/lit/ - Literature

[Zeeburg No.5400341]

What are you currently reading, /lit/?

[Zeeburg No.5400342]

Love in the Time of Cholera

[Anonymous No.5400347]

les bonnes

[Anonymous No.5400359]

Reading The Belgariad series again. I read it just about once year.

[Anonymous No.5400364]

The Trial by that crazy dude

[Anonymous No.5400368]

The ego and it's own
South of the border, west of the ducks

[fagve No.5400379]

The 40 threads you've made today.

[Anonymous No.5400380]

was reading 100 años de soledad and then started reading stoner and yesterday i finished reading stoner now im going to finish 100 años de soledad again then i will read inherent vice or maybe the broom of the system the possibilities are infinite

[Anonymous No.5400381]

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

Shit's pretty cash, Auerbach takes obvious delight at writing it down and it shows. Damn thing's making me all giddy.

[Anonymous No.5400383]

a book about a guy who is so obsessed with an anonymous image board that he spends hours there every day and loses his connection to the world outside

[Zeeburg No.5400384]

>>5400379
>implying that this board is lackluster
>implying that I don't make the best threads

[Anonymous No.5400389]

What is called thinking? - Heidegger
Also reading Plutarch's Lives intermittently

[Anonymous No.5400400]

OP's diary

Its clumsy writing style makes it pretty funny but the contents are rather sad. I cringed when I read the chapter where he talked about being friendzoned.

[Anonymous No.5400401]

'Bout 250 pages into The Idiot.

[Zeeburg No.5400405]

>>5400400

[Anonymous No.5400411]

>>5400389
which ed of plutarch?

[Anonymous No.5400418]

>>5400400
We were all teens at a time, we all blamed the world for our faults.

[Anonymous No.5400422]

>>5400341
The Bible

[Anonymous No.5400443]

>>5400411
The Makers of Rome and The Fall of the Roman Republic. These are two Penguin versions, and unfortunately not the entire thing, but they're all that my local used bookstore had. Hope I'm not missing out on too much. The translators are Ivan Scott-Kilvert and Rex Warner, respectively.

[Anonymous No.5400460]

Inherent Vice, but I'm not having much fun so far

[Anonymous No.5400463]

Jane Eyre

[Anonymous No.5400503]

Philip K Dick "The Man in the High Castle"
Herman Melville "Moby Dick"
A non-specific collection of Sherlock Holmes pieces - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[Anonymous No.5400518]

Got around 200 or so pages left on Seven Pillars of Wisdom. British army is raiding shit at the moment and destroying everything in the Turks path.

After that going to re-read The Castle then i'll start either Hunchback or David Copperfield.

[Anonymous No.5400524]

I'm a very casual reader and I've started Dark Tower 1. My reading comprehension must be shit because I thought Nort was the man in black for a bit, then I didn't know the chapters 5 and 6 were flashbacks and was left confused. Also I have no idea why everyone reacted so casually to Nort's death and reanimation. Also why did the man in black slap around the woman's belly? Fuck I should read more because my comprehension is shit.

[Anonymous No.5400530]

>>5400524
No. It is King's first attempt at writing (he published a few before that). It took him a couple of tries to finish that book and so there's a lot of disjointed feelings in it and across the series. Worth the read though.

[Anonymous No.5400534]

>>5400503
>able to read 3 books at the same time

please teach me sensei

[Anonymous No.5400535]

Katya's Summer. I can't decide if i should find Trevanian cheap and pretentious, or simple and colorful.

[Anonymous No.5400538]

Notes from Underground

>mfw the underground man is the embodiment of /r9k/

[Anonymous No.5400543]

Lord of the Rings. Never have I been so immersed in a such a convincing fantasy world with dynamic and deep characters in my life. It's like I'm stuck on a rolercoaster of Euphoria of which I have no control over.

Just kidding, it's shit

[Anonymous No.5400545]

>>5400503
do you sometimes mix them up?
"elementary, my dear moby?"
"watson, isn't that a man in that high castle?"

