13941124]

Literally bought it because I saw it on someone's shelf and liked the title and the synopsis and when I googled it I found out it was being released in my native language. I'm 50 pages in and it's being ok, don't know if it's worth so much time, though.

[Anonymous No.13941126]

>>13935714
Started Zweig's Marie Antoinette. A hundred pages in I dropped it. So dull and needlessly reiterative. He did a better job with the shorter and somewhat tongue-in-cheek biography of Fouche.

Halfway through Baudrillard's Passwords now. Good introductory text to Jean's work.

[Anonymous No.13941129]

>>13940239
Moby Dick 2: Moby Cunt

[Anonymous No.13941130]

>>13941124
I meant to say I bought it without knowing it was one of the new memes, if I did know that I'd probably have ignored it completely.

[Anonymous No.13941136]

>>13935714
I'm on book 3 of Elric Of Melnibone, The Sailor On The Seas Of Fate.

[Anonymous No.13941140]

>>13936019
It a Book of Revelations pastiche.

[Anonymous No.13941154]

>>13941126
What do you think of Zweig's "Chess Story"? It's the only work of his that I've read and I really liked it.

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reading this now, just ordered aquinas' catena aurea and gonna do some serious study of the mysteries of jesus' life so i can pray the rosary more devoutly. trying to not go to hell. also reading some greek history + mythology stuff.

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>>13941154
pretty intense but it does show Zweig's tendency to go for the over-dramatic, to exaggerate
If you liked it then check out Amok, the short stories there really convey his passion for extreme mental states

[Anonymous No.13941181]

Les racines du ciel. Good but repetitive.

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Spring snow

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Kobo Abe: Woman in the Dunes

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Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

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>>13935813
just finished this book the other day, really loved it. I know everyone likes to meme the whale anatomy stuff, but I do think it really added to the book.

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>>13935714
The Brothers Karamazov.
I'm on Book 4, Chapter 6 right now.