[Anonymous No.5400551]

Mason & Dixon

[Anonymous No.5400552]

Currently reading Stoner.
Love it so far.

>>5400460
You're not the only one. I've only read V by Pynchon and I loved it, but Inherent Vice was just horrible.

[Anonymous No.5400559]

>>5400503
Man...you sure like dicks

[Anonymous No.5400567]

>>5400341
Reading priority list:
A) Last hundred pages of Moby Dick
B) Second half of 100 Years of Solitude
C) Crime and Punishment (haven't started yet)
D) Freedom by Franzen, which I picked up on a whim at a bargain bin for 3 dollars and have mixed feelings for (only a hundred or so pages in)
E) All those books I have mobi's of just lying around on my hard drive that I'm only 30 pages into ;_;

[Anonymous No.5400576]

>>5400551
Great read.

>>5400534
I don't think there's really anything that I can teach. Think of it like watching TV shows. You can remember the plot to (generic examples) Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and Third Example. But you don't always power through one and move on to the other.
Read a chapter of this one, set it down for a minute and then grab the other. As for 3 at a time, I hardly count Sherlock as a novel (I know there are some), I'm just getting in a few of the short stories; very little to commit to memory beyond a synopsis of what happened in the last case.

>>5400545
Ha. No, but I will occasionally find myself trying to remember why character A is in book 2 and not book 1.

[Anonymous No.5400580]

>>5400567
>E) All those books I have mobi's of just lying around on my hard drive that I'm only 30 pages into ;_;
>tfw

[Anonymous No.5400583]

>>5400559
They're very (ful)filling.

[Anonymous No.5400587]

>>5400559
>>5400583
And wow, I didn't even put it together until just now... Holmes is a PI aka a "dick"... Am I gay?

[Anonymous No.5400593]

>>5400587
Bokonon tells you so.

[Anonymous No.5400597]

>>5400593
Nonokob?

[Anonymous No.5400624]

What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Need light reading under the sun

[Anonymous No.5400633]

>>5400463
Helen ;_;
Resurgam

[Anonymous No.5400634]

Gödel Escher Bach, it's been sitting on my backlog for way too long. After that probably rest of Wittgenstein, Quine's essays+Word and Object or Feyerabend.

[Anonymous No.5400647]

A sop's Foibles Types of short stories

[Anonymous No.5400659]

Re-reading The Birth of Tragedy. I first read it about two years ago, but my mind must have been entirely shut off because it reads like an entirely new book. It's actually kind of bothersome how much more I get out of re-reads years later. As if there weren't enough books to read, now I have to consider re-reading books I was too stupid to fully understand when I first read them.

[Anonymous No.5400666]

>>5400341

Just finished The Forever War

Sci fi is golden unless you want realistic man-woman relationships

[Anonymous No.5400691]

>>5400666

-You got anyone to bunk with tonight ?
-No, wanna go together ?
-Yes

[Anonymous No.5400699]

220 or so pages into Infinite Jest

[The cats No.5400701]

>Cannonball by Joseph McElroy (slowly)
>I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume
>Haven't decided on a new short story collection yet.

[Anonymous No.5400744]

The Prince by Machiavelli

[Anonymous No.5400753]

The Pale King. So far I really like it. Unfortunately finished Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage a few days ago, it was terrible.

[Anonymous No.5400755]

>>5400666

That's good stuff. Even in real life, there's nothing "realistic" about men-women relationships. Trust me, virgin boy.

You don't know life until you've been in a near-fatal argument that started with the existential question of which position should TP assume on the holder.

[Anonymous No.5400756]

Ready Player One

[Anonymous No.5400776]

>>5400341
The Pale King - David Foster Wallace
Neuzeitliche Metaphysikkritik - Panajotis Kondylis

[Anonymous No.5400793]

house of plebs

[Anonymous No.5400809]

>>5400341
The Inspector-General
>inb4 how can you be reading it instead of having finished it already

[Anonymous No.5400825]

This + wikipedia's "history of spain".

I want to read all their history summaries for it seems an easy way to gain a good dilettante (hence connoisseurs, hence critics) understanding of history..

[Anonymous No.5400856]

>>5400401
>>5400400
Looks like you guys are reading the same book.

[Anonymous No.5400859]

I can't stick with just one book at a time, man. And I usually drop a book part way through and come back to it weeks or months later. As a result my memory of the stories is shit. I usually have one "main" book I'm reading at a time though, and that's The Brothers Karamazov at the moment. And a couple comic books.

[Anonymous No.5401282]

>>5400341
Good Sex Illustrated, Tony Duvert

[Anonymous No.5401288]

Crime and Punishment. It is soooo good.

[The cats No.5401299]

The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed

[Anonymous No.5401314]

~100 pages left in War and Peace
Halfway through The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

[Anonymous No.5401343]

The trial

[Anonymous No.5401349]

Against the Day

Enjoying it a lot, not sure whether it's an easy read or if I've just acclimatized to Pychonness

[Anonymous No.5401369]

the time traveler. just getting into Wells

[Anonymous No.5401384]

Angelhead by Greg Bottoms

[Anonymous No.5401392]

>>5400341
Just started The Art of the Commonplace by Wendell Berry.

[Anonymous No.5401409]

>>5400341

Deathtrap Dungeon - Ian Livingstone

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.5401414]

>>5401299
Was getting caught part of your plan?

[Anonymous No.5401454]

Foucault, Discipline and Punish

[Anonymous No.5401466]

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Is it an anime? I can't tell yet.

[Anonymous No.5401474]

all quiet on the western front
on certainty

[Anonymous No.5401484]

Valis
OT: how legit is this busta?

[Anonymous No.5401496]

>>5400341
Hermann Ungar, The Maimed.

[Anonymous No.5401511]

Vineland by Pynchon

[Anonymous No.5401514]

>>5400341
Doing a second readthrough of Dune atm

[Anonymous No.5401524]

>>5400460
>>5400552
Just read Inherent Vice before I started Vineland, it was my first time reading Pynchon. What was not to like about it??

[Anonymous No.5401529]

>>5400341
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Jame Joyce

[Anonymous No.5401532]

His Dark Materials.... I previously read the first book and was underwhelmed but after the last 2 horrible things I read infinly decided it was the right time to read through these in what i now call The Tour De Force of Intollerance

[Anonymous No.5401674]

Wireshark 101

[Anonymous No.5401707]

>>5401466
no anon, you ARE the animes

[Anonymous No.5401731]

>>5400341
Memoirs of a Mercenary

[Anonymous No.5401735]

>>5401524
Inherent Vice is a pulpy novel from a guy who usually gives us a lot more firepower in every other sentence as well as more stuff to mull over than what's presented in Inherent Vice. Vineland's often placed next to Inherent Vice as shit tier Pynchon.

[Anonymous No.5401745]

>>5401529
>Jame Joyce

[Anonymous No.5401749]

Vidal's Judgement of Paris

[Anonymous No.5401753]

>>5400341
People's History of the United States

after this, Illuminatus trillogy.

[Anonymous No.5401756]

>The Elegant Universe
>Now Wait for Last Year

[Anonymous No.5401758]

>>5400341
Industry and Empire by Eric Hobsbawm

[Anonymous No.5401763]

>>5400756
That's on my list. Would you recommend it?

[Anonymous No.5401766]

Short stories by Cordwainer Smith

[Anonymous No.5401770]

>>5400551
Me too.
About halfway done. Some parts drag but as always with pynchon the prose is immaculate

[Anonymous No.5401778]

Neuromancer ( for the first time). It's pretty good but not that great how people make it out to be.
And Michael Kohlhaas

[Anonymous No.5401845]

Russell- "The Principles of Mathematics"
Pessoa- "The Book of Disquiet"

[Anonymous No.5401886]

Order of Discourse - Michel Foucault
Balun Canan - Rosario Castellanos

[Anonymous No.5401888]

Pic related

[Anonymous No.5401895]

>>5400342
that book pissed me off. the chapters are like ~150 pages long and the prose turns sour and awful after a while. I'm so sorry you bit the Gabo bullet.

[Anonymous No.5401910]

A Naked Singularity. Is good.

[Anonymous No.5401914]

i just finished dubliners today
i liked it quite a bit, the cross-appearence of characters from dubliners and ulysses humanized it a great deal, it made me smile.

[Anonymous No.5401939]

>>5400341
short stories by Hesse

[Anonymous No.5403217]

Don Quixote.

[Anonymous No.5403225]

V. and studying for the English subject GRE for grad school :( Rough-duck-sauce

[Anonymous No.5403255]

Ubik, its just okay so far.

[Anonymous No.5403261]

>>5400551
>>5400552
>>5400576
>>5401511
Yo Pynchonkidz. Where should I start? I have copies of Lot 49, V., and Vineland, and I hear Vineland is pretty shit, relatively. Also, my buddy just read Inherent Vice, and he raved about it -- just throwing out the dissenting opinion there.

[Anonymous No.5403281]

1Q84. Just over half way through and liking it so far.

I think I'm in love with Fuka-Eri

[Anonymous No.5403288]

>>5403261
Start with Lot 49.

[Anonymous No.5403331]

Started The Savage Detectives today. On page 170 or something. I like it a lot so far.

Also reading Shakespearean sonnets for a class and going to have to start a compilation of Louisiana short stories tomorrow for another class.

[Anonymous No.5403343]

>>5400341

Ulysses

>Fedora tipping intensifies

[Anonymous No.5403347]

>>5400753
CTTahYoP was kinda weak. The only other Murakami I've read was 1Q84 and I liked it, but can't decide if I liked Tsuru Tazaki. It didn't seem to have a point to me. What was /lit/'s consensus on it when it came out?

[Anonymous No.5403357]

>>5403347
It was definitely underwhelming, and maybe I missed something but I struggle with finding any deeper meaning. (He's colourless! huehue!)
I HATED 1q84, it took me MONTHS to finish it.. Wind Up is by far one of my favourite novels ever. Hardboiled wonderland was great too.

[Anonymous No.5403365]

This and Talal Asad's "Genealogies of Religion"

Le joys of grad school

[Anonymous No.5403369]

>>5401511

Fuck yes. Nobody reads this and it is awesome. Pynchon at his most political and zaniest

[Anonymous No.5403379]

>>5401484

Valis is legit

Krishnamurti not so much. If you want nice universalist platitudes go for it I guess. He has a crazy life story though. Was raised by theosophists who thought that he would be, or be a vehicle for, a predicted Messiah figure

[Anonymous No.5403396]

>>5403365
Whatcha studying?

[Anonymous No.5403408]

>>5403396

Masters in History with a planned emphasis on the Reformation. Probably gonna go into Jan Hus and John Wycliffe and indulgences. (Fingers crossed.) Planning on using it as a stepping stone to a PHD.

[Anonymous No.5403419]

>>5403261
Lot 49 and V are good starting points. Vineland doesnt get enough credit imo. I'm currently reading Inherent Vice and its pretty solid as well, if you think you can get into a mystery story with a Big Lebowski type stoner character who smokes weed all throughout

[Anonymous No.5403427]

>>5403331

Damn son! You make /lit/ proud

[Anonymous No.5403452]

stranger in a strange land by heinlein
and you know what? I think it sucks. Half a book in and it's just boring, the occasional rant about religion or politics, that in this day just come off as tired and dated.
plus nothing has really occurred, no real conflict to speak of, the guy is on earth from mars, the political issue has largely been addressed, I just really feel like this book has been empty of substance.

[Anonymous No.5403467]

>>5403452

Have you read anything else by Heinlein? In general, I think he is not a good writer. Far better sci fi out there

[kitty !kitty/EnNg No.5403478]

>>5403452
don't you enjoy the multiple sex scenes

[Anonymous No.5403483]

>>5400567
>>5400580
>ebook
Seriously, nigger?

[Anonymous No.5403484]

>>5403467
just starship troopers, which I thought was fun but I read it 15 years ago after jerking off to the movie so who knows my true opinion anymore.
I probably will wind up agreeing with you, want to read moon is a harsh mistress and if that doesn't ring my bell than I guess I'm not Heinlein fan.

[Anonymous No.5403493]

>>5403484

Yeah "moon" was the only Heinlein book I liked.

[Anonymous No.5403532]

>>5400341
Book of Disquiet and True Believer

[Anonymous No.5404049]

[Anonymous No.5404065]

The Brothers Karamazov. My first time reading it and I can't get enough.

>tfw Alyosha will never be your bro

I enjoyed Crime & Punishment immensely and liked The Idiot very much too. Not sure what I am going to read afterwards but I think I want to get into that whole Russian 'superfluous man' thing. Any tips on what to start with that?

[Anonymous No.5404082]

>>5404065
A Hero of Our Time by Lermontow

[Anonymous No.5404084]

>>5400341
>iam actually reading in my spare time

[Anonymous No.5404086]

>>5404065
>tfw Aloysha will never be your bro

Who would want that stupid cunt as anything but someone to kill?

God, he's such an annoying faggot.

[Anonymous No.5404100]

>>5404082
Thank you. Will do.

>>5404086
Not sure if this is some troll or what it is, just a strange thing to say really. Reeks of psychopathology if true though. Get help man.

[Anonymous No.5404125]

>>5400341
Nihon Shincho bungaku Yukio Mishima

AWW YEEE TIME FOR SOME AESTHESTHICS AS FUARK MANLET LOVE

[Anonymous No.5404151]

Currently reading Gravity's Rainbow.

I'm almost finished with part two. Part one has interesting parts but mostly it was a fucking drag and I had almost no idea what was going on most of the time. Part Two is a lot clearer and has a better flow of events which makes it easier. The fucking octopus attack with the bottle and the crab and the fuck-ugly shit was incredible.

I've already read V. and The Crying of Lot 49 and I am glad I did. I couldn't imagine going in cold with Gravity's Rainbow.

[Anonymous No.5404299]

The Left Hand of Darkness.

> everyone is hermaphrodite
> everyone is functionally asexual 5/6 of the time
> enter a sexual phase (kemmer) once a month, randomly take on male or female function
> during that phase you're not expected to work or do anything except frantically screwing whoever is also going through kemmer at the time
> once kemmer is over your libido drops like a stone and you have no sexual desires until next kemmer
> sexual frustration or jealousy are virtually unknown

is it bad I kind of want to be a Gethenian?

[Anonymous No.5404368]

>>5403255
It's hyped on here a lot. Undoubtedly worse than A Scanner Darkly or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. One of those books that I wish I had simply rented from the library and not purchased but it had a nice cover.

[Anonymous No.5404372]

The Temple of the Golden Pavillion by Yukio Mishima. I just finished The Man Who Was Thursday by Chesterson.

[Anonymous No.5404386]

>>5400551
Finished that a week ago. Dat ending ;_;

[Anonymous No.5404389]

Narcissus and Goldmund.

Hesse knows how to pull my strings

[Anonymous No.5404391]

>>5400341

That precise sentence.
Now that first one.
Now that second one.
Now that third one.
Now that fourth one.
Now that fifth one.

And now I get in my mind the idea of recursion, and as I read this last sentence, I finish the now that x one loop.

[Anonymous No.5404458]

>>5400567
>>5400580
Is there a way out?

[Anonymous No.5404480]

Jules Verne, Le Sphinx des glaces (The Sphinx of the Ice Realm)

[Anonymous No.5404481]

>>5403379
might be worth a read

[Anonymous No.5405092]

>>5400341
The master and margarita

[இڿڰۣ-ڰۣ— No.5405097]

Either/Or

[Anonymous No.5405119]

>>5400543
this

[Anonymous No.5405121]

McElroy's Women and Men

[Anonymous No.5405130]

>>5400341
This Thread by OP in collaboration with "the anonymous" gang

[Anonymous No.5405134]

>>5405130
Yo, bro, flash me a sign.

[Anonymous No.5405139]

>>5401288
Read Demons, is superior.

[Anonymous No.5405150]

I'm halfway and it sucks. But the short stories are enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.5405154]

>>5405150
For sure, I am not a fan of Neil Gaiman at all, no idea why so many people suck his cock. Terry Pratchett too, while we're at it.

[Anonymous No.5405158]

>>5405130
>gang

Your acknowledgement makes me feel complete anon

[Anonymous No.5405160]

>>5405150
On the cover there is a guy "enlightened" at the end of the road?

[Anonymous No.5405173]

Only about 70 pages in, but so far the series has been some of best fantasy I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.5405177]

>>5405154
However The Sandman was great. It's basically the same story, with the same issues (Boring main character but cool side stories.)

[Anonymous No.5405180]

Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
La chute by Albert Camus

Kokoro's great so far. Not sure about Camus yet.

[Anonymous No.5405182]

As You Like It

[Anonymous No.5405220]

>>5405173
be sure to check out Esslemont's novels, they're not as good as the series but are incredibly important for the plot.
I'm actually finishing Assail right now and I am pleased

[Anonymous No.5405231]

>>5404100
Aloysha was the worst brother.

/lit/ agrees

believe me.
Also, TBK was a shitty book anyways

A whole goddamn chapter about Aloysha's fetish for the monk dick

[Anonymous No.5405234]

I'm ashamed to admit I have many unfinished books; at the moment, I'm focusing in the first part of "In the search of time lost", and I'm loving it.

[Anonymous No.5405237]

The Unnamable
The Sublime Object of Ideology
A Room With A View

[Anonymous No.5405239]

>>5405231
Smerdyakov was the best brother.

[Anonymous No.5405247]

>>5405220
I've heard differing opinions on when to read Esslemont's novels. Would you say it's better to read all of Erikson's first or intersperse Esslemont's as they happen chronologically?

[Anonymous No.5405259]

>>5400341
De otio by Lvcius Annevs Seneca

[Anonymous No.5405281]

>>5405247
Not sure, I did it after the series, the novels are important for the world plot but aren't connected to the last few books so you won't miss out on anything.

[Anonymous No.5405284]

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.

I'm really enjoying it. It forces me not to really settle in reading mode because every other passage it's got something strange and the flow is really wonky, I know it's on purpose.

[Anonymous No.5405287]

>>5405284
Found it great.

[Anonymous No.5405289]

Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945
I'm not enjoying it at all but I feel its important to educate myself

[Anonymous No.5405297]

>>5405281
Alright. I was leaning towards reading them after, then maybe interspersing them if I do a reread. Thanks for the advice.

[Anonymous No.5405304]

The Novelization of Gilligans Island.
Actually I'm reading Robinson Crusoe, but that verse from the G.I. theme song keeps running in my retarded brain...."like Robinson Ca-rue-sew, they're as primitive as can be"
I'm liking it better than I thought I would.

[Anonymous No.5405306]

Anna Karenina. First time too.

[Anonymous No.5405316]

>>5405297
If you feel a little disappointed after the end of the series just remember the story continues in the novels...I only read them after my 2nd reread of the series and they honestly made it a lot better.

[Anonymous No.5405337]

Hamlet
The Sound of Waves

[Anonymous No.5405347]

>>5405316
I'll remember that. Have you read any of Erikson's other novels in the world, like Forge of Darkness or the Bauchelain and Korbal Broach books?

[Anonymous No.5405393]

520 pages into the first Game of Thrones novels. Also several of DC's New 52 titles as well as Marvel Now comics.

[Anonymous No.5405441]

>>5405306
Same here

[Anonymous No.5405470]

Babbit
In search of lost time

[Anonymous No.5405526]

The Trial.

it's interesting, yet dull

[Anonymous No.5405621]

Karen Blixen's Out of Africa

It's a memoir of a Danish noblewoman who goes to Africa in the early 20th century to run a farm. It's quite good. Simple, earnest language plus the setting reminds me a lot of Hemmmmmmmingway.

[Anonymous No.5405642]

>>5405393
leave

[Anonymous No.5405678]

The Count of Monte Cristo
It is very comfortable and I like Dumas' prose, very much like The Sun Also Rises, very comfy.

[Anonymous No.5405723]

>>5400383
i would read this. i imagine it in the form of a dairy sorta thing, daily entries detailing his descent into madness.

[Anyonewithtripcode No.5405729]

>>5405441

How do you find it? I'm about 50 pages in, and i like it a lot. I feel like the translation is quite good (Swedish)

[Anonymous No.5405777]

Arabian Nights

[Anonymous No.5405784]

>>5400341
Notes from Underground, it's dope

[Anonymous No.5405788]

>>5400341
Anna Karenina by Tolstoï. I have a monstruous backlog of classics that I never read, so I'll be reading The Red and the Black by Stendhal and The Three Musketeers by Dumas next.

[Anonymous No.5405800]

>>5405234
I'm reading Within A Budding Grove myself. I read Swann's Way then started Grove before stopping and proceeding to read a really long technical book that I hadn't gotten to in 2yrs. Now I'm back on Proust and enjoying it with minor problems/hiccups.

[Anonymous No.5405918]

A collection of shot stories I picked up in the charity shop for 1 pound. Just finished one by O. Henry, of whom I was previously unaware.

[Anonymous No.5405919]

>>5400341
2666

[Anonymous No.5405927]

>>5401314
>~100 pages left in War and Peace
Half the book has been written in French.
Some trads don't even mention it.

[Anonymous No.5405939]

>>5405927
feels good to be french

[Anonymous No.5405940]

http://strawpoll.me/2524990

[Anonymous No.5405994]

>>5403281
IIRC, my issues with 1Q84 arose between page numbers 600-750

[Anonymous No.5406022]

>>5403347
>>5403357
The point was generalized in this sentence: your wound may have scabbed over but it hasn't fully healed. Tsukuru was unable to have meaningful relationships because of that traumatic experience which led him to doubt his self-worth. The Finnish woman revealed that he was the glue of the group, as well as a smart, handsome, and amiable person. Approaching the closing of the novel, Tsukuru was finally ready to commit to a serious relationship.

[Anonymous No.5406048]

60 or 70 pages into Catch-22. The dialogue and character descriptions are humorous but there's been little plot development.

[Anonymous No.5406084]

Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea

[Anonymous No.5406119]

I recently finished The Ideology of Genre: A Comparative Study of Generic Instability. Currently considering re-reading The Dark Tower series.

[Noko No.5406500]

Reading Boyhood from Coetzee, enjoying it. Not much happens, but I've found it to be one of the most enjoyable from his work this far.

[Anonymous No.5406608]

>>5405788
>Anna Karenina
Same, Pevear/Volokhonsky translation.

I'm in part 3 right now, and I'm liking it a lot.

[Anonymous No.5406797]

The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells.

[Anonymous No.5406833]

>>5400341

Labyrinths and Selected Poems/other works by Borges (thanks /lit/, I love this fucker)

A bit of Myth of Sisyphus when I feel like it (only about 15 pages in, but so far, all I'm seeing is a bunch of tautologies and no real reason to say suicide isn't acceptable...maybe I'm just stupid)

And this 1980's Harvard introductory astronomy book I got for cheap. A lot of it's probably outdated, but I figure it's good for fundamental things

[Anonymous No.5406870]

>>5401845

>Book of Disquiet

I saw that mentioned on goodreads, sounds interesting. How're you liking it?

[Anonymous No.5406957]

Orlando Furioso, 200 pages on

[Anonymous No.5406963]

The Clown by Heinrich Boll

[Anonymous No.5407444]

Dreams of Amputation - Gary J. Shipley

Epistemology - Richard Feldman

[Anonymous No.5407463]

>>5403255
Three Stigmata's a much better Ubik than Ubik was. I'd recommend reading it after you forget Ubik. :)

[Anonymous No.5407541]

Red & Black- Stendhal
The Mother- M. Gorki.
...And Spinoza's Ethics.

[She-ra No.5408212]

Just finished The Colorless Tsukuru Tzasaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, next going to read Norwegian Wood both by Murakami

[Anonymous No.5408293]

Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
William R. Trotter - A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-40
Harry Turtledove - American Empire: Blood & Iron.

[Anonymous No.5408548]

>>5400341
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

[Anonymous No.5408555]

Henry V

ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH, MY FRIENDS

I'm trying to read it out loud, but I'm not sure how long I'll be able to tolerate the slow pace this dictates. I'm trying to get it finished fairly soon so I can start in on Moby Dick.

[Anonymous No.5408600]

>>5400341
Trying to get through some Hemingway I need to check off my "have to have read" list. Other than that, Life after Life by Kate Atkinson. It's a really rich and enjoyable read.

[Anonymous No.5408609]

>>5408555
Are you doing each character with a different voice?

[Anonymous No.5408616]

>>5408555
then will he strip his sleeve, and show his post, and say, "These trips I had on Crispin's day."

[Anonymous No.5408818]

>>5400341
The third book in John Dos Passos' USA trilogy.

[Anonymous No.5408854]

>>5408555

>dear*

It's a play, y'know. It really shouldn't take you more than the 3 hours or so it does to put on.

[Anonymous No.5408883]

Penis.

[Anonymous No.5408890]

>>5400567
nigger you quit halfway thru 100 years of solitude?

Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac here. Getting the last of my summer beat feels

[Anonymous No.5408949]

Republic of Theives
Evil for Evil
The Folding Knife

[Anonymous No.5409186]

Master and Margarita
Fall and Decline of the Roman Empire

[Anonymous No.5409195]

>>5400341
The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus, but I haven't picked it in a long time. Worth reading tho

[Anonymous No.5409198]

Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious - Jung

Thinking about maybe reading passages and mixing it with something else, can get a little much and become hard to read after an hour or so.

[Anonymous No.5409203]

>>5400383
I would love this, reading it vicariously, discovering those deep motives and themes notless than Hamlet's tragic doubts.

[Anonymous No.5409208]

>>5404065
maybe its easier suggesting books if you can point out what you liked most out of it. Do you want more russian realism? Or more on crime and justice?

[Anonymous No.5409212]

>>5405234

>>There is no man… however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man

Proust is great man.

[Anonymous No.5409229]

Celtic Myth and Legend by Charles Squire

[Anonymous No.5409566]

Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds.

[Anonymous No.5409576]

Gonna start reading some Stephen King. Never really bothered with him. What should I start with? The Stand or IT?

[Anonymous No.5409628]

>>5409576
the trashcan.

[Anonymous No.5409730]

>>5400859
>Multi-book reader
>The Brothers Karamazov

I'm just like you. Maybe not in the fact that I'm reading the digital version of it.

[Anonymous No.5409731]

>>5400534

>Not having a Lunch Break Book, A Before Bed Book and a non fiction book on your phone for those times when you're waiting in a shop line or on a bus and the like.

[Anonymous No.5409741]

>>5400341
finished the stranger last night. it was ok, even after comparing notes and reading up on camus. i dont see what the fuss is about

[Anonymous No.5409742]

The Odyssey

[Anonymous No.5409777]

>>5408609
Sort of. I can't do women's voices, obviously, but I try to give each man's voice a slightly different inflection.

[Anonymous No.5409780]

>>5409576
I would say The Stand but I am biased as I have not read IT.

[Anonymous No.5410581]

Almanac of the Dead / Leslie Marmon Silko & just finished Takahe by Stacey Teague

[Anonymous No.5410600]

>>5400341
German language lessons